Thursday, November 26, 2009

The old guy looks at the news...

'Bye-bye, Dubai!'
Trying to build your way to Heaven one floor at a time has its downside. They've stretched their credit too far, and now are asking for a delay in repayments on 60-some billions in debt. Even when you're sitting on a serious amount of the world's oil, the fly-now-pay-later plan doesn't work unless you keep up the payments on it. So much for indoor ski-hills in the sweltering sands, and palm-shaped islands in the sea, surrounded by nothing but miles and miles of sand and seawater. 

Canada's Prime Minister plays tourist:
Our PM heads off on visits to foreign locations for photo-ops with local leaders, partly to avoid the uproar at home over the frying ass of one of our diplomats who made claims that turning over prisoners to the Afghans led to the torturing of many innocent farmers. Would those farmers be poppy farmers, I wonder? And as someone else has wondered, if those guys can raise bumper crops of poppies, why can't they raise crops of edible veggies with which to feed their starving kin? Am I being too practical here?

Al-Jazeera gets the OK from our CRTC for its English service broadcasts:
Today's Question Everything is: "Is this a sneaky way to get our Arab immigrants to learn more English?" If it is, I'm all in favour. Salaam, neighbours.

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