Soon, if our beloved conservative crackpot government has anything to say about it, immigrants will join the millitary. *Without* Canadian citizenship. Great… so now, rather than calling tech support and getting some guy who doesn’t understand more than every fourth word you say you get millitary personnel who have about the same level of understanding. I’ve got no problem with immigrants, really. But for the love of all that is sane if you’re gonna defend the country, or at least try, bloody well have something to gain for it other than, you know, it’s a convenient place to work.
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One more job taken out of the hands of Canadians.
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V for Vendetta…
Awesome, awesome, awesome movie. I wish I came across it sooner… yay for awesome chicks with wicked tempers (you know who you are) finding it so I don’t have to. Admitedly I was skeptical, so while it was downloading (yeah, like I’d buy it if I haven’t seen it) I decided to do a little research. The plotline, or what was revealed of it, interested me… so I spent this morning, until about now, watching it. Again, awesome, awesome, awesome movie. If you’ve not seen it, what *were* you thinking? If you’ve seen it, what *were* you thinking not telling me? E-vil! Now I have to think back through it and try to find me some decent quotes to stick up here. Or maybe I’ll watch it again later and just take notes. That… might be easier. It was worth the 3 hours of downloading time… fuck, the movie’s damn near that long! And now, we’re talking morning plans, so I guess that’s hintage for me to shuffle my lazy ass into some starting the day kinda routine. But I dun wanna.
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The slave labour dog sitter is on strike.
My brother and his girlfriend (for the record, he ended up not going with the new one… idiot) are currently sleeping downstairs. Have been since I got up at like 6. Which means, for the past 3-4 hours, I was taking care of their dog, plus my two. Fortunately for my sanity mom was home for most of it, so we managed to divide the task pretty evenly between us. But, of course, much like the evil that it is, work demanded she actually go in, which meant I had to somehow manage to keep 2 dogs in the house while the one dog that isn’t mine gets taken outside. Not an easy thing to do when you don’t know exactly where they are and you have to be quick because one likes to take a flying leap. That would be a literal expression if he didn’t weigh a ton. So, I finally manage to improvize my way through that, to find out he doesn’t much care for the rain. Of course, I didn’t know about *that* until my second attempt. So, while I thought he did his thing the first time, turns out I was dead wrong.. he decided to come in here and do it. Lucky for me and my brother I caught him, and we took another little walk… this is when I discovered he doesn’t much care for the rain. In fact, he downright despises it. Well, after wrestling with that for 10 minutes and getting soaked, while still not entirely sure he actually *did* anything, I finally got fed up with it and marched him right the hell downstairs. They bought that damn dog, they can mind that damn dog. If they don’t choose to, all they need do is say so and I’ll find that damn dog someone who will. He’s cute, and I don’t *usually* mind watching him, but this morning was absolutely rediculous. Rediculous in the sense that I’m up at 6 taking care of *their* dog while the two of them get to sleep in until one of them has to take a piss. Nuh uh. Welcome to the life of a dog owner. Your dog has just become your responsibility. I’m on strike.
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I smell a new participant.
I could write an entire essay here on exactly why Iran testing surface-to-surface missiles is bad, and not just in the bad as in they’ll get yet more criticism from the US–and me, but that’s mostly because they’re whackjobs–but I’ve probably covered most of those points already here so that would just be all kinds of redundant. Instead, I’ll just leave it at this. If Israel was concerned about Iran backing the opposing side of the problem in Lebanon before, this on the heels of the month-long war, and on the heels of Israel’s having violated the ceasefire agreement, now they’re more than likely just downright pissed off. Of course, who wouldn’t be in their place? I mean, after all the hard work Israel went through just to agree to that ceasefire in the first place. Oh, wait, hard work? Where? Well, okay, so it wasn’t completely unexpected… right? I mean, it’s not like there were any kinda warning signs or anything. Oh, yeah, that’s right. There were. Hm. I’ve plum run out of explanations. Who needs an essay on why missiles are bad? I’ve got the makings of another one going on right here. And it only took me 5 days. Too bad I’m not in school where this crap would actually count.
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A quote I can so agree with.
It’s your church. It’s your god. It’s your rules. *You* go to hell.
I wish I’d found that quote in highschool. In fact, I think I said something similar in highschool. Or wanted to. Story for another entry… I should really create an amusement category. Later.
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Good colesteral, bad colesteral,, good fat, bad fat, good bacteria, bad bacteria?
Could happen. And in the case of the US, did happen. Well, it beats medication, I guess. Not sure what I think of the consumers not being made aware of it, what with all the concerns with alergies and the such, but I guess you just don’t know ’til you try. At least it isn’t seafood, anyway. You know I have way too much time on my hands when I stumble across this.
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Show me de mo-ney!
Exactly what a Montreal guy wants a newspaper to do after it misprinted the winning numbers. Understandable, I’d think. I mean, if I thought I won I’d certainly be out for blood. I don’t know that it’s worth being taken to court over though, I mean whatever he gets out of this would probably just end up being sucked into legal fees, but hey, all the man wants is a little $$$. So do I. I should sue his newspaper too!
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Short and sweet, not unlike an election promise.
And, not unlike an election promise, a week after it was made, Israel’s going and dropping folks off in Lebanon again. Did they not already agree they were pulling themselves out of the country? Granted, they had said before they’d defend themselves… okay, so that’s expected. But, uh, that wasn’t defending themselves. That was another move into Lebanon, with the intent on blowing shit up. And you just know as son as Lebanon retaliates Israel will scream violation.
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I almost feel sorry for criticising teenagers.
Only because they actually do possess a small hint of common sense. According to a survey, most teens don’t think CD copying is illegal. And they’re right, as much as the music recording industry would love to have you believe otherwise. It’s no different from the late 80’s early 90’s when the popular solution was to copy a tape for a friend, or even just so you’ve got a copy at home and a copy in the car, or whatever. We got some of our Christmas tapes that way–copied off tapes or CD’s owned by relatives. As long as there is portable media, be it music, movies, whatever, there will be people copying said media. Unless the recording industry plans to show up at every single person’s front door with suppina in hand on the basis that joe shmoe copied his Greenday CD for his kid sister, there’s not a whole hell of a lot they can do about it. That they’re actually trying is almost laughable. But, I shouldn’t be surprised… I mean, I’d imagine if they could keep track of it before they’d of probably put the breaks on copying tapes, too. But, they can’t, they won’t, so let’s all move on. And speaking of moving on, I sleep now.
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Snakes and Martina…
Two things that one would think were completely unrelated. But you would be wrong. They’re here, written by me, for no other reason than because I can… so of course they’re related! … Right? *eyes you* Ahem. Anyway. I’ve seen the previews. I’ve heard a few reviews. Now, I want to see Snakes On A Plane. If anyone’s going, do not spoil it. If anyone’s going and feels like being generous, pick up a ticket for me. If anyone’s going and is out of driving/walking range, mail me a plane ticket and we’ll talk, mm’kay? Thought so. Awesome movie by the sounds of it.
And now for the unrelated part. I like a few Martina McBride songs. I hate Canadian Idol. She will be making an appearance on Canadian Idol on monday. I’m contemplating watching it… but again, I hate Canadian Idol. Decisions, decisions. Decisions I shall make Monday, assuming I’m home and in a TV-watching mood when it comes on.