In Sunday’s Sun: it’s a lot of fun until someone breaks a law
The revelation that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has maintained an enemies list isn’t much of a revelation, is it? I mean, if there has ever been a Canadian administration…
Warren
Off the grid
Been without power and phone for a day – so we’re heading back to TeeDot a day early. Got a lot of meat to get into a freezer! Oh, and…
Conjunctive, disjunctive
Ekos here. I don’t really believe the fed Grits are pulling down the Ontario Libs, or vice-versa. There’s a bit of brand overlap, but not enough to effect big shifts.…
HuffPo: me and the NDP on Pipsqueak
Here. Are we right? Are we wrong? Too harsh? Not harsh enough? Another question: did my own party do or say anything about Pipsqueak’s promotion? I sure didn’t see anything.
Not just Windsor
…perhaps. Quote: “While it’s Duncan’s seat and not her former riding, there’s still a lingering hostility among voters in the city about the way Pupatello was betrayed during the leadership…
This guy was as big as my hand, just about
Landed on a dock chair as Son Two and Son Three and me were trying to figure out how to get cool (there ain’t no AC at the cabin). Amazing,…
The PMO enemies list
If I’m not on it, I’ll be fucking pissed off. Who’s with me?
John Fraser to win in Ottawa South!
That’s been my prediction, and I’m sticking with it. My friend John is in the one Ontario Liberal byelection contest I feel good about. This Ottawa Citizen story, here, suggests…
Cabinet shuffle question
I’m at the cabin with Son Two and Son Three – so I was unable to check if Michelle Rempel was again asked what hair products she uses by that…
In Tuesday’s Sun: the pipsqueak and the cabinet
Sometimes, in political life, you get credit for what you do. More commonplace are those occasions where you get none. Consider, then, Stephen Harper’s newly minted cabinet. Unveiled Monday, the…
Where I am right now
On the dock with Sons Two and Three, after a fun day of water skiin’, swimmin’ and shootin’ (the legal kind). I am happy. Wish you were here!
In Sunday’s Sun: we don’t give a rat’s ass about your stupid cabinet shuffle
Cabinet shuffles don’t matter. Not to Joe and Jane Frontporch, they don’t. To real folks, like Joe and Jane, it’s just Ottawa talking about Ottawa. To those who stalk the…
A jury
…is a group of people of average ignorance.
Guess the author: ecology and overpopulation
Who said this, which has been tweaked to make it a bit of challenge: “The annual increase of population in difficulties of providing for this army of new citizens which…
Rollins’ top twenty punk albums
The Clash – The Clash Generation X – Generation X The Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks…
Quebec sovereignty: a tale of two slides
There’d be winning conditions for a new referendum, this suggests: If this wasn’t also happening: More here. Harper, I have long felt, is the best argument for the Part Quebecois’…
Wire: Map Reference
Lala and I saw ‘em last night at Lee’s. Verdict? They were phoning it in. None of the great old tunes, few of the newer ones with energy. Lunchbag letdown.…
Cavoukian: she got it wrong. And now she needs to do the honourable thing.
Here are quotes from statements that Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s “Information and Privacy Commissioner,” made on June 5: “It is difficult to accept that the routine deletion of emails was not…
Forum, deconstructed
Here. Will anyone at the Star listen? Don’t be silly.
Kooky Cavoukian et al. are full of shit
The entire premise of her previous hyperventilation and hysteria – that emails had been “deleted” – was false. She, and the Opposition parties, got it wrong. They hadn’t been deleted,…