Killing the baby Jesus since 4 c.e

Happy yearly holidays to those who celebrate Kwanzaa, Chanukah, Christmas etc and may those material goods you so dearly covet, be blessed upon you this year. For those who use this time for religious purposes, yes people ARE fucking dying over your religion, well there is a perfect quote for this I suppose , "stupid is as stupid does". If you are an atheist, thanks for being so fucking egotistical and nothing happens to you when you die. ( I should change my career to a toast master huh?)

I am making it a quick one and am going to 'have visions of sugar plums dance in my...' oh no, I do not think so, maybe I will look to A.R or C.F to save me tonight hee hee (and so this end like a braying donkey hee hee ... hawwh)

All ranting aside... I am looking forward in hopes that tomorrow sends its joys out to everyone. I know this is only a fantasy and will not be true in my lifetime, but I will still dream none the less.



hmmm what song shall I leave you with.... ooohh I know:

We are the Highlanderz, Mighty and Strong!!

This is where I am in the spectre of things

Here is where our journey begins, come with me as we look to the wind as it weaves an epic tale of politics and such...

In the introduction, we explained the inadequacies of the traditional left-right line.

If we recognise that this is essentially an economic line it's fine, as far as it goes. We can show, for example, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, with their commitment to a totally controlled economy, on the hard left. Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe would occupy a less extreme leftist position. Margaret Thatcher would be well over to the right, but further right still would be someone like that ultimate free marketeer, General Pinochet.
That deals with economics, but the social dimension is also important in politics. That's the one that the mere left-right scale doesn't adequately address. So we've added one, ranging in positions from extreme authoritarian to extreme libertarian.

Both an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitrary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities existed in Spain during the civil war period
You can also put Pinochet, who was prepared to sanction mass killing for the sake of the free market, on the far right as well as in a hardcore authoritarian position. On the non-socialist side you can distinguish someone like Milton Friedman, who is anti-state for fiscal rather than social reasons, from Hitler, who wanted to make the state stronger, even if he wiped out half of humanity in the process.
The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (i.e. extreme deregulated economy)

The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples social Darwinian right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing. On the other hand, the classical libertarian collectivism of anarcho-syndicalism ( libertarian socialism) belongs in the bottom left hand corner.
In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger

The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.75Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

- Hmmmm Gandhi is my friend... why don't you ever call me up??
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I needed a little classical music for the ipod. Bow down to us geeks , even better, us Canadian geeks, who have an obsession with all things Scottish. (well maybe all things Craig 'Angus' Ferguson)

*note to self, get some 'Bing Hitler' on here... SHUT UPPPPP!!

Addictions-- To That Which We All Have...

This song reminds me of the past, and is my conscious to make sure I do not head down that road again. For those who stuck by me through my 'rock n' roll' days. I wonder, truly I wonder what would have happened if ‘Mary Jane’ had won that lifestyle, I honestly think I would not be here today, but she will always be a part of who I am , and who I will continue to become.

I did it all in such a short time. I have been homeless, I was a drug addict, an alcoholic, I have been abused (on multiple levels), and yet... life is still not what I would have wanted it to be, but I think I can at least cope enough to see some sort of future, whichever that may be.

So, let us all take a moment to acknowledge those addictions we may have, those we continually fight to overcome, and those we will beat.

Ode to the Sexy Badgers

I am embracing my inner nerd today. No, not the trendy slacker video/computer game kind, but actually studying something and then putting it to use it what hopefully will be the near future. Graduate school is (or more recently has been) calling my name, and what do I want my sacrificial lamb to entail? I am looking to write about the social and political significance of clans in the Scottish Highlands (me thinks during the 13th-14th century, but I have not settled on a period yet). Obviously, this has not been finalized yet, but seeing as I am majoring in kinship-based societies, and being a sucker for the men of the kilts (no they are not dresses, you judgemental pricks), this only stands to reason on the way to go. I shall keep .. Well myself ...posted (because really, yes, you, if you are reading this, please you will find no joy or enlightenment here. Go!, go outside, go read a book, go tell someone whom you have not told in a while, you love them... just GO! )

Okay, so I can tell you are a stubborn lot and are not leaving, fine, just say I did not warn you...

Okay we all are intrigued by the sheer awesomeness (or stupidity) of the human sub-conscious at one time or another, but last night during a dream, I awoke to wonder, as any with a sense of profound speech would say: ‘What the fuck was that?’

It probably due to the fact I had been watching some Craig Ferguson stuff*, and so upon falling asleep I guess my mind was still watching it. So, come with me and enter my dream world of what the fuck? It starts, I am running, running in forest of Japanese cherry trees, and like someone out of the hells of Narnia, I step into a tree and am in the Scottish Highlands (or at least what I think it was because I have never been there). Craig is standing on a hill, punk kilt style, not playing the pipes but the electric fiddle. What the fuck, is this Ashley MacIssac ( which is weirder because now that I think about it, there was no amp around). After he plays, I ask him the name of the tune, and he told me it was Ode to the sexy Badgers (again, what the fuck?) He then says the answer is in the trees. I head back to the forest. Do not ask me how, because it felt like star trek beam me up type shit. Anyway, I am walking again through a veil of pinkness, and come across an all white, faintish golden hue tree. Even in my dreams, no, shit this must be the tree. I touch it and it opened up to have a book inside. Opening the book seems like a logical thing to do, and upon opening it, I wake up. Yep, denied my answer. Hmmm I get the Scottish thing... maybe I should take a break from watching ‘The Big Tease’ and such. Nevertheless, hmmm I want my tree answers damn it. I will not be denied , Craig of the sub-conscious!

Anyway I am looking to the land of Nod and oh indeed, there is more of the nerdiness to come, so much so, I bathe in it. I am all wrinkly now, I think it is time to get out.

*he makes me grin like an idiot and giggle like a school girl, yeah dead sexy I know!

"What did we learn on the show tonight, Craig?"

Hmmm well for one thing, I learned that the Canadian government is on the back of a giant turtle. Oh yeah, I know, who would have thunk it? To think that the jokes... I mean, leaders of this country need to definitely take swimming lessons, because no one swims in Canada, is down right preposterous. The turtle could dive at any moment and we have nothing but an old pair of skates from the 1970's and a bad cup of coffee... damn you Stephan Harper... damn you!

I think of the three comedians I would like to obtain salmonella over a cheap dinner with, I have come to this conclusion:
-Lewis Black, I feel after reading your book, 'Me of Little Faith', religious ranting can be sexy but I feel I would have to wear a diaper around you, and not just over the salmonella either.
-Colin Mochrie, the internal voice in my head. Rubbing your beautiful shiny head would bring me much joy or at least some good luck.
- Craig Ferguson, I have always been a sucker for an accent. You can come to my house and act inappropriate anytime.

I am reading (always reading, try it sometime you ignorant sods.) John Ralston Saul's: 'A Fair Country'. Quite a read, really, and not because he is married to Adrienne Clarkson, even though that could be a compelling argument there. He truly puts Canada in her place.

I am also now looking to count on anyone BUT myself. Is there anyone sane left out there? I am even looking to sent out a call via space communication. Men are idiots, women are idiots ( see, I believe in equality). I think the movie 'Must Love Dogs' puts it all in perspective. But online ads , are you fucking kidding me?, they suck. Lets learn to mingle as people first, like the good old days, and fuck I am only 24 and feel like I grew up during the depression. Now society's collective stupidity IS leading me to depression. No, people, just because I talk to some people online does not mean I want to fuck you, and even when I say I DON'T WANT TO FUCK YOU, they still don't take the hint. Do I have to come through your screen and stab you multiple times for you to get the hint.

Well okay in reality we didn't learn anything new today, just reiterated what I always felt, and those who know put up with on a daily basis (thank you, you sick fucks).

Rules of EnRagement

Life did indeed rock this semester and here is how the coup when down:

-94% (A) in Eng ( I know, WTF? That is what I said)

-82% (B+) in Phil

-94% (A) in Anth ( I think just having the assistant job was cool enough, fuck yah)

-84% (B+) in PoSc... and no I did not do any 'extra credit' things sickos, although if offered Hmmmm.... Ole!

me thinks I lucked out on awesome prof's or due to rapid evolution, I am growing smarter faster. Either way I like it, it keeps me occupied so I don't have to think about being so far in debt... remind me to cut my writs with my diploma when I graduate... see students loans are depressing shit.

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- Catching up on some reading and came across some Lewis Black 'Me of Little Faith', even in words the guy screams angry mannerisms, fucking brilliant. Yes, pick it up people, learn to read again, lose yourself in the inbred married cousins that which are humour and religion. "God", I love it. Holiday wishlist peoples: Nothing Sacred, gracias!

cheers to when I actually have some free time to converse with myself and this idiot box.