Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

Dead explorer and #ihategarybettman edition! =================================================================================== Every now and then – though rarely – The Head Robot of this fair land does something that I actually agree with.  It hurts to admit it, but yes. It is true. Such is the case with Stevie’s announcement that he is throwing oodles

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Trashy's World: Gone AWOL..

…stolen, actually. One glass top patio table. Eight years old. Grey metal frame with some rust accents. Missing since Sunday night. Answers to “Patty”. We had used it for the street party on Sunday. There was a  big downpour afterward and we just moved it back about 8 feet from

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

…Free Pussy Riot edition! Just learned that Pussy Riot, the chick punkers who have been in detention in Russia for performing an anti-Putin song in a church, have been declared guilty of hooliganism! What a travesty! This is typical of Putin’s imperial Russia, and it also shows the power of

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

… summer doldrums edition… +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I hate guns. I really do. And I did long before all of this tragic shit that has gone down in Scarborough and now in Colorado. Don’t give me that crap about gun ownership being a right or not having to worry about lawful owners

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

Wanna know what climate change “looks like”? Well, here you go: Extreme weather events are textbook examples of an effect that an overall warming of the planet will have. But since at least 1988, climate scientists have warned that climate change would bring, in general, increased heat waves, more droughts,

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

Happy Canada Day edition! ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— About these “Harper Hates Me” buttons – I’m coming down on this issue on a side that you might not expect… Public servants who got in trouble for wearing “Stephen Harper Hates Me” buttons to work are fighting back. Several employees at the Canada Revenue

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

… absenteeism, heat and, of course, the Del Mastro edition.. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There is a lot of talk around this “leaked” document purportedly (I say purportedly, because very few have actually seen it) showing that public servant absenteeism is a BIG problem costing Canadians GAZILLIONS of $$$’s a year!!! The Sixth

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Trashy's World: Friday, er… Saturday, er, SUNDAY miscellany…

Queen, hockey, Hoedown, shopping and soccer edition! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Oh brother… the world’s fave in-bred family is celebrating something again. Yay. Revellers in London are getting ready for today’s big celebration marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Up to a million people are expected to flock to the banks of the River

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Trashy's World: He has gone…

… to where the wild things are… Maurice Sendak, the author of the children’s classic “Where the Wild Things Are” has died at the ripe old age of 83. Great memories of reading this to all of my kids. My favorite lines: THAT VERY NIGHT IN MAX’S ROOM A FOREST

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

… no particular theme edition… ================================================================================== A big problem with social media is that it gives idiots, racists, bigots, misogynists, etc., a tool to spew their ignorant venom. And such was the case the other night after Joel Ward scored in OT to knock the Bruins put of the NHL

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

Jason Kenney edition. Is Jason Kenney Canada’s Joseph McCarthy? I think so… OTTAWA — New Democratic Party MP Don Davies says it never occurred to him when he innocuously snapped a photo at an anti-racism march in Vancouver last month that he would suddenly become the latest target in an

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

… complete with Dippers, Lisa Raitt, Ashley (boo-yaa) Madison! And fish trafficking too! —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The NDP leadership convention is this weekend and NDPers from across the nation are flocking to the land of the Toronto Blue Jays (used to be the Leafs) to choose and bless the leader to replace

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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…

Encyclopaedia Britannica edition… Bye-bye to that venerable institution. I remember when my parents bought a set from a door-to-door salesman. I went through every single page! But the truth is that research tools have come a long way and we shouldn’t mourn the death of the candle because of the

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