Short and strange

I am back. I was going to reprint a story I came across yesterday but I do not want to bore you with the details. The upshot is this a Russian lake disappeared recently. Apparently, it was a large enough lake that there are numerous commercial fisherman with nowhere to fish. It may have all sunk into a hole and into the ground watertable, fish and all, leaving these poor folk with nothing but a large ditch of mud. Picture that one. The best was a quote from some woman who wanted to blame the Americans.

Those damn Imperialist bastard Americans! They come in the dead of night and steal our lakes. They just back up the U-Haul, load the lake water, fish and all, into the L'il Lugger, and take it away with them. Don't you dare think of defaulting on those IMF and World Bank loans, those Americans play hardball!

My head shakes when I think of that conclusion. We all know it was the work of the Canadians. We Canadians want to corner the market on the world's fresh water. We are devious bastards from the north (it is that damn Viking influence). Of course, given how the old Soviet system degraded the air, lakes and people (a little Chernobyl anybody)(these were the people who brought the world the Trabant, the East German automobile that I believed ran on coal, and they burned that cleanly hahaha!) would we really want their fresh water. It is more stagnant, stinkingly deadly water.

One man's, or old Russian lady's treasure, is another man's junk, or polluted waterway. Thanks for the fun. Ciao.