Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Operation What the What???


Was anyone else listening to the news this morning? My foggy morning brain recalls a story about the US military scrambling planes out of the Comox air force base and Victoria International, to shoot down drone planes with live ballistic missiles...It had one of those catchy Operation such and such names, although I forget exactly what, and any information on this operation seems to be suppressed on the internet. CBC radio reported the story, but no results on their website….or anywhere else. Other than the implications of an obvious media cover up or at least a "hush" my noe burning questio is: Why is it necessary ( and I do mean everytime) that the US tests its missles in (or in this case off the coast of and from) Canada? The USA is a big country with lots of wide open spaces. Have you ever driven through the mid-west? It might even spice those poor whitebread eating, Camel smoking, Budweiser drinking folks' lives up a bit. Honey...I think terrorists are after the laying hens again!!!
The day before yesterday I learned that the Canadian minister of defence made a deal with the US to extend NORAD on a permanent basis, instead of reviewing Canada's commitment to the pact every five years. The issue is to be debated in parliament, but the deal is already cut (and apparently binding). Experts assure no loss of sovereignty. This is a shinning example of US plans to slowly integrate the Canadian armed forces into a unified US lead coalition, meaning that Canadian troops would ultimately be lead by US policies. So no shortage of work for Canadian soldiers, eh?
And what about making all illegal immigrants criminals? Would you rather be known as a criminal or as an alien? For the record, there are more illegal Mexican "aliens" in the US than there are Canadians in Canada. Now there's a group we should unite with. Canadians may not speak Spanish, but we've all had NAFTA rammed up us. A point of solidarity… Que No?
On the bright side experts tell us that in a few short months we will be able to buy a 99 cent Whopper in any US Burger King for a single Canadian dollar. Happy times are here again.

PS: sorry for the profane nature of the cover photo: substitute "Buggered" or "Hooped" if you have little ones around.

PPS: the name of the game is operation "Trident Fury"...sounds like a new type of power gum.

PPS: I suspect that there are mutherF@#$%&^ snakes on those drone planes.

4 Comments:

Blogger Spider Girl said...

Yeah, they were warning us on the radio the other day that the jets on the base were doing some sort of NORAD drill with US fighters and to expect a lot of excess noise in the skies.

Yup, and they weren't the Snowbirds up there I noted....

This all comes as no surprise. Stephen Harper eats babies. It's true. I saw it on the news. ;p

7:55 p.m.  
Blogger Tai said...

What REALLY is fucked up about the whole is the fact that we have no say.
We've spent so many years working on our peace-keeping presence to have it demolished.
BAH!

1:41 p.m.  
Blogger Jo said...

Omigod, I grew up in Port Alberni. I didn't think anybody still lived there.

10:21 p.m.  
Blogger dragonflyfilly said...

you know that expression: "don't shit in your own back yard?" -- well why would the Americans want to test missiles in their own country when they can do in their "good friend's and neighbours" to the North's yard!!!

hah, "stephen harper eats babies"...that would be funny if it were not so close to the truth, spider Girl ...

12:00 a.m.  

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