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

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*).

dustup at jails & fires

Calgary Prison Guards Rally At Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Constituency Office on Sat/September 15, 2012 -- "Mallette says the union has been trying repeatedly to meet with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but hasn't had any success." (After various protests at Harper's office, like Prorogue and Idle No More, no more of that youse... and Shoppers Only.) Calgary prison guards corrections officers protest at Solicitor General Jonathan Denis' office in Fri/ February 01*.

Grass fire - Calgary, Alberta

Edmonton officers are now on a wildcat strike with lockdown and riot police after the suspension of 2 union executives who on Fri/ April 26 relayed 'health & safety concerns' to management.

Fish Creek Park, dry & windy on Fri/April 26

*Russian student kicked into coma/ permanent brain damage by other inmates, Calgary Remand Centre.

Full moon: Thurs, April 25, 2013 1:58 PM

UPDATE: Associate Chief smartAssinine Justice John Rooke about the $100,000+ fines for province-wide strikers: "Banks are open tomorrow, last I checked." (Monday, Apr 29)

Amnesty ends strike.  Strike ends. Redford confirms pledge but

hapner: lawheed's tru patriot act

welp. on the plus side peter lougheed walked away from karlheinz. hey, look, it's peter kent. sure was a lot of talk about the big conservative family.

peter lougheed (1928-2012)

besides stampedin', hapner rode in for frank glenfield's funeral last year. {hapner "entered the University of Calgary, which is right . . . of the Ayatollah Khomeini, as you probably know, and he became very much under that influence."}

in my mynde, 'patriot' is an american word. here's lougheed at the banff springs hotel as co-chair:

On September 12 to 14, 2006, business and government representatives from the three North American countries met in secret, with no media coverage, at the Banff Springs Hotel and convened the North American Forum. Judicial Watch, a U.S. public watchdog group got declassified government documents through a Freedom of Information Act request and made the documents available on their website. These documents reveal the discussions and membership in the secret meetings. The Canadian co-chair of the meeting was former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, and Canadian participants included Day, D’Aquino (also a member of the NACC), all NACC corporate representatives, and John Manley. In the released documents, under the forum discussion on “Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity,” chaired by John Manley, a startling quote was revealed: “While a vision is appealing, working on the infrastructure might yield more benefit and bring more people on board (‘evolution by stealth’).” What exactly are they evolving by stealth? Oh right, our country. source

so, yeah, a true patriot act. next question: there was such a backlash about state-owned petro canada, yet selling nexen [china national offshore cnooc's $15b (cash) organ trafficking money laundering deal], and alderon stuff is okay, and bombardier private jet sales are booming, so is huawei telecomm. hapner still hates cuba: it's communist! funny how the days go. gotta wonder, whatever was going on with danny williams and the impoverished national hockey league (strike!).

as the afghanistan mission closes, the first 4 soldiers killed in 2002 by U.S. pilots (Tarnak Farm incident: eight seriously wounded) and the last 2 by suicide. that is that.

open letter to rob anders, mp

hiya! I support the CBC. I think it is a National Treasure! Oh, except for its nauseating, endless coverage of the royals last summer. Oh, and its nauseating, endless coverage of another invasion (Libya), yeah yeah Qaddafi had too much, knew too much. Still.

CBC Record Library Toronto, circa 1960.

I see 185 people responded to your poll. The CBC was funded over $1 billion by the Government of Canada last year alone. Should the CBC remain publicly funded? And 79% (143 people) said it should be de-funded. Alberta Outdoorsmen don't like it either. The LP, CD archives are being sold, so it must be in the air.

Too bad, your vote on Nelson Mandela, 2001. Oh well, what can ya do. You should set up a White History Month, since it matters so much, in Julys. It would (sorta) coincide with London 2012, Dominion Day War1812Stuff 2012, Stampede 2012. Talk it over with the elks, orange order, shriners, we're-#1christian guys and gals, the legion. It may help tone down the white priders, with the boots, like the folks who set the Filipino man on fire.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan
stands in the House of Commons but
Calgary-West MP Rob Anders appears to
be falling asleep during question period
last week. source

I noticed Donna Kennedy-Glans, y'know when the 23 of 30 member executive resigned a while ago, she just won the PC nomination in Calgary-Varsity. Okay, are you a pastor? I saw a video online: you at a Remembrance Day ceremony. I don't think John McCrae ever mentioned the Jesus thing and red poppies signifying the promise of resurrection, but yours is an interesting interpretation.

I think the poem is just about ordinary dead guys and poppies that blow, on fields of crosses.

knut, siku, human zoos & sculptures

Knut, 2007

Siku, 2011

Knut proponents are riled up about Siku at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park, Denmark. Siku is cute, but it's not Knut. ('The new knut' whose mother had not enough milk is not really an orphan.) Knut fans are mustering a memorial tribute with voting until January 8, 2012 on 42 entries: Pick a knut memorial sculpture. Be prepared, some of the submissions are underwhelming.

Footballer turned curator.  Lilian Thuram's 'Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage' --- "traces the history behind circuses, stage shows and 'zoos' in which people were the exhibits, dating it back to 1492 when Christopher Columbus displayed six 'Indians' at the Spanish royal court" (Daily Mail article). The exhibition is at Paris' Quai Branly, France, from Tuesday 29th November to Sunday 3th June 2012.
See more, including a video and the museum's website. Following his retirement in 2008, he established the Lilian Thurman Foundation.

In politics, Thuram made headlines during the 2007 French elections by calling out the institutionalized racism of Nicolas Sarkozy. (Article: France World Cup player Lilian Thuram now fights racism, November 11, 2009.)

Speaking of, there was a nazi encounter with swastikas and death threats on Christmas Eve for a biracial couple in Newmarket, Ontario. The man, from Nigeria ('nigger'), and the white woman ('whore'), are considering moving. The couple has already spent $6000 repairing damages. It isn't the first time.

An Occupy sculpture was hauled away from an encampment in Calgary, Alberta.

You can sign the Petition: Keep the “Heart of the Beast” sculpture as a permanent part of Olympic Plaza.

speculation: racist hate crime? wai ho tam

This is awful. In July 14, 2010, an old man is going for a walk, then sits at a bus stop to rest (Wai Ho Tam, 79). Some cow comes along and knocks off his baseball cap, and he goes to pick it up. She shoves him, he falls, and hits his head on the sidewalk. The old man is taken to the hospital, and later moved to a longterm care facility - due to that injury! - where he dies. RIP: March 17, 2011.

Coincidentally, it appears to have happened during Calgary Stampede, July 9-18, 2010. Police say drugs and alcohol are not a factor and they don't suspect a hate crime, either, but who would really say.

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.

HE'S NOT HERE. Grand Old Panada (GOP). God Bless Panada (GB, BP).

It's one thing to pick on a person for working in another country - a lot of oil people in Libya last month will probably tell you that they are Canadian - and quite another to never really be here. Stephen Harper's (the Conservative Party of Canada's or Council for National Policy's) "he didn't come back for you" jingle was one of the most despicable pieces of childlike fear bogus cr@p ads to hit the airwaves. Who cares if Ignatieff comes back, doesn't, never left, hides under your bed, says "boo!" and falls from a rafter. Um, we're adults now, Mr Harper Bogeyman. Every time I ask myself how low can ya go, it's wa-a-a-y lower, into the fetid mystic. Thanks, Conservatives! Republicans!

And what's next? I'm dying to see, abandoned to see, losing money to see, anthraxing to see, not getting knee surgery to see, beaten up by criminal punks to see, hanging around a silent killer and job axe red tape murderers to see, invaded by Tamil immigrants to see, scanned by 3-d airport scanners to see, drowning in oil to see. It's a crazy world and Stephen will set it right, a classic *big daddy* with a *big army* super-naive bluff. By the way, this kind of "stability" is a joke. This is the 4th election in 7 years!! Where's the Adscam in that! (psst. Paul Martin swallowed the poison pill, there was a Gomery Inquiry, it's over, but for the Government of Canada's contributions to Quebec industries, that's it.)

It's Faze Too of the blessed (/daɪ.əˈkrɪtɨk/) $26M Economic Caption Plan with a May2nd election, the day after Pope John Paul II becomes a new saint on May Day, an erstwhile Workers' Day, which is a good time to think about bail-outs, the economy and Alberta Health Services executive bonuses, 33 years after Pope John Paul I was allegedly whacked, and a few daze after the new royal weeding, even though the previous heir's was enough to last a wretched lifetime, how quaint.

Now, even when the Alberta Firewall and Calgary School embers are warm after 11 years, Harper yells about Quebec, again, and God help me, legitimacy - after ALL those bridges were constructed between Quebec and Alberta, politically-speaking, exactly on account of their willingness to be sovereign provinces (states, or countries, whichever). Harper espouses a problem, not new, it's the schtick, the problem, with the recent votes of non-confidence (Contempt of Parliament) including those of a separatist federal party, as if that's all the BLOC does, separate in perpetuity, not represent constituents who happen to be Canadians the last time I checked. Harper likes to raise that spectre. It's not even an issue these days, until Harper makes it one, recklessly bellowing whenever the parliamentary system works, even proroguing it or about it. But what can you say about a guy who calls his minority government both after himself and an "administration." Whatever gets you through the night. In the day, I wrote a letter to Premier Ralph Klein, so alarmed was I about the good old confederation going into the outhouse hole that I wrote an extra one beyond my MLA to the big cheese. And here we are.

An interesting read might be Wyoming Republicans. Warren A. Morton ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wyoming and had some business dealings with Dick Cheney, U.S. Congressman for Wyoming (January 3, 1979 – March 20, 1989). Ted Morton, his son, is running for premier of Alberta. Ted Morton, Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan, Rainer Knopff, Andrew Crooks and Ken Boessenkool signed the Alberta separatist (firewall) letter.

Wyoming Republicans: Craig L. Thomas, Dick Cheney, Clifford Hansen, Mike Enzi, ... Richard Honaker, John W. Meldrum, Warren A. Morton, Cynthia Lummis, ...

Oh, that (other) silly U. of C. perfesser Barry Cooper, his Friends of Science and The Bohemian Club.