This why I’m glad Canada has reasonably restrictive gun laws and doesn’t have the cowboy shoot’em up culture of our southern neighbour.
I just got off the phone with a very patient and overworked gentleman from the Employment Insurance office. Apparent…
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the woodshed: Lennon circa 1965 would have dropped him like a bad habit
Seriously, I hope John Lennon’s ghost lays a first-class haunting on Stephen Harper.
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Hard to watch
Footage shot in Minamisanriku, a town of about 20,000 more or less erased by the March 11 tsunami. So far only about half of the residents have been found alive. My in-laws live about 30 km inland from here.
It sorta puts stories about Donald Trump …
Continue readingthe woodshed: In which it is revealed that I am now a best-selling author and a new Spiritual Leader of the Moment(tm) is crowned
Our Man in Abiko, who laboured at the same Great Metropolitan Newspaper that I did for many years, though at a different time than I, is someone I have known slightly for some time now. I came across his eponymous blog looking for other expat blogger…
Continue readingthe woodshed: I can’t keep giving these ideas away for free
Or should I assume that my campaign consultant fee is in the mail? See end of third bullet point. What took you so long?
I’ll try to find better pictures later, but for now, via @ShirleeEngle
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Mop & Pail spots emperor walking streets naked
That bastion of Marxism and vanguard of the glorious revolution of the proletariat, The Globe and Mail, today brings us a story so shocking, a truth so revealing that it if absorbed by the general populace, will shake our economic and political firma…
Continue readingthe woodshed: Harper speaks!
Highminded and objective? Maybe not. Fair and accurate? You betcha!
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the woodshed: Virtually Speaking Sundays: Maple Syrup Edition
VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAY APRIL 3
A Counterpoint to the Sunday Morning Talking Heads
@4pm pacific|7pm eastern – DAN ELLSBERG & GLENN GREENWALD: WikiLeaks, the abuse of Bradley Manning and the future of civil liberties in the U.S. Listen here
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Continue readingthe woodshed: election notebook
Some random thoughts on the election:
Stephen Harper, who not so long ago touted himself as the champion of “open and accountable” government, will only answer five questions a day on the campaign trail, and two of them have to be in French and one fr…
Continue readingthe woodshed: Irony is not only dead, but its corpse had been desecrated
The young girl has a lovely voice, yes, but seeing Stephen Harper sing this song is like watching David Duke sing “We Shall Overcome.” Someone who was disappointed we didn’t get to play in the Iraq sandbox and is destroying our fiscal security to buy…
Continue readingthe woodshed: this week on Virtually Speaking
Coming up this week on Virtually Speaking:
• Stuart Zechman | Jay Ackroyd on VS A-Z. Ongoing rants and explorations of liberalism. This week: the Disinformation Regime|Listen live here, on Thursday, March 31 @ 8pm edt|5pm pdt | Listen here…
Continue readingthe woodshed: What if?
What if George Lucas had been a seven-year-old Japanese girl?
hat tip to Gaijin Hero
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