Free Case of Beer

I finished my work out today and was heading to the post office nearby to get a parcel and heard somebody was yelling in the parking lot of the building. People usually avoid such things but I walked right to the guy! First I thought he was drunk or mentally ill but when he got close I found out that he was calling his dog. He asked me if I had seen it and I said I had not.
He then asked me if I needed beer! I had a case of beer in his hands and he was going to through it to the waste been. We were standing by it and were talking. I took a can out and asked if they were expired. He said that his wife bought them today and he just didn’t want them. I took two more and he added that his wife was an alcoholic and he, himself was an alcoholic and didn’t want any booze in his house. “Take them all” he added and left me while yelling his dogs name. Poor guy. Many people here have problem with alcohol, cigarette and drugs.
I actually was going to get something to drink. I’ve been thinking of that since last week and I even asked S. T. He suggested something called Control (!?), if that’s how it should be spelled but I haven’t been to any liquor store yet. B. C. Liquor Stores are managed by the Government of British Columbia and one of the guys was saying that their prices are a bit lower than the regular stores. There’s one in the shopping mall of the neighbourhood and I passed by it today but didn’t go. I didn’t want to get beer because it’s fattening regardless of its vitamin B. Now I have it and probably not goin’ to get anything until I finish them. Hodani is a big beer drinker. He now suffers from ulcer because he drinks beer and hard liquor on empty stomach. That’s what people do because they want the booze be absorbed and get to the blood and affect them.

(Photo: Cans of Budweiser are sitting tight together on my kitchen counter, waiting for the time they get transferred to the refrigerator, get chilled and get drunk by me!)

Patriot Games

I eventually watched one of the movies today which I heard about a long time ago: Patriot Games. It’s one of the numerous movies that Harrison Ford has the leading role and of course defeats all the bad guys eventually and wins.
In the beginning I thought it was a Cold War movie but then it turned to be an IRA-related one. He has another one on that matter: The Devil’s Own. Ford is as good as every movie and the story is unpredictable and kind of makes you to chase it but I don’t think that’s one of the movies that I like to add to my collection, unless it’s a free download!
One thing that’s mentioned in the movie and is something that I’ve never thought of and could be true is Libya’s desert is a great training camp for all the oppositions groups from every corner of the world. They could hide there with no suspicious and no one but CIA and only using high-tech equipment could ever find them. Shining Path, IRA and German Red Army are amongst the groups that are named in the movie.

(Photo: Ford in the opening scene of the movie, defending the Royal Family members from IRA attacks in London, England)

Israeli Produce

Israel says that he has reached the objectives of his operations and now is willing to have a ceasefire, after 3 weeks. I don’t know what Hamas says and I don’t care. I just appreciate what Israel did to those bastards. They all supported Saddam in the 8-year Iran-Iraq War and named him a hero after his death.
I don’t want to write or think more about that but I bought a bell paper from Price Smart Foods this week and that a produce of Israel and organic!! Can you imagine that? Vegetable come from Israel??!! Isn’t that any other way to get that thing here in North America?! Sometimes I see things that can’t describe them. Just unbelievable!

Offers

In this struggling economic world of today which everybody’s trying to resort to whatever available to survive, one car dealer I heard that from the radio when I was at work yesterday presented a new offer: The offer says if the buyer loses his or her job one year after buying the vehicle, the vehicle could be returned! Isn’t that good?
Vehicle sales have dropped sharply in the US, Canada and Europe and that caused many problems for the communities and related industries. One other offer I read in the paper and is not as attractive as this one was purchasing two vehicles, a big luxury sedan and a mid-size 4-door pick-up truck for a price of almost $41,000. No payment for 90 days, the first two months on us, No GST and many other offers are advertised these days to encourage people to buy vehicles.

(Photo: A bus full of passengers, mostly poor refugees from East and South-East Asia in the afternoon of Fri., in the worst city of Lower Mainland, Surrey. The temperature is above zero and mild but lack of good diet and fear makes all these people too have too much cloths on, probably bought from Value Village, Thrift Store and other ones like that. Took this using my camera phone. These people either can't afford a car and its insurance or are not able to drive, due to medical and physical conditions)

The National Post

I don’t know if I’ve ever written anything about the National Post but it’s a media for Jews and anti-Muslims. at the time, should be mentioned that they are reflecting the other side’s opinion’s as well. I sometimes buy it ‘cause it has good articles and news from around the world. Conrad Black is its founder, the person who was trialed and is spending his time in prison now.
Black’s story is a complicated one and I didn’t follow and not goin’ to say it here but one cartoon in the yesterday's issue of the Post is very interesting and you can see it here. This one, I believe it. Hamas and other Muslim fundamentalists don’t care about their family, kids and their own people. They fight for their ideology. So as the cartoon says they hide in the residential buildings, mosques, hospitals and schools, but I think that’s what everybody else would do. Weren’t the partisans hiding in the houses and schools and hospitals during the WWII? Or Vietnamese in the houses and everywhere else in Saigon and other towns and cities in the south?
While I don’t want to go deep in what has been done by the Post in the recent years toward Muslims, which I believe haven’t been fair many times, I would like to mention that Iranians used teens during Iran-Iraq War to clear mine fields. The young who were promised the heaven of God were sent to the fields and a few have been captured by Iraqis and were shown to the foreign media. The Post has been criticised for his anti-Muslim views and has apologized for that later. So don't trust its political news and views! After all don't believe whatever you read. Think, analyse and conclude.

(Photo: Yesterday's National Post published this cartoon regarding the recent Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Palestinians accuse Israel of killing civilians and Israel claims that Hamas militants use civilians as their protective shield)

The Worst Month

Dec.’s Cooper Test practice was the worst. I only went to the gym 6 days and 1 out of that 6 times I couldn’t even finish the exercise! Sickness, tiredness and bad working schedule could be is blamed.
The result could be seen in the above column chart. Hopefully 2009 is better than '08 in all aspects including exercise.