The back of the mountain is broke

A few weeks ago we went to see Brokeback Mountain. As movies go it is okay. The story is not that special and the acting is average. I do not think it is worthy of all the hype the movie is getting. (I am gay friendly so that is not an issue). What is really great in this movie is the amazing scenery that you get to see for significant periods of the movie. The mountain scenes were shot in near Calgary in Canada. If you love nature and mountains I can highly recommend visiting Kananaskis http://www.kananaskis.com/ and further north Banff and other parks deeper in the Canadian Rockies to see largely unspoilt mountains, animals and places to photograph and explore. It is great in summer and winter.

So what else is broke? Not surprising has been the debacle in Palestine. My dear friend Dubja has been telling us that the war in Iraq is about bringing democracy to the middle east and establishing freely elected governments. Well why are we all so bent out of shape that the "wrong" guys won the elections. By all accounts the elections were free and fair. So what the problem. Hamas my be considered terrorists by some, but they are not the first terrorists to be elected into government by free and open elections. By the way most people forget that some of the former Israeli Prime Ministers were terrorists in their youth.

Well the State of the Union also touched on the subject of the US's addiction to oil. Well at least it is publicly acknowledged and the suggestion that we go after biofuels and Hydrogen fuels. That is great. How about getting really serious and spending a few billion on making it happen instead of the hundreds of billions we are wasting giving record profits to Exxon-Mobil! Apparently Dubja does not think Exxon-Mobil making outrageous profits while the rising cost of gas in the US is seriously damaging and retarding our economy is a problem. I can't wait for 2008 to get a new regime in the White House. It cannot get much worse that this, can it?