The Thought Salesman

Well, I've never been that big on Nerf. When me and my siblings were kids my mother didn't want us playing with guns, even though they shoot darts so soft that the term to "nerf" something means to remove its potency for causing damage, Nerf guns were not really allowed in the house.

Anyway, apparently there's a large online community of Nerf enthusiasts, and there's youtube. Here's some videos of the sort of thing a Nerf enthusiast would be into:

Making a Nerf gun more powerful (seems like defeating the purpose of a Nerf gun, but that's fine I guess):

So, I don't know how many of you are familiar with Bill O'Reilly, this being Canada and all, but he's a bit of a jackass.

In The States, he's what's called a pundit, basically an expert that has no credentials and no expertise. So that's why I'm suprised to find out I agree with him about the whole Lou Dobbs bolstering the lunatics questioning Obama's citizenship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1zrcXCJzK0

And here's a few reminders as to why I think he is a douche:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BAFb97L3KU

Alright, so I’m not a news organization, but I’d like to take the time to discuss a story that is making its way across the news organizations.

Women’s Olympic Skiing

This is the situation:
1) Men have a ski jump event at the Olympics, women do not.

2) 15 women decided to sue the Vancouver Olympic committee for discrimination

3) A BC judge just ruled on the case and agreed it was discriminatory, but said that the Canadian Charter only applies to Canada, not international entities.

So, owning a website means I have to pay a minimal fee every three months.

I think it's worth it, but it's beginning to be like a gym membership that's never used. It just sits there and drains its owner's account.

When this happens there's only two courses of action to pursue:

1) Go to the gym

2) Cancel the membership

I have no intention of cancelling my membership.

Unfortunately for the blog though, I'm feeling pretty mellow about politics, etc.

Well, the American Election is tomorrow night, and I thought it would be nice to talk about contemporary trends that I (a layman) see in politics; most notably that red is a colour on the downslope.

Well, the Canadian election turned out a predictable result: Conservative Minority.

Stephane Dion, a Doctor of laws, was made out to be an insane bumbler by the Conservative party, and it worked. Dion’s political career is essentially over, and he is resigning as leader of the party as soon as a new leader is chosen.

This fall Canadians are going to the polls to decide who will run the country. Likely this will play sideshow to the American election, despite the gravity of these times.

Elections should be about one thing, and that’s deciding the way the country should be run. It shouldn’t matter if a candidate is good with children, or eats children; it should be about that candidate’s vision for Canada’s future, and their plans to bring about that future.

John McCain has just shown how cunning he truly is. He has appointed Sarah Palin, the relatively young Governor of Alaska.

Palin, a political unknown, is immune to attacks on her record, as she has a very short record. Similar to how Obama, with his short history is nearly beyond professional suspicion, so his enemies attacked him personally instead.

As Canadians we have a unique position in this upcoming US election. The position that we occupy is that of the observer, not the sort of observer that watches from afar like a person watching the column of smoke from a far off fire, but rather the sort of observer that sees something happening up close, like someone looking through their fenceposts to see a neighbour’s barbeque fire. And like the second observer, we learn important lessons, such as not going overboard on the lighter fluid.

Everyone knows by now that there are problems in Tibet. Whether you heard it on the news, or in the paper, or even if you have family back in China, the message is the same, Tibet is rioting. It is very rare in any struggle for one side to be completely right while the other is completely wrong, and from what we are fed in the west by our news media, this appears to be one of those times. China, a superpower in its own right, is oppressing the people of an alien nation that it has greedily annexed. That is what we are to learn from even the most prominent western news stations.