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When I saw this video last week, I died laughing. You need to watch it and make sure you show all your Star War Enthusiasts so they can get angry and argue about it. lol
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Border Issues

First heard about this on www.lostinthewillderness.com
....The Toronto Star did a report on it...read below!

Canadians detained at border for 7 hours

Debra Black
STAFF REPORTER

A group of young black Canadians on their way to see Barack Obama sworn into office say they were detained for seven hours at the U.S. border on Monday because of religious and racial stereotyping as their passports were checked and rechecked.

They eventually made it to Washington yesterday to see the inauguration of the 44th president.
Tyrone Edwards, organizer of the three-bus trip to Washington for black youth involved in the Toronto-based Remix Project, a cultural non-profit group, said 168 people from local non-profit groups made the 800-kilometre trek.

The buses left Toronto on Monday morning but were stopped at the Peace Bridge just outside Buffalo at around 1 p.m.

Speaking to the Star by phone, Edwards, the 27-year-old head of Remix, said the first bus cleared customs, as did the second bus, where he was seated. But the third bus was boarded by U.S. customs officers who asked about 14 young girls, all wearing hijabs, for their passports. Because Edwards was the organizer of the trip, he kept the second bus waiting until the third cleared customs. Initially he thought it would just be a short delay.

But after the girls’ passports were taken, customs officers boarded the second bus again and asked for Edwards’ passport as well as the passport of colleague and seatmate Adel Prince Nur.
The customs agents also asked for the passports of two sisters on the second bus. Their last name was Mohammed, Edwards said.

All of them – who all held Canadian passports – were then fingerprinted, photographed and questioned by U.S. customs officers.

“There was no legitimate reason to hold us up. They wasted a lot of time.”

Edwards was born in Canada, but all the others were either born in Somalia or Saudi Arabia, he said. And their Canadian passports listed their place of birth. That’s why he thinks the buses were detained.
At one point, he said, a U.S. officer showed two girls on the bus some pictures and asked them if they recognized three Somali men. They told the officer they weren’t from Somalia, but Trinidad, Edwards said.

He believes the only reason the two girls were questioned was because they were wearing hijabs.

During the seven hours they were detained their luggage was also X-rayed and their personal hand luggage was searched, Edwards said.

A Federal Bureau of Investigation officer was also called in to question them. “I have his card in my back pocket,” said Edwards, who was angry about being stopped.

The border officers asked a lot of questions about who organized the trip and why they were going to Washington.

“I really commend the young ladies who were humiliated and treated so unfairly and it was blatantly obvious they were being singled out,” Edwards said.

Nur, who works as a DJ known as Future with the Remix Project, was also questioned about his reasons for going to Washington. He, too, had a Canadian passport but was born in Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. border guard said he simply didn’t understand why Canadian youth would want to go to Obama’s inauguration.

“I told him this is a big moment in history,” said Nur. “I told him as a young black man I find a lot of inspiration from Barack Obama’s story.”

U.S. Customs at the Peace Bridge referred all questions on the incident to its media spokesperson, but no one was available to take the call.

Nur, Edwards and the others on the trip were determined, however, not to let the seven-hour delay ruin what was a momentous moment in history.

“We tried to frame it this way – any type of significant historical moment in black history has always come out of a struggle,” said Edwards. “This is why it’s so important for everyone (on the bus) to get to the inauguration. That’s why we’re going from Toronto to Washington to stand out in the cold and listen to a man speak – because that man symbolizes so many things such as hope and change.”

Edwards hopes incidents like the one they experienced at the Peace Bridge will become less and less frequent now that Obama is president.

Ever had the urge....

...to beat up an old person????

Before you think that I have anger issues... hear me out.

There are maybe some contributing factors to my lack of patience this morning (its -26 degrees Celsius, I lost one of my mittens on the way to the subway, I dropped my transfer and the wind took it on the tracks so I could not retrieve the damn thing, I waited for the subway for 20 minutes in the -26 weather... and the list goes on). OK OK... pretty bad start... BUT when the subway got there I decided its Friday- I'm going away this weekend- and I am going to have a good day!

So...

I get on to the subway, and its packed- and I understand cause its Friday morning at 9am...its always packed- doesn't even phase me.
1 stop, 2 stops go by, and then all of sudden this old couple get on and stand right beside me and just start complaining about everything!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is what I hear right from the get go- (mind you this is BOTH of them talking and agreeing on the same stupid shit- so its double the annoyance)

-"I cannot believe these young people, they take up the whole sidewalk!!- No one teaches them manners anymore"
-"Parents these days, a lot of them shouldn't even have children! They don't handle the responsibility of children"
-"Did you just see that guy come on the subway like he owned it! So rude, he has his earphones on so he can't hear anything and he just nudged me" (OMG at this point I was gonna say: LADY its 9am on the goddamn subway heading downtown- WTF do you expect?????!!!)
-"My friend died ... she was 95, and you know what she said to me before she died...she said that she could not wait for it to end for her cause she was so sick of this world...and I totally agree with her- I've never travelled much, but the world seems like its falling apart.
-"A lady on the escalator was behind me and she was like excuse me I am in a rush, can I pass you, and I was like No sweetie, this is an escalator..if you are in a rush you should have took the stairs" (.....at this point, my fists were clenched and all that was holding me back was the thought of my grandma...cause she probably pisses a lot of ppl off, but I would never hit her...lol)

AND THIS IS THE ICING ON THE CAKE....

-"I was talking to my doctor the other day...and I was complaining to him how asian people are always getting in my way on the sidewalk (this couple can clearly see ME standing beside them), and I always wanted to give them a lesson on how we all walk on the right side of the sidewalk so oncoming traffic has clear pathway cause they are staying to their right side. The asians just don't seem to understand this concept... "

WOW WOW WOW!

Now, if my parents never taught me manners, I would have decked them both right there. Why is it that I am always getting up from my seat for elders, Why is it that I help with their bags up the escalator????
I don't think that this grumpy old couple ever had manners or respect taught to them-and to be complaining about this world...and not have travelled much?????!!! This couple is complaining from CANADA?????? Where we have no huge poverty, we have clean water to drink, we are not prone to natural disasters, and the list goes on.......

I cannot help but laugh at the events this morning... just thought I would share...
TGIF!

This is why I dont fly...at all

So my 2009 resolution is to get on planes... i have a huge phobia of flying.. like HUGE...
I dont know whether its a heights thing... or because I dont know whats going on and dont have control.
Now I swear to all of you- EVERY single time in the past when I decided to get on a plane- signs came up that I've taken as alerts from someone above telling me not to get on a plane.
So I just booked a couple flights- just yesterday and then I see this ...

Airplane in Hudson River after failed takeoff, FAA says

Everyone survived which is good...
BUT.. COME ON! Give me a break....I'm just gonna bite the bullet this time and get my ass on a plane.. but seriously... everytime I tell you. I plan a flight and RIGHT after I get a sign that I shouldn't go.

WEIRD.

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