Archive for December, 2008

On people with Testicles upon their vehicle

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Today was the appearance of a rare retard at work… At least I hope he is rare. Yes today we got to see a north american fucktard in all his glory as a S-10 owner with testicles chained to his hitch arrived in the shop. Not only was he an idiot of some acomplishment his vehicle being horrifically undermaintained but he spoke like and looked like a douche bag from the university. Thats right the sort of pretentious wad you see on campus talking shit all day drives around with a truck your uncle who married a close cousin would be proud to own. A dilapidated Chev with all the scrotum acoutraments. The mentality of these people baffles me, are your genitals so micronian that you need to advertise that they exist with your automobile.  I know that my automotive opinions run more towards the upgrade/restoration route but I cannot grasp why anyone would pay more than a hundred dollars on a pair of metal testes and let their truck rot away around them.

3 Toyotas in a row today reminded me why I dreaded working across from the damn Sun Toyota, I am way to close to the belly of the beast.

So it is almost complete

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Its been a weird weekend for me with the failure of not just my own car but my fathers as well.

The Daytona’s breakdown was all my fault as in my attempt to replace the thermostat so the damn thing would heat up in this weather one of the two Bolts Snapped off, making for the fun of me trying to use and extractor tool, which failed of course as the drilled hole is just off. After the fun of scavaging a self tapping screw to hold down the broken side and reassembling the whole thing and taking the car from work to the Park so my Dad could drill out the broken nut and retap it. As a loaner he gave me his Buick so I could return the next day and help. The battery froze in the cold (It is permanently wrecked) so now I am trapped at home in this cold with a broken car in the park and another here. Suffice it to say its been great fucking times on the automotive front. Don’t get me wrong I understand that when you pay $200.00 for a car you will be inconvenienced on occasion and largely the car has been great but now is not a great time with work and exams all around plus the -30 or better temperatures making it impossible for me to even move about.

Kind of a piss off

As well I may have found a new car, a Toyota Celica I am not sure of the eventual price and the like but I am sure its nothing I want to keep and finally my “Little Plan” to flip a car to help get ahead is coming together. Mostly due to there being no way in hell I would want to keep it. Its like money in the bank.

Now if only the Daytona ran better <Sigh>

Nights Out Aside

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

The all fun times Global warming debate came up in the course of discussions at O’Byrnes tonight and what it really means to us today. With the recent discovery of OIl in Brazil and the find being of great size it is clear that the fear of the world running out of Petro Chemicals was a bit short sighted, I agree that we use alot of them but it has been possible for some times for lubricants and even Gasoline to be created via artifical means. Now as far as global warming (If it exists) is concerned we should be reducing our reliance on petrochemicals so as to prevent Ice Cap melting and global flooding.

This is not something I consider bad and if not for the fear mongering that is going into much of the advertising and other methods of outlay I would even agree but for several factors:

1. No nation not in the 1st world even gives a shit at all and THE big international polluter (USA)as well as home of the companies that pollute in other nations is out

2. The current pollution standards are very very high and it can be clearly seen that tailpipe emmissions are not the problem in this counrtry

3. The nations not participating are merely increasing their consumption to match what is not being used by north america, have you heard of China, they all want cars and individually I am told their average auto makes more polution than a 60′s US made car.

4. Due to the capitalist system those things that pollute most will tend to be done in nations whose standards are the lowest.

To use Denise’s line the world is an apartment building and we are keeping our floor clean, but the Russians have started a fire on the European floor and the Asian and Africa Floors are worse, we should not be worrying about our standards which are already high we should be working on making at least the standards from the 80′s the INTERNATIONAL standard. Of course that would take a UN with teeth which is not on the Russian and US agenda meaning it is not gonna happen.

We are not the problem and if I hear one more fucker trying to tell me to use a Prius a car with an engine that cannot get to operating (Hence least polluting) temprature in winter in this country I am gonna kick their ass.

This comes back to a debate I had last year with some LJ people about the use of electric trolley’s in Edmonton, Canada is not Vancouver or California this place is the largest population this far north on earth and many of the things we do here to live make no sense elsewhere but are part of how this city is. The Cold breaks trolley lines making the system no matter how nice for green sensibilities useless, not to mention this city is wholey Coal fired as far as power and I will tell you the coal burned to run a bus on Power is way more polluting than a bus is on Desiel.

I wonder if

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Recently in my inter ramblings and search for information on the “Potential” Ottawa CFL team and the Lansdowne Live! project (Http://lansdownelive.ca) I came upon a Blog talking about it, and after agreeing with his opinion and reading some of his other posts I have begun… I guess the phrase is keeping tabs on it. The wordpress blog in question The Ottawa Project has been quite interesting with his laying out of local affairs. I will admit that I am hoping that being nearer the sources than I am he will hear of information about things first.

This whole “New Ottawa CFL Team” thing has been quite the hobby for me filling time better spent doing almost anything else, of course school being the main loser of this time, heck even now I should really be cramming for my final at 2pm and instead I am here Writing away. I suppose it has to do with me wanting the CFL to be a respectable leauge again, since the debacle of US teams the league has been struggling to expand in Canada more due to the shafting of long term markets in favor of US money, ultimately Montreal got their team back and due to good management they were and are Relevant in the leauge but Ottawa lost their team, the name of their team and any hope. To say that the Renegades were mismanaged is to bring shame to the mismanaged teams of the league, the Renagades were a mess of the likes Tampa Bay is about to see with their Hockey team right down to the Drafting of players who will never and can never play. Bead night in the stands, public nudity, a new coach every year all to keep sight away from the fact they had no good players no prospects and one of the worst scouting departments I have ever seen. Joseph was their quarter back but name me one more player from that organization who has been relevant in the CFL since the team folded? If you think its none you may well be right, but to be honest I cannot remember for sure I think there was a WR who is still playing, and they had a good kicker in the NFL which is not a great place when you need a good kicker. Suffice it to say that if someone could put a relevant team in that city I think the fans would come back and the model the Lansdowne Live! folks have put together looks viable and positive for the city. As well they may have bought the Rough Riders name back from the Chen fellow who owned it meaning we can go back to having two teams with names said the same but spelt differently. Myself I like the idea of the Rough Riders being back but that may have to do more with them being named after Rosevelts unit in the Spanish American War than any affection for having two teams with the same name in the league.

The way I figure it Ottawa is the prover for later expansion, if the League can put a team back in that city and be viable, (and clearly they think they can) they can use that success to expand the league finally into the Maritimes and Quebec City. My current hope is that we can become a 10 team league 5 West and 5 East with the current playoff bracketing leaving 4 teams out of the playoffs every year instead of the current two, with the Folding of NFL Europe and the approaching failure of the USFL (Two teams lack even owners) the talent pool of players is deeper than it has been since the 80′s when we had players like Warren Moon showing us how it is done. More talent = Better teams = Better Product = Better League = More Revenue ect down the line.

If I had the money I would pitch something similar to the Lansdowne Live deal to St. Johns NB or Halifax and finally get the Atlantic Schooners in operation and start uniting the Maritimes with Canada using the distinctiveness of our own brand of Football. Also how cool would it be to have a football team?

West                                                                  East

Edmonton                                                          Montreal

Calgary                                                              Toronto

B.C.                                                                    Ottawa

Saskatchewan                                                    Hamilton

Winnipeg                                                           Halifax

Now does that not look sweet for a league?

Rant Mode

Monday, December 8th, 2008

The current Political situation underlines my problems with the system as it stands in Canada, my reservations have little to do with the situation but without said issues there would not be a situations.

I perfer extremism in opinion, my dream government is a Right Wing Minority with a Left Wing Opposition with the swing being held by various area or special interest parties in Canada this would be the Bloc. The problem I have here in canada is the Liberal Party of Canada, by representing the center they really stand for absolutly nothing at all. They do not proffess an ideology or ideal they seek to win at all costs even their ideals. They sit in the center rolling back and forth towards whatever ideology or ideal they think will win at the time. This to me is the problem as its my feeling that ideology is key by having the opposite forces of the political spectrum at odds as occurs so often in european parlementary systems creates a balance that best serves people on both sides. Spilting the difference and serving the Nation best. An NDP minority, Conservative, it does not matter who is in charge by seperating the ideals at both ends we have legislation that is equitable for all.

Instead we have the Liberal party dividing the vote that could create a situation of actual fairness.

I get really really fucking mad at some of the people I meet from Ontario, I don’t want to make genrealizations but the way that some people who hail from that neck of the woods feel the Liberals are the key to our nations survival. I know the history of our nation, Liberals placed us underneath america, They rape those provinces who don’t support them, they build power by rewarding those who show them the most loyalty, although they were founded to push for change they have become the paletable of entropy maiming our nation economically, dividing our people socially and making so many people feel disafected with their style of federal rule that their are seperatist parties sitting in our legislature as we speak. They have divided Canada and left us weak they have turned us from one of the powers who helped end WWII into an international nice guy laughingstock. We are no longer respected and we are so far from the halls of power that in many ways we are a step better than Mexico if only because we started better off in the first place.

The Liberals controled the reigns of power of this nation for the majority of this last century and I see our nation not a proud power but a fucked and emptied whore brought down by a party concerned more with political expedience than any real ideal.

Thats why I hate the Liberals

Thats why I would RATHER ANYONE ELSE IN CONTROL OF MY NATION NDP, BLOC, hell even the GREENS who are crazy as bedbugs, I voted Commie for gawds sakes. I will admit freely I normally fall in the conservative path, having more to do with strong stands against crime than anything else but if you can find me a party who truly represents the balance I seek without being that pack of sycophantic money seeking fucks in the Liberal party I will go door to door for them.

I want Canada to stand up look around and lead the way to a better world, not grasp around at the corners of international affairs deluding ourselves about our importance because the party in power for so long has lied to us about our place.