Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Ross sent me to a comic and this one was adjacent to it. “It” was an explanation of how to form an island society. Don’t forget the 1 Mile Diet! And I wish I could write something and have it come true. I guess I should watch that Adam Sandler movie about that subject, but then I’d have to watch Adam Sandler.

And a virtual virus collection is a nifty idea.

And I’m repeating this Calvin and Hobbes comic link because, well, it’s worth looking at nearly anytime.

Went for Bus and Boat tour around city, and saw the islands from the boat. Apparently the city concealed the “clothing optional” beach with weeping willows. One bus the mic didn’t work so they used a megaphone. The guide was at high risk of overhead cable-neck damage.

Went to fringe show called “Big Sexy” with Kelly and Tracy, and had a sub after, similar to lunch. Ate lunch on campus in sci-library cafe which was probably on low gear for the Summer. Got some free Internet time to check the forecast, and hopped on the bus again.

Met CC, Buckets, and some other bloggers and a podcaster after supper. www.godlessradio.ca is the podcast. Bought CC a beer on College St. near the CFI.

Got a free Viva ticket on the way home, woo hoo, and got to bed by 1:00AMish after an evening walk/jog.

I didn’t post a Day 2, yet.
Canada Day, I hung out with Kelly and Tracy downtown. We had middle eastern lunch, did some window shopping, strolled through the Eaton Centre, and down some trendy and cultural streets. The weather was perfect because I brought an umbrella. I left the XO at home base today, it would have broken my back. I left a little room to pick up a book and some trinkets. I’ll probably do more shopping tomorrow after meeting with some bloggers at the CBC. If you want to join the tiny group, leave a comment or email to get the details.

We’re headed to the beach to look at the Ontario Place fireworks. There was a stage off Dundas Square that had entertainment. OP is run by the province, so the city couldn’t cancel it because of the garbage strike. Most people I’ve talked to are not in favour of this strike, they don’t feel employees paid by taxes should have the right to strike or ask for pay better than non-unionized workers.

The last notice of Conservaspam I sent out on my blog came from the Liberal Party of Canada. Yes, Huffb1 spotted that bit of trash in his mailbox. Well this time the Conservatives have taken the lead again in the slimeball activity of spending your tax money on political propaganda. The latest accuses Michael Ignatieff of wanting to raise taxes.

MP Ray Boughen is the latest Conservative to have shame brought to his name by unethically, and quite possibly illegally, mailing propaganda into Ralph Goodale’s Wascana riding. The mailing also refers to the ridiculous “Just Visiting” ad campaign they wasted their money on (let’s hope the Conservatives spent their money, and not ours). Then it has a lazily edited fake ballot asking “Who is on track to keep taxes low?” It’s lazy because they replaced Dion’s name with Ignatieff’s, and didn’t alphabetize it like before.

And what’s most frustrating about this kind of ad, besides everything else I’ve listed so far, is that it should be a crime to tax the future as badly as the Conservatives do (and have historically). If taxes are being kept artificially low now, it only stands to reason that the only people who can pay the bill, will be people of the future (AKA children). The Conservatives’ infrastructure deficit will be paid by future generations, and so too will the growing debt. You can’t bill the past, but you can sure bill the future. And Conservatives, and their Liberal enablers, are chewing up the hopes of high future living standards, and are bragging about it in the mail — using your money.

Also, about 90% of these junk mails were tossed out in the bin under the mailboxes in my building. They are only making printing companies richer, and anyone who reads them and believes them… dumber. Dumb, just how Conservatives like their voters I suppose.

Jazz up your evening, and check out the music of a fellow blogger and The Skopitones. I bumped into him my accident tonight as I misdirected an email intended for my cousin Brex, and instead sent it to Brem. Easy mistake, right?

Meanwhile, Brex is whipping off a letter to the editor, since the Winnipeg mayor or some knucklehead claimed that it’s not feasible to have bike lanes in Canadian cities. He had me send him some photographic evidence to the contrary from the better city to Winnipeg’s west (It’s Regina, for all you wise guys in Brandon).

It seems Alberta has a problem of allowing parents to shield their children from knowledge of religions, and sexual orientations. Saskatchewan isn’t faring much better, where we have an sexual education curriculum that optionally discusses pregnancy. Yes, learning about pregnancy is optional in SEXUAL EDUCATION. Isn’t that like learning about fishing, but cleaning and eating fish is an optional component of the course?

Anyway, I’m glad to hear at least one provincial party leader isn’t shy about bringing up sexual education as an issue, because it’s certainly an important topic. Without better education provided to children, we won’t bring down the high rate of sexually transmitted infections in this province, and we won’t reduce the amount of costly teen and even FAS pregnancies.

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ADDED: And I’m glad there are no blogging politicians who sound like this in Saskatchewan.

My hometown made the front page of the Leader Post today. It’s one of several communities in the south and southwest making history (again) next week as it celebrates the North West Mountain Police trail that protected Canadian sovereignty in the West, during the late 1870s through early 1900s.

Unfortunately I’ll miss the re-enactment, but there’s an event in Regina that leads up to the trek.

For those city residents who can’t make it out to any one of the NWMP Trail festivals, organizers extend an open invitation to a kick-off preview on Thursday, 10 a.m., at the RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina.

Tasha wrote:

wow! today is like the ultimate trinity of holidays: fathers day, the summer solstice and national aboriginal day……… hey we can celebrate all the fathers, the sun, and the holy ghost dance LOL ;)

Throw in a birthday party, and that sums up today. I woke up to Michael Enright talking to Perry Bellegarde and a panel of other political hopefuls. One has the idea of bring in doctors from Cuba to Canada to serve First Nations communities where the Canadian government fails to provide adequate services. There’s also a plan to bring Obama to the North, and have Americans compete for northerner’s resources such as oil, so fair prices are obtained. Confrontational, yes. Effective, maybe, we’ll see I guess.

The 2% education cap was mentioned by Perry, and it’s clearly obscene that our country would deny post secondary education to our quickly growing First Peoples, especially when it was contractually agreed to in many Treaties. Universities are clamoring for higher student enrollment, but they won’t get it if the prospective students don’t have the money to go. Everyone knows that tuition costs have skyrocketed since the time the cap was put in place. The cap is so counter-intuitive to raising the fortunes of First Nations and other Canadians, it can only be institutionalized racism at work in our government that keeps it in place.

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Despite the system that is stacked against them, several young people have done great things. A dozen were honoured.

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Saturday was fun, I played football at Taylor Field, scoring my first reception touchdown, and throwing possibly my first interception on Field Turf.

- Sure there were as many spectators as there were players, but the quality of play was what counted. And after an hour and a half, my thighs were ready to fall off.

A few of us finished the night at Cravings (where Grainfields use to be; yeah it’s confusing, because Crave is on Victoria downtown). If I’d tried to bike home I’d have been caught in the downpour. We saw a car pulled over for driving the wrong way down the Trans Canada on Ring Road beside the UofR.

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The thunder storm left us alone that day, but The Thunder Rolls – Garth.