i would have voted against both halves.

but note that what was developed in the new house is a "grand coalition". these are rare in canada, and almost always work the other way around. for example, stephane dion propped up stepphen harper - and got hammered for it.

you might have to go back to the 1960s and lester pearson to find another example of the conservatives voting to pass liberal legislation in a minority parliament.

this is not because the conservatives have decided to be reasonable, it's because the liberals swung hard to the right under carney.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/liberals-conservatives-pass-major-projects-legislation-in-house-of-commons/

i needed to get the gravy off the stove before it started to grow mold, so i made some more onion soup like soup and a general "needs to be eaten up" mega meal, which i used to do more frequently but has become rare since i've moved to the meal plan.

- remaining beef broth

- three strips of bacon

- old cheddar

- mozarella

- white bread crust

- dill

- hemp seed

- frank's

- pepper

- nutritional yeast

- caesar

with two slices of white toast (i never buy and rarely eat white bread) and a last chance salad composed of the last yellow pepper, an avocado, broccoli florrets, the last carrot, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, oregano, frank's, ceasar.

that eats up a few things. 

i'll probably finish the potatoes in the morning.

as for the last few days, it hasn't been as productive as i'd like. i've simply had to waste hours and hours exfoliating, and rehydrating, as i am utterly dehydrated. there's been some drama here that i don't feel like narrating, as it's not what i want this blog to be about. it will come up in time.

i woke up on monday morning before noon with the intent of doing a quick clean of myself and getting to the food bank first, then to pick up an rx and then to get some groceries, but i instead spent all day in the bathroom scraping dead skin off my face, before getting out to the rx at the last minute and pick up some groceries on the way back. i noted my couch was still there when i came in on monday, and hoped to get it in the next day. i made my potatoes when i got in, and fell asleep relatively early. this made sense because i only got an hour or so of sleep on monday morning.

i then spent essentially all day on tuesday in the bathroom exfoliating. i am actually making progress, but this is thick and stubborn. the weeks of hauling items across walkerville in a shopping cart left me utterly dehydrated and somewhat filthy. i have to moisturize it up, sweat it out and scrape it off, which is even grosser, but that's reality. when i get the skin cleared up, i'll need to focus on rehdryating my hair, and then bleaching it when it's rehydrated. i'm a little over due (my yearly bleach job is usually in may. it should get done before july.). i got essentially nothing else done, and didn't get the couch in.

i was woken up on wednesday morning by somebody sent to look for bed bugs in my apartment (they didn't find any). i spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning and exfoliating yet again. still didn't get the couch in.

on thursday morning, i was expecting a plumber. i heard some rumbling in the hall around 10:00, so i went out to check and found an electrician. i also noticed my couch was gone. i was able to determine by the end of the afternoon that the couch had been removed by property management because "they weren't sure who it belonged to".

i sent them an email on june 5th telling them it was my couch and i couldn't get it under the door. they also told me in an email on may 12th that they were ok with me leaving items (like bicycles) in the common area. the only other person on the floor knew it was my couch, because i told him. i'm consequently left to conclude this was retaliation, and i had to file a lawsuit.

i again spent all day friday and all day saturday exfoliating, and am making progress clearing up the filth and dead skin. i have restarted the np list, in the process:

https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/np-list.html

i have made no progress in organizing the apartment because i'm prioritizing exfoliating and rehydrating my skin and hair, first. i am going to need to prioritize catching up on email, as well, but rehydration is the primary concern at the moment.

there's a very narrow class of ideological pacifists that can balance this, and i may not always agree with them, but i think it is imperative that they exist. medea benjamin enrages me more often than not, but i strongly support her right to express herself, and think it's imperative that her and others like her continue doing what they are doing, even when they are clearly overwhelmingly wrong and when action is necessary and just. but you have to hold to your pacifism. you have to be rigid. you have to be honest.

...and this point should be made to phony leftists in the west who clam to stand for perpetual revolution, or against colonialism, or for whatever angle they articulate when challenged: you might support the kurds, and avoid being hypocrites. you don't. you stand with regimes that represent, practice and enforce everything you falsely claim to oppose. you make me fucking sick.

i clarified in an earlier post that i'm not in favout of carpet-bombing iran or reducing it to rubble so much as i'm in support for providing air cover for radical left groups on the ground, which i realize is unlikely, unless we help the kurds carve out a bigger area. i would support air support for the kurds, to help them control a larger amount of iran. and i think that might actually destabilize the regime enough to take it down.

i would not imagine that american bombs are going to help.

however, i think that if you let the jews operate freely, as they have been, the result will be beneficial to every actor that i'm in solidarity with, at the expense of those i oppose. i consequently would not support direct american intervention, except with the kurds, or in careful alignment with jewish strategic aims.

the problem is that the americans don't like watching. it makes them look bad in front of the russians. 

my tuesday meal was the red potato bacon-sour cream-dill-gravy-cheese thing.

my wednesday meal was plate two of nachos for this cycle, but without the salsa and in two stages. first stage was the regular nachos recipe, without bacon and without salsa. the doritos were also substituted with the the spicy garlic flavour to try it, and i found it underwhelming. this was consequently pretty basic nachos:

- doritos

- hemp seeds

- nutritional yeast

- cheese

microwave, then add ceasar, hot sauce. that's it.

my bacon was saved for later in the night, and consumed with the remaining gravy from the poutine in something that was similar to french onion soup. remember that the "gravy" is actually beef soup broth. i took my two slices (usually used with nachos) and put it in a bowl with the gravy, dill, nutritional yeast, frank's, hemp seed, the rest of the monterrey jack and the rest of the onion bread. this was a good little bowl of soup for very early on wednesday morning.

the thursday meal was a reprise of the previous salsa meal, doubled up as before, to compensate for the remaining two missed salsas, and with the remaining mising glass of juice.

the friday meal began the next cycle with a ceasar salad without substantive subs (white bread for brown bread. that's it.).

and saturday is repeating the poutine.

there are still 2 pasta meals from the previous cycle before i can move to the next cycle and i still need to make some broccoli soup. i will get a third poutine out of this bag of potatoes but not a fourth.