The Obvious

First obvious statement - it's hot. Too hot. Tempers are flaring and it's kind of fun. We're all soaked and sweaty and cranky. We're all real. Slather on the deodorant baby and it won't do a bit of good - you'll smell like a hot sweaty animal within minutes. And it's hot.

Second obvious statement - there's an election up in a few weeks. I'm betting most of those eligible to vote, won't. And that's not hot. Nor is it cool. Remember being a kid and your mother telling you to eat all of you supper because "there are children starving to death in Africa?" (which, while true, somehow seems like some kind of racial slur. My brother and I thought it was funny to tell her to pack the food up and send it to them.) Well, there are people all over the world dying for the chance to vote. Literally. Yet here in New Brunswick in 2003, only 69% of registered voters turned out to vote. The turnout at the last federal election was even lower at just 58.8%. All I can say is wtf? We get to vote, we get to have a say, we get to have a voice. Maybe it's not huge, but it's there. So get off your disenfranchised ass and stop feeling sorry for yourself and the state of the world long enough to go out and fill in your ballot. Then you can go back home and bury your head back in your video games if you like. Although, if you come up from your virtual reality long enough to check life out, you might find that one person can make more difference than you'd thought.

Third obvious statement - the revolution is going to start here in New Brunswick. Some August, or maybe July. During an incredibly intense heat wave. And it will all be due to global warming. Those who deny that global warming is happening will have to find some other reason, like the state of the economy or socialist infiltration. I'll let them figure that out. Personally I think we're all just going to lose our cool (again, literally) and take back what is ours. So a word to the secular powers that be - do what you need to do to stop global warming, because we New Brunswick folks get cantankerous when we're overheated. And if you won't work on the global warming issue then at least send us lots of cold beer.

Fourth obvious statement - see first obvious statement. The not so obvious statement is that the weather seems to shifting and perhaps, hopefully, lightening a bit. So I'm going to go to bed and see if this sleep thing will happen. It's been too long without a good sleep and I'm almost running on fumes. While that was great during Pride Week, I want my sleep now. 

Good night all.