Summers quickly coming to and end, and many of you have once again found yourselves sitting at home, having done nothing that you planned on doing. Not to worry, the most popular Gurmat Camp in Toronto is back yet again to help rescue you, from your miserable state and hopefully teach you something yet again.

Come one, come all to another soon to be famous not easily forgotten Gurmat Camp, organized by COSS so sign up today. Yes I know the camps starting in a day and half, and yes I realize this isn’t much notice, but with the limited spaces available, you need to act now!!!…So yea, tell your parents that you’ll go with them to the beach another time and post-pone your trips to wonderland with your friends and instead make sure you come out to this years Gurmat Camp at Jot Parkash, otherwise you’ll be left listening to stories about how good the camp was, how you missed and how there was never a better youth camp ever. So do what you got to do, and make sure you come out…

If you’re looking for reasons to come out look no further then the video below…For questions call Jasdev Singh at 416.835.1909 or email COSS @ info@sikhstudents.ca.

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
- Ernest Benn

(Yes it was stolen from the Google Quote of the day)

Amazing how that fits to every single level of politics that I’ve ever been familiar with. From inner-group politics, Sikhi, Federal, Provincial, Municipal. everywhere. Even after listening to politicians speak on a daily basis about the “wrong” in our society that they intend to fix. After taking a look at it, doesn’t really seem like there is much wrong, and this goes for everything you can possibly think of. The danger of a seasoned politician is they bite into a really tight knot, at whatever point they perceive to be the weakest, hold on as tight and just pull. They may need to adjust here or there, but sooner or later if they keep pulling things will un-ravel and when that strong knot comes loose, well then they’re free to make whatever adjustments they see fit.. But then again end of the day, we’re all politians to some degree, so we can either play the cards in our favour or against us, that is one choice entirely left on how we choose to play the game.

Satkaar Yogh Sadh Sangat Jee,

Jasdeep Singh aka Balzy aka The Running Guy, has recently emailed me in desperation of being lost and confused and in dire need of your guidance. Primarily if you are familiar with VIA Rail and Queens University. His desperate plea ensues:

HELP WANTED
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balzey of the ottawa family is looking to seek the services of a kingston resident. He needs information from someone who is familiar with queens university and its affiliated research station. Please do some sevaa and help a brotha out. add sunny.bal@gmail.com to msn.

**note**

I agree that this wasn’t urgent and that it is is totally wrong to draw attention in such a manour and am more then familiar with the story of the boy who called wolf. However, it has been a looong day at work, and I am now incredibly, incredibly tired, bored and a combination of all the above and still sitting here behind a desk, so therefore obstain any and all care for having written the above. As such, if you feel offended then I can offer you little to no condolence to this fact, but would greatly insist on an apology on your behalf for offending me with your inability of letting things slide. If you feel this post was incredibly stupid and are frustrated even more by the fact that you have read this far, and have eyes that hurt from having to squint to read this portion of the post then I humbly offer you this website which I feel will much better pass your time and describes my provibial opinion of you at this time. Thank You.

Blood Donor Clinic, This Friday August 11th

In memory of the thousands of innocents killed around the world every year. In memory of the innocent lives lost in ‘84, we humbly request that you take part in this years Blood Drive taking place at Rexdale Gurughar, 9 Carrier Drive on Friday August 11th 5pm - 8pm. Remember your one donation can save upto 3 lives.

For Basic Eligibility information please visit Blood Services or please call 1-888-2DONATE

For those who don’t know, now you know..

Over the past few weeks I’ve been in various discussions with people over the Israel / Lebanon conflict always trying to see things as objectively as I possibly could, from both sides. In light of all this I can clearly say that I’m behind Hezbollah in this conflict and although it’s hard to fathom, can see them coming out of this on top.

Firstly, I’ll openly admit that Hezbollah is out gunned and out manned. However, one can never under estimate the power of the guerrilla fighter. Guerrilla’s in the context that I speak of them are those individuals fighting in a resistance movement, against an oppressive government. Basically the way I look at it, although maybe naively is that the guerrilla fighter is he who fights for something greater then himself, the underdog going up against the heavy weight champ In that sense, it goes without saying that a guerrilla warrior is by far one of the strongest type of warriors that any foe can go up against on the field. The Sikh jhajaroo’s of the 80’s and 90’s and of today are guerrilla’s. The strength of the guerrilla against the forces of the West in this case Israel, was best summed by Malcolm X, in his Ballot of a Bullet speech that he gave, when he described why the White Man (US, British, Euro league) will never win another war when fighting against such guerrilla’s,

Why some rice farmers — some rice farmers — some rice eaters ran him out of Korea. Yes, they ran him out of Korea. Rice eaters with nothing but gym shoes and a rifle and a bowl of rice took him and his tanks and his napalm and all that other action he’s supposed to have and ran him across the Yalu. Why? ‘Cause the day that he can win on the ground has passed.

Up in French Indo-China those little peasants, rice growers, took on the might of the French army and ran all the Frenchmen — you remember Dien Bien Phu. No.

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. They didn’t have anything but a rifle. The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on, and a — and a — and a white man can’t fight a guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla action takes heart, takes nerve, and he doesn’t have that. He’s brave when he’s got tanks. He’s brave when he’s got planes. He’s brave when he’s got bombs. He’s brave when he got a whole lot of company along with him, but you take that little man from Africa and Asia, turn him loose in the woods with a blade, with a blade — that’s all he needs, all he needs is a blade — and when the sun comes down — goes down and it’s dark, it’s even-steven.

The greatest asset that a guerrilla has, is the fact that the guerrilla is not fighting someone else’s war (again sticking to my definition of a guerrilla). He is not doing a job, which will put food on his table, or completing a duty for which he will get a cheque to help pay his bills. The guerrilla warrior is that person fighting for something larger then himself, an idea which can not die with the death of just one man. It’s because of this that the guerrilla fighters always have uprisings. Israel has been fighting Hezbollah since ‘82, and with each new generation finds itself fighting the same battle over and over again, simply because you can kill the people, but not the idea, and cause that Hezzbollah’s fighting for, which the majority of people in Lebanon support, ie. Israel out of Lebanon and release of all political prisoners.

So, given that Israel may in all likeliness (even though they are getting rocked right now) win this battle, Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon will win the war, and only then will there be the chance for peace.

Otpreka Singh posted a video on his site, which I’ll post below which I feel best justifies Hezbollah’s stance against Israel and why I to choose to stand for them in this conflict.

I don’t know whether to laugh or to shake with fear after watching this. Immigration really needs to watch who they let into the country.

Be afraid, be very afraid..

For some reason he reminds me of Fat Buu from Dragon Ball Z.

Anyone who watched Shamrock vs Ortiz 2 knows that Shamrock got robbed with the fight getting cut short. Sure enough Ortiz probably would have won, but cutting the fight that short, after only 3-4 uncontested punch’s, was definitely uncalled for. It’s in fights like that, that make you wish that UFC was a little more liberal in when it chooses to stop fights. Check out this clip I came across from Hero another MMA fighting league.

SAKURABA vs SMIRNOVAS

Now undoubtedly the impact of these blows is much less then the impact left by some of the top UFC fighters so letting that many punches go undefended would definitely leave some sort of mark, nonetheless it goes to make one entertaining bout, with all the twists and turns of a fixed wrestling match.