The cure for anything is salt water

My friend used to say, "Leon, it takes one like you to degentrify an entire neighbourhood." He wasn't completely wrong. Just ask anyone in Yorkville or Kits.

Before you jump into the fray with more street-smart bravado about Victoria's tents-in-parks judge ruling precedent, I'd like you to reflect on how there's more dignity to living aboard than to be in a tent or a room. Liveaboards practice a cooperative, sustainable lifestyle. I guess that's why they had to go! (Watersquatters, Thinking and Living Outisde the Box is available at DEVOUT BOOKS).

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watersquatters.blogspot.com
waterworld at youtube

BC's new currency: iTap

This is my suggestion for investors: instead of buying gold, pile up Vancouver bottled tap water, more exactly "iTap" -- available at DEVOUT, 6 E. Cordova. We're currently selling them as campaign contributions for $10 each (hey, I predict this WILL be the price of bottled water in 2015).

PS -- DTES residents, mostly, do not consume bottled water, they can't afford it. However, they supplement their income recycling PET bottles.

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Because we need more horny Jewish males pulling the strings!

Please read my platform and if you support my goals send us money to help with the campaign!
My motto is: Be afraid, be very afraid. We're afraid of the upcoming civilization economic/ecological collapse! We're afraid of each other; we're afraid of our sexuality; we're afraid of being afraid! I urgently advocate people to bring up their clown chakra. Let's take ourselves less seriously?

Ask Leon!

Siverman gone Obama

Buy my shitpile!

The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken. Make no mistake about it: After stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering backers for the past five years, after lining the pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred billion dollars in just the last two years, Bush and his cronies -- who must soon vacate the White House -- are looting the U.S. Treasury of every dollar they can grab. They are swiping as much of the silverware as they can on their way out the door.

Michael Moore

The belly of the mayor

Repent sinner!

Joe Eszterhas, who wrote “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls,” is a new man, born again of the Holy Spirit. He gives his testimony at Newsweek’s On Faith religion site:

"Why did God save the life of a man who had trashed, lampooned, and marginalized Him most of his life? Why did He take the time and the trouble to save me? It certainly wasn’t because I had written Basic Instinct and Showgirls, right? Was it because my wife and I had four little boys we were trying to raise? Possibly. Or was it God’s divinely impish sense of humor? Well . . . and then all of the things God said would happen . . . did. My life has turned inside-out. I have stopped my excesses and replaced them with prayer and long walks. I am carrying the cross as often as they’ll let me at Holy Angels Church in Bainbridge Township, Ohio."

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California got it

Was Tchaikovsky poisoned?

Tchaikovsky was one of the first postmodern composers. His infamous "1812 Overture" pasted sound collages, cannon explosions...

Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg on November 6, 1893, nine days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, the Pathétique. His death has traditionally been attributed to cholera, contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier. However, some have theorized that his death was a suicide because he was outed. Homosexuality was no longer a stigma in Tsarist Russia, but was accepted at the highest levels of public life. At worst, Tchaikovsky might have gone into exile, like Oscar Wilde. The question remains by musicologists and researchers...

New Gates & Seinfeld ad

These ads have been referred to as "icebreakers." Gates has been wisely cast as Seinfeld's straight man. In this installment, it drags on for too long, and still fails to get to the point. There remains no mention of product, and scant reference to Microsoft at all. Additionally, the juxtaposition of the two rich men against the "real world" continues to make them look like haplessly ignorant aristocrats.

Hockey moms vs. Soccer moms

Sarah Palin proudly described herself as a "hockey mom" in her speech to the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. How do hockey moms compare with soccer moms? They probably have to pay a good deal more to get their kids on the ice; They may also have to wake up earlier, too; because ice time is limited, many teams are forced to have practice hours before school starts. Hockey partisans on the Internet also claim that hockey moms are a bit more intense than their soccer counterparts, both in terms of the commitments they make to the sport and the intensity with which they cheer their kids. Partially as a result, USA Hockey has spearheaded a "Relax, It's Just a Game" campaign to try to get parents to calm down.

Bike theft etiquette

Five years ago, when I had my bike pilfered on Queen street (Toronto) I knew exactly where to go to get it back: Igor's Bicycle clinic. I correctly assumed the crackhead made a beeline to one of Igor's 10 garages. I paid a hefty $40 fee and retrieved it. Igor was loved and hated in the neighbourhood. Yes, he did buy stolen bikes; but he also fixed your bikes at no cost. The eccentric Slavic Robin Hood was famous for his appetite for bikes and food. I still laugh to myself remembering the horror expression stamped on the "all-you-can-eat" Chinese restaurant owner every time we walked in.

We're gonna miss the philosopher bike theft king, finally nailed by cops, who waited 20 years to get him--although they knew of his activities.

http://www.nytimes.com

Trimble Park

Our doom is nigh

(...) there is just a thin veneer of civilization on our society. You take your average urbanite or suburbanite and get him excessively cold, wet, tired, hungry and/or thirsty and take away his television, beer, drugs, and other pacifiers, and you will soon seen the savage within. Put yourself in the mind set of Mr. Joe Sixpack, Suburbanite. He is unprepared. He has less than one week’s food on hand, he has a 12 gauge pump action shotgun that he hasn’t fired in years, and just half a tank of gas in his minivan and maybe a gallon or two in a can that he keeps on hand for his lawn mower. Then the (planned) "Meltdown" hits. The power grid is down, his job is history, the toilet doesn't flush, and water no longer magically comes cascading from the tap. There are riots beginning in his city. Now he is suddenly desperate. Once the Golden Horde has been thinned (and honed to ferocity) and they’ve cleaned out an area, the thugs at the pinnacle of ruthlessness will comprise the most formidable rover packs imaginable. They will move on to an adjoining region, and then another. Here are your potential adversaries: A squad to company size force (12 to 60 individuals), highly mobile, moderately well armed with a motley assortment of weapons and vehicles, and imbued with absolute ruthlessness. Be afraid... www.survivalblog.com

My book "I Married a Terrorist", available at Devout Books [6 E. Cordova], is a humourous blueprint for survivalism and nomadism.

War of my dreams

1. The Georgians started it.
2. They lost.
3. What a beautiful little war!

Found this real cool Georgian war analysis by the "war nerd" on the net:
exiledonline.com/

This is Sparta!

I love the infobahn trashy ways! Sparta 300 were a crazy bunch. To paste their angry face on today's junk images is hillarious.

Famous people who were homeless

Halle Berry In an interview with magazine,US Weekly,Berry stated that she had stayed in a shelter for a time. * Jim Carrey Actor,writer,producer and comedian lived out of a VW van in various locations across Canada with older brother John Carrey, older sister and parents. * Charlie Chaplin Lived on the streets of London during his childhood after his father died and his mother, Hannah suffered a mental breakdown. Themes in his films in later years would re-visit the scenes of his childhood deprivation in Lambeth. * Kurt Cobain Lead vocalist of the band "Nirvana" camped under a bridge in Aberdeen, USA and slept in a cardboard box on the porch of a drummer friend; hallway floor of an apartment building, hospital waiting room and old couch in a garage. * Daniel Craig Actor; James Bond in the 007 movies, is reported as having slept on a park bench in London while a struggling actor. (source: Daily Mail newspaper, October 14, 2005). * Ella Fitzgerald Ella spent years as a struggling, homeless teenager before she was discovered in a singing competition. At one point, she worked as a lookout at a bordello. She was taken into custody and sent to a reform school. Eventually she escaped from the reformatory, and became homeless. * David Letterman Emmy Award-winning television writer, comedian, author and talk-show host of the television talk-show Late Show with David Letterman spent time living out of his Chevy pickup truck while struggling to establish his career. * William Shatner After the cancellation of the television series Star Trek, in which he starred, he travelled the east coast of the U.S. sleeping in a camper with his dog, a Doberman pinscher. "I now had three children and an ex-wife to support and I was just about broke." * Martin Sheen Emmy Award-winning actor,director and producer; slept in New York City subway while a young struggling actor.

Beatles for free, mais oui

Calling McCartney an "international Anglo-Saxon idol" is too much! In an open letter, Quebec City painter and sculptor Luc Archambault informs McCartney that he should learn some French songs before coming to perform as part of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebrations.

All that bickering reminds me that Canadian natives have to choose between phlegmagtic wit or buffonic repartee from members of the founding nations.

Iran releases new missile photo

New iPhone app

Reptilian humanoids in Holland

No Country For Raising Arizona

Parallels between two Coen Brothers movies.http://www.thecleverest.com/blog/426

Too good (bad) for tv

A really cheesy tv show pilot with Jack Black and a talking bike! An astronaut with super powers... aliens... b-movie aesthetics... produced by Ben Stiller... Too bad it was never aired.

Peace and prosperity

Did you know that the famous Spock salute is actually a Kohanim dinasty priestly blessing gesture? A Kohen is a direct male descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses. During the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem, Kohanim performed specific duties vis-à-vis the daily and festival sacrificial offerings. Kohen descendants (Hebrew כּהן, "priest") have a special status at Synagogues. However, the honours given to the kohen during the Torah reading are not observed in Reform Jewish communities.

This is also the salute a heretical Jewish sect used to perform in the XVIII-century. The Sabbatians and the Frankists were followers of Jacob Frank and Rabbi Sabbatai Tzvi. Both self-proclaimed messiahs. However, the father of the Sabbatian movement became an Ishmaelite in 1666, to his followers' dismay! According to current affairs lecturer Barry Chamish, Sabbatians later joined the Bavarian Illuminati.

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek was a 33rd Degree Freemason.

www.barrychamish.com

Device to root out devil

It was too hot for New York City; too hot for Stanford University. But a controversial, imposing sculpture by renowned international artist Dennis Oppenheim finally found a public home in Vancouver. Now, after 21/2 years in a prominent location near Stanley Park, the upside-down country church, denounced as “blasphemous” by some aghast Christians, is about to be unceremoniously dismantled, its future uncertain. Too many negative comments and too many neighbours complaining that the sculpture interfered with their view of scenic Coal Harbour sealed the immediate fate of Mr. Oppenheim’s work. The decision to remove the sculpture, approved unanimously by Vancouver Park Board commissioners this week, has dismayed those who wanted to keep the piece’s topsy-turvy church spire where it is, like Michaela Frosch, the disappointed chairwoman of Vancouver Sculpture Biennale: "I don’t think we are yet prepared for this level of art. Very clearly, it does create debate and dialogue, but that’s good."

Checkmate

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Church of the Euthanasia

For those obsessed with the prospect of planetary overpopulation -- or just really, really depressed about their own lives -- the Church of Euthanasia has a modest proposal: "Save the Planet -- Kill Yourself." In fact, suicide is just one of the four pillars of the Church's dogma, along with abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy -- sacraments of non-proliferation for a crowded and despairing world.

It may look like just another joke religion, but the Church of Euthanasia's founder does a great job of sounding completely serious. A radical environmentalist gone spiritual, she insists that unless immediate, voluntary steps are taken to reduce the world's population, within a decade we'll be facing a cataclysm of such massive proportions that the living will envy the dead.

The Boston-based Church of Euthanasia is the brainchild of the Reverend Chris Korda, who alleges that in 1992 an alien intelligence she calls simply "the Being" visited her in a dream and intoned the words, "We are not of this planet," going on to describe a coming eco-catastrophe. The self-anointed Reverend, with a flippy hairdo and statuesque good looks more often found among fashion models than shamans, concedes with a small laugh that it all "sounds spooky, sounds kooky," but still swears to the authenticity of her experience. And if her alien's message sounds a bit cryptic to you and me, she attests that it was "sufficiently powerful so that pretty much on a dime I turned around my life and founded the Church of Euthanasia."

http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org

New goodies at Devout

This has been a good hunting weekend. I found lots of Noam Chomsky stuff, and some Gregorian chant CDs. The new crop of DVDs include Alex Jones, Dave Icke and many others.

Porn and pancakes

F.A.Q's
Is Porn and Pancakes R rated? No.
Should I bring my son? Yes.
Should my son be 11 years or older? Yes.
Can I bring my dad? Yes.
Should my dad be ready to talk afterwards? Yes.
Why just men? That’s how we started.
Will there be nudity? Ahhh, no.
Will we have to wear name tags? No.
Do you use Grade A or Grade B syrup? Whatever is cheapest.
Will you talk about masturbation? Yes.
Can I bring my men’s group, youth pastors, lead pastors? Yes.
Will we learn about personal accountability? Yes.
Is porn a 57 billion dollar a year business world wide? Yes.

Excerpts from http://xxxchurch.com

Taser happy

The first phase of a public inquiry into the use of Tasers in British Columbia begins today. Police departments in Chicago, Illinois and Birmingham, Alabama have reportedly discontinued their use of the weapons due to safety concerns. Until such time as unbiased study into the safety implications of Tasers has been properly completed, I think that a moratorium must be imposed upon the weapon who killed 20 people in Canada.

Like so many Poles of his generation, Dziekanski went looking for work in one of those “normal” countries that Poland was supposed to become but never did. Two million Poles have joined this mass exodus during the last three years alone. Dziekanski’s cohorts have gone to work as bartenders in London, doormen in Dublin, plumbers in France. Last month, he chose to follow his mother to British Columbia, Canada, which is in a pre-Olympics construction boom. However, the nation that used to be known around the world for its openness to refugees, is militarizing its borders, with lines between immigrant and terrorist blurring fast. “After seven years of waiting, [Dziekanski] arrived to his utopia, Vancouver,” said the Polish consul general, Maciej Krych. “Ten hours later, he was dead.”