if you believe in Jesus.

I forgot to look for this when I saw it on TV ages ago … but man, this lady is AWESOME.

The “White Chicks and Gang Signs” song is absolutely hilarious. Turns out the rest of his site absolutely sucks. I hate it when that happens.

An abandoned mine kills on average 30 people a year.

Drowning is the number one cause of death. Most people who drowned entered a quarry and went swimming. Quarries are very unsafe places to swim. Steep drop-offs, rocky ledges, flooded equipment and industrial waste can be in the water and make swimming risky. 

Some people are stupid… Like people who don’t listen to geologists when they say there is something fishy going on up around Mount Baker.

Small earthquakes that may indicate underground activity now occur once or twice a month beneath Baker, compared with as many as 10 times that number beneath Rainier and thousands beneath St. Helens.

Just living with 3 mountain climbers last year, I know that people don’t look into these sorts of things. I’m pretty sure they went and climbed Baker once or twice and I can promise you that they did check out instabilities or anything of that nature Two of them are even geographers, and they wouldn’t check that sort of stuff out, or even take it seriously. Douches.

The only thing I hate more than idiots, are sexists and racists.

If you don’t know why today is the international day for the elimination of racism, I suggest you go and check out this site. In short on March 21 1960 a group of people were protesting against apartheid in Transvaal, South Africa and they got gunned down by police.

“The aparth-what?”

Pass laws required that Africans had to carry identity documents with them at all times. These books had to contain stamps providing official proof that that the person in question had permission to be in a town at that time. Initially only men were forced to carry these books, but soon law also compelled women to carry the dreaded documents.

According to Section 10 (1a-d) of the 1954 Native Urban Areas Act Africans could only stay in an urban area for more than 12 hours if they:

a) Had been born there and had lived there ever since.
b) Had worked there for ten years under one employer, or had lived there for 15 years without breaking any law (including pass laws)
c) Were the child or wife of a man permitted to live in the urban area on the conditions of (a) or (b) mentioned above.
d) Signed a contract to migrate from a rural reserve to a specific job for a limited period of time in an urban area after which they must return home.

As a result, today we have International Day for the Elimination of Racism. Today on women on air we’ll be doing a special documentary on it and there are lots of people posting about it - just go do a google blog search.

I’m supposed to be leaving right now to go on a “feild trip” to China Town downtown. The problem is, I have to be at work by 10:30, and the lab there ends at 10:30… and its a 30 minute bus ride back. So I guess I’ll be missing China Town seeing as radio = more important than geography lab.

On top of all that, I’ve developed this wicked new sickness… it makes my head all light, and my throat incredibly soar. So basically, I just feel like sleeping for the next 800 years. But have no fear, I will have new music up by noon…that’s all I’ll want to do at work anyway… listen to and steal music. Until then, though, you should go check out this racism post at Pandagon, good story and even better commentary on it.

Buble isn’t going despite his nomination - because he’s all like "im a jerk and besides, the nucks play that night".

I’d pick hockey over an awards night too Michael.

But in even funnier news Michael Keren says that all us bloggers… are really just lonely loser.

Many bloggers, Keren says, are isolated, lonely and withdrawn, choosing to form virtual relationships instead of the real thing.

"Bloggers
think of themselves as rebels against mainstream society, but that
rebellion is mostly confined to cyberspace, which makes blogging as
melancholic and illusionary as Don Quixote tilting at windmills," Keren
says in a statement.

In Blogosphere: The New Political Arena, he
asks whether the blogosphere is a new political arena or simply a
gathering place for powerless citizens.

Yeah… Michelle Malkins replied with the very intelligent reply "Pshaw!" Way to go Malkins, way to go - but wait… why is she speaking for all bloggers? No one WANTS to talk to her. But really… There are a few things that bother me about that. I use blogging as a way to stay in contact with a lot of people… The only way my family ever knows what I’m doing is because of updates on my blog.

We may be writing blogs that only 20 people read, or 300, or 3000… but the point is - people are reading them. By posting, linking, and reading other people’s blog we’re expanding our minds and our social circle. Keren should come to Yearly Kos and then try and tell us that bloggers have absolutely no power.

Southern Ontario (home sweet home!) experienced a power blip recently.

It initially knocked out almost all of Toronto’s traffic lights as
morning rush hour got under way. After the blip, the city’s monitoring
system showed that 95 per cent of the more than 2,000 traffic signals
had switched to "flash" mode, blinking red in all directions to alert
drivers to treat the intersections like a four-way stop, said Bruce
Zvaniga, Toronto’s director of urban traffic control.

Within 45 minutes, most of the city’s newer traffic lights had reset
themselves. However, problems remained at about 160 intersections with
older traffic signals that required electricians to investigate and
reset them manually. "I would expect it caused a lot of drivers some
frustration," Mr. Zvaniga said.

Now… I wonder if this has anything at all to do with the amount of energy that was being used at the time. … and not just a raccoon. You’d think that after the power outage of 2003 Ontario would have gotten a clue that they consume energy like a kid consumes ice cream on a hot day.
… Seriously though, one day… Southern Ontario is just going to shut down and not start back up…and I’ll be sitting over here in nice little Victoria laughing. (Until the sea levels start to rising, then I’ll be laughing underwater as my little island drowns.)

I just got really tired all of the sudden so here we go quick time:

Quebecers are being assholes. Here are their town rules for income immigrants:

- It is forbidden to stone women, burn them alive, throw acid on them or circumcise girls.

-
Consumption of alcohol is common in Herouxville, as is dancing. "At the
end of every year, we decorate a tree with balls and tinsel and some
lights. This is normally called ‘Christmas decorations’ or also
‘Christmas tree.’ "

- Boys and girls swim together in public pools.

- Veils are not welcome. "The only time you may mask or cover your face is during Halloween."

My favorite passtime is throwing acid on girls aged 3 - 7… the shriek they let out is amazing! …And about this face covering thing - what if you want to pretend to be a ninja on pirate day just to piss off the people who think pirates are better than ninjas?… Seriously, that needs to be considered too.

The tories are getting neeervous, and we’ll be seeing some aaattack ads during the super bowl - but the funniest thing about that article is when The Bears are called "da bears" …Is that a common thing? to actually call them "da bears" in actual articles? …Or is that just hilarious tidbit that slipped on that article? Because really I know nothing about football, but I know "da bears" skit … and that made me laugh.

Aaand finally and interesting Pickton update.