Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I just wanna share another little slice o’ rural life with all my erudite readers. I was out on an errand the other day an’ I spotted this here bigass field chock full o’ ripe pumpkins ’bout as far as the eye could see. …
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JimBobby Sez: Bad Focus, A Leading Question and Wedge Politics
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, today’s the day our gummint goes back to work after another 13 week vacation. While the MPs were away from the House, “a total of $14 billion (has) been added to our national debt.” Every poll in the past year or more ha…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Intimidation, Stifling Dissent and Police State Tactics
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, the past day or so I seen a few news items that really got my goat. Seems like our home and native land is slidin’ down the slippery slope to totalitarianism. The G20 thing gave the slip-slide a bigass shove an’ the situ…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: "Stay Calm, Be Brave, and Watch for the Signs"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I gave my ol’ blog a facelift yesterday so I’m all inspired an’ I figgered I’d enlighten my thousands an’ thousands o’ readers with some rural culture. Something I seen yesterday was ol’ Pitbull Baird runnin’ his stoopid…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Were NDP MPs Listening to Ol’ JimBobby?
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, a coupla days ago, I posted up a blog story on how I’d written to a buncha NDP MPs an’ to Jack Layton, too, tellin’ ’em they need to vote to keep the gun registry if they want a hope in hell of fixin’ it. The comments se…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Dear NDP Member of Parliament,
Whooee! Well, friend an’ foes, I just sent an email to a few NDP MPs via an online thingamajig that lets you send it automagically. The online tool has a pre-written letter that you can sign but you can change it or write yer own letter in the space pr…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Green Party Unity
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I spent the weekend at the Green Party convention down in the centre of the universe. I had the pleasure of meetin’ Sylvie Lemieux, a gal from up Ottawa way who was lookin’ to challenge Earth Mother Lizzie May fer the le…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Ballad of Fake Lake – Updated with Video
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I posted up the lyrics yesterday an’ now I got the audio-video with ol’ JB screechin’ an’ a few pertinent pitchers.The Ballad of Fake LakeThe legend lives on from Toronto on downOf a six inch deep pond they call Fake Lak…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Ballad of Fake Lake (Edmund Fitzgerald)
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Susan Delacourt put up a twitterin’ tweet how she’d like to see some new lyrics to ol’ Gord Lightfoot’s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald with a theme all about the G20 Fake Lake. Since I got me a little experience in r…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: The Problem With Taxpayer Funded Social Media
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, the twitterverse and blogdom is finally sittin’ up and takin’ notice that our gummint is paying for favourable postings in various social media. There was a story on it over the weekend: Harper government monitoring onli…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: MP Expenses Scandal: Grassroots Outrage or Media Invention
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I like the discussions that take place over at Steve V’s Far and Wide. They’re mostly Grits but they tolerate my Green-tinged rants and the partisanship doesn’t permeate the conversation as much as on some other blogs. T…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Green Party Calls for MPs to Open Expenses to Auditor-General
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Earth Mother Lizzie May put out a press release this morning and she’s on the money a hunnert percent’s worth, sez I.Greens call for transparency17 May 2010 – 10:26amThe Green Party of Canada pledges full support for the…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: JimBobby Sings "Hey There, Guergis Girl"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I ain’t been boogin’ too much lately but I got me a new song that I just posted up on the YouTube an’ it’s all about pore little Helena Guergis: Hey There, Guergis Girl.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Harper (once again) displays dangerous ignorance on nuclear file
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Pryminister Harper was up on his hindlegs yammerin’ about nuclear safety an’ how Canada’s gonna help save the world by sendin’ 50% of our stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU, i.e. weapons-grade uranium) over to the…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Good News! Gordon Lightfoot Lives!
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I had a tribute post up here when I heard that a great Canadian, Gordon Lightfoot, had died. It was all over Twitter and was in some big news outlets, too. I ain’t kiddin’ when I say I had tears runnin’ down my face when…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Harper’s Haiti Trip – Please, MSM, Don’t Go. Don’t Take Photos
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Pryminister Harper is off to Haiti today. The official announcements say he’s going there to assess the relief effort. Over at Steve V’s Far and Wide, there’s a lot of skepticism and at least one commenter who says Harpe…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Bombshell! Forces Downplaying Canadian Afghan War Casualties
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, there’s an old saying that the first casualty of war is the truth. Sadly, that adage is proving to be accurate with regard to the Canadian Forces’ release of information on casualties in the Afghanistan conflict. The Hil…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: It’s All About Torture. Don’t Let Anyone Forget.
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Steve over at Far and Wide has a post about the polls and how bad ol’ King Steve is doin’ an’ is the trend gonna continue. I left a bigass comment there an’ I’m saving’ energy by recycling that comment here.We all saw t…
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