Library pr0n

[sabotabby]

zingerella: So, library porn.
sabotabby: That's really hot.

sabotabby mutters some comment about shagging in Robarts.


Robarts Library, a.k.a. Fort Book.

zingerella looks faintly nauseated.

sabotabby: I just heard it was a good place to pick up. [Sullenly] I wouldn't know. They never let me on the good floors.
zingerella: It's more like the setting for a BDSM porn. It's got cages, shit lighting...
sabotabby: Oppressive concrete...
zingerella: Can't you just see some dominatrix stalking through the stacks, forcing chinless grad students to read Kant?
sabotabby: You realize if I just post the words "Kant" and "porn" in my LJ I'll get about a million comments, don't you?
zingerella: There's just something about sex in a building that looks like a giant turkey. [Pause.] And I don't even like porn.

[Pause.]

sabotabby: Well, neither do I!

Comments

[gabski.livejournal.com]

i just heard your border police are getting guns :)

[sabotabby]

They don't have them already?

[gabski.livejournal.com]

im not sure... the article seemed to say that they would be getting them now... ill read the full article and report back :)

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Nope.

That's been one of the big differences between our border officials and the U.S. ones. I feel that the correlation between polite, non-asshattish border officials and rude asshat border guards and officials without guns versus guards with guns is non-coincidental.

The Union line has been that until Canadian border officials have guns, their job is not to apprehend criminals. If C&I officials feel that their lives are in danger, they have been instructed to leave their posts (In a sensible system, they'd call in the RCMP, but I don't know that the system has been sensible.)

Customs and Immigration has never been a policing function. C & I's official job has been to ensure that people crossing the border have their paperwork in order, that they are legally entitled to be in Canada, and that they pay their duties on commercial crap. Arming border officials changes the ideology behind their function from an administrative one to a militaristic one. I am not impressed.

Geez. I have, like, three letters to write to my MP today. She's gonna be so tired of me.

[sabotabby]

Border officials, airplanes, and what else?

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Softwood lumber shenanigans to the tune of $450 million foreign-aid to the U.S., in escrow, that Shrub can spend without going through Congress.

[sabotabby]

Oh right...forgot about that.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Just think of how many sexy libraries you could build with $450 million.

[gabski.livejournal.com]

the ny times mentioned an incident where there was a warning of a crazy gun weilding bastard coming for the border and two canadian border troopers fled their posts because they werent armed

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Here's the story on CBC:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed Thursday that his government would follow through with a promise to give firearms to 150 border guards by March 2008.

The first weapons will make it into the hands of officers by September 2007, but Harper says it could be 10 years before all of the guards are armed.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

To stop what? Seals and Canadian Geese?