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the great divide could swallow me whole

Posted in politics, tagged , , on November 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Thanks Maggie.

copy/pasted from my comment section.

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Maggie Bailey

I voted for you. I liked your platform, the fact that you are not 110 years old and that you didn’t come from some PAC association or a church with a stick up your rear end.

I went to Esquimalt high you know, and the daughter of a re-elected council member was in a grade below mine. The student council raised money to put a condom machine in one of the bathrooms. This was a student funded and student initiated effort, aimed at providing students with a necessary device, sexual health, it’s important right? The kids are doing it, being active and involved in their community, giving their peers easy access to something that can protect them from unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease. It’s great right? It’s action, it’s proactive, community oriented.

I mean really… it should have been applauded… and this certain council member, who was re-elected just a few days ago to council, who happened to be a big PAC honcho at the time, lobbies the school administration to get these condom machines removed from the school, for moral reasons and succeeded… and out they went. Can you imagine?

I mean really. This is not someone I want representing my municipality.

I wanted youth, intelligence, diversity… what is with the voter turnout too? It was horrid. Reprehensible. I heard more people talking about US President Elect Obama than any of the municipal or city elections. That is pathetic.

I think that is why you lost. Not because you sucked, because you didn’t suck, but because when I went and voted, 80% of the heads in that room were long grey, and didn’t get why young men with ideas should have anything to do with council.

I could be wrong but that is what I think. Most people didn’t care and young people REALLY didn’t care.

It sucks, but I think if people 40&under had bothered, it would have turned out very differently for a few people. I guess they must have forgotten about the whole condom machine incident and moved on…

Although I must say, your posters were nice, very modern and stylish and well done, but it took me a few pass by’s to realize they were not advertisements for gigs.

Thanks for giving it a shot anyways. It was appreciated.

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tell me your name / tell me your story

Posted in neat-O gang, politics, WWJD?, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 1, 2008| 4 Comments »

That is a picture of Corj and I after Jamie and Allie’s Halloween party.  I had a good time, all things considered.  Everyone from The Zone went to what looked like a rager at Katie and Adrian’s, but Corj and I had been invited to her good friends some time earlier so we went there.  To compound my poutyness (Mozilla says Poutyness is not a real word… silly Mozilla)… I drove and stayed stubbornly sober.  It was a real, “Dear Diary, Why does God hate me…” sorta moment.  But truth be told, I had a good time.  Jamie’s friends are real rippers.  I don’t party with them very ofter, but each time is a good time.

I watched this tiny girl they call “Pizzle” dominate the beer bongs.

She is the girl standing up.  She slayed the bong so fast, that by the time I got my camera ready for a pic she was saying between foam burps, “I win.”

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I am having a Daddy Daycare night tonight.  Just finished watching a pretty good game between the Flames and Kings.  Entertaining.  I was hoping the Kings would edge out the Flames as that would be good for the ‘nucks… but  the Flames held on.  Fun to watch, so I’m not complaining.

I am so tuckered out.  Coral and I went wandering earlier today.  We left our place at 2PM and walked down to Rona for a hammer tack.  The wicked machine lets me “hammer” staples into telephone poles.  Then I took her to the West Bay Walkway.  She had never been and it is a glorious fall walk.  We regretted not bringing the camera.  next time.

Then on the journey home we began putting up posters.  Then after we got home and put Maddy down for a nap, I went back out and put up even more posters.  I have almost tacked up my first 200 posters and it seem that I have barely dented the neighbourhoods.  A few in West Bay, a few around the High school, a few around Craigflower/Tillicum and a few on Rock Heights.  By the time it was all down, it was 7PM… and dogs is tired…

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Coral went out with her girlfriend and I am home listening to music and surfing the net. Saw this video… made me LOL.

Reminds me why I am not a big city DJ.  These guys out of Montreal made the ultimate prank on Sarah Palin.  These radio stars form Montreal pretend to be the French President.

Now this is how you make some publicity for your radio show.  I should take some notes.

The story is all over the press.  Like here on the Ceeb.

and over here from WaPo!

The only thing more fun than listening to the prank call is ready the CBC comment board… where does this ignorant people come from?  wow.  If I worked at the CBC I would be so sad.  it would seem my audience would be all mentally deficient… then I would think, “Am I mentally deficient to attract all these people to my website?”

yeesh… ti was just a joke… and in Sarah Palin’s defense… she handled herself alright considering she thought it was the French President and he was asking bizarre questions.  She stayed polite at all times and tried to steer the conversation back to more positive territory.  But then you read what people write and its’ like WTF?

She should have figured it out and you know some poor PR flak is getting her ass handed to her right now.  But in the end, it was funny.

Some person on the CBC was saying that if they had pranked Obama it would have been a hate crime.  Hardly… Obama would have likely picked up on it way sooner and maybe even had some fun with it.  He’s a funny guy (actually, McCain is a funny guy too… they should pranked him).  That, and generally, people smart enough to pull off such an epic prank, wouldn’t target Obama because they like him.

Here is the kicker from the WaPo story: Obama’s campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs, commenting on the prank, said: “I’m glad we check out our calls before we hand the phone to Barack Obama.”

BAAAZING!

Now… you want to see who has the keys to the planet?  this shit is spooky.

This one is from Al Jazeera, so yeah… but an interesting view non the less.

Yikes, and these people have the right to vote!  and the right to bare arms!  both of them!  at the same time!

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