digital kids

Kids are usually squirmy little elastic firecracker things that rarely sit down once they get going. When your body is small and healthy and overflowing with energy, and your mind is full of curiosity and anticipation for the new, then I guess it's perfectly normal. Sometimes I see kids or even babies, barely a month old, on the bus, or on the metro downtown and they are not like this at all. They are more on the frail side, less physical, maybe of asian descent, and when they look at you, you feel their mind. It's quite unsettling at first because you immediately get the impression that this little midget studying you from the comfort of their Quinny stroller might have more mental capacity than you. Little black eyes moving a mile a minute and their bodies perfectly still. As you notice the little squirt, in her onion head hat, and pacifier in mouth, she also notices you. She doesn't flinch, she just confidently stares at you down analyzing you taking it all in. These kids are different, they don't move in quick un-calculated impulses, they turn their attention to things gracefully like an adult, or even someone more civilized, studying everything. They have an attention span, and that is a magnificent thing in our day and age of electronic media distractions.

Harper, and his politics of purchasing a nation with fear. Haven't we seen this before? On TV ???

Shame on you Harper, and your politics of fear. Someone who loves their people and country does not have to resort to using those tired old American tactics on their own people. You don't need to scare your population into submission if only you would lead them with ideas, and give them something to believe in. Yes you have changed Canada, and our economy is strong and bright thanks to the exploitation in the tar sands, and in the middle east. We have been rewarded with a strong economy for dancing the same dance as our southern neighbours.. and you know what? So what? You dance their dance like I insert a loonie into the jukebox and call the song. We already know that the U.S. didn't get punished for cheating, and writing themselves a fat big check in reward for spending all their health care dollars on war in some foreign country we have no business meddling in. It's not like you actually had to think of doing something original, no. You just had to copy Bush's program and patriot act step by step like you were following the pied piper. Every step of the way, you now OWN Canadians. You didn't have to buy them with passion, and valour, and integrity, you bought them with childcare programs , and possessions made in China, and the politics of fear. You have found a way not to win the love of your nation like Kennedy, with new ideas. Thats too risky. You would rather lower the consciousness and standards of Canada into a new dark age of war, hatred, and confusion. You choose not to learn from their mistakes because someone is promising you eternal life in exchange for your stageshow. Someone looked out across the nation forty seven years ago and said, we have to find a way to quiet this nation that keeps trying to wake up. We have to abandon this idea of pleasing people with great ideas, and love... we have to scare them with engineered catastrophes, and provide them with OUR solutions to the problem. You my friend are worse than a murderer. You murder a whole nation, it's spirit, and soul. You do the devil's work. Manipulating people into places they can no longer use their own minds because they are scared. You can bet your pink frillies, you don't impress me much.