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This was explained to me by a customer.
Everywhere out here you see the incomplete construction projects. The raiments of Tyvek gesticulating in the wind, housing projects, home reno's, projects in the perpetuity of "completion" and never "complete".
He explains: That as soon as the project is complete, the property tax assessment goes up. And so many residents prefer to keep their properties incomplete.
This makes sense, but it suggests that maybe we need some revision to our guidelines for property tax....that any projects begun need be complete within X timeframe or face X penalties...
Still, grateful for the explanation. So many mysteries unfolding, slowly, surely....
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Saturday afternoon, I'm late, catching the bus to work.
It's the afternoon bus to Crazytown.
Seriously, this is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" type of shit.
In the beginning, everyone boarding. I get on at Baker, everyone else at Chakha Mia Mall.
And it starts.
Everyone knows one another. There's the exchange of greetings.
Even the improbable- "normalish" seeming man in his 60's talking to someone....well...
someone that he shouldn't know. And so it goes.
Fights break out..."You're crazy!!" "No, You're Crazy"....
I'm on the bus to CrazyTown.
I mention it to a few of the customers when I'm at work. They confirm it, I need a car, the Balfour Bus, it's the bus to CrazyTown.
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If you needed proof of how far the US has collapsed into the abyss of inanity and religious insanity, look no further. This is madness. Below a few of my thoughts.
#1) I am in no way in support of abortion.
#2) Despite this, I fully acknowledge a woman's sovereignty over her own body and right to choose. Whatever my opinions are, they are irrelevant.
#3) If anyone - government, church, etc - was serious about "ending" abortion then they would invest in readily available, affordable birth control, education (sex and otherwise) and ensuring that people had access to a reasonable standard of living (including the resources/material means to raise a child). These three things alone would drop abortion rates by 90% or more.
#4) In those instances of rape, incest, life-threatening complications - abortions should be given without question or charge. Really. These are extenuating circumstances, I'm sure - but they have immense moral validity.
In short, abortion is a failure of society, not the individual. So let's fix/shore up our society and stop worrying about "punishing" those people who have "failed" in a system designed to make them fail.
Now, this is ridiculous, because I have wasted now 100+ words saying what every reasonable person knows. And the Roe VS Wade challenge isn't about this at all. It's about increasing social control over every aspect of the individuals lives - to the point of intrusion; it's about governance unto tyranny, about idiocy coming into it's own, and - hahaha - as everyone looks south and breathes a sigh of relief it isn't here, don't breathe easy yet. Kenney won by a majority, the Conservatives across Canada are waiting their next chance at power, and Trudeau's big claim to fame is not looking as bad as his predecessors. So - when the winds of change blow again, Atwood may be proven right.
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Ha! Genius idea #3, 417, 214.
A 12 inch ruler available in Small or Medium - specifically targeting those less endowed men who need a dick-pick in a hurry and a plausible point of reference!
Why, it's Penis-Enlargement done in a matter of seconds, not months or years! Non-invasive, no surgery, heavy lifting or pills, just select the ruler that's right for you!
Usually I'd pitch this to Pornhub, but - believe it or not, they still haven't gotten back to me. Bastards!!
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A hot day, largely bunged up. Blowing my nose is now filled with copious neon yellow (???) mucus. I wear the mask.
Deliveries, today, we drive to Trail, picking up furniture, dropping off electronics recycle.
A lot of driving, made up for by the impossibility of narrow halls, small elevators, large, heavy furniture. It's a lot of old-folks going into extended-care, getting their last remaining possessions donated by family.
Hot, hot day. This will be a long summer.
When finally, 2:30, we're back at the store, we unload, then fill the truck with trash, cardboard, glass for recycling/dump.
Finally - 6:00, home. A long fucking day and I'm dead, dead, dead. By 8:30 I'm in bed, wake up throughout the night, eyes, nose glued together, mouth dry, blow your nose, wipe your eyes, fever & chills, fever dreams, all night long. Today, in the shop all day, don't know if I can survive it - but I'll try, hoping that in 2-3 weeks we can clear the backlog and once again I can be free.