magic beards aside.

as it may be.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this

it's not about a division of powers. we have these constitutionally enshrined, but they're fairly fluid on a lot of points. we could do most of what singh is talking about.

....if he were to win a majority.

but, the liberals won't even talk to them about most of this stuff. and, i'm left convinced that we're better off avoiding the waste of time of minority governance, in context,, and agitating directly, instead.

singh is not going to have much leverage.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this

i want to make a comment about the ndp's housing proposals.

first, i should point out that the greens had a better platform on that issue, so i would have picked them over the ndp, if it came down to it. and, i'm moaning about it all of the time, so why don't i just go ahead and do that?

if the ndp (or the greens.) were anywhere close to actually governing, this would be a relevant point to make. but, the ndp are not going to win this election - and i think they'll actually finish a distant 4th.

there are some issues where a minority party leader can make a very big impact, but housing is not one of them, and the reason is because of the way we fund it. it hasn't always been this way, but a liberal government in 2019 is going to treat a housing strategy as a primarily provincial concern. so, it might make some aspirational guarantees, or something. but, the kind of housing plan that singh is pushing for is not going to be on the table. it just isn't.

nor is dental, pipelines or most of the other things being talked about - many of which are also primarily provincial responsibilities, at the current time.

what is actually on the table? well, they seem serious about some kind of pharmaceutical plan, but the legislation to this nationally would be pretty messy. are they going to open up the canada health act? are they going to threaten to withhold funding if quebec or alberta refuses to go along with it? it seems unlikely.

and, i question the ndp's own commitment to the environment, let alone mr. trudeau's. for all of notley's scorn for being ignored, i have little doubt who holds more influence in the party. mr. singh sounds quite a bit like mr. trudeau did not too long ago, on the environment. but, that is nonetheless what a tough agreement from the ndp is likely to look like - planting the trees that doug ford cancelled. it will be presented as a strong win after tough negotiations, too.

it's easy to tell me about pearson, and ms. may will be happy to do so, but my dead father was in grade school at the time. that was a different era, with different challenges.

as mentioned: i might have a different perspective if mr. singh was an entirely different person, with an entirely different perspective. but, as it is, i don't see what he can actually accomplish in a minority government, and i'm not convinced he'll hold support where it's important. rather than stand against the government to stop these pipelines, he's likely to stand with the government on...well, everything.

so, on some level, i may agree with the ndp on housing, it is true. but, that''s something i'll give more thought to in the next provincial election, where it matters.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this

again.

i would feel comfortable voting for ujjal dosanjh.

and, i would feel comfortable voting for niki haley (not actually, she's terrible.).

but, i don't feel comfortable voting for jagmeet singh, and i don't feel comfortable voting for elizabeth may, either. in fact, i don't feel comfortable voting for elizabeth may for exactly the same reason that i don't feel comfortable voting for jagmeet singh.

i'll let you work out what that means, and what it doesn't. but, remember: i don't actually care what you think of me, and i won't let your opinion of me affect my existence in any way at all.

you mean nothing to me.

at all.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this

so, i realized earlier this evening (it's the morning, now. wow.) that my links for the month of november, 2013 are all out of sync, and i'd have to go back and correct them as best i can. i just want to post a short clarifying update about that.

what happened was that my headphones broke in the first week of november, when i was in the process of remastering inri001, the second cassette demo. i clearly remember just putting the last few tracks through the same izotope patch i'd been using, uploading inri003 without touching it and then waiting for the cord to come in - which didn't happen until early december.

so, i had a month to wait, and no way to move forward on the remaster. what i had at the time was a pair of traveling sennheisers with noise cancellation in them, which were useless for mastering.

so, i focused on the write-ups, and just uploaded everything mostly raw, focusing mostly on editing the tracks to remove simpsons samples. the actual remastering didn't happen until the first week of december, and i deleted a lot of posts when that happened, something i regret.

a few months later, i lost a hard drive and the raw data for the remastering i'd done over the previous months. as the tracks i uploaded in november were transitional, i didn't have them saved anywhere. so, they ended up entirely lost.

i'm trying to be as accurate as possible, which means i want links to the exact tracks i uploaded over the month, which were neither the originals from 1998/1999 nor the remasters i did in december. the tracks are closest to the files from 1998, which are mostly only available as bonus tracks, if they have vocals. if they're instrumentals, i should have original streams available.

so, many of the links i'm going to post for inri015 and inri021 over november are either going to be to "download only" bonus material or to actual dead links, and it has to be that way because the actual data is lost.

that flips over when i get my phones back in early december, but i didn't repost anything when i uploaded it. so, this is going to be awkward - i'll need to do a full album update, all at once on top of all of the dead links....

i want to finish updating the file before i stop to eat.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this

he still has 11 days to respond. i've heard nothing at all, at this point.

right now, i'm planning to file on november 1st for two court orders:

1) an order to hire a plumber.
2) an order to ensure that the temperature in the unit is at least 20 degrees celsius at all times.

both landlord obligations are in the residential tenancies act.

it's an open and shut case of obvious negligence.

my aim at this time is for him to carry out his responsibilities under the law. so, i'm not going to immediately be seeking damages. it will only be if he refuses to abide by the court order that i'll be seeking compensation for his negligence.

right now, i want him to solve the problem, not for him to write me a check.

i'm hoping i can drag this out long enough to get a space in subsidized housing; the root cause of these perpetual landlord negligence problems is the fact that they're forcing disabled people to use market housing. this is what happens - complete negligence. i have to take him to court to get him to turn the heat on...

the liberals are supposed to do better than this

it's becoming more and more clear that, while the cause of the smell is gas entering the unit from the sewer via the cleanout, and likely faulty p-traps, the thing that's actually driving the pump that sets in is temperature. i'm seeing this as the temperature comes up and down this week.

when it's a lot colder in the sewer than it is in the apartment, there would be a transfer of energy into the sewer, which would displace the air and send it up here. i suspected that earlier, but it's only becoming that much more clear as we're actually doing this experiment.

the correct answer, for now, is to turn the heat up to better dissipate the energy. and, when the heat is on, the issue actually mostly resolves itself. the thing is that it isn't 20 degrees in here - so by refusing to turn the heat on when he's obligated to, he's worsening an existing plumbing problem. and, i really have no option but to compensate by trying to find ways to put more energy into the ground, which include: running the hot water through the pipes, dumping hot water into the cleanout.

as far as i can tell, he actually hasn't come home yet.

and, i really need a plumber to tell me (him) how to stop that from happening, asap.

if he doesn't stop ignoring me soon, he's going to have a messy, expensive lawsuit on his hands.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this