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Bowen Island, B.C., Canada

They are really banging the drum hard down south to have another war on tap, this time with Iran. All the same half truths and lies are being trotted out and like the Iraq lies about Nigerian yellowcake for example, easy enough to discredit in time. Some of them don’t need discrediting as with Iraq, for instance the false claim that the training bomb run by Israel last September into Syria was to actually blow up a nuclear reactor that was making bomb material. Like the article quoting the Syrian President Bashar says, it is ridiculous for anyone remotely familiar with nuclear plants that it would be built miles away from the water source needed to keep things cool, such as the Hanford reactor and others are.

This sort of thing is eaten up by the North American media as god’s given fact, and hi hi ho, it’s off to war we go, again.

Not sure how over the top this is, but certainly an odd location for putting refugees in, and the language reminds us of the prejudices that exist to this day down south.

And things aren’t going any better over at the dome either according to this post at the Liberty Forum. Some are talking directly back to the interlopers as Chaney gets told to go f*ck himself on this viral video.

Even the staid folks over at the Washington Post are jumping on the bandwagon with the headline: U.S. Censoring Katrina Coverage. Not so with our local rag, ever in lock step with the aggrandizement of corporations even on the backs of a disaster as Michael Fellman points out.

Here we go again, yet another neighbor complaining about where I am parking which is the only place there is without an extremely steep and long walk from the bottom of the hill on Eaglecliff Road. For $750 a month, that is just not worth it. The latest complainer said, “here, drive my van out of the driveway and see how difficult it is!”. So I did, at a fairly good clip to boot, and as any one that has ever backed up a van using their mirrors knows how to do. “There, how was that?” I said. “But what about at night?” he said, I didn’t have the heart to tell him that it’s even easier then because there isn’t anything to distract your view of the bright reflectors from my car in the mirrors then, and he was just a lousy driver.

Now when I hear the complaint, it sounds like “I don’t know how to drive this vehicle that I have”. Complainer also mentioned that he talked to the Police about my parking, it’s a private road (not his) and think he was stretching it when he said my car could be towed. I mentioned Oliver (who used to live here) told me he parked there all the time and the complaining neighbor said that he complained loudly then too, but nothing ever got towed. More worrisome, he said at one point, “what happens if I do hit your car by mistake”.

Well, I won’t be around long enough to find out just how bad of a driver he really is, gave my notice to the landlord for the end of the month. A place to live isn’t worth getting your insurance jacked up and car dented from bad neighbors that don’t know how to drive. After all, there are large 4 wheel drive trucks going by all the time and they don’t seem to have a problem getting by, there really is a ton of room for any driver. Haven’t found a new place yet, but as this is my umpteenth (41st) move in my lifetime, that isn’t anything new and can sleep in the car for a while if needed, oh well, won’t be the first time for that either