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That's the love of money is the root of [all sorts of] evil ... Umm. Go Sens Go.

I was surprised by Dan Rather and William Wilberforce

Niiiceee. The link to the song doesn't work, though

Probably easiest thing is to go Quicktime -> AVI and then burn the AVI to a DVD (lots of popular burning programs support burning an AVI as DVD, Nero included) There's tons of stuff to convert Quicktime to AVI, like this one WinAVI can do this sort of stuff too, but isn't free .. although it's got a free trial evaluation period.

I have a cell phone through work. I don't pay anything for it so that's good, but honestly, I hate the damn thing. If it rings it means only one thing.... work. Apologies for all the times that was me on the other end :laugh: Dream more, work less. Stay "stong"! Dream more, work less. Stay stong!

I'm not a Luddite. Really, I'm rather enamored with technology. But I think I've made < 5 cell phone calls in my life, all of them 'emergencies' either of the "dude is bleeding hard, oh sweet jesus don't let it end like this" variety or the "we've been circling the block for 40 minutes, where the fuck are you?" variety. (The astute reader will note that scenario b is most often, in fact, the precursor to scenario a) A cellphone salesman (salesboy, to be frank about it) once unabashedly laughed at me over the phone for my saying that I did not want a cellphone no matter what the rate. I explained that the phone rang constantly when I was at work and I had to deal with it. The phone rang constantly when I was at home, and I had to deal with it. The only relief I got from ringing monstrosities were those brief, precious minutes in the car between place and place. The irony of him being one of those ringing nuisances while trying to sell me a new nuisance to ring seemed lost on him. That's probably why he was a phone salesboy. Am I alone? Has anyone else out there put down their foot and said, "no, sir, I will not."?

Was gonna say notepad but was beat to it. Twice.

The worst I'm willing to say is ... I can't imagine a day where I'll wake up and think "I wish Falwell was on TV right now, because my blood is feeling a little too cold this morning." Casper Milquetoast now that is classic. Good riddance to ... erm, I mean to say, RIP.

I love shit like this

F'kin right, absolutely. The question is the quality of the formula, in such cases, and the assumptions that have gone into its development/selection. Often those assumptions are unfounded or downright dangerous, but the products get pushed as viable alternatives when they are not. By MDs as much as anyone. Suck it up dude. Babies need nourishment more than you need your meeting. I'm with tricky re: cow's milk too, at least in this so-happily-industrialized part of the world. Milk pushers carry the guilt of the ever increasing rates of osteoporosis in societies with the most access to and the highest consumption of the stuff. There's nothing wrong with milk. There is something very, very wrong with the way that we handle and produce it.

Unfermented soy is sketchy shit. In moderate doses it is probably safe enough for adults, no worse than the occasional cigarette anyways (and does have some countervailing benefits to speak of), but it's laughable that it has taken off as a health food over the years. I can't understand why parents continue to want to feed their children high doses of phyto-estrogens, but I guess it is the power of marketing blitz.

Holy Christ, have I really been gone that long? Just meant to take a couple poli. sci. classes in the capital, y'know, then maybe wind my way back. Then school got heavy, met a girl, etc.. Excited to meet the new one, and Cain, too, for that matter. Can't slap chests anymore though, unfortunately, as I've got this tricky little chest thing that keeps landing me in hospital. Actually, come to think of it, maybe all the chest slapping wasn't such a good idea in the first place ... Sounds like you've got your shit sorted. That's awesome. We'll catch up soon, dude. In the meantime, the board will need a bread and bake sale update come the 6th.

Does Duane read this thing? Happy b-day dude!

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Are they official, or are they a group of people saying that we have such-and-such basic affiliations/commonalities amongst each other in some unofficial way? (begging forgiveness for my ignorance of local Vancouver politics)

Suits everyone, of course, except the non-incumbents

[geeky-curiosity]There were a lot of database errors being thrown - how is it that the amazon links caused the (MySQL?) errors?[/geeky-curiosity]

I think you nailed it pretty well in terms of the type/scale of the issues and the types of organizing that they lend themselves to being mostly incompatible with the generally more pragmatic way that municipal politics seem to (and likely need to) operate. I have a sense - though I am largely talking out of my ass here - that municipal politics require a peculiar sort of agility/nimbleness and broad co-operation that the higher levels of abstractions (provincial, federal) don't share. Plus, there is just no way for a political party to register or officially operate at the local level. Some of that is probably just legacy and the political culture, but the fact that there has been no push to change this over the years to give parties a legitimate presence municipally is probably owing to the reality of those other factors you mentioned. Another thought is that municipal politics attract a different sort of politician altogether, largely as a result of the attraction for active community members to jump in, roll up their sleeves and make some changes in the place that they live. So you probably end up with a lot of people who don't have a clear party affiliation to begin with, or even a deep political interest in the general sense, whose primary driving motivation is serving the public and the community in the immediate sense. Couldn't imagine a party wanting to be involved with municipal politics, either, as it's hairy business and difficult or impossible to control from the top in a consistant way. Now I ramble.

Hey, what's that out there in the park? Well, I'll tell you what that is, I think it's this: In the park, nearly dark, what do I now hear, hark hark. Is it really leprechauns, and have they come back to rock 'n' roll? Yes, it's them there on the lawn, it's been so long since they've been gone But Mother Nature's leprechauns have come back to rock 'n' roll. A-dadda-dum-da-da-da-da-da-la-da Hum-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-la Hum-da-da-da-da-da-la They've come back to rock 'n' roll. A-dadda-dum-da-da-da-da-da-la-da Hum-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-la Hum-da-da-da-da-da-la They've come back to rock 'n' roll. See them rockin' and a-rollin', they're wobblin' and a-wiggling' And they're fumblin' and a-gigglin', well they're here to rock 'n' roll. Well, they're a-rockin' and a-rollin', and they're wobblin' and a wigglin' Well, they're rockin' and a-gigglin', oh they're here to rock 'n' roll. Well, they're sort of bein' sideways, get no slid They're plain to see and they're hard to hit. Well, they don't act now like they used to did And they done come back to rock 'n' roll. Well, how they doin' and how they been? Glad to see them all back again Well, they're Mother Nature's leprekins, and they done come back to rock 'n' roll. Hum-dadda-dum-da-da-da-da-da-la-da Hum-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-la Hum-da-da-da-da-da-la They've come back to rock 'n' roll. Hum-dadda-dum-da-da-da-da-da-la-da Hum-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-la Hum-da-da-da-da-da-la They've come back to rock 'n' roll.

You are no longer welcome over. Generous free dinner or otherwise.

Shiite, from the post title I would've thought she was in hospital .. All the best on the new store Kyla!

Heh! :laugh:

At first glance: - Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) - Paul, who ran for the Libertarian presidential nomination in 1988 - "The only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington." (in reference to the Gun Owners of America lobby) I think he's right about this, mind you. There are deeper issues than guns here, and something that stands outside the realm of the ability for legislation to prevent, though guns certainly do multiply the repercussions of those issues .. and multiply them rather rapidly. For a Rep. Paul, it is a deep and sincere commitment to liberty that informs his belief. Those are rough waves to ride, given the repercussions, but he probably comes from a good place. The culture of it all is important here too, given the constitutionally entrenched rights he must see himself as defending. It's foreign to us, but a very real stopping point to those who are in a position of defending constitutional guarantees in the face of those who are seen as trying to reverse them (generally a permanent thing, where constitutional matters are concerned). No love for guns here, though, just to be clear. I, too, think America would be happier without them. The rationale for keeping them is pretty much void now anyways, for better or worse. A well armed militia is not going to defeat the national army, or even hold them back to any significant degree. The US is vulnerable to the US, and are no longer a collection of states as much as a single state. At some point there is going to have to be a realization of all of that, and a recalculation. It won't be very soon, though, given all the interests and concerns involved. Guns are here to stay, for the medium term at least. Ron Paul is just one of the many voices making that loud and clear.

Same here .. otherwise it's like reading as normal, but that word stood out and I still don't know what it is supposed to be .. [edit: Oh. Strange. And Alabama Man already pointed it out. I'm a dummy.]