Verbal Visions

I was walking along Queen St. West today and heard what I think has to be the most creative reason for a guy to be begging on the street. As I was approaching a group of three disheveled bums one of them said "hello pretty lady could you spare some change for my half retarded sister here (nods in the direction of a crumpled pile of camouflage clothing and dreds) to buy some estrogen, she's already growing a beard" I could not ascertain the validity of the reason as I could not see the face of the person he nodded towards. Anyway, I didn't give him any change. But kudos for his originality. I had just finished spending nearly $200 on stuff that I and no one else really needs. I'm sure I will suffer the wrath of karmic retribution for today’s disregard for the needs of people less fortunate than I am.

I just heard the strangest analogy for a soccer game. The British commentator said that the game was like a cappuccino - all steamy and frothy on top but you have to get down there quite a ways to find anything of substance (I'm paraphrasing but that is very nearly his exact words) I love the British!

Big Brother

These articles are all true and all very scary (yet not altogether surprising)

Court orders the Internet tapped


Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena
sudnshok writes "Hasbrouck Heights (NJ) Library Director Michele Reutty is under fire for refusing to give police library circulation records without a subpoena. Her lawyer explained, 'Reutty did the right thing... At no time did Michele Reutty say to any police officer or anybody else that she would not give the information if it was properly requested.' However, borough labor lawyer Ellen Horn, who also represented the library trustees, said Reutty was 'more interested in protecting' her library than helping the police. 'It was an absolute misjudgment of the seriousness of the matter,' Horn said."


U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases
The Washington Post and New York Times are reporting on a Bush administration initiative that has tapped into a vast global database of confidential financial transactions for nearly five years. Relying on a presidential emergency declaration made under the International Emergency Economic Powers, the administration has been surveilling the data from the SWIFT database, which links about 7,800 banks and brokerages and handles billions of transactions a year. From the article: Together with a hundredfold expansion of the FBI's use of "national security letters" to obtain communications and banking records, the secret NSA and Treasury programs have built unprecedented government databases of private transactions, most of them involving people who prove irrelevant to terrorism investigators.


Watergate Echoes in NSA Courtroom

The 5 lb Bully

Our puppy is a stubborn bully! He is nearly impossible to discipline because he just doesn't care if he's doing something we don't like or approve of and he's super pushy! Puppy or not - he just doesn't care what we say or do, he thinks he's the boss. We will be consulting a behaviour specialist in the coming weeks to see if this little beast is worth "de-bullying" The above pic is not of him - but if he could wear a permanent expression, that would be it.

The Imbecile Strikes Again

That imbecile's name is George W Bush. He has announced his profoundly ignorant idea to change the American constitution so homosexual couples cannot marry. Would someone please put this halfwit lunatic out of his misery!