… climate change, robo-calls, dingoes and Oscars edition… +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sugar bushes in Ontario and Quebec have tapped their trees weeks early this year due to the non-winter that we have been experiencing in this part of the world. Tapping in February hasn’t happened in decades. The sugar bush owners are
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Trashy's World: Friday miscellany…
…#tellviceverything edition! My son and I were hit by a stomach bug the other night so we spent the day yesterday comfortably at home. It afforded me the opportunity to follow a Twitter hashtag called #tellviceverything. This was aimed at Justice Minister Vic Toews, who has been trumpeting the virtues
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…Holy crap edition! *********************************************************************************************************** Holy crap! What a great cause! Bullying hurts. Bullying wrecks lives and families. Stand up to it! There are many anti-bullying groups out there. Ottawa’s own Stuntman Stu from Magic 100 has been the impetus behind the very visible No More Bullies campaign. But I was
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picture edition…. Apologies to any vegetarians out there… (naw, not really…) IN THE BEGINNING, there was bacon… =================================================================================== There is an interesting poll in the Montréal Gazette this morning: _____________________________________________________________________________________________ On this day… Canadian football and American football parted ways… 1912 – In the U.S., professional football set some new
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… at 6:25 am lightens my heart just a tad… the mornings are coming earlier!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
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So Harper is acting all smug and tough in Davos, isn’t he? Although short on details, Mr. Harper’s speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday made clear the sweep of his ambition. He will change how Canadians finance their retirement. He will overhaul the immigration system.
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OC Transpo wants to keep the GPS data all to themselves – it’s all about the money! The head of OC Transpo told Ottawa’s transit commission the transit provider didn’t want to make information about bus locations and other data open to the public until it could determine how much
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Barbados. Awesome place. Go and visit if ever you have the chance. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HAPPY 2012!!!! I’ll stick with these Friday everthing-but-the-kitchen-sink posts… they sem to get a lot of attention and are a good way to sum up the week. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Cute page here… not kitten-cute, but clever-cute… I especially
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…I might be going out on a limb here… but I am predicting a green Christmas in Ottawa. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— At the risk of being flamed, I gotta say that I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about after hearing Trudeau call Kent a pizzachick! I don’t know what that
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It’s about time the Board moved to do something about the negative image and messages that Christmas imparts! Way to go Androgynous, Holiday-Neutral Robot! Long may you, uh, live… Thanks to the O-dot for breaking this story… ______________________________________________________________________________________________ So a UBC study has found that we atheists are as distrusted
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… snowy December day edition… Good article in the Citizen{yes, I used good and Citizen in the same phrase} yesterday about the ridiculousness of our quad education system in Ontario. The issue of the wastefulness of our quadruplicated system of education seems to pop its head above the water twice
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…Comes Xmas and Xmas fanatics… You know ‘em. They started putting up lights in October and have been counting down to the 25th through Facebook updates since Labour Day! Gag. Yes folks, tomorrow is indeed the first of December, so all of the Xmas crap will move into hyperdrive. Buy
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… double-decker edition… Saw this piece by Lawrence Martin on a possible run by Dalton McGuinty for the leadership of the federal Grits. Interesting. Personally, I’d like to see his brother David take a run at it. David is a fine MP and has a keen sense of politics. We’ll
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I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk upon the beach, and hear the mermaids singing each to each … T S
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So Lululemon, that crazy popular (and overpriced) yoga and fitness apparel shop is causing a bit of a tizzy because they put the words “Who is John Galt” on their shopping bags. In late October, the company began using shopping bags with the words “Who is John Galt?” a catchphrase
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… jurisdiction to forbid Christmas music before December 1? How about exterior lights? Hey Ottawa? How about it? Yeah, yeah, I’m an old atheist Grinch… I know, I know… but seriously, I don’t recall seeing it anywhere in the Bible that music and decorations had to be out in November!
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This is crazy. Stupid. And a whole bunch of other words I won’t use here. Seriously. Have you ever heard of such idiocy? Wait! Yes, I have! Those who think that vaccines cause autism! THEY are just as moronic! Wait again…. think you that th…
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Yup, this is my 1,001st post on this blog. Kind of a milestone, don’t you think? Or maybe a millstone if you think that most of what I write is crap! How many words might that be? Figger an average of 300 words of so per post… 300,000ish… lotsa keystrokes. Yay, me Anyhow, I do […]
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Life… An Ottawa-area woman live streamed the birth of her third child early Sunday. Nancy Salgueiro, a chiropractor and childbirth educator, gave birth to a six pound, 10 ounce boy at 3:18 a.m. Ms. Salgueiro posted on her Facebook page that she is still deciding on the spelling of her new son’s name. And death…. […]
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Why is it that when things are a little quiet on the political front, the extreme rightists feel the need to string up the CBC like a piñata and wail away on it like a sugared-up 7-year-old? Are they really that angry??? Have they nothing more deserving toward which to direct their fury? Seriously, this […]
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