Reading this story, you’d be excused for thinking we didn’t have a pro-military, Conservative government…
All but two of Canada’s fleet of ships are tied up. There is apparently no money to send ships out to sea, such as the now-indefinitely anchored cruiser HMCS Halifax…when it should be out on a 35-day patrol. According to the (penny-pinching) Department of Defence:
“The reason HMCS Halifax’s patrol is delayed is because we have started a financial review,” Lieut. Marie-Claude Gagné, a navy spokeswoman, told CBC News.
In simple language, we have sunk to a new, pathetic low. The nation with the world’s largest coastline…suddenly finds it can’t afford to patrol it!
At this moment, I’m so very shamed.
(2) ARMAGEDDON BECKONS…just a bit
The face of the Doomsday Clock shifted two minutes closer to midnight Wednesday, symbolizing the impending destruction of humanity in a “Second Nuclear Age.”
Chicago’s Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the group that has maintained the timepiece since 1947, wound the minute hand closer to the grim hour for the first time since 2002, when it was frozen at seven minutes to midnight.
Interestingly enough, they’re now including climate change as part of the reasoning behind the speed-up of the clock…which brings to mind all sorts of Day After Tomorrow scenarios (hopefully without the credulity-shredding hilarity)…
…but it was also announced that the world’s most famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, has joined the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists…and I’m sure he’s working on an escape wormhole for civilization even as we speak…so rest easy folks. ;-)
