Remember the Patriot Act? What it did for wiretapping was basically extend something that enforcement agents previously could do in criminal investigations to terror investigations. Depsite the uproar, all that means is that we can tap the lines of suspected terrorists, too, whereas before we could only tap the lines of suspected criminals but had to leave the terrorists alone. Not really such a big deal, in fact it seems smart considering how may Americans have been killed by terrorists, but the left and the center were up in arms about the non-existent erosion of civil liberties this meant, despite the fact that not a single person has ever given me an example of a civil liberties breach due to the Patriot Act. Many of these people were so upset that they claimed they wanted to move to Canada, which has now demanded that telecom companies alter their infrastructure so that the government can do wiretaps. So when are we going to start hearing about Canadians wanting to move to the US? Oh wait, that's been going on for years for many souls who don't want to deal with their crappy state-run health system and roads that are always full of potholes. Anyway, Canada is supposedly a lefty's paradise, so this new wiretapping scheme fits right in with all the other left-wing utopias, from Cuba to China to the U.S.S.R to East Germany, whose residents loved left-wing ideals so much that they broke down a wall to get out. Anyway, next time someone tries to tell you how much more free people are in Canada, tell them they are ignorant and show them the truth. There is no country on Earth where people are more free and have more chances to succeed in life than here in the United States!

I also read something about France today that had me in stiches. They are having A nationwide strike right now, in reaction to moves the government has made to try to fix the moribund economy. And the strikers are also demanding higher pay. Do they not ever think about the future? Or maybe they look forward to a future where they are all guaranteed high paying jobs, but 90% of their pay goes to taxes to pay for other people's high paying jobs, the economy can't grow because employers ahve to pay all their money to their strike happy employees, etc. etc. etc. I'm no economist, so I don't know where this road might lead, but the people of France seem determined to find out.