Svend Robinson...

[bevvyd]

You know RB as you said one last meeting to wrap things up is usually paid for by the employer. Why in Sweden? Could they not have done this here, I mean after all he is sick you know, he is under medical observation, or was that just the judges sake. No employer I ever worked for or would for would make a sick me go to another country to let everyone know the status of what I am leaving with them.

As for Gordo's criminal record, Snottawa waived it because he needs to be able to cross borders while performing his duties. ICBC didn't but the criminal charge is gonezoed.

 

[peapod]

Solo 712

I do understand a little about "nothing" of "nothingness" get what I mean?
Follow? understand?
here is a little poem just for you.

PEAPODS HOUSE

This is the land that peapod built

In it creatures gliding diving

sweeping paths through sunflowers thriving

scattered wide we glide and fly



In peapods house it's sailing time

building time and swimming time

taking full measure by giving time

with time to dance and cry



This is the garden that peapod built

with water she made still

and paved as silver glass

that reflects the endless sky



Sky holds sun that peapod built

Sun sings song she sings

Sly sun song bursts in happy house

whose windows watch the garden's joust

with an unblinking eye



In peapods house it's playing time

flying crying trying time

It's time to plant

to reap and sew

to dance and rave

and take it slow



It's time to stop and look around



In peapod house a woman's voice speaks for me

it says:

"Listen for this sound

a hum"



I sail past the silver pool

interrupting piercing rays

thrusting up from golden darkness

over gardens

dark and still

they silently,

and patiently,

and almost lying perfectly

reflect the endless sky


BTW, Jean Genet was hardly a simple man, and neither is existenialism

 

[Reverend Blair]

You know RB as you said one last meeting to wrap things up is usually paid for by the employer. Why in Sweden?

That's where the meeting was scheduled to held. I know a guy in private enterprise who was flown from Japan to Europe (Germany, I think), then to Canada (Toronto), and finally to the US (Las Vegas).

Why? Because he was leaving the company (retiring) and wanted to say good-bye to former employees and long-time customers. The company paid the whole shot. There were no meeting scheduled or held, just parties.

In another case and another company, when a long-term employee was dying of cancer, the company flew those of us who had worked closely with her out to say good-bye, then back for her funeral a month later.

I doubt Svend was partaking in stressful meetings in Sweden. I see no reason why he should not get the same perks as those in private enterprise do.

 

[Solo712]

Solo 712

I do understand a little about "nothing" of "nothingness" get what I mean?
Follow? understand?
here is a little poem just for you.

Thank you, Peapod. That is a nice poem.

As to your questions, I think what I understand is that you struggle with the complexities of the world around you. You label what you don't understand and deploy poetry (be it nice poetry) where perhaps some good all-fashioned common sense would do.

I don't hate gays. A gay couple in Vienna in 1968 helped me to avoid a refugee camp - they let me stay with them until I got my papers for Canada. Because of my family background - theatre - I was exposed to bohemian ways ever since I was a kid - and I was always kind of interested why my favourite adult - aunt Helena - prefered to hang around guys who did not care about her operatic breasts. So I read a lot on the subject. One thing you can say about me is that I am well informed. And - believe it or not - I get along well with gay and lesbians. Actually, the only people that I do have a problem with in that community are those who want to make me a big scene about their sexuality and tell me how to feel and think about it.

I remember sitting with a bunch in a cafe last year discussing Svend just after he rose in the Parliament to say " Mr Speaker all I am asking for is to be able to marry Max if I wanted to ." (The two were together for ten years at that time). We were rolling on the floor after Paul - the funniest person I ever met - said: 'Oh, Svend is such a queer, honest, guys. He is so much talk and no action ! How is the poor girl to feel about him fighting all them Christian perverts for her rights and then dragging his feet to make an honest woman out of her.'

Got that ? :idea:

 

[peapod]

What a bunch of baloney. She says to herself as she reads his post eating a bag of cheese pleasers :roll:

 

[Solo712]

What a bunch of baloney. She says to herself as she reads his post eating a bag of cheese pleasers :roll:

Believe what you will, peapod. ...And easy on the cheese pleasers. They can be deadly to your self-esteem if eaten by the bag ! :roll:

 

[peapod]

What was that? a bit a humor :? see that was not so hard was it, don't do it to often tho, I might have to reconsider my baloney theory, or come up with another label, or even flush myself down the toilet. No that would not work, I live in british columbia, I am very careful about where my waste goes.

 

[Solo712]

What was that? a bit a humor :? see that was not so hard was it, don't do it to often tho, I might have to reconsider my baloney theory, or come up with another label, or even flush myself down the toilet. No that would not work, I live in british columbia, I am very careful about where my waste goes.

You might not believe this peapod, but you don't really have to do me any favours. If you want to believe I am some crazy psycho with multiple net personalities who has phantasies about who he is and needs to fictionalize his life on the net you are free to believe it. You don't even have to write it to me in private messages. You can say it right here - in public. It's really ok for you to believe that. I am not bothered and least of all intimidated by it.

But you might want to consider this, not for my sake, but maybe for your pretty little soul:

You see, it's kind of too clever, or too convenient, to believe that people who don't share in your view of the world are proving thereby that they are morally deficient and intellectually inferior. In other words, if I don't agree with you it is because I am manifestly wicked. So if I think that the judge in Svend's case deliberately downplayed the value of the stolen ring, both materially and symbolically, because the defendant was the leading advocate of gay marriage - then I must be homophobic, or some sort of fundamentalist pervert or an internet psycho or have a warped sense of justice that would treat the act differently if the thief was a political bosom buddy who was straight. See how that works, peapod ?

Now of course I came here to stir a little jaw-jaw with RB, with whose sense of fairness I have a quarrel. I came for a piece of Svend here because Svend is a cheat, a liar and a thief. He also happens to 'a fag' (which is how Gore Vidal describes a gay person who is self-obssessed, conflicted about his homosexuality, who doesn't have any sense of humour and projects his complexes into society at large). None of the above are capital offenses with me, and I swear to you I would not spend nearly as much time with Svend if ONLY the guy did not also happen to be such a busybody and such an insufferably sanctimonious twit. K ?

....with all that said, I am naturally thrilled to know about your being careful where your waste goes. I also think not- flushing because of ecological concerns trumps not-flushing by some of the extreme Right wingers who believe the toilet bowl is the devil's harlot which destroyed the manhood of the Middle Ages. On the other hand, since the stink is about the same I wimp out, stay politically in the middle and flush, as Cyndi Lauper sings, Time after Time. :sign10: Oops, how did that get here ? I guess I better go.

 

[Solo712]

What was that? a bit a humor :? see that was not so hard was it, don't do it to often tho, I might have to reconsider my baloney theory, or come up with another label, or even flush myself down the toilet. No that would not work, I live in british columbia, I am very careful about where my waste goes.

You might not believe this peapod, but you don't really have to do me any favours. If you want to believe I am some crazy psycho with multiple net personalities who has phantasies about who he is and needs to fictionalize his life on the net you are free to believe it. You don't even have to write it to me in private messages. You can say it right here - in public. It's really ok for you to believe that. I am not bothered and least of all intimidated by it.

But you might want to consider this, not for my sake, but maybe for your pretty little soul:

You see, it's kind of too clever, or too convenient, to believe that people who don't share in your view of the world are proving thereby that they are morally deficient and intellectually inferior. In other words, if I don't agree with you it is because I am manifestly wicked. So if I think that the judge in Svend's case deliberately downplayed the value of the stolen ring, both materially and symbolically, because the defendant was the leading advocate of gay marriage - then I must be homophobic, or some sort of fundamentalist pervert or an internet psycho or have a warped sense of justice that would treat the act differently if the thief was a political bosom buddy who was straight. See how that works, peapod ?

Now of course I came here to stir a little jaw-jaw with RB, with whose sense of fairness I have a quarrel. I came for a piece of Svend here because Svend is a cheat, a liar and a thief. He also happens to be 'a fag' (which is how Gore Vidal describes a gay person who is self-obssessed, conflicted about his homosexuality, who doesn't have any sense of humour and projects his complexes into society at large). None of the above are capital offenses with me, and I swear to you I would not spend nearly as much time with Svend if ONLY the guy did not also happen to be such a busybody and such an insufferably sanctimonious twit. K ?

....with all that said, I am naturally thrilled to know about your being careful about where your waste goes. I also think not- flushing because of ecological concerns trumps not-flushing by some of the extreme Right wingers who believe the toilet bowl is the devil's harlot which destroyed the manhood of the Middle Ages. On the other hand, since the stink is about the same I wimp out, stay politically in the middle and flush, as Cyndi Lauper sings, Time after Time. :sign10: Oops, how did that get here ? I guess I better go.

 

[peapod]

Solo, you have one chip on your shoulder. My "private message" to you simply asked you to spare me your dime store psychology of my personality, and that you try and make your posting to me without the arrogant and condescending attitude.

I really don't know what to say to the rest of what you said 8O its kind of scary tho, so I am not going to bite. I can be a clever fish, a big fish, when need be. Pick your fights carefully mama always said, know when to walk away, go outside look at tree smell a flower. This bullshit is not worth it, I concede, I am key stroking away.

I can tell you this tho, If I had to pick a judge, it would be the revrend over you, I admire his sense of fairness. Say what you like, but this fish is swimming away.

 

[Reverend Blair]

You came here to talk to me, Solo? I'm flattered...not terribly interested, but flattered.

 

[Solo712]

You came here to talk to me, Solo? I'm flattered...not terribly interested, but flattered.

Reverend, since I know you as a guy who has to argue that a $60k diamond ring is a worthless trinket to protect his fallen idol, and as a guy whose ethics equate scattered body parts of grammies and kids in a Tel Aviv malls and pizza parlours with scattered pots and pans in razed empty houses in Jenin, I am not surprised in the least to learn that you like to flatter yourself for no good reason at all. :angel9:

 

[Reverend Blair]

:roll:

 

[galianomama]

Oh peapod what time you are having, first a man you do not know at starbucks ask you who is grinding your bones! boy did he pick the wrong person to say that to LOL. A unknown man passes by you says he likes your shirt! thanks! can I see whats under it? thank god you were too pooped to reply. Now a total stranger wants to flush you down the toilet...

Maybe you should have a girls night out, you poor little fishy!

 

[peapod]

Those were not men my friend, they were pigs, and there are alot of them around give me a lumberjack I say, at least he would have asked me what my hourly rate was first :lol:

Hey you are suppose be at the beach all day? on work assignment was is? Girls night out, I am up for that place, date and time please. 8)

 

[T. Rex]

This guy is a clown, he gets the positive attention whether he is wrong or right. Why does he just get a slap on the wrist by left-wing monkies? Because he's a homosexual? They don't get special rights last time I checked. As far as Im concerned, he should be treated like any other criminal that steals something worth 50 grand. He should get more as an example set to our younger generation who grow up in a liberal run government who gives them a green light to do anything they want.

 

[Reverend Blair]

He was treated like any other criminal. If you think he should have received a harsher penalty because he is gay or part of the left wing, perhaps you should consider that Brian Mulroney is still walking around free and without bullet holes, or that Stockwell Day wasn't charged with hate crimes for going after a lawyer that was just doing his job.

 

[peapod]

Oh my god!!!!!!!!! not this again!

 

[Andem]

This notion that Svend got any special treatment is completely absurd. I'm against anybody getting special treatment whether they be european-decent, middle-eastern-decent, african-decent, asian-decent, etc. (I've decided I find the words: White, Black, Yellow, Red very demeaning and a generalisation.)

Sure he's pretty left-wing, but he also admitted his wrongdoings. He got just like anybody else would get.

 

[peapod]

And his "record" concerns his stand in clayquot . Something everyone should have a record for :wink: