phorbesie

eh? my cart is saying 47.50 total. f that!

red wings fans perhaps?

happy bday!

happy birthday!

Canadians Friends of Burma establishes cyclone fund May 09, 2008 Ottawa - The Canadian Friends of Burma has established a “Burma Cyclone Relief Fund†to raise donation in Canada to help the people of Burma. Cyclone Nagris is an unprecedented natural disaster which has been made exponentially worse by the sheer incompetence, greed and paranoia of Burma's generals. Millions of people are currently facing starvation and diseases after the deadly cyclone stroke across Burma, killing approximately 100,000 people. One major concern we have is that political dissidents and their family members will suffer greatly because Burma's junta will actively prevent them from receiving aid from the large international NGO's and their affiliates that operate in Burma. Reports out of Burma clearly indicate that Burma's military is stealing aid, playing favourites and in general playing havoc with relief efforts. CFOB starts accepting donation from Burma supporters across Canada and will send donation to our contacts in Burma to try and ensure those on junta black lists are able survive. Those who want to donate immediately can go to CFOB website www.cfob.org, or donation link And we also urge concerned individuals, various community groups, schools and workplaces to coordinate this fund raising effort. If you have plan to do so, please contact us at 613-297-6835 or 613-237-8056 or email at cfob@cfob.org Canadian Friends of Burma -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) is federally incorporated, national non-governmental organization working for democracy and human rights in Burma since 1991. Contact: Suite 206, 145 Spruce St., Ottawa, K1R 6P1; Tel: 613.237.8056; Email: cfob@cfob.org; Web: www.cfob.org

july 5. and thanks! though i'm not sure that i'll be in any shape to drive out to your place after the show

will you be seeing WSP? i dunno if you like them. otherwise maybe i'll stop in for a visit before the show

Patience runs out on the junkie The dark side hires another soul Did he steal his fate or earn it Was he force-fed, did he learn it Whatever happened to his precious self control Like him I'm tired of trying to heal This tom-cat heart with which I'm blessed Is destruction loving's twin Must I choose to lose or win Maybe when my turn comes I will have guessed These are the horns of the dilemma What truth is proof against all lies When sacred fails before profane The wisest man is deemed insane Even the purest of romantics compromise What fixation feeds this fever As the full moon pales and climbs Am I living truth or rank deceiver Am I the victim or the crime Am I the victim or the crime Am I the victim or the crime Or the crime And so I wrestle with the angel To see who'll reap the seeds I sow Am I the driver or the driven Will I be damned to be forgiven Is there anybody here but me who needs to know What it is to face this fever As the full moon pales and climbs Am I living truth or rank deceiver Am I the victim or the crime Am I the victim or the crime Am I the victim or the crime Or the crime

i'm having trouble seeing the flooding that way. the clouds are not helping me. still feeling just sick over this :(

never heard of this band so i didn't open this thread until now. sorry folks...i have a friends first thing which i could use for tickets if people need them. it seems like too late for this one, but you can keep it in mind for future use!

i've never wanted a tattoo. (why mess with perfection haha) the chenrezig sounds pretty neat though, i'd like to see that.

aww...that's sweet of you SP

good luck!

no, it's a series of lectures/talks. you know, for people who read books and stuff. i guess people were not supporting the music, but i could be wrong...i just know i never went to any tulip shows.

wow...i thought i had read in the newspaper that the readings would cost 20 or 25$. at those prices i don't feel so bad missing out. there are some really great speakers/authors this year.

i don't know my wines too well but i love sangria, and i have a few recipes for it i could share if you want! mmmm sangria. i think i'll be making that a bunch this summer!

one headline today was that the US is blaming them for not warning anybody. the govt over there is definitely hard to deal with though...nothing new there. i wish i could help somehow...i have time to go there but no funds. collecting goods to send maybe? any ideas anyone?

the US is blaming the myanmar government of course...as hypocritical as that is. this is really sad all around. there is so little infrastructure there that it's gonna be hard to even help people. By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government raised its death toll from Cyclone Nargis on Tuesday to nearly 22,500 with a further 41,000 missing, nearly all of them from a massive storm surge that swept into the Irrawaddy delta. The United Nations' World Food Program began doling out emergency rice in Yangon and the first batch of more than $10 million worth of foreign aid arrived from Thailand on Tuesday, but a lack of specialized equipment slowed distribution. Despite the magnitude of the disaster -- the most devastating cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people died in Bangladesh -- France said the ruling generals were still placing too many conditions on aid. "The United Nations is asking the Burmese government to open its doors. The Burmese government replies: 'Give us money, we'll distribute it'. We can't accept that," Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told parliament. Of the dead, only 671 were in the former capital, Yangon, and its outlying districts, state radio said. The rest were all in the vast swamplands of the delta. "More deaths were caused by the tidal wave than the storm itself," Minister for Relief and Resettlement Maung Maung Swe told a news conference in the rubble-strewn city of five million, where food and water supplies are running low. "The wave was up to 12 feet high and it swept away and inundated half the houses in low-lying villages," he said, giving the first detailed description of the weekend cyclone. "They did not have anywhere to flee." As many as 10,000 people died in one coastal town alone. Information Minister Kyaw Hsan said the military were "doing their best," but analysts said there could be fallout for the former Burma's rulers, who pride themselves on their ability to cope with any challenge. "The myth they have projected about being well-prepared has been totally blown away," said analyst Aung Naing Oo, who fled to Thailand after a brutally crushed 1988 uprising. "This could have a tremendous political impact in the long term." U.S. President George W. Bush urged the regime to accept U.S. disaster experts who have so far have been kept out, and said the United States stood ready to "do a lot more" to help. "The military junta must allow our disaster assessment teams into the country," Bush told reporters, adding he was prepared to make U.S. naval assets available for search and rescue. SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND HOMELESS Reflecting the scale of the crisis, the junta said it would postpone to May 24 a constitutional referendum in the worst-hit areas of Yangon and the sprawling delta. However, state TV said the May 10 vote on the charter, part of the army's much-criticized "roadmap to democracy," would proceed as planned in the rest of the southeast Asian nation, which has been under army rule for the last 46 years. Its political plans have been slammed by Western governments, especially after the bloody suppression of protests in September. The total left homeless by the 190 km (120 miles) per hour winds and storm surge is in the several hundred thousands, United Nations aid officials say. The Information Minister said the government had sufficient stocks of rice despite damage to grain stored in the huge delta, known as the "rice bowl of Asia" 50 years ago when Burma was the world's largest exporter. But in the delta, even villages that managed to withstand the worst of the winds are running out of food and water. "There's not much food," one woman at a pineapple stall in Hlaing Tha Yar, an hour's drive west of Yangon, told Reuters. "The price of a cabbage is now 1,000 kyats instead of 250." In Yangon itself, people queued up for bottled water and there was still no electricity four days after the cyclone hit. Prices of food, fuel and construction materials have skyrocketed, and most shops have sold out of candles and batteries. An egg costs three times what it did on Friday. "MASSIVE, TERRIBLE" The disaster drew a rare acceptance of a trickle of outside help from the diplomatically isolated generals, who spurned such approaches in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Thailand flew in nine tonnes of food and medicine, the first foreign aid shipment, but a Reuters cameraman on the plane said supplies were unloaded by hand as no forklift trucks were available -- a worrying sign of the army's lack of vital kit. Two Indian transport planes are due to fly in early on Wednesday and more are on standby, New Delhi said. State media have made much of the army's response, showing footage of soldiers manhandling tree trunks or top generals climbing into helicopters or greeting homeless storm victims in Buddhist temples. Aid agency World Vision in Australia said it had been granted special visas to send in personnel to back up 600 staff in the impoverished Southeast Asian country. "This is massive. It is not necessarily quite tsunami level, but in terms of impact of millions displaced, thousands dead, it is just terrible," World Vision Australia head Tim Costello said. (Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Darren Schuettler and Sanjeev Miglani)

i like the peanut butter kit kat

this looks really cool

13, then 17

*sniff*

havinbeers

bit odd that the pre-sale is listed as 5/14-16 while the public on-sale is 5/9. anyway... if any toronto peeps are pickin up tix locally to save on fees, would someone grab one for me? i can paypal ya beforehand (or after). i thought it might also be good for my ticket to be hanging out in toronto in the event that i can't make it down for some reason or other...then someone else could use it.