Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, when I seen this here pitcher of ol’ Johnny Baird eyeballin’ Petey MacKay, I figgered it was cryin’ out fer a caption contest. It ain’t much of a contest on accounta there ain’t any prizes. Here’s a couple to start it off. “Hmmmm… Why is
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Bouquets of Gray: The dog barking that keeps you awake at night…
… is not what you think.
Continue readingKing of the Shiners: In Defence of the Senate
Seems everyone is fed up with the Senate. With Harper having a steel grip on power in Ottawa and doing all he can to circumvent scrutiny over the purse strings, it seems like a heck of a time to get rid of the only actual House on the Hill that
Continue readingAnnouncement: Slight change to the voting system
I’ve made a slight change to the voting system. Some people have issues with the 1-5 voting rating stars system, thinking it is too much set up as an adversarial system. I’ve gone to something I’ve found that is the most similar to the old voting system we had. With
Continue readingmike watkins dot ca: Vancouver Riot 2011: Apologies Not Accepted
To you, it’s just a fight. To me, it’s the ER social worker looking for a teddybear to console a 4 year old girl because she just witnessed her dad get a broken nose as he was trying to get his daughter out of the hotzone. Nurse on duty at
Continue readingThe Global Express: Rex Murphy on Vancouver Riot
Only in Vancouver would you see a riot after a hockey defeat. Afterall, Libyans are being killed by fighter jets, so how do we justify the actions that had taken place? Rex Murphy (in this video) give his expressive opinion on the mindless riot that took place.
Continue readingdjkelly.ca: CBC Radio column: RIM stock dives, what’s next for the BlackBerry maker?
It looks like my predictions about Blockbuster and RIM are coming true. In this alberta@noon column on CBC Radio One with host Donna McElligott I discuss what options are available to Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, in the shadow of a massive stock price drop. We talk about
Continue readingKing of the Shiners: While the Opposition slept…
With the NDP (edit: busy) deciding to not not stop being socialists and the Liberals taking their first step in renewal by putting off renewal for two years it seems as though the job of holding the Harper government to account has fallen to twitter. Also, PMO hides its expenses,
Continue readingmike watkins dot ca: MIA: Federal NDP Constitution
A number of times this year I’ve gone looking for the federal NDP constitution on-line, with no success. During or before the last federal election the party pulled the constitution document from its website – perhaps it was never there. The most recent copy of the document I’ve been able
Continue readingThe Wandering Joe: Hello world!
Welcome to my new blog (which will be kind of similar to my old blog). I need some time to put the theme together so for now you won’t see any content posting. With any luck I’ll make my first post by next Sunday. As you can probably tell by
Continue readingKing of the Shiners: The Globe stops trying
I know, I know, “they were trying?”. But check out the photo accompanying this Curry article on Rait, hero to the working class. Will they name this one “Riot”?
Continue readingBouquets of Gray: Orwell as Nostradamus
George Orwell, 1984: “She had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it
Continue readingmike watkins dot ca: Riot Reportage
Vancouver Police have crowd-sourced the identification of suspects. Check out: http://www.identifyrioters.com/ Must-read coverage from an individual: In the belly of Vancouver’s hockey riot Posted by Emily Elias on Thursday, June 16, 2011 I now know how long it takes for a car to become fully engulfed in flames. That’s something
Continue readingredjenny: Of Plastic Bags and Things
As described in this article, Rwanda is one of several places in the world that has banned plastic bags. Kigali, the capital of Rwanda is a beautiful and clean African city (I was highly impressed when I visited last year). This is due in part to the plastic bag ban.
Continue readingKing of the Shiners: Inspiring stuff…
Craig Oliver writes: Two of the party’s most impressive leaders laid it out best. Preston Manning and Jason Kenney set out their vision of “managerial Conservatism.” Manning insisted Canadians were not interested in a government that is building monuments or seeking great visions. What they are looking for, in his
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: The Canadian Economy’s Strange Success
On Friday, Statscan reported that the Canadian economy added another 22,000 jobs in May and that the unemployment rate fell to 7.4%. The economy grew in the first quarter at a healthy annualized clip of 3.9% and according again to statscan it did so in all the right way. Huge
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Sunday Conservapedia*
*Because reality has a “liberal bias” Age Of The Earth “The Age of the Earth has been a matter of interest to humans for millennia, and today still causes debate, particularly between young-Earth scientists, who see much evidence that the Earth is only about 6 thousand or so years old;
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Revisionist Revere and The Nuclear Threshold.
Half-term governor turned facebookin’ an’ tweetin’ an’ reality teevee-in’ star Sarah Palin once again found herself being set up by the “lamestream media” when some reporter asked her (I shit you not) the “gotcha question” of what she learnedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif during her visit to Paul Revere’s house. What the “librul state-run-media”
Continue readingKing of the Shiners: Jealous…
of folks back home in Ottawa… sort of. On the one hand, I’ve always wanted to see Great Big Sea do a Canada Day show on the Hill. On the other hand, the RCMP completely dropped the ball on crowd control for the Queen’s visit. With Will and Kate making
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