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A GOD-FREE DEATH AND THE END OF SHELTERS

FROM THE BOMBARDMENT OF HIS WORD

January 23, 2025

Lucette declined her ordained cousin’s offer to give her the last rites.

“Faith,” Mark Twain said, “is believing in something that you know to be untrue.” Even with the end just moments away Lucette did not seek comfort in what was for her, a lie. She did not need it. The last words she wanted to hear were from the man who loved her and did his best to alleviate her pain, not, if you believe in God, from the sadist responsible for her discomfort.

I doubt if a person’s right to a God-free death will ever be denied, but then again, I never expected during my lifetime to see the obliteration in English-Canada of a young person’s right to a God-free education.

Supreme Court reaffirms religious liberty in Canada (but not Quebec). Court upholds the right of Muslim students to pray at Calgary private school National Post, March 28, 2024

This was after two Muslim students deliberately enrolled in a private nondenominational school then appealed the school’s decision to stand by its Charter and not make an exception for the uber religion and provide them with “a space to pray.”

61:9 It is He Who sent His Messenger forth with the guidance and the religion of truth, to make it triumph over every religion.

Islam had only been moderately successful in English-Canada—Toronto area schools mostly—in using prayers as a battering ram to breach the wall that used to exist between Church and State in Canada’s public school system until the Supreme Court of Canada stepped in with its superior powers and completely obliterated it on its behalf (recommended: Chapter “Getting the Kids Hooked on the Irrational”, Fade to Black – Triumph of the Irrational, Boreal Book).

The Supreme Court's refusal to hear an appeal from Weber Academy against a lower court ruling that required all schools, both public and private nondenominational, to provide “a space to pray.”

Allah will not listen to a believer’s prayer if he has not performed wudu, i.e., ritual washing of feet, hands, forearms, ears, nose and hair prior to getting down on his hands and knees to pray.

The Supreme Court’s calamitous refusal to even hear arguments in defence of a God-free education means non-Muslim students, outside the province of Québec, may not be safe from the bombardment of the word of God even in school washrooms where believers will make the mandatory declaration before doing their wudu that what they are about to do is In the Name of God the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and upon completion make a declaration of faith that accentuates their separateness.

I testify that there is no god but Allah, and I also testify that Muhammad is His servant and messenger.

O Allah, make me among those who seek repentance and make me among those who purify themselves.

Believers are also bound to be asked by the perplexed why they are washing their feet in the sink, blowing water out of their nose, cleaning out their ears, etc., only to be lectured about god and worship.

It will also become the subject of conversation outside the lavatory in whatever space Muhammad’s prayer choreography is performed as the marketing genius intended.

Supreme Court of Canada will hear legal challenge on Quebec secularism law (Bill 21) CBC Jan. 23, 2025

Having made a mockery of the secular public school system in English Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada will now attempt to do the same to Québec's secular public school system. Bill 21 prohibits public officials in position of authority, such as judges, police officers and teachers, from flaunting their religious affiliation while on the job. Teachers, in particular, who insist on wearing ostentatious religious attire in front of a captive audience of children, are in a position to do irreparable harm to future generations.

A successful challenge by opponents of a God-free education is bound to lead to prayers in schools like in English-Canada.

CHILDREN UNDER SIEGE

(From Teach Your Children Well - The Future as a Truism and a Cliché, Boreal Books)

Teach your children well

Children are our future

Teach them well and let them lead the way

Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston

Lyrics by Michael Masser and Linda Creed

It is both a truism and a cliché that children are the future, and that future will be shaped in the classroom. The public non-denominational school system in Canada is both the strength and the Achilles’ heel of our democratic collective. The strength can be found in schools where children are still taught that the human journey is a journey in the pursuit of knowledge through scientific inquiry and critical thinking; each generation responsible for taking that additional step in the direction of an elusive, ultimate truth, which, if ever discovered, would mean the end of the human journey as we know it.

The empirical pursuit of knowledge about our universe and our place in it, a gift from the Greeks of antiquity rediscovered during the Renaissance and the period known as the Enlightenment, is facing a serious challenge from those who believe that this wrong-headed pursuit ended thousands of years ago when the shaper of the universe himself revealed all we need to know about everything to a favoured few.

Any study beside that of the Quran is a distraction, except the Hadiths and jurisprudence in the religion. Knowledge is what He [Muhammad] narrated to us, and anything other than that is the whispering of the Satan. Al-Qaeda.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018

They would have us now simply sit back and wait for the promised reward of a make-believe afterlife for our uncritical acceptance of what these self-proclaimed mouthpieces for the alleged creator of everything insist are immutable truths.

The followers of these ancient questionable transmitters of revealed truths, those of the Prophet Muhammad being the most vocal, have successfully attacked the Achilles’ heel of the public school system: its openness to any subject of enquiry.

Most, if not all, religions would like nothing better than to transform classrooms into centres of religious indoctrination instead of education. Provincial governments across Canada appear more and more willing to support these faith-based initiatives that seek to eliminate a child’s last refuge from the incessant bombardment of the word of God: the public school system.

The secular public school system, in the main, teaches children and young people to think for themselves. The private faith-based system teaches children and young people to let a god do much of their thinking for them. Can democracy, let alone humanity, survive generations raised to blindly accept specious conclusions as to the meaning of life and to follow egotistical instructions as to what we must do to gain access to a purported Paradise in the sky contained in competing texts of questionable authenticity communicated by the self-proclaimed creator of a narrowly-focused universe to flesh-and-blood favourites thousands of years ago?

If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure (italics his) God wrote some of our books, then we need only to count the days to Armageddon—because God has given us many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.

Sam Harris, The End of Faith - Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, p. 35.

If children are not exposed to and learn to appreciate the values inherent in a secular, democratic society free from religion’s nefarious influence, then religion will return with a vengeance and all we be lost.

It has cost countless lives over hundreds of years to wrestle the freedoms and liberty we now enjoy from tyrants of both the secular and religious kind. Will these hard-won rights to make our own informed, reasoned choices now be carelessly cast aside within a few generations because religion wants to market its dogma to a captive audience of children.

Organized religion is not unlike a modern corporation that wants to successfully market a product. Just like modern business leaders, from sneaker salesmen to sugared water peddlers, religious leaders know that the best time to get the consumer to buy into their message, their product, is to get them hooked on their brand while that consumer is still a child or an adolescent in an environment that will make them more receptive, indeed captive, to their advertising.

The American and French Revolutions brought some measure of protection for children from adults wishing to bring their conflicting religious ideologies into the classroom by banning most religious instruction in public schools.

After more than a hundred years of relative calm in Western classrooms, with a focus on learning and the development of critical thought (religion’s nemesis), religion wants back in, spurred on by a burgeoning Faith that will not take “no” for an answer and whose apparel is literally an article of faith, an advertisement for their preference for revealed truths, as opposed to those discovered through scientific inquiry and supported by empirical evidence that they want to parade in front children who, because of their age, cannot help but look up to them and ask questions.

Bill 21 does away with passive proselytising to a captive, receptive audience of school children in an ostensibly secular learning environment. Both passive and active pedagogical proselytisers seek the same outcome: getting the kids hooked on their religion before they know any better. You cannot be an advocate of one and an opponent of the other. In any event, passive classroom proselytisers cannot avoid becoming the active kind when they are inevitably asked by naturally curious children why they don't show their hair, not to mention their face.

(From Remembering Uzza – If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub, Boreal Books)

Archie: When a god, if you believe it was a god, with a religion to sell chose a salesman to get it done, He obviously knew what He was doing.

Uzza: Muhammad was not a salesman; he was a merchant!

Archie: Same diff!

Uzza: It was this inspired choice of a person who knew how to take advantage of humanity’s cupidity and fears that ensured Islam would be the success that it is today. Muhammad, before he discovered that he had been chosen to speak on God’s behalf and implement His agenda, was a merchant, a very successful merchant. He and his Mentor understood advertising before advertising as we know it was understood. They understood how you create brand loyalty and how you get your brand out there; from using women as the equivalent of billboards to houses of worship as imposing monuments to the awesomeness of your brand, visible from almost anywhere.

Bob: By billboards, you mean by the way they dress?

Uzza: Yes.

Archie: They even allowed these billboards in schools. Teachers are role models. My daughter the other day came home from school and asked if she could wear a mask like one of her teachers because good girls cover their face and hair in public.

Bob: NO THEY DON’T!

I DREAM OF LUCETTE, HE DREAMT OF THE KORAN

February 20, 2025

More than five years after her passing I still dream about her all the time. In my dreams she is alive and well, except for last night. In last night’s dream I am looking for her in our old neighborhood, which in my dreams we have never left. A neighbour shouts “isn’t that her over there?” I walk towards to where she is pointing and a sort of billboard, not unlike like the whiteboard in my home office on which I wrote notes to myself, comes into view. As I get closer I notice that someone is pinned to that white surface, it is Lucette. As I struggle to remove her lifeless body from whatever is holding her up, I wake up.

For Muhammad dreams where not only omens but how God in Paradise communicated to him much of the content of His book, the Koran.

The Koran is all over the place as to when it was revealed. In one instance, it is during one night, the night of power (97:1); in another, it is over an entire month, the month of Ramadan (2:185); and in still another instance, it was revealed “piecemeal” (17:106). Nowhere in His Book does Allah mention revealing what He revealed of His Koran in dreams, yet this is how Muhammad’s companions remember him receiving many of God’s communications.

Narrated Safwan bin Ya'la bin Umaiya from his father who said:

"A man came to the Prophet while he was at Ji'rana. The man was wearing a cloak which had traces of Khaluq or Sufra (a kind of perfume). The man asked (the Prophet), 'What do you order me to perform in my Umra (the lesser pilgrimage)?' So, Allah inspired the Prophet divinely and he was screened by a place of cloth.

I wished to see the Prophet being divinely inspired.

Umar said to me, 'Come! Will you be pleased to look at the Prophet while Allah is inspiring him?'

I replied in the affirmative.

Umar lifted one corner of the cloth and I looked at the Prophet who was snoring. (The sub-narrator thought that he said: The snoring was like that of a camel).

When that state was over, the Prophet asked, "Where is the questioner who asked about Umra? Put off your cloak and wash away the traces of Khaluq from your body and clean the Sufra (yellow color) and perform in your Umra what you perform in your Hajj (i.e. the Tawaf round the Ka'ba and the Sa'i between Safa and Marwa)."

Bukhari 27.17

Communications from Paradise sent while Muhammad slept would explain the horrific descriptions of Judgement Day and Hell, which mere words could not have conveyed. Aisha remembered her husband receiving “the Divine Inspiration” in what she refers to as “true dreams” while he slept.

Narrated Aisha:

The commencement (of the Divine Inspiration) to Allah's Apostle was in the form of true dreams in his sleep, for he never had a dream but it turned out to be true and clear as the bright daylight. Then he began to like seclusions, so he used to go in seclusion in the cave of Hira where he used to worship Allah continuously for many nights before going back to his family to take the necessary provision (of food) for the stay.

Bukhari 60.478

Dreams, Muhammad explained, convey religious knowledge. What is the Koran, if not religious knowledge?

Narrated Ibn Umar:

I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "While I was sleeping, I was given a bowl full of milk (in a dream), and I drank of it to my fill until I noticed its wetness coming out of my nails, and then I gave the rest of it to Umar."

They (the people) asked, "What have you interpreted (about the dream) O Allah's Apostle?"

He said, "It is Religious) knowledge."

Bukhari 87.134

Why you did not dare wake up a sleeping Muhammad.

Narrated Imran:

Once we were traveling with the Prophet and we carried on traveling till the last part of the night and then we (halted at a place) and slept (deeply). There is nothing sweeter than sleep for a traveler in the last part of the night. So it was only the heat of the sun that made us to wake up and the first to wake up was so and so, then so and so and then so and so (the narrator 'Auf said that Abu Raja' had told him their names but he had forgotten them) and the fourth person to wake up was Umar bin Al-Khattab.

And whenever the Prophet used to sleep, nobody would wake him up till he himself used to get up as we did not know what was happening (being revealed) to him in his sleep.

Bukhari 7.340

It was in a dream that Muhammad was given the keys to the treasures of the Earth.

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "I have been given the keys of eloquent speech and given victory with awe (cast into the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping last night, the keys of the treasures of the earth were brought to me till they were put in my hand."

Bukhari 87.127

Another hadith expressing more succinctly what inspires terror in the name of Allah to this day:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror, and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world (the booty) were brought to me and put in my hand."

Bukhari 52.220

In his dreams Muhammad was served food and drink.

Narrated Abu Sa'id:

That he had heard the Prophet saying, "Do not fast continuously (practise Al-Wisal), and if you intend to lengthen your fast, then carry it on only till the Suhur (before the following dawn)."

The people said to him, "But you practice (Al-Wisal), O Allah's Apostle!"

He replied, "I am not similar to you, for during my sleep I have One Who makes me eat and drink."

Bukhari 31.184

It was in dreams that Muhammad was first shown the baby that was destined to be his bride. Aisha was as pretty as a picture. Considering Allah and Muhammad’s aversion to lifelike reproductions of people and animals, the following hadith is quite extraordinary.

Narrated Aisha:

That the Prophet said to her, "You have been shown to me twice in my dream. I saw you pictured on a piece of silk and someone said (to me), 'This is your wife.'

When I uncovered the picture, I saw that it was yours. I said, 'If this is from Allah, it will be done.'"

Bukhari 58.235

In another hadith, it is Aisha in the flesh wrapped in silk, and the disembodied voice has been identified as that of a man.

Narrated Aisha:

Allah's Apostle said (to me), "You were shown to me twice in (my) dream. Behold, a man was carrying you in a silken piece of cloth and said to me, 'She is your wife, so uncover her,' and behold, it was you."

I would then say (to myself), "If this is from Allah, then it must happen."

Bukhari 87.139

The difference between a dream and a nightmare is its source.

Narrated Abu Qatada:

The Prophet said, "A true good dream is from Allah, and a bad dream is from Satan."

Bukhari 87.113

If that is the case, I have to wonder what Satan is trying to tell me by what He showed me last night. If I don’t live to publish Farewell Postings, you will have your answer.

MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE POSTING

February 24, 2025

I signed up for Amazon Prime for the free deliveries and now, as I spend more time in the past then in the present, or the future, it is Amazon Music that is part of the package that appreciate the most. I simply ask my Amazon speaker to play tunes from the 70s or even the 60s and it bring that past to life. Asking Alexa to play Julio Iglesias makes me feel as if she is here with me.

Lucette was mad about Julio Iglesias. He was not yet well known in Canada when she returned from a vacation in South America with some of his albums. The first time she played his songs for me—for us—I too became a fan. I did not understand a word he sang, but his melodies were captivating and he had such a beautiful voice. She said his songs were all about love and I believed her. Years later when he started recording in English the same songs I had heard in Spanish, I believed her even more.

Playing musical instruments or listening to music is 16th on Islam’s list of 50 (at this writing) greater or grave sins, sins where the transgressor will spend an eternity of fire in Allah’s Hell.

It is not a sin to listen to accapella performances, songs performed without musical accompaniment. It can be quite beguiling.

Geert Wilders, at this writing the Dutch leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), in the spirit of Theodoor van Gogh, also made a film about Islam.

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“Theodoor van Gogh was a Dutch film director. He directed Submission: Part 1, a short film written by Somali writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which criticised the treatment of women in Islam in strong terms. On 2 November 2004, he was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamist who objected to the film's message.”Wiki

The twenty-six-year-old Bouyeri shot van Gogh before slitting his throat as he was pleading "Mercy, mercy; we can talk about this" and pinning a five-page condemnation of Western society to his body.

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What is most striking about Fitna is not the images of the dead and mutilated, but the lyrical and mesmerizing rendition of violent and hate-filled revelations calling for the murder of unbelievers. If you don’t understand Arabic, you can almost imagine yourself making love to Allah’s words except that, unlike those of Julio, they have next to nothing to do with love.

If the violence and hate that are contained in verses sung without instrumental accompaniment broadcast to the Islamic community in Arabic were broadcast in English on MTV for example, there would be uproar. Non-Muslims would be appalled that impressionable young minds are subjected to so much sadistic violence and hate forcefully expressed in such a captivating lyrical way.

Yesterday I was listening to a young Muslim podcaster explaining how hard it was for her to give up listening to music. Some will risk Allah’s Wrath rather than give it up, like the women and girls I wrote about so many years ago in what remains my all-time favorite posting.

MY MOST DOWNLOADED POSTING

March 4, 2025

As I stared up at a darken ceiling in the middle of the night thinking of my ultimate failure, to which this book is a testimonial, I found in remembering a disturbing posting hope that it was not all for nought.

Almost twenty years ago I posted an excerpt from Canada – The Fractured Interviews that almost immediately become my most downloaded page, and by a wide margin—and it has not relented to this day. My books contain many uncomfortable truths about Islam, but perhaps none more appalling than what was revealed about the mindset of Iran’s ruling theocracy in Ayatollah Khomeini’s published dissertation in which he advances Shia Islam’s position on sodomizing baby girls and bestiality. If Khomeini on Sodomy and Bestiality helps to bring about the downfall of his successors it will have been worthwhile.

AFTERWORD

TWIN THREATS

In conflict situations… [there is] a powerful resistance to killing one's own kind, a resistance that exists in every healthy member of every species.

Konrad Lorenz, in his definitive book, On Aggression, notes that it is rare for animals of the same species to fight to the death. In their territorial and mating battles, animals with horns will butt their heads together in a relatively harmless fashion, but against any other species they will go to the side and attempt to gut and gore.

Similarly, piranha will fight one another with raps of their tails but they will turn their teeth on anything and everything else, and rattlesnakes will wrestle each other but they have no hesitation to turn their fangs on anything else.

Lorenz suggests that this 'non-specicidal' tendency is imprinted into the genetic code in order to safeguard the survival of the species.

 From A Resistance to Killing by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

Only lunatics, sociopaths/psychopaths, those who have been conditioned to kill as a reflexive reaction (soldiers) and finally those who believe they are doing God’s work will kill another human being in cold blood.

Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, Chief Historian of the European Theater of Operations in World War II, in a series of interviews with American riflemen concluded that only 15 to 20% of them fired their weapons at an exposed enemy soldier. His conclusions have been supported by other studies. This has led the military to find ways to overcome this resistance in a normal person to killing another human being, even in theaters of war.

The modern military has largely overcome this reluctance to kill through repetition and operant conditioning (modification of behaviour based on stimulus/response), making it an automatic reflexive reaction for a soldier to fire his weapon at a threat, real or imaginary.

 What if your objective is to deliberately and methodically eliminate a segment of humanity for which you will require the assistance of the general population? You do what the NAZIs did. You dehumanize that portion of humanity you wish to eradicate, making their elimination the moral equivalent of getting rid of a pest.

The Koran has taken this dehumanization process one step further, adding demonization to the mix.

4:76 Those who believe fight for the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight on behalf of the Devil. Fight then the followers of the Devil. Surely the guile of the Devil is weak.

Islam, as a religion, has proven particularly effective at overcoming people's strong genetic predisposition against killing one of their own kind by concentrating on a thorough indoctrination in the Koran.

As mentioned in a previous chapter, it starts as soon as a child can, with the assistance of an adult, usually its mother, mouth the words. This home-schooling in what philosopher Robert Redeker, writing in Le Figaro, described “as a book of incredible violence", is usually followed by a more formal and structured indoctrination at a madrassa (Islamic school).

 But, it does not stop there. What the child has been taught at home and at school is reinforced every day of their lives through mandatory daily prayers where they are compelled to repeat some of the most hateful, cruel scriptures known to man (recommended: Chapter “Lessons in Cruelty,” Children and the Koran, Boreal Books).

Then there is a male believer’s God-given right, when they reach the age of 15, in keeping with Muhammad’s example, to join the fraternity of holy warriors and to participate in the organized slaughter of unbelievers and abscond with their property which includes their wives and daughters.

Narrated Ibn Umar:

That the Prophet inspected him on the day of Uhud while he was fourteen years old, and the Prophet did not allow him to take part in the battle. He was inspected again by the Prophet on the day of Al-Khandaq (i.e. battle of the Trench) while he was fifteen years old, and the Prophet allowed him to take part in the battle.

Bukhari 59.423

Narrated Abdur-Rahman bin Auf:

While I was standing in the row on the day (of the battle) of Badr, I looked to my right and my left and saw two young Ansari boys, and I wished I had been stronger than they. One of them called my attention saying, "O Uncle! Do you know Abu Jahl?"

I said, "Yes, What do you want from him, O my nephew?"

He said, "I have been informed that he abuses Allah's Apostle. By Him in Whose Hands my life is, if I should see him, then my body will not leave his body till either of us meet his fate."

I was astonished at that talk. Then the other boy called my attention saying the same as the other had said.

After a while I saw Abu Jahl walking amongst the people. I said (to the boys), "Look! This is the man you asked me about." So, both of them attacked him with their swords and struck him to death and returned to Allah's Apostle to inform him of that.

Allah's Apostle asked, "Which of you has killed him?"

Each of them said, "I Have killed him."

Allah's Apostle asked, "Have you cleaned your swords?"

They said, "No."

He then looked at their swords and said, "No doubt, you both have killed him and the spoils of the deceased will be given to Muadh bin Amr bin Al-Jamuh."

The two boys were Muadh bin 'Afra and Muadh bin Amr bin Al-Jamuh.

Bukhari 53.369

 8:68 But for a prior ordinance of Allah, you would have been afflicted on account of what you have taken (an ordinance which made it lawful for Muslims to take spoils and captives) by a terrible punishment.

Revelation 8:68 in action:

80 Yazidi men from the village of Kawju were shot dead by Islamic State holy warriors and their wives and daughters taken, it is speculated, to the city of Tal Afar, a gathering area for foreign fighters.

BBC Aug 16, 2914

[Islamic State] terrorists explained in a new publication their justification for taking women and using them as sex slaves, saying simply that it’s a practice that’s as old as Sharia law — and allowed by Islamic beliefs.

Washington Times Oct 13, 2014

Hitler, in Mein Kampf, looked to the East for what he called lebensraum, literally “living space” for the master race. This living space was to be acquired through extermination, enslavement and sterilization of non-Aryan races. It was the moral duty of every Nazi to ensure the survival of the master race by whatever means at his or her disposal.

35:39 It is He Who made you successors in the lands. Then he who disbelieves, his unbelief will recoil upon him; and their unbelief will only increase the unbelievers in contempt in the sight of their Lord. No, their unbelief will only increase the unbelievers in perdition.

Will the practitioners of the master religion one day, with the authority granted them by the Koran as “successors in the lands,” see it as their religious and moral duty in a warming world, with dwindling populations fighting for survival, to exterminate the competition and thereby ensure that only believers are left alive when Allah brings about the an end to His Creation and rewards those who cleansed it of unbelievers, saving Him the trouble.

If global warming leads to a type of Mad Max world where it is a fight for survival under a pitiless sun, it is a battle that the believers should win decisively having been conditioned to be ruthless with Allah’s despised unbelievers.

9:123 O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them see how harsh you can be. Know that Allah is with the righteous. 

You could say that the world faces the twin threats of a worldwide holocaust with unbelievers as the genocidal target and global warming, or a combination of the two. Having dealt with the former here and in other chapters I would like end my Farewell Postings with some observations on the latter.

 I took The Interviews out of print having failed to anticipate social media as a wrecking force and not anticipating English Canada’s embrace of Tar Sands development—despite its disproportionate effect on global warming—and how it would become a wedge issue between English-Canada and Québec!

That difference of opinion reflected in the English media going along with the oil and gas industry’s rebranding of the Tar Sands as Oil Sands, thereby leaving the impression that digging up tar-coated sand, then washing the tar from the sand with hot water and steam, then processing the resulting mess to extract some oil while channelling the now toxic fresh water and its contaminants into tailing ponds that have grown into killer lakes for migratory birds and that threaten to poison the Athabasca watershed (167,000-square-kilometer) and beyond does not create anymore greenhouse gases, and is no more environmentally damaging than the straightforward process of refining oil from a typical oil well.

Québec would literally have none of it and kept on calling it what it was “les sable bitumineux” and refused to support a pipeline that would bring this highly processed tar to the province which would lead to further expansion of Alberta’s tar mining operations and make them complicit in bringing the planet to the brink of extinction.

My Farewell Postings may reflect a life on the brink but it does not mean I don’t care what happens to, not only to you, but to all life threatened by global warming as reflected in my dedication, an inspiration from my wife’s tribute to life before she put an end to a painful, lingering death. This is humanity’s fate, and nothing else matters, if we don’t get this global warming shit under control.

There may still be time to save humanity from joining the dinosaurs in the fossil record. It's up to us!

Are We Toast?

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