50th Anniversary Pics (1)

Tarah with Aunty Rayane and below, I really like this pic of Nehemiah

Write to Your MP Regarding Darfur

Hey You!
Do Something Dammit!!

Write to your Member of Parliament to encourage them to do more for the people in Darfur. Here's a great background article on Darfur at the The New Republic magazine's website.

Here's a sample letter you can copy and paste into your e-mail...find your MP's e-mail at the House of Parliament website.

I urge you to provide adequate funding to protect the people of Darfur and to effectively implement the Darfur Peace Agreement that was signed in May.

The African Union peacekeeping force currently deployed in Darfur is woefully underfunded and undermanned. With no set timetable for a transition to a stronger UN force, this could cost tens of thousands of innocent lives in the coming year.

Yet with the situation on the ground becoming more dangerous, the need for an improved African Union force in the near term and a stronger multinational UN force in the long term is greater than ever.

Canada is failing to act decisively to help bring peace to Darfur. This is unacceptable! That is why I encourage you to work with your colleagues in Parliament to act on this most most important matter.

Thank you,


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New Word

blo·vi·ate

To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner


Thanks to Hasdai Westbrook of small-d blog for increasing my vocabulary.
Source of Definition: Dictionary.com

Follow Mark in Iraq

I have been reading the blog of a U.S. Air Force officer, Major Mark M. Binkowski. Reading this blog is sure to give anyone a completely different perspective on what's going on in Iraq.

Here's an excerpt from one of his posts:

Dear God,

You suck. I miss my family and everything I do reminds me of them and you suck. I was running on the treadmill in the gym, because it’s the only place you’re allowed to use an MP3 player., when the song Cats in the Cradle came on. And I just started crying. That’s Jack, asking me to play ball with him. Or just to cuddle. How could I be so stupid? Now I’m so sorry for every time I ever said I was too busy.

This place isn’t worth it. It’s not ready for democracy. It’s full of fanatics who put ideology before people. They blow people up for an idea - they blow themselves up! The only reason I’d willingly give my life would be to protect my family or friends. And these people are neither.

Tracery At Work

For You

"The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

-- Frank Herbert

Wider Regional War in Middle East Unlikely

Found an interesting op-ed piece on the NY Times website written by Edward N. Luttwak, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"It is obvious by now that Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas is part of a larger conflict largely paid for and directed by Iran and Syria. To divert attention from its nuclear ambitions, Iran undoubtedly sanctioned Hezbollah’s adventurism into Israel last week. Syria harbors Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, and fully supports its actions.

So, could the fighting widen across the region? It is possible, of course, but not likely."

Find the full article here.

Currently Reading

The Eighth Continent, By Peter Tyson
"In The Eighth Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar, Peter Tyson recounts with humor and honesty marvelous stories, discoveries and adventures from separate research expeditions to "Le Grand Île Rouge" with a herpetologist, a paleoecologist, an archaeologist and a primatologist..." (Source: American Scientist)

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Next...
Dark Star Safari, by Paul Theroux

Sibbald Point

We met Aunty Tracey and Micky John at Sibbald Point

Ontario Place Pictures

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After the run we went to Ontario Place to "rest" and "relax." Below: mom and Tarah watch Seth on a gravity defying ride.

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Fun Run Pictures

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Pictures from the 3 km and 1 km (kids) run Seth and Marsh recently participated in...Below: Seth with his medal for completing the run. Click on individual pictures to see them in larger size.

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Word, Yo!

Credit: Clay Jones

Commencement Speeches by Two Very Funny Men

Since 1997, Stephen Colbert has been The Daily Show's longest-running and most diverse correspondent. The following is an excerpt from his commencement speech given at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois on June 3, 2006. He is speaking here about the U.S./Mexican border.


"So we must build walls. A wall obviously across the entire southern border. That’s the answer. That may not be enough—maybe a moat in front of it, or a fire-pit. Maybe a flaming moat, filled with fire-proof crocodiles. And we should probably wall off the northern border as well. Keep those Canadians with their socialized medicine and their skunky beer out. And because immigrants can swim, we’ll probably want to wall off the coasts as well. And while we’re at it, we need to put up a dome, in case they have catapults. And we’ll punch some holes in it so we can breathe. Breathe free. It’s time for illegal immigrants to go—right after they finish building those walls. Yes, yes, I agree with me."

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Here's the real prize. A commencement speech by Conan O'Brien to the Harvard class of 2000. Here's a sample...

"I'd like to thank the Class Marshals for inviting me here today. The last time I was invited to Harvard it cost me $110,000, so you'll forgive me if I'm a bit suspicious. I'd like to announce up front that I have one goal this afternoon: to be half as funny as tomorrow's Commencement Speaker, Moral Philosopher and Economist, Amartya Sen. Must get more laughs than seminal wage/price theoretician."

The Damn Jewish Diversity Apparatus!

Just came across a website edited by Bill White called overthrow.com.

Bill White, born 1977, is the administrator of the far-right, anti-Semitic website Overthrow.com, and its news service, Libertarian Socialist News (LSN), formerly the Anarchist News Service, which publishes news of extremist groups.

Came across this "story" on one of overthrow's pages.
My comments are italiziced:

Black College Students Are A "Zoological" Oddity
Idiot Niggers Protest Conservative Magazine At Vassar

9/26/2005 8:46:32 AM
LSN Staff

Vassar College, New York -- A group of idiot niggers, including Vassar College students Tiera Rainey and Angelic Sosa, has demanded that Vassar pull funding from its conservative campus magazine "The Imperialist", after the magazine published an article saying that black and homosexual cultural centers on campus are "zoological preserves" run for the dubious benefit of white students.
Mocking diversity, Graydon Gordian, the editor-in-chief, and a self- described white Puerto Rican, published the article along with a caricature showing an obnoxious (How can you tell she is obnoxious from looking at a drawing?)ridiculous ghetto black woman with a giant Afro and ridiculous oversized jewelry lecturing to a smaller, Pollyanna-ish white girl who is terrified to speak up because of "diversity".

Blacks on the campus were predictably outraged in the trite, inane manner in which the talking monkeys have been trained to behave.

The problem the blacks have with the article -- or really, that the Jews have trained the blacks to have with the article -- is that it shows them and their role in diversity up for what it is, and for what white people see it as -- ridiculous, ignorant, bizarre monkey people that no one is allowed to call ridiculous, ignorant or bizarre because of the punishments meeted (Thats METED not MEETED...here look it up) out by the Jewish diversity apparatus. (Ah, yes...that ominous Jewish diversity apparatus...damn the apparatus!! Power to the people!!)
The vaz (Once again VAST, not VAZ, here look it up) majority of white people are sick of listening to blacks whine about how they suffer from the consequences of their own behavior, and are equally tired of being censored by Jewish power structures in academia and the media which make any discussion of black absurdity verboten. (You know, if White people are so stupid that they can't compete to get those "controlling" position in the media or academia, than perhaps they don't deserve to be there. Obviously, the Jews have been in charge of and have been controlling world affairs for centuries...well then, take a hint...let your superiors call the shots and shut up already!)

P.S. Some of my best friends are WASPs.

Rest Your Eyes

Photo Credit:Fabio Sabatini

gorgeous Weekend

Friday

• Completed painting the hallway and basement after work with Mike's help.


Saturday

• Went to the HBC Run for Canada, or something like that, at Ontario Place. Marsh ran 3 kilometres and Seth ran the one kilometre race. Tarah made several friends...one of whom took a picture with her...who the hell was that lady?
• Also spent time on Kiddy Rides inside Ontario Place
• Went by my parents home to visit with the kids. Harassed my sister who has me on her shit list.
• Came home to clean up the mess in the backyard, created a small garden on the east side of yard, took apart the fort/slide, weeded while the kids slept in the living room
• Went to the pool at 7:30 p.m. with Seth and returned home hungry and tired. The boy was happy.
• Slept


Sunday

• Went to Malvern church
• Ate lunch at Wendy's...this is becoming a sunday afternoon tradition.
• The Turton sisters visited as Carol was in town. Had dinner in the backyard...very nice. Seth sent to his room due to spazzy behaviours. He's much better now.
• Came home and took a nap.
• After dinner, went to see Adam Sandler's latest piece of crap movie...Click.Why? Why? Why did I even think this movie would have some redeeming qualities. Hey Adam, you are not funny, can't act and you suck!





Monday

• Yet another day off due to Saturday being Canada's birtday. Went to a nearby McDonald's to work on stats for, well, work. What did you think it was for?
• Came home to find Leela and Sethy a little bored. Went swimming with the boy. Marsh and Tarah took a nap.
• Marsh cooked a wonderful chilli dinner and later, went to Swiss Chalet for dessert with the familia. Came home...all fell asleep soon after.
• Have gone 8 hours without a single cigarette. Using Nicorette inhaler to help me through the rough spots. Determined to save my lungs and some money as a pack of smokes now costs anywhere from $8.50 to $10.00.

New Words

far·ra·go
An assortment or a medley; a conglomeration: “their special farrago of resentments” (William Safire).

quis·ling
A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country.

Thanks to Lord (or is it Arch Duke) Conrad Black, who recently referred to allegations made by the IRS, SEC and others, as a 'farrago of lies...' Black also went on to describe Canadian officials as 'quislings.'

Source of Definitions: Dictionary.com