Hey everyone, it's been about two years since I've blogged but I got a new one and I have a good feeling about actually keeping it running. Check it out:
Hi everyone, I've decided that now that I'm done my first year of my PhD and have a little more free time on my hands that I would come out of hiatus. However, that said, I've decided that I will start a new blog and let this one die a natural death. The new blog can be found at:
If the news reports are right Saddam Hussein should be executed at around 10PM EST. I'm curious as to what everyone thinks about the impending hanging. While I'm a pretty ardent opponent to capital punishment, I must admit that if there might be case in which capital punishment would be justified, it would be with someone like Saddam Hussein.
I just realized it's been far longer than a month since I last posted. Such being the case, I thought I would mention to everyone that I am in fact still alive and kicking. It's just that I've been rather busy the last few weeks. Working on a PhD takes up far more of my time then I would have expected. Though, last quarter I did have a class load that resulted in a larger amount of work than I think I'll have in subsequent quarters. Between the proseminar that I was enrolled in and the class in Aristotle I had I think in the past 11 weeks (before last week that is) I wrote over a hundred pages, which is equivalent to the amount of work that I put into my master's thesis (which was written over the span of an entire year).
After doing all that I was somewhat disinclined to do anything except for sit there and stare at a wall for a while. I've done that now so I'm ready to move back onto doing stuff. So I think, while making no promises of any kind, that I will post a little more on here. Though, I will warn everyone, it's likely that my posts, at least until I get back into the groove of things, will be a little lighter and fluffier than you might be accustomed to. That and it's been kind of a dull period in terms of politics and current events.
With the whole PhD thing I've been getting to be an increasingly bad blogger. I really need to start finding more time to put some stuff up here for you guys. I was going to post something last night but I got sucked into listening to the election coverage down here on NPR. I have to say, I'm pretty excited by the outcome. While I'm not a particularly huge fan of the Democrats, I'm much less of a fan of the Republicans. It's nice to see that there's actually some check on the President now.
It's sweet to see the Congress shift back left a little. Also, hopefully things will turn out in Virginia and perhaps the Senate will get back into the hands of the more reasonable party. Now, if I can only convince the people down here that public healthcare is in their best interest....
I've just discovered that Google Video has the entire The Ascent of Man series on it. It's a great little series of documentaries made in 1973 about cultural evolution. Seeing this movie years ago made me take an anthropology class. Indeed, it made me consider studying anthropology for a couple of days. In the end I decided I had to stay true to philosophy.
That all being the case, for the next few weeks I think I might put an episode or two a week onto this blog for you all to see.
Chronicles of Cincinnati: I guess some people believe Plato is right.
For those of you who've taken any substantial number of philosophy courses, you'll know that Plato, in his Republic, decides that in the ideal benevolent tyranny of the philosopher king holds a kind of wacky view that poetry needs to be censored. Well, it seems that around these parts some people might agree. This past weekend poet Nikki Giovani has raised a bit of a furor in a poem she recited at the reopening of Fountain Square. Now admittedly I'm actually joining into this discussion a little late. I've been a little out of touch with local news, for some reason I still have the habit of checking up on what happens back in Calgary more regularly than what happens here. However, the way I see it, it's better late than never.
It seems that Ms Giovani got into hot water because she decided to suggest that the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Ken Blackwell, is a "son of a bitch". Now to be fair, I'm pretty sure Ken Blackwell's mom isn't a canid. However, in a recent debate he decided to step into the gutter and suggest that his opponent backed legislation that was applauded by NAMBLA. This doesn't seem to me to be the actions characteristic of someone who isn't a son of a bitch.
Also, I really tend to dislike when people want to suppress artistic expression (I still stand by my earlier argument that people republishing the Danish cartoons that raised such a big stink a few months back should have reconsidered what they were doing, not as a matter of offense but because they led to violence), so I figured I would reprint Ms Giovani's poem, "I am Cincinnati" on here.
I am Cincinnati
I ran from the whips and the dogs
Across the frozen pond
I made my home in the West End
When the Civil War came I dug the trenches
Showing the South
Free men live here
Who are unwilling to yield
I kept the city safe
I am the Seven Hills
I am the neighborhoods
Community centers
Shopping malls
Churches
Libraries
I am the Bengals
The Reds
The incomparable Underground Railroad Museum
I am history
I am Findlay Street market
I am the best 3-way chili in the world
I am Montgomery ribs
I am the University of Cincinnati
I am Xavier
I am Sister Jean Patrice Harrington bringing Mount St. Joseph into the 21st century
I am Eden Park and the Conservatory of Music
I am Symphony Hall and the oldest opera company and one of the world's greatest teaching zoos
I am Spring Grove Cemetery
My dead rest in beauty and peace
I am Marian Spencer
I have watched segregation reign and have built a bridge between that island and the city
I have watched policemen
Shoot young black men in the back
And have watched my community respond, a people who once saved this city
. . .
I am the Cincinnati Western and Southern Tennis Championships, though I am played in Mason
. . .
I am not a son of a bitch like Kenny Blackwell
...
I will not use the color of my skin to cover the hatred in my heart
I am not a political whore jumping from bed to bed to see who will stroke my need
I am Mark Mallory
Talking to everyone
Walking with everyone
Listening to everyone
Leading by consensus, not fear
I am Cincinnati
I slaughter hogs and make soap
I am the biggest Oktoberfest outside Munich, Germany
Though I have been boycotted
I am not shirking my responsibilities to the next generation
I just realized that it's been more than a week since I posted anything. I've been a little busy. However, I thought I'd check in just to let everyone know that I'm alive and kicking, just a little bit swamped at the moment. Also there hasn't been things on the news that've got me all hot and bothered. Though, admittedly I haven't been paying all that much attention to the news lately. I think that I'm going through one of those cynical periods when I just suspect that despite everyone's best efforts the government of Canada is just going to screw us. I just looked at the news and I already see stories that I think are great examples of how the Canadian government fails us. For example, it seems that the government has been profiling people who make access to information requests, which, I agree with the Toronto Star, is clearly a violation of the spirit of access to access to information legislation. That's something that someone should say something about. I might later actually but right now I need to get back to working out a proof that I'm convinced is insoluble.
UPDATE: I finally solved the proof but it involved four layers of subproofs. Really, I don't know how that made it as a "practice" questions. Really, this is my fifth class on formal logic (not counting the two that I taught) and this took me some thinking and employing some pretty counter intuitive moves. I pity the fool who's in this class and hasn't had as much experience as I have with the material.
Chronicles of Cincinnati: I think I hate hippies even more now.
The music hippies next door are badly playing bongo drums and screeching. If there weren't laws against such a thing, I think I would already be going over there with a chair to throw at them.
Don't get me wrong I actually don't mind kind of loud neighbours. I mean my last ones used to sit in the backyard shirtless blaring AC DC until 4:30 in the morning and that really didn't bother me so much. Indeed, I saw it as an opportunity to blare ska music all through the night.
However, I do have a problem with tone deaf "music students" who have no sense of rhythm banging away and making tortured dying animal sounds. You would think music students would be able to keep 4/4 time. I guess not. And they said that there's a world class conservatory program here.
Has it struck anyone else that the Tories new plan to cut greenhouse gases is just to go around saying that they have a new plan? Indeed, their supposed plan will definitely not have targets, they've made that clear, and as of yet they have refused to provide any details as to how they're going to manage CO2 emissions.
If I were to use an analogy, I would say that the Ambrose plan to deal with greenhouse gases would be like someone saying they're going to quit smoking one of these days as they light up their 17th unfiltered Camel of the day.
According to my blogger "dashboard" CP vs SS now has 1500 posts on it (well I guess 1501 with this one). I've really come a long way since I asked CP three years or so ago, "what's a blog?"
I think Stephen Harper is trying to do to the office of the Environment Minister what Ralph Klein did to health care.
Here's a trick question for you. Imagine that you're at the helm of a fairly newly elected rather weak minority government and you hear that one of your party members is a publicly outspoken homophobe (and indeed is a lobbyist for a conservative Christian group intent on doing away with same-sex marriage). Indeed, he does things like publicly declare that supporters of gay rights are Nazis. Moreover, he has offended a major religious group by suggesting that their religious views breed terrorism. Now what do you do with this guy?
If you were Stephen Harper, you'd give him a job as chief of staff for the Environment Minister.
Now that just strikes me as asking for controversy. I mean, does the Harper government even have a vetting process for its appointees?
Since I'm pretty much just sitting around being sick today I was looking up random shows on google video and found this documentary, which seems to be made from footage shot by some embedded reporters with the 82nd Airborne during the beginning of the insurgency in Iraq. I thought some of you might like to watch it. I always find it interesting how the people actually involved in a conflict view their role in the grand scheme of things.
I hate being sick.... Though being sick does allow me to kvetch.
Okay, well maybe they aren't killer germs but they really do have me feel like I'm dying. That might be an exaggeration but they make me feel like I want to be in a coma for the next few days. However, I've found one of the best remedies to feeling unwell is to kvetch incessantly. Since all my family and most of my friends are still back in Calgary. I've decided that I'm going to complain here.
My sinuses are congested to the point where it feel like there are little homunculi in my head and they're kicking the inside of my face trying to get out. Also said homunculi are impeding my airway so it's really hard to breath comfortably, at least through my nose. That being the case, I'm reduced to being a slack-jawed mouth breather, which really is an affront to my dignity. I mean after 100,000+ years of evolutionary history, you would think that the human race should be able to breath from their noses whenever they want to. Stupid germs.
Also I think I'm running a slight bit of a fever and whenever I run fevers I find that I can't think particularly clearly. I figured that since I was sick and unable to really do anything anyways, I could at least try to read ahead for my classes but my brain is foggy that I can't get any of the material I've gone over to stick. I spent the last three hours reading Aristotle over and over again and all I can remember is the word "graspiness". I don't even know what it applies to other than it is on the extreme of some spectrum regarding something or other. It's really not fair.
Also I've got a seriously bad cough and muscle aches. Two things that really don't go together well. I hurt and then I cough and the muscle spasms when I cough make me hurt more. All in all I feel like a victim of some sort of random beating by a unruly mob of little kids. It's not the kind of pain that one would have after being beaten by a full sized adult but the kind of pain that would result when a mob of 7 year olds overwhelm you and start kicking you with their little feet. Fucking rug-rats, always kicking my ass.
Ahhhh.... That was cathartic, I feel all sorts of better about myself now. That said, I think I'm going back to bed.
No animals were intentionally harmed in the production of this blog.
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What do you think: Hanging Saddam Hussein.
Hanging Saddam Hussaein will be as good for Iraq as hanging PW Botha would have been good for South Africa.
I hope he's enjoying that pitch fork up his arse in whatever circle of hell is reserved for bastards like him.
If you don't oppose capital punishment in Saddam's case, you don't oppose it at all. If you admit that it "might" be justified in certain circumstances, then all that separates you from other capital punishment advocates is that you differ on who should be executed. That's hardly a principled position.
Anyhow... Saddam is gone and I'm not certainly not shedding any tears over his death, but you can't help but feel suspicious about the way he was railroaded and executed before he could even stand trial for the bulk of his (more serious) crimes. Why did the US want him dead in such a hurry?
-Craig
I am left with what I am always left with after reading about/seeing/hearing of an execution... pity... for the whole situation... wouldn't it be a nice day when no one grows up to become a dictator or even a murderer... anywhere
Saddam deserved what he got... but it doesn't make the whole situation any less sad... dog eat dog ... and so goes life ... and death
Well, it's a start, now we just have to hang Bush.
Errr... I'm still alive....
Working on a thesis or PhD is immensely time-consuming and requires a lot of detail-oriented work - the sort that, as you put it, just makes you want to stare at a wall once you're done.
But keep thinking how happy and satisfied you'll be once you have completed your PhD.
Oops, I've been forgetting to post.
Republicans, democrats - kind like coke and pepsi...
http://thealbertareport.blogspot.com/2006/11/democrats-oust-gop-so-who-cares.html
Is public health care really in their best interest? I use to believe in this, however after my recent stint in the hospital inundated with our public health care system, I must admit I am horrified and repulsed by the sheer inadequacy of it. That being said I do agree that there should be some sort of social safety net, however in my opinion the public health care system has fallen so far from grace that we really need to consider other alternatives.
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Public healthcare? Ack!!!
Hey get a life, you are not intelligent, you are not cool. You are a sepf absorbed little twit who needs to get the shit out of your brain and wake the fuck up to how stupid you are. The first sign you are a complete self absorbed moron is that you have a 'clever' blog spot like all reatrded self absorbed twits, plus you don't really ever read anything, and you want answers to everything within a narrow unifying Western thought structure, this is evident in your hatred of any thing "post modern" or by Derrida. If you would actually read what they are saying, instead of being an impatient little baby wanting answers NOW NOW NOW, maybe you could understand how important they are in getting ride of mindless rubbish that you spew out of your rotten little pea brain.
wow. that was a little bit of a rant.
It's november 26 and we haven't seen you blog since Nov 8... I hope you're getting a lot of work done on your PhD! :-)
By any other name it is all just pork to me. The big bad wolf in me loves to huff and puff and blow all their little houses down just so that I can chow down on the other white meat
Remember me Garth? Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
By David Raymond Amos on 12.03.06 12:07 pm
Do you agree with what some of your fan club way out west says of me just before I sue the Crown?
http://bpofc.com/?p=109
http://bpofc.com/
http://intothecavern.blogspot.com/
Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
By David Raymond Amos on 12.03.06 12:16 pm
You are too funny Garth Baby
—– Original Message —– From: David Raymond Amos To: kmdickson@comcast.net ; oldmaison@yahoo.com ; Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; dinoratt@telus.net ; Tkelly@usss.treas.gov ; mmagalski@usss.treas.gov ; rpetrosky@usss.treas.gov ; Bob.morehouse@doj.ca.gov ; Sheila.hatch@metrokc.gov ; jphillips@nw.hidta.org ; talvarez@ifb.org ; seheigle@uspis.gov ; lisa.palmieri@pol.state.ma.us ; sdorn@troopers.state.ny.us ; eunicemorant@yahoo.com ; mcclos1@isp.state.il.us ; hayley.giles@peel.police.on.ca ; Richard.jackson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; heidie.firth@ccra-adrc.gc.ca ; bgray@riversidesheriff.org ; thaven@wsin.riss.net ; bill.brown@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; jill.ebner@city.vancouver.bc.ca ; jenny.johnstone@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; john.foran@gnb.ca ; giuliano.zaccardelli@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; executive-editor@nytimes.com ; managing-editor@nytimes.com ; news-tips@nytimes.com ; bizday@nytimes.com ; foreign@nytimes.com ; national@nytimes.com Cc: wayne.hanniman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; jjdiv.mcu@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; rcmp.ccb.hdiv@ns.sympatico.ca ; Gregory.Lydon@usss.dhs.gov ; hightechcrime@usss.treas.gov ; mprewett@leo.gov ; art.fierro@dhs.gov ; craig.Caldwell@usss.dhs.gov ; tnowak@usss.treas.gov ; spickett@usss.treas.gov Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:51 PM Subject: Do ya think the New York Times will pay attention to bloggers now Chucky?
I doubt it too. So I will blog a news story about them and you and the CBC. That should do the trick N’est Pas? In fact most of it is the text of this email that will be found you know where. Why should I change my stle now EH? Here is where it is just in case the New York Times wants to hire some ethical journalists who know how to read. before Charles Leblanc erases his work just like this Yankee did. http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/freespeech/comments/on_the_lighter_side_of_the_newsweek_scandal/ so I inserted something in his other blog http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2006/10/police-thugs-beating-citizens-while.html
Some of my work is here surf around this blog and try to fathom what I am up to. http://davidamos.blogspot.com/2005/03/me-and-bush.html
Me and Chucky are here and i am fairly clear. http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2006/03/irvings-phoned-blogger-at-home.html
And here is something rather hard to find that I posted three years to the very day after the Department of Homeland security came to my door in the middle of the night and attempted to take me to Cuba just because I tried hard to blow the whistle on Georgey Boy Bush’s malice BEFORE that nonsense in Iraq began. Lets all see if this Blog remains on the web throughout Xmass
Say hey to all your liberal pals and your newfound cop buddies in Fredericton as well for me will ya Frenchie? Merry Xmass? Bah Humbug. The payback for all your insults is gonna be a bitch next year or my name ain’t Dave. You lived by the blog thus you die by it too in my blog anyway. Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
P.S.. I almost forgot to mention (not really) the best part of my fun and frolic under the full moon tonight. Read on Chucky about Garth Turner and I. Do ya think a bunch of bureaucrats and politicians in two countries are gonna have a Stormy Monday morning? Methinks Dion will be sorry he ever went for the liberal leader job. Perhaps you should cash in your welfare check and book a one way flight to Cuba so the New York Times can’t corner you with some interesting questions about your own severe lack of ethics EH? In the “mean” time why not have one of your five brains think up a way to convince your lawyer buddy Doherty to argue me court for you for free..Give him the pile of documents and the CD of the Yankee police surveilance wiretap tape # 139 that your dumb as a post pal Vaughn will never hope to understand in a million full moons. There have been two full moons in June since you promised to give my material to Brad Green for me in exchange for the computer I gave you in front of the legislative building that we are both banished from now. My friend watched your friend, the bigot lug it home for you remember? In return you labelled us Hells Angels in the Indy Media then later falsely claimed that I tried to speak from the legislative gallery for the benefit of your buddy the Sergeant and Arms Danny Boy Brussierres.. Even though you knew we were just pigheaded Maritimers like you, you had great fun at our expense. Remember what I said about payback? A good start for you would be to kiss my English speaking arse as I fart God save the Queen in the best tune I can in Tanker Malley and Bev Harrison’s general direction to the chagrin of many a Yankee Special Agent.within the US treasury Dept. Press print on the attachment and ask if Garth will explain the document within his famous Blog. Harper and your god both know that he can’t keep secrets.
There appears to be a little delete game between the Upper Canadian Conservative crook, Garth Turner and I within his Blog. It is just like there once was between the Maritime liberal kissarse, Charles Leblanc and I until he stopped allowing me to post anything in his blogs whatsoever. The only words of mine that still stand in Chucky’s are what was said and done on April Fools Day this year. Chucky only acted with some semblance of supposed journalistic integrity merely because I saved all the words on April 1st within my own blog and then busted him in front of his blogger friends. What was once deleted suddenly reappeared. Let see how long they remain thi time around. EH? Gotcha Gartha. The count stands at 119 now and I saved it as well. I have you over the pork barrel now within your own Blog. Why not try a little honesty for a change? Rest assured it is good for the soul. Furthermore my little Clan could use a little good news these days with the Yankees trying hard to put their Proud Papa back in jail. The Bush cohorts in the GOP lost their big election in Yankeedoodleland and your old pal Shrub will no doubt suffer the same great fall that Humpty dumpty did this year in the New Year. What harm would there be to blow the whistle on them all now? Just say my name in Parliament and I will handle the argument in court. Is that too much to ask? Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
By David Raymond Amos on 12.03.06 7:20 pm
Oh my look I gave it to Dion and his unholy crowd of cohorts first. what was I thinking? Methinks it goes under the heading of Raising Hell. N’est Pas?
Garth Baby claims that he does not edit his Blog. Methinks I just proven him to be a liar N’est Pas? Would you seriously take his advice about matters of money know? Credibilty is everything in the money business. Lie about a little and you will lie anout alot. Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos Perhaps his Canadian Banker buddies should review what CBC has reported and then find all the emails they have received from me over the years. Read it and weep Garth Baby and never forget the attached tiff file that your dumb assistant called me about after Harper had you canned for yapping too much. Press print and have a wise and ethical lawyer call me will ya? . http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/12/01/us-email.html
So much for your integrity EH Garth? For the record this is the text of just one of the letters I sent you in a Tiff file form. Clearly the Governor General thought i was doing the right thing on Septemner 11th 2004 after running for a seat in the 38th Parliament and just before being falsely imprisoned in the USA. What would your former political boss. Mr. Harper do if such things had happened to him? Sue? Am I any less of a man than he?
September 11th, 2004
Dear Mr. Amos,
On behalf of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, I acknowledge receipt of two sets of documents and CD regarding corruption, one received from you directly, and the other forwarded to us by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. I regret to inform you that the Governor General cannot intervene in matters that are the responsibility of elected officials and courts of Justice of Canada. You already contacted the various provincial authorities regarding your concerns, and these were the appropriate steps to take.
Yours sincerely. Renee Blanchet Office of the Secretary to the Governor General
Bow that you sing the praises of Independent political Canadians why do you continue to ignore my concerns and allegations of financial crimes etc?
Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
P.S. I have saved this Blog to use as evidence against the Crown in Court Perhaps you should call me back. Bow that a writ on the next federal election will no doubt be dropped very soon, there is no time for Ethical Independents to waste. EH? Here my number again 506 434 1379
http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/11/13/of-leaders-and-voters/#comment-49182 Of leaders and voters
posted by Garth Turner on 11.13.06 @ 2:54 pm |
Canadian Politics
Must be a slow media week in Ottawa, judging from the storm of interest that’s blown up. The rumours are flying that at my press event tomorrow I’ll be announcing my decision to quit being an Indie and start being a Green.
Predictably, that has many visitors to this blog cheering, and many others out for my hide. But everybody should just chill. As I wrote some hours ago, the big issue right now is not me, but rather some disturbing insights into how the “new” government is actually working. I think we should talk about it. This matters a lot more than the fate of one homeless MP.
In fact this out-of-control speculation is exactly why I thought it would be a good thing to have more clarity. So, I won’t be telling you I am joining the Green Party as deputy leader, as is being reported. I will, however, have comments on that party and its leader. I’ll also make it clearer what my intentions are in the next few months.
Mostly, tomorrow is about Canadian voters, about what our political leaders promise and deliver, and what I’ve just learned.
posted by Garth Turner on 11.13.06 @ 2:54 pm |
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Remember me Garth? Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
By David Raymond Amos on 12.03.06 12:07 pm
Do you agree with what some of your fan club way out west says of me just before I sue the Crown?
http://bpofc.com/?p=109
http://bpofc.com/
http://intothecavern.blogspot.com/
Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
By David Raymond Amos on 12.03.06 12:16 pm
For the record this is the text of just one of the letters I sent you in a Tiff file form. Clearly the Governor General thought i was doing the right thing on Septemner 11th 2004 after running for a seat in the 38th Parliament and just before being falsely imprisoned in the USA. What would your former political boss. Mr. Harper do if such things had happened to him? Sue? Am I any less of a man than he?
September 11th, 2004
Dear Mr. Amos,
On behalf of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, I acknowledge receipt of two sets of documents and CD regarding corruption, one received from you directly, and the other forwarded to us by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. I regret to inform you that the Governor General cannot intervene in matters that are the responsibility of elected officials and courts of Justice of Canada. You already contacted the various provincial authorities regarding your concerns, and these were the appropriate steps to take.
Yours sincerely. Renee Blanchet Office of the Secretary to the Governor General
Bow that you sing the praises of Independent political Canadians why do you continue to ignore my concerns and allegations of financial crimes etc?
Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
P.S. I have saved this Blog to use as evidence against the Crown in Court Perhaps you should call me back. Bow that a writ on the next federal election will no doubt be dropped very soon, there is no time for Ethical Independents to waste. EH? Here my number again 506 434 1379
By David Raymond Amos on 12.03.06 12:32 pm
By David Raymond Amos on 12.03.06 9:45 pm
Was there a pig roast that I missed hearing about?
December 21 and all's well. :)
BBC's The Ascent of Man, episode 1
Hey...I ascented that very mountain in the video. On the other side is the back lot of a Jiffy Lube.
ascended -- but the mountain did smell good too
Chronicles of Cincinnati: I guess some people believe Plato is right.
I thought Kitchener Ontario had the biggest Oktoberfest outside of Munich. According to this site it does.
http://www.oktoberfest.ca/section/view/?fnode=74
Thanks for the tip about the Ascent of Man - it will be used.
an I apologize .... I know it is not Cincinnati's fault ,, but that is forever fixed in my mind as the place when Stan Rogers died.
Oops, sorry for disappearing.
It's Thanksgiving isn't it?
Sometimes you just need an inspirational speech.
Chronicles of Cincinnati: I think I hate hippies even more now.
And with that, consider yourself nominated.
Thanks for the nomination I had completely forgotten that the Blog Awards were coming up. I need to make some nominations myself.
I used to live in Venice Beach (Los Angeles, CA). My apartment was a studio (read: a 4 sq. foot closet) with an ocean view (read: if you stick your head out the window and look to the right, you see a bit of water). It was a great place overall, but as it was Venice Beach, it was full of the most obnoxious hippies on the planet, and my apartment building happened to be located directly in front of their favorite spot for the big drum circle. They had absolutely no rythym, and sometimes there was as many as 60 of the freaks pounding randomly at once. It sounded like a freight train was going by, all day.
Honestly, I listen to punk, so I know crappy music... And if I can't stand what you're playing, you honestly ain't got nothing going on.
-Craig
Just a Quick Thought: New environment plan.
This fits in with everything else the Cons have done so far. A childcare plan that isn't one. An accountability act that isn't one. A tax cut plan that didn't cut taxes. Etc. Etc. Conservatives don't actually implement policies, they just makes a lot of noise and then rely on their army of shills sell it as good governance.
1500 Posts!
I think Stephen Harper is trying to do to the office of the Environment Minister what Ralph Klein did to health care.
Well I wouldn't start pointing fingers at someone who opposes gay marriage. Look at what the polls say about people who oppose vs who support gay marriage.
Does this mean you do not believe in the bible. There are a number of Christian denominations as well as other world religions that believe same-sex "sexual relations"
...con't
are wrong or whatever. This is still a very touchy subject. It is not clear cut.
But even more importantly is how undemocratic our government system is. We have the most authoritative democracy in the world. The Prime Minister appoints like over 2000 key positions such as the environment Minister. Positions such as the environment minister should be elected not appointed just as it is in the US.
A documentary about the 82nd Airborne in Falluja.
I hate being sick.... Though being sick does allow me to kvetch.
Ohhhh...can I play?
I strained my back and am now stuck in such a stick-straight position that I look like I have a poker up my ass.
That being said, I think your Sick is really getting around, as I don't have to make the decision of whether to haul my poor, sore, whiny ass to lectures since my four primary babysitters are, yes, sick.
Four of 'em. And they don't even know each other.
I myself, am drinking a liter of cranberry juice a day in the hopes of getting enough vit-c in me that this Sick bypasses me.
Anyway, good luck with recouping.
I didn't get my usuall summer cold but the one I have now is making up for it. Add the fact I'm on night shift for the next two months 24 on 4 off, 13 1/2 hour days, equals one cranky nastyboy. Luckily the guys I work with know not to poke the bear.
Like Chris Rock's dad says, "get the robitusin".
I take more of the Denis Leary approach NyQuil and a coma. That's a remedy that'll really heal anything. However, I think today I'm actually going to drag my sorry ass back into the real world. I'm still sick as a dog but I think I should have probably by now gotten past the stage of being infectious. At least I think that's how it works. Also I'm not all feverish and foggy anymore, just sore, cranky, and a little coughy.