Going to look at a place in Kaslo. House. Only it's not a house, as the advert suggested, implied that it was, "home", it's not, it's a sawed off trailer filled with despair, in a trailer park a few blocks from the main street, trailer park, that overlooked neighborhood of Kaslo that I've never explored, the owner, a 60-odd hippy, her partner, meet me at the hotel, drive out to the location, this is the reason there weren't any photo's provided...
It's fucking awful. I mean a hole, dark, dingy, terribly furnished, good, maybe, if you were working above the Arctic Circle and dealing with chest-bursting aliens, but it's not cutting it. It's the kind of place you imagine when you hear of a woman being rescued by a SWAT team from a serial killers tortuous depredations, you picture, first off upon entering, a group of Gestapo staring down laser-scopes filling the trailer, to rescue a couple of girls chained to the wall...l can'd do it, not even at the bargain price she's asking, I'd pay more, but I want more, anything, a tarpaper shack with a wood-burning stove would be an improvement, but this, This, well...I'm better off sleeping in a tent on the lawn...
She thinks it's good, is glad that I showed up to view it, it's been discouraging how many people have called about it and missed the preview, she's eager to sign the paperwork, go to the credit union, get a rental agreement, I'm not so eager, fuck this, I can live in my tent all summer, doesn't matter where, but this, this fucking trailer, I'd sooner move back to Alberta, and I kindly defer signing papers until I've looked at a few other places...
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There were people I knew, in the old restaurant, the wealthy, privileged, entitled customers, that would defend the killing of unarmed black men in the US, as "accidents" or by using statistics to justify their prejudice.
2 Links:
- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170623/06000037650/cops-sent-warrant-to-facebook-to-dig-up-dirt-woman-whose-boyfriend-they-had-just-killed.shtml
- https://twitter.com/webster/status/877296731523874819
Like, literally within hours they've started the "Blame the Victim" campaign and are attempting to frame and implicate the bereaved in criminal activity. Like holy-fuck. The system could not be any more broken, and every cop on that force at this point is guilty of murder. They should be bringing in the National Guard, because that is clearly one fucked up police department - and yet the sheep stay calmly in their pens...
Which is confirming my long held belief that the only good interaction you can have with a cop is one where you leave alive and the cop is in a shallow grave or dead by the side of the road. No shit.
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A rather good video that describes the importance of fossil collecting before they degrade and are lost to history forever.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6XfHstJPs&t=6s
A more intelligent approach to preserving shared heritage and resources than the Government of Alberta currently employs.
"A fossil on the surface, in this type of environment, may only have 3 or 4 years until it's dust. If you don't collect it, no one will ever collect it."
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News of the murder of unarmed black teenager Jordan Edwards comes on the heels of announcements that no charges will be laid in the murders of Alton Sterling.
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-shooting-of-jordan-edwards/525141/
Note the stated consequence of the first - police officer shoots unarmed black teen in head, is fired. The initial response of the police chief - defense, denial, lies: "...was driving towards the officer..." indicts not just the fired officer, but the whole force. This should be the defense of every mafia drug-lord, hit man, domestic abuser and serial killer, this is the bar.
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