My niece, Olivia Annelies Rossel
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12:15 AM
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
holy f'ing crap. britney federline is pregnant with a cletus jr!
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8:34 PM
Friday, April 08, 2005
oh yeah, the pope died. i guess i should mention that.
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5:23 PM
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
This 'normal' post is in honour of Nikki, my ever loyal reader, who does not get it when i post song lyrics :P. If you want to know what is really going on in my life, please read my live journal, which is located at www.livejournal.com/~highlyevolved76
You almost always pick the best times,to drop the worst lines.You almost made me cry again this time.Another false alarm,red flashing lights.Well this time I'm not going to watch myself die.I think I made it a game to play your game,and let myself cry.I buried myself alive on the inside,so I could shut you out,and let you go away for a long time.GOD!!!!!!!!!!!I guess it's ok I puked the day away.I guess it's better you trapped yourself in your own way.And if you want me back,you're gonna have to ask.I think the chain broke away,and I felt it the day that I had my own time.I took advantage of myself and felt fine,but it was worth the night,I caught an early flight and I made it home.I guess it's ok I puked the day away.I guess it's better you trapped yourself in your own way.and if you want me back,you're gonna have to ask.nicer than that (2X)with my foot on your neck,I finally have you,right where I want you (4X)I guess it's ok I puked the day away.I guess it's better you trapped yourself in your own way.and if you want me back,you're gonna have to ask.nicer than that (2X)and if you want me back,you're gonna have to ask.nicer than thatnicer in a fuckin wayNICER!!NICER!!
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Legal pot? Legal gay marriage? Universal health care? What's next, free porn and candy?By Mark MorfordDid you hear the screams? Did you feel the menacing chill? Did you see the black and ominous clouds, moving north?Did you sense, in other words, the very presence of Satan himself as he laughed maniacally and tossed around bucketfuls of ultrathin condoms and little travel-size packets of Astroglide like confetti while riding his Harley Softail up to Toronto or maybe Edmonton to join the ghastly and sodomitic celebrations?Because it's happened. Canada's high court just ruled that the government can, if it so desires, redefine marriage to include gay couples, which it has declared it will do almost immediately, thus solidifying Canada's place as the chilly yet mellow and gay friendly and hockey-riffic epicenter of all known hell.It's true. It's rather amazing. Gay marriage will be completely legal in Canada very soon. It's been oddly ignored in much of the U.S. media and hasn't really been much discussed among those in the terrified red states except when, deep in the night, from their respective lumpy twin beds, they whisper to each other across the room as they pop their Ambien and stroke their portfolios and curse their very genitals: oh my God what's wrong with those freakin' Canadians?I mean (they continue), I thought they loved red meat and brutish sports and manly hunting. Are they all just freaks and perverts now? Have they been sniffing too many elk pelts? Is it something in the clean and plentiful water up there? Something to do with those weird French-esque people in Quebec, maybe?I knew we should've been paying more attention to that border! Didn't I say so, honey? Didn't I say we should keep an eye on those northern weirdos after they dissed the Iraq war and legalized medical pot and sort of went about their happy and calm Canadian business whilst we here in panicky red-blooded America chewed our own karmic legs off in a paranoid and jingoistic rage? Hippies and perverts, I said! Save a few bombs for Ontario, George, I say!Let us now do the naughty math: Canada has roughly 32 million inhabitants, of whom about 75 percent are over 18, of whom it can be loosely estimated that anywhere from 2 to 8 percent are gay (depends, of course, on who you ask).All of which translates into a ballpark figure of anywhere from 1 million to 2 million gay Canadians of legal marrying age who will now eagerly laugh and kiss in the streets and confound poor reactionary born-again George W. Bush, and they will flash their wedding rings at parties and annoy all the single people, all while proving for the umpteenth time that love knows no gender limitations or legal restrictions and will trump your whiny sanctimonious religious puling any given Sunday. Heathens!It's getting more confusing by the minute, isn't it? I mean, Canada now has legal medical pot and legal gay marriage and universal health care and no known terrorist enemies and a relatively successful multiparty political system. They also have, according to U.N.'s Human Development Index, one of the highest qualities of life in the world. All coupled with a dramatically reduced rate of gun violence and far better gun-control legislation than the U.S., despite having the exact same per capita rate of gun ownership and gun-sport enthusiasm.What the hell? How is this possible? Why aren't they scared to death like whiny red-state Americans? Why don't they want to kill each other along with anything that might threaten their access to televised hockey and cheap beer and yummy poutine?Aren't they aware of what's happening in the world? Don't they know they are openly hated for their freedoms and their cafés and their vinegared french fries? Aren't they human, fer Chrissakes? Oh, red states. How confused and irritated you must be.After all, unlike the U.S., Canada backed the Kyoto Treaty (along with 165 other heathen nations). They also spend more per capita on education and less on health-care overhead than the U.S. They have a $10 billion federal surplus, a new record. They are not, as of yet, abusing the hell out of their vast natural resources (freshwater, huge forests, oil and natural gas, mineral deposits, etc.) and embarrassing themselves on a global scale every single day and making a mockery of their constitution or their citizens' civil liberties. What the hell is wrong with them?Yes yes, I know, Canada's universal health care is flawed and not always of the best quality, and a great many Canadians think their prime minister is a bit of a schmuck and they hate paying taxes and of course they can be all profitable and progressive when they don't have a massive bogus unwinnable war to pay for, one run by a ravenous and fiscally idiotic federal government, and they only have one-tenth of our population and one-fiftieth of our desperate consumeristic gluttony. They have it easy, right?Remember, Canada is boring. Canada is rarely in the news. Canada has no massive belching socioeconomic engine like America does, what with our NASCAR and Hollywood and Fox News and bad porn and the absolute best medical care on the planet despite how only a tiny fraction of us have access to it while the rest languish in bloated abusive HMOs and poverty and disease and 40 percent of us have no access to health care whatsoever. Take that, Canada! Oh wait.We hate gays and love guns and think pot is evil but hand out Prozac and Zoloft like Chiclets. Meanwhile (as "Bowling for Columbine" so beautifully illuminated), Canadians leave their doors unlocked and don't feature violence and death on every newscast and still value community and diversity and discussion over solipsism and protectionism and a general hatred of foreigners and the French. See? We rule! Oh wait.All of which makes you wonder: how many more countries will it take? How many more nations will have to, for example, prove that gun licensing works, or that gay-marriage legislation is a moral imperative, or that health care for all is mandatory for a nation's well being, before America finally looks at itself and says, whoa, damn, we are so silly and small and wrong? Is there any number large enough? After the announcement that gay Chinese and gay Russians may legally marry and grow lovely gardens of marijuana as they all get free dental care, will America remain terrified of nipples and queers?Canadians. So mellow. So laid back. So gay. So not producing any truly superlative modern-rock music or ultraviolent buddy-cop movies and not actively siccing Wal-Mart or Starbucks or Paris Hilton on the rest of the world like a goddamn cancer. They're just so ... nice. And boring. And calm. And solid. And friendly.And they simply beat us senseless on the whole open-minded, progressive thing. Kicked our flag-wavin' butts. Trounced our egomaniacal self-righteous selves and made the red states look even more foolish and backward than the whole world already knows them to be.They did it. Canada made the whole gay marriage issue look effortless and obvious and healthy, and a massive black rain of hellfire did not pour down upon them and the very idea of hetero marriage did not immediately explode and their economy did not unravel like all the sneering cardinals and right-wing nutballs screamed it would. We must ask, one last time: what the hell is wrong with them?Oh wait. Maybe we should rephrase. What the hell, we should be asking, is wrong with us?courtesy Mark Morford
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says the federal government can change the definition of marriage, giving gays and lesbians the legal right to marry.
In a non-binding opinion released Thursday morning, the court reaffirmed religious freedoms under the Charter, saying religious officials opposed to same-sex marriages do not have to perform them.
It also declined to answer whether same-sex marriage was required by the constitution.
The Paul Martin government had asked the court to consider whether excluding gays and lesbians from legal marriage violated equality rights under the Charter.
But the court said that by failing to appeal a number of lower court rulings that said excluding gays from marriage was discriminatory, the federal government had already accepted that position.
"The government has clearly accepted these decisions and adopted this position as its own," the court wrote.
The court rejected the argument that the traditional definition of marriage is rooted in history, saying times have changed.
"Several centuries ago it would have been understood that marriage should be available only to opposite-sex couples. The recognition of same-sex marriage in several Canadian jurisdictions as well as two European countries belies the assertion that the same is true today," wrote the court.
"I feel it is a clear green light in favour of equal marriage," said Martha McCarthy, a lawyer for same-sex couples.
Groups opposed to same-sex marriage reacted swiftly, as Gwen Landolt with Real Women and Catholic Civil Rights League member Richard Bastien called for a referendum on the issue. Landolt says the traditional definition of marriage should be enshrined in the constitution.
Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said Monday he would take the bill to Parliament as early as this month.
Martin has asked MPs to support the bill, but has also told them it will be a free vote.
The Liberals hold a thin minority government, with 134 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons, but should have the support of most or all of the 19 New Democrat MPs and 54 Bloc Québécois MPs.
NDP Leader Jack Layton has said his caucus will vote in favour of the bill, while Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, whose party is split on the issue, says it will be a free vote.
If passed, Canada would join Belgium and the Netherlands in making gay marriage legal nationwide.
Chrétien sent bill to court
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien sent the issue to the Supreme Court following a June 2003 ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal allowing same-sex unions.
Ottawa has proposed changing the definition of marriage to the "lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others" rather than the "lawful union of one man and one woman."
Before taking it to Parliament, Chrétien referred the proposed bill to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to offer a non-binding opinion on three questions, including whether the government could redefine marriage, whether it supported the Charter of Rights and whether church groups had to perform the ceremonies.
When he became prime minister one year ago, Paul Martin added a fourth question: whether limiting marriage to a man and a woman was unconstitutional.
Along with Ontario, court rulings have now made same-sex marriage legal in British Columbia, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and the Yukon.
I wish that every mofo who voted Republican last Tuesday was forced to read this. No matter who you support, you must concede to the facts, and that's what these are. Without further ado... the resume of:
GEORGE W. BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC
20520
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Law Enforcement:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.
Military:
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
College:
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.I was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
* I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975.
* I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
* With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
* I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
* I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
* I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
* With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
* I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
* I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
* I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
* I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
* I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
* I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
* I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
* I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
* I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.
* I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
* My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
* My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
* I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip- offs in history.
* I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
* I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
* I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.
* I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.
* I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
* I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
* I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
* I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
* I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).
* I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
* I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
* I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
* I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
* I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
* I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in wartime.
* In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
* I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
* I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD.
* I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden [sic] to justice.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
* All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
* All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004.
ANA MARIE COX,www.wonkette.com: I was all set to vote for George Bush even after finding out that he wouldn't let me marry Mary Cheney if I wanted to. And when he made the pronunciation of "Lambeau Field" a campaign issue? It seemed fair. After all, he's proved that not knowing the names of foreign leaders is much less important than correctly pronouncing the homes of popular sports teams. Of course, he totally sold me with the debates: any man who explains a mystery bulge as bad tailoring is more than confident enough to take on the Euroweenies. But in the end, with the fate of the free world at stake and all, I've got to go with the guy who would admit that sending thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians to their deaths to protect us from imaginary weapons was, in fact, a mistake.
"When it comes to foreign affairs, I mean, forget it. But you know, that's the only thing Bush can run on. His domestic policy is praising Jesus and cutting Paris Hilton's taxes. So he's got to run on you know, be afraid, be very afraid." -Bill Maher, on George W. Bush's election platform.
Ok, school is horrendous. I love classes and seminars, and I don't even mind all the reading, but now all of a sudden I have five major assignments creeping up on me. They are not due this week, or even next week. One is due in two weeks, another the first week of November... and a midterm the last week of October. Presentations, essays, reports.
I know I know, you all are doing the exact same damn thing, and I am in first year, so basically it's just elaborate busywork. But it's the volume I suppose. Yeah, I can't complain that it's hard work... it's just that there's so much.
oh yeah, i forgot to mention here that my sister is pregnant. i bought her/the baby an infant shirt that says "someone at brock university loves me" awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
in other news, green day is going to be playing the ACC on November 2 (u.s. election day) anyone who buys/steals/otherwise acquires a ticket for me to this concert will have me as a slave for life.
Doesn't anybody know how to talk anymore
Doesn't anybody know what a radio is for
Doesn’t anybody wear their hair down low
Doesn’t anybody know, doesn’t anybody know
Doesn’t anybody hate it when a street light turns red
Doesn’t anybody want 5 more minutes in bed
Doesn’t any body, doesn’t anybody have a letter to send
Doesn’t anybody wish they had just one more friend
Cause everybody wants and every body needs
And everybody asks for one more piece,
Everybody wants to hear someone say please
Cause everybody takes and everybody steals
Everybody cries when something feels,
Everybody’s looking for the drug that heals
Doesn’t anybody want to take another shot at me,
Go ahead the gun is loaded and the bullets are for free.
Doesn’t anybody spray perfume to cover up a smell
Doesn't anybody know where to go to get some help?
Cause everybody wants, every body needs, Everybody begs for self esteem
Why don’t you get your mind out of the past
Cause everybody takes and everybody steals And everybody’s been kicked by other heels,
Please raise your hands up in the air.
Why don’t you raise your hands up in the air
Cause everybody wants
i will post the details when i have time. right now, philosophy is calling me.
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11:37 AM
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Colour me disgusted. Oprah Winfrey celebrated the start of her 19th year as host of "Oprah" yesterday by giving everyone in her studio audience (276 people) a brand new car, the Pontiac G6.
For the record, although she could have, Oprah did not actually buy the cars for her audience. They were donated by GM. Want the details? Go to www.pontiac.com/dreams if you have the stomach for it.
What did Steven Tyler say? Oh yeah, EAT.THE.RICH.
In other news, the World Cup of Hockey Final goes tonight at the ACC. Canada vs. Finland. Look for updates after the game.
I know that you've been waiting with bated breath for the weekend update, so here it is.
Canada played an exciting semi final against the Czech Republic. I was effin' nervous because Canada's wall of a goalie, Marty Brodeur was sitting out of the game with a wrist injury. The 25 year old replacement, Robert Luongo was playing in his first ever international game since his run with the Canadian juniors a few years ago. But Luongo pulled out a few beautiful saves and put me (along with the rest of the nation) at ease.
Canada had a great second period, scoring two goals in the space of 3 minutes. But the Czech's answered back with two goals of their own, one in the second, and another early in the third. It looked as if Canada had secured themselves a win when Draper scored a beautiful goal with about 8 minutes to go. Those hopes were quickly dissipated when the Czech's answered back almost immediately with a goal from Robert Elias only 6 seconds later.
A nail biting overtime period commenced at the ACC where the sell-out crowd stood on its feet cheering the Canadians on to victory. At 3:45 into overtime play, Vinny LeCalvalier became a Canadian hero when he poked his own rebound past Czech goalkeeper Vokoun.
Final score: Canada 4 Czech Republic 3 Next stop: Canada vs. Finland for all the marbles.
"It is unrealistic to say that judges should not impose their values or make law. Performing the task properly may mean controversy and critisism, but better to court controversy than to court irrelevance, and better to court critisism than to court injustice."
news flash: she is my new hero. she was brought in by P.M. Paul Martin in order to help the plan to broaden the definition of marriage to include same sex couples. referred to as a "judicial activist", she wrote the landmark 1998 Rosenberg ruling that extended spousal benefits to gay couples. respect and an honourable mention go to the liberal p.m. for choosing wisely.
in case you are retarded, the world cup of hockey started two days ago. last night, canada overpowered the us defence to produce a 2-1 final score. oh yeah, and there was lots of fighting too. it's like the stanley cup playoffs, except at the BEGINNING of the hockey season.... oh wait, there isn't going to be a hockey season. damned lockout. this is what team canada's jersey's look like:
they are a throwback to the 1920 olympics in Antwerp when team canada consisted of a bunch of icelandic immigrants called the winnepeg falcons (notice the shoulder patches - they are more visible when you are actually looking at the players). anyhoo, i enjoy these jersey's and if anyone is wondering what to get me as a going away present/housewarming gift, these jerseys are available at www.dxmarket.com/shops/jerseycity for $119 CDN. ha, as if.
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You are a XPIT--Expressive Practical Intellectual Taker. This makes you a Manager.You are cool, thoughtful and intelligent. Your approach and your sense of humor are under-the-radar, your charm is undeniable. You keep everything under control. You have distinctive vocal mannerisms. You may not have much interest in approaching strangers, but when you do, you are successful. You will probably end up with someone beautiful, fascinating and off-balance. While your partner may steal the limelight, it's you that keeps things running smoothly and provides stability in your relationship. If you are with someone as contemplative and hard-headed as you, you can have a tough time. Your greatest asset is that you tackle conflict as it rises -- you don't ignore it and let it brew. If you have a partner that *does* let it brew, it will make you crazy! You can find yourself fighting for two -- trying to anticipate your partner's needs and draw their feelings out -- which is exhausting and, well, not your job. You would never cheat. You would make an excellent spouse. When your spouse's friends met you, they would think, "Crap, why couldn't I get that one?"Of the 21197 people who have taken this quiz, 4.9 % are this type.
