Damp Sunday morn
Still getting reports from the ground in Baghdad via British reporters, and from all accounts things are not going well at all. The Red Cross is the latest to raise a stink, because they still haven’t had access to the 30 or so people in Iraq that were swept up in Rummy’s “deck of cards”. Jonathan Steele’s’ latest interview with the wife of an Iraqi scientist who willingly surrendered and talked further highlights the extreme measures the US has used to keep it’s citizens under the spell of the spin they provide on Fox and CNN.
And in the UK, the spin on the most dangerous person to the govt. of the day and his apparent suicide has worked, although they are still being blamed for his demise indirectly much to their demise. An article from Andrew Veitch in C4News -UK makes me think that Kelly was not suicidal, but was murdered. It’s a bit too convenient that he took the same walk every day after lunch, and happened to have some pain killers and a blade that day. Although being exposed by the BBC and then being grilled by his own govt. was put to blame for his death due to the stress of the situation, this was a tough guy that could handle that stress. “He was a seeker of truth, a determined investigator and a very tough personality”, according to Garth Whitty who worked with him in Iraq. Such a person if he actually did commit suicide, surely would have left a note about his demise and not leave this world without blowing some whistles.
Meanwhile on Bowen Island, our biggest controversy of the week is the new ferry line-up marshalling/parking. We are going to see two lanes of traffic coming on and off the ferry ramp starting Thursday morning, with the attendant confusion and sore feelings from losing the parking lane close to the ferry. There’s more than a couple of expensive cars on the island that need to approach the transition from the ramp to the ship at an angle due to the ramp being warped, should be an interesting morning watching how this experiment works out as the captain of the ship that is being loaded only found out the plan was being implemented this week as well. At least no one is getting killed in the process, except maybe the originator of the plan explaining to everyone how it will work out. The Bowen Island forum has a long thread on the issue for further enlightenment, at the pharmacy yesterday it was running about 50-50 on whether or not this was a good idea.