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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

HUMP DAY LINK LOVE

Recycling in the Comox Valley recently received a huge boost, with the area finally initiating the “blue box” program that’s been so popular for many years in Greater Vancouver. In fact, during the first week of use alone, the Town of Comox saw a whopping 53% increase in recyclables. [source]

Photo: fusionpanda on Flickr

The Province of British Columbia is celebrating its 150th birthday this year with countless events all over the Province. I, for one, am extremely proud to call BC my home and I always will. In fact, I can’t imagine ever leaving the coast for any reason. Visit the Province’s official celebration website for events and programs happening in your area. [official site]

It’s a little over one week until I am getting together with a fun group of my fellow bloggers to bowl for charity, the charity being Big Brothers Vancouver. So far I’m still at zero dollars raised and getting a tad bit anxious. If you’d like to support us and our endeavour to raise cash for the kids, click on over here to pledge online. Your support is supremely appreciated!

If you missed me and Becky’s saucy little podcast, it’s still online for your listening pah-leasure. Girl-on-girl action can be found here.

“Iraq”

“Insurgents”

“War Crimes”

“Weapons of Mass Destruction”

These are some of the countless words and phrases we hear each time we flip on the news. In fact, the current war in the Middle East has been raging for more than six years years. It’s no wonder that in that time, every news report from the region blends in with the one before it and the one after. It’s even probably safe to say that we as a Western nation have become desensitized to the brutal reality faced each day by the innocent civilians who know no other way of life.

Last night I watched Brian De Palma’s ‘Redacted.’ Never before did I understand what even a narrow slice of living in the middle of the Iraq war is like - from both sides. It wasn’t until I saw this film that I understood the complete absence of any civil rights in the lives of Iraqi citizens. It broke my heart, it enraged me and thoroughly disgusted me.

You owe it to yourself to see this film. [trailer]

I’d hate to leave you all on an intense note, so I instead leave you with one of my favourite skits from one of my favourite shows of years ago. I leave you with…’My Pen.’