The most dramatic showdown since KITT vs. KARR, it's...
T H E J U I C E A N D G I N
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Term XLI, Issue 02 (#196)
Weather outlook:
I still don't trust it.
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* Contents *
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- Editor's Blurb
- Ongoing Events
- Greg's DTK
- Humour
- General Info
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* Editor's Blurb *
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Hey all
What originally looked like an aberration has now become commonplace:
through no fault of its own the Juice and Gin is now being published on
Wednesday evenings. Strange I know, but these things happen.
Hopefully we'll have pictures from the Pool League Winter 2006
Invitational Tournament as well as the post-season wrap-up barbecue
available soon. Just in case you wanted to see pictures of people
having fun playing pool and having a party. Because nothing says
"par-tay" like still pictures of people playing Catchphrase.
Until next time,
It's not easy living with a deviated septum.
Michael (mailto:nutsinfo$yahoo.ca)
And now, the rest of the story...
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* Ongoing Events *
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[See the Event Calendar on the web site for full descriptions.
--Ed.]
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Pool League
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Mondays
http://nutsevents.topcities.com/events/index.html#Monday
Contact: Dave and Michael (pool$solutionsatsource.com)
View the current players' statistics at:
http://nutsevents.topcities.com/events/pool/index.html
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Indoor Rock Climbing
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Thursdays
Contact: Andrew (akpallek$hotmail.com)
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* Greg's Deep Thought Korner *
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I want to talk about whining today. Mostly, this is because I've seen
two instances of pretty ridiculous whining lately.
The first kind of whining is the internationally prevalent "Gasoline is
too expensive! Make it cheaper!" whining.
Let's look at the facts. Gasoline is made from oil. Oil is a
non-renewable resource. You may argue that the oil companies are
gouging. You may argue American foreign policy (and now Canadian too)
is making things worse. You may argue that everybody in the Middle East
is out to screw us over. You can argue all of these things. But even
if we fixed all of these problems, even if President Ralph Nader brought
all the multinational oil companies to heel and made peace in the Middle
East, we would still eventually reach the point where our greed for oil
overwhelmed capacity. Why? Because there's only so much oil, the world
is running out and we keep wanting more energy.
What I'm saying is that we have a bunch of pansies complaining about the
price of gas. If you want to do something about it, do something about
conservation. Solo conservation, unfortunately, is fairly pointless.
You can drive a Smart car at 3.3 diesel L/100 km, and it would do
nothing to stem the tide of oil being burned of people who feel like
affording a Hummer as a commuter vehicle. You'd have to petition the
government to force fuel efficiency laws throughout the country. That's
how you change things. That's what the government is there for. If
such a concept is important to the people, the government will enact it.
The other complaint is fairly local: the Carp dump is expanding in the
west end of Ottawa. The locals all over the west end are going nuts.
How dare they expand the dump! Don't expand it! It smells really bad!
Boo!
Uh, yeah. First of all, the dump has been there a long time. You
should have noticed it when you built or bought your house. On top of
that, garbage has always smelled bad and the prevailing wind has always
been from the west.
If it turns out that the dump is only expanding so we can take Toronto's
garbage, then you'd have an argument. My understanding, however, is
that only a small fraction of the garbage is permitted to be from
outside of Ottawa. That's our garbage and we have to put it somewhere.
As odorous as the dump is, it's our responsibility. Again, if you want
to fix things, you have to start making laws. Limit garbage output per
household. Force manufacturers to make all of their plastics of a kind
that can be easily recycled. Enforce composting programs.
But don't give me any of this "I don't want a bigger landfill" crap.
The garbage has to go somewhere and whining about it does nothing.
What's the alternative to not having a dump? Leaving garbage on the street?
I get very concerned when I see this kind of ignorant complaining at the
mass population levels. "I want lower taxes." "I don't want a dump."
"Make gasoline cheaper!" It's as if I'm watching our entire society
regress in to some kind infantile senility where we're unaware that we
can't have everything the way we want it. Actions have consequences,
our fathers would tell us, and when we produce garbage, drive cars and
demand government services, we have to have dumps, pay for gasoline and
pay taxes.
It's long passed the time where we need to grow up. This kind of
immaturity is far too easy to manipulate by unscrupulous politicians.
Greg.
[Send responses to DTKs or new Editorials to nutsinfo$yahoo.ca]
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* Humour *
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[Forward any good jokes or interesting web sites you see to
nutsinfo$yahoo.ca]
[Disclaimer: The Humour Section may contain content that includes dirty
words, adult situations and jokes that make fun of politicians. Viewer
discretion is advised. --Ed.]
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In A Belfast Pub
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Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just been run
over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is
cut and bruised and he's walking with a limp.
"What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bartender.
"Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy.
"That little bastard, O'Conner," says Sean. "He couldn't do that to
you, he must have had something in his hand."
"That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had, and a terrible
lickin' he gave me with it."
"Well," says Sean, "you should have defended yourself. Didn't you have
something in your hand?"
"That I did," said Paddy. "Mrs. O'Conner's breast -- a thing of beauty
it was -- but useless in a fight."
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* General Info *
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Contact the NUTS Committee:
nutsinfo$yahoo.ca
The NUTS Website is:
http://nutsevents.topcities.com/
http://torpedo.ca.newbridge.com/mirror/ (for people within Alcatel)
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