When Richard Nixon told David Frost than an illegal activity is not illegal “when the president does it” he confirmed what we’d all suspected: the “tone at the top” as far as the 37th President of the United States was concerned was hopelessly corrupt. Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of
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OPSEU Diablogue: Nicaragua Day 7: Some bumps along the road
SANTA MARTA – We were thankful for the rain. Without it we would have been forced to choose between the dust or the heat on the small Toyota bus as we made our way to Santa Marta. In Puerto Cabezas, none … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #ForwardOnClimate Support in Regina: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Stephen McDavid interviewed by CBC/SRC about climate change action: Stephen explains that the pipeline is a line in the sand. Using it, is crossing that line. I’ll explain why there is a line, further on in this post. I was also interviewed. The CBC reporter was pleased to learn from
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: MHF attacks JT and sort of apologizes
I’ve just returned from a few days’ vacation in La Belle Province, where I dropped in at the Sun News HQ in Montreal to talk with Brian Dunstan about the Grits’ weekend debate. And, of course, that exchange between Martha Hall Findlay and Justin Trudeau, which I called desperate. It seems that
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Nicaragua Day 6: The mayor cuts class to greet us
PUERTO CABEZAS – The Mayor of Puerto Cabezas came out of his Saturday law class to greet us in the hallway. As little kids sold us bags of fruit outside the classrooms, arrangements were made for a more formal audience before we … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: De-Apple Your iPhone
Apple is infamous for making hardware that only they can easily support or provide accessories and repairs for. This irritates long-standing Apple customers who’ve bought into the latest round of iJunk, the iPad Mini and iPhone 5, because the charge port has changed to yet another type, and matches neither
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Sandra on the Hill?
Great column, great idea.
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Day 5: The other Nicaragua
The lobster fisherman of Puerto Carvaza don’t take boats out and cast traps in into the sea. Instead they take groups of men out in boats to dive into the sea to catch the lobsters by hand. It may be … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Flight and Death
Last week I watched “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” [9/10] which is a must-see movie, not only if you love it when alien bugs invade brains. I won’t spoil the ending, but someone important dies. I saw the end of “Death Race” [3/10] and I’m glad I didn’t
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Garneau’s big move
One of the major criticisms of both the Ontario Liberal and federal Liberal leadership races is that they were, and are, boring. Everyone’s too nice, too dull, too blah. A couple of weeks ago at the Manitoba “debate” many of the candidates, when asked to tell a little about themselves,
Continue readingPressing Politics: The Bait and Switch and the $4 Billion Deficit
Of late there has been much hoopla surrounding the announcement by newly minted Minister of Finance, Jerome Kennedy, that NL’s deficit is ballooning to surprisingly high amounts. How high? $4 billion high. That is a gigantic burden for this province. … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Russian Meteorite Injures People – UPDATED
Shocking, exciting news from Russia early this morning as coincidentally [maybe] on the same day a major 50m asteroid is set to fly by Earth, a meteorite has struck Russia. Reports are that there are injuries, which have been very rare for meteorite impacts until now. The camera person nearly
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Nicaragua Day 4: Love and friendship on Valentine’s Day
NANDAIME – Valentine’s Day in Nicaragua is as much about friendship as it is love. Before the day was out, we would be finding both. Nandaime is a quiet town of 40,000 residents – 20,000 in the so-called “urban area” – … Continue reading →
Continue readingIn This Corner: Dad: a eulogy for a life well lived.
(For anyone interested, here is the eulogy I gave at my dad’s funeral. Lots of inside stuff, but it give you an idea of what the man was all about.) What a life. That’s the best way I could think of to wrap up our dad’s 93 lived-to-its-fullest years on
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: V-Day Bellydance Flash Mob
Here’s an interview to explain what this flash mobbing was all about. More women joined the mob after my video recording stopped… There’s an encore at a mall tonight at 7:30; watch the videos for details.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bones of Kings
The discovery of Richard III’s grave is pretty awesome. Bonus, he was still inside it! It’s really hard to get the motivation to leave a grave though, it doesn’t happen very often anyway, and is entirely with assistance. And here’s another thing entirely:
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Nicaragua Day 3: And Then The Chicken Walked In
MASAYA – It shouldn’t have come as any surprise when the large chicken joined the meeting, striding around as if waiting for her turn to talk. After all the dog had already done his inspection, and the cat made a … Continue reading →
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Teenagers across Toronto are getting suspended
For missing vaccinations. A couple of weeks ago I got a letter in the mail saying that Toronto Public Health had no record of my son receiving a single vaccination. Ever. This, of course, is ridiculous. TPH finally found his record with Ottawa Public Health (even though it was provided
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: More Power Blows
There are recent solar electricity records set in Germany, and Spain has recently seen a huge increase in wind power production. Meanwhile, SaskPower has solar power research from 13 years ago on its website, claims solar isn’t viable in the northern hemisphere, and is eyeing up more coal fired generation.
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