The following twitter exchange exemplifies Mayor Jimmy’s petty reaction to criticism. I suppose I should be thankful I have not been blocked yet, like so many of the mayor’s critics. Jim Watson @JimWatsonOttawa Pleased to join @Eli_Ward5 and @AllanHubley_23 and Cyril Leeder at Tanger Outlet ground breaking in Kanata pic.twitter.com/RXzKKT46gZ
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The following twitter exchange exemplifies Mayor Jimmy’s petty reaction to criticism.
I suppose I should be thankful I have not been blocked yet, like so many of the mayor’s critics.
Jim Watson @JimWatsonOttawa
Pleased to join @Eli_Ward5 and @Alla…
THE FIFTH COLUMN: Mayor Jimmy Really Doesn’t Get It
The following twitter exchange exemplifies Mayor Jimmy’s petty reaction to criticism. I suppose I should be thankful I have not been blocked yet, like so many of the mayor’s critics. Jim Watson @JimWatsonOttawa Pleased to join @Eli_Ward5 and @AllanHubley_23 and Cyril Leeder at Tanger Outlet ground breaking in Kanata pic.twitter.com/RXzKKT46gZ
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: That Vision Thing
Tom Walkom’s analysis of the BC election is interesting. In the end, he writes, British Columbians were asked to choose between two negatives: On Tuesday, B.C. voters were left with two negative questions: Did they hate the Liberals enough to get rid of them? Or did they fear the New
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ice Balls – Lake Michigan
This happened in February of this year on Lake Michigan. “Weighing in at up to 50 pounds (22 kilograms) each, the ice spheres are a winter weather phenomenon resulting from wind and wave action along the shore, according to reporting by NASA‘s Earth Science Picture of the Day. Small fragments
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Why I think Harper is happy about BC’s election result
Because his team won, that’s why. From my pal Mertl: “The B.C. Liberals are a free-enterprise coalition of federal Liberal and Conservative supporters. Clark hails from the Liberal wing but got impressive support from federal Tories, including former ministers Stockwell Day and Chuck Strahl. Kinsella told Yahoo! Canada News he thinks the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: BC: what went wrong?
Great assessment by Josh Wingrove, done right, right here.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Fruits of A Very Poisonous Tree #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale said on Tuesday that the province will have problems now that it doesn’t have a federal cabinet minister from this province. As CBC quoted her from a scrum outside the House of Assembly, Kathy said: “It always makes it more difficult when you don’t have somebody inside
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Mob and the Senate Scandal
Golly. When I compared the Harper Cons to a cult last night, I forgot to mention one thing eh?They're are a cult. But they are strongly influenced by The Sopranos .Where if you get in financial trouble, Tony tells you to go see Vinnie in the back room, and he'll cut you
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory: lessons from B.C. for NDPers everywhere
Just to set the mood, it’s Left-Leaning B.C. Premiers Day on Alberta Diary. Here’s your blogger with some former NDP premiers from that province – Dave Barrett above, Mike Harcourt and Ujjal Dosanjh below. No one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory quite like the New Democrats in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Eatin’ Bugs
Insects will be a staple food on Mars and other space colonies. Paul Pardee : Lets have the delegates to the UN have a bug banquet to show their support of entomophagy. I know that support from political leaders would help. I’m sure having the Obamas munching on some meal
Continue readingBuckdog: Yo! … The Duffer ….
After reading the following article .. much of what’s happening with Senator Duffy suddenly became very clear. 1) Some of the claimed ‘Senate business’ expense claims filed by Mr. Duffy may well have been for travel to and from Conservative Party fundraising events around the country. (We don’t know and can’t
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Sentence appeals
R. v. Lu, 2013 ONCA 324 holds: [37] Before dealing with these submissions, it is important to recall the role of an appellate court when reviewing a sentencing decision. Appellate courts are to grant sentencing judges considerable deference when reviewing the fitness of a sentence. They are to interfere only where the sentence is
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Chickening Out On Change
“Well this is awkward” We’ve been reminded this week that an 8-point lead in the dying days of an election campaign is about as safe as a 2-goal lead in the final 90 seconds of a playoff hockey game. Never take anything for granted. Despite leading by between 2 to
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5999…End National Debt: Tax Hipsters
An American poll done by and printed at http://www.publicpolicypolling.com tells the world, or at least our part of the world, what we already knew. We are sooooooooooooooo over hipsters. “Just 16% of Americans have a favorable opinion of hipsters…27% of voters said they thought hipsters should be subjected to a special tax
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pierre Poilievre Does It* Again
If you start at about the 5 minute mark, you will witness Harper’s pet parrot Pierre, through endless repetition, parody a Member of Parliament actually answering a question and showing respect for Canadians’ intelligence. * Show an absolute absence of anything that could be even remotely interpreted as integrity. Recommend
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Five Lessons — Real and Imagined — from BC’s Election Results
In a stunning upset of “Dewey Defeats Truman” proportions, the BC Liberals have defied all the polls save one and returned to power with a fourth straight majority government. No doubt, there will be much soul searching and wound licking over the coming weeks. I believe that five lessons —
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5998…Map Of Hate
I grabbed this off of venturebeat.com and wanted to share it with you. It was put together by students at Cali’s Humboldt University. They went through 150,000 Tweets to put together a map of hate. “The data that forms the map comes from an analysis of every tweet posted between June
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