tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28946309095276494112024-03-06T00:54:56.777-04:00The Log of VeritasFact and FictionVeritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-15047289912223741732013-07-05T14:02:00.003-03:002013-07-05T15:38:33.062-03:002013 Free Agency - With Tremblay!
Tremblay works the phones.
It's Free Agency day in the NHL! Traditionally, Free Agency Day is the day that the Toronto Maple Leafs try to buy the future, only to see their signings peter out two years later; the day that Glen Sather overpays for the mediocre player available at the position his team most needs; the day that elder statesmen players sign with the Detroit Red Wings to try to winVeritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-37034508402642986512013-03-28T13:00:00.000-03:002013-03-28T13:00:02.155-03:00Iginla to PittsburghI seriously wasn't going to post more than one hockey story a night, but then I saw this tweet from TSN's Bob McKenzie:
Now hearing Jarome Iginla has been traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Done deal.
— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) March 28, 2013
Yikes.
Iginla is an aging winger who still has lots of potential, with 525 goals to his resume, along with two Rocket Richards, an Art Ross, a Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-70522745850681922862013-03-28T12:00:00.000-03:002013-03-28T12:00:03.743-03:00Consolidated High: school closuresNova Scotia is a cash-strapped province, and the varying schoolboards across the province are looking at shutting down small schools wherever possible to save on costs. The Chronicle-Herald had two such stories today. The South Shore Regional School Board and the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board are looking at closing and consolidating over a dozen schools between them.
The story for Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-55147142181449238332013-03-28T11:00:00.000-03:002013-03-28T11:00:08.754-03:00Halifax Mooseheads: Round 1 is doneThe Halifax Mooseheads have taken the first step towards proving they're the best team in Canadian Major Junior Hockey by defeating the Saint John Sea Dogs 4-0 in their best of seven series. During this series the Mooseheads outscored the Sea Dogs 34-4. I had the privilege of seeing the Mooseheads play live a week ago and I've come to the conclusion that they are simply a stunning team. Four of Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-64411261457782665712013-03-19T23:08:00.002-03:002013-03-19T23:08:47.059-03:00When Christianity is just an excuse for bigotryA friend of mine just lost his apartment because he wasn't Christian. Read that again. Not in the Deep South, not in India, not in Egypt. In Canada. In 2013.
This level of bullshit has me personally angry - I'm writing furiously, and I might get some of the minor details incorrect. Of course, the names have been changed to protect my friend's privacy (which you will see is a big deal in a momentVeritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-15804899931665442612012-11-11T17:02:00.003-04:002012-11-11T17:02:50.202-04:00Remembrance Day, 2012
Yet again I am struck with the quiet hypocrisy going on around Remembrance Day. I had to watch a grandstand being erected, local politicians standing atop it and giving cliché speeches about Canada's war veterans. I wonder how many of them believe the old lines; have they heard them so many times over the years as to believe them, or have they long since decided that we, civilians, Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-71091693826747135922012-11-09T03:17:00.000-04:002012-11-09T03:17:39.348-04:00An open letter to Mitt RomneyDear Governor Romney,As a foreign observer who, like many outside of your country, followed this year’s presidential election with great trepidation, let me offer my condolences to you. I regret that you weren’t born 20 years earlier or 20 years later, because you came to power in a Republican party that wasn’t prepared to govern in any serious way. The result, as you saw on Tuesday, was that Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-78000433328697075422012-08-24T15:16:00.003-03:002012-08-26T03:50:04.555-03:00Sometimes, bloggers deserve recognition, and therefore I am pleased to award this Very Serious Award to Lousy Canuck!
Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-54101910618633242012-08-20T01:04:00.000-03:002012-08-20T01:17:27.917-03:00Atheism+, an admission, and my thoughts on cynical attacks on the formerYesterday, Jen McCreight of Blag Hag wrote an amazing post entitled How I Unwittingly Infiltrated the Boy's Club & Why It's Time for a New Wave of Atheism, and it's pretty freaking brilliant. Like a lot of important pieces of writing, I saw myself a bit in what Jen had written:
I was exactly what a Boy’s Club wanted. I was a young, not-hideous woman
who passionately supported their cause.Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-33345196700591770512012-08-14T01:13:00.002-03:002012-08-14T01:14:14.373-03:00What's the price of a mile?
Thousands of feet march to the beat, it's an army on the march
Long way from home, paying the price with young men's life
Thousands of feet march to the beat, it's an army in despair
Knee deep in mud, stuck in a trench with no way out
-The Price of a Mile, Sabaton
What's the price of a mile?
On June 18th, 1815, the price of a Belgian mile was 48,000 men.
In July 1863, the price of a Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-55215115389483736782012-08-11T16:11:00.001-03:002012-08-11T16:11:29.268-03:00Romney/Ryan 2012Mitt Romney has selected Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate. This surprised me somewhat, as I was almost sure Romney would pick former Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, or perhaps Senator Rob Portman of Ohio. Ryan is perhaps most famous for the Ryan Budget, which recommended replacing Medicare with a voucher program that would do significantly less than the current Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-55355263883328728562012-08-03T00:20:00.000-03:002012-08-03T00:20:13.151-03:00Harry Reid's Brilliance, Part 2
Accurate representation of Reid's charisma
I actually really like Harry Reid, the current Senate Majority Leader (D-NV). Although he has the charisma of the plank of wood upon which my keyboard sits, Senator Reid is an extremely skilled politician. Just check out the way he's been attacking Mitt Romney about not releasing his tax returns. Reid has claimed that a Bain Capital investor informed Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-8677891486080444582012-07-25T10:53:00.001-03:002013-05-17T15:04:45.789-03:00Aurora and gun controlI've written about gun control before, in regards to the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, and that can be found here. What is important to remember is that while I support the Second Amendment's incorporation to the several States, I do not necessarily approve of the free-roaming nature of no gun control at all, and I think that is a direct contributor to gun culture in the USA. It comes Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-86900543989503864302012-06-18T16:35:00.001-03:002012-06-18T16:35:41.633-03:00A white road into the greenI was driving to Port Hawkesbury today, and there is a stretch of road where the pavement has faded, and looks almost white, a straight line for about a mile into rolling green countryside. As I entered this stretch, I let my eyes drift out of focus for a second, and I pondered. I pondered a white road into the green.
Could you imagine what that represents? Two thousand years ago, white-topped Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-21515066381474786912012-05-13T14:11:00.002-03:002012-07-25T11:21:03.504-03:00The Bible is inherently anti-knowledge and anti-womenEccentric Jennifer posts a wonderful series of thoughts on the implication of Eve's role in the Bible. I concur with her, naturally, but I would like to expand upon one point. Specifically, her final sentence:
And, if this myth is true? Well, I’d like to thank Eve on behalf of all humanity, she gave us the greatest gift ever, she gave us Knowledge.
She sure did. What does it say about Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-35578083533238706822012-05-12T19:57:00.002-03:002012-07-25T10:59:50.679-03:00I got to play Magic: The Gathering with @jteberhard!I got to play Magic: The Gathering with JT Eberhard the other day! We used the Cockatrice program, and it was pretty cool. Jen has always said he's a great guy, and it was really neat to sit there and toss cards out with an icon of the modern atheist movement. We did an Avacyn Restored draft and played a couple games of Legacy format.
Here's the deck I use:
Land:
20x Plains
Artifacts:
3x Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-33985943761625366342012-05-12T15:15:00.005-03:002012-05-12T15:16:44.589-03:00Going to Boston!
I am released on the world!
On June 24th, I'll be flying to Boston, Massachusetts so I can fulfil a life dream: I'll be seeing Iron fucking Maiden live. My passport came in yesterday, and it finally feels...real...that I will be going. My ticket comes from a friend of mine, Paul, better known as SinisterMinister X from the forums at www.maidenfans.com. Paul is flying to Boston from Denver, andVeritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-43573036506728066532012-05-12T14:45:00.003-03:002012-05-12T14:45:44.226-03:00Are the producers of Hockey Night in Canada trying to get shut down?Recently, Hockey Night in Canada's Ron MacLean compared the heroics of hockey players to the heroics of the various first responders in 9/11. There's absolutely nothing right about this comparison, and a lot of people have critiqued MacLean as being smug, too smart, and trying to be clever. He was, in my opinion, being an idiot.
I don't feel the need to slam MacLean for his word choice. Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-30837727379363154132012-05-12T14:27:00.004-03:002012-07-25T11:10:39.832-03:00The coolest video game everSeriously, this is incredible.
Artemis is designed for anyone who watched Star Trek and dreamed of what it would be like to sit on the bridge of a star ship...everyone tends to snap into their role and share the information coming to them from their station while interacting with the crew and captain. The Helm station flies the Artemis. The Weapons station controls your offensive powers. Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-89728182607351222152012-05-11T16:18:00.003-03:002012-05-11T16:21:22.875-03:00Qray benefits? More like Qray bullshit.
$149.95 for this useless piece of scrap!
So I was watching the Canada-Finland game from the World Hockey Championship, and during one of the commercials there was an advertisement for the QRay bracelet. For the uninitiated, this is a piece of metal you wear around your wrist that just makes things magically better. I know this is bullshit, and you know this is bullshit, but I was Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-40548581623395315482012-05-11T12:41:00.000-03:002012-05-13T12:06:58.481-03:00The rise of the NDP10 years ago the idea of the New Democratic Party running Canada's federal government was simply laughable. Today, it is closer to reality than ever (other than the fact that the election is 40 months away, most likely). Check it out on the Huff Po.
Eric Grenier is one of the best bloggers in Canadian politics, if not the best one, and he has his thumb on the pulse of the nation right now. The Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-88670166742856946242012-05-11T12:04:00.001-03:002012-05-13T11:55:41.957-03:00Mitt Romney the bullyEveryone's known a bully. And from time to time, everyone's been a bully too. Don't be afraid to admit it. We're all capable of that swing in emotion from the casually offensive to the moderately cruel. That's not the sort of bullying I'm talking about when I say Mitt Romney is a bully. I'm also not talking about the Mitt Romney that shut down American companies and outsourced their material and Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-27202253011355839882012-05-11T11:24:00.000-03:002012-07-25T11:25:02.326-03:00This is the face of a terrorist
(via the BBC)
The above is Anders Breivik. He is a Christian terrorist. He smiles slightly, smug, at his trial, that he has declared he would turn into a "circus" for his radical anti-Islam standpoints.
Breivik has admitted to murdering 77 people for the "crime" of supporting multiculturalism. He is a self-described Christian nationalist. He is a terrorist, just the same as Osama bin Laden Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-28193576962072107722012-02-22T14:07:00.000-04:002012-05-13T13:40:13.917-03:00Goatse is not an argument for God.So there I was on Twitter, when I saw this:
The link went to this photo:
Now, Christina is a very smart and cool person, but her response had missed something that I'd seen before on the Internet. Indeed, the position of the two hands mirrors the concept of God opening the heavens for someone because it makes fun of something...else...being opened. I responded thusly:
SnopesVeritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894630909527649411.post-90595354318036303142012-02-21T23:25:00.002-04:002012-02-21T23:47:13.048-04:00Open letter to Vic ToewsDear Minister Toews,
I'd like to voice my concern about the Government's intent to pass Bill C30, or as it is known, the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. As a Canadian citizen who uses the Internet, I am supremely concerned that the Conservative government is interested in co-opting my Charter rights for the ease of prosecution. While titled to be defending children Veritashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03183047875485621124noreply@blogger.com0