Work Situation II

And also as of yet I have found no work, hope to, as I need to pay school, but really wish Mr.Bush would maybe not gift tax rebates to people and maybe fund education or maybe help people below the poverty line. Not that that is me, but expecting my mother to be able to pay for school for me, and live with my brother who is a garbage disposal, and pay for her own life is completely unjust, saying that America has one of the best education systems, as it did, maybe in the 50's is completely incorrect, as we as a nation are 25th in Math in the world, and we aren't even the best at speaking English?!?! How is that really possible it is the national language, as Mr.Bush seems to refuse to make Spanish one of the National languages. Which I find funny that he is so against "illegal immigration", the Native Americans should sue us, and make all of the people not "from here" leave, as Mr.Bush is an illegal immigrant also. Ha.

Work Situation

As I have seen since I went off to college, finding employment seems awfully hard, especially in a city that is one of the poorest in the country, Mr.Bush seems to think that his tax refund program will stimulate the economy, he is supposedly a Republican, and yet he spends more money than any other president in the history of the United States, which I find odd, he doesn't even follow his own party's views on spending, I hate to say it but I think Reagan was a better president, he limited spending and made the government smaller, less "in society", also Reagan seemed to refuse to mess with the economy, and if he did it was on a small scale. Mr.Bush offered money to the people buying out Bear Stearns. Jefferson and Madison, two previous Presidents, said that a National Bank would be a detriment to American Society and government.
Back to employment, I find it hard to believe that in a city with so many open jobs, and other positions that it has taken me this long to even get a few interviews, I find that a city that seems to want to exploit workers to the fullest backward if they can't seem to make jobs possible for me, not that it isn't mostly my fault, but really, a very poor city with a large African American population, and a large percentage of the population here living at or near the poverty line, making jobs available for the population should not be hard. Instead of having tax refunds and minimum wage jobs, the city, state and country should try to make, say the minimum wage a living wage, and make the country more prosperous, or do a reverse tax refund, the poorest tax filers get the richest tax filers refunds, it would stimulate the economy and also make people more willing to contribute to society. Just an idea, instead of giving people a minimal tax refund, give them a reverse refund, a very socialist idea, but due to the Patriot Act we seem to have a dictator so why not make it a socialist dictatorship. While I was in Russia, it seemed more free than the United States, more welcoming, I felt scared and imposed upon as soon as I arrived in the United States from Ireland, yes security is important, but at what cost? Forcing American citizens to relinquish their civil rights, and making them into mindless puppets, that have to listen to the government that has seemingly limitless power, and a president that can veto certain parts of bills. Oh wait I remember a country like that, the Soviet Union under Stalin, given that Mr.Bush has not killed 50 million people, I will say he is better than Stalin, but removing civil rights for "security" seems really anti-american, if you want to look at a terrorist, someone that has put fear into American citizens and made us feel as if we are not free, take a look at the President.

To Clarify

When people who do not understand why things work a certain way in slavic languages, it pisses me off, that people seem to think that the world revolves around America, which as we see it doesn't. As for the В or На argument, if anything that makes the saying of just Ukraine easier, as the whole point of the phrasing has to do with Ukraine being the bread basket or old Russia, that that is where the Rus started and how their culture evolved. Ha is only reserved for a few countries, some because it makes sense, others because that is just the way it works, as with Ukraine, Russians, Belorussians, Moldovans etc. Don't say the Ukraine when they learn english, it is a stupid american thing. And that is that.

This Really Pisses me Off

Something that really pisses me off, that I, along with other people probably see all the time is people that say "the Ukraine" it is not the United States, there is some weird grammatical difference between them that I cannot think of at the moment, but really, since I have started to follow soccer much more on the World scale, I have seen that people outside the US, know to the just Ukraine, but people here seem to have some aversion to knowing how to speak well. I always hear people here asking why I didn't go to "the Ukraine" well that is because I would like to go to Ukraine, but can't go to "the Ukraine". And that is that.

Words of the Day

Russian words for the day:
соглашаться:
несовер. - соглашаться; совер. - согласиться
1) (на что-л.; делать что-л.)

agree (to), consent (to), assent (to)
2) (с кем-л./чем-л.)
agree (with), concur (with); concede (to) (уступать); admit

хвастать

несовер. - хвастать; совер. - похвастать

brag (of, about), boast (of)

дым
муж.
smoke

New Paddle!

The new paddle that mom got for me is pretty cool, I shall include a picture, and hopefully it will work well in an Arctic environment!


It is pretty cool, and should do what I want it to do, so Thanks mom!

Proposed Route

Hommes du Nord 2008

Great Slave Lake to Kugluktuk on Arctic Ocean

Emile, Parent and Coppermine Rivers

Caleb Dayton Taylor Fay H. Eben Kowler David Lilien Robbie Rosenthal Sasha Van Voorhis-Horn

6/29: Potential Day on Trail?

6/30 – 7/5: Day 1 – 6 On Trail

Great Slave Lake to Basler Lake, through Marian Lake and upstream on the Emile River

Starting on the Great Slave Lake about 100km east of Yellowknife, and traveling through a channel to Marian Lake, we will begin our trip up the Emile River. This section of travel will be mostly lakes with short river sections in between. The sets in this area will be portaged or lined.

All river travel until Grenville Lake (in the Coppermine Watershed) will be upstream, and the section after Marian Lake will have the most sets to line or portage.

7/6 – 7/11: Day 7 – 12 On Trail

Basler Lake to Brown Water Lake, along the Emile River

This section is characterized by long, winding lakes and very little river travel.

7/12 – 7/17: Day 13 – 18 On Trail

Brown Water Lake to Rawalpindi Lake

North of Brown Water Lake, we will leave the Emile River and paddle up Dune Creek to Dune Lake, and then into Grenville Lake and the Coppermine watershed from Mesa Lake.

7/17: Resupply on Rawalpindi Lake at 8:00 PM (tentative)

7/18 – 7/23: Day 19 – 24 On Trail

Along the Parent River to the Coppermine River, through Red Rock Lake to the Hepburn River confluence

This will be our first downstream travel and includes some whitewater. Max Ward’s cabin is also in this section. We will cross the tree line again here, back into the taiga.

7/24 – 7/29: Day 23 – 30 On Trail

The Coppermine River from the Hepburn River Confluence to Rocky Defile

The Coppermine River in this area is fast moving, mostly swift water with little or no whitewater, depending on conditions. Most groups report fast travel here across the border into Nunavut Territory and through the “Big Bend.” Rocky Defile is a huge canyon.

7/30 – 8/5: Day 31 – 37 On Trail

The Coppermine River from Rocky Defile to Kugluktuk on the Arctic Ocean

Our last section of the river includes a few sights, including the confluence with the Kendall River, Franklin’s Route to the Great Bear Lake, and Bloody Falls, a National Historic Site.

8/6 – 8/7: Day 38 – 39 On Trail

Kugluktuk

We’ll spend a couple days here to explore the town and meet some of the people living there. Last summer, the Hommes and Femmes groups did a community-paddling clinic in Baker Lake, and I’m hoping we’ll be able to do the same.

8/7: Kugluktuk to Winnipeg on Canadian North Airlines

Our flight takes us from Kugluktuk to Yellowknife to Calgary to Edmonton to Winnipeg. Four transfers!

8/8 – 8/9: Winnipeg to Menogyn by van.

8/9: Welcome at Menogyn

8/10: Home again…

The advantage of planning in six-day segments allows flexibility on trail, so that we are not trying to reach a specific campsite each night. The plan also includes one non-travel day per section for layover days and wind-bound days. We also have two days in Kugluktuk at the end as a buffer.

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