Buncha random mutterings

Okay, Gomery 's out with his recommendations to avoid another AdScam. I was pretty impressed that he asked ordinary Canadians to contribute their ideas for same--but I didn't. Contribute, that is. My ideas are kind of radical: I doubt he would have looked at them.
Here's an example: why does the government have to advertise at all? They're the GOVERNMENT. Their job is to GOVERN. It certainly isn't to SELL us stuff.
Anyway, Stephen Harper says his Accountability Act dovetails very well with Gomery's proposals. I'm not so sure we need more rules. I think what we need are a very few, very clear rules, strictly enforced. Rules beget red tape. Enough of that and your government comes to a shuddering halt.
Moving right along...
I got to work today to discover a letter waiting for me, detailing an automatic distribution from our warehouse that was to arrive starting tomorrow. Reason: Super Bowl weekend.
Great idea, I thought. Okay, granted, I probably should have got notice of this last week at the latest, but hey! At least they're taking the initiative and sending us...
...what are they sending us?
Hmmm.
My eyes moved down the list, expecting to see Super Bowl necessities like, oh, I don't know, chip dip, sour cream, spinach, pizzas, nuts, that sort of stuff. Instead I saw...
...orange juice.
Six cases of store brand cartons of orange juice. Six cases of jugs of store brand orange juice. Not to mention ten cases of store brand MILD cheese bars.
Mild cheese bars. Hardly anybody buys mild cheese in Ontario. It's a big hit out east, but around here I could take it off the shelves and not hear a complaint for a month. This stuff might actually go out of code on me. It doesn't go with the orange juice, and neither the cheese nor the orange juice have anything whatever to do with football, so far as I can tell.
Never mind those. We're getting FIFTY SEVEN CASES of beer cups.
Sorry to get all sexist here for a second, but what woman decided those would sell? Everyone knows that if you're a beer drinker, you have three and a half choices:
--you drink your beer right out of the bottle
--you drink your beer right out of the can
--you drink your beer out of a well-chilled stein
--and--it's so sacrilegious I hesitate to even mention it--if your wife/girlfriend is in the room nagging at you, and no other guys are in the room with you to tease you about being pussywhipped, you might drink your beer out of a beer cup.
Next year, when somebody from Head Office comes touring and asks us why all the beer cups are sitting up in our overheads, we'll just stay silent.

That Canadian charge d'affaires in Iraq, whose car attempted to pass an American military convoy, is pretty lucky he's not dead. If he had been killed, any decent coroner would have found the cause of death to be "reckless stupidity". Assuming the media reports are accurate, his vehicle attempted to pass an American military convoy. Further, the driver allegedly ignored hand signals to stop...and even warning shots.
I don't care who you are, where you're going or how much of a hurry you are in to get there...you don't try to pass a military convoy. Ever. ESPECIALLY not in areas where homicide bombers routinely try to pass military convoys so they can blow them up.
And warning shots are good things to heed. Don't ya think?
I know, as a good Canadian I'm supposed to be outraged that one of our own was shot at by those damned Yanks. Sorry. I don't have the reflexive anti-American gene. I am, however, against idiocy in all its forms.

I had more to say, but I'll leave it for tomorrow. The bed beckons.