Downhill...
(Strange dreams as of late....put it down to the stress of moving)
#1 - I'm in an apartment or office building off of Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, maybe 10 stories, I'm taking the elevator but it disconnects from the building, falls over like a spring, and when it's swinging near to the ground I get out, decide to walk back to the building, take the stairs...
#2 - I've been working in an Alpine resort, high altitude, high in the mountains, lots of exposed timber and logs, leaving now and taking the long, winding road home...fall colors, leaves, the road is winding downhill about 30 miles ... I come to an icy slick in the middle of the road, embedded within it, some twigs, leaves, a rack of antlers from a moose and the associated skeleton...I get out to take some photos...
...against the escarpment, the road-cut, a mattress leaning, a blue tarp, I'm noticing something with the tarp, something is moving behind it, something...well, evil, and the tone of the dream changes, from behind the mattress appears D**, the daughter's mother, thin, face pinched, maybe dead, I'm not sticking around to find out and I'm searching for a way to get outa there...
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Literary Death Match
Link: http://calgaryherald.com/life/swerve/cheap-date-words-go-wild-at-wordfests-literary-death-match
It kinda looks good, and the start time creates the false sense of hope - that maybe, just maybe, if I can finish work on time, I can go...
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Police in Calgary, in General
It's pretty much a given that whatever our US neighbors are doing we'll be doing in 4 or 5 years. Calgary, sooner, because we're easily the most American city in Canada.
Summary: A Calgary Police officer shoots and kills a 76 year old man "armed" with a hammer [Links: The Calgary Herald, The Calgary Sun](or sharp-edged tool, mebbe a hatchet?). Think about it. He's in his garage, the chief during the interview drops all sorts of hints that "suggest" he was about to kill himself - suicide by cop - (hose attached to car, etc). - and the police shoot him. The Police Chief notes emphatically that he stands behind the actions of his men. No wonder the approval rating for Calgary cops is so high...
Now, the Sun, always the Sun, offers a fine defense for our police. That's ok, it's their job to talk shit, no one who reads the Sun finished high school, fewer still I suspect those who write for it. It's hard - very hard, beggars the imagination - how officers equipped with tasers and Kevlar vests and guns and nighsticks and armor-clad hummers should have to shoot a 76 year old man armed with a hammer. The conflict - with his grandson - who knows? Maybe senile dementia, or maybe crack-addled grandson was being a pest. We don't know and the police just killed the star witness. When he appeared why didn't you just back away and call for backup? Call for ideas? Was he that much of a threat? Really? How old were the officers? Where's the bodycam video? "Technical Difficulties"? Really? I think you just don't want them...This is a list of the salaries for police officers in Calgary. We can expect better. We're paying for better, lets expect better.
Meanwhile, other cops across the nation: Benjamin "Monty" Robinson (gotta love a Cop with an Alias) - appealing his perjury conviction following the murder of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver Airport. He followed that act with the impaired murder of a motorcyclist. He remained on the force until 2012 ... Really, folks, this is the best we can do? This guy should be in jail for a very, very long time. Instead he's out enforcing "Law and Order".
And Britain Loves Pedophiles: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/world/brits+slammed+receiving+canadian+alert+child+pornographers/12271857/story.html
I actually suspect it's embedded in their DNA. That, and they're only the Police, after all. Get a neighborhood watch sign, you'll be better protected.
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Voting For...
I'm not an American, I'm not able to vote. But when I see people saying their "Voting For..." I can't help but think they're idiots. There's no one to vote for. You can only vote against the lesser of two evils. But you're not voting for anyone, you're voting against different ideologies, levels of intelligence, competencies and levels of corruption, you can only vote against one because to argue for the other is ludicrous.
No one in America seems to want to acknowledge that it's an embarrassment, that, internationally, they're a laughingstock on a par with Putin, Theresa May and Bellusconi - part of a worrying world-wide trend, who's to blame? Never has information been more abundant and freely available and yet we're getting this?
It's hard to reconcile with the abundance of intelligent analysis and commentary we're getting that these are the people best suited to lead the United States."
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