Somehow, I missed this

[james_davis_nicoll]

Former Minister of Defense proposes innovative solution for global warming.

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[kalmn.livejournal.com]

that's the best idea ever.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

*sighs*

Doesn't the man realize all the alien tech has been retrofitted into the Orbital Mind Control Lasers already?

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[tandw.livejournal.com]

I guess the paper left it off:

UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.

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[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

The alien information?

Oh no, no, no! The right to all alien technology from crashed space ships was purchased by Big Oil and the US Auto Industry to keep us dependent on their products.

Where do you think the technology to produce a car that can get 1000 miles to the gallon that they're suppressing came from?

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

1000 miles to the gallon... of *water*!

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[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooooooooh, those clever aliens!

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[tandw.livejournal.com]

That particular tagline was used, in times now past, by one of the more memorable specimens of Gavia reticulata to grace the Usenet groups I followed then; the article reminded me of the time that he suggested the US ask Boris Yeltsin if they could borrow one of Russia's JUMBO cosmospheres [1] to launch a comet probe.


[1] Don't ask. Really.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a resident of the nation to your south, may I say that I'm delighted that he's one of yours?

But this does serve to highlight the continued importance of the illegal alien discussions.

[(Anonymous)]

It warms my heart to learn that the proud Canadian tradition of electing whack-jobs to high office did not die with Mackenzie-King.

- Ken

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I think this particular expression of eccentricity post-dates his time as a member of Cabinet. Harper has actual Young Earth Creationists in his cabinet, though.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Really? Which ones?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Doris is probably the best known Creationist in Harper's cabinet.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Before, I thought he was an idiot based on policy, but it's good to see that his inability to examine facts or think critically isn't limited only to economic matters.

After all, consistency is important for a politician.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

If you want a giggle, google "Stockwell Day" and ACE.

A curious coincidence: did you know that James Keegstra was Day's mechanic in Bentley, starting in 1983? Of course, the population is only about 1100.

For the non-Canadians

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Who is James Keegstra, you ask? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Keegstra)

[wizwom.livejournal.com]

"Eh, whot's dat der up in de sky?"
"Wow, dat's a U. F. O. der!"
"You sure? Dat der could be dem Araura we've heard tell aboot."

Um, yeah. guess I'd better stop. Laughing.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

But the Interstellar Council has already said that it will consider Earth's resumption of its dilithium refining activities to be a hostile act, since they don't believe our assurances that they'd be used for peaceful, civilian energy production.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, the alien technology could solve global warming. But if diligent movie-watching has taught me anything, it's that the alien technology would also turn us all into mind-controlled bloodthirsty mutant clone-zombie slaves.

So, you know, there are pluses and minuses to consider.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

So...tell me again, which are the plusses, and which are the minuses?

(It's Tuesday, so I'm already a mutant clone-zombie office slave.)

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

The chap's 83 now, 81 when he claimed to have seen a UFO. One could charitably assume that his mental powers have faded a bit since he was a cabinet minister 40 years ago...

[(Anonymous)]

I am old, I know how unification did unfold. (IOW members of the Canadian Armed Forces probably would not make that assumption.)

rgl

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

The uniforms alone would cause that reaction among CF members. Fortunately I got in after the uniforms were revised to actually look better.

Canada, the only country who could manage uniforms both bland *and* butt-ugly.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered if the Canadian decision to unify the various armed forces was influenced by Henry Kissinger's assertation that it was silly to catagorise armed forces by their primary means of transportation.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

...thus explaining why Kissinger was not Secretary of Defense.

[(Anonymous)]

I was *so* for him as liberal leader when he ran.

Mind you, that was in 1968.

Since then he's got nuttier and nuttier. I think the point of no return occurred when he gave serious consideration to becoming the national Socred leader.


OTOH they say he's a very happy individual.


William Hyde

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

The article fails to mention that back in 2005 Hellyer wanted the Canadian Senate to hold public hearings into UFOs and the possibility that US military action might be taken against supposedly friendly aliens. I'd guess he spent too much time listening to stuff from the (so-called) Disclosure Project.