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Britain Tweets Fire

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Headline:    August 24th 1814.

The White House goes up in flames. Who did it?  You got it, the British. You know, wannabe Canadians.  Close to the end of the war of 1812. You know, that one.

Headline:    Aug. 24, 2014. 

    Brits chuckle and wink, bake a cake and share the good news on Twitter, commemorating the occasion.  ( a.k.a.  remembering the good times had by all out in the colonies in the good old days.)

 

Headline:  Yanks Not Amused when Britain Tweets Fire

Backfire? Let's check out paraphrase what really happened. Britain tweets fire....."Guess what, chaps, it's the 200th anniversary of the big marshmallow roast and campfire at the Whitehouse. We made a cake and everything, wanna' party?"

"We don't like that" the Americans reply huffily.  Very huffily. Extra Huffily.

"Oops..sorry, old chaps,  tut-tut,   we can't help it if there was no barbeque set out on the front lawn. C'mon, we had to have the roast somewhere, we dressed up nice and had a parade down Pennsylvania Ave. and everything, and your  President Madison saw fit to be out to lunch. What did 'ya expect?   The  White House caught fire in the process.....er..... you didn't really mind, did you?"  

"We don't like that"  Americans reply extra-extra huffily, 'it upsets our perfect record of invasions and war and stuff "  

  "er....I say, old chaps, pip-pip, I say,  don't get your stars and stripes shorts twisted too tightly, it's only a cake, quite innocent, I say, offered in glad tidings, you know....care for a cup of tea instead?"

The tweet reminding Americans of an international  parade down Pennsylvania Avenue and the burn-the-Whitehouse  incident stirs the ancient three-legged campfire pot.  The rising cloud of ashes and dust from 200 years ago upsets Yanks and threatens international flights worse than ash from Iceland's biggest volcano.

Who would have guessed that old history dredged up from two hundred years ago would upset folks?  Hot topics like Brits (a.k.a. wannabe Canadians) marching  down Pennsylvania  Avenue pleased as punch, all dressed nicely in red jackets and wanting to party, —but no President Madison there to welcome them? How cool is that for history between friends?

   "We don't like that."   the Yanks say, even extra-more huffily if that is possible, —and  looking from left to right,  bristling from collective heat rash.  

As Canadians we say, well, go figure. No sense of humor at all.

  Some would say it was just payback for the Americans trying to annex Upper Canada. Take that. 'Serves 'ya right for attacking and sacking Toronto  York.  The uninformed would say "'ya mean we did that?"  

Britain tweets fire and chuckles  because the old boys from the Pip-Pipper's club not only burned the Whitehouse, but occupied the capital too, and it seems by the sour response to that mischievously good-natured tweet and offering of cake,  should have just kept it too.  There, that oughta' do itPip-pip....

No matter. In hindsight,  what else would Canadians do?  Party hardy Light a campfire. Make the best of it.  In the middle of the White House floor.... Well, okay.   Use some nice dry furniture for firewood since it was probably raining outside?

......Well, um...okay, perhaps it wasn't really  necessary to burn the furniture.

We can't help it. We party hardy.  We're Canadians. psssst... notice the flags are  on the same cake?

Is that Incoming I hear?

Photo:   Courtesy British Embassy Ukin USA  
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Life: Climate-change Liars and Deniers

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The Climate-Change Conundrum

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me we have been fed more than  enough lies, deception and denials about climate change. We're interested, open-minded,  and we try to keep up and stay  informed to enable reasonable conclusions.  We weigh facts,excuses, lies, crap and creative discussions. One thing is clear. Extreme weather change is obvious, but acid reflux continues to flow unabated from political and corporate  lobbyists  and climate-change liars and deniers.  Common sense evaporates.  

 "Let's pretend political ideology is  responsible for bad weather"

  Dreamland suburbia. Neighbourhoods shredded  by tornadoes,  homes flooded to the rooftops. Disasters.  Nations shattered, seemingly  irreparably by  extreme  'events', earthquakes, Mother Nature's best. She is clearly becoming increasingly testy with our blatant stupidity and foolishness, yet politicians, lobbyists, liars and deniers brazenly continue to explain away reckless  agendas of exploitation and destruction. There must be a more intelligent explanation for disasters than political orientation and partisan ego, but ask  "average Joe'  who somehow confirms  the agenda of the  "other" political party or ideology is responsible for the destruction, mayhem,  or environmental disaster. We jest . Perhaps not.   "Is it really global warming?" You ask naively. "Oh, no,"  smartass wise lobbyists, climate-change liars and deniers offer; profusely, deviously, incredulously,   "that's not warming, 'they' have done studies, it's proven".  Profiteering corporations "do studies" to promote, 'prove the safety of '  and enable their agenda, but let's not go there, not today. Today we're watching everyone  play games. Alas, even political  liars and corporate CEO's will have to breathe deeply in in choking smog and bring themselves up to speed with reality.   That's worth repeating, 'bring themselves up to speed with reality.'  Gasping for air does that.

 

Deluded Liars and Deniers

Politicians, lobbyists, liars and deniers,  apparently,  do not require food in  la-la-land. Devastation and floods are encouraged to miss homes of partisan  liars and deniers. A tradition.  Flood waters part where there's a BMW,  and  "tornadoes go round and round"  the house of The Three Little Pigs.  Cute. In la-la land, that is.  No kidding. Get real.    

The Coffee Shop

But let's not inject climate panic into favourite coffee-shops. Behind the counter  the apocalypse is only  "tree-hugger coffee-talk" — tornadoes in coffee mugs,  you get the drift.  Real issues are disguised like a grandé latté with plastic foam on top, expensive ideological whitewash camouflaged  with  pre-purchased   political decisions gleaned from official corporate reports. Nice.   We the 'ordinary', passively entertained, get real coffee, double-double.   We are supposed to believe LL&D  rhetoric, and unbelievably, we are encouraged to  want to believe it.  Logic suggests we pick and choose.  We`re encouraged to disbelieve  "scientific fact or base-line scientific data that our  leaders have stupidly and arrogantly dismissed  like a stale doughnut. We, the Timmy's crowd, after all, know stale doughnuts.       The Harper government ignores historical,  scientific baseline data at their convenience,  eliminating meaningful comparative data. They gut environmental legislation.  Never mind that.   The government wants YOU to believe  "shiny new, modern scientific data" gathered from operating sites by corporation should be used to enable, unnoticed,  "wise puppet policy" recommended by endless corporate reports printed on shiny paper.  Uh, huh..quite a cool show, isn't it?     Loyal readers and thinkers may ask why would average Canadian coffee-drinkers  concern themselves? After all, " hamburger jobs" are created and  the economy is "under control".   Yes, we are  controlled by  'the wise', manipulators, the political, the 'corporateaucracy', the elite, the rich, the profiteers, the exploiters. The corporateaucracy  controls everything including pulling the strings of  their political puppets. We, the ordinary, are —on a 'need to know' basis.  We get it. Gag the scientists, the real ones —and offer lies from  partisan politicians, paid lobbyists, liars and deniers instead.  "Oh, yes," we whisper at Timmy's. " the elite and rich know, that makes them qualified to run everything to a state of disaster."   Really?  No. There is no alternative world to live in after "the wise" destroy this one.   Yes.  Average global temperatures swing wildly, and centuries-old glaciers are melting; the Arctic is melting, unprecedented weather events proliferate,  carbon dioxide levels are higher than they have been in 800,000 years. All are proven, scientific fact, yet are labeled partisan rhetoric, Houdini magic science, and  scare tactics.  Coffee-shop people need oxygen to breathe, clean water to drink, and food to eat,  do we not? —or is that just another scare tactic  to be  ignored at the clever advice of devious lunatics?

 

Liars and Deniers Persist

No matter; partisan or not,  every human being on earth is playing catch up with reality which approaches quickly.  We're told to vote for a profiteering corporateaucracy.   Stubborn egotistic leaders insist we must be satisfied with hamburger jobs and  silently allow international corporations trillions upon trillions in profits as they exploit finite resources, destroying the environment we need to survive. "Cars in China now produce oxygen?"  "Contaminated, condemned  oil lands now produce food?"  "Oil spills are good for the economy"? The liars and deniers keep at it. We laugh raucously. Lobbyists, climate-change liars and deniers passionately dismiss humanity itself. They are the partisan ''wise". Something is amiss in the coffee-shop. We can do better.  Yes, that we agree on, we need a refill. What do YOU think? Have you had enough of the reckless corporate agenda, destruction of the environment for profit,  political puppets, and  climate-change liars and deniers?    Is that Incoming I hear? ©2014 all rights reserved
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