Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

- Crazy Horse monument in South Dakota just minutes from Mount Rushmore

The monument is built entirely with money earned through tourism, and no government money is being accepted to complete the decades old project.

- Lake on the way to Deadwood from Rapid City, SD

- Near Deadwood Gulch

Imagine how sensitive and psychotic an uncircumcised man on pot would be?

Scary to even imagine.

Anyway, the CBC report about the marijuana isn’t very impressive, considering in the report they admit that their headline is speculative.

Zammit said the research couldn’t prove that marijuana use itself increases the risk of psychosis, as there could be something else about marijuana users, “like their tendency to use other drugs or certain personality traits, that could be causing the psychoses.”

So there’s a relation, but not really one where they can prove that smoking pot CAUSES the smoker to be more likely to develop craziness. They may just be more prone to becoming crazy, and smoke pot because of that reason. I know I’d have to be crazy to take up inhaling a recreational drug. Many people don’t see it that way, but I do.

Are Bush’s aides going to get into trouble? Seems they already have. If you haven’t been watching Senator Leahy talk down to Alberto Gonzales, then you’re missing what may be the turning point in holding Bush’s aides responsible for their crimes.

I don’t think Bush’s aides are helping him with his popularity very well.

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Andrew Sullivan hasn’t always been the voice of reason, but he seems to be opening his eyes.

” …the capacity of Americans to throw their own elites overboard will be tested in the next two years.

I do not know where this is headed. A new isolationism? A new liberal hegemony? More of the same? But I have a feeling that those of us in the Beltway may be among the last to see it coming.”

Could Hillary Clinton be booted, and Obama too, as a part of an unexpected American rebellion against elite leaders? I suppose Bush was selected in a vain attempt to do away with the elite Gore leadership after the slick Bill Clinton elite years. Maybe Americans will vote for an intellectual as their next president?

Who am I kidding, it’s going to be Clinton. Sorry Andrew, but no change is coming.

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Hat tip to Cliff.

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And Glenn Greenwald takes a chunk out of Joe Klein here. Is being “Serious” really what Klein says it means?

Green Party leader Elizabeth May has stood by her criticism of a report conducted by (formerly Cantox) about the carcinogenic herbicides sprayed at CFB Gagetown in the 1960s. American military testing conducted there used Agent Orange and other known carcinogenic chemicals, and today compensation is being denied to military people affected partly because of opinion based consultations by companies like Cantox (Intrinsik - may as well be Intrinsick). There’s also the problem that Canada’s Current Government has staffed Veterans Affairs with cubicle bound drones that are no doubt instructed to avoid paying fair compensation to the hundreds or thousands poisoned without consent.

Over several days in 1966 and 1967, the U.S. military carried out tests at the base on a number of defoliating agents, including Agent Orange.

The chemicals were widely applied during the Vietnam War to clear jungles and have since been linked to a number of human health problems, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and chloracne.

In addition to the military tests, other herbicides have been used at the heavily forested base since it opened in the 1950s.

Veterans and contracted employees who worked on and around the base during the tests are seeking compensation from the federal government.

“It’s not a good day for me when I’m not only threatened with a lawsuit, but somehow the media found out about it even before I had seen the letter from their lawyers,” said May.

May said she hopes the matter won’t end up in court.

I wonder if Intrinsick leaked the lawsuit to the media as an additional intimidation factor. What is it with all of the Green Party people being sued lately? Could it be they are asking questions that corporate interests can’t afford to have asked?

I wrote earlier about the threatened lawsuit against May, and so have other bloggers.

Check out the bonus list at the end, where Ashley gives her list too.

I have to list 5-10 songs that when I heard them, they touched me, or influenced me a bit.
Thanks a lot Nicole, I’d avoided doing memes now for almost a few months! ;-)

So because of the great demand from the peoples of the Interweb to know more about Saskboy, I thus reveal some songs that I enjoy, and why.

1. This Diamond Ring
   I listened to this song on a vinyl record player, and was the first music I remember dancing to when I was maybe 3 or 4.
2. Brooks & Dunn - Boot Scootin’ Boogie
   - It wasn’t always a favourite song of mine. Kids in Wood Mountain school would play this song on too-loud speakers in the gym at lunch time, and so it’s among the first modern pop-country songs that I know I heard, and like to this day.
3. Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John
   Reminds me of my Grandpa playing tapes and records in his basement when I visited
4. Arrogant Worms - [many]
   Unlike most Saskatchewanians, I became aware of the Arrogant Worms through my parents hearing them on CBC and buying some of their early albums. One of those included Rippy the Gator and Carrot Juice is Murder which show that you don’t have to be serious to be profoundly good at music. Last Saskatchewan Pirate is just their most famous work in this province.
5. Weird Al Yankovic - Calling In Sick Today
   This song taught me that even if you have a killer tune, and clever lyrics, you can’t get played on popular music radio stations because they’ll never consider you a real musician. Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck 12 Days of Christmas also highlighted this point for me when the ACC Top 40 didn’t play it one week when it had made it onto the countdown and legitimately deserved to be heard even though it was a week after Christmas.

I asked Ashley this question, and here are her few picks:

• Rascal Flats - Fast Cars and Freedom
  Reminds me of Saskboy.
  [Saskboy notes that this song reminds him of an ex-girlfriend, until now, when he’ll think about this moment instead :-D]
• Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply
  A line in it that says “All you need will surely come”
• Lisa Loeb - Falling In Love
  A different take on the whole love deal.
• Big and Rich - Holy Water
  The subject matter in it is moving
• Clay Aiken - Measure of a Man
  It’s pretty good.

Feel free to share your favourite inspirational or memorable songs. I’m not about to burden someone on purpose, but since I didn’t remember to boycott his blog (at his request), I’ll tag Green Assassin Brigade anyway :-D.

This highlights why Elizabeth May of the Green Party of Canada, (and David Karwacki in Saskatchewan) need to be elected to their respective seats in the next election. They are asking important questions, and highlighting issues that the entrenched politicians are ignoring.

I don’t buy the Cantox company line that there’s no risk from the Base Gagetown herbicide spraying. What sane person could? Agent Orange is a well known carcinogen, and Agent Purple was reportedly used too (which is apparently more toxic).

Months ago I was impressed by how Senator Leahy put a beat down on the US AG after he refused to answer questions regarding the Maher Arar scandal. Now he’s putting what I hope are the finishing touches on the A. General’s last days in office.

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Hat tip.

I noticed I couldn’t visit a new LiveJournal site linked to SaskBlogs, and thought nothing of it until I read this about a massive outage in San Fran.