Tuesday 24 February 2015

Thoughts on the duties of Canadians to speak out against unjust laws

From Reddit AMA interview Feb 23

(for Canadian reasons, substitute the recent Bill C-51 legislation as a talking point regarding the loss of our freedoms under the guise of 'protecting us from terrorism'. This has nothing to do with the alleged non-terrorist plot to kill people in Halifax recently but more to do with the gunman who entered Parliament, prompting Prime Minister Harper to hide in a closet until everything was safe). 

Question;

What's the best way to make NSA spying an issue in the 2016 Presidential Election ? It seems like while it was a big deal in 2013, ISIS and other events have put it on the back burner for now in the media and general public. What are your ideas for how to bring it back to the forefront?



Saturday 14 February 2015

Top 'Red' Movies that I know of

You know how when you repeat a word so many times in a row it fails to make sense? That's what I'm feeling now after doing a little research on movies with the word 'Red' in the title. And all because my wife confused the classic American Russian Paranoia movie Red Dawn with the classic American Russian Paranoia movie Red October.

Perhaps if Republicans were a bit more forward-thinking (they'd be Democrats- buh duh dum) they would not have chosen a color that represents their core values and the Communist threat since WW2. So deeply ingrained is the idea of Red = Enemy State they even once made a movie called Enemy State, which if I remember right was actually the American government chasing Will Smith in a case of high-stakes paint ball for his cell phone or something. I digress.

So despite my recent hate-on for making list type articles, I've decided to give it another shot, maybe because everyone who likes lists is proof-reading their own 'Valentine's' themed List. Instead, I'm remembering some classic and not-so-classic movies that had Red in the title. Here's my order of preference.

I also learned I could piss in the radiator if
my truck was overheating
1) Red Dawn (1984) - If you are going to only ever see one movie with the word Red in the title (good luck on that) it would be this classic from the pinnacle of the Cold War, the year 1984. It was a crazy, wonderful time; Ronald Reagan was destroying the very foundations America professed to espouse. Apple Computers changed the images of George Orwell's shocking dystopian book 1984 into an iconic commercial for selling computers pre-Internet. There was a growing crop of young Hollywood talent that was able to share screen time with each other for a brief time before setting out on their own to achieve top (and sometimes only) billing. But before all that ego-politics, there was Red Dawn. The ultimate camping male-bonding movie and the reason I shout Wolverines when I go camping.