Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Perhaps
this would be a good time for another tabu search. Start from a place
that contains lots of links. You are only allowed to go to sites that
you have never seen before. Scan the front page and see if you can find
anything good there, and if the site looks good, read more. Follow
links recursively with this policy depending on how interesting they
look. Today's starting site shall be "Relapsed Catholic".
The links features in this site seem to be predominantly Canadian
conservative sites, which is a nice change in this world of predominant
Americanism. So let's take a look of what these sites have to offer,
and also see if we can detect internal ideological rifts analogous to
those of American conservatives.
First, "Colbert Report" (though not the famous one) notes in his post "New Ad Campaign to Reduce Begging in Calgary" a campaign against panhandling. Indeed, giving money to panhandlers should be forbidden in cities the same way that feeding rats and pigeons is forbidden, and for the exact same reason.
Back in the day when I started blogging in Finnish, one lefty named me and some other ideological compatriots "Trio Erektus", a name taken from a sketch of old Finnish variety comedy show. For some reason, the name immediately stuck and we actually started using it ourselves, and the name eventually came to mean a general pro-reality, anti-leftist worldview that our blogs had in common. It remains to be seen whether the same will happen with "101st Fighting Keyboadists: The Many, The Proud".
The silliest thing about conservatives and libertarians in general must be the way they work as tobacco apologists deep in the pockets of the tobacco industry, having been sold the truly Orwellian idea that being a slave of nicotine is some kind of ultimate freedom. Smokers are especially hilarious whenever they call anti-smokers "zealots" and "fanatics", since if you want to see a zealot or fanatic, just prevent a smoker for getting his fix for a day and watch him collapse into a pitiful mess. And let's just say that after the war on drugs, it's pretty late in the game to start arguing that the government cannot tell you what substances you can inhale into your body. For these reasons, I'm happy to read "For all you smokers out there..." at "The Conservative Hipster". Come on, it's best to leave reeking like shit and looking like ugly trash for the leftists!
"The Surly Beaver" says "Hard Rock Hallelujah!!!!!", a sentiment easy to join these days. I think that I have seen these guys in some old episode of Buffy, but the song is quite a catchy earworm for a metal song. Somebody could perhaps cover it as a lighter "adult rock" version more suitable for the boomers.
"One More Middle Aged Guy" explains in the post "Protecting Copyright AND Consumers" what the record industry needs to do not to go the way of horse buggy manufacturers.
Even though we live in a condo highrise, there are now two new barbeque grills installed next to the tennis courts, burning propane gas so that Hank Hill would approve. We tried them for the first time last weekend and will probably keep doing so during the summer. Between the cookouts, we can try reading "The Meatriarchy".
"Elitism" is the simple but controversial idea that some things are inherently better than some other things, which is why I noted the brand new blog "The Conservative Elitist". The post "A Plan to make Toronto Fiscally Sound" makes a few suggestions to turn the city's finances around, including merging Mississauga and other wealthy suburbs to the city proper. This particular 905'er says "thanks but no thanks", since I think that it's better for us to remain independent in our financially responsible and debt-free comfortable suburbs. Other suggestions of the post sound good, though, especially making being homeless to be illegal. Vagrancy laws should definitely make a comeback. It's funny how you never see homeless panhandlers here in Mississauga, even though they are ubiquitous in Toronto. Wonder why?
I have recently noticed in TTC subway cars new informational posters that remind the riders that assaulting a TTC employer, including spitting on him, is a crime. The post "Ride The Rocket" at "Dissonance and Disrespect" is otherwise spot-on, even though I have to wonder the sentence "Travelling the TTC becomes less appealling with each passing day. Anyone who rides the subway cattle cars to work and back can tell you why; it's standing room only [...]" I guess that it's like they say about some restaurants and clubs: nobody goes there any more, since they are too crowded.
The title of the news article "Transsexuals can choose male or female officer for strip search: tribunal" pretty much says it all. Since gay men and their real-world behaviour and attitudes are so often a disappointment to leftists, plus that they obviously believe that there are two separate sexes that have some really important differences between them, transsexuals make a much better victim group for leftists to idolize.
I find it curious that leftists constantly mock evangelical Christians for not believing in evolution, but then remain silent about various minorities who have an equally strong disbelief and opposition towards Darwin and evolution. See, for example, the news article "Not teaching evolution a matter of respect: school board". Now, what do you think would have happened if these events had taken place in, say, Kansas? But since they didn't, something tells me that we will not be seeing a made-for-TV movie that depicts these people as ignorant hicks any time soon. Even so, when I read the post "Creation Quebec?" at "The Political Terrorist", I wasn't surprised that the blog description says "I'm 16 years old and have been involved in politics for 3 years, I'm Homeschooled, and go to a Pentacostal Church ..."
The very moment I read the posts "What Grinds My Gears, Post I" and "What Grinds My Gears, Post II" at "Vek's Blog", I knew that the author is my soulmate. I have earlier complained about people who don't flush the toilet behind them, and have also been meaning to write about my observations about the curious bus phenomenon for a while now. In a busy city bus that has only standing room remaining, often only the front half of the bus has people standing like sardines while the back half contains only sitting people and plenty of standing room left. Even when the front half fills up so that new people can't even come in, people still won't move to the back. There must be some curious social rule going on here that prevents people from telling the people blocking them to move on!
So I don't wonder why they made the decision to widen the narrow passenger platforms at the Union subway station: I could easily imagine a situation where all people are dangerously packed to a small area of the platform, even though there is plenty of room elsewhere. I also remember a comical situation few years ago when Catholics had their "World Youth Day" in Toronto so that about half million teens gathered to the city and filled all public transit. One night I was sitting at the back of a long joint bus, and watched the teens pour in, filling the bus in the front. One fat teen who vaguely seemed kind of borderline retarded decided to stop in the middle to talk with his buddy who was sitting, thus creating a human plug that prevented his fellow teens from coming to the back of the bus that was virtually empty. So all these people had to stand packed in the front of the bus while the fatty happily yammered with his buddy, totally oblivious of what was going on around him. For some reason, nobody could tell him to move on.
First, "Colbert Report" (though not the famous one) notes in his post "New Ad Campaign to Reduce Begging in Calgary" a campaign against panhandling. Indeed, giving money to panhandlers should be forbidden in cities the same way that feeding rats and pigeons is forbidden, and for the exact same reason.
Back in the day when I started blogging in Finnish, one lefty named me and some other ideological compatriots "Trio Erektus", a name taken from a sketch of old Finnish variety comedy show. For some reason, the name immediately stuck and we actually started using it ourselves, and the name eventually came to mean a general pro-reality, anti-leftist worldview that our blogs had in common. It remains to be seen whether the same will happen with "101st Fighting Keyboadists: The Many, The Proud".
The silliest thing about conservatives and libertarians in general must be the way they work as tobacco apologists deep in the pockets of the tobacco industry, having been sold the truly Orwellian idea that being a slave of nicotine is some kind of ultimate freedom. Smokers are especially hilarious whenever they call anti-smokers "zealots" and "fanatics", since if you want to see a zealot or fanatic, just prevent a smoker for getting his fix for a day and watch him collapse into a pitiful mess. And let's just say that after the war on drugs, it's pretty late in the game to start arguing that the government cannot tell you what substances you can inhale into your body. For these reasons, I'm happy to read "For all you smokers out there..." at "The Conservative Hipster". Come on, it's best to leave reeking like shit and looking like ugly trash for the leftists!
"The Surly Beaver" says "Hard Rock Hallelujah!!!!!", a sentiment easy to join these days. I think that I have seen these guys in some old episode of Buffy, but the song is quite a catchy earworm for a metal song. Somebody could perhaps cover it as a lighter "adult rock" version more suitable for the boomers.
"One More Middle Aged Guy" explains in the post "Protecting Copyright AND Consumers" what the record industry needs to do not to go the way of horse buggy manufacturers.
Even though we live in a condo highrise, there are now two new barbeque grills installed next to the tennis courts, burning propane gas so that Hank Hill would approve. We tried them for the first time last weekend and will probably keep doing so during the summer. Between the cookouts, we can try reading "The Meatriarchy".
"Elitism" is the simple but controversial idea that some things are inherently better than some other things, which is why I noted the brand new blog "The Conservative Elitist". The post "A Plan to make Toronto Fiscally Sound" makes a few suggestions to turn the city's finances around, including merging Mississauga and other wealthy suburbs to the city proper. This particular 905'er says "thanks but no thanks", since I think that it's better for us to remain independent in our financially responsible and debt-free comfortable suburbs. Other suggestions of the post sound good, though, especially making being homeless to be illegal. Vagrancy laws should definitely make a comeback. It's funny how you never see homeless panhandlers here in Mississauga, even though they are ubiquitous in Toronto. Wonder why?
I have recently noticed in TTC subway cars new informational posters that remind the riders that assaulting a TTC employer, including spitting on him, is a crime. The post "Ride The Rocket" at "Dissonance and Disrespect" is otherwise spot-on, even though I have to wonder the sentence "Travelling the TTC becomes less appealling with each passing day. Anyone who rides the subway cattle cars to work and back can tell you why; it's standing room only [...]" I guess that it's like they say about some restaurants and clubs: nobody goes there any more, since they are too crowded.
The title of the news article "Transsexuals can choose male or female officer for strip search: tribunal" pretty much says it all. Since gay men and their real-world behaviour and attitudes are so often a disappointment to leftists, plus that they obviously believe that there are two separate sexes that have some really important differences between them, transsexuals make a much better victim group for leftists to idolize.
I find it curious that leftists constantly mock evangelical Christians for not believing in evolution, but then remain silent about various minorities who have an equally strong disbelief and opposition towards Darwin and evolution. See, for example, the news article "Not teaching evolution a matter of respect: school board". Now, what do you think would have happened if these events had taken place in, say, Kansas? But since they didn't, something tells me that we will not be seeing a made-for-TV movie that depicts these people as ignorant hicks any time soon. Even so, when I read the post "Creation Quebec?" at "The Political Terrorist", I wasn't surprised that the blog description says "I'm 16 years old and have been involved in politics for 3 years, I'm Homeschooled, and go to a Pentacostal Church ..."
The very moment I read the posts "What Grinds My Gears, Post I" and "What Grinds My Gears, Post II" at "Vek's Blog", I knew that the author is my soulmate. I have earlier complained about people who don't flush the toilet behind them, and have also been meaning to write about my observations about the curious bus phenomenon for a while now. In a busy city bus that has only standing room remaining, often only the front half of the bus has people standing like sardines while the back half contains only sitting people and plenty of standing room left. Even when the front half fills up so that new people can't even come in, people still won't move to the back. There must be some curious social rule going on here that prevents people from telling the people blocking them to move on!
So I don't wonder why they made the decision to widen the narrow passenger platforms at the Union subway station: I could easily imagine a situation where all people are dangerously packed to a small area of the platform, even though there is plenty of room elsewhere. I also remember a comical situation few years ago when Catholics had their "World Youth Day" in Toronto so that about half million teens gathered to the city and filled all public transit. One night I was sitting at the back of a long joint bus, and watched the teens pour in, filling the bus in the front. One fat teen who vaguely seemed kind of borderline retarded decided to stop in the middle to talk with his buddy who was sitting, thus creating a human plug that prevented his fellow teens from coming to the back of the bus that was virtually empty. So all these people had to stand packed in the front of the bus while the fatty happily yammered with his buddy, totally oblivious of what was going on around him. For some reason, nobody could tell him to move on.
Ilkka's turf.
Downloading PI illegal?
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