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Cheesed about 'Souris,' North Dakotans opt for 'Mouse'

Last week, Ward County commissioners in North Dakota passed a resolution officially naming the river Canadians call the Souris River the Mouse River.

"We don't speak French here," commissioner Jerome Gruenberg told CBC. "To me, it will always remain the Mouse."

*headdesk* I can't even... arrgh. Dakota is Sioux, how many of you speak Sioux? Hell, in Canada we pronounce it the anglicized "sou-riss" instead of the proper "sou-ree"(and I've even heard French people refer to it this way).

This seems less like standardizing place names to an English code, but rather good old fashioned anti-French sentiment. And that's the kick in the arse.

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I almost forgot the other thing that severely pissed me off today.

Eviction looms for St. Boniface rooming-house tenants
Forty people living at a rooming house in St. Boniface are frustrated and frightened after learning they're facing eviction.

The owner of the building lost a zoning battle with the city, so all of the residents in the building – most with mental-health illnesses or other disabilities – have been ordered out by Dec. 14.

Tenant Richard Solomon doesn't understand why the city is shutting down a place where dozens of vulnerable people feel safe and can manage on their own. Solomon, who has an emotional disorder, pays $340 a month for his room, which is considered one of the better ones of the 67 in the building.

"We're just down on our luck, that's why we're in here," he said. "It's nice and cheap and a very nice place to live in."

Hearing Franco Magnifico saying that it was for the greater good made me want to just punch something. Fucker.

"I haven't seen the exact list of all those tenants, but I suspect it's a transient lot. There may be a core nucleus that live there, but I suspect the rest are rather transient," he said.

"Some of these people are probably have been thrown out of other places, can't find a place to rent. So they're happy where they are and they may have a hard time relocating. But I have to look at the greater good, and I believe this is for the greater good."

*rages* Unless I'm missing a vital piece of information here, this is just fucked up.

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Gah. LJ drama to the left of me, political drama to the right, I'm stuck in the middle with you.

So. Possibly no federal election until February. Yaye?

I was going to make a post of good fun links, but then got distracted. Ah well. I've begun knitting a new scarf- it's not pretty, but appears it looks like it will be quite functional, which is good.

Also? OMGWTFLOST!!!

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Because I've been missing reading in Old English lately, I talked to Izydorczyk and he lent me two of his books, Old English Literature: A Practical Introduction and Beowulf: A Student Edition. I found them in the library, so I'm going to return his copies to him, since I'm terrified of muking them up. Also, there is a copy of Apollonius of Tyre lurking around at school (we used it to help learn OE last year, but never finished it or even discussed it.)

He also mentioned in class today that if anyone ever found a copy of a retelling )reinterpretation? not entirely clea) of the Gospel of Nicodemus from America in the 18-19th century, they'd get an A in the class. I think he's joking, but I actually did take a look on the off chance that I could actually find one and impress the hell out of him.