Saturday, August 30, 2014

What a strange week

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What a strange week it has been -- horrible bus crashes and nine-year olds with Uzis and Russia invading the Ukraine but lying about it whil...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Shorter, on the government jets

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Shorter -- why the Harper Cons couldn't decommission four of its six Challenger jets : Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back ...

Wrong side of history

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Well, in one sense, I guess you could argue that Harper is right when he says that bringing to justice the murderers of Aboriginal women is ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Jaywalking in Ferguson

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I found this report on Daily Kos to be shocking and horrifying Ferguson makes 2.6 million dollars a year from court fees. In 2013, the court...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Ridiculous

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Doesn't Canada's official languages commissioner have better things to do than investigate John Baird’s tweets ? Is this the goal, ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Today's flying pigs

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Flying pigs were in the news today. Justice Minister Mackay actually said that the Harper Cons are still considering tickets for pot posses...

Why don't they have a protocol for an officer-involved shooting?

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One of the many things I don't understand about the Ferguson police department is why they apparently do not have a protocol for dealin...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Ferguson police shoot Brown in the back again

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So six days after the shooting, Ferguson police suddenly decide that Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery ? The cynicism of this ploy i...

That was then, this is now

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This is becoming painfully stupid.  Now the braintrust in our PMO think they can get Canadian medical associations to do their dirty work f...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Pottery Barn Rule

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Reading today's news about Iraq -- Obama warns of long-term strikes -- I conclude that the United States is now caught by the Pottery B...
Thursday, August 07, 2014

Really? Is that all you've got?

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Really, Harper Cons? Is this the best you can do? Is this all you've got? Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney used his parliament...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

I have a tablet!

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So because of my retirement I had to give up my office laptop so I bought one of my own, just another good old lenovo think pad which I'...
Saturday, August 02, 2014

Memories

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Dr. Grumpy has a post titled Memories... about the lessons he learned when his father helped a stranger one day. It reminded me of one of ...

Shorter

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Shorter  President Obama on why the United States "tortured some folks' after 911 : When the going gets tough, how could anyone ex...

Saturday funnies

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To start your Saturday, here's some goat balancing fun: Chèvres en équilibre - goats balancing on a flexible steel ribbon - YouTube : ...