I'll Be Ready!

Hey yaars,

Here's another Naveed special of random musings. Hope you like 'em :

Remembrance day was yesterday. It's one of those days I feel has lost it's prestige, as I see fewer poppies every year. There was a time when the whole country stopped at 11 AM to mark the day, which just doesn't happen nowadays. Sure, it happens at government functions, but factories, stores, and airports seem to not be bothered with 'wasting time'. While it doesn't bother me greatly, at least wearing a poppy and giving a few bucks to the Royal Canadian Legion would be a start!

The flipside to my Remembrance Day rant is how much our media publicizes about soldiers who've died in Afghanistan. While I have respect and sympathy for their families, anyone signing up for the armed forces should know going in of the sacrifice they're partaking in. To me it's just a bit awkward watching a 10 minute top story on one soldier dying in the line of duty while a tad few moments are used to publicize innocent victim's deaths in the region. It might be the cynic in me, I just feel many tend to acknowledge pain and suffrage when it hits home, and ignore it when it's in a 'far off place way out there'.

I've been re-reading my copy of Michael Moore's Stupid White Men. I already have re-read Dude, Where's my Country? and have been thoroughlly fascinated AND disgusted with the current Commander-in-Chief's election "win", and subsequent actions in the "war on terror". I know Mr. Moore goes a bit over the top, but facts are facts, and he may well be the worst President in the history of the United States. From rigging Florida votes to WMD in Iraq to Afghanistan to Enron, he's managed to bungle his way in every step. The Democrats seem to finally have swung the pendulum in their favour, and so long as they don't drop the ball in picking a leader, I can't possibly see another Republican president. And seeing as us Canadians in recent time tend to mimic our American cousins in federal voting (Regan-Bush/Mulroney, Clinton/Chretien, Bush Jr./Harper), could this be the beginning of a new age? (I think I FEEL my conservative friend's cringing!).

Here's a debate we've been having in our home with regards to phone etiquette - I personally feel that when calling someone up, it's only proper to ask "Hi, may I speak to ______?", or something of that nature. I'm not a fan of the infamous "Is ____ there?" nor "this is for ___". It's just plain rude. OTHERS in my family disagree. According to them so long as they don't swear at you or insult you everything's hunky dory! I guess it goes back to my upbringing where my dad would scold me for not using words such as 'May I', 'Excuse Me', 'Sorry to bother you'. In any event, is there anything better to use then my line? Please let me know!


Alright, that's enough blogging for now. I'll leave y'all with one last question, Is ignorance an excuse for error?

L8er