timouse

happy birthday!!!

hey dirtybird, PM sent.

we may have a winner!

i don't think he'd mail well

come on you animal loving skanks, one of you out there needs this cat in your life.

Make sure to take advantage of this crisitunity!

what he said.

on the up side, big cushy jobs come with big cushy severance = marginator money!

i know that you will find the silver lining in this...

((((margaret))))))

ooooh. my brother used to make herb butter.

mmmmm....toast.....

chester is fine, stanley had an abcess. the vet's patched him up & they expect him to be ok, but the last thing he needs now is a new cat playmate.

one of kat lady's cats has had a brush with the kitty healthcare system, and this may be a bad time to introduce another cat in to their world.

so i have a very healthy very happy now neutered cat with all his shots that is still looking for a home...he's moved fully in with us, and is quite well socialized. he seems to get on with other cats, and is very happy lying in someone's lap purring.

as before, free delivery to most anywhere in SoOn, and as before, it's "pay what you can." both me and niffermouse really want this guy to have a happy home...

again, his pictures...

slocan valley in bc, coastal southern thailand (circa 1993) as a close second.

the thing that seems to cause the most opposition to wind turbines is the low rumble that a wind farm emits.

there are cases pending in california and possibly in england where property owners are suing wind farm operators for distress caused by the low rumble...as far as the look, they may be a bit weird to look at, but jeebus, it's free clean power! put them where they won't disturb people with the noise and let's make some clean electricitry already

i take nearly everything i read/see/hear these days with a grain of salt. technology's just made it so damn easy to edit/splice/clip/snip/break!

i got a call from Leger Marketing the night before last asking me:

1) which federal party i would vote for if an election were called tomorrow (greens!!!)

2) which of the liberal leadership candidates i would prefer to see get the job (bob rae)

3) who i liked better, iggy or bob rae (rae)

4) whether or not i thought the liberals had "rehabilitated themselves" after the sponsorship scandal (the whole thing was a red herring, so sure)

5) do you buy 5 year old or older cheddar cheese? (yes)

who commissions these things?

And it's sunny, and the stars have been shining bright for the last few nights! That makes me want to hug too .

I should add, parenthetically, a blanket apology to anyone whose ribs I may have broken in the past few years of hugging. I'm just built that way.

they were cracked anyway. it's fine

except that there'll be a homeless guy, a year from now, posting from some library somewhere, "Where the hell is my blanket and those socks I was promised!?!?"

...and how come the slip played such a short set?

I can't remember the exact quote, but I think it's from one of the gospels: "What you do to the least of my creatures, you do to me." I figure it works both ways.

One has to wonder if there's a song in somewhere.

Aloha,

Brad

yay deeps and evans!

brad, the spirit of your quote is bang on...people are animals too

...you guys do rock and are a very good counterweight to all the miserable crusty old cynics of the world

keep on keepin on

what he said.

you folks are awesome!

That's way better than the one I saw in the store the other day of Elmo taking a shit.

hmmmm...wipe me elmo?

hope you guys have a good one! you will for sure with ricky behind the kit...

thank you paisley, that's the original point i was trying to make.

i was at a lab equipment trade show years ago and got talking to a guy that ran a drug testing lab...he was there offering his services to the big companies in attendance. i stopped at his booth and talked to him, and tried to get him to open up by taking a symathetic viewpoint...it worked.

he told me that you could be in a room with poeple smoking a joint and days later testing would register THC in your system.

me too. contrary viewpoints are what make this place interesting.

sunshine rocks for starting this. i'm a serious sucker for helping homeless folks. i live in a small town with no homeless people (afaik) and when niffermouse and i head in to toronto, we wind up giving away tonnes of change to folks on the street. i find it amazing to watch the well - to - do folks in Toronto step over homeless people while chatting away on their phones about what wine to have with dinner...arrh!

arrest the addiction, not the addict.

hope you have a good one!

happy birthday!

Who does he think he is' date=' Lenny Bruce?

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I was gonna suggest he thought he was Mel Gibson (or was paid by Mel Gibson, to take some of the heat off of him). Did Lenny Bruce ever hurl insults at the audience that way? (I could believe Bruce would have done a bit about the use of "N"-word, but I don't think he would have used it against anybody.)

Aloha,

Brad

Wow, don't tell me I looked something up on wikipedia faster than you!

Are there any niggers here tonight? Could you turn on the house lights, please, and could the waiters and waitresses just stop serving, just for a second? And turn off this spot. Now what did he say? "Are there any niggers here tonight?" I know there's one nigger, because I see him back there working. Let's see, there's two niggers. And between those two niggers sits a kike. And there's another kike— that's two kikes and three niggers. And there's a spic. Right? Hmm? There's another spic. Ooh, there's a wop; there's a polack; and, oh, a couple of greaseballs. And there's three lace-curtain Irish micks. And there's one, hip, thick, hunky, funky, boogie. Boogie boogie. Mm-hmm. I got three kikes here, do I hear five kikes? I got five kikes, do I hear six spics, I got six spics, do I hear seven niggers? I got seven niggers. Sold American. I pass with seven niggers, six spics, five micks, four kikes, three guineas, and one wop. Well, I was just trying to make a point, and that is that it's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. Dig: if President Kennedy would just go on television, and say, "I would like to introduce you to all the niggers in my cabinet," and if he'd just say "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" to every nigger he saw, "boogie boogie boogie boogie boogie," "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" 'til nigger didn't mean anything anymore, then you could never make some six-year-old black kid cry because somebody called him a nigger at school.

(That was actually from the LB play/screenplay, but it's virtually identical to the original.)

(On a side note, apparently Jerry Garcia worked for a spell transcribing and proofreading Bruce's court trials.)

in the film, lenny's (dustin hoffmann's) racist riff ends with "...and one big old uncle tom nigger down front."

he then goes on to explain that use of the word robs it of its' power, and finally gets the crowd laughing...when the big dude down front laughs, lenny calls attention to him, saying "sir, i'm very glad you're laughing. for a moment i thought you were going to come up here and kick my ass."

RIP lenny bruce.

Stephen Byers, the former cabinet minister and member of an expert panel of international politicians on climate change, is meanwhile urging new taxes to help change behaviour, including a 'global warming premium' on exotic fruit, vegetables and flowers flown thousands of miles across the world.

every time i see organic tomoates from israel in the grocery store i want to scream. it's gotta be lower impact to get them somewhere on this continent...

Air freight is one of the most lightly taxed areas of transport since aviation fuel is tax-free and there are no passengers to pay duty. Yet green campaigners say the planet can ill afford the thousands of 'food miles' travelled by exotic produce. One kilo of kiwi fruit flown from New Zealand to Europe discharges 5kg of carbon into the atmosphere. Other options include hiking car tax on fuel-inefficient vehicles and cutting stamp duty on the purchase of energy-efficient houses.

this is wicked. if people start to see and think about the true cost of things, then better judgement will win out. maybe. shop locally, think globally.

wait, that's been done

Hahaha.

Del still wins Best Avatar.

this may in fact be the best avatar ever.

the last couple of days have taught me how precious life really is. I think of all the time I have spent being pissed off, or upset over trivial matters, when I should be appreciating life for what it is, and for what I got. Anyways, I have come to the conclusion that I will try and show my love a little more often.

So for starters, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I love you. Have a wonderful evening.

you are obviously seeing the silver lining to the dark cloud currently hanging over you...as my grandma used to say, "this too will pass."

life is too short to not enjoy it, and it often takes being beaten over the head with that bit of information for it to ring true.

(((((2))))))