29/31 by Garfunkel and Oates, found via Rose.
Author: Stephane Daury
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♫ 29/31 by Garfunkel and Oates
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What I wish people of all political affiliations understood about Jean Charest
What I’d really like people to see is that Jean Charest is doing nothing short of what I’ll label as pulling a Dubya. He is not a Liberal any more. He is only acting toward his own benefit.
This is a man who knows he will not get re-elected (there’s no way), and whose political career is likely over when you add up the corruption enquiries to which he’ll undoubtedly be linked, the tuition increase in a province where we’re the most taxed in North America and more than paying for our educational system already, Bill 78, and so much more. So what he is currently doing are his last moves before he switches to becoming a lobbyist: basically handing out free money, at our expense, to his corporate friends.
Doubting me?
- He’s selling out our natural resources at the highest bidder with his Plan Nord, to no one’s advantage but the (often foreign) corporations who are buying it up (and who will for sure hire him once out of office).
- He’s putting in place unconstitutional laws, knowing that by the time they are ruled as such, he’ll have gotten what he wanted out of it in the first place anyway.
- He is (or will soon be) on the chopping block in a massive corruption inquiry.
Just to illustrate how absurd this situation really is: the tuition increase is supposed to raise $130-160 millions from students’ pockets out of the fresh $800 million going to universities (whose funds are so mismanaged, it’s doubtful they need it at all). But on the other hand, he’s happy to fork off $300 millions to build one road that will benefit one private mining operation. How does this make sense in any way?
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Lettre ouverte aux policiers, de la part d’un ancien confrère à la retraite
Vous êtes la police, vous devez être calme quand on s’énerve, fort quand on tombe, souple quand on se raidit, vous devez nous écouter, nous rassurer, nous guider. Vous devez nous protéger, parfois même contre nous-mêmes.
Vous avez juré de nous protéger et nous servir, le climat de tension sociale ne nous sert pas, la perte de nos droits et libertés ne nous sert pas et nous en sommes rendus au point où nous avons besoin que vous nous protégiez de notre gouvernement qui se comporte de façon cupide, perfide, mesquine, confrontationnelle et abusive envers nous.
Soyez les héros dont nous avons besoin, prenez exemple sur vos confrères de Francfort.
Vous êtes notre dernier espoir pour une sortie de crise pacifique.
Source: Lettre ouverte aux policiers, de la part d’un ancien confrère à la retraite.
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Fully Flared epic intro
A must see movie. Gotta love Spike Jonze (who started his career in the BMX industry, then moved on to music videos and movies such as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Where the Wild Things Are).