Hide and seek, albino deer, forty year old plywood
In mid family weekend at the farm. I would extract some pictures from the camera but I’m too tired. The day’s been about playing hide and seek, spotting the famous…
April 2012
Saturday Night’s Alright For (Uke) Cover Fighting!
There’sNoUkeLike CoverUkeVille First, ‘The Original’, by a real original…. And now, ‘The Cover’, which was found so serendipitously that I can’t even begin to explain it, except to say that…
Questions for SFU and Wilf Hurd
April 5, I sent an email to Wilf Hurd, Simon Fraser University’s Director, Government Relations, (Contact info), posing three questions: Have you issued a public statement responding to Jonathan Fowlie’s…
4th Poll In A Month Has NDP Tied With Conservatives
A Léger Marketing poll for The Gazette and Le Devoir April 2-4 shows the following support among decided voters: NDP 33% Conservatives 32% Liberals 19% Green 8% In Quebec: NDP…
4451…Mohawks. I Like Mohawks
They are living in the now. Great quote from Joe Delarond in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. Mr. Delarond is a member of the Mohawk casino project team. We’re Kanewakans. We…
David Banner on the Shooting of Trayvon Martin: “We Have to Get Some Type of Legislation Now.”
Gulf Coast hip hop impresario David Banner drops some straight knowledge re: Trayvon, race, and class in the US of A in this BlackEnterprise.com interview: “The fact we have to…
Why the Dinosaurs May Be Trying to Tell Us Something
Entry Date: April 7th, 2012 Mood: Optimistic with a touch of Realism… Weather: Sunny and beautiful with a touch of a cool breeze… Today the grass had one hell of…
4450…Don Brennan Ottawa Sun Genius
He pointed it out hisself earlier this week in The Ottawa Sun that he was the only hockey scribe on the planet to predict that the Ottawa Senators would not…
Trying to get burned at the stake: heretical Easter edition
Me, I like heretics. Sure hanging out with heretics and being a heretic is fraught with danger: a certain tendency towards a merely reactionary or contrarian stance, a pension for…
Let the pushback begin: Wildrose in the crosshairs
Albertans pay little attention to politics at the best of times. Even during elections, the public shows little interest until about two weeks before the vote. Well, here we are,…
4449…Brian Lilley’s Tremendous Wit
The SUN TV bore is in a Twitter fight and is flashing his brilliant wit. Check this snappy comeback to Postmedia’s Glen McGregor: @glen_mcgregor You are a former strip club…
Budget 2012: At Least the War on the Environment is Going Well
Until this year, the purpose of the annual Canadian federal budget was to project government revenues, lay out spending priorities and forecast economic conditions for the upcoming year. Reading Budget…
Sometimes Everybody Should Just Read…
AWordsmith’sRight ToWriteVille ….The Reverend Paperboy. Particularly if you are wondering what the really big deal is about succumbing to the faux ‘reasonableness’ of the wedge issue that is being falsely-foisted…
Who Is Monitoring Fracking Wells And Pipelines? Nobody
see-hear-speak-no-evil.jpg As we here at DeSmogBlog have been covering in exhaustive detail for quite some time now, there is virtually no safe way to perform hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for unconventional…
George Zimmerman: Armed Neo-Nazis swarm Sanford, Florida
Deja vu all over again. We have made progress. Oh! Really! Presence of Neo-Nazis reveals that Zimmerman has friends who have come out in the open. It is becoming a…
Spruce Mine Mountaintop Removal Coal Permit Restored
mine.gif In late March, a federal court ruled to open the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, WV, to mountaintop removal coal mining. The EPA had originally vetoed the…
4448…Royal Military College Sucks Hugely
Beyond the pale. At least in the one department that outsiders like the WFDS can gauge. Athletics. Sports. Sooooooooooo bad. Their teams in every sport get killed all the time.…
4447…Alberta Changing Dictator
Sorry, Premier. Ah, you say Premier, I say Dictator. It sure looks, if the polls are to believed, that Wild Rose, led by my Facebook friend Danielle Smith, is going…
4446…Here Is Why We Need Fighter Jets
I ask the question and get an answer. A very succinct and satisfying answer. Thank you! We need fighter jets because, since 2007 the Russian Air Force has been probing…