Funny Story

Okay, so im still very worried, but i think that best way to deal with my worry is by chewing bubblegum. Wouldn't it be funny if whenever you were mad about something you did a google image search for the word "mad" with the filter on super high and then used one of the images that come up (which are usually things like pictures of peoples pets called mad, or flora and fauna from magagascar, or people walking on mountains or wearing funny hats) and then printed it off, and when people asked you what was the matter you would show them the picture. Then they would look at you with that look of half fear that you are insane and half confusion, which of course considering your frame of mind you will mistake for a look of empathy and you'll say "i know, look at it! but i suppose its not as bad as the chimpanze grudge i had last week!"

i wonder if that would work with terrorists?



i still don't know what a terrorist is.

A break

To bring a little balance back to this blog. This man reminds me of Moby. Ah, some settling music.

In the Video Vault at the link below, select the G section, then scroll down to Gnarls Barkley the video is called Crazy. (i suppose you probably know that already, and already know all about barkley, and infact he went out of fashion 6 days ago, but im only just getting with the times, and i say this is sweet... i suppose it only further shows that i don't have tv either...you must have seen the video on the countdown and out a thousand times already...gaah)

i must be dumb

Israel has declared it is ready to fight Hezbollah guerrillas for several more weeks, raising doubts about international efforts to broker an immediate ceasefire.

"It will take us time to destroy what is left," Brig. Gen. Alon Friedman said Wednesday.

His announcement came as Israeli ground troops clashed with Hezbollah guerrillas as they crossed the border in search of tunnels and weapons

Full Article

How can we say that Isreal is making a measured response? When Brigadeer General Friedman makes comments like "it will take us time to destroy what is left"?

How can Harper insist that Hezbollah and Hamas should return their three captives in the intention to end violence against their nations, when those in control of the Isreali army are making such comments? Harper, do you really think that the return of those soldiers will do anything to end the violence? Isreal is thrashed Lebanon, its heart, culture, soul and people.

Maybe I'm just dumb

Maybe I'm just incapable of thinking about the state of affairs inthe middle east. I mean, I don't know a lot about the history, or current escalating events that led to this, what seems to me, insanity. It is more than possible that i don't have suffient tools to understand what is happening, because of my own biases against foreign occupation, and against aggression towards neighbours, and against annonymous weapons (that is satelite weapons where the operator has no capabilty of knowing who or what he is hitting).

I was just reading this however in the Windsor star (i think it comes from the ottawa citizen however)

Blanchfield, Mike. "Harper Blames Hezbollah" Canwest News Service July 18, 2006

The G-8 summit was dominated by the Middle East crisis, ending Monday with an urgent call by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and visiting United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for an international peacekeeping force for the region.

Chirac demanded swift action to bring about a ceasefire in the escalating hostilities that saw the death toll climb to more than 200, most in Lebanon.

Harper rejected the call, as did the United States, saying that his interpretation of the G-8's position was for Hezbollah and Hamas to first release the three Israeli soldiers they are holding and to stop shelling Israel.

Let me see what is upsetting me about this article. I think it is the second paragraph where it says that these agressions have lead to more than 200 casualties (between the two nations) and yet Harper is rejecting the call for peacekeeping (that i agree with, because the Canadian Military is no longer a peacekeeping force but an occupative agressive military, go figure) BUT he seems to think that if hamas and hezbollah release these three military pions that all this will end and the war will be over.

Isn't that beyond naive? Like anyone who would unforgivingly allow for the death of 200 humans would be completely calmed by the return of three pion soldiers who weren't clever enough not to get captured in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if upon return they were executed for being crappy soldiers (okay im just promoting hate and bias here, ignor that last sentence). The point is...hmm i guess i feel that harper (and really the Canadian Government and Canadian people) is too guilty for current actions by Canadians around the world to do aanything constructive without first recognizing, acknolwedging and changing our current international practices and positions.

Sigh. I worry for my little (superlarge) country. i hope we make it through this, i would really like to get to be a doctor.

Homesickness

Today's headline on the Toronto Star reads DEATH IN LEBANON with a superheadding (that is a caption over top of the headline) "it's as though a bomb hit Montreal." These headlines are about 7 montrealers who were killed in the current Isreali assult against Hezbollah in Lebanon. A friend of mine just contacted me because he is afraid for his grandmother who just returned to lebanon a week and bit ago. I didn't know really how to respond to his fears, but I am just now working on one of the chapters for a forthcoming a book on Youth identity that focuses greatly on immigrant, and african immigrant youth. I asked my friend why his grandmother returned surely she knew of the coming assualt. And he said something about returning to her homeland. Isn't that something, in this world of compounded and complex migration where almost any citizen of any country can move and live in many different nations throughout the course of their lives, there is a special kind of 'returning' to the point of origin. I wonder as immigration/emmigration become a more normative in life history, and as global conflict and the destruction of cultures becomes more common if this sense of urgency to return to the places we know and grew up with will deepen. Or has this always been the case, we want home, but move nations because we want an easier life (without oppression, with good jobs and education, with the freedom to make our own homes); and yet, when the prospect of watching our first homes dying is made real to us, we want nothing more that to return to that place of conflict and strife. hmm. i will have to read Hardwick. *** appended July 18 and another thing My cousin was recently telling me about his newfound love and respect for St lucia after visiting his "homeland" that was never his in the first place. It was his first trip there, and it is hardly even an ancestral home for us given our colonial heritage, and yet that desire for homeland was/is so strong for him, that he would desire and adopt that little island as his own. hmm.

Pending storm

Its about to thunderstorm so i need to high tail it, but first a quandry.

What is a terrorist?
meditate tonite

Toronto

i managed to make it to toronto. God job eh, man that was hard. But uh oh, i went to the Mac Medical open house, man that was super tempting. man, i'm talking...tempting. yikes. I just don't know what to do with myself at this point. Well, who am i kidding yes i do, continue on the course, graded back and graded back and graded back from knowledge gained but never lost at i run down mud tracks. Look at you. So i'm going back to windsor today, to get back to the business of waiting. i have to send my brothers care package still. i think i might send something like a survival kit. We will see. Tristan played on defense for Sask last night, man it was super exciting. They lost though, 53-36 i think...yeah they got spanked. Well i had a campfire last night. ooo, campfire on my beach, so good. so sweet. yum! it was firey. okay going to go eat or sleep.

hermit

maybe i will just go home now.

well thursday. by way of hamilton and not come back till sunday night
i will see if i can't find a driver today. i don't think it will work at the end of the month.

i hate this mess.

Critical Mass

Wow, that was super cool. i'm sold for life. Okay so the next critical mass is Friday July (fuck...of course) July, 28th 2006 meeting at 5:45 at city hall (charles clarke square it might be called, at just east of goyeua on University or park or chatham or one of those ... i think its university. Bring your bike (make sure to have a mounted bell and lights (me too). and we bike around the city blockading against traffic (its wonderful! go team cyclists for a safer city). Anyway. its super fun, and I'll be talking about it all month (except i just realized i told my mum i might come home for my dads birthday, which would mean missing the July 28th mass. fuckers. i'll have to plot this one.