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This post marks the beginning of a different tone… I just don’t have the temperament to bother posting a few times a day. So my posts are going to be more like rants, and less frequent. It is, after all, the Internet. That means everything you see here is fact.

The way I see it, there’s a fundamental problem right at the bottom of this whole wonderful mess we call politics and government and all that.

There’s really two ways that work to run things.

We could go straight up Karl Marx, and say From each according to ability, to each according to need… not to say that complete and utter wealth redistribution is necessary with this course of action, just some sort of working towards common goals above all else. If your job happens to be obsolete, you get reassigned. If your house is in the way of the new freeway that’ll benefit a hundred thousand folks a day, enjoy your new one across town. And so forth and so on.

The alternative is straight up Adam Smith. Laissez-faire, and if you don’t like it, tough ****. Not to say this course of action endorses beating your employees or 70 hour work weeks, but hey, if GM can’t make it, then it dies. And sure, 300,000 people don’t have jobs, but society still needs cars, and society still needs skilled workers. Those who want to work for what they need will, and will get what they need and perhaps what they want because of it. Those who want to float along on the stream like nothing’s wrong, well, they’re going to drown pretty quick.

Our nature as human beings does not allow us to efficiently conduct the former system, there will always be those who attempt to exploit it. Our collective conscience does not allow us the latter system, we opt to work on 100% of the population instead of settling for 95%.

And so, we end up with a bastard lovechild of both systems, too afraid to let people fall through the cracks, and too selfish to achieve common goals. That’s the real tragedy, IMO. Both work in theory. Both will always fail in practice.

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In three months flat I’ve been knocked out of remembering any of Grey Cup in Montreal from food poisoning, fought off a month long case of walking pneumonia, and this is my third cold. This is just getting ridiculous.

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I have a great idea for a new [NHL] rule:
You have to have a commisioner that actually knows a bit about the game he isuppossed to be running, instead of thinking he’s a businessman, (which by the way, he seems to stink at also!).

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Alright boys and girls, a bit of a shameless plug for one of my other babies for a moment. CFL Fans Fight Cancer has been something I’ve been involved with for the last three years, and it’s something that’s really taking off this year. We’re revamping the website this week, and I know there’s all kinds of events going on in both Southern Ontario and BC’s Lower Mainland. Information about those will be available through the new CFLFFC blog (try the link above) sometime this week or next.

We’ll have to see how I can top shaving my head (not to mention the $704 for CancerCare Manitoba) this year.

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First things first, here’s the link for the last story. Sorry.

Second, I may identify as rather left socially, and pretty right as things go (at least by Canadian standards) fiscally, but I think there’s a awfully good rebuke of why Rush Limbaugh is wrong, and written by a conservative to boot. I sat and watched most of his hour and a half speech to CPAC and I’ll admit I was a lot more impressed with him by the end then I was at the beginning. But he’s a throwback, the more I think about it. Politics isn’t about us and them anymore, or at least it shouldn’t be.  Rush is still fundamentally wrong, but he doesn’t deserve the out and out demonization he gets in the press. Part of freedom of speech is the right to prove you are in fact an idiot.

After all that, I still want to defend him. He didn’t put enough qualifiers on his statement about Obama, and so yes, “I hope he fails” is a spectacular headline. But it’s not as if Rush is advocating for the death of America. Any sane person can tell you that. Couldn’t we start by figuring out what he most likely meant, instead of rushing into all sorts of political correctness?

As for his actual commentary, look how many countries in the world make minority governments work all the time. Yeah, you can point to Israel as an exception, but when was the last time anything at all worked simply in the Middle East? How about New Zealand? It is in fact possible for civilized people to work together towards a common goal (this means you, Stephen). I would go so far to say that everything of merit in civilization has been achieved through that process. Politics ought not to be the exception.

Let’s be clear, I’m not trying to put Obama or anyone else on a pedestal. I watched his quasi State of the Union speech as well, and was disappointed in how partisan the responses were, and how Democrats were just as guilty of that as Republicans, if not perhaps more so. So much for the moral high ground.

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This is definitely something I can agree with.

Maybe that’s what’s at the heart of this perplexing decision. The Cowboys simply lack the leadership inside and outside of the locker room to handle a complex personality like Owens. For as talented as the Cowboys’ roster appears, there is not an accomplished winner on the team or a strong leader capable of getting the petulant playmaker to fall in line. Typically, the quarterback would command that kind of respect, but Romo’s reluctance or inability to be a forceful leader has resulted in the owner having to establish order in the locker room.

Jerry Jones made the difficult decision to jettison the team’s most productive offensive player in an effort to improve chemistry, but time will tell if the move ultimately makes the Cowboys a better team

This would also explain why the Cowboys were so hotly after Ray Lewis. Truthfully, that’s the problem in Dallas, in my mind. Nobody’s stepping up to enforce accountability on anyone else. They need that dominating locker room presence that won’t let people get away with crap like the Romo/Witten/Owens soap opera we saw last season. Maybe then they’d be able to solve issues like that without cutting one of their better players.

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So if Terrell didn’t like McNabb, Garcia or apparently Romo, what makes him go play with Losman and/or Edwards?

Is he that desperate to play one game a year in Toronto?

I will grant that it gives the Bills one of the best 1-2 punches in the game, Lee Evans is badly underrated, even by me until a few months ago. IMO, he’s one of the ten best receivers in the NFL… and I’m not terribly sure Owens falls in that category anymore.

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Mama always said give credit where credit is due… so I’m going to drool all over Deepest Sender for a moment. To be able to make a new post to this blog (or any of my others) as fast as I can paste (Ctrl+\) is flatout unreal. Works with Firefox, Seamonkey, and XULRunner. Highly recommended, or at least as highly recommended as something can be 15 seconds after I started using it.

And of course, I wouldn’t have found it without a quick google turning up all these extensions. Hat tip there too.

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What’s the best thing about redneck programmers?

An above average understanding of multiple inheritance.

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Hi there. My name is Cameron HayGlass, and I am an incurable nerd with a passion for just about everything in life. I’m 24, and I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This is my spot to put things that just don’t belong anywhere else… and yet, that I want to share with someone (that means you) for one reason or another. Rest assured, my posting habits are erratic, and just about anything will be covered here. The content will be flushed out in the next few days as I get some other projects moving at the same time.

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