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| Pirate Rants - East Carolinian Posted: 21 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT We don't live in a beach town, so how about you stop walking around campus in bikinis and swim trunks? I am so glad there are only a few weeks left of living on the noisiest floor in Fletcher! To the group who laid out their towels at the NCC pool before 11 a.m. and didn't show up until 3 p.m.: Next time, look for your towel in the pool and your chair gone. They make racer back bra straps and strap perfect for a reason! No one wants to see your hot pink bra straps from under your white tank top. What? Franks sauce now in the Galley? What happened to my Texas Pete?? I die a little inside every time I go to the Galley. It's all about that Texas Pete... I put THAT ish on everything!!!!!!! I wish you and your whore the best of luck; I guess it takes one to know one. Message to my friend who is leaving soon: Love You!!! What do pirates and pimps have in common? They both say "YO HO" and walk with a limp! To the person who thanked all of us Pirates who serve in the Armed Forces: No, thank you. It's support and appreciation from people like you that make the job so rewarding. I think I may speak for all other service members here when I say that your simple "thank you" is greatly appreciated. I love hearing a grown man drunkenly fight and cry to his girlfriend at 3:02 in the morning right outside my window! Sleeping with me, inviting me to your get together, and then ignoring me to talk to some girl in a trashy panda shirt is pretty much the definition of a douche. Duh. I know it's almost summer time when my students in my night class start showing up drunk. Obviously the only reason you tell me that you're such a bad person is so I'll talk you up, which I'm not going to do. If it pains you that much, then you'd make better choices. You look ridiculous in that cowboy hat. Do us a favor and give it back to your friend already. Yes we did time you. And yes you were in the bathroom by yourself for 28 minutes! What the hell do you do in there every day!? I know you think you're always in the right, but your roid rages are making everyone hate you. Anger management classes are the only thing that could salvage your social life now. Take pride in your University; hold the trash in your hands the extra twelve steps and throw the garbage in the trash! It's hard to respect a person after you have railed her face. To the girl in the thong at the North Campus pool party Saturday: This isn't Miami. I think everyone caught a disease of some sort by the time it was over. Thank you professors for cramming the tons of work you've been slacking off on and "forgot" about until the week before finals. I love not sleeping for a week! To the chick in Austin Computer lab that has played Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" three times in a row... if you play it again, I'm gonna puke! Please keep your random, pointless and idiotic questions to a minimum of five per class session. Oh, and if you don't know what constitutes a "scholarly" source for your research paper... you probably should be here. To the next Campus Pointe resident who lets their car alarm go for 30 MINUTES: Be warned, I'm going to go all Carrie Underwood on your vehicle! Dear Joyner: I have two words for you: Air. Conditioning. I'm pretty sure heatstroke would be detrimental to my academic success. I don't know why people keep staring at me just because I'm drinking a beer in Joyner. I mean, you've got to take your adderall with something, right? To the girl in my Spanish 1002 class: Thank you so much for coming in drunk at noon and bringing your grape vodka with you in your water bottle to our oral exam. It truly was the highlight of my morning and seeing you fall over twice was just priceless. If I die tonight, I want you to know that your sister is awesome in bed. Stop making your statuses on Facebook your life story. No one cares if you're in love with your boyfriend one day and then depressed the next. It's getting really annoying. No one wants to see your nasty camel toe. Find bigger clothes that actually fit you. You aren't a size 4 anymore. No I will not make out with you!! To the guy who walks around in shorts shorter than mine: I think it's time to buy a new pair of pants. No one thinks it's cute when you talk in your baby talk to your boyfriend all the time. Sometimes we're glad that you're never at the apartment anymore. To the obnoxious guy in my film class: Grow up! You don't get points for saying an obvious answer out loud. Number 5 party school in Playboy! Yeahh ECU!! My next door neighbor changes boys like a shop owner changes clothes on a mannequin...really it's exhausting trying to keep! FREE WEEZY!!! Next time I wanna pee I'm just gonna go behind the truck instead of walking to a random field and losing my phone. EPIC FAIL! Happpy belated 4:20, since no one was nice enough to put it in the last Pirate Rants...unless everyone was just too stoned to remember! I know you like to think that you're an amazing athlete, but that beer gut you're working on begs to differ. Motivation... GET SOME! Grow up and stop crying about how much I hurt your feels when you are not even considering my feelings! You can't spell parties without PIRATES!!! It's official! We are the best school everrr! How did you get into nursing school? I would run if you were my nurse! Dear roommate: The noises you make in your sleep make me want to throw up. I cough purposefully to wake you up and make it stop! To the guy with the skateboard who held the door open for me on Tuesday at the Old Cafeteria Complex: That is the first time someone has done that for me in a very long time. Thank you! Dearest artistic people living in the resident halls: Yes, I know the creativity sometimes means things get messy but is it at all possible for you to clean out the sink after you dump paint into them? I'm tired of seeing your paint box in the sink when I go to brush my teeth. When did sitting on the couch eating food get considered your workout for the day? GET OFF THE COUCH! I thought the worst part about this huge project would be the actual work... but turns out what killed me the most was your whining! So glad to be done with this class and you! To the girls I saw peeing by the tree at the bridge by College Hill on my way back from the library: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! To the Girl who sits in the front row of my biochemistry class: Will you shut up and let him teach?! You know who you are. It would be great to be able to take a nap…but NO! The fat girl above my apartment won't stop walking! When you're having sex it sounds so painful Who needs a permit for getting drunk at Riverwalk? I don't!!!! Next time I see you trying to get in the pants of another drunk girl, I'm going to tell your high school girlfriend from back home all about it. I was running from a party that got busted Friday night in Riverwalk, and I threw my margarita in the woods. Is it bad that I considered going and looking for it after wards? Whatever happened to the North Campus Ninja?! Vote Cal Cunningham for U.S. Senate on May 4th! Um, please stop bringing your baby to the art building EVERY SINGLE DAY. So you had a baby, aww that's cute! Keep it at home and out of my face!! Hmmm. Earthquake in Haiti? Earthquake in China? Snow storms throughout the US? Volcano eruption in Iceland? I think the world is going to end. Time to start drinking. Teachers: You were in school at one point so surely you remember hating all the work crammed into the last two weeks at the end of the semester? PLEASE STOP DOING IT YOURSELF! Your music sucks. Stop forcing the entire apartment complex to listen to it. Yes, Four Loco is that crazy. To blondie who was too cool to hold the door for me: I know your sunglasses were dark but I know with those bug eyed lens you saw me walking right behind you. Please learn some manners because good looks suck without class to go with them. When you're on a dating site at 19, there's a problem. Throwing objects is the s**t, bra! Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Pretty in pink and brown - Edmonton Journal Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:59 PM PDT OTTAWA — Former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer told a House of Commons committee Wednesday he never did drugs and he never engaged in illegal lobbying. But the MPs on that committee — including his former Conservative caucus colleagues — weren't buying some of his claims, with one of those Conservatives accusing Jaffer of lying to the committee over boasts Jaffer made on his website about his connections to the federal government. "You have to understand that this type of behaviour sullies all of our names," Conservative MP Chris Warkentin told Jaffer. Those claims — Jaffer's personal website promised prospective clients that he had "business expertise in industry financing in order to help them secure support from the Canadian government and to obtain contracts abroad" — are one of the key factors behind allegations, made by some on the committee, that Jaffer tried to sell his influence with his former political colleagues or engaged in improper and potentially illegal contact with government officials. Jaffer offered three different stories about those website boasts. At first, he denied to the committee that there were any such promises "to secure support" on his website. Warkentin confronted him with the correct information, saying, "The statement is obviously untrue. You've stated matter-of-fact one thing, and I (now) have (evidence) before me that states something different." Jaffer then told the committee the website information was referring to help he provided while he served, from 1997 to 2008, as an Edmonton MP. Following the committee meeting, he told reporters that the line about securing government support did not refer to financial aid from government but support by government in other ways. "(Jaffer's) testimony raised more questions than it answered," said Liberal MP Siobhan Coady. Jaffer's business partner, Patrick Glemaud, a former Conservative candidate, appeared to do little to help Jaffer. Glemaud, who was also testifying with Jaffer, verbally sparred with or lectured MPs from all parties, including the committee's chairperson, and refused at one point a direct order from the chairperson, Liberal MP Yasmin Ratansi. "I don't believe you far as I can throw you," NDP MP Pat Martin told Glemaud at one point. Jaffer's testimony at the House of Commons government operations and estimates committee was his first public comment since explosive allegations surfaced that he and his wife, Conservative MP Helena Guergis, were photographed in the presence of prostitutes and cocaine users. Guergis has already denied those allegations and, on Wednesday, Jaffer used his appearance to also address the drug use charge. "I have never partaken of any illegal substance," he told the committee. Testimony at a House of Commons committee is, like a court of law, given under oath and there are penalties for perjury. But the allegations of cocaine use came up as Jaffer was questioned by Martin about a meeting Jaffer had on Sept. 10 with Toronto businessman Nazim Gillani, a meeting that prompted Gillani to tell his associates that Jaffer was offering access to the prime minister's office. On the night of that meeting Jaffer was arrested for drunk driving and cocaine possession — the drug possession charge was later dropped. "Did (Gillani) give you that cocaine in terms of part of your payment for services to be rendered?" Martin asked Jaffer. "What's wrong with your ethical radar that some alarm didn't go off in your head?" Jaffer told Martin he never promised access to the Prime Minister's Office or any government official. "Mr. Martin, I'm disappointed you continue to allege things (for which) you have no basis in truth," Jaffer replied. Jaffer also used his committee appearance to apologize to Guergis. "I want to apologize to my wife Helena," Jaffer said, his voice breaking with emotion. "I know the error of my judgment created significant problems for her politically. She has been a good minister and a great MP for her constituents." On April 9, Prime Minister Stephen Harper fired Guergis from cabinet, suspended her from caucus, and called in the RCMP and the ethics commissioner to investigate her. Guergis has said publicly she "always maintained no wrong doing with relation to these matters." The allegations put to Jaffer and Glemaud — that they engaged in illegal lobbying — are separate from the unspecified allegations involving Guergis. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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