lovely posters

I love this quote

Found this one on a blog debating the use of vibram five fingers for training, the toe shoes that everyone loves to hate.

“Your shoes are strange”

“That’s nice, I haven’t noticed what your shoes are like because looking at your feet would be submissive behavior and I’m clearly the fucking dominant animal here.”

Story in The edmonton Journal today, it is pretty weird on a lot of levels

WHITECOURT — Just after midnight Saturday, an angry young man put down his guns and walked across the highway to the Whitecourt RCMP detachment, where he demanded to know why police hadn’t come to his apartment.

The 23-year-old was agitated and bleeding, but unarmed. By his own estimation, he had been firing off shotgun rounds for hours, expecting officers to arrive any minute so he could “go to war” with them, police say.

Shots had shattered the man’s balcony window, and he’d cut his hands clearing glass from the kitchen window after firing two rounds into a parking lot.

“He was agitated and wondering why the police hadn’t come,” said Staff Sgt. Rodney Koscielny.

Police were equally surprised. Though the man fired gunshots for at least two hours, police say no one in the three-storey Hillcrest apartment building on Whitecourt’s Sunset Blvd. – just within eyesight of the RCMP station – bothered to call police.

After the man surrendered peacefully to police, officers who searched his third-floor apartment found 15 spent shells, eight long-barrel guns, 3,000 rounds of ammunition, survival books, and camouflage. Bullet holes riddled the ceiling and walls. It was a lot of gear for someone with no record who had never been on police radar. Stranger still was the fact that nobody called police.

“I have no explanation. I think that somehow, legitimately, they didn’t think anything of it,” said Koscielny.

One resident mistook the shots for the slamming of a garbage bin lid. Another neighbour saw an armed man outside, but didn’t bother calling it in.

“Apparently, he was walking around outside with three guns attached to him, strapped to him,” said Koscielny. “Somebody walking a dog walked past him and never called us.”

Michael Dube lives on the same floor of the building but doesn’t know the man. Dube said he heard several gunshots at around 9:30 or 10 p.m. His girlfriend awoke at 2 a.m. to the sight of several police cruisers surrounding the building.

Dube said he didn’t think to call police when he heard the shots. He didn’t feel he was in danger.

“It doesn’t have anything to do with me,” said Dube. “I just worry about my own business.”

Tiffany Pineau lives in a second-floor suite in the building. She wasn’t home when the shots were fired but heard “a bunch of yelling and screaming” from the suite later.

“I was a little scared and upset, and after we were all like, ‘Where was everybody when this happened?’ ” said Pineau. “There were so many gunshots fired, why didn’t someone call?”

Pineau doesn’t know the man but said he has a reputation for acting out and is “well known in town.”

Whitecourt’s mayor said though the event was strange, it could have been much worse.

“It’s one of those things. How do you make sure stuff like this doesn’t happen?” said Trevor Thain. “They’re all one offs, there’s nothing you can do to prepare yourself or stop it before it happens.”

Outside the Whitecourt RCMP station are four black slab benches, each commemorating an officer killed about 50 kilometres away in March 2005. The proximity of the Mayerthorpe murders, which involved a Whitecourt constable, is never far from mind.

“Anthony Gordon was from here, so everybody goes back to that five years ago kind of thing,” said Koscielny.

He said officers are trained to deal with all kinds of unpredictable and potentially violent situation. It’s strange when nobody calls after 15 gunshots. The more typical scenario is the opposite: people mistaking fireworks or a backfiring engine for gunshots.

Cody Hunter-Hooper appeared in Whitecourt court Tuesday morning to face mischief and careless use of firearm charges. The case was put off for 30 days, so Hunter-Hooper will be sent to Edmonton to undergo mental health testing. He remains in custody.

© Copyright (c) The Edmonton Journal

Clayton

I used to work with this guy

he was swell

Repost because it is funny

Top 10 Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

Interesting

Seth Godin on one should have a blog

I have a crooked head

Whyte ave, Edmonton many moons ago

The wack jobs are out

Total nutter shoots American congresswoman in the head and shoots a bunch of other people.

This is not the action of a sane person.

Reading the comment sections of all the news feeds, people have turned this event into a political pissing match.

people are trying to blame everyone else and everything else except the fact that the guy was completely unhinged.

People are pathetic.

Whyte Ave, Edmonton AB, circa early 90's

Now this is awesome

A lovely face