there was a "chinese supermarket" i was in when i was looking for raspberry tea that...

i think there was a language barrier, and that's why i haven't posted about it. i told him repeatedly that i have asthma (which is a half-truth.), and he honestly didn't seem to understand. he just kept saying in broken english that i needed to have a mask.

so, i just stopped and asked him, blankly: "do you want my business or not?"

and, he looked at me like he was going to cry and shook his head.

so, i walked out.

the adjustment i made was that i carry my puffer now, so that people with language barriers can understand why i'm not wearing a mask, and can make a choice as to whether upholding the fud overpowers their bottom line, or not.

again, if you find yourself in this situation, what you need to do is the following:

1) be assertive, but stay calm.
2) ask for the manager.
3) explain to the manager that you're leaving the store because of the laws. that way, they understand why they're losing business.
4) take your business elsewhere.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/mask-restaurant-brandon-manitoba-1.5699001

maybe there's a nice bunker in bosnia for her to hide in for the next few months.

now, was she on drugs during the last election?

i think it's clear that she was, yes - but it's normal, most politicians are, nowadays. they give them anxiety meds, or very strong uppers to keep them alert.

what's weird is that trump doesn't seem to be; he's the exception, here.

she needs to shut the fuck up.

and somebody needs to tell it to her in no uncertain terms.

can somebody fly clinton to benghazi to get rid of her for a few months?

thanks.

so, again: let's stop pretending we can rely on china for supply chains.

we can't.

we need to adjust.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/canada-china-covid-19-vaccine-trial-plug-pulled-1.5701101

i mean, if it was a church group, i'd maybe have a more subtle response.

but, it's not.

so, my condemnation is clear:

you? never did! fuck the kenosha kid.

i can condemn this kenosha kid.

if he blew up a mosque, that's a diversity of tactics to advance secularism - i wouldn't advocate it, but i won't condemn it

but, i have no common cause with anybody that wants to shoot black protesters on the street, unless the protesters are explicitly christians.

Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with shooting three people — two of them fatally — during a Kenosha protest Tuesday night, considered himself a militia member trying to protect life and property

you never did.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/08/26/kyle-rittenhouse-charged-kenosha-protest-shootings-militia/5634532002/

i never did.

- the kenosha kid

it's going to be a sleepy few days, i can barely stay awake.

so be it.

the pig upstairs seems to be smoking, and it's not helping.

it can't happen here, right?

so, there's this idea that this unrest in minnesota and wisconsin is going to help biden.

derp.

if she cared about him at all, she would recognize his autonomy and provide him with agency.

he's right to call her selfish.

this is absolutely terrible.

she cannot have the right to interfere like this, and the law should be amended to ensure that she can't.

an individual's life belongs solely to them, and they must remain the sole decision maker over it.

it's things like this that are why i can't fathom getting married.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-medical-assistance-in-dying-bridgewater-couple-court-1.5700203

i don't like either candidate.

but, joe's the conservative, here. not don.

it's funny that richard spencer endorses joe biden, and the coverage around it is that biden rejected it, as though biden has some kind of right to choose his voters, and as though biden's rejection at all matters.

it's this weird tendency tied into the rise of identity politics to see voting for a candidate as joining a club, rather than as an act of self-interest. in the minds of identity voters, it seems to be that there's a "biden club" and that, by supporting the candidate, you're joining the club. as such, members of the club have the right to remove you from it.

this is of course utterly ridiculous to everybody else...

if biden rejected my endorsement (which is not coming.), i'd tell him to fuck off, and that i'm voting for him anyways, whether he likes it or not.

so, let's take a step back, here.

richard spencer apparently thinks that joe biden aligns more with his concept of history than donald trump. why is that?

is it the kasich endorsement?

and, is spencer right? or is he foolishly voting against his self-interest?

this hurricane that's about to hit near new orleans has a very weird track, and there is actually a fairly high probability (relatively) that it could zoom across the south, end up back in the atlantic, and then slam new york.

we see these weird tracks every once in a while, where the thing zigs and zags like mohammad ali, and then pow.

you'd be daft to predict a hurricane.

but, this could be vicious.

after the last election, the media instantly jumped on the comparisons between 2019 and 1972, and i cringed.

say what else you will about the dead old man, but nobody doubts that pet was a master strategist. 

what if pierre had missed his chance all those years ago?

yeah.

he missed his chance at an easy majority, and now he's vulnerable. as fatigue sets in, the trend will be downwards.

he'd better give us a helluva budget.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7296428/trudeau-leadership-election-poll/

i'm not going to write the white paper here, and i'll leave it to the economists to fill in the details, but the rule of thumb here should be that the wealthy need to shoulder the burden, and that cuts for the vulnerable should be avoided.

but, i expect an austerity budget from freeland, at the least.

and, i'm hoping the ndp doesn't cave...

who is benefiting from this?

- online sales are up. maybe a tobin tax would help.
- the market isn't hurting.
- property is variable, up in some places, down in others. but, this would appear to be a good time to raise property taxes.

etc.

they appear to be calling for rae days. no thanks.

i don't want to see a single dime cut from spending, anywhere.

raise taxes.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/in-the-tough-times-ahead-what-is-trudeau-prepared-to-cut

i actually agree with the sailor.....

this is an international waterway, and we have no right to enforce any sort of authority over it, or stamp our feet and get mad when people disobey it.

and, we need to get used to it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/new-zealand-yacht-cambridge-bay-nunavut-1.5698347

if death grips were half this good, they wouldn't suck.

but, they basically built their career on this old bowie/eno/reznor/ice cube/rave ogilvie collab.

i strongly agree with the historical liberal party position on this matter.

i don't care what america thinks, and don't want america running the planet.

i care what the security council thinks, and want the united nations running the planet.

my primary concern about afghanistan is the potential of getting into a war with china over it.

it would not be in canada's interests to get involved with a proxy war with china. at all.

we went to korea, and it was a mistake. but, we avoided vietnam, and we should avoid whatever's coming next, too.

nato will probably withdraw from germany before it withdraws from afghanistan.

they could be there for 200 years, if america lasts that long. and, if america collapses before then and hands over the anglo-american empire to some satellite, like canada, then they'll be there for the next 200 years, too.

now, as an aside, the nato presence in afghanistan clearly doesn't have anything to do with combating terrorism, but is rather a geostrategic positioning that has to do with controlling a very important part of the world.

well, that and the heroin.

actually, i think it's clear enough that the position that the canadian government took in afghanistan is that what america wants or does not want is irrelevant in determining the legality and desirability of intervention; what's important is how the intervention exists in the framework and context of international law.

it follows that canada would have gone to afghanistan whether it was in america's best interests, or opposed to american interests altogether, so long as it was agreed upon by the security council. what america thought, in context, did not matter, and whether it was good for america or bad for america was not a part of the calculation.

so, are we doing america a favour? what does that mean?

i think we're just implementing the security council resolution...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/top-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-disparages-canada-s-military-efforts-in-afghanistan-1.5079375

i do hope that they are fully prosecuted for assault, and charged under the appropriate hate crimes legislation.

see, this is what nobody wants to see. and, they don't have any claim to self-defence, either, if they're going to stand on the corner and preach hate against an identifiable group, nor should they be allowed to hide behind "religious freedom".

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anty-gay-attack-prompts-hate-related-investigation-1.5697192

the thing is this, though - how different is what they were saying on the corner in a language we all understand from what they say in a mosque or a church every day, in a language that most of us don't?

and, if you think it's ok to confront them when they do it on the sidewalk, why don't you think it's ok to confront them when they do it under their domes?

i don't want conflict, here. but i'm a very stark realist, and i know this kind of thing is going to be more likely in the future unless something is done to address the hate against homosexuality in these communities, which isn't evaporating due to integration.

i had to do a lot of running around yesterday.

i was concerned about cops sitting on the street corners with baseball bats, but almost nobody was maskless, indicating that the fear, uncertainty and doubt seems to be working. there were again two cases yesterday...

people actually seem to have been taken aback by something they saw on me that they may not have seen on anybody in quite a while, namely lipstick.

i'd bet cosmetic companies are taking it hard right now in some places, because what's the point when you're wearing a mask? but, you could see it in the eyes of random females walking by.

i remember that. i miss that, just a little. not jealous.

i managed to find another month's worth of brand name estrace, right here in windsor. is there more out there? there might be, i don't know....

this month was been awfully unproductive. i keep trying to clean up posts back to early august, and keep getting stuck, either via distraction (posts this month are twice the average) or as a consequence of migraines or oversleeping. it snuck up on me this time by accident, but quitting smoking is not fun. but, i'm inside now for a bit, and am two weeks past it, so let's hope i can get a bit of work done before i have to do groceries for september.