Paul, It's Time to Go Home

U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci, today on news that Canada won't support ballistic missile defence.

“We simply cannot understand why Canada would in effect give up its sovereignty – its seat at the table – to decide what to do about a missile that might be coming towards Canada.”

Actually, Paul, what we're doing is asserting our sovereignty in not giving America control of what comes into our air space. It boggles my mind how you can twist that for your own selfish pruposes. Also, I defy you to point out any missiles that are pointed at Canadian cities. The fact of the matter is, we don't need your defence.

You also seem unaware of what your country is constructing. This type of missile defence has been described by Chinese and US analysts as a "sword," not a "shield." This will impel the Russians and Chinese into a renewed arms race, effectively wiping out the non-proliferation work of the last 30 years.

And if you could bring your self-righteousness under control for a minute, let's not forget the big picture. If anyone sends up a missile, it's GAME OVER for everyone, missile defence or no.

And so Paul, for continually butting into Canadian domestic policy several times during your stay here, it's time for you to go.

Let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Distressing news

I share the same birthday with Bill O'Reilly.

Bill, if you're reading this, GET THE FUCK OFF MY BIRTHDAY!

Oh, and try this George Bush quiz.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blgeorgewbushquiz2.htm

So I lost...Redux

To give you an idea of the insular clique that is the E.S.S, candidates in the election were emailed a notice to stop campaigning at 11:15 Monday morning, which also meant all of your posters had to come down by that time. It must have been over the weekend, or on Monday night that the E.S.S decided they would allow posters to stay up until even today (and probably for the rest of the week). The problem is, they never bothered to tell anyone else of this policy change. Only those with positions on the E.S.S executive knew. And yep, you guessed it, most of them were running in the election.

So I lost

I actually breathed a sigh of relief when I found out. I didn't actually want the responsibility. My main job as V.P. Internal would have been to organize grad while on my internship, and our grad is so big we apparently spend about $25,000 on it every year!

Then there's the issue of having to deal with the clique at the E.S.S. and frankly, it's not worth it.

I got a chance to get up and voice my opinion, and that was good enough for me.

It'll be interesting to see what the fallout is, if anything, of the email abuse that was happening during the campaigning by the person who won the Presidency. Some people got her email five times! In any event, it came to light that students' email addresses are wide open to anyone who wants to abuse them. The Dean and the university's students' union have been informed. I doubt much will happen though, but that's me, the cynic.

One other note on the election, in the unethical emails that were sent out by the person who is now President, she also campaigned for her friends who were running for other positions. Once I find out tomorrow who else won, I'll compare who she campaigned for, and who actually won. But I imagine they'll be the same list.

Hunter S. Thompson R.I.P.

"Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?".

-Hunter S. Thompson, 1955

I can't...talk

So I gave my speech today. I was nervous for some reason and I forgot the joke I was going to say.

So anyways, it was great. There was like a grand total of 12 people there. Yay democracy!

Saskatchewan Party likes its copyrights

I was perusing the Saskatchewan Party's (a right-wing provincial party) website, when I came across their claim their Sask Party "has the fastest growing youth association in the province".

Well hug me tightly and call me Betty! Personally, I'd like to check their facts, but what I liked most about their website is that they prevent you from right-clicking and copying text from their pages. A window pops up saying Copyright 2003 Saskatchewan Party. Exactly what are they afraid of? Their views spreading?

It's very curious.

Those Powerline doods are funny!

Powerline is at it again.

In the February 18th edition they quote someone who was at the Richard Perle (a Republican) and Howard Dean (a Democrat) debate. Evidently someone through a shoe at Perle, which evoked this reaction from Powerline:

"There is simply no plumbing the depth to which the American left has fallen."

It's meant in jest but nice one guys. We all know every single shoe-throwing kook is a member of the Democratic Party. And you have to get your laughs where you can.

The real State of the Union Address

Courtesy of blacklisted comics writer Micah Wright and Derek Iverson. Wright is also well-known for his very funny propoganda posters.

http://www.micahwright.com/downloads/SOTU2005.MP3

Click on it, or right click to save it to your hard drive

It's quite funny.

Thank you, and may God destroy the will of the Iraqi people.

Elections

Oh yeah. I'm running for Vice President Internal of the Education Students Society.

No, I don't know why.

Actually, there are a couple of things that bother me. Some of the faculty have gotten away with murder in their treatment of students, and it needs to stop. Also, if you've ever been to the Education Building's student lounge, you'd know it has the atmosphere of a funeral home. The nicest room in the building (lots of windows) and nobody wants to go in there. Mainly though, I just want it to have a big ass tv.

I'm supposed to give a speech this Monday. I have it all planned out. I'll say I was going to do an interpretive dance to express my feelings, but that I forgot my tape.

I know I'll lose to some elementary 19 year old keener who got 12 of her friends to actually come out and vote. But what the hell. You only get to do these kinds of things once.

Die Mega Man

I rented the Mega Man Collection in order to play the single most frustrating game of my life, Mega Man 2. My friends and I in grade 8 would have sleepovers and play this game for hours on end, taking turns trying to get past each boss. We could never finish the game, even though we rented it several times and put God knows how many hours into it.

Playing it again for the first time in 15 years, I am shocked at how difficult and unforgiving it still is. Maybe it's because of the difficulty setting which on this disc is set to hard (I can't remember if the original had difficulty settings but according to faqs I've read it did). Did they not know back in 1988 that they should have ben making games easier, especially since they were played by kids? Airman is the level you're supposed to start with, and it's unbelievably hard for an opening level. Anyway, I've just beat Airman and Crashman and am stuggling to beat Flashman. It's been brutal. I've never thrown my controller this much. I'm dreading the Heatman level with the horizontal lasers that come at you as you free fall. That was some difficult shit when you're 12 years old.

I wanted prove to myself that I could finally beat this irritating game. I am a capable gamer, or so I thought, and MM2 should be no problem. But I have to admit that 15 years later, it has defeated me once again. For that, I will hate you forever Mega Man. And it's a really, really true and pure hate.

Interestingly, I checked out the other versions of Mega Man on the disc (it has up to Mega Man 8) and basically 1 through 6 are the same game. Same designs and game mechanics. All that really changes are the bosses' names. Having never played past MM3, I thought the game would have evolved. It didn't. Mega Man 8 improved the difficulty settings by making it more first-timer friendly, but since one of the weapons is a soccer ball you kick at your enemies, it ain't a great game.

So, to sum up, DIE MEGA MAN DIE.

Starting Out

Well, here I am. Creating a dumb blog that no one will read. Who really cares about blogs anyway? Who has the time to read them (let alone post to them).

Let's see what this thing looks like.