Anybody involved with manufacturing or distributing methamphetamine, especially West of the Mississippi River, I am thinking, "Is the guy a Biker Dude with connections or membership in Hell's Angels bike club? I saw a one hour special on television a couple of weeks ago, maybe on The Learning Channel, describing how Canadian biker gangs and their American counterparts ruthlessly controlled and expanded their drug dealing business into Canadian cities. As for the U.S. Prosecutors seeking to confiscate the 18,753 volume collection of comic books, I would suggest the U.S. Courts await a conviction, before handing over the goodies to our light-fingered new American Police State. As for the comic books, maybe the Library of Congress would be interested in this fabulous collection of American literary culture. I wonder if this comic book collection includes several I read as a kid: Adventure comics, DC Comics, and maybe that issue titled "The Citadel."

What gets me, is how easily American international corporations and businesses - (think "big box" and "dollar stores" among other Importers) bed down with these totalitarian statist "one party rule" Chinese thugs. I cannot think of a single instance, whereby the Chinese Mandarin Rulers in Beijing have "lightened up" a little; not on Tibet; not on Hong Kong; not on Japan; not on Southeast Asia; not on the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Far East; and not on Taiwan, to name just a few concerns. Why we Americans do not treat Mainland China, like Fidel Castro's Cuba, or the Ayatollah's Iran, is beyond my ability to comprehend the "realpolitik" of our foreign policy and MBA business smarts. They have brand new Buick factories; we have Flint Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, and now, Madison, Wisconsin. When will the U.S. Dollar, and American political, financial, and business leaders "smarten up"? I hope it's not too late, when they do.

My Mozilla 3.5 version Browser was glitching up on my Desktop PC earlier today, after I committed to a Microsoft JavaScript Update. As a matter of fact, it was not working at all. Didn't Microsoft recently buy Sun Microsystems, the owner of JAVA? I believe so. They fought a big lawsuit over Microsoft unilaterally rewriting Java coding without Sun's permission or license. Now, that is all over with. Fortunately, everything on my PC works now, with a restart. Who knows what the future will bring, with Microsoft owning Java, and Mozilla running JavaScript threads? Could it be, that Microsoft bought Sun in order to take on the Open Source Mozilla Browser Project? Could be, could be . . . .

Fact is, the more "educated" or "trained" our so-called Journalists get, the more our newspapers and news outlets feed us pablum and celebrity dross. The same holds true for the Human Resource or Personnel "Professionals" who are supposedly trained or certified to screen Applicants at major American Companies or Corporations. These people need a trail of crumbs to find their own washrooms, let alone a way towards hiring a qualified, able, and well-experienced new Worker. You really do not want to get me started, but the truth is, even once you get an interview, or get hired by an American company or corporation, the amazing level of dimwitted "leadership" is quite astonishing. While it makes for interesting cartoon panels, the fact is, a dying American Economy is no joke. Most people think ten percent unemployment is perfectly okay. Companies, Corporations, Governments and Elites especially, think that a tight labor market, one in which Workers are getting "trashed" every day in a million ways, is somehow good for themselves, or for the economy, or maybe just for purposes of "discipline." However, this is just another conceit that shows the extreme levels of ignorance stalking the North American Continent of late. While foreigners with intelligence, saavy, business acumen and social norms and values, not to mention well established traditions and religious values, surge ahead with ease and fluidity in today's modern, interconnected and "global" economies of scale, the Anglo-American economic engine is sputtering and running on fewer cylinders than the engine actually has for propelling our own Economy forward. I could go into more detail, and many specifics. However, they will have to await my Writer's Advance and Signed Book Contract, and maybe a Movie Deal, thereafter. You want answers? I got your answers, right here!

People who use the Internet should "smarten up" about who is trying to curtail or limit their individual usage of the amazing and empowering enablement to use and transfer files between connected computers. These big companies and some government officials just cannot "get it through their heads" that they are not in charge of our files, computers and desktops: we are. In America we call it "We the People" but in the Queen's Canada, I don't know how you delineate or protect your alleged or asserted freedoms from these sneaky, ongoing and pernicious predations. The case of Quebecor pinching people's Internet accounts, reminds me of the recent American brouhaha over Comcast Cable Company deciding unilaterally to squeeze the Internet pipeline for their customers who utilized file sharing programs. Once brought to the attention of the American people and those of us who favor a free and open, available Internet, Comcast, the rich and powerful corporation, was hauled into court, in a case which they lost. Proving to be sore losers, Comcast Corporation, run by the Roberts Brothers, continues to try an "end run" around this clear and decisive American court case result, this time by using Canada, it's government, people and legal structure, as it's foil to accomplish there, what they could not accomplish here in America, namely, steal the free and easy freedoms of the Internet for the millions of users who depend on it daily, for many important and vital functions in their lives, not just entertainment or file sharing, although these are certainly valid, useful, and quite legal activities in their own right. The idea that you can have your Internet access pinched or terminated by a major Internet service provider or ISP such as Comcast or Quebecor is utterly ridiculous. Only some incredibly obtuse and unobservant person in the bureaucracies of government or corporations could possibly continue to think along these lines, in this modern era. I guess "hope springs eternal" even in the hearts of would-be, money focused, autocratic jerks. Wake up, Canadiens! Study the Case of Comcast here, and ask for help, if you need it. This battle for Internet freedom, will obviously be a continuous series of engagements with the enemies of our freedoms and individual empowerment and civil liberties. Time to Rock and Roll.