Thursday, April 13, 2006

Everybody needs a nuke

Reading Seymour Hersh in this week’s New Yorker re Bush and Iran and the whole nuke thing, I came across this tidbit:

[Iran expert] Clawson said that he would prefer to rely on sabotage and other clandestine activities, such as “industrial accidents.” But, he said, it would be prudent to prepare for a wider war, “given the way the Iranians are acting. This is not like planning to invade Quebec.”

“Not like planning to invade Quebec”? What does that mean? Is the Pentagon’s invasion plan for Quebec simpler or more complicated than its Iran invasion plan? Time to start stocking up the basement with potable water, canned goods and Doritos*.

In my Level 8 paranoid fantasy (Paranoia Fantasy Scale being: 0 = no paranoia; 10 = metaphysical certainty that paranoia is justified) the Pentagon has an invasion plan for every country on earth.

Sources of fresh water are rapidly running out and we have plenty of it. I know THEY are going to come after our water, both for the hydroelectricity and for plain old drinking water. How are we going to stop them? Quebec needs a nuke. Now.

*and Omega-3 rich cat food

4 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

years ago, the vestibules (then radio free vestibule) had a song about mtl tv weather lady omega medina ("you sang oprah before the hockey games....omega, omega, omega, omega")
THIS IS NOW STUCK IN MY HEAD because of you and the cats, oh and the invasion of quebec

omega, omega, omega, omega

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

I'm told "you sang oprah" is supposed to red "you sang opera".
Oh Oprah, how you have invaded our subconcious.

Of course I remember Omega Medina. When I was a kid,I thought she was so exotic. She was really elegant. For a weather woman.

She was no Yvan Huneault, tho.

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

And "supposed to red" is supposed to read "supposed to read". argh.

cityofmushrooms said...

oh RED, how you have invaded our subconcious
Carling RED cap, perhaps?
maybe lay off the beers w/the omega 3 cat food