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Y’know…

I fully realize that I rant. I know I have pet issues that I harp on or spend a disproportionate amount of time talking about. Realizing that, I was going to let the whole passport thing slide this week because I know I harp on it a lot. In fact, just yesterday I was talking to the owner of the most amazing web hosting company on the planet and telling him that I was putting off getting a Canadian passport because I had read in the paper only days before that the DHS had expressed optimism that Ontario would be able to upgrade their drivers licenses to DHS specifications in time so that passports would not be needed by Ontario residents to cross into the United States by land.

Then just as I’m writing my invitations to my “Maybe The Bush Administration Doesn’t Suck” party (to be held in the fall of this year) I read that our boy Wilkins (the US ambassador to Canada) says the whole drivers license thing is not likely be happen and that all Canadians should get passports.

I’m just gonna pause this rant, because I have some really good stuff for when I come back, but let’s review the thought process here. This whole maelstrom of madness started about 12 seconds after a Boeing 757 went kersplat through a financial building in New York. Ok. The ensuing investigative cycle (i.e. witch hunt) to find the cause of this horrible tragedy found that (among other things) American land borders were not sufficiently secure. With me so far? Great. So in theory… we’re saying… that individuals in terrorist organizations are entering the United States through Canada and this is somehow Canada’s (and Canadians’) fault. Ok. Deep breath. Calm down. Let’s review further and plot a hypothetical terrorist movement. Sabu Affsnaffsneesnafsnaf enters Canada with his ten wives and eight camels. Let’s say for the cause of an interesting story that Mr. Affsnaffsneesnafsnaf lands in Toronto, stays with friends, gathers his diesel fuel and Nutri-grow and decides he’s going to proclaim jihad on West Seneca, New York. So he loads his wives, his camels, his diesel fuel and his Nutrigrow into his 1993 Honda Civic and attempts to cross the border at Niagara Falls. It doesn’t matter WHO is driving past the Canadian customs house at Niagara Falls on a given day on their way to the States. The sign says “Stop only to surrender documents.” And Mr. Affsnaffsneesnafsnaf doesn’t have documents. He has camels. He has wives. He has two barrels of diesel fuel and a few bags of Nutri-grow in the trunk of his sub-compact car, but he has NO DOCUMENTS - so - he keeps on driving. The rent-a-cops on the American side of the border ask him where he’s from, what he’s doing, and what that horrible smell coming from the trunk is. He flashes his million dollar Taliban smile, makes a joke about his mother’s curry, and the community college law enforcement graduate flags him through. Because it’s AMERICANS who guard the AMERICAN border. It AIN’T US! So why are we penalizing Canadians who DID NOTHING WRONG. Why the #&*(@! is George Bush putting the blame for HIS inept handling of foreign policy on the citizens of the country that have been his nation’s BEST FRIENDS for a hundred years or more.

So let’s get back to this Mickey Mouse thing before I have a brain bleed.

I’m pretty sure I mentioned something about this in the past, but I can’t find the article. For some STRANGE reason it seems that US tourism numbers are starting to dwindle and nobody can figure out why. Gee, I can’t figure it out. What could possibly be diverting all these FAITHFUL winter travellers from the southern United States? Yeah. Right. A newspaper in Britain is quoting a survey that says that 70% of the people who have STOPPED travelling to the United States cite “aggressive reception” as a reason. So the Immigration department is spending US taxpayer dollars to have their people educated on how to greet people warmly BY MICKEY MOUSE.

You know, I’ve always been a supporter of the Republican party in the United States, but I can’t wait for Bush to be done. This whole nonsense is just giving me an ulcer. They’re going to have to raise Reagan from the dead to stand a chance of winning the next election. Get ready for President Hillary. You know it’s going to happen.

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