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

If You Are Following Darfur...

If you are in any way interested in the UN and the so called international community's response to the crisis, NO, tragedy unfolding in Darfur, Sudan, you must regularly visit Jeff Weintraub's web log

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Credit: Stuart Carlson (slate.com)

Bryce's Moisture Farm

This is the second time I have come across Bryce's Moisture Farm. This guys idea is phenomenal...he writes a blog from the point of view of a moisture farmer on the dunes of Tatooine...The planet where Anakin Skywalker was born and discovered to be the Jedi that he eventually became.

Don't roll your eyes (Marsh, Tracey O, Tracey D, in fact all you Traceys!) Here's an excerpt:

"Hi, my name's Bryce. I own a moisture farm. You probably got all that from the title of the blog. I've got a lot of free time out here in the Dune Sea. My closest neighbor is about a full parsec and a half away. So anyhow, I thought I'd look into... "

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"Today the interface on my condensors stopped working. The machines were on, the control panel was blinking and responding to simple commands, but I couldn't change the levels or get any kind of status report."

Unfortunately, there have been no posts since his last one on June 4, 2005...I wonder if a visit earlier that month by the jawas and rhrro'rhis has anything to do with his sudden disappearance. But then again, a coriolis storm may just have stripped the poor man's skin from his body. Have sent him a missive on sub-space to try and raise his station. More on this when and if I hear from him.

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What a Cutie!!

This is (supposedly) a real ad...To see where I found this posted click on the title of this post. Here's the ad:
"I have references you can call. Yes the pic is me. I have others that I can trade. I have one where I am wearing a thong. You must also have pics. I am highly selective with regard to who I choose to rub in an erotic manner. We must also talk on the phone before meeting so I know you aren't a guy. I don't want to rub down a guy. It's against nature.

You decide what you want massaged. Buttocks, Boobs, Genitals, Boobs, Genitals, almost anywhere you like. All you have to do is ask. You can ask for anything. I respect boundaries and I will stop rubbing you somewhere if you don't want me to rub that place. I am very easy to talk to though my hearing is poor."

"Not On My Watch."

From an editorial in the New Yorker by Philip Gourevitch author of an in-depth account of the Rwandan Genocide and a New Yorker staff writer.

"Shortly after Bush took office, an adviser gave him a report on the Clinton Administration’s policy of inaction during the Rwandan genocide, and on it the President wrote, “Not on my watch!

...the janjaweed militias sponsored by the Sudanese government are reported to have killed hundreds of thousands of people, raped a great many of the women they left alive, and driven some two million from their homes to live—and to be hunted—in desert refugee camps, where potable water is scarce and disease widespread. Despite the Sudanese government’s acceptance of a cease-fire agreement last month, the violence has continued apace.

...Now there are plans to deploy as many as twenty thousand United Nations peacekeeping troops to Darfur at the end of this year. It is not clear that the Sudanese will permit such a force or that the U.N. can muster it—but, assuming that it happens, this is a decidedly lax timetable in the face of a steadily mounting death toll."

The estimated number of deaths to date are backed up by the BBC which reports an estimate of estimate200,000. An additional 2 million, the BBC agrees, have been displaced.

And now the UN has decided to do something about this appaling situation. It seems UN sponsored troops will be going in immediately...well, not immediately...more like 6 months! Yep! By the end of this year, for sure, the UN will step-in. Nevermind that the killings sponsored by the Sudanese government have been going on for 3 years. For some reason, the UN can simply not go in till after christmas.

Where the fuck is Bob Geldoff? What am I doing for my summer vacation you might ask? Where will you be this Christmas? Please pass the salt.

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To view more REAL wallpapers for your desktop click on the title of this post, it will take you to NASA's website...the images are out of this world. (sorry).