Morning Brew: May 16th

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May 16, 2007

Morning Brew :Hallelujah! Jerry Falwell is dead. Good riddance douchebag. "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen....The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked." -In response to 9/11.

And to celebrate the occasion, The Vancouver Sun has decided to run an editorial entitled: It's time to break the silence on abortion: "Just as the world, especially the United Nations, does nothing about the genocide in Darfur, how can we continue to be silent and sedentary on abortion?" And for once, I don't have a sarcastic remark. I'm totally speechless.

While The Vancouverite points out that there was a 622 word article in yesterday's Sun by someone named Amy Obrian recounting a bad date she once had.

While the Province brings us this: Cameras to counter potential terrorism on West Coast Express:
-"Psst! Omar, is that...oh shit, don't look. I think....oh fuck, it's a fucking camera. Dude, put your fucking Koran down man".
-"I was trying hide my face, jerk".
-"Great, just great. Abort the mission. We can't blow ourselves up now, they'll arrest us. They've got cameras".

Before we were afraid of Arabs, we were afraid of Natives. The Tyee has a story about how John Graham was framed. It looks like the Leonard Peltier saga all over again. Let's hope we won't have to hear a John Graham song by the recently re-united Rage Against the Machine, not least because it will be a song by Rage Against the Machine.

Scam artists try to cash in on Vancouver Olympics. No, they are not talking about Condo developers.

Turn it Off Wednesday May 16th. After all, we need to save energy so we sell it to the states.

Asia Pacific Gateway Project Criticized. By... *rubs eyes*, BC Conservative MP John Cummins??

While Gateway advocates to get ink by the barrel.

Hmmm, is it a coincidence that Walter Shultz has yet another pro-gateway rant?

While record gas prices mean Zipcar membership sign-up in Vancouver has surpassed their greatest expectations. That is so great. I love Zipcar. Zipcar, Zipcar, Zipcar, I just can't get enough of Zipcar. Hey, have I mentioned how much I love Zipcar?

Everyone's favourite rabble-rousers the APC are 'meeting' at Pigeon Park (Carrall & Hastings) @ 1pm to protest VANOC's refusal to hold public meetings. They're gonna see if they can eavesdrop the closed-door board meeting over at VANOC's headquarters.

I just realised my friend Anu has a blog for Asian heritage month on CBC.

And that my favourite mp3 blog in the whole wide world wide web, 20 Jazz Funk Greats ran my story about getting detained in Cuba.

Ony Podcast Episode Three.

And they also posted the lineup for Music Waste. Man, I know where I'm going to be on Friday.

And now, here's a Myspace bulletin from Collapsing Opposites:

Tonight at Hoko's:

RICH AUCOIN is this guy from halifax who plays these nice long piano-ey ballads and then you leave the room for a minute and come back and he's standing there in a santa suit playing songs that are fully choreographed to The Grinch Who Stole Christmas which is playing on a screen nearby, and somewhere in there he gives himself a haircut onstage and he's raising money for cancer research and he's riding a bicycle across the country playing shows at the same time.

Also IT'S A LIVING THING, you know these guys, drums and loops, you know Falcao he's the nice man who is everywhere, this band used to be 2 people but i heard theres maybe more now

and AU SECOUR maybe the best band in town that you've never heard of, there's josh and robb from the horses, and its mostly this nice fellow Ryan's band, they used to play a silver apples cover which is always a good idea, this is i think one of their first shows after a long hiatus after their drummer quit to join Dandi wind

and EVAN SYMONS this is the guy from Transylvanian Polka playing songs by himself , he is a nice cool guy who's been playing music since forever, i think this will really be something neat.

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That Walter Schultz, he's a funny guy, To quote from his most recent propaganda:

"Check out Portland and Seattle, the other two large cities in the Pacific North West. They have transit like ours, however they also have an excellent highway system, bisecting their cities."

The freeway and the traffic congestion are my absolutely favourite parts of a visit to Seattle. I guess Walter and I do have something in common after all.

Posted by: vancouveriste at May 16, 2007 9:00 AM | Quote Comment

I was listening to Anna Hunter from the APC on CKNW this morning. When asked: "What has the APC accomplished" she went on to rave about how they've been successful in exposing VANOC as a culprit behind the evictions in the DTES, thus bringing awareness to the public. What delusional thinking. First off, she or her group hasn't nor can provide any evidence that the Games are the reason behind the trend of DTES hotel conversions and evictions so they've exposed NOTHING. Second, if the APC has done anything it's to have turned the public against them, thus muffling whatever awareness they wanted to raise for their cause.

I also saw on the news this morning this ex-soldier who sold his possessions and mortgaged his house to finance a charitable motorcycle trip around the world to raise money for Afghan women. He said "To fix the world you need to start with the bad places." He went on to say as an analogy: "If you want to make Vancouver a better place you don't start by fixing Stanley Park, you start by fixing the DTES." Now that's the kind of inspirational action I can get behind, not to have a bunch of losers scream, shove and throw projectiles at a public event where little kids are standing by.

That's what the APC will never get....the cause and effect of their actions and the absolute futility in it. If you want action from the government the sure fire way to get it is to change mass public opinion, making it a vote worthy issue. That mass public opinion is what gets issues put to the forefront of politicians' campaigns and agendas, not to mention driving charity and volunteering. Do you think the people from the Cancer Society or BC Children's Hospital get support by militant protest? Do you think they get recognition and aid from the government by threatening them? It's basic human nature - ask yourself what will change your opinion and motivate you to get behind a cause, someone that appeals to your intellect and heart or screams and yells at you with irrational arguments void of facts? Neither I nor the majority of the public will get behind a group that continually disrupts the public and uses violence and radicalism as a means of communication. Again, if they really want to affect change they need a campaign to increase awareness and change peoples' perceptions of the issue, forcing it to the forefront of the political agenda. And don't tell me they can't....if they can get organized enough to put together a protest they can put together a campaign. My company and many other communications companies do lot's of pro-bono work for organziations such as the United Way and the Conenant House. They just have to put their energy towards different tactics and they can motivate change. If they think they can continue with the same strategy they are indeed as delusional as Anna Hunter represented them to be.

Posted by: Vikrim at May 16, 2007 9:50 AM | Quote Comment

Re: Zipcar
There is a home-grown not-for profit - car sharing organziation thats been around for several years - CAN - Cooperative Auto Network. http://www.cooperativeauto.net/

CAN has a much larger network of available cars throughout the Lower Mainland than Zipcar. Depending on your needs CAN is less expensive to join than zipcar.

I encourage all to try local before going to the American Zipcar

Posted by: teebird150 at May 16, 2007 10:33 AM | Quote Comment

Re: Zipcar
There is a home-grown not-for profit - car sharing organziation thats been around for several years - CAN - Cooperative Auto Network. http://www.cooperativeauto.net/

CAN has a much larger network of available cars throughout the Lower Mainland than Zipcar. Depending on your needs CAN is less expensive to join than zipcar.

I encourage all to try local before going to the American Zipcar

Posted by: teebird150 at May 16, 2007 10:33 AM | Quote Comment

the zipcar thing was kind of a joke. You know, as per this months advertisers?

Posted by: Sean Orr at May 16, 2007 12:36 PM | Quote Comment

wow. oops. slept on that one. still - go CAN!

Posted by: teebird150 at May 16, 2007 1:49 PM | Quote Comment

Yeah, Sean... I stumbled on yr name on 20 jazz funk etc last night.......the whole "small world" thing decreased by factor of two, due to the randomness of teh internets. Odd, but not.

Posted by: christopher at May 16, 2007 2:15 PM | Quote Comment

you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but it's ok with the living: sean is a fucking asshole.

Posted by: bcneocon at May 18, 2007 9:54 PM | Quote Comment

Awww, coming from you BC Neocon, that means so much! Like, for example, that means I'm doing something right.

Posted by: Sean Orr at May 21, 2007 11:59 PM | Quote Comment