It would surely only take you a few guesses after reading the title to figure out I’m talking about the Canadian Military.
CFB Trenton - the host of QIAS ‘03 - has started to complain about their lost revenues at the show. Their pedantic whining has gone so far that they are asking the municipalities of Belleville and Trenton to contribute $25,000 each towards lost expenses.
It’s not Trenton’s fault that the weather sucked. It’s not Belleville’s fault that the air show’s performance schedule for the last five years has been more erratic than former Prime Minister Chretien’s position on getting rid of the GST.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the air show. It’s the only one around here and it’s wonderful. I wouldn’t miss it for the world and I’ll be even more upset if that miserable excuse for a military cancels it. I just don’t think they have a reason to whine, and frankly - that’s all our military does. But, in fairness, it’s the feds who should pick up the bill. A million in lost revenues is nothing for the federales. If we’d had the security we needed, the air show preceeding this year’s show would not have been cancelled and I believe that is ultimately why the attendance this year sucked.
This whole terrorism nonsense just annoys the hell out of me. Let’s just nuke Iraq and be done with it. Line the idiots at Gitmo up and gas ‘em all. Hell, extradite them to Utah and let the firing squad have at ‘em. Televise it. Pull Jerry Lewis out of rehab and let him throw a telethon people will actually give to. “Next hour… performances by the US Navy Band… and… the public executions of three upper-level Al Qaeda operatives!! Keep those pledges coming!! Operators are standing by!! We’ll be be back after these messages!!”
Grrrrrrrrrrr.