Friday, February 17, 2017
it's just...
let's say i got hit. then, i wouldn't remember what happened and i'd have woken up quickly and then been ok for the rest of the night. but, i'd have headaches for a while.
on the other hand, if i had a spike in blood alcohol content, i'd have blacked out and/or passed out for hours and suffered minimal short term side effects that would be gone by now.
the reality is that i don't remember what happened, i snapped out of it very fast and it's almost a week now, and my head still hurts.
but, there's no solution, here.
let's say i got hit. then, i wouldn't remember what happened and i'd have woken up quickly and then been ok for the rest of the night. but, i'd have headaches for a while.
on the other hand, if i had a spike in blood alcohol content, i'd have blacked out and/or passed out for hours and suffered minimal short term side effects that would be gone by now.
the reality is that i don't remember what happened, i snapped out of it very fast and it's almost a week now, and my head still hurts.
but, there's no solution, here.
i've never really had allergies before, excluding my nitrogen allergy, which is annoying but not difficult to deal with: i just sneeze a lot. no headaches. no aches. just lots of sneezing...
i've been bad the last few days, but i suspect that my non-smoking may be interacting with the air quality in this city (which is famously poor), to create an overactive immune system.
it's either that, or i really do get a flu every time i leave the house and am dealing with some kind of immune system deficiency disorder.
i've been bad the last few days, but i suspect that my non-smoking may be interacting with the air quality in this city (which is famously poor), to create an overactive immune system.
it's either that, or i really do get a flu every time i leave the house and am dealing with some kind of immune system deficiency disorder.
i didn't get anything done, yesterday. my head didn't want to co-operate.
i'm also nursing some chest congestion, so i'm stepping away from focusing too much on the possibility of a head injury last week. i'm not saying i didn't, or that it's not still lingering, i'm just pointing out that i need to wait until the congestion leaves before i draw any conclusions. if this is partially head trauma, it's head trauma on top of an immune system reaction.
i get sick every time i go for a walk. whether i'm drinking or smoking or not, whether i'm in detroit or windsor. i've even had headaches with the windows closed. there's something deeper going on...
i'm hoping it's allergies. i took some claritin about an hour ago, and it's cleared my breathing passages but hasn't affected my head much. i'm going to have some spaghetti and make a choice about the night after that.
i'm also nursing some chest congestion, so i'm stepping away from focusing too much on the possibility of a head injury last week. i'm not saying i didn't, or that it's not still lingering, i'm just pointing out that i need to wait until the congestion leaves before i draw any conclusions. if this is partially head trauma, it's head trauma on top of an immune system reaction.
i get sick every time i go for a walk. whether i'm drinking or smoking or not, whether i'm in detroit or windsor. i've even had headaches with the windows closed. there's something deeper going on...
i'm hoping it's allergies. i took some claritin about an hour ago, and it's cleared my breathing passages but hasn't affected my head much. i'm going to have some spaghetti and make a choice about the night after that.
it's always virtually impossible to determine who planned what attack, and for what reason. and, no, you can't trust the cops.
but, it is completely impossible to actually stop an attack - and when you see the claim that an attack was stopped, you should instantly realize that it's just an act to justify the existence of the state.
often times, the so-called attackers are even led down the garden path by intelligence agents.
but, it is completely impossible to actually stop an attack - and when you see the claim that an attack was stopped, you should instantly realize that it's just an act to justify the existence of the state.
often times, the so-called attackers are even led down the garden path by intelligence agents.
if you shift abortion services to something like planned parenthood, you create an opportunity for conservatives to shut it down by starving funding.
the way that canada deals with abortion as a health procedure is superior to the way that the united states does because it shields it from easy funding cuts.
the liberals should think twice about what they're doing, here. or - in line with my previous analyses - perhaps they already have.
the way that canada deals with abortion as a health procedure is superior to the way that the united states does because it shields it from easy funding cuts.
the liberals should think twice about what they're doing, here. or - in line with my previous analyses - perhaps they already have.
if you're looking for it, you can see what i'm saying about trudeau's attempt to appeal to the right underlying much of his policy decision and media networking.
consider the pipelines, for example. polls persistently show that a vast majority of liberal voters oppose the pipelines. you'd think that the government would realize the need to be careful about it's promotion of this, given how unpopular it is within it's voting base. but, the government's response has actually been to present the pipeline approvals as evidence that they succeeded where the conservatives failed. the messaging is all about appealing to conservative voters, in an attempt to convince them that the liberal party better represents their interests - because that is the voting base that they want to control.
again: to call this stupid is an understatement. but, who are we calling stupid, when we voted for them?
from supporting carbon taxes (which harper initially supported...) to his promotion of second-wave feminism (which the conservatives have tried to preach, but have had problems with) to the restrictions on assisted dying (widely panned on the left) to countless other positions, you can see this priority underscore pretty much everything they've done to this point.
it's what they're doing. and we need to understand that and react to it.
consider the pipelines, for example. polls persistently show that a vast majority of liberal voters oppose the pipelines. you'd think that the government would realize the need to be careful about it's promotion of this, given how unpopular it is within it's voting base. but, the government's response has actually been to present the pipeline approvals as evidence that they succeeded where the conservatives failed. the messaging is all about appealing to conservative voters, in an attempt to convince them that the liberal party better represents their interests - because that is the voting base that they want to control.
again: to call this stupid is an understatement. but, who are we calling stupid, when we voted for them?
from supporting carbon taxes (which harper initially supported...) to his promotion of second-wave feminism (which the conservatives have tried to preach, but have had problems with) to the restrictions on assisted dying (widely panned on the left) to countless other positions, you can see this priority underscore pretty much everything they've done to this point.
it's what they're doing. and we need to understand that and react to it.
Atopy is defined as an immunoglobulin E- (IgE) mediated allergic
response to environmental antigens and can be manifested as rhinitis,
asthma or atopic dermatitis. While there is some debate over whether
there has been a real increase in atopy over the last decades, it is
indisputable that there has been a dramatic change over the last 200
years. While isolated cases of anaphylaxis had been noted before,
allergies were unheard of until the early 19th century. Only 54 years
after the first description of hay fever in England in 1819, it was
considered an epidemic and a clear association with urbanization had
been reported.
yes, she should step down.
but, she's an 82 year-old school trustee who has been criticized from every direction. the idea that she has some kind of system behind her is preposterous, and people that are making the accusation are being preposterous.
as for forcing her to step down, maybe mr. cole can give god a call. or, maybe he can wait until the next time god calls him. with this level of sanctimoniousness, it's hard to tell who makes the call.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/02/16/black-communitys-feelings-trump-nancy-elgies-intentions-cole.html
but, she's an 82 year-old school trustee who has been criticized from every direction. the idea that she has some kind of system behind her is preposterous, and people that are making the accusation are being preposterous.
as for forcing her to step down, maybe mr. cole can give god a call. or, maybe he can wait until the next time god calls him. with this level of sanctimoniousness, it's hard to tell who makes the call.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/02/16/black-communitys-feelings-trump-nancy-elgies-intentions-cole.html
it's just another example of how ideologically right-wing this government is.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/02/16/israeli-stance-hinders-trudeaus-chances-of-getting-seat-on-un-security-council.html
but, hold on. what the fuck is actually happening, here? is this just madness, or is there something going on, here?
i was one of many people that was writing a eulogy for the liberal party in the summer of 2015. they seemed obsessed with trying to pry right-leaning voters away from the conservatives, despite the fact that the conservatives were polling at levels they hadn't polled at since the great depression and the ndp was pushing 40%. how could they be so fucking stupid as to fight for this phantom moderate conservative vote, when the country was on the brink of electing a nominally socialist party? what planet were they living on?
it seemed like they were planning a campaign around balanced budgets and national security. then, they expressed confusion when their poll numbers collapsed.
i don't know what it was that finally spun them around. we have to remember that mulcair very decidedly lost the election by repeating the same mistake of "moderating", right at the time that the liberal base was abandoning it because the liberals were "moderating", themselves. i've never seen a worse or more tone deaf campaign than the one mulcair ran - with the possible exception of the one clinton ran. the country was screaming that it wanted a hard shift to the left, and mulcair made the election about balancing the budget.
of course, this just confused everybody. why was the ndp running on fiscal conservatism, when voters were turning to them precisely because they didn't want fiscal conservatism? trudeau took advantage of this massive error by promising to run deficits. lots of stuff happened afterwards - including a late shift to the liberals to prevent vote splitting - but it was this rejection of balanced budgets that gave the liberals the momentum that eventually allowed them to win.
put bluntly, the liberals positioned themselves to the left of the left, and it worked - because the left made it clear that their party had been co-opted.
in all of this confusion, a lot of people forgot or perhaps never knew that the liberals had spent the last five years trying very hard to appeal to conservative voters. they seem to want to push the conservatives out of the mainstream, and become the dominant party on the right.
my reading of what's happening on a lot of these issues is that they are designed to target the conservative base. the liberals don't want to be conservative light, they want to be the party of the right altogether.
so, they're identifying issues that are either core right-wing concerns, or have been identified as issues where the conservatives disappointed their base. marijuana is probably the next promise to reverse, which seems insane: until you realize that a lot of conservatives were unhappy with stephen harper for allowing the state to sanction medicinal use.
this is a pattern we've seen in canada at the provincial level. in british columbia, and also in quebec, the liberals are the right-wing party in a largely two-party spectrum.
it's not that it wasn't clear that this was happening. it's that the ndp's swing to the hard right put everybody in a daze, and we lunged at the lesser evil on paper. i think we all knew we weren't going to get everything they presented. but, i don't think many people realized how cynical it really was.
they never meant to implement their platform. it was just a prop. instead, they're carrying through with the plan to try and take over the right that they broadcast before the election.
and, they're about to get destroyed, as punishment.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/02/16/israeli-stance-hinders-trudeaus-chances-of-getting-seat-on-un-security-council.html
but, hold on. what the fuck is actually happening, here? is this just madness, or is there something going on, here?
i was one of many people that was writing a eulogy for the liberal party in the summer of 2015. they seemed obsessed with trying to pry right-leaning voters away from the conservatives, despite the fact that the conservatives were polling at levels they hadn't polled at since the great depression and the ndp was pushing 40%. how could they be so fucking stupid as to fight for this phantom moderate conservative vote, when the country was on the brink of electing a nominally socialist party? what planet were they living on?
it seemed like they were planning a campaign around balanced budgets and national security. then, they expressed confusion when their poll numbers collapsed.
i don't know what it was that finally spun them around. we have to remember that mulcair very decidedly lost the election by repeating the same mistake of "moderating", right at the time that the liberal base was abandoning it because the liberals were "moderating", themselves. i've never seen a worse or more tone deaf campaign than the one mulcair ran - with the possible exception of the one clinton ran. the country was screaming that it wanted a hard shift to the left, and mulcair made the election about balancing the budget.
of course, this just confused everybody. why was the ndp running on fiscal conservatism, when voters were turning to them precisely because they didn't want fiscal conservatism? trudeau took advantage of this massive error by promising to run deficits. lots of stuff happened afterwards - including a late shift to the liberals to prevent vote splitting - but it was this rejection of balanced budgets that gave the liberals the momentum that eventually allowed them to win.
put bluntly, the liberals positioned themselves to the left of the left, and it worked - because the left made it clear that their party had been co-opted.
in all of this confusion, a lot of people forgot or perhaps never knew that the liberals had spent the last five years trying very hard to appeal to conservative voters. they seem to want to push the conservatives out of the mainstream, and become the dominant party on the right.
my reading of what's happening on a lot of these issues is that they are designed to target the conservative base. the liberals don't want to be conservative light, they want to be the party of the right altogether.
so, they're identifying issues that are either core right-wing concerns, or have been identified as issues where the conservatives disappointed their base. marijuana is probably the next promise to reverse, which seems insane: until you realize that a lot of conservatives were unhappy with stephen harper for allowing the state to sanction medicinal use.
this is a pattern we've seen in canada at the provincial level. in british columbia, and also in quebec, the liberals are the right-wing party in a largely two-party spectrum.
it's not that it wasn't clear that this was happening. it's that the ndp's swing to the hard right put everybody in a daze, and we lunged at the lesser evil on paper. i think we all knew we weren't going to get everything they presented. but, i don't think many people realized how cynical it really was.
they never meant to implement their platform. it was just a prop. instead, they're carrying through with the plan to try and take over the right that they broadcast before the election.
and, they're about to get destroyed, as punishment.
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