In honour of the annual talk like a pirate day:
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Bouquets of Gray: Moving to Canada…
… to escape socialized medicine? hmmm.
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: apropos of nothing
Aggregators aggregate and make it easier for me to find interesting blog posts from a variety of sources. Belonging to one does not need to imply approval of other blogs; the removal of a blog from the aggregators that I regularly means that I might miss its posts. That makes
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Gay marriage was a slippery slope after all
Same-sex marriage is a slippery slope. A Sens fan marrying a Leafs fan? Abomination..
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Swedish Government Recognizes File-Sharing Faith as a Religion Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/gear-up/swedish-government-recogn
From Rollingstone: The Church of Kopimism, a new faith focused on file-sharing, has been officially recognized as a religion by the Swedish government. The church developed from the Young Pirates, a young movement of the Pirate Party in Sweden, who have pushed for the free flow of information online.
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Two guitar players missed
BCL (and others) have been discussing Rolling Stone’s recent list of the top guitarists, pointing out glaring omissions, including Django Rheinhardt. Here are another two who were somehow passed over.
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: The dog barking that keeps you awake at night…
… is not what you think.
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Orwell as Nostradamus
George Orwell, 1984: “She had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Estimating crowd sizes
There has been rather different estimates of how many people are in this picture: The CBC report that the police estimated this crowd at 5000 (here); Lifesite claimed 15,000 (here), and the National Post, 20,000 (here). Crowd estimation isn’t too difficult a business. The basic procedure is to multiply the
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Strategic voting in Ontario
There has been some talk about strategic voting. Here are my suggestions for how strategic voters might best cast their ballots in Ontario. These are cases where incumbants are vulnerable and there does seem to be a three way race. Ten ridings where strategic voters should vote Liberal Eglinton–Lawrence, where
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: How much access does neo-nazi psychopath have to Conservative data
The ARC points out that Michelle Lisson (aka Michelle Erstikaitis), pictured right, seems to be working for Toronto Centre Conservative candidate, Kevin Moore. (Confirmed by BCL; see also DrDawg) Two questions. First, does Kevin Moore know this about Ms. Erstikaitis/Lisson: TORONTO — A disturbed and violent convict who idolizes sex
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Don’t piss Ezra off, PETA
Or the kitten gets it.
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Is Conservative Wally Daudrich against government health care?
Conservative Candidate in Churchill Wally Daudrich is providing some interesting fodder for bloggers: BCL: What Is Wally Doing? BCL: More Wally Daudrich Janet: Did the Con candidate Willy Daudrich learn creative writing from TeaParty? Indeed, I’ve already pointed out a few eye-brow raisers from Wally’s facebook page: Bouquets: Is Conservative
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Is Conservative Wally Daudrich a Tea Partier?
Yesterday BigCity Liberal posted twice on Wally Daudrich, Conservative Candidate in Churchill: What Is Wally Doing? More Wally Daudrich I see now that deBeauxOs has also noticed Daudrich, asking Did the Con candidate Wally Daudrich learn creative writing from TeaParty? The answer, apparently, is yes. His facebook page (which is
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Conservative Wally Daudrich calls the NDP communists
Yesterday BigCity Liberal posted twice on Wally Daudrich, Conservative Candidate in Churchill: What Is Wally Doing? More Wally Daudrich We can add to this Glen McGregor at the Ottawa Citizen criticizes Wally Daudrich, for red-baiting in attacking his NDP opponent, Nikki Ashton, as a “Chinese educated socialist”. The implication is
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Marty Burke: Not there for you, Guelph students!
Instead he’s apparently sent an operative to keep you from voting.
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