03:30 Hrs. Budzi mnie siusiu.
04:00 Hrs. Budzik zrywa mnie na rowne nogi. Na dworze minus 9-stopniowo. Odzuwalne -14C. Temp. w kuchni 21.6C.
04:07 Hrs. Pije wode z cytryna + czestuje sie czekoladka Xocai POWER.
04:14 Hrs. Lektura tronowa. "Polityka".
Wiadomo, ze dla nas wstrzas byl nieporownanie wiekszy niz dla Rosjan, ale Putin tez sprawial wrazenie czlowieka rozpaczliwie zdezorientowanego, ktory tak po ludzku nie wie do konca, jak sie zachowac (Donald Tusk, "Nauczylem sie czekac", POLITYKA nr 52 (2788), 25 grudnia 2010).
04:38 Hrs. Wskakuje na wage APSCO. 85 kg.
05:27 Hrs. "I've got to stop dance" - unosi sie na fali 1320 AM gdy odpalam maszyne. Szyby samochodu oblodzone. Ostre skrobanko.
ESSO, Shell, Petro-Canada biora za litr paliwa $1.12.4.
15:11 Hrs. Zakupy w supermarkecie Food Basics ($19.12). Gruszki + banany + margayna BECEL + platki Kellogg's.
15:26 Hrs. Wariat za kierownica. Czepia sie na ogony samochodow. Popycha. Zmienia agresywnie pas ruchu. Trabi na jadacych regularna szybkoscia 50km/godz. Niebieski van CARAVAN o tablicy rejestracyjnej 750 CFJ.
15:57 Hrs. W domu. Na dworze minus 5-stopniowo. Odczuwalne -12C. Temp. w kuchni 21.2C. Slonecznie, wietrznie + mrozno.
16:00 Hrs. Czestuje sie czekoladka Xocai POWER + ogladam z Ryskiem Western pt. "The Young Riders" na kanale APTN 295.
4 WYCINKI Z (najnowszego) MACLEAN'S
That Pat, always blowing smoke
Outspoken televangelist Pat Robertson shocked his flock by coming out in favour of legalizing marijuana. Robertson, a former U.S. presidential candidate and founder of the Christian Coalition, told his 700 Club broadcast he backs prison outreach workers who want drug law reform. "We're locking up people that have taken a couple puffs of marijuana and next thing you know they've got 10 years with mandatory sentences," he said. "Criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kind thing ... it's costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people" ("This week").
Our headline murder has to have a moral message as well as a sexual component. The frivolous murder is very un-Canadian. The Vancouver pig farmer targeted prostitutes. Quebec campus massacres sparked debates about gun control and apologies about cultural racism. Ontario's murderer Paul Bernardo and serial rapist Karla Homolka had between them one dysfunctional home and two sets of misfiring hormones. The Canadian Forces colonel stole lingerie from homes before he raped and murdered. Making a fuss afterwards is very Canadian, too, and immediate call for counselling for everyone. The colonel's dressing up in missy's underwear upset our warriors, whose training hadn't prepared them for such horror. His uniform suffered its own auto-da-fe when ostentatiously burned together with his equipment and documentation. "There was no ceremony but it was formal," a military spokesman told the press. Occasionally, in Canada we have a "one-off" job, like the Chinese immigrant who decapitated a passenger on a Greyhound bus and was said to have then eaten bits of him (Barbara Amiel, "Murder and sex, Canadian-style").
Traffic really is getting worse. Statistics Canada reports the average time spent commuting to and from work nationwide increased from 54 minutes in 1992 to 63 minutes in 2005. In a year, that adds up to about 32 working days spent sitting in traffic (five more than in 1992). And that's the average. In Calgary, it's 66 minutes; in Vancouver, 67; in Toronto and Montreal, it's now up to nearly 80 minutes a day. For one in four Canadians, the two-way commute takes more than 90 minutes...
Nation-wide, more than 85 per cent of Canadians continue to get to work by car, a figure that has not changed in two decades. The reason is simple: it's quicker by car. As bad as the commute is for drivers, it's much worse for public transit users: 106 minutes, versus 63 minutes by car (Andrew Coyne, "Stuck in traffic").
All three of the world's monotheistic religions share a belief in a messianic figure who will bring the world justice. For the Shia Muslims of Iran, this figure is the Mahdi, known as the Twelfth Imam, who was hidden by God centuries ago and will reappear at a time of death and destruction. Ahmadinejad believes the Mahdi will soon return, and that it is his job as president to get ready (Michael Petru, "The knives are out for Ahmadinejad", MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE, January 17, 2011).
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