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We’re assuming that Mr. Bear and friends over at Blank Out Times have…

1. …unfortunately decided to pack it in.

2. …decided to get in touch with their inner kink.

You decide.

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No-one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video or DVD.

Theme
No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate to 15 year olds.

Language
There may be frequent use of strong language (eg ‘fuck’). But the strongest terms (eg ‘cunt’) will be acceptable only where justified by the context. Continued aggressive use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity
Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context.

Sex
Sexual activity may be portrayed but without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour.

Violence
Violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. Scenes of sexual violence must be discreet and brief.

Imitable techniques
Dangerous techniques (eg combat techniques, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on imitable detail. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Horror
Strong threat and menace are permitted. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable.

Drugs
Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse.

Good Saturday morning (afternoon?) to you all! Saturday, our favorite day of the week is upon us and we couldn’t be happier!

This week, we had wireless internet hooked up in our house, it’s great. For a while, we were leaching off the signal from the U of A Law Centre, but seeing as how slow it was, this is even better.

This week, we bided a temporary adieu to a good friend of ours who is spending the next 9 months in India. She’ll be working for an NGO in a central Indian city. We would be lying if we didn’t say we are enormously envious of her endeavors and that we’ll miss her while she’s gone. But alas, at this moment she is doing better stuff than we (lounging around my house drinking coffee).

It has been 13 months since we’ve stepped foot out of the province of Alberta. This is the longest we have EVER gone without at least making a weeklong expedition to the BC Rockies or the Saskatchewan side of Cypress Hills. We are getting extremely antsy as it looks like we may have to wait until next May to go on our next expedition. Last summer, we spent a month piggy backing, hitch hiking, and hostelling it across the great Canadian Maritimes. It was well worth it, but we thirst for more travel. It’s in our blood. It’s a thirst we have found hard to quench.

Well, spent a good chunk of our evening with some totally radical awesome dudes at the Powerplant. Where the patio is in the shade from 5pm to 5am! (new slogan?)

Anyway… it’s the week of International Fringing here in (it’s finally stopped raining) Edmonton, Alberta.

We’re quite looking forward to checking out a bunch of the new plays this year. Bought our Fringe programs a couple of weekends ago and have been slowly perusing through, seeing which plays look cool enough for an awesome posse such as ours to go to.

If it makes you uncultured daveberta readers who aren’t theatre lovers any better, we’ll also be spending a decent amount of time in the beer gardens over the next couple of days. Sweet.

Totally check out the Fringe in Old Strathcona if you get the chance. It’s one of our favorite Edmonton festivals. It’s awesome.

BTW. Did anyone else read the Edmonton Sun Editorial today?

Question: What the hell kind of rag starts an editorial piece with “Un-FREAKING-belieable!?!?!?!

Answer: Not a very good one.

We think the world needs more poet laureates.

…and his non-sex marriage followers can be found here.

new committee to crack down on freeloaders

For Immediate Release
August 18, 2005

EDMONTON- In a surprise pre-emptive assault, daveberta’s Ministry of Water, Fish, and Blog Comments has announced the creation of a new anti-spam committee named “Operation Spam Comments smell like dead gophers.”

This accessible, affordable, innovative, and entrepreneurial program will be headed by highly respected super-mega rock star Sabastian Bach.

Mr. Bach, who has freshly returned from a tour of the Middle East, will be joined on the committee by such hard hitting enforcers as Vince Neil, and former Canadian Member of Parliament Clarence Decantur Howe.

Daveberta Minister of Water, Fish, and Blog Comments praised the creation of the committee as “the worst thing to happen to spam commenters since Babylon 5 was cancelled.”

The Minister continued, “eight to ten spam comments a day is simply unacceptable. We fully expect the combined wit and superpowers of the three committee members to form an unbearable force to be reckoned with. This committee will be the most affordable and accessible anti-spam committee in the country. I promise that.”

Some of the tactics expected to be used by the new “enforcer committee” include wet noodle lashings, mouth soap washing, wedgies, blocking of anonymous comments, egging of houses, and tactical nuclear strikes.

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…is happening over at the Urban Dictionary. Make sure to join in on the fight.

Props to Rob over at Five of Five for the link.

UPDATE!

Because silly right-wing Emil can’t seem to see through the layers upon layers of sarcasm in this blog, we have decided to post other epic battles, which can be found here, here, and especially here (we voted for #3 on this one- “ndp is hott as balls yo“).

ANOTHER UPDATE!

Another epic (and entertaining) battle… just because we live in Edmonton….

This week’s blog of the week is none other than the awesome blog known as Section 15.

Sec15 is one of our daily reads. Mark’s posts are entertaining and insightful as he covers national and international current events.

Make sure to check it out.

D

daveberta calls on right-wing blogger to come clean on his secret agenda of non-sex marriage

For Immediate Release
August 15, 2005

EDMONTON- Following today’s shocking accusations from right-wing blogger and Anne Cools-a-holic, Anonalogue, daveberta is calling on the Blogging Tory member to come clean on his secret agenda.

In an email dated Monday, August 15, 2005, Mr. Anonalogue denounced the wonderful chris-face original Southparkization of daveberta’s Editor-in-Chief. In his email, Mr. Anonalogue cried that he was “shocked and outraged” and that “the word ‘Liberal’ does not belong in the same .jpeg as an assault rifle.“

Anonalogue continued his rant with bold statements that “[t]here is no such thing as a South Park Liberal…” only “…South Park Conservatives,” and that “[y]ou can be a Liberal. Or you can be a South Park fan. But you cannot be a Liberal and a South Park fan.“

Earlier today, Mr. Anonalogue continued to pontificate his cartoon-induced rage in the comment section of the great blog known as daveberta by “DEMAND[ing]” that the editors of daveberta remove the “viciously heteronomative… picture from his website and replace it with a… less heterosexual image more befitting of a gun registry and gay marriage supporter, like this.”

Daveberta’s Editor-in-Chief responded, “Mr. Anonalogue’s attack on chris-face’s masterpiece is an attack on all artists and freedom lovers. We are incredibly proud of the work which Mr. face has done and feel privileged to have graced his artistic vision. This right-wing blogger is clearly on a mission to spread the dark ideas of mumbo-jumboism. One day he professes his love for libertarianism and Anne Cools, and then denounces freedom of the arts in the next.“

The Editor-in-Chief continued “it is quite clear that Mr. Anonalogue’s statements regarding the ‘vicious heteronomative’ images in the masterpiece are signs of his secret agenda of implementing non-sex marriage in Canada.“

In response to this shocking revelation, Daveberta’s Editorial Board unanimously endorsed the following statement: “Conservative ducks such as Mr. Anonalogue have lost their battle against same-sex marriage and now they want to ruin it for everyone by imposing non-sex marriage. Not only is the principle of non-sex marriage clearly opposed by a majority of the human race, it’s just not cool. We will fight against Anonalogist non-sex marriage to the bitter end. It’s just not natural.“

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FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE

Anonalogue promoting mumbo-jumboism
daveberta calls on right-winger to come clean on his secret agenda of non-sex marriage

EDMONTON- Following today’s shocking accusations from right-wing blogger and Anne Cools-a-holic, Anonalogue, daveberta is calling on the Blogging Tory member to come clean on his secret agenda.

In an email dated Monday, August 15, 2005, Mr. Anonalogue denounced the wonderful chris-face original Southparkization of daveberta’s Editor-in-Chief. In his email, Mr. Anonalogue ranted that he was “shocked and outraged” and that “the word ‘Liberal’ does not belong in the same .jpeg as an assault rifle.”

Anonalogue continued his rant with the bold statements that “[t]here is no such thing as a South Park Liberal…” only “…South Park Conservatives,” and that “[y]ou can be a Liberal. Or you can be a South Park fan. But you cannot be a Liberal and a South Park fan.”

Earlier today, Mr. Anonalogue continued to pontificate his cartoon-induced rage in the comment section of the great blog known as daveberta with the “DEMAND[ing]” that the editors of daveberta remove the “viciously heteronomative… picture from his website and replace it with a… less heterosexual image more befitting of a gun registry and gay marriage supporter, like this.”

Daveberta’s Editor-in-Chief responded, “Mr. Anonalogue’s attack on chris-face’s masterpiece is an attack on all artists and freedom lovers. This gentleman is clearly on a mission to spread the dark ideas of mumbo-jumboism. One day he professes his love for libertarianism and Anne Cools, and then denounces it the next.” The Editor-in-Chief continued “it is quite clear that Mr. Anonalogue’s statements regarding the ‘vicious heteronomative’ images in the masterpiece are signs of his secret agenda of implementing non-sex marriage in Canada.“

Daveberta’s Editorial Board unanimously endorsed the following statement: “Conservative ducks such as Mr. Anonalogue have lost their battle against same-sex marriage and now they want to ruin it for us all. Not only is the principle of non-sex marriage clearly opposed by a majority of the human race, it’s just not cool and we will fight against Anonalogist non-sex marriage to the bitter end. It’s just not natural.“

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daveberta@linuxmail.org

Yes, you read the title correctly.

From today’s Globe & Mail.

“Ukraine, Georgia fuming over planned Russian sex film

What does it matter if the porn star selected for the role of Yulia wears the same braided hairstyle as Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko? Or that she climbs into a Russian attack helicopter, zooms over the mountains along Georgia’s northern border and makes love to someone who resembles Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili?“

You can read the rest of the article here.

Crazy Russians.

Snapshots of a weekend in Banff at the Council of the Federation.

Campbell: “Yo digity! West-coast!”
Doer: “I came all the way to Alberta to wear a garbage bag???”

Klein: “Don’t f*** with Alberta!”

Lord: “tee hee hee!”
Charest: “Bless you my children. Tonight, I shall part the Red Sea.”
McGuinty: “Why did I leave Toronto, again? Only two more days. Two more days. Two more days…”

Calvert: “So I says to Mabel, I says…”

“Goin’ off the rails on the crazy train (with the fine china)…”

Has anybody noticed how aged some of Canada’s provincial Premiers look?

Sask Premier Lorne Calvert

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein

Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm

BC Premier Gordon Campbell

and kind of…

PEI Premier Pat Binns

We thought this was pretty cool.

Apparently, Green Party of Canada Leader, Jim Harris (affectionately known to millions as: Jim who?) is hosting a pool party! The party, which is to celebrate the Green Party’s rise in the polls (which I’ve lost track of- the plethora of late has given me poll fatigue), is going to be held in Jim’s own backyard!

Now, we just think this is the coolest thing ever. When was the last time Paul Martin had a kegger at 24 Sussex, or Stephen Harper had a BBQ party at Stornoway? (maybe they have and we just don’t know about it).

*100% props to Lex Luthor for this one.*