Ocean view #21
Filed under: art, digital, painting Tagged: art, cloud, ocean, painting, seascape, water
2012
Cooking Breakfast and Other Meals for the Ones You Love: Reflections on Craig Claiborne
Frank Bruni has an intersting appreciation of Craig Claiborne, his legacy and his life today. Claiborne was one of the big three inmid-20h century American cooking, the others being James…
You Don’t Say… April 10, 2012
I’m not saying that Peter MacKay is a weasel-faced weasel, but if the shoe fits…he admitted over the weekend that he KNEW about the extra $10 billion that the F-35…
North Korea: Nuclear Proliferation
NBC Nightly News had an interesting piece on North Korea and policies of developing more and more potent nuclear arsenal which also has worldwide reach. This is indeed madness. Visit…
4461…The Earth : Is It Still Spinning? V.2
Boy I really got my 25 cents worth out of The Ottawa Sun today. Warren Kinsella tells the world that if he was back home in Alberta he would be…
Anti-oilpatch "activist" Wiebo Ludwig dies of cancer
Activist? He was convicted of blowing up things — that’s a terrorist to my mind. He was convicted of bombing a Suncor well site near his home. He was also…
4460…The Earth : Is It Still Spinning?
I ask because The Ottawa Sun ran an editorial that asked for accountablility from their darlings, the Stephen Harpers. It is now obvious — through MacKay’s own admission — that…
Call me Tom
After the NDP’s French ad last week, we get the English version: The ad features a collection of what I can only assume are average hard working Canadians: guy in…
Afghanistan Infantry Firefight
A short video from an unspecified rotation by 3rd battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Afghanistan. The video is from a helmet-mounted camera worn by a soldier using a…
communications problems.
A half-page advertisement promoting PC candidate Maureen Kubinec in the St. Albert Gazette. One of the most interesting features of the first two weeks of Alberta’s election campaign has been…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, April 10, 2012: Lohan accused of nightclub battery The Charter at 30: Power to the people, via…
Whose “conscience”?
If it’s Wildrose’s “conscience,” get ready for social chaos: Then there’s “conscience rights.” The Wildrose policy book says government should “implement legislation protecting the ‘conscience rights’ of health care professionals.”…
Fracking Banned in Quebec
People love putting oil in things so much that they’ll cause fracking earthquakes. Quebec has decided there’s no fracking way in their province as the hydraulic fracturing method to get…
MobileSyrup: What does the future hold for independent cell phone options?
The government is taking a lobbyist-first half-measured approach to our cell phone market. Going forward, it’s essential that we continue working to ensure independent options are safeguarded. Keep up the…
Today In The Annals of Stupid Backlash Tricks
Flash: Aggrieved Daily Caller Ex-College Republican thumbsucker (is there any other kind?) has a megasad cuz his bike was stolen (if stats hold true, by a blackity-blackblack black kid!), causing…
The Joke’s On Us
It was a classic con. Pose as stolid, competent managers while you raid the business then burn it down. And they pulled it off — until now. Linda McQuaig writes…
Jack Layton’s vision for Canada is in good hands (VIDEO)
That’s the key message in a new TV ad introducing the newly minted leader of the New Democrats, Thomas Mulcair, to Canadians. Layton’s widow, Olivia Cho, and ordinary folks, assure…
An Inconvenient Truth For The Right Wing To Digest
Over the past several years, most notably since the ascension to power of the Harper regime, taxation, especially the concept of progressive taxation, has fallen into bad odour, Thanks to…
Tar Sands in the United States: What You Need to Know
Think that that dirtiest oil on the planet is only found up in Alberta? You might be surprised then to hear that there are tar sands deposits in Colorado, Utah…