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After a cancelled flight, I am home, albeit luggageless.

I have posted my favourite pictures here, or just click the picture below:

Gone...

...to Madeline Island. For a week.

Will return with pictures unless I'm irresponsible or don't see anything cool. I know your worlds will be crashing around you with me gone, but please. Try to find a way to keep it together. For the children. In these trying times, they'll need your smiles, not your tears.

The Gay Agenda

I stole this from a Fark thread some time ago. I don't know where it came from originally, and I'm too lazy to look, but it is brilliant, and well worth disseminating (no pun intended) to anyone reading. Without further ado, I bring you:

The Gay Agenda

6:00 am Gym
8:00 am Breakfast (oatmeal and egg whites)
9:00 am Hair appointment
10:00 am Shopping
12:00 PM Brunch

2:00 PM
1) Assume complete control of the U.S. Federal, State and Local Governments as well as all other national governments,
2) Recruit all straight youngsters to our debauched lifestyle,
3) Destroy all healthy heterosexual marriages,
4) Replace all school counselors in grades K-12 with agents of Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels,
5) Establish planetary chain of homo breeding gulags where over-medicated imprisoned straight women are turned into artificially impregnated baby factories to produce prepubescent love slaves for our devotedly pederastic gay leadership,
6) bulldoze all houses of worship, and
7) Secure total control of the INTERNET and all mass media for the exclusive use of child pornographers.

2:30 PM Get forty winks of beauty rest to prevent facial wrinkles from stress of world conquest
4:00 PM Cocktails
6:00 PM Light Dinner (soup, salad, with Chardonnay)
8:00 PM Theater
11:00 PM Bed (du jour)

More Politics a la Gideon

Politicians usually criticize the wrong thing about their opponents.

For example, I once read an insightful and cogent argument against privatizing electricity by Howard Hampton of the NDP. Unfortunately, I also noted that it was printed as a pamphlet, basically an 8.5x11" sheet of paper that was folded and densely covered in small writing, and that the only people that would likely actually READ it are those that already supported him.

Hampton probably would have done far better with "Ernie Eves cheated on his wife. Wouldn't you prefer someone with *real* family values?" in big letters.

The point is that if you're a left wing candidate, you're not trying to convert left-wing voters. Shoot down your opponent from a centrist and right-wing perspective. If they're gay, make sure everyone knows. If they advocate more spending on social programs, criticize the economics. If they're anti-war, harangue them for not supporting the troops. But DO NOT babble on about how they want to keep gay marriage illegal, reduce welfare benefits, or kill untold thousands in a war predicated on lies and executed largely for personal gain. Their voters may just want them to do those things, so you won't win any votes that way. Well, maybe that last one.

Note: Like many fundamental problems with our political system, this one could be mostly solved by a different voting system that encourages more parties and proportional representation. Then it would be cheaper to advocate yourself than to attack the 6 other candidates that actually had a shot at winning.

Another First

I don't think I've wished to be a 75-year-old Swedish woman before.

More Zoo (Videos This Time)

Apparently Youtube doesn't like my Peacock video for some reason. Shame. Oh well. Anyway, here are some of the others. My camera's video quality isn't stellar, but enjoy nonetheless.

So Itchy



Gorillas Fighting



Monkeys... Showering?



Monkey Posturing



Otter



More Monkeys



Some Sort Of Monkey

Zoo

Here are some of my better pictures from the zoo. Videos to follow when I can be bothered.

Accountability

So I had a crazy but awesome political idea tonight. Something I absolutely detest has the potential to save politics. What is it, I hear you ask? Drum roll.......

REALITY TV!!!

Yes, that's right. The same atrocious concept that brings us American Idol and other such claptrap has the potential to make the country run smoother. How? Simple.

Picture the Prime Minister's (or equivalent leader somewhere else) life. You probably don't have a very good idea what goes on in it. What's the easiest way to change that? Film it. All the time. Make "behind closed doors" obsolete. The shady backroom deal? Gone. The bribe? A thing of the past. Everyone gets to see what goes on, all the time.

It'd be different, that's for sure. I'd vote for it.