Mornin’
Shannon the Futon Revolutionary has some great posts about the Tory Leadership contenders. It’s a good laugh to start out your day!
Cheers.
D : )
PS. I noticed that since I put the site metre up a month ago – over 830 people have visited. Wow. Thanks!
For those of you interested:
It’s about 1:56am and Pope John Paul II’s funeral is about to begin in a couple of minutes.
They say that there are over 200 Heads of State and Government who have come to the Vatican to pay their respects. Millions of people in Rome and millions watching on television from around the world. Including me.
The Alberta Tory convention is this weekend. Apparently, there are no hospitality suites allowed! Now, say my name was Josiah and I was a Conservative party member who was coming to the convention in Edmonton all the way from Cardston or Cereal or something, and found out that there weren’t going to be any hosptiality suites simply because the ‘illustrious and *benevolent* leader-for-life of my great great great government for the millennia’ Party didn’t want his rivals to shmooze and party it up – I would be very bent up in the wrong direction.
Does anybody else think that it is quite ironic that Premier Klein is the one who doesn’t want the boozefest of hospitality suites to flourish and spread their wings of alcoholic bliss upon the PC Convention?
But alas, I am sooo glad that i’m not in that situation and that I belong to a Party who knows how to party it up with the best of them.
On another PC leadership related note, I thought this was fun and a little ironic. Go to google.com and type in “elect dave hancock’. I was as shocked as you will be…
Ah, and soon to come: my review of Summa Theologica by our good friend, St. Thomas Aquinas.
-Keepin’ it real since 1983-
D : )
According to the Canadian Association of University Teachers, 0.3% of University Professors count themselves as Pagans.
I decided that today I would write a post not about Gomery, corruption, publication bans, or any of those other things that has ticked me off in the past few days. Instead, I’m going to write about a good book.
Last summer, in order to escape what had been some of the 4 most stressful and trying months of my life (I’m not going to elaborate on this), I spent a month doing some solo backpacking across Canada’s Maritimes. I made my way across Gaspesie, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and enjoyed every moment of it. Sleeping in hostels, bus stations, airports, ferry terminals, on ferries, and meeting the most incredible people.
FYI Halifax is an awesome party town: 6 nights partying in Halifax here, here, here, and others that I can’t remember = tonnes of fun, some very wild times, a game of frizbee at 4am on the front lawn of the Lt. Gov’s residence, stealing street name signs – then losing them, and a huge dent in my bank account. And St. John’s NFLD was just as good. George Street was awesome.
But, as much as it was a great time to party, it was also a very spiritual, soul searching time. There’s nothing like meditating on an Atlantic beach (wear a hat, it’s usually windy).
The entire trip was great, but the best part was being on a boat 10 feet away from 3 humpback whales – one of the most incredible experiences of my life. It is an incredibly beautiful part of our country.
While I was in St. John’s, Newfoundland, I stopped at a used book store to find some interesting reading material (I had bought the DaVinci Code in Halifax, and had finished it by then). What I found was one of the best books I can say i’ve ever read. For $1.50 at the Afterwords Bookstore (I still have the receipt in the book) I bought ‘History on the Run: the “Trenchcoat” Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent‘ by Knowlton Nash, the former National Anchorman for CBC News.
In this book, Nash writes about his time as the top CBC reporter in Washington DC during the turbulent 1960’s. The Kennedy’s (John and Robert), Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Vietnam. It covers it all. What I found what touched me the most were the personal acounts Nash had with Robert F. Kennedy, including being one of the last reporters to interview him on his last trip to California, where he was shot and killed. It found it to be a very powerful acount of an important point in US history. I also liked Bobby Kennedy alot more after I read this.
So, if you are in the market for a really good book, check out “History on the Run” by Knowlton Nash. You won’t regret it.
Reading: Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
Listening: The rest of my life by Sloan
Drinking: Orange Juice (with pulp) by Tropicana
New Favorite Website: Dog Judo
TGIF!
I have again updated the sidebar to your right –>
I’ve moved the links sections around a little and added a bunch of new blog links (scroll down) – check’em out – half of them are interesting, the other half are filled with crazies! – you decide which is which.
I’ve also added a new poll – for those of your paying attention to this, this, this, and this, and of course this, this and this you will understand what I mean.
Here are the results of the former poll:
This is what happens when a politician gets desperate to save his own skin.
Makes me wonder how this guy could get elected and re-elected four times in a row.
Only in Alberta. Only in Calgary. Bizarre.
I keep on thinking that I am going to wake up and say “woah, what a weird dream. Thank goodness that would never happen in real life!“
I’m going back to bed.
On a non-political note, last weekend, I did something that I had planned to do for the past five years.
Five years ago, I spent some time traveling across Europe (it was my second time there) and had the privilege of visiting Vimy Ridge. Vimy Ridge being the location of a major battle fought by Canadian troops in the First World War.
Any Canadian who has the chance to visit the massive monument, the preserved trenches, and scattered cemeteries with rows and rows of white tombstones, walks away feeling differently about life. I know that I had a hard time describing my feelings to my friends and family back in Canada when I got back – it was an emotionally charged and exhausting day. For me, it was a life changing experience to visit such a historic Canadian site.
The reason I brought this up is that when I was there, I collected a maple leaf from one of the hundreds of maple trees which were planted there. Since my return to Canada, my Vimy Ridge maple leaf has been kept safe in my 2000 edition of the Canadian Encyclopedia and then between two sheets of wax paper. This weekend, while at my parents house for Easter dinner, I collected my maple leaf, brought it back to my apartment, and framed it.
So, now, after five years, my Vimy Ridge Maple Leaf is proudly displayed on my living room wall.
I love it when this happens, a positive article in the Edmonton Sun!!!
well, I hope not. Not in the mood one bit!
why can’t these guys just get along???
for those of you interested in some elections of the provincial flavour, the BC Election Prediction Project website is up and running in preparation for May 17.
The current predictions are (currently in the Legislature):
BC Liberals – 33 (73)
BC New Democrats – 19 (3)
BC Greens – 0 (0)
Democratic Reform BC – 0 (1)
Other – 0 (2)
TO CLOSE TO CALL – 27
TOTAL – 79
