stand your ground

Guns, beer, romance, beer, family,
farm, whiskey, marriage and babies

George Canyon wants to be a Member of Parliament for the new federal riding of Bow River, southern Alberta. His campaign song: Stand Your Ground. So it's Florida or RCMP gun confiscation all over again. The canyon (b. Fred Lays) is from Nova Scotia.

In other news, the godfather is suing darth vader for $6 million. The federal government last year pledged $2.8 billion for flood relief, suppose some of it will be a transfer to the Defence Dept. for CF disaster relief costs.

'WESTERN HOSPITALITY'

"Supporting provincial and municipal governments during natural disasters in Canada has long been considered one of military’s most important missions." Not any more, suckas!


CBC's Kady O'Malley's funny pics!
Conservative Party policy convention,
November 2013

spybots & fire sales

The Canadian government is selling embassies, e.g., Paris 35/37 avenue Montaigne, 5 rue de Constantine (UNESCO). It sold One Grosvenor Square last month, where John Baird vacationed with six friends Christmas 2012.

Macdonald House

These do not include Canadian embassies that now are shared with UK embassies or the Buffalo N.Y. consulate that first was renovated ($1.5m) and had a 10-year lease.

In other news, Canada set up spy posts for the National Security Agency/ Central Security Service (NSA/CSS), the 'main producer and manager of signals intelligence (SIGINT)' for the United States of America; PM Harper allowed Six Eyes foreignersNSA to spy at a billion dollar G20 summit in Toronto, 2010. And what about that Muskoka and infrastructure fund to reduce border congestion.

In other fire sale news: selling a Crown corporation (AECL) for $12.3 million to SNC-Lavalin, without a value-for-money audit.

there he is! poet lariat

Wikipedia: Noah (orant)

Jet stream gets stuck. The weather system came over the mountains from the Pacific. As it spun and stalled over the foothills, it pulled in moisture from Saskatchewan, the United States and the Gulf of Mexico.

As Parliamentary Poet, Fred Wah had one assignment: Diamond Jubilee. Souds easy nufh, and they're hiring! Queen's a queen for sixty, ain't that nifty. [£900,000]

Nomination deadline: Position of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, 2014-2016. Deadline to submit nominations: Wednesday 3 July 2013.

Wah says he would like more work. According to the National Post, he has a "list of what would have been more worthy topics for Canada’s national poet to tackle, apparently taking aim at the Conservative government’s immigration reforms, its legislative agenda on aboriginal issues, its strong backing for Israel on questions of peace and security in the Middle East, and its openness to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline."

According to Wah: “I wish that my government had asked me to write poetry about immigration policy, about Idle No More, about Canada’s complicity in the Middle East, the Enbridge pipeline... I haven’t been asked to do any of those things.” ("A Poet Without Poems," National Post)

The position of poet lariat was vacant from April to Dec 2011. Wah is a former teacher at Selkirk College, David Thompson University Centre and the University of Calgary.

Ideas for Parliamentary Committee, PBO, PMO, or Whoever Is In Charge of Poet Laureate's Assignments. Big, big floods. Floods of the century. Unprecedented, catastrophic, floods. (many rivers! creeks! :: Bow R. 1902, 1915, 1932 :: Elbow R. 1915, 1923, 1929, 1932, 2005 :: God willing and the creek/s don't rise. property values, hazard zones. realtors, developers.) Senate? Elections Canada. Wright-wing nuts? White-ring nuts? Stampedes for Winnipeg KISS key tickets... and Cheney Dixie Chicks doctrine? MacKenzie Northern Railway, CPR, Mary River Railroad, Baffinland. CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corp). Permafrost. Alberta Saudi Bushes. Snubbery: Marc Garneau. Brad Wall, potash, uranium. Big Brother/PRISM & NSA premiering on Global TV? Season 15, of digitizing and modernizing. There's that. Word Nation in April 21-28. Edmonton 2013.

In other news, Nestlé applies for patent, a fennel flower extract, and its {Bilderberger} CEO, Peter Brabick, says water should be privatized, Avenue Nestlé. Transport Canada deletes environment from Transport Canada website (Navigable Waters Protection Act)(Oct/12), even though parts of a CP train loaded with hazmat just may fall in a river and force the evacuation of a surrounding neighborhood and an already-under-repair waste water treatment plant and, in a large city that's in a local state of emergency. You kin delete environment butt it'll delete you, that's Leviticus, more than shellfish. A 1996 damage estimate for a *1/100 Year* Calgary flood is $131 million (actual: ~$500 million). TM writers argue moral rights clauses. Back-Door Tar Sands Scheme Blocked by Maine Community. A Victoria historic site is scheduled for um, deletion. "In order to serve tourists better," Cavendish home was closed on Sunday, Monday, in June, and no one told tourists. Austerity, a small arithmetic mistake. Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), Dr. Arthur Porter's Panamanian lawyer was a Noriega middleman. Heritage Minister James Moore develops a premium access plan [from the Ottawa Citizen. Report: “Library and Archives Canada Private Deal Would Take Millions of Documents Out of Public Domain”] for a publicly-funded Library and Archives Canada. CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) quiety announces changes to "local food" labelling (50km to *1,500km*).

great pyramid at/of giza - power station #1

That's interesting: it's a power station. (Also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops (Gr.)/ Kheops, Khufu's Great Pyramid.)

The stars were used as a surveying tool. Watch the video series called: How the Great Pyramid Was Built. The Pharaoh's Pump Foundation

flood stories: so, anyway

After that terrible, absurd summer - graduations, finals, work as displaced persons - we moved, again, to another neighborhood, and worked to get our bearings with schools, bus routes, the fostered pets back, furniture, groceries, paid off the extra bills and the rest of it like fucking real estate prices and high rent and the landlord on rent-to-own that wasn't. Life started to feel a bit like camping. After a summer of endless laundry and sorting, salvage, some things I just put away, and have been going through recently.

Next thing you know, about the one year anniversary of our big change, there's shocking city news, family murder-suicide, several blocks away! Well, big fucking brouhaha welcome, let me say, fucking dead fucking kids and mom and tenant journalism student or gory whatever and I'd NEVER be cozily buried beside an SOB who murdered my kids but people are weird and that wasn't a very nice omen, which was followed by shocking national news of a strange decapitation on a Greyhound bus, and it all makes one wonder, is all I can say, what with the mysterious hum.

I would have moved sooner, as rent prices started to fall a bit, but at some point there was some stability to factor in, on account of the schools and kids' friends etc. And look, was that Mike Harris on the Enmax Board of Directors re those ridiculous bills at those all of homes, temporary and otherwise, that summer?

On June 8, 1995 Mike Harris became the twenty-second Premier of Ontario following a landslide election victory. In 1999, he was re-elected — making him the first Ontario Premier in over 30 years to form a second consecutive majority government. source

Oh never mind, there was a shake up there already. Yeah, so the old property flooded again. That makes twice in four years, a river through the front door. The new house flooded, too, just in the basement, several times and 2x over Christmas break in 2009, due to what appeared to be periodic root/sewer problems or somethiing, so we threw things out again, decided to move, just as soon as I recovered from a goddamned nervous water housing breakdown.

That was that. None of us is the same.

a wortzel about chuckles and paramilitary parapoops

"The last First World War combatant, who has died aged 110, was staunchly anti-war and snubbed remembrance day despite a 41-year navy career that began when he was just 14. He refused to mark Armistice Day or join other veterans' events like Australia's annual ANZAC Day commemorations." (Claude Chuckles Choules, d. 5 May 2011)

In Canada, the last WWI vet didn't want fanfare, so the government gave it to him. In Calgary, the Calatrava Bridge controversy with overruns and improper approvals nearly bent itself sideways into The Bow - with the other real estate scandal (or another or other or other) - to become the pricey Piece Bridge to honour soldiers, so everyone just forgot about the issues, and the fact there are 2 other foot bridges, not far away, and it appears this one is for the high-end condos?

Memorial drive flags, the foliage hides 'lest we.' And that's not even half of it: the Centre Street Bridge rebuilt upper lion lower deck's vibrations in a jumpy, jumpy late 2008 and the satellite crashes with an (almost) in February '09 on Friday 13th. There were big dreams about it, a city on a big terrible fire, followed by a prorogue or 2 or three, and now there is public transit on the vista.

Initially, the information indicated the space debris was headed for Calgary, but a short time later that was revised to an area 110 kilometres east of the city. read more

A post-blast Аэрофлот space junk.