From GQ: The Least Influential People Of 2016 – everyone from Anthony Weiner to Ryan Lochte, from Hillary Clinton to A Rod…. And don’t miss DB Wong’s chicken wing instructional video at the end.
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Cathie from Canada: Merry Christmas
And from the oddest Christmas special of all time: According to co-writer Ian Fraser, Bowie balked at singing “Little Drummer Boy”: “I hate this song. Is there something else I could sing?”, Fraser recalls Bowie telling him. Fraser, along with songwriter Larry Grossman and the special’s scriptwriter, Buz Kohan, then
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From GQ: The Least Influential People Of 2016 – everyone from Anthony Weiner to Ryan Lochte, from Hillary Clinton to A Rod…. And don’t miss DB Wong’s chicken wing instructional video at the end.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Merry Christmas
And from the oddest Christmas special of all time: According to co-writer Ian Fraser, Bowie balked at singing “Little Drummer Boy”: “I hate this song. Is there something else I could sing?”, Fraser recalls Bowie telling him. Fraser, along with songwriter Larry Grossman and the special’s scriptwriter, Buz Kohan, then
Continue readingCathie from Canada: And I missed the fall, too
Well, I thought at the end of August that I was recovering but instead I just kept on getting sicker and sicker. Finally I went into hospital the third week of September, followed by immediate surgery to begin to deal with an obstructed bowel, followed by a seven-week hospital recovery.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: And I missed the fall, too
Well, I thought at the end of August that I was recovering but instead I just kept on getting sicker and sicker. Finally I went into hospital the third week of September, followed by immediate surgery to begin to deal with an obstructed bowel, followed by a seven-week hospital recovery.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: The year without a summer
So I got sick in early July, and I am finally just recovering now — just the flu, originally, but then I couldn’t eat anything, then got diverticulosis — awful — and I’m finally just coming out of it now. I’m still not eating normally, but I can see a
Continue readingCathie from Canada: The year without a summer
So I got sick in early July, and I am finally just recovering now — just the flu, originally, but then I couldn’t eat anything, then got diverticulosis — awful — and I’m finally just coming out of it now. I’m still not eating normally, but I c…
Continue readingCathie from Canada: The year without a summer
So I got sick in early July, and I am finally just recovering now — just the flu, originally, but then I couldn’t eat anything, then got diverticulosis — awful — and I’m finally just coming out of it now. I’m still not eating normally, but I c…
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m back!
Sorry for the lack of posts — I had too much going on in “real” life, for a change.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m back!
Sorry for the lack of posts — I had too much going on in “real” life, for a change.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m back!
Sorry for the lack of posts — I had too much going on in “real” life, for a change.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m a patriot too
What is the matter with these people? In spite of all the positive talk at the Conservative convention, the Conservatives haven’t changed a bit.
Harper isn’t at their head anymore, but he’s still their leader in their hearts.
Today, the CPC is doing whatever it can to obstruct a dying MP from making a picayune, sensible and long-overdue change to our national anthem:
Time is of the essence for the MP {Mauril Belanger], who was diagnosed with ALS last fall and whose health has deteriorated over the past few weeks. But his determination to see Bill C-210 pass is inspiring people from inside and outside his party to support him.
After question period Thursday, government whip Andrew Leslie sought the unanimous consent of MPs to allow the bill — which would change the line “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command,” making it gender-neutral — to proceed under the whip’s name to take some of the pressure off Bélanger.
Enough Tory MPs shouted their objection to deny unanimous consent for Leslie’s motion.
Oooh — changing “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command” obviously demands nation-wide hearings, according to CPC.
Personally, I’ve always hated that wording in the national anthem, it was a minor but definite insult to every woman in the country.
And there is nothing particularly sacred about the English version of O Canada. The song was originally written in French in 1880, and it was more than 25 years before several versions of English lyrics were written. The line used to read “thou dost in us command”. The “all thy sons command” version was introduced in 1914 — likely with the idea of supporting the troops in WWI.
But “True patriot love in all of us command” is the way O Canada should always have been translated, so I’m glad Belanger wants to change it. And its the kind of change that would never happen except as someone’s dying wish, because in the larger scheme of things, it is just so supremely unimportant that it would never rise to the top of any government agenda.
I’m glad its getting done at last.
Cathie from Canada: I’m a patriot too
What is the matter with these people? In spite of all the positive talk at the Conservative convention, the Conservatives haven’t changed a bit.Harper isn’t at their head anymore, but he’s still their leader in their hearts. Today, the CPC is doing w…
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m a patriot too
What is the matter with these people? In spite of all the positive talk at the Conservative convention, the Conservatives haven’t changed a bit.Harper isn’t at their head anymore, but he’s still their leader in their hearts. Today, the CPC is doing whatever it can to obstruct a dying MP
Continue readingCathie from Canada: On this historic night
BREAKING: @AP finds Clinton reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president pic.twitter.com/e473F0G4vX— The Associated Press (@AP) June 7, 2016I am woman, hear me roar in numbers to great to ignoreThis is my f…
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BREAKING: @AP finds Clinton reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president pic.twitter.com/e473F0G4vX— The Associated Press (@AP) June 7, 2016
I am woman, hear me roar in numbers to great to ignore
This is my fight song
Sail on Silver Girl…your time has come to shine.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: On this historic night
BREAKING: @AP finds Clinton reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president pic.twitter.com/e473F0G4vX — The Associated Press (@AP) June 7, 2016 I am woman, hear me roar in numbers to great to ignore This is my fight song Sail on Silver Girl…your time has come
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Endorsing Trump is like tying a rotting fish around your neck
I loved this comment at Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Endorsing Trump is like tying an already “whiffy” dead fish around your neck – it’s already going off, and it will just smell worse and worse, until, finally , people are disgusted to be around you. And then you have to answer the inevitable questions – Why would you tie a dead fish around your neck? Didn’t you know it would smell? Don’t you know fish goes off? Do you like the smell of rotting fish? Do you believe in wearing rotting fish? What’s wrong with you…..? But the worst thing is after weeks, you personally will no longer be able to smell the fish – it will be normal to you – and people will have to yell at you, “you smell of rotting fish! You’re disgusting!”
And finally when you want to take it off – “yech, you still smell of rotting fish … get out of here.” And once you remove the fish, you’ll start to smell it again, in your clothes, your furniture, your car – and you’ll be mortified. And before anyone will let you back into polite company you’ll have to burn your entire wardrobe, disinfect or reupholster the remaining furniture, and you’ll always have to deal with people worried about your taste for the smell of rotting fish.
That’s exactly what the Republicans are now finding out.
Even Harper wasn’t as bad, and that’s saying something.
Cathie from Canada: Endorsing Trump is like tying a rotting fish around your neck
I loved this comment at Lawyers, Guns and Money: Endorsing Trump is like tying an already “whiffy” dead fish around your neck – it’s already going off, and it will just smell worse and worse, until, finally , people are disgusted to be around you. And then you have to
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