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Day by Day: Full Shell Peanut
Sun, 15 Oct 2006

Ahright, I bet about 3 people will catch the reference :P

This is my peanut butter.
There are many like it but this one is mine.
My peanut butter is my best friend.
It is my life.
I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me, my peanut butter is useless.
Without my peanut butter, I am useless.
I must eat my peanut butter quickly.
I must eat faster than my anti-peanut campaigner, who is trying to stop me.
I must eat him before he stops me.
I will.
Before Crom I swear this creed: my peanut butter and myself are defenders of my
breakfast, we are the masters of those campaigners, we are the saviors of
my waistline.
So be it, until there is no campaigner, but breakfast.
Amen.

As an aside, I will comment but lightly; this movement to supporting Sharia Law sounds interesting, but intimidating. (I'm not commenting about Sharia itself, as I really have No Clue and it sounds all good; I'm commenting about people requiring the government to handle everything with laws, instead of people just behaving right :) ie: People come to a new country and embrace it, and then try to lobby to have their old laws instituted. Good ideas well and good, but the idea of many individual groups all trying to get their own laws brought in sounds like a very bad idea -- laws must be predictable and simple and universally applied, so everyone understands them... we can't be having people claiming 'Its okay to do X, because I'm from background Y.', in a country where we love to mix cultures all up in a big fun bunch. Sitting back, I believe I understand -- Canadian law is essentially descended from British and heavily influenced by Protestant and Catholic perspectives, and so new friends in the country perhaps feal threatened or oppressed. I don't claim to know even a fraction of what Sharia (by example) suggests, but some of its ideas conflict with traditional laws here. (Number of wives, for instance; less moderate followers requiring women to cover all but the hands and feat, for purity and such.) who knows what to do? Multiple wives is illegal nowadays.. what happens if you come to Canada from some nation allowing it, with your two wives? I'm sure thats been worked out in the courts already.. I shall have to look it up out of curiousity. It certainly cannot be right to welcome people to your country, then try to tear apart a family. Difficult question!

Anyway, I'm rambling, but it does frighten me when some specific areas in Mississauga have obtained by-laws (is that the term?) so Christmas decorations are not allowed. Strange times. Or maybe thats just hear-say.

Strange days, and I don't know the answer except to hope things go here as they always have -- a government paralyzed into uselessness, so we can go about our lives. Don't be DRMing us to hell :) I was always raised that Canadians should be decent and kind, helpful, and understanding. Don't over-do it, but under-do-it -- the basic laws are enough generally. Almost all new rules should be taught from parents to children.. relying on the government to legislate morals is a license for people to misbehave -- robbing them of their responsibility. Morals are more powerful than the law.

Theres a Catholic movement trying to change the law so kids cannot have legal sex until they're 18 -- seems a bit much when you can drive and join the military before that. Maybe everything, like ascending a new experience level, should be opened up at 16.. but really, again, it should be up to the parents to raise people right. Why the heck is the government mucking with such things? Spend our tax money getting to Mars for crying out loud..

I need sleep. Sorry for the ramble :)

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