Well, it still feels like summer here, but we all know that winter is coming. The kids are back at school, and the adults are working off that last bag of "those little doughnuts" from the PNE. I look forward to winter each year as it seems the only time I can get things done. Summer is a good "concept" time , but a lousy "follow through" time.

Perhaps Iím not nasty enough in the summer. Even if Iím poor and have all branches of the government on my ass, Iím still basically pretty happy. No... wait a minute. Thinking of all that shit I still have to do is pissing me off.

Canadaís Gun Control Program: Keeping Firearms Out of the Wrong Hands.

As long as youíre nowhere near any bad people. So donít go to a nightclub, or a theatre, or a restaurant, or the street, or...

Now I hear that a quite possibly huge number of guns are registered incorrectly. Ruger is the largest firearms manufacturer in America. They make guns in every class; rifles, shotguns, pistols, and revolvers.

Now hereís the deal; the guns have serial numbers like this:

12-34567 or

123-4567

You can see the difference, right? Okay, so the governmentís new BILLION DOLLAR computer, canít handle the dash, or a space in the serial number. They removed such items TO SAVE MEMORY. (I wonder if they would be interested in my old Mac classic. It sounds like it would be a better platform than whatever it is that those guys are using.)

And thatís just a problem with the guns that were REGISTERED. Holy fuck, I donít want my name anywhere that list. Mistakes will be made when the police come looking for the wrong weapons, and we all know judicial mistakes can be a "get out of jail free" card for criminals with good lawyers. There couldnít possibly be anyone left out there that believes that this is still going to work. A BILLION dollars, and still counting.

If weíre worried about saving lives here, lets get serious and spend some money on decent medical care. There are so few shooting deaths in a year in Canada, and most of them criminals themselves, that youíd think we should leave well enough alone. One of the worldís better medical systems went into a tailspin this summer because of the WEATHER. Over 11,000 people died of heat related illness in France alone. If something like that was to happen here (can you say SARS?) we might finally be forced to dismember some of the more moronic programs we have, and spend the money where it is really needed.