<![CDATA[CKA Forums Blogs Feed]]> http://www.canadaka.net/forums en <![CDATA[Who's in Season?]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/sgauvreau/whos_in_season_b-1833.html Ruination a lot lately. Their lyrics have always struck a chord with me, but lately I'm really feeling it. Out of all the bands Chris Colohan has been in Ruination is my favourite. Here are the lyrics from a song I am especially feeling lately:

They put a gun in his hand, a trigger in his brain.
He came home from war not quite the same.
Trained to kill for God and Country. Why?
Who's in season today?
Who's on the menu today?
Who's the enemy today?
Ask not what you can do for your country, but how your country can fuck you for life.
He took a big one to the head, came home alive, but better off dead.
Trained to kill for God and Country. Why?]]> <![CDATA[MGM and Tom Cruise to re-establish United Artists]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/mgm_and_tom_cruise_to_reestablish_united_artists_b-917.html

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17339

Image]]> <![CDATA[Jabber Jabber]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Subsandwich/jabber_jabber_b-1001.html Jabber jabber is what talking a lot.

My daughter Ronny, a young adult short stop with spina bifida, loves to jabber jabber. She's a girl with an incredible amount of charisma. If you go to photos you will see a picture of her there.

Anyhow, if you met her in a public place, or at least saw her, and you came face to face, she wouldn't wait for you to think should I greet her. She'd find some way to communicate with you and usually that means she'd start the conversation.

At a very young age, she learned that if she didn't approach people, they usually wouldn't. She would sit on the sidelines waiting for life to come to her. So she finds a way to bridge the gap between able bodied people and disabled people by letting down the gate herself. She's a jabber jabber.

Normally people look at the disability first, she realized, and so she figured she'd show the world she's just as human as the rest of the planet, a good thing if you consider how long she'd have to wait to get some action on the other side.

Shy! - she decided to put that shyness aside so she could meet people.

What a kid. You'd love her. ]]> <![CDATA[Warning. Evil vibes. 28 and older.]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Istanbul/warning_evil_vibes_28_and_older_b-1189.html
So I gets up, sleepy eyed and hung over. Stumble over to the phone but too late. The answering machine is just finishing up. The message:
"Going to see Tse Pesh house. Cough cough ...bad inhaler.cough bye."

I try calling back but a squeaky voice informs me my phone bill is 3 months in arrears and there will be no further out-calls until that is rectified.
I asked if a collect call was admissible as the cheque was in the mail? "Access denied" she snapped, paraphrasing Dos 6.2 message that the floppy disk had write protect on. I then informed her I was about to personally come down to the phone company and ram the phone up her ass.

The operator said I was evil and hung up. Now what to do but have a cuppa green tea and some estrogen meds?
Me evil? I would have to contemplate that one.
Well my friend Gus Slobomavitch, the Yankee Drummer shows up. He wants to sell me a complete Dior silk and lace wardrobe. $49.99 for the complete set. Fire engine red is not exactly my favorite color so I had to decline the steal. Gus knows my credit is good.

I replayed the phone message for Gus to decipher. He played it backwards twice and forward three times.

"Emmy said she was going to see Tepes house, Vlad the impaler"

OK who is Vlad Tepes the impaler?


Vlad Tepes - Vlad the Impaler was a prince known for executing his enemies by impalement. He was a fan of various forms of torture including disemboweling and rectal and facial impalement. Vlad the Impaler tortured thousands while he ate and drunk among the corpses. He impaled every person in the city of Amlas -- 20,000 men, women and children. Vlad often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs. But his favorite method was impalement on stakes, hence the surname "Tepes" which means "The Impaler"...

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It’s morning. Bleary eyed, I plod my way down the hall to use the washroom. With eyes half-closed, or half-opened, I reach for the toilet paper. Empty. RRRR! Someone forgot to replace the empty roll in the bathroom, again!

My home goes through this all the time - the age-old battle of whose job it is to change the toilet paper roll, only I seem to be the only one who cares. Somehow, I got nominated to do this job. Only, no one asked me to volunteer, but for some unexplained reason everyone assumes this is my duty in life. I suppose my home is the one place on the planet that goes through this.

Believe me, I have tried everything to pawn off the job on someone else, but there are no takers. I even decided not to change it every time. I’ll fix them. They’ll have to change the roll because I refuse to do this every day. (We do use a lot of toilet paper). The last person to finish the roll is the one who will have to add a new one was my thinking. Strategy, that’s what is needed here.

Yeah, right! I fixed them all right. My family must be blind because no one, and I mean no one, bothers to stick a new roll on the toilet paper bar. It’s like they can’t see for looking. I mean, it’s right there in front of them. They can see where the new rolls are kept all right, but not the toilet paper bar on the wall.

Next thing I did was ask, “Who forgot to put a new roll of toilet paper!” Dumbfounded looks stared back at me as if to say, “You mean we have a place to put a new toilet paper roll!” Or, they look at me gawk-eyed as if I’ve just arrived from another planet. More to the point, “That’s your job, not mine.”

Nobody asked me if I wanted this job all my life, changing roll after roll day after day anytime the last one is used up. Mechanically, I do this once I see no one is giving in, telling myself if I don’t do this, no one else will. Do other people have conversation about this subject with themselv...

[ Continued ]]]> <![CDATA[He-Man to the big screen?]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/heman_to_the_big_screen_b-1815.html Quote:
Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver are working with Mattel to turn "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" into a live-action film, reports Variety. Justin Marks is set to write the script. Silver will produce.

He-Man was born as a Mattel action figure, and the toymaker created an animated series in hopes of selling dolls. The series became a cult favorite, but the brand was hardly helped by its first big screen incarnation, the campy 1987 flop Masters of the Universe that starred Dolph Lundgren as the title character and Frank Langella as his nemesis Skeletor.

The franchise has been reimagined by the producer and the writers and pitched to Mattel as a classic good vs. evil battle, using the kind of visual effects strategy employed in 300. A warrior is touted as the last hope of a magical land called Eternia, which is being ravaged by technology and the evil Skeletor.

Many of the characters will be informed by the mythology created in the four different cartoon series done since the 1980s.


All I've got to say, is "By the power of Greyskull"... :wink:

Wasn't a big fan of the TV show, but seeing as how Hollywood can't come up with original stories any more (Transformers, 2007 sequel summer, etc), I guess this is as good as the next movie idea.]]> <![CDATA[Ear Tattoo Numbers and our Listing - a perfect example]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/wolfwithin/ear_tattoo_numbers_and_our_listing_a_perfect_example_b-2321.html One of the vets I dealt with, having taken in 32 of the critters to their clinic, contacted me - angry and insulted by the listing! I was floored!
She went on how vets like in her clinic have helped hundreds track back owners through pet's ear tatto numbers and that searching out the tatty's was free...
I tried to explain that if they helped out "hundreds" then that meant that regular folks had no clue where to look and that some vets charged a fee for their time to seek out the information... plus - tatty's vary from province to province and state to state, meaning that just because an animal is living in Alberta, doesn't mean that a previous owner who had lived in Ontario, moved west and gave away or sold their pet to someone who had lived in Alberta all their life....
The Listing, is a means for the rescue to make an honest buck, while helping pet owners feel reassured that their pet is posted on the net, in case the pet goes missing.
There is a "one time" fee - for the lifetime of the pet - of a huge $15.00 - this is what my old vet clinic was offended about that inspired the controversial email I was sent in scorn!
This "fee" includes a picture of the animal, (with no picture, just a descript, med requirements, scars etc and the ear tattoo number is $10.) a complete description, medical requirements if any, scars and or markings, the registered Spay Neuter number and the name of the Vet Clinic where the animal was altered. (no personal contact #'s unless folks wish it) If an animal lives to be 13-14 yrs old and is added when they are a year old - that fee boils down to less than a DOLLAR a year!!! (what were they mad about?)
The Listing is found at http://find.animals-alone.com...

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Dude, thank you so much for helping to restore my account. Don't know what the hell happened there, but it was probably unheard of in computer history. Apple must be on to me. :lol:

Thanks again dude, you rock!!! :wink: :rock:


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[align=center]Image[/align]]]> <![CDATA[Harness Racing History Happened at Confederation Cup XXXII]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Anonymous/harness_racing_history_happened_at_confederation_cup_xxxii_b-2671.html Somebeachsomewhere make history at Confederation Cup XXXII, at Flamboro Downs near Hamilton Ontario.

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Of course we had to park a half mile away from the Grandstand as we were late arriving (at about 12:30 pm) on Sunday August 17th, 2008 - but we soon got inside the air conditioned venue with plenty of time to place our bets on the Confederation Cup XXXII Final! More on that later.

My date went to find a decent hot dog and a better program for a souvenir, and I bought a cold drink and retired to the bleachers - it was actually hard to find a spot for once. The Grandstand was packed - this is how harness racing should be (used to be).

You know the focus of this blog post should be how ‘Somebeachsomewhere beat the field at the Confederation Cup Final on Sunday by four lengths to set a new world record!’ because that’s exactly what happened. Somebeachsomewhere is truly a spectacular Standardbred racehorse. A guy in the paddock told me that this horse will ‘go to stud’ for $10 million+.

A clear favourite to win on Sunday, there was really no action for novice (bet-2$-to-win) gamblers on Somebeachsomewhere. However - this was the perfect arena for more complicated betting * I’d like to credit my horse race betting skills on the simple horse racing game on this harness racing fan site.

The quality of the overall event and the the day's show must be attributed to the sulky drivers specificall...

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