Tipping is terrible. It’s too complicated, and it’s an excuse for employers to underpay people who work in service jobs like waiting and housekeeping. Employers have learned that people are less likely to use a service if the true cost is honest and up-front. This is also why GST/HST is added after the price tag […]
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fox News Bullies Children
How old does someone have to be for Fox News to consider a person fair game for their media smear machine? Answer: Not even a teenager.
They didn’t like these kids expressing their willingness to dance on camera for a better political future.
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Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives: Doing Pork-barrel by the Book
An election issue that was overlooked by the electorate was the G8 spending by Tony Clement, a minister in Harper’s cabinet. Tony is very active on Twitter, he’s practically the Monte Solberg of social media (Monte a Conservative who had a popular blog until it was suggested by Harper that he axe it). There are […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Toronto and Ottawa
From Church St. looking northish. View from our hotel room. We paid a little extra over the Hotwire price to get this room, but it was worth it. Security blanket Harper I can’t have this photo, it’s a library. Saskatchewan in Parliament Harper in photos in Parliament Elizabeth May’s seat in Parliament. It’s number 309. […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bank of America Gets Foreclosed
This is the feel-good story of the year. A couple, and a rookie lawyer, kick BoA in the ‘holdings’. If it doesn’t play, you want The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : August 8, 2011 from The Pirate Bay. And you will want to watch this clip. Your life will be less fulfilled if you […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: So Angry
Are you so angry you’d: a- consider bombing a plane? b- leak a secret classified document? c- vote for Jason Kenney? d- all of the above? If you answered d-, you’re a Muslim man who has been accused and terror blacklisted, CSIS employed, Conservative. In other words, your life is shitty and effed-up by hate. […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Northern Lights August 5 and 6th
Nicole, Alvil, April, and I went a few minutes out of Regina on Dewdney Ave. last night, and got many photographs of the aurora from the massive solar storm that was hitting the planet’s magnetosphere and other above-ground interactive surfaces to produce a thrilling light show. The whispy lights were visible to the south of […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Nuclear Insurance Fraud
Have you wondered why so many people oppose nuclear power generation when there are so many ads claiming there’s a “nuclear Renaissance” and that it’s “green” or “sustainable” and free of greenhouse gas emissions? There are smart people like George Monbiot, and even my dad who think there’s room for nuclear power on our grid. […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: That Blows
Wow,big thunderstorm last night. A lightning photo if mine was featured on http://cjme.com/story/best-web-regina-trembles-under-massively-violent-storm/16966
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Little Bit of This
Politics in North America are not going too well in my opinion. I don’t know many people happy with how it’s turning out either, which makes the election(s) this Fall all the worse because few are optimistic about the results then too. It’s no wonder so many bail out of taking any responsibility for the […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #OpPayPal to End WikiLeaks Blockade
WikiLeaks is an organization of journalists who publish whistleblower leaks of documents from corrupt governments and corporations. PayPal is an eBay company who quickly caved to US State Department threats, and cut off a source of funding to WikiLeaks. I’ve closed my PayPal account in protest, with thousands of others. This has had a negative […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Flight
April and I are on our way home from Halifax. We woke up at 4;15 to catch the shuttle, which after a short cab ride to catch it was probably not a better deal for two adults going to the airport, than a cab would have been. I slept through most of the five hour […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Haunted Friday
On Friday April and I went to Kensington and its haunted mansion. It’s a historic house from the 1800s, redone into a haunted house and theme park with rides. The best parts were the gardens though. As we got to the end of the outdoor part, the sky opened up and it started to pour. […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Harry Potter in Syndey
Just after looking at the Sydney tar ponds, April and I watched another sort of dark magic: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ [8/10]. I even had to stand in a lineup in the theatre for a few minutes. The crowd seemed to like it, and it was okay, but made for fans […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PEI and Nova Scotia
Today we ate lunch at the Red Shoe Pub, owned by the Rankin Family sisters. We drove down the coast of Cape Breton to the PEI ferry at Caribou. Here is the sunset from Whale Cove Campground on Digby Neck. It’s a nice campsite, and the owners, the Tidds are nice people. We met Vaughn’s […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fight Fox
It’s the crime story of the decade, and maybe as important as Wikileaks. Help take down News Corp. to limit the power of Murdoch. The following is an email from Avazz: – Wow! In just a few days almost 10000 of us have donated to take on Murdoch’s global media empire! Let’s turn the scandal […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Montreal
April and I showed up in Montreal yesterday afternoon, after a few nights in Ottawa. While in the capital, we toured Parliament, and I saw Elizabeth May’s desk, tucked away in the back corner away from the Speaker’s chair. I also used Bixi bikes at $5/24hours to get over to Hull quickly, and took a […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ottawa
April and I woke to the Changing of the Guard ceremony out our sunny hotel window on the 25th floor. Last night was a thunderstorm with some clouds that looked threatening. Saturday we got a day pass and went to the Rideau Centre and April asked for a Playbook in the Apple Store. We caught […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ontario
Flew to Toronto on Monday morning, and slept along the way, still only giving me a few hours of sleep, as I was wound up and doing chores I hadn’t done due to wedding preparations. Rented a car downtown after taking the TTC, and went back to the airport to pick up our friend who […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wedding
Note the Saskatchewan and Roughtider flags over the wedding? The Imperial March was my entrance music. No, I forgot to do Live Long and Prosper in my vows.
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