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I didn’t vote in the last provincial election. I couldn’t compromise my values to vote for candidates that did not represent me and wouldn’t put the interests of the people at heart. I knew each one of them, so I couldn’t ignore my informed decisions. Did I fail at democracy? Should I feel guilty for not voting when many people die for the right to vote for whom they choose? I wasn’t the rare example, voter turnout decreases year after year. Shouldn’t we all be so excited and eager to take part in democracy; the so-called greatest accomplishment of western modern society?

The recent election in Iran and the huge demonstrations regarding the outcome, reminds me of my own election participation. Am I taking democracy for granted? After all, I have the luxury of voting for whoever I chose, in a safe, secure and private environment. And when all is said and done, I have a government who was elected by the people. Then what is the problem?

The problem is that democracy isn’t understood by us anymore than the people we see to be undemocratic. We’ve fought and died to create a system in which we politely give our rights away. Every four years (or less as the case may be), we get up, go to the ballot box, mark an ‘X’ and we are done. We’ve done our democratic duty, and now for the next four years, someone else will make all our decisions for us. This is the healthy democracy we advertise to the rest of the world. It’s orderly, efficient and provides results. Therefore the system works just fine. So what happens when you don’t vote? Well, you don’t get to complain of course. You didn’t take part in democracy. Not voting can result from apathy, but it can also result from a lack of options, from disillusionment with the system. I didn’t choose to not vote because I didn’t care, or didn’t have the time. I went to the ballot box, but I could not compromise the values and principles I live by, and sacrifice day-to-day for, so that someone could get a pay cheque, and feel like their actions are justified.

A healthy democracy is one in which the people, the greatest stake holders in the equation, are active in their system. Whether it is through participation in a massive protest against a violation of rights, writing a letter to a newspaper or reading up on the latest scandal; active participation is lacking. Regardless of the structure and the legitimacy of the elections in Iran, the people’s reaction is far healthier and democratically proactive than any in our own country. People are willing to risk everything to have their voice heard, to stand up for what is right and just in their minds.

Complacency kills the democratic spirit. It gives a huge advantage to any group willing to actively participate, and allows politicians to continue to get away with things the average person finds appalling. We’ve been led to believe that government is complicated, cumbersome, overwhelming. That in order to participate we’d have to read constantly and give up all our spare time. Ignore all the flowery language and smoke screens, the decisions made by our government are not complex ones for the most part, they are simple problems, that any rational person could understand and solve, and solve far better without a political and/or corporate agenda dictating one direction.

So I ask whose democracy is this; ours or theirs?

First we had Bennifer, then TomKat...now it's

HARGGY!!!!

Stephen Harper, Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, has entered into closed room talks with his opponent, Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party. No these are not secret fight club meetings but a cosy tea time between to feuding leaders. Perhaps they are smoking the peace pipe, because each time they emerge, the two parties have merged closer together, holding hands...singing songs...love is in the air!!!

Canada has a long history of these two main parties struggling for power, fighting each other, no-hold back politics brutally discrediting the other’s agenda, policy and practice. But instead of continuing the competition for the throne, it appears that they are now working together in parliament. Hell has in fact frozen over, watch out for flying pigs. Speaking of Pigs, Michael Ignatieff, though a Liberal, is almost more of a neo-con than Harper is. He has supported the use of torture, supported the Iraq war, and has congratulated George W Bush on being the reason we have human rights today. Scary stuff!!! Not even the conservatives would dare say such things. Not in public at least.

Harper was in flames over the once coalition between the Liberals, NDP and Bloc that had the potential of bringing down government last December. He hid instead of facing it, and come spring Iggy had replaced Dion, and the romance began. And the tune has changed from “Heartbreaker” to “Love maker”. After all, Harper and Ignatieff have a lot of common. Both support the war on “terror”, both support increased military, both support war criminal, George Bush. Both are on the side of large corporations, both support the ridiculous amendment to the criminal code, that would attack small time pot users, tie up the legal system, over crowd the courts and prisons in order to get “tough” on crime. Imagine the horrific policies these two could brew up together!

Ignatieff is no doubt part of the ruling class, and for you conspiracy theorists, we are talking about “THEM”. His background, his policies, and his current rise into power make him the pick for the new world. Harper loves the same fascist policies, but I think he believes they are right, it’s not so much he wants to take over the world, but I think he believes the world will benefit from a family values, conservative revolution. Now, don’t get me wrong, I will fight Harper every step of the way. The man is a menace, but I am much more concerned about our Iggy; a man that has been able to take the worst of the neo-liberal and neo-conservative agenda and bring them together. I know what I’m getting with Stephen Harper, his policies don’t surprise me, what surprises me is that they are not instantly voted down by the other more “progressive” parties. Michael Ignatieff surprises me, every step of the way. Instead of distinguishing himself from a far-right Prime Minister, he is moving Harper to the left, by jumping over him. As the NDP become the Liberals, and the Liberals become the Tories...what’s left for the old boys in blue? CCRAP it is.

So.... Liberal, Tory, same old story? Absolutely.

I look forward to the matching sweater sets.

Carrots cause Swedish bomb scare
BBC News

Police found the "bombs" were in fact carrots
A Swedish art project caused a bomb scare when people mistook carrot "explosives" for the real thing.

Artist Conny Blom set up The Bunny Project: Bombs, at 15 locations near the southern Swedish city of Orebro.

He taped bunches of carrots together with black tape and attached blue and red wires and a clock to them.

Police received worried calls from members of the public who thought they were real bombs. Mr Blom was forced to remove his art - and may face charges.

'Inappropriate'

The carrot bombs had been placed around the city at the request of a local art gallery, as part of an open-air arts festival.

They had only been in place for an hour before police received their first call.

"We received a call ... from a person who said they saw two real bombs placed outside the public library," Ronny Hoerman from the Orebro police force, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

"It was hard to tell if they were real or not. We find this inappropriate," he said.

Mr Blom described it as a harmless stunt.

"After all, it is just carrots with an alarm clock and nothing else... this is just a caricature of a bomb," he said.

On one hand, I think this piece of art would help to bring out a dialogue on society's fears, who we should fear, who we should not. It addresses the paranoia many live with. However, I don't know that most people are ready to address these feelings and thoughts just yet, especially in this way. I think they will be quick to dismiss him as another "terrorist" instead of looking at our culture's increased craziness about bombs, weapons, and control. Who are the real terrorizers? The State.

Now, I can't tell exactly what the artist is trying to do here, but perhaps it is to make a statement that we need food not bombs. In that case, I think it was well done. If it was just a joke to mess with people, probably not the best taste. Real bombs are not a joke kids.

2008 was another difficult and often dangerous year for trade unionists around the world, according to this year's ITUC Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights Violations, which details abuses of fundamental workers' rights in 143 countries. 76 trade unionists were killed due to their actions to defend workers' rights, and many more were attacked physically or subjected to harassment, intimidation or arrest by the authorities. The report makes for depressing - but necessary - reading, and is available online here: http://survey09.ituc-csi.org/survey.php?IDContinent=0&Lang=EN

Tuesday is for the Planet Mars
We wear black for the God of Wars
Persistence and Aggression at its best
A Day for confrontation, not for rest
Today might be the day you avoid me
For Mars riles me up, you see
I can never back down from a good fight
And this day of the week, it’s at it’s height
Tomorrow I will worship the muses
But today, it seems I light my fuses.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090606/national/parl_secret_meetings_1?printer=1

Secret meetings and deals in parliament? *SHOCK*
Here we can see how all of the parties elected to government are more than happy to fill their piggy faces when they think the voters can't see.
Yet, how many people out there still think we can "reform" the system?

HA!

At least, 3000 Mohawks living on Turtle Island on the St Lawrence River straddling the border between the United States and Canada are under siege from Canadian military forces on the northern shore and US forces on the southern shore.


Mohawks who leave the island -- part of the Mohawk sovereign territory -- are not being allowed to return. Food supplies are being cut off leaving the remaining Mohawks living from day to day in a state of siege.


A Mohawk leader said that the US and Canadian governments wanted to destroy the North American Indians as the pace towards the creation of a militarised North American Union accelerated. The Northcom Agreement is just one piece of legislation that pushes forward the merger of Canada and the US, fusing the two country's army and police into a single force.


Members of the Mohawk community of Akwesasne routinely go back and forth across the border to go to work, take their children to school or visit relatives. Also, the Mohawk Nation has treaty relationships with the United States guaranteeing the sovereignty of their territory. Other North American Indian governments at Onondaga, Tonawanda Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora have been recognized by the United States under 72 Fed. Reg. 13647-13652 (Mar. 22, 2007).


The US and Canadian forces have laid siege to the Island on the pretext that the Mohawks are involved in bringing guns into the US, something the Mohawks deny, pointing out that guns are forbidden among their own border patrols.


A Mohawk leader said that the real motive for the siege was to provoke a gun battle with the Mohawks, destroy Mohawk society and its thriving political, cultural, economic and social structures that require frequent travel to and from the various communities on both sides of the international border.


As the world's climate changes and Canada's winters grow milder, the indigenous sovereign territories of the North American Indians full of minerals, oil and natural resources are becoming more accessible and hunted by the global banking elite, who see the thriving North American Indian communities as in the way.


The global elite are also targeting the Iroquois who occupy territories in southern Quebec and southern Ontario, using the globalist controlled newspapers such as the New York Times and the Montreal Gazette to discredit the Indians, linking them with bikers and other gangs, and also using the pretext of unpaid fines to seize land.


Mohawks have also been subjected to brutal physical assualts and even torture, but efforts to bring the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officers to account have been thwarted by the demand from the Canadian courts that the Mohawks pay sums as large as 20,000 Canadian dollars to investigate each assualt.


There is silence in the Canadian media about the desperate last stand of the Mohawks isolated on Turtle Island by armed “Northcom” forces and watched over by circling helicopters.


Kahentinetha

MNN Mohawk Nation News, Box 991

Kahnawake, Quebec Canada

J0L 1B0 tel: 450-635-0345

kahentinetha2@yahoo.com



Katenies

MNN Mohawk Nation News, Box 991

Kahnawake, Quebec Canada

J0L 1B0 tel: 450-635-9345

Some mix reviews: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jekm5GTU8QamBomd5ElPQm2S1b9QD98JULA81

So while I was gone, a few of my plants suffered greatly. I feel horrible. I gave them all a TON of water before going, but the ones that were not happy to start with withered. As well, my super healthy and strong oregano is half dead. However it does appear to be salvageable. I will spend some time with my beauties to reassure them that everything will be okay.

I have a few new sprouts. The salvia is not doing well neither here, nor in the other areas I’ve planted it. That’s unfortunate. I’ve heard cutting work better than seeds.

The weather is beautiful here, sun shining. I hope to be at the beach soon.

Harper seems to be up to his same old tricks. The new terror bill raises a few eyebrows. People could potentially sue countries and groups that they feel they are the victims of terror. Hmmm, which lobby group won this time? I can’t see how this could be put into effect. I guess Harper is now world dictator. Ahh in his dreams. Well this gives me some hope, perhaps I can sue the bastard for all the terror he puts me under every day. Creepy neo-fascist asshole.

War Criminal George Dubya Bush came to Toronto Ontario, May 28th and was unwelcomed by hundreds of protestors. Bush, who was on tour with former president Bill Clinton, spoke at the Metro Convention Center in Downtown Toronto. Bush/Clinton was paid 250,000.00 each to speak to the elites of the city. Apparently there was a bit of difficulty selling tickets and prices were eventually dropped to just shy of two hundred dollars. Toronto was the testing ground for the tour, to see what sort of attention it would get; positive and/or negative.

Therefore it was imperative that the unwelcoming committee was there to greet him. The crowds were loud, and shouted things like “War Criminals Out, War Resisters In” and “Arrest Bush”. Hands were made to look bloody, and a fifty foot banner was unfolded to read “Bush & Clinton, War Criminals Not Welcome in Toronto”. As part of the festivities, a huge painting of Bush’s “mug shot” was hung in the center of the demonstration. People were eager to throw their shoes at the picture.

This was my first demo in Toronto. I found the mood of the crowd to be both energetic and positive. People were undoubtedly loud and angry, but they illustrated it in the most positive of ways.

As for my part? I handed out information, screamed, yelled, threw some shoes, and did “vogue” poses for the secret service cameras. Air kisses for all assholes!

And to Bush? The evil you created also lives inside you, it is a part of you and it will undoubtedly destroy you. You God will not just forsake you, I expect he will kick you in the balls too.

My favourite chocolate "Green's & Black" apparently has ice cream. This yummy, dark organic chocolate is both good for you and good for you!!! So why hasn't this ice cream (which as a vegan I probably shouldn't even care about), not reach our shores? What other marvels are hiding there in the UK? Perhaps I must investigate.

Why is it that we can ship a bunch of useless crap anywhere, but the important things like chocolate are kept secret?

my solution, and this fixes everything, is since Heil Harper has allowed US military into our waters, instead we just allow chocolate shaped as military into our mouths....let me re-think that one...

meh. shrug.

Well, I will soon be boarding a plane...initially I got seat 13, and though I think 13 is a lucky number, I knew I would just be all silly about it, so I changed to another seat. Right next to it, so not like it would matter.

Anyhow, I'm going to Marxism, giving a presentation I'm rather nervous about. It's not the presenting part, but the topic. Oh well, the speech is great. Very informative. They'll laugh, they'll cry, they'll join the IS!!!

Friday night is the exciting one. Bush is in town and the unwelcoming committee is ready for him!!! It's a pity I can't fit my "Harper pull out of Bush" sign into carry-on luggage!!

Speaking of which, I'd like to congratulate myself on going from luggage whore to travel minimalist. No more breaking my foot by dropping my suitcase!

Well...time to leave on that big jet plane.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/26/naughty-nuns-arrested-crete

Unfortunately, not real nuns, but naughty nuns, nonetheless. he he he nuntheless!

Well the Governor General of Canada, had a unique meal. In order to show "solidarity" with the Inuit, she ate the raw heart of a baby seal. The seal hunt, which has been banned in Europe and in the Russian Bear, is still very active in Canada despite huge, highly publicized attempts to stop it.

I always knew the ruling class was blood thirsty but come on...
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/640335

And in other news....Cocaine was found in Red Bull cola. This cola has also caused a heart attack in an American woman. A brilliant woman at that, for the last 8 months she drank nothing but Red Bull 10-14 cans of it!!! She lost 45kg, and probably 95% of her brain. I'm not sure what she expected to happen...the caffeine alone should have killed her a long time ago. Natural selection? Survival of the fittest? Man stupidity is on the rise.
Back to the drugs...Well at least we can trace the cocaine back to a plant. As for the other ingredients in Red Bull... Anything that gives you body parts you shouldn't have, probably shouldn't be put in your body.

coke but not Coke: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25539509-5006003,00.html

Death by Sweet Stupidity: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25539373-5006003,00.html

I've noticed over the last while, a silent but menancing emergence of conflict between Canada and Russia. Russia has staked it's claim in the North and Harper "mis"representing Canada is willing to defend it. Slowly but quietly, it continues, nothing more than words, not overly strong words, but lukewarm threats. The type you hear piss drunk best friends make when they wanna beat each other up, but they probably won't really hurt each other. Just roll around a bit.

Is this the emergence of a new Cold War? The distraction war, so that all the other nasty things are ignored and look less bad. After all there is this BIG MENACING THREAT, we must deal with at all cost. There are a lot of hot hot conflicts going on across the globe. Ones people are starting to notice. MUST DISTRACT WITH SHINY OBJECT!!! So we miss the explosion to watch a speck glitter.

If this becomes a big story, I'd say it's time for popsicles.

She finally has a name!!! Vroom Vroom, Go Liberty Go!!! (slowly).

I may have been a bit too eager and put out my little seedlings outside too soon. The plants that I grew from seeds and quickly transplanted outside, are all dying. James Bay is FREAKING WINDY! The plants that were substantial and larger are doing just fine.
I will start some squash and zucchini again. I feel horrible about the fate they met. But they are one with the earth now.

This girl may glide on lovely melodies but she doesn't have all that much rhythm. So it's time to get our groove. I've acquired a beautiful, hand-made Djembe from Ghana through the greatness of craig's list. I've decided to name this drum "Oshun", the African Goddess of love, harmony and sensuality. Groovy, baby.

To learn more about the djembe, www.wikipedia.org/djembe

So, you will find me at beaches everywhere groovin and getting in touch with the beats of the spiritual creature within.

My new painting, isn't it amazing? I met the artist, Jes Jubbis whom was both really nice and sweet, and very talented!!! I have a feeling her art is going to make a great impact on the world!!

Well, I'm excited to be going to Toronto next week for Marxism and to unwelcome George Bush!!! I knew I was saving those Charles David Stilettos for something!
I could go into his crazy, radical religious fanatics, or his blood thirsty, corporate wars...or his attack on human rights, civil rights, social rights... We could talk about Afghanistan, Iraq, New Orleans...and all the other places destroyed in his past. We could even bring up the shaddy practices behind 911. But really, a picture says a thousand words:



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Guess who's coming to Canada, again. George Bush, war criminal!

Send us your messages of protest from all across Canada!

From launching an illegal war on Iraq that has killed over one million people, to advocating torture at Guantánamo Bay and secret detention centres around the world, Bush has lots to answer for - and should be held to account. On May 29, Bush is scheduled to speak at an exclusive event in downtown Toronto, alongside former US president Bill Clinton. Outside the event, the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War will host a rally to demand that Bush be charged and arrested for war crimes.

If you can't join us in Toronto, you can still be part of the protest.

The Toronto Coalition to Stop the War invites you to send us your messages of protest from all across Canada. During the rally, we'll be rolling out an "unwelcome" mat for Bush; your protest messages will be pasted to the mat to show that people everywhere think Bush is a war criminal.Please send us your messages by e-mail to info@nowar.ca. Please keep your messages to one page, so we can easily print them and paste them to the "unwelcome" mat.Don't let Canada be a haven for war criminals. War criminals not welcome here!

RALLY
War criminals not welcome here!
Friday, May 29 from 3pm to 6pmMetro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West
TTC: Union
FeaturingMusic, spoken word, drumming, speeches, games, outdoor carnival and more!

Event on facebook:http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=89123079461

The Toronto Coalition to Stop the War is Toronto's city-wide anti-war coalition, comprised of more than 70 labour, faith and community organizations, and a member of the Canadian Peace Alliance. www.nowar.ca | info@nowar.ca | 416-795-5863

Please donate! Send a cheque or money order payable to TCSW Canada to:TCSW, 427 Bloor St W, Box 13, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X7

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theappetizer/archive/2009/05/20/back-to-plastic-reusable-grocery-bags-may-pose-public-health-risk.aspx

So, the Plastic industry is saying that re-usable cloth bags are DANGEROUS! Hazardous to your health!! A haven for germs and bacteria. OMG, are people that stupid that they didn't figure they'd ever have to wash them? Of course they have bacteria on them. So do we. So do plastic bags after a variety of people put their grubby paws on them. Veggies at the store have bacteria...we've seen the woman feel up all the grapefruit!

Use your brain. Think. Wow what a concept. We could save the world!!!

I'd also trust this a bit more if it came from someone OTHER than the plastic industry. Coincidence? hmmmmmmm.....

Zorba Zorba your leaves so green
Zorba Zorba nature just seems so mean
You’ve passed into the veggie light
Root rot limiting your ability to fight
A part of nature you are now
Oh Gardening, I will soon learn how.

I do, I do believe in karma.

karma karma karma.

Must not be tempted to do mean things to those who have done mean things.

Must live in balance with the sun, moon, stars, planets, and little creatures all about.

Do nice things.

Positive is reality.

remember karma.

Repeat mantra over and over, and go for walk in the sun.

deep breath.

rinse and repeat.

First I boiled water, added equal amount of Polenta (Corn meal) (1/1 Cup). Mix until it's thick, pay attention or it gets lumpy.
Put 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a bowl, some fresh herbs, soy cheese and lemon zest. Add hot mixture, mix and smooth into an oiled pan. Refridgerate. The longer the better.

Sauce:

Fry onions in olive oil and dash of wine. Then add:
Strained tomato sauce
Couple heirloom tomatoes
Peri peri sauce

Cook till reduced.

Return to polenta.

Cut into squares. Bread with flour (I use barley or whole wheat). Fry in grapeseed oil (goes nicely at hot temp). Fry till crispy on outside. They are super soft and gooey on the inside, it's kinda sexy. Serve with sauce.

OMG yum.

On the Side... I got these amazing, I think they were baby cabbage leaves from the James Bay Market. I sauted them with olive oil, white wine, dijon, agave nectar, sea salt. I could eat them forever and ever. pure love.

The little dark things are flax seeds. I covered the green happy joy with some serious flax.

Food security is life. Most of the food people eat, isn't food. All those things on the box you can't pronounce, isn't food. Some of the things that sound harmless and food like isn't food. Corporate interest has infiltrated everything down to the basic food groups. After WWII, there was a lot of ammonium nitrate hanging around, not turning into capital. So they made it into fertilizer and sold it to the farmers. Americans ate the bombs they dropped. The government, the market, they lie. They lie and people die. Mutant veggies don't have the vitamins we need. The more food is genetically modified, and tampered with the less nutrients we will have to live of off. Our bodies created from the planet, needs what the planet has to offer. Life comes through life. Control comes from denying all the right to life. When someone locked up the food, humanity changed. We no longer have the right to live. Now even capital can't save you from scary mutant vegetables. After all, that's how they can divert more capital into the health and pharmaceutical companies....shock!!! So, with the government trying to kill me, I say hot damn peaches, I'm growing my own.

With no land, one must be creative, but you can grow vegetables anywhere you can put some soil at. For me it's my balcony. Got my dirt and pots for free. Most of the bigger veggies came from James Bay Market...seeds from farmers all about! No noticeable aroused suspicion with hauling huge pots of dirt into the building... Here is What I have going so far....

Guess who's coming to Toronto...
George Bush, war criminal!
Be there to give him the welcome he deserves!

From launching an illegal war on Iraq that has killed over one million people, to
advocating torture at Guantánamo Bay and secret detention centres around the world,
Bush has lots to answer for - and should be held to account. Join us for a
city-wide rally on May 29 - the day that Bush is slated to speak in Toronto - to
demand that he be charged and arrested for war crimes.

One week earlier, on May 22, join us for a public forum to hear international law
experts and civil liberties campaigners explain the myriad of crimes committed by
the Bush administration, and to find out how Bush could formally be charged with war
crimes in Canada.

Also find out how other US leaders - including former US president Bill Clinton, who
will appear with Bush on May 29 - could be charged with war crimes, too.

Don't let Canada be a haven for war criminals.
War criminals not welcome here!

PUBLIC FORUM
Why George Bush should be charged with war crimes
Friday, May 22 at 7pm
Steelworkers' Hall, 25 Cecil Street
East of Spadina, south of College

Featuring
Michael Mandel: Osgoode law professor and international law expert
Others TBA

RALLY
War criminals not welcome here!
Friday, May 29 from 3pm to 6pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West
TTC: Union

Featuring
Music, spoken word, drumming, speeches, games, outdoor carnival and more!

OH I'LL BE THERE!!!!

I'm at a loss, I'm trying to name my new car, a beauty lil 1965 VW Beetle, but I'm at a loss. Everyone keeps calling her Herbie, but she isn't Herbie. Scarlet is always a possibility...I started off thinking Rosa, then maybe Ruby Tuesday...Or my lattest thought is: Lady Liberty Bug...Libby for short.

Ain't she cute?

When I'm old and retired, I'd like to be like Miss Marple, stick my nose everywhere and solve a few mysteries. Who would dare challenge such a fiesty old lady!!!

Anyhow, I'm in Marple withdrawal. In the newest episodes have replaced my all time favourite Marple, and they are slow to come out. Thank you Geraldine McEwan (2004-2009) for always making me smile, scratch my head and giggle perfusely. And to
Julia McKenzie (2009-present), You are a different sort of Marple, but I am sure we will get on well, just the same. After all, nothing says a good mystery like a knitting devil spinster with a tapestry bag!

So I woke up this morning and nothing had changed. I was sleeping in the same bed, under the same government, and with the same electoral system. Not that changing the government, would ultimately change anything, but alas a little variety would be good. The referendum failed as well, though numbers everywhere conflict. We waste far too much time in trying to make elections the ultimate democratic experience and not enough time understanding what the hell democracy really is.

Well, here we are, at the beginning of another 4 years of the same. Not that a change would have brought that much difference in the end.

So I go back to the things that do make a difference; patio gardening, hugs and Russian mixed drinks.

Well...it took me a long time to make this decision; who do I vote for. I recognize that really, my vote shouldn't matter, unless Hell froze over, but it's kind of sunny outside. I live in Carol James's riding, so I'm pretty sure she will win.

It is not for lack of knowledge, passion or hope for a better world that I chose not to vote for a candidate, but due to the lack of options. I've personally interacted with every candidate in my riding. I know them well. This is why I cannot vote for them. I know they will not represent me, nor do I believe in the things they believe in. I don't need to slam each one, but I could. Just as I could find great things about each one as well.

To me, not voting is a harder decision to make. It says I don't feel like I have options. It says, democracy is flawed. I did vote for the referendum, and I voted yes. I doubt it will change anything, if anything it may make people more complacent, but it was an idea I felt I could make a check mark on.

Elections are the lowest form of democracy, every 4 years we give our rights aways. I am keeping my rights, and continue to fight for them; every day, with every decision, until the time comes when we all have the power.

Do something democratic!!! Vote, don't vote, burn your ballot...whatever it is, you have the power to do it.

And god only knows what could happen tonight!

So I did a house cleansing ritual last night to purify the home and chase out the evil spirits. I slept well last night and didn't dream about whom we shall refer to as the nasty. It was pleasant. I feel like my home is at balance with the elements and I am on the road to being there myself.

Shine on you crazy diamond!

So apparently Americans are raging because Obama likes Dijon mustard. That elitist bourgeois! Forget bailing out banks, the true test of a corporate whore is what you spread on your bread.

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/world/2009/05/08/9389971-sun.html

So...I found my windows CD, but it is a really old version of XP, which means I don't have wireless, which means I have to pay for internet and wait until Monday. Not that I've ever not paid for internet or anything, but the option was there...
I don't really miss the internet, except when cooking and needing to look something up, but such is life. When we get lemons, we make lemon chiffon cake!

Speaking of which, I need to find a mini doughnut tin, to test out a great recipe for mini doughnuts I found at www.veganyumyum.com a new website I've found, that ROCKS!

And I get to get car parts today...this will undoubtedly provide me and many others with endless entertainment.

I have more dirt, and will be planting the squashes later. My balcony garden prevails.

Well, my attempts to blog my adventure into solitary beach bungalow love has started with a bang, as per usual. I've entered into a realm of technological warfare, in which I have lost ungraciously. However, now that the 3rd thing has broke, I feel that my troubles are over.
1) Lost cell phone (*found cell phone only after purchasing ridiculous new one)
2) Lost operating system (*Buh-bye laptop. Luckily, last time I got a virus I was able to use voodoo banishing magic to momentarily get my files back, until this recent time of complete doom. Laptop should be fixed when the rain stops.)
3) There is a tie for third place and only time will tell: my windshield wipers on my new lil 65' bug are not working. The speaker for my record player is fuzzy.

I have no one to blame but myself. And Karma. But she'd say it's my fault and she is very right on that, and I have learnt my lesson. I truly love that sassy bitch.

So, blogging has been put on hold momentarily. Hopefully I won't forget about it, when I'm up and running.

I'm sure you are all so excited to hear about my latest adventures of balcony gardening, vegan yummagick and revolution.

peace and love.