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Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
BUSH WAR
I wonder how Bush's torture policy is now creating a nightmare for this person and the american military......
Saturday, July 18, 2009
WILDERNESS SWITZERLAND
A couple of kids were swept away by this quiet stream that suddenly turned into a raging monster. Two others died when their raft tipped over on another river. The waiting time at the Gothard Tunnel is 6 hours. The earliest one could leave Switzerland would be throuh Basel and there the wait is three hours.Switzerland is in the mountains. There is no easy way to leave this place. Even by air. Germany hates having Swiss planes flying over their territory. But Switzerland, up around Zurich is to small to turn a plane around. And people generally do not like Swiss. I dont get that about Europe.
Oh well.....
Friday, July 17, 2009
FRIGGING WORLD

Thursday, July 16, 2009
A HERO OF MINE
Hersh is one of my heroes. He has courage. This is what has happened lately on his beat....(from the Daily Beast)
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh raised eyebrows back in March when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that Dick Cheney ran a secret hit squad that he kept hidden from congressional oversight.
"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh said at the time. He added: "Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us."
DEATH IN THE RCMP

A cousin of mine, an RCMP officer, was killed in the line of duty. He got buried in his home town of Lac La Biche. I was born and raised in the same place. Like Lionide, I too used to be an RCMP officer. I liked being a cop and I got lucky and never got hurt badly doing a tough job. I quit one day and went off to law school. I remember the day I decided to quit. Near Christmas time but a warm night. It had rained and then the rain had frozen on the road. A lady was coming home that night from christmas shopping in Moncton. She was about 8 months pregnant. At the end of the 4 mile stretch she had an accident and was killed. I was the guy called to the scene and I could not bear it anymore although I had seen enough of these things. The toys scattered on the road did it for me I think. I decided to quit and do something else. So I quit. And did something else.
My cousin went out on some call with other members and they all died. Lionide's mother keeps on dying every day now because Lionide cannot rest in peace. His wife had him dug up so he could be buried in Regina. This is where the RCMP training center is located. It is also the place where they hung the greatest Metis leader in our history and the rope that hung Mister Riel is shown off by the RCMP at a museum that is near the graveyard where my cousin is suppose to be reburied.
He has not been reburied and in fact was cremated. And his remains are nowhere to be found. So much for honour. But at least he is far away from that dreadful place where the memory of Riel is something that is ridiculed. Like me, my cousin was a son of the Metis Nation. It is something that we are taught early this thing about duty to our nation. His mooshoom Lionide too was a good strong man and I used to know him and we would visit there so that we could listen to fiddling that this family was really good at. Lioniden was big and his grandkid was big and tough too. Lionide Senior had thick white hair and a strong face. I remember him very well. They lived by the water and I like that. I lived by the water too, on the same lake and my dad was a fisherman so I grew up with fishing and tough people.
My personal opinion is that for a metis person, that graveyard is a bad place to be. Riel was hung there and the rope used to hang him is there. The place is not a holy place for a good half breed like my cousin was. His spirit will suffer now and this is not good. And we all will suffer because an injustice was done. But then, I think Lionide would understand. We metis know of injustice. It is the milk of our kindness so I understand his wife who is moving poor Lionide around now. Love is such a cruel thing. For wives. And mothers. And nations.
THE METIS NATION
I have a bone to pick with the Metis Nation. I think it must be run by a bunch of protestants who hate the french language.Metis is a french word. My name is french. I am the first generation of my family who speaks english. Yet, I cannot apply for a metis card in French. So frig them. I will make my own card. or buy one off of one of them english speaking metis for a bottle of Brandvin Sherry.
STINKING FRIGGING SWISS WEATHER
Friday, July 10, 2009
STINKING FRIGGING DENTISTS.....
His office called and said that he is unable to see me on monday. I will have to wait for his call. This means that I have to delay my holiday to the North of France. What will happen if he decides to retire or his broken arm proves toxic?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A SPY FOR THE KGB

From the Guardian .....(Hemingway's) secret life as a "dilettante spy" draws on his KGB file in saying he was recruited in 1941 before making a trip to China, given the cover name "Argo", and "repeatedly expressed his desire and willingness to help us" when he met Soviet agents in Havana and London in the 40s. However, he failed to "give us any political information" and was never "verified in practical work", so contacts with Argo had ceased by the end of the decade.
I am not particularily surprised having read extensively on the Spanish Civil war where Ernie figured in a glittering albeit non-combatant role. I have also read extensively on Orwell, and some of his Catalonian work where Orwell actually fought -heroically and bravely-on the side of the Communists, Anarchists, Socialists etc. and left in disgust, suffering from a war wound and a very dim view of the communists. Stalin supplied the anti franco forces with men and materiel for the war as well as ideology and commisars.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO AKI 2

Aki 2 was born one year ago. She is the daughter of Oliver Twist and Aki. Aki 2 is the household mouser and shall stay here as long as she likes. She has decided that she belongs to the big gray bear. Aki 2 and I get along famously since she is not particularily demanding and only insists on a cuddle once or twice per day.
GREENPEACE AND WHY I HATE THEM - REASON 1.

Reckless debasement of the concept of right.
The messages that they send are limited. Their activity overall destroys indigenous cultures and ways and requires that we the indigenous peoples of the world, subordinate ourselves to the domination of the white missionary, a way that they, greenpeace, continue to perpetuate.
This insulting banner that is posted on Mount Rushmore is a case in point. North American Indians were greatly offended when the holy mountain was defaced with these head sculptures. We made our point and have held our peace because these images are important to the america that includes North American Indians. We could have defaced these sculptures and used the opportunity to ruin someone's day in order to make a point. But honour requires that we not. so Greenpeace, that has destroyed our way of life in many ways continues to shit on aboriginals.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
OSCAR MAYER DEAD.
My Granny always said that too many weinies could kill. Oscar got killed at 95. With a better diet he coulda lived to be 96. you shoulda listened to your granny oscar.
FARTS AND THE BLUES

I will say it now, and let it be absolutely clear; I bear nothing but ill will toward republicans. I clutch this sensation to my breast with a strength and a bitterness that nurtures that dark, putrid, horrific essence that is the yang of my peace. This morbidity impregnates my attitude when I examine American initiatives of even the most minor ilk. Yes. I will bow before you and admit that I fear the Party of Lincoln. Fear makes for strange prayers albeit articulate prayers. I swear, if it will make you feel better, I will take my shovel and dig myself a foxhole. I will pray from there and God may listen since there are no atheists in foxholes. I will pray, bent over unto my unwashed and wrinkled knees, pray that God himself be listening and that he will be so taken by my prayer as to come like a great wind and stamp them, these copperheads, out with great grape squashing steps.
I fear them mainly because their righteous wrongheadedness is so powerful. sometimes too, rarely however, driven by a spirit of righteousness that is so much lefteousness where even, little napoleon and even Wild Bill hisself can be made to stumble and shoot crooked. These people were able to seek justification for marching the armies up the hill only to march themdown the hill again. It is an army thing they say. A loyalty thing. To have an army and to crush the unbelievers who are in our way, whether these be on the way up or on the way down. Their hate is generic hate. Hate to push an Army. Only god knows where. Forward into an advance or backward into a retreat. No matter. What matters is the pushing.... All this to say that a good man's job is hard in America. To really get something done one must, and be able to succeed in harnessing a great evil that pulses there in the heart of America. For this evil energy is pure and strong but it must be harnessed and blinded and made to pull. Do not ask it to understand for it must be made to pull for this is the energy that makes america strong. A good man or a good woman steering a raging frothing thing of hate and pain and confusion.
Regardless. I think now of Robert Mcnamera who was no republican but could have been but he was much too smart for that job of burden. A genius that is for sure and a hateful, frothing man as surely as any one man can be hated. But a worker. A Catholic. A pious man. An awful man. Mr. Vietnam. No Sir though. It was not Robert Mc who was Mr. Vietnam. That job belonged to John F. Kennedy who started that war and Robert Mc turned that little thing into a major American production. Robert Mc. was Mr. War himself. Mars. Alone in his field in the roman times. Mr. McM alone in his field in the land of leaves of grass with the blood of labour and death roiling from his brow and soaking the holy earth that made him there in that field. He hated enough and loved enough to build strong. He built that war like he rebuilt Ford and then, much later mind you, and just now for many, a whole bunch of Yanks all died mainly hating him and with hate filling their heart. Not because of him, but at their moment of death cursing him. But they should have listened.... You want to fight, well,let me help you build your war, i know what you want he said, statistics do not lie, and you want a good civilized war, so go for it, go for it my friends. I admire Robert. He did his job. He built his war and American got to learn that it did not like the dirty end of war... the deaths... the killing but worse of all, the losing. But he told them. But the telling is different when you are selling spilled guts rather than the design following the edsel, as much as old Ford loved the son for whom the car was named.
Then there was the other Democrat, Jimmy Carter in his wimpy way, who inherited a mess with the Shah and made it worse by not being tough enough and getting caught adventuring with amateurs. It took a strong man to get American out. Reagan. An idiot for sure. But a blindly passionate man who could get the simple messages. And then an idiot or two all in a row to bring it right back down. The bushes, the Clintons.... America the grand pissed away like semen on a woman's dress.
And now Obama. But can he build that machine that the USA needs? The Dems have a modicum of goodness in there but are theymean enough? You need that meanness too America and you should try to find a good tough republican to help you out. Get rid of Biden. Put somebody tough in there. A republican filled with his sin of pride and get to work making america strong again.
BUt then, you are going to have to kill the monster again but then it is somebody else's problem and the economy can be rolling by then. Meanwhile I hear and smell the farts of the beasts and I am lonely for there is no good left in this place.
NEWS FROM SWAT (SWAT VALLEY'S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS SOURCE)
Introduction of Sharia courts
With Swat under Fazlullah's control he and his followers quickly moved to setup the Sharia Courts as primary judicial courts instead of when he was running them parallel to the Pakistani National Judicial Courts.[9]
[edit]Eradication of sins and the attacks on music shops
| Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: religious police |
He leads a drive of eradicating vices such as music, dancing, of what he calls "major sources of sin" such as TVs, CDs, computers and other video equipments by burning the electronics or the shops in which they are housed.[10] Fazlullah has threatened barbers who shaved their customers' beards and warned against girls attending schools.[6]
[edit]Anti-polio vaccination stance
He opposed a polio vaccination drive in North-West Frontier Province claiming it was a conspiracy of the Jews and Christians to keep Muslims impotent, according to a listener. In some sermons he had also considered it against Islamic norms. He considered Hepatitis C as a more important health issue than Polio and questioned the West's intentions. The propaganda had hindered the drive immensely as the local people saw volunteers and workers for the World Health Organization vaccination program as a threat and in some cases the immunization teams were physically beaten.[11]
[edit]Opposition to women voting
In 2001 many seats reserved for women in northern Pakistan went unfilled due in large part to the actions of the TNSM.[12] In 2005, Fazlullah was quoted as saying: We have our tradition that bars women from taking part in the elections and violators will be punished.[12]
[edit]Opposition to female education
A January 21, 2009 issue of the Pakistan daily newspaper The News, reports Taliban enforcement of a complete ban on female education in the Swat district. Some 400 private schools enrolling 40,000 girls have been shut down. At least 10 girls' schools that tried to open after the January 15, 2009 deadline by the Fazlullah-led Taliban were blown up by the militants in the town of Mingora, the headquarters of the Swat district.[13][not in citation given] "More than 170 schools have been bombed or torched, along with other government-owned buildings."[14][not in citation given]
I thank all mighty wiki for this timely data......
WHO IS WHO AT G8.....
°Photo here shows a couple of surplus dignitaries asked to attend to round out the meeting and make it more racially diverse. Here a black man and a slav.
°The brits have yet to explain how an unelected scot once named Jocko MacJock has come to be PM. The Scots are being quiet about all this and hopes the UK grows so upset with this man Brown that they not only throw him out but also his country of origin. Cry Freedom Scotland!!!!
°Some man (this time sober) named Taro, one of the guys shown here, is the current leader of Japan. There has been much change so I will leave it to you, Dear reader to remember which one of the pictured is the leader. Arigato.
°The President of France will raise his imperial eyebrow and fix everyone with his beady little eyes. He is a liar and a thief but this is the way France likes their leaders. It's current President,a Louis de Funes look alike a called the Short little feller in shiny suits who hangs out with that model with the nice butt. Sarko as he is lovingly called in the Banlieus where he refuses to attend unless escorted by a battalion of riot police. Ah french love....
°The frowsy Fraulein will of course attend, she is the only woman leader there, and vill add her significant scowl over the attendees. I find her charming and very dangerous.
°The host. His escort at g8 will be a topless model. He is making fun of the other attendees. Male cameraderie I suppose. But he is an old man. From another generation where being Rich pardoned everything. He is so funny. He would not be asked to come but he must since he is the host.
WHEN WILL THIS FRIGGING FINANCIAL CRISIS END.... THE ANSWER
He is from Goldman Sachs of course (Krugman-not the cat who appears to be from Siberia actually) and Goldman Sachs got its start in the Chaos of the last great depression. A veritable phoenix it was and one that will likely benefit from once more bathing itself in the fire of rancour and disaster that is the product of this, fantastic and horrifying economic circumstance.
There is hope however, and for this hope to take wing, Mr. Krugman must listen to me, an astute observer of solutions to the impossible if not the dificult.
To arrive at the answer one must of course begin with the great panic of 1873 and the subsequent "Long Depression".
The long depression ended when credit values were restored with the invention of cars, planes, electricity, light bulbs and businesss systems and standards were able to feed the system and get it going again.
This cycle will end, not with fixing a banking system that is forever broken (I suggest) but with restoring credit with something people will buy. Credit must be like a pump but it needs a liquid with which to prime it. Not the false liquid of government intervention that is but the sweat of inflation, but real heavy brutish water of creativity. We should not fear for long because I have no doubt that there is someone out there right now who has an invention that wil change many things. I am not sure, but we need a new revolution in engineering, science even religion to get us going again Maybe something perfect and green..... like a battery that runs on garbage and lasts say 12 hours between charges..... and an entire system built on this creation. The change must be massive and if we are very lucky not end in some sort of war. Like the case of the last two depressions..... The Long and its war World War 1, and the Great and its war, World War 2.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Sunday, July 05, 2009
FISH STORY WINS AT NIFFF
A japanese movie about a fish.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
SOME STUPID FRIGGING OPERA BY MOZART

So, what is happening in my neighbourhood? Opera. And thunderstorms that just miss the Opera which is held outside in a real Roman amphitheater that as remained relatively intact these thousands of years.
Don Giovanni..... I sat once on an airplane with the director of the Zurich Opera. He said that Don Giovanni was his favourite piece. I enjoyed the flight and the man was surprisingly nice. Business class of course. I got bumped so they put me in business class on the next Air Austria flight.



A HUMAN HAIR WITH A CARVED ROSE INSIDE OF IT.