Canada Voted 2008

Isn't this disappointing? Our worst Prime Minister of all time (officially through political analyst and political studies) got re-elected.

I don't want to get too political. It's my Blog after all and it's not meant to be. I'm just extremely disappointed of going through another term with the worst PM we've ever had. The one that had the weakest campaign platform and that will destroy the tax payers, the population of this great country, by giving our tax money to polluters.

We've gone through $300,000,000 of our money for absolutely nothing. YES, this election cost us $300,000,000 of our tax money, and for what? For nothing really. Harper is still a minority goverment, the Bloc Québécois still has more than half of the chairs in Québec, Yvon Godin is still representing Acadie-Bathurst...

Danny Williams had the right idea. He wanted to get rid of all the Conservative chairs in Newfoundland/Labrador... AND HE DID!!! Quite easily too if you looked at all that was done. He kept his word by not giving up and not get intimidated by the threats from Harper himself (and a death threat from Harper's communication agent. Google it)

How could this happen? There's one answer. Only 58% of registered voters actually voted. This is the lowest of all-time. There are over 35 regions where the conservative should've lost, where they didn't have a chance, when only 10% of registered voters of that region actually vote, what's the point of having an election?

There's 42% of you now that cannot, for four years, complain about the government or Canadian politics what-so-ever. Voting is a privilege. We're lucky to live in a democratic country. If you don't vote, you can't complain about the crappy politics.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9 Premiere

Insane episode... Very promising when it makes you scream 'OMGWTF' in the first 3 seconds of the episode.

The "I-have-too-many-freegin'-hobbies" Cycle

I know some of you can relate to this. We live in a world where we work a third of our lives and sleep another third, with only a remaining third of our lives to do other things.

We also live in a world where 24 hours seem to not be enough anymore. Which is sad because that lifestyle our society seems to force in on us counters my life philosophy.

I'm caught in an awful bind. I have too many hobbies. Attempting to further my skills in one brings me to the brick wall of 'Time'. The bigger 'bind' is finding which one to drop. Each of my hobbies (gaming, multimedia, music, magic, card manipulation, and more...) have or add very valuable or rewarding elements to my life. Sitting down and trying to think of which hobby to drop is a confusing and hard cycle in itself. Each one I hypothetically eliminate, seems to create an hypothetical void in my life. One is the best stress reliever I've ever did, another thought me valuable social skills; while another goes hand-in-hand with my career, and another is my best form of artistic expression.

It's not an easy choice, even less an easy cycle to be in. It's a vicious cycle: the more you try to think about it and solve the problem, the bigger and more confusing the problem gets.

The worst (and sadisticly funnier) thing is that trying to solve this hobby-crisis takes a lot of time in itself...

Plugging my Flickr Again...

New pics... I know, I'm a whore.

Victory!!!

[GamePolitics.com]Jack Thompson Permanently Disbarred
* it's possible that the link above doesn't load. GamePolitics is getting HAMMERED because of this news.

It's official. The Florida Supreme Court today affirmed a referee's recommendation to permanently disbar our dear Jack Thompson.

The action, which takes effect in 30 days, means that Thompson will no longer be licensed to practice law and may not apply for reinstatement. Ever.

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Some of these [offenses] include findings that Thompson made false statements and accusations, repeatedly harassed those he considered opponents, and, while falsely accusing others of "the criminal distribution of sexual materials to minors," himself attached pornography to court filings.

• [Thompson] made false statements of material fact to courts and repeatedly violated a court order


• [Thompson] communicated the subject of representation directly with clients of opposing counsel


• [Thompson] engaged in prohibited ex parte communications


• [Thompson] publicized and sent hundreds of pages of vitriolic and disparaging missives, letters, faxes, and press releases, to the affected individuals


• [Thompson] targeted an individual who was not involved with respondent in any way, merely due to "the position [the individual] holds in state and national politics"


• [Thompson]falsely, recklessly, and publicly accused a judge as being amenable to the "fixing" of cases


• [Thompson] sent courts inappropriate and offensive sexual materials


• [Thompson] falsely and publicly accused various attorneys and their clients of engaging in a conspiracy/enterprise involving "the criminal distribution of sexual materials to minors" and attempted to get prosecuting authorities to charge these attorneys and their clients for racketeering and extortion


• [Thompson] harassed the former client of an attorney in an effort to get the client to use its influence to persuade the attorney to withdraw a defamation suit filed by the attorney against respondent


• [Thompson] retaliated against attorneys who filed Bar complaints against him for his unethical conduct by asserting to their clients, government officials, politicians, the media, female lawyers in their law firm, employees, personal friends, acquaintances, and their wives, that the attorneys were criminal pornographers who objectify women.

The Court also upheld a fine of $43,675 against Thompson.