SmoothedShredder

"Death is easy, a simple thing. Dying, that's hard to do." Parapharsed - Bryan Brown - So sorry if all this is wrong, I've had one or three since this thing started.

[color:purple]I hope you're not going to Hong Kong to teach English! Coming from me that's a burn! I kid, I kid!

Happy B-day!

sniff that was beautiful tonight. Still a long way to go, and it wont be easy... but if they can get through this stretch with a decent record, they may finally have found the team toughness that has been sorely missed in the playoffs... where's all the chatter around here?! [color:purple]Ya pansies

ROFL!! He might not make any friend with his views on the Greatful Dead around these parts, but I think he'll strike a chord on everything else!! Penn and Teller for President!!! Penn and Teller: Bullshit - War on Drugs

Some interesting Stuff... Some Mike Mooresqe editing... but certainly effective at balancing the debate on the environment. Also some good stuff on Patrick Moore and his contempary views. Penn and Tellers: Bullshit - On the Environment

I still like Gerber. He looked great in the Carolina game, and if you're looking for a goat, it's the Sens defence by committee... Great on paper, but its taken a while for them to get a flow and Gel (thanks to all the new faces, injuries, and psycological crutches). I know it's only the Flyers, but if the Spezza injury has a silver lining, it's that it puts the spotlight sqarely on the Defence to step up. Time will tell, but I think they'll forge out their identity during this stretch... GO SENS!!!

TSN - Thank you for your live streaming of the games... It's all loaded up and ready to go on my big monitor, and it looks 80%-90% as good as the TV! www.tsn.ca

Maybe it's a Hacker.

It's only going to get brighter from here! There's nothing Jazzier than a city full of people walking around under a blanket of darkness and twinkly lights! Have a happy Pagan holiday everyone!

If we're going to play that game I gotta add: Josh Martinez: Midriff Music. I think you'd like it AD, he's comical like Ugly Duckling (just not as thick), and he used to play in a duo with Buck 65 called "Buck Martinez"... how cool is that! Okay, don't answer that one. Released late 2005, Listened to many many times this year by yours truly

So who is who? Yeah, and to put it in relative terms, Canada's population compared to the US is equivilant to the ratio of Greenland/Iceland to Canada... and how often do we talk about our 'other' neighbours... Therefore the US is clearly Important to us, as it's easily what we talk about the most in here other than 'ourselves'... I can't even recall someone posting about Denmarkian politics ever. Also, it's clear, many are afraid what happens if/when that 'giant elephant in the room' rolls over.... I wouldn't be afraid. We are Canadian... we are better than that I hope. Though, I'll admit, I'm afraid crossing the border. I don't want so weed residue in my car to lock me up or to limit my freedom... still you think we'll ever convince them to change their stance on Weed if we are constantly insulting them?

I'm sorry, I don't want to trivalize this, but Far more Canadians died in Korea than have so far in Afghanistan... If you're so wary of the brand of fear that the Americans propogate, then why do you act so fearful/hateful of Harper... you make him sound like Stalin, and make yourself sound like you don't want to take your own advice.

All I know it's not "me"... there's enough of "me" in Politics! It's too bad the closest we've come is Kim Campbell. When will we get our own Ghandi? I'll even settle for a Margret Thatcher.

Yeah that's awful. I know "queer eye for the straight guy" has given me the best advice ever for good posture: Lead with your heart and not your head. We definately need more of a feminine touch in Politics. Who better than a gay man?!

These lists are great... I've already got 5 albums I got to pick up, and just got the Petty album today! Keep em' coming!

Happy birthday you crazy Skanc!!!

Just got back in from the ole "In/Out" Store myself... I was hoping to make it down to your place before this Marge, but I'm going to have to see you in the Market... just... can't... free... time... fast... e.... nuff.

And this time the part of Jesus will be played by a small army of Komodo Dragons! [color:green] I wonder what this means [color:red]for Man in the Grand Scheme [color:green]of things?

In!

Here's the silver lining: No more multiple roads games until March, in contrast to 23/36 on the road to start the season. This is finally time for the Sens to settle down and hammer out their true team identity. They've got some great stats, they just can't put it all together game to game... and don't get me wrong, this is MUCH better than the start of the season so hopefully the trend will continue and they can sink their teeth into the upcomming practices. Atleast Toronto's running on Fumes now, good thing they don't play for the Cup in October! I'd take Frodo on my team any day of the week... FUN TO WATCH!!! Montreal, what can you say?! WOW... they say they have the best "locker room" in hockey... and that's something that Radek Bonk is great at... according to my sources... Good luck trying to catch the Sabres! I think it's possible, their defence is Leaf thin right now.

Word on the Street, Al Gore invented the Internet. ... they may not of perfected the assembly line, but they invented it. Just becasue other nations (See Japan/China/Tiwan/Mexico) have become more efficent at creating these items of mass consumption, one cannot turn a blind eye to the Reaseach and Development, Inventiveness, and Resiliance (fuelled by huge stock piles of resources) America has accomplished. Most of this was set in motion by the foundation laid by the founding forefathers (Voltaires Bastards), and has been such a sucessful system (created by Geniuses to be run by idiots), that it has effectively priced itself outside of what the Earth has to offer (3% of the Population consuming 20% of the resources... per capita, Canadians are worse)... Sure they are Empirical, but all Empries are destined to fall, "You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb to world to peace" and all that jazz. Just becasue one might not like the people that GOVERN America, one cannot take away the history and the accomplishments which the American system (fuelled by at the time infinate resources) has achieved. And based on priciple it's a fantastic Idea (atleast to me)... too bad in practice those choosen to govern have not taken the effort to collectively understand what the constitution means (though the Supreme Court does get it right from time to time). It's only been fairly recently that the American economy 'tipped the scales' and we actaully felt the pressures of a finite world (the first real clue was the 1972 oil crisis, though I could accept the fundamental of any war conflict to be one of resource aquisition, still it was a revelation that America could be held hostage by a country on the exact opposite side of the globe just by tinkering with some commodities prices)... that combined with mass media, with all it's horrific technicolour violence, we could (as significant geographical democracy) see for the first time, the effect of the casual market forces on cracking the foundation of the American system (New Orleans/Poverty/Crime/Social Assitance/Baseball/Basketball), and global system. Sure there's been a great amount of denial ("You'll take my cheeseburger when you pry it out of my cold dead hands"), but eventually push will come to shove ([color:purple]maybe NASA will find another planet ripe with resources?!) it's actually really really bad there for the 'have-nots', and not getting any better for them... I believe in stark contrast, in terms of magnitude and geographical extent to what we have in Canada with our far more socialist system. You can just see how the Canadian dollar has risen against the US over the last year to see how the global market is 'rewarding us' from our distinguishment from the American Economy. I think though the real key, is to maintain a dialogue, and the key to the dialoge is to preach sustainability, conservation, and global freedom and democracy... and not just the kind of meaningless interpretation that Bush uses to rally the troops. Do I think a Canadian brand of Conservative is equal to the American brand... absolutely not. I would consider the Democratic Party of the United States as right wing or more than the Conservative Party of Canada, simply for the fact that they play in 'different arena's' with different rules... we will always be more socialist in Canada with our Health Care, Pension Plans, Relative quality and accesibility to education, and immigration rights. We also don't have an empirical attitude... Canada is not looking to take over the world, we would rather give it back to Quebec or the Natives, or hand it over to new Immigrants and celebrate the diversity... and certainly don't do this with large mobile armies and defence budgets which dwarf the GDP of most other reigons of the world. Still the global awarness is a realtively new phenomenon to the masses... eventually the United States will get the message (one way or the other)... and so will we. It will be alot less painful for those 'on the edge' if/when we are able to sit across the table and talk face to face, and not turn our backs on each other. If we don't do it, mother nature will, and I'm not going to be apathetic because of some superiority complex. Anyways, sorry for the BLOG!

Happy B-day!