Dubya to Americans, "USA not a Free Nation, Look Elsewhere for Freedom"

Well yeah, I'm pulling a Faux News inspired job of paraphrasing, but check it out...

You see I have a widget called "Chimp-O-Matic" on my personal Google page that feeds me George Dubya quotes. That paired up with my Buddhist quote of the day really starts my day off right. As you can probably imagine, many of them are funny, confuding, bady structured, grammatically incorrect to the point of absurdity, and so on, but this one really defines for me the ridiculous paradox that is the USofA today.

"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." --George w. Bush in Milwaukee, WI - 10/03/2003

Yeeeeeah........

Who do you think you are, Tony Montana?

I was a bit shocked by a headline I read earlier this week, reading, "Woman mualed to death by tiger in B.C. Interior."

My first thought was something like, "What the hell is a tiger doing in the B.C. interior!?!". Images of Siberian Tigers stalking the woods of the Okanagan Valley ravaging unsuspecting fruit farmers spun through my head. It turns out that the truth is a little more mundane, but certainly just as gruesome.

The tiger was actually being kept as a pet by a gentleman who lives by a tiny community called Bridge Lake and keeps several big cats there. The tiger was in a cage at the time, and the poor lady who became lunch for the tiger was the guy's girlfriend, who was...get this...PETTING THE TIGER IN FRONT OF HER TWO KIDS.

Seriously people. If Seigfried and Roy can't control a freakin tiger that they've raised from a kitten for 10+ years, maybe you shouldn't be strolling into your boyfriend's macho zoo fantasy to play with his large caged predators. Better yet, unless you are a Miami crime lord, you probably shouldn't own a tiger at all.