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It is very, very hot out. The high today was 44 with the humidex and the UV level has been hovering right around insta-cancer. It’s been like this all week, but something happened this morning. I was checking the mail (as I forgot to check it yesterday) before I headed to work and I bumped into a neighbour. All he said was,
“Hot enough for you?”
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Dave
I thought that C.A.P.P. stood for Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament. Then Katie sent me a link to their facebook group and now I'm not sure what they stand for.
On facebook the image you pick to be your group's logo says a lot about your group. Along with the name of the group and the member count, the logo is displayed wherever groups are listed. So the administrators of the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament group decided that the most important message they had was: don't vote Green.
I have been planning on writing a blog in reply to Matthew Day's recent post about how Elizabeth May feeds on baby tears (or something to that effect) but let's face it, those who know whats going on often find many factual errors in his posts. Often these errors are small but sometimes they are fundamental. However people who know stuff are often bound by confidentiality agreements or realize that chatting about things on the internet out of context is rarely helpful. This vacuum (left by the people who have a clue) is generally filled by those without, who make up for their ignorance with wild assertions and false accusations.
I love Diplomacy. It is quite possibly the best board game goin'. It has been around for like 50 years and the rules haven't changed much at all.
Diplomacy is war game based at the beginning of the 20th century. Your play as one of 7 European powers (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Turkey) fighting for control of Europe.
I have observed a rather disturbing trend over the last few years. I went to St. Lawrence College (SLC) and SLC has a rather popular Police Foundations Program (PHP), so naturally I ran into many PFP students. Now I want to make it clear that I am not talking about all PFP students, however I have yet to meet a single PFP student who I would actually trust with authority and a gun.
They seemed to be that creepy mix of dumb, power hungry with frat-boy style macho anger issues. (Douchebag-Violentus)
In fact I can broaden that statement a bit. I have yet to meet anyone who has volunteered that they want to be a police officer (but isn't a police officer), who I would actually trust with authority and a gun. Now, I know very capable, very trust worthy officers so my trend can't be universal but still, it worries me.
For some reason my benefits package at work covers everything except my eyes and teeth. I'm pretty sure that I have a absurd amount of drug coverage (that I never use) as well as disability coverage for a wide range of work place injuries that quite frankly are things I would worry about if I worked in a factory or in construction but that I'm not exactly concerned about happening at my desk.
Anyway I haven't been to a dentist in a while and since nothing is really bothering me with my teeth I have not been motivated to go see one. However two of my bottom front teeth are bumping into one another a bit and while I don't really think it's a problem I probably should go check it out.
So I called a dentist that's close to my office to see what their prices were and this is what I learned: Dental Care is run by the mob. It has to be. Their prices are ridiculous.
As an after though in my last blog I linked to a story about Queen's canceling a food drive because it was based around sumo costumes. Apparently sumo costumes (the fun ones, we all know and love) are actually terribly racist.
OK full disclosure I lived in Kingston, I'm not a big fan of Queen's.
So since there were complaints that these suits were so offensive not only was the event cancelled but it was followed up with a over long letter of apology with an obligatory mini-celebration about how inclusive they are.
Whoa, that felt weird...
Seriously though, Barbara Kay recently penned The human cuckoos exposing Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QUAIA) and Dykes Against Israeli Apartheid (DAIA) for what they are, cuckoos or as she wittily puts it QuQus.
The comparison is not drawn from our common usage of cuckoo. Barbara is not calling QUAIA or DAIA crazy rather she is making a connection based on the parasitic behaviour of both.
I picked up my new bike up on Saturday morning. It's awesome, so much faster than my old bike and much more suited for the type of cycling I do.
Earth Hour was fun although cold. Also while we cheered when the lights on Parliament went out it was disappointing to turn around and see the lights on in all the office buildings down town. However, I'm sure that we'll here about how Canadians from coast-to-coast turned out the lights and spent an hour watching the third period in the dark.
It was great to see so many people on the hill with their candles. CTV was there and I think I saw a couple other TV cameras. Congrats to Kevin and the other volunteers!
