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So today, the old schedule, a cherished day off.
I have many of these, I'm bailing on the system, I have other priorities.
This morning, I awake too early, dreams, bad dreams. Always that I'm at the restaurant, yes-sir-no-sir-three-bags-full sir, trying to do things, forgetting things, interacting with customers. Only I'm not so asleep that I can't recognize that I'm dreaming and can't I dream of something better, more profitable, anything but this...
I don't have much luck. Semi-lucidity then back into the same shit. Less dreams, not quite nightmares, but the world is a bigger place...
And then there is the one where I'm looking through my wallet, I've raided my float for groceries, and I'm turning over $5 bills and discovering that in the dim light of the restaurant I misread them, they're $50 bills, and I have a few, I'm richer than I think...
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This morning, after I get up, restive and not sleeping due to shit restaurant dreams, off for coffee. Then groceries, a few I need, then home, drop them off, peanuts for the crows I'm not feeding, they've been beseeching me, following me down Baker, a few other things. Home, drop them off, a brief stab at a nap, catch up on the world via the news and Facebook, all of it BS, but I'm trying. Then to the library, blog, write a bit, study Lidar a bit, I've got some prospecting plans, questions, stop and grab a double deluxe and poutine, home for a nap, and then off again to Balfour to scour for arrowheads. Nada, a few flakes, I have plenty already...
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Home, I should make dinner but lunch has filled me plenty. The light has gone and I'm not terribly inspired to paint, or - the light being gone and the interior lights not so good I'm not going to bother. Tomorrow. I've been painting more, not better, just more, and sometimes that has to be enough.
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The boy, on a phone call yesterday, has promised to transplant all my remaining shit from my locker in Calgary to here. Yayyy. There's no room, but I'm excited (as always) at what I might discover. This next week and since there's no room here I'll need to find another locker, and make an appointment with the antique shop to take the rest.
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And, having abandoned trying to paint, write, I'm now watching "Waking Life". So far, so good, a tonic for my soul. I'll review when I've finished...
I wonder that I haven't seen it before. Or maybe I have...
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And every day, another Iranian meme, the lego-diss tracks on Trump, Hegseth, they're winning the internet. When it's done - the war, I mean, there could be a film festival of this; they're not wrong. And given how long this war is going to go there will be more than a few feature films worth of material available...
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Of course, the news, doom scrolling ad infinitum, Trump's Ultimatums, increasingly bizarre behaviours, the timed back-downs, cease-fires, always after the market's have closed and somebody had made a huge bet...
There was in the past week the firing of Pam Bondi - and while an execrable human being she was in similar company. There's Israels' seizing portions of Palestine, and calling the homeland defenders "Terrorists", there's the increasing search for scapegoats, Kash Patel, Pete Hegsmith, there's the Gulf Nations pleading that Trump finish off Iran, they are - while more glamorous, none of them even remotely better than Iran, remember Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist murdered and dismembered in the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul by instruction of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman? Yeah, the one Trump was backslapping and having a good laugh with?
Trust me, there's no pain over there we should feel but the Iranians. All those other states made deals with the devil, and he's come now for his reaping...
Pierre Poilievre doing the US Podcast tour, barefaced lying about the oil sands; he's as well done, there's the war in Iran, targeting bridges, steel mills, civilian infrastructure, power plants, nuclear power plants (which, if breached, will be a disaster for all the Gulf States likely exceeding that of Chernobyl), there's the "rescue mission" after the three planes shot down on Good Friday, not so much a "rescue" as an attempt to seize uranium, lol, for the Americans "Unobtanium", losing another 2 C-15 & 2 Blackhawks, and the generals standing down rather than put boots on the ground, the real, the only heroes here, there's Israel's repeated assassinations of anyone that attempts to broker peace, they don't want peace, there's the ceasefire brokered that includes Lebanon after which Israel amplified it's bombing of Beirut...
There will be no peace until Nato - without Trump - France, England, Italy, sail into the Mediterranean Sea and bomb Israel, help to restore Palestine and Lebanon, enough is enough, 9 million people is a small price to pay for world peace, and the survivors, if any, can be marched to the Red Sea where God will part the waters for them to be his chosen people once again. God wants them all close. And we should be willing to oblige.
Think, "Chosen People" is itself a recipe - what is the word for despising everyone - Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist - because you are the "Chosen People", when this privileged position allows you to displace, kill, rape, murder children, women, men, all at whim and without consequence, it is time to end the "State of Israel", of Zion, to burn it down, to make them an example for once and for all and to extend to them the same quality of mercy they have extended to their innumerable victims...
Anyways, this war is a disaster and I'm aghast that nothing has yet been done, no Nuremberg 2.0; we know who the villains are, know what needs be done, and no one is willing to do it so every news anchor, late night comedian sits about wringing their hands, cracking their jokes while the rape and murder of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of innocents continues...
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I can't follow it all, but this is a weekly recap:
The news that Israel’s been up to it’s old “double tap” - probably where the USA learned it, the first missile kills, wounds and maims, the tank gunners then patiently wait until emergency & first aid shows up before striking again. Or the targeted killing of journalists, ongoing, there’s the news that Netanyahu has long been funding Hamas, there’s the white phosphorous being deployed in Lebanon, all of these above are war crimes and make Israel easily as repressive a regime as Iran. There's the new Apartheid ruling that any Palestinian that kills an Israeli is to be hanged, less a rule or "law" than a formalization of their foreign policy. Hanging, apparently, wasn't formally approved, only shooting, beating, rape and torture were good enough for the Palestinians, so in a perversely Israeli way they probably think they're being kind...
Then there's Russia, China’s support of Iran, and warning that if Israel deploys a nuclear weapon the state of Israel will cease to exist.
I think everyone has already come to the conclusion that that would be the best of all possible outcomes. Not the nuclear, the end of Israel.
Then there’s Trumps ongoing negotiations, the 8, 10, now 20 beautiful tankers full of Oil Iran is sending him, LOL, I wish they would, a tanker full of Ammonium Nitrate (or 20) could do some serious damage when delivered to Texas….
There’s his calling of all allies cowards for not taking over his war, his threat to just walk away and leave the Straits of Hormuz closed, his veiled threats of Nuclear Options (and he is just that crazy. Really.), there's his big beautiful ballroom, now on hold, but never has the law or a judge stopped him...
There's the threat of the US withdrawing for NATO, given the trouble they are NATO might be better off, and the rejection by Spain, Poland, Italy of US using it's airspace, the Cuba Blockade (but Russia's tanker was allowed through), there's so much going on, really, it's impossible to keep track...
And, of course, the imminence of "boots on the ground" which, given all the time Iran has had to prepare makes me think that the USA is in for a big surprise...
Which catches me up, breathe deep, the news won't refresh itself until tomorrow.
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I'm out of peanuts, and the crows have taken to finding me on the rail outside my apartment in the morning, looking at me as reproachfully as a crow can, surely I've forgotten something? And so I have to head on down to Dollarama today to find some more, they've been following me down Baker and cawing, tag-teaming me, Mr. Peanut, and apparently I'm stuck...
Today, a well deserved day off, up brutally early, laundry done (4 weeks since I'd done it), now at the library, later to do some painting.
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Here's one for you Iran, to use freely in your AI Lego Psy-Ops:
You’ve all been played
By Zionists just let us tell you how it is
You’re Netanyahu’s bitch
Your sending troops to certain death
While You and Your Cronies getting rich on Inside Bets
Hear us out, hear us out we seen you coming;
Always Knew that there’d be war with the Hypocrites
The Imperialists, the degenerates,
We got the Strait of Hormuz, whatever you try you’re gonna lose;
You asked for help and all your allies did refuse
Who could blame them when your sorry friendship is nothing but abuse;
You didn’t think we’d retaliate? Mother fucker you’re confused
A sorry excuse; you miscalculated
You think war is fun? Prepare to be amused!
Every countries dumping all their petrodollars
better to be buying gold and rockets
While your leaders line their pockets, yeah;
watch your leaders line their pockets.
Crash the economy Crash the markets;
Tell us when you’reso done winning and quit asking us to stop it;
Everyone thinks your President has lost his reason;
But he’s trying anything to keep his fat-ass out of Prison;
You don’t prosecute a man who rapes and murders children
Don’t ask him questions because you know you can’t believe him;
You execute!




















