Author: RossK

. ….Coolin’ Up The Old Guy (v.XXIX) My oldest kid was out late last night. No music-making this time though. Instead, she went to a student rally with both her own kind (ie. the anglos), and, I would imagine, all those other kids (ie. the francos). The languageing went fine,

TheSenatorFromLowerCharlatanHasTheFloor PuffmasterFlashingVille HUACeeeeeee! I, for one, am sure glad that has been cleared up…. **** What the heckfire am I talking about this time? Well…. It would appear that Mr. Mike Duffy has made it clear that the latest hearing by the chamber of (nolongerso) sober second thought is not

Didn’tThesePeopleBlowTheirWad Shillin’ForTheHSTVille ….To Get The Lotuslandian ProMedia’s Attention …(Phil) Hochstein said his (Contruction Company Lobby) group didn’t consult with the Liberals on the ad, and he defends the allegation that Dix “forged” the memo (to protect his former boss, then Premier Glen Clark). “Someone backdates a memo in a criminal

AllOurBillionsThatFit BundleThis!Ville Bob Mackin reckons the Campbell/Clark Government just may have pulled another billion dollar fast-one for a friendly: Did the British Columbia government botch another billion-dollar deal? Some of the biggest companies in Canada think so and this may ultimately be at the root of the cancellation of the

MsChristyYouMakeGoodSnooki SoundBiteORamaLlamaDingDongVille Imagine hearing the following shouted, word-by-word, in talk jockette-shrieker mode: “Now!….We!!….Have a chance!!!…To build!!!!…..INDIA!!!!” Christy Clark, speaking to 3rdPlace CKNW About Her Plans To Open 3 Trade Offices In the ‘Punjab’, Mar 12/12 Taken at face value, the sound bite, which seems to have only been picked up

SomeThingsActuallyDoReallyMatter MunicipalGovernanceVille It’s the Affordable Housing Task Force, and FABula has the first report card on their goings on: …At top of mind is the 1989 decision by then-mayor Gordon Campbell to provide discounted city land to the Vancouver Land Corporation or VLC Properties – a company created by his

What’sTheFrequencyKenneth JustGuelph?Ville …A Real Breakthrough, Or The Next Limited Hangout? A woman who identified herself on the phone as Michael Sona’s mother implied that she thinks it just might be the latter when she spoke to the Ottawa Citizen as reported by Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor: …“To me, it’s

BC’sVeryBest CitizenJournalistVille I first first noticed this lady who called herself ‘BC Mary’ on the comment threads at ‘The Tyee’. For all kinds of reasons. And not just because we had similar world views. Instead, what really interested me was the way she engaged the other commenters on those raucous

AllTheLovelyThatFits MusicalityVille This showed up in my mailbox the other day. Thirty-eight thousand gold stars. At the very, very least. .

NobodyKnows LikeUncleDaveKnowsVille It seems to me that David Berner has both the up-close-and-personal view as well as the big picture view just about right when he talks about the demise of The Playhouse in Vancouver: …Membership subscriptions dropped from 8,000 to 4,500? That’s not my fault or the city’s…. {snippety

. Here’s the full list, just because it’s kinda/sorta hard to find all in one place: What: National Day of Action Against Election FraudWhen: Sunday, March 11th, 2012Where: Pre-planned rallies at sites nationwide. See list of major rallies below. British Columbia: Vancouver, BC: Rally outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre at

AllTheRabbleRousingThatFits WithSeanGoneVille I don’t like to whack Mr. Holman’s rabble-rousers. Because they often have lots of interesting stuff to say. Stuff that I don’t know. Which is pretty darn rare these days. Not because I’m so smart. But rather because Lotuslandian broadcast media has become so dumb. But…. This morning

. ShindigForDemocracy RockTheCasbahVille And yes, the original ‘Pogue Mahone’ post from Mr. Maher has now been disappeared. Thus…. We regret any and all previous suggest-o-grams that may have been interpreted as something like, oh, I dunno, the vague possibility that Mr Maher may have been targeted for removal from the

ThroughTheRain TheSnowTheWindTheRainVille From his show Friday night at the Apollo Theatre…. …Mr. Springsteen, who is 62, sang the lead parts of those (soul) songs while wading into the audience, climbing up on a balcony and dancing on a lighting truss protruding from the mezzanine above the crowd. He climbed down

There’sNoUkeLike CoverUkeVille First, The Original…Because…Well….You know… And now the Uke Cover…Phonetically…. **** And, as a special bonus, an Uke original, just, well, because Mr. Manning himself brought up the issue of all that is bad (but not conservative in the least, no siree, ma’am) down South at the moment…. ____

ThisIsWhat(A)Democracy(Centre) LooksLikeVille Our third installment of ‘What Preston Said’ about voter suppression during yesterday’s media blizzard of all things ‘Centre For Building Democracy’ that served as the prelude for today’s stalking horse push-back bots from the likes of the soon-to-be Senator from NaPo: …“If you try to link these things

AllTheInvestigationsThatFit Self-CorrectingTeleMarketerVille A Conservative-linked phone campaign to voters in Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s Montreal riding has prompted the industry association for market research firms to move ahead with a complaint resolution panel. The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association is striking a panel on Campaign Research, the firm that handles voter

ThisIsWhat(A)Democracy(Centre) LooksLikeVille Mr. Preston Manning, speaking about Robocalls and more at the retreat of the ‘Democracy’ centre that bears his name yesterday: …“If you try to link these things to any one party, it’s a mistake,” Mr. Manning said. “If you just target the solutions at one party … this

ThisIsWhatADemocracyCentre LooksLikeVille First, what Mr. Fryer, the public administrator guy from UVIC, did do… He apologized and made it clear that his statements were not meant to suggest that two very fine folks, and the even finer ‘Campaign Research’ group, have done anything illegal or unethical. To wit: Campaign Research

ThisIsWhatDemocracy LooksLike(?)Ville …“I’ve spent my life trying to get people to participate more in the political system and trying to vote more,” he (Preston Manning) told reporters on the sidelines of a conservative conference sponsored by his Manning Centre for Building Democracy. “And the fact that there would be people