Much like the sweet hangover that you don't deserve, it's...
T H E J U I C E A N D G I N
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Term XLII, Issue 06 (#215)
Weather outlook:
Jank.
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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
Seeing as how we have received just that many complaints last week about
the Juice and Gin's new erratic by-weekly schedule, the editors here at
J&G HQ have decided that it's high time we actually started thinking
about returning to a regular publication schedule. But don't hold your
breath.
A wise man once said: "I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try."
Ah, life-affirming.
And does this really count as a Wednesday edition if it escapes in the
wee early hours of Thursday morning? What about the fact that no one is
going to read this until late Thursday, if at all. That's just the kind
of dangerous balancing act that keeps this us from achieving our true
potential.
Until next time,
Don't get hysterical, you crazy man!
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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http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v21n5/niskanen.html
Once upon a time, there was a dream called Canada.
In Canada, the children were taught about a thing called the National
Identity.
The first chapter of National Identity was always Counterculture,
wherein we tell the children that we often define ourselves as simply
being "not American." The next chapter is usually named the "Legacy of
Peacekeeping" wherein we tell them that our proud military history
contains only victories in protecting the weak from the strong and
keeping the peace so as to teach enemies to be friends.
They lied to us.
I don't know when the lying started. I'm pretty sure it was sometime
before I was born, but it's hard to tell because the media fall in so
well with the lies that it's hard to dig them out. I know, with
certainty, that the framework for lying was already well in place when
NATO, including Canada, began bombing Serbia. They told us that the
Serbs were "ethnically cleansing" Kosovo of all non-Serbians. We were
told that there were mass graves containing, in total, perhaps 100 000
Kosovars.
Then Canada, as part of the NATO mission against Serbia, committed
terrorism. There was no UN approval. There was no Parliamentary vote.
There was no declaration of war. Serbia never attacked us in a way that
would activate the NATO alliance. Civilians were bombed and killed for
the purpose of changing a government we didn't like.
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/shown.htm
The Serbs were not ethnically cleansing Kosovo. The Serbs were not
expanding beyond their borders. There was never any proof of this, just
allegations to trick us in to supporting the war. All that NATO and
human rights investigators could later find were normal graves
containing about equal numbers of fighting men from both sides -- those
having been killed in the battles between foreign funded Kosovo
Liberation Army guerrillas and the government armed forces. General
Lewis MacKenzie was upset, as was Canada's former ambassador to
Yugoslavia, James Bisset.
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/mack.htm
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/bisset/bisset.htm
A New York Times writer had the clever comment "You want 1950? We can
do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too." He was only reflecting,
in that sycophantic mainstream media style, the attitudes of the NATO
commanders toward the general Serbian population. Here was NATO,
promising to bomb the infrastructure of the country until it changed
governments. Radio stations were hit. Hospitals were bombed. Finally,
Milosevic surrendered. They sent him to the Hague, where they couldn't
find a thing to pin on him and eventually he died of some heart ailment.
In a fit of irony, it was the invading NATO commanders that accused him
of terrorism and invented the term "ethnic cleansing".
We went along with those lies in Serbia. We went along with the lies in
Haiti. We're going along with the lies in Afghanistan. I don't know
how many other lies we're permitting.
There was a dream that was called Canada and I never once feared that it
could be destroyed.
Once, there was a dream called Canada, and I fear it will fade away from
the apathy of its citizens.
Greg.
Thomas Friedman "Give War a Chance"
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/12465/
[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$yahoo.ca]
[Disclaimer: The Humour Section may contain content that includes dirty
words, adult situations and jokes that make fun of politicians. Viewer
discretion is advised. --Ed.]
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M.W.A. (Muppets With Attitude)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0vEQ6hC7Q
(Warning: Rap Music. Oh and swearing, too.)
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Funeral
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Thanks to Linda G.'s
Three friends die in a car accident and they go to an orientation in
heaven. They are all asked, "When you are in your casket and friends
and family are mourning you, what would you like to hear them say about
you?"
The first guy says,"I would like to hear them say that I was a great
doctor of my time, and a great family man."
The second guy says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful
husband and school teacher which made a huge difference in our children
of tomorrow."
The last guy replies, "I would like to hear them say... Hey look, he's
moving!"
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* General Info *
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Contact the NUTS Committee:
nutsinfo$yahoo.ca
The NUTS Website is:
http://nutsevents.topcities.com/
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