Traffic from Hallowe’en to Guy Fawkes Night
Working stiffs and lazy ones And these guys came in second… Kent demoted by Dunderdale Muskrat Review Muddle and Nalcor Competence The value of nothing or Pater knows best, redux…
Edward Hollett
Five for Friday Round-UP
To round out the week, here are five curious posts on different subjects to send you off into the weekend. And don’t forget this Saturday* is Guy Fawkes Day. Via…
And these guys came in second…
Yes, yes. Everyone knows that Hallowe’en happens in October and that Mardi Gras – Fat Tuesday – is in the spring time, before lent which is before Easter. That doesn’t…
Muskrat review muddle and Nalcor competence #nlpoli
Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy is a smart guy. It’s not that he is the smartest guy in a cabinet of dunderheads. Kennedy would be one of the smartest people…
The value of nothing or Pater knows best, redux #nlpoli
Talk show host Randy Simms has a fine column in the most recent Saturday edition of the Telegram. Our House of Assembly needs fixing, writes Simms. It hardly sits. It…
Working stiffs and lazy ones #nlpoli
For some reason, TransCon papers carried a story on newly elected Liberal member of the House of Assembly Jim Bennett and his plan to carry on a law practice while…
The Apprentice #nlpoli
“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we…
SRBP’s Shocktober Traffic
Kent demoted by Dunderdale CBC torques poll coverage Here’s what an opposition party looks like Telelink releases campaign’s only independent poll Whither the Liberals Astroturf Muskrat Falls support plummets: poll…
Accessible Post-Secondary Education #nlpoli
Lots of people like the idea of free tuition at post-secondary institutions like Memorial University or the College of the North Atlantic. In the recent provincial general election, the provincial…
Jingle Bell Walk/Run for Arthritis
Come Jingle With Us! 17th Annual Jingle Bell Walk and Run for Arthritis! Sunday, November 13, 2011 What does the Jingle Bell Walk and Run look like? People can come…
Truth in small things #nlpoli
If the truth may be found in the smallest of things, then the shifts and changes in Kathy Dunderdale’s second cabinet reveal a great deal. “It is very important to…
Coming up next week at SRBP…
On Monday: Detailed commentary on Kathy Dunderdale’s second cabinet and her reorganization of departments, including some of the comments from posts that hit Number One and Number Nine last week.…
What he said: education bureaucrats version #nlpoli
The Telegram’s Brian Jones puts the new school board policy on dishonesty in the correct perspective: Behaviour is not separate from their beloved “academic outcomes” (curses on educational jargon; in…
Traffic that was more sworn on than sworn in #nlpoli
Kent demoted by Dunderdale (Yep, your humble e-scribbler got the Steve Kent thing in Number 9 spectacularly wrong) Astroturf Tory snouts back in trough Churn baby churn The rewards of…
Quickie Cabinet Reaction: Happy Campers #nlpoli
If you don’t want the job, then quit: All these people in cabinet and every one looks like they have had something shoved up inside them, sideways. Even Kathy Dunderdale…
New technology and medicine
Via kevinmd.com, an article by medical student Alex Chamessian on how he uses his iPad as part of his education: I’ve tried to incorporate iPad into patient care and education…
Cabinet swearing in at 10 AM #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale will be at Government House to see her second cabinet sworn in at 10:00 AM.. SRBP will will have the run-down later on Friday. - srbp -
Kent demoted by Dunderdale #nlpoli
There’ll be no chance to run the wellness department around Kathy Dunderdale’s cabinet table for Mount Pearl wunderkind Steve Kent. The Big Scout took a major kick in the parliamentary…
The indelicate art of cabin-making #nlpoli
If Ross Wiseman is the new Speaker because Tom Osborne withdrew, that’s because Osborne knows he’s going back into cabinet. Tom should send a thank you note to Gerry Rogers,…
Tips for Highly Effective Blogging
Via copyblogger, two posts – written a year apart – on the habits of highly effective bloggers. The 16 tips are pretty simple and pretty straightforward but they are as…