Stardate:        91085.26

Sol III Date:    24/06/2013/23:30

One moment is seemed like there would be a game 7... 

......and then Boston Vancouver’d and Chicago are the Stanley Cup Champions.

Talk about a Vancouver moment.

Welcome to Next Year Territory Boston Fans.

Stardate:        91062.77

Sol III Date:    16/06/201318:15

What kind of Health Care......

Can someone explain how Fraser Health could possible state that having chicken waste tracked around Abbotsford by several hundred people is not a hazard to people’s health?

Can anyone think of any animal waste that could be dumped that would pose more of a hazard to the health of Abbotsford’s citizens as it was tracked around Abbotsford?

The location where the City of Abbotsford dumped its bio-hazardous material is part of a major thoroughfare for those traveling on foot, as a result you have 100 – 200 sets of feet a day that passed through the chicken waste and tracked the bio-hazard around Abbotsford.

Yet when questioned about the hazard to public health posed by the actions of the City of Abbotsford, Fraser Health considered/stated there was nothing to be concerned about.

???

Stardate:        91056.93

Sol III Date:    14/06/2013/23:50

t

Jay Leno had video of a high school graduation ceremony that was being held in a football stadium, a location that offers lots of room, fresh air and plenty of seating.

The graduates entered through the endzone and marched out to the stage at center field.

The young woman second in line was wearing high heels and stepping onto the grass stumbled, staggered and fell; got up stumbled, staggered and fell; got up stumbled, staggered and fell; got up stumbled, staggered and fell; got up stumbled, staggered and fell; got up stumbled, staggered and fell.

The gap between the person leading the line onto the grass of the football field, the young woman and the rest of the graduates in line behind the young woman continued to grow as the young woman continued to stumble, stagger, fall and get up; stumble, stagger, fall and get up; stumble, stagger, fall and get up; stumble, stagger, fall and get up; stumble, stagger, fall and get up; stumble, stagger, fall and get up; stumble, stagger, fall and get up; stumble, stagger, fall and get up; stumble, stagger, fall and get up.........

The Question that occurred to me was:

How did she ever manage to graduate High School when she lacked the cognitive ability to conclude after the second [third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth......] that, for her, high heels and the grassy surface of the playing field were non-compatible and that she needed to remove her high heeled shoes? 

Stardate:        91049.72

Sol III Date:  11/06/2013/23:45

Watching the reports on television about the dog who lost his snout protecting his owner’s nieces from being hit by a motorcycle, the money raised to send him from the Philippines to America for treatment and the hero’s welcome received upon return to the Philippines puts a quite different spin on the old adage ‘wouldn't treat a dog that way’.

In light of the City of Abbotsford’s war on the homeless and the deployment by the City of Abbotsford of the biological weapon chicken sh*t against the homeless........

.........one is left with the damning but inescapable reality that the homeless would be better off if they were treated like dogs.

Stardate:        91041.31

Sol III Date:  08/06/2013/22:02

On the matter of assumptions I offer for your consideration:

Thrifty:        practicing economy or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper

Thrift Store:   a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.

We assume that shopping at thrift stores is frugal; after all they are thrift stores, how can a Thrift Store not be a frugal place to shop”

Caveat emptor: let the buyer beware:

Sometimes Thrift Stores are not very thrifty places to shop.

“The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.” 

Paul Broca

Stardate:        91032.89

Sol III Date:  05/06/2013/20:13

There is a commercial that starts out with a guy using a cotton swab to clean his ear and screaming in pain when he jabs it into his ear drum.

Then we are told that it is not recommended that cotton swabs be used to clean ears, a warning the manufacturers of cotton swaps have been forced to put on packages of cotton swabs to protect themselves from lawsuits from those who lack the cognitive capacity to use a cotton swab to clean their ears without taking out their eardrum.

The commercial then offers as the solution the marvellous ear vacuum to vacuum out dirt and wax. The commercial also states that instead of pounding on your head to get water out of your ears, you can simply vacuum the water out. I can see dirt – although I have never found dirt and debris to be a problem in my ears – and water, but wax?

It is my experience that the reason it is called wax is it resemblance to various types of wax – all rather sticky substances. Just how strong does the suction need to be to pull ear wax off the walls of your ears and into the ear vacuum?

I wonder how long it will be before the first lawsuit over someone vacuuming out their eardrum is filed?

If you are too dumb to be able to use a cotton swab safely, you are way to short of cognitive capacity to be sticking a vacuum in your ears.

Stardate:        91027.37

Sol III Date:  03/06/2013/19:44

From the People are Strange Files

Someone was looking for underwear but all I had was a few pairs of gently used and well laundered underwear.

An offer that was declined speedily and with a facial expression that seemed to pose the question – “Are you nuts?”

Share needles, share a crack pipe, have unprotected sex...

But wear underwear that someone else has worn?

NEVER!!!!

People are So Strange.

Stardate:        91024.61

Sol III Date:  02/06/2013/19:30

What is the Question?

What is the Answer?

This image comes from a classic Science Fiction movie based on a classic Science Fiction novel.

What was the name of the movie? What is the name of the novel?

Stardate:        91022.34

Sol III Date:  01/06/2013/23:35

It was just one more obvious question going unasked, one more vital piece of information not provided, in a long and growing list of the media’s fumbling failures to provide the information viewers need to make sound decisions.

I am referring to the 2 min.24 sec. long report “Family outraged that Cranbrook killer gets new trial” that aired May 31 2013. A report that had repeated comments about how upset people were with the new trial and during which it was mentioned several times a new trial had been order by the Court of Appeal.

Unfortunately the report failed to mention WHY the Court of Appeal had ordered a new trial. If one wanted to know WHY, one had to look elsewhere for the answer to WHY?

The report was successful as a piece of video art, doing a good job of inciting disgust with the Court of Appeal and our legal system.

On the other hand the report was a failure as a news piece since it failed, as so many media reports do, to provide the information to arrive at a fact based evaluation.

But then, why let facts get in the way of good theatre?