The premise of the Trailer Park Boys is simple. A television crew is filming a documentary on Julian, an ex-convict who lives in Sunnyvale Trailer Park. Ricky and Bubbles are Julian’s close friends and are also main characters in the show. The film crew follows these three around, sometimes focusing on other residents in the trailer park as they relate to the story.
The show is filled with foul language. I’m not maximizing this. If you don’t like swearing, you will hate this show, regardless of how funny it is. Thought I should let you know before you start watching any of the episodes.
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Julian is more rational than Ricky, a straight hot head. Julian tries to do things without causing a big scene or causing anyone any problems. Ricky isn’t so restrained. However, there are times when Julian has done his best to solve the problem, but it just isn’t working.
That’s when he turns to Ricky and says, “Ricky I give you permission to do whatever you have to do to…” solve whatever problem they are facing. Then he stands aside.
This scares some people because the folks in the trailer park know that Julian keeps Ricky in check. Without Julian’s restraint, Ricky will do whatever it takes to solve the problem. It could have been solved earlier, without Ricky having to do what Ricky does, but someone was unwilling to budge on their position. It’s a choice they tend to regret.
Which brings us to Iran and Israel.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been speaking about Israel being wiped off the map since 2005. In May of this year, he called Israel a “stinking corpse,” saying Israel is “is on its way to annihilation.”
Factor that rhetoric in with the Iranian nuclear program, which some believe is a front for the production of nuclear weapons, and you have a seriously unbalanced trailer park. The EU issued a statement saying “that Iran’s defiance of Security Council demands on enrichment is troubling “because it brings us closer to the moment where Iran will have fissile materials for a weapon, if it chose to increase their degree of enrichment.”
Iran claims all their nuclear efforts are peaceful. They say, “…there is not and has not been any undeclared nuclear activities and material in Iran.” It’s difficult to swallow that when you consider the following:
An IAEA report circulated to the board members Monday that faulted Iran for blocking efforts to further investigate the alleged weapons program.
Part of the report touched on what appeared to be drawings and calculations by Iranian engineers on reconfiguring its Shahab-3 missile to be able to carry a nuclear payload. Iranian officials say the missile has a range of 1,250 miles — enabling a strike on Israel and most of the Middle East.
Gregory L. Schulte, Washington’s chief IAEA delegate, noted that — beyond dismissing the allegations — Iran “refuses to provide credible explanations to support its claims that all of this information … is pure forgery and fabrication.”
And his German counterpart, Ruediger Luedeking, said that “if Iran is not pursuing a military nuclear program it should have no difficulty in cooperating with the agency.
“Iran needs to explain why its military is so deeply involved in its nuclear program,” he said.
The United Nations is trying to get Iran to work with the IAEA, but a recent report described the efforts:
“We would describe it as a gridlock,” said a senior United Nations official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity. “Iran so far has not been forthcoming in replying to our questions. We seem to be at a dead end there.”
The report also contains a surprise reference to evidence of “foreign expertise” assisting in Iran’s past nuclear efforts. The senior U.N. official declined to disclose details about the nature of the help, but it said it came from outside the secret nuclear sales network of Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and that the danger of freelance nuclear guns for hire was “serious enough to pursue it with Iran.”
It isn’t hard to imagine the day that Iran becomes a member of the nuclear community. When you consider the anti-Semitic rhetoric from its leaders, it’s easy to understand the worries expressed by the United States and Israel.
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With the Iranians refitting Shahab-3 missiles for nuclear payloads, Israel is clearly in bigger danger than the United States. Diplomacy, as detailed above, has reached a gridlock. Iran marches on towards a nuclear future and the rest of the world watches.
In his book “The Revolution: A Manifesto,” Ron Paul describes the relationship between Israel and the United States. He says, “Israel seeks American approval for military action she deems necessary, she consults with America on matters pertaining to her own borders, and she even seeks American approval for peace talks with her neighbors — approval that is not always forthcoming.”
With Israel in the cross hairs, isn’t it about time that America turned to them and said, “Israel, I give you permission to do whatever it takes to make sure these guys don’t make nuclear weapons.” Israel would do what Israel does best. They would remind people that their motto is “Never again” and they mean it.
Would this create more problems? Undoubtedly. I don’t want war with Iran, just like Julian never really wants to unleash Ricky. He knows it might cause more problems, but it’s his last resort, as war should be. I know that if Israel gets in a scrap with Iran, we’ll be in a scrap as well. But if the intelligence is solid that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, refitting missiles that can reach Israel to carry them and with the president of Iran repeatedly calling for Israel to be wiped off the map, what would you have them do?
