Keeping Abreast of Things

John Bitove, who is the KFC Canada CEO, sent a letter to Pamela Anderson, a vegetarian acting on behalf of PETA, in response to her concerns about their cruel chicken preparation practices.
His letter invited her to come for eats at one of his KFCs, reminded her of the facts as they company found them, and promising to keep her "abreast" of any developments.
For that letter, he deserves the continued KFC cruelty picketing they got until they recently settled with PETA.
Frankly, I couldn’t care less if my KFC was beheaded or gassed as long as it’s greasy and crisp. The same doesn’t go for Ms. Anderson being "abreast".
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The Stanley Cup is the redwood of sports trophies. It keeps growing every year and you can literally mark certain periods or eras in history just be seeing where you are on the Cup.
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The average auto worker makes, under the latest agreement, $67.00 an hour. That’s about $134,000.00 a year. It’s 30% more than the average non-unionized non-American car plant worker. In rejecting a demand to simply get closer to that level, CAW said it wouldn’t be compared to non-unionized car workers, even if they were working in the US and Canada. And they wonder why jobs and plants are moving away.
Those workers now make as much as hour as a legal aid lawyer made in the 1990’s.
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How the setting up of another speculative market can be justified is beyond me. Food, oil and metals are all up. Carbon’s next. There won’t just be a cap-and-trade market, but eventually there will be speculative markets on cap-and-trade. The price of carbon might just go through the roof.
Ironically, the government will benefit from that speculation.
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It’s always amusing when one is confronted with a story that makes the politically correct, especially the CBC, wonder where to turn. How about the Endangers Species Act "threatened" statement regarding the polar bears of the US? The Bogey Man comes back again. Now, it’s harming the hunting of Inuit by bringing in the plan to protect the threatened polar bear.
On the other hand, I thought the hunters and the souvenir grabbers were the real problem. They’re the ones insensitive to the shrinking ice that is causing the decline of species like the polar bear. Normally, should we not be exalting the US as protecting an endangered species?
It’s hard to know how to be consistent intellectually on these things. I think the Endangered Species Act is scam and a boondoggle which has harmed the more important species (humans) many times over. It’s done very little to help animals. Certainly not those who rely on some sort of species control so they can live as well. It’s also harmed the living of all sorts of Northwestern economic activities in the US.
Now, we Canadians are getting a taste of the tyranny of this regime. AT the same time, we can’t help but enjoy the irony that the exaggerated and threatened state of the polar bear (some populations are indeed growing, especially in Russia) is non-existent as is the ridiculous global warming theory.
This is the result. The Inuit, who are simply trying to pursue their usual way of life to earn what money they can from US tourists, are harmed.
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McCain campaign slogan: Don’t go back to the past. Who wants another Carter term?
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Indiana Jones is only old for those too young to remember it the first time.