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Most people who aren’t hardcore music fans probably haven’t heard of husband and wife songwriting duo Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, but just about everyone is familiar with one or more of their songs, which include “Bye Bye, Love”, “Wake Up, Little Susie”, “All I Have to Do Is Dream”, “Love Hurts“, and tonight’s selection, as performed by the Osborne Brothers: Here’s Rocky Top.
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  9. Why Do Feminists Demand That Women Stay In The Workforce?
    But let’s get back to the idea that women aren’t voluntarily choosing to leave the workforce when they have children. What’s up with that? I mean, I voluntarily left my newsroom when I had my first child. I did happen to have, I guess, that magical mind-meld with her. She was awesome. I could just sit and look at her for hours with unfettered joy. She was seriously the coolest baby ever and I loved being home with her more than any mom ever loved being home with a baby. (I may be biased in this assessment.) But the thing is that I would have stayed home with her even if I hadn’t had that mind-meld experience. That’s because I have certain ideas about my various vocations — wife, mother, citizen, writer, neighbor, what-have-you — that affect how I arrange my life.
    http://thefederalist.com/2014/07/30/why-do-feminists-demand-that-women-stay-in-the-workforce/

  12. I’ll be there. I asked Mayor Nenshi on twitter if he would be stepping out of City Hall to give a nod to his former debating partner regarding free speech. Near as I can figure he was too busy tracking down a missing cat to respond…que sera sera…

  13. Via Donald Douglas’ (American Power Blog) Twitter: “A Michigan woman says she’ll sue a zoo for not taking enough steps to protect her after she had a bit of her right, middle finger bit off while trying to pet a lion.
    Renae Ferguson was visiting the Sunrise Side Nature Trail and Exotic Park outside of East Tawas this Saturday when she she says a worker let herself and daughter Tina Dobson into a lion’s cage.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2711417/Michigan-woman-blames-zoo-losing-finger-tried-pet-caged-lion.html

  14. Remember Gene Pitney who performed 24 Hours to Tulsa, A Town Without Pity, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, etc.? He wrote Hello Mary Lou (Ricky Nelson), He’s a Rebel (The Crystals) and Rubber Ball (recorded by Bobby Vee).

  15. Thinking about IDF casualties in Gaza during this operation which number 56 as of Wednesday after what, a couple of weeks? Not to denigrate Canadian casualties in Afghanistan, but we had 158 killed from 2002 to 2011. Although some IDF soldiers came from outside Israel, Israel has a population of only 8 million.

  16. @Florida mom charged with felony child neglect for letting her son walk to the park alone.
    I hate to think how busy “they” would be in our neck of rural woods, where the Amish “allow” their children as young as 4 and 5 to scooter down busy highways and sit at whoopie-pie stands and sell sweet corn… ALONE! UNSUPERVISED BY ADULTS!

  17. Good luck with tracking down a cat, Nenshi’s imbecilic smile would scare any cat away.
    Maybe Ezra can shame him out of his gopher hole/office like he did with the Nanaimo Mayor.If he expects to get re-elected he needs to address the people on all issues as they arise. He represents people with differing views. He needs to assure them he is listening to their concerns and will do the right thing for the common good and that doesn’t include thuggery in the streets of his city by boors who attack those who don’t agree with them.
    Silence on the street violence means he doesn’t care about it or he agrees with it until he says otherwise.

  21. “Good luck with tracking down a cat, Nenshi’s imbecilic smile would scare any cat away.”
    Very true, Liz J.
    Cats are connoisseurs of insincerity.
    They can smell it 100 ft. away.

  22. “Cats are connoisseurs of insincerity.
    They can smell it 100 ft. away. ”
    Oh yeah? Then how come all the real pussies end up supporting the likes of Turdo la Doo and Jughead Obama? 😉

  23. Jamie you’re talking about a different species, neither Trudeau or Obama have the smarts or instincts of our domestic cats, so please don’t insult my favourite neighborhood cat “Chester”, he’s not a “pussy” either :).

  24. Enjoy with your morning coffee, two neat articles:
    Arab leaders pick their poison, and it’s Israel, not Hamas:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/world/middleeast/fighting-political-islam-arab-states-find-themselves-allied-with-israel.html?_r=2#
    And this beauty, disclosure of FN remuneration:
    http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1112404/disclosure-of-canadian-first-nations-salaries-raises-eyebrows/
    My favourite quote:
    “In its own records, the Snuneymuxw First Nation in B.C., revealed that Eric Wesley, a councillor, received $307,201 in contracts for construction related services in the last fiscal year from his own community…Chief John Thunder of the Buffalo Point First Nation in Manitoba earned $129,398 for the year in salaries and benefits. The community he represents is made up of less than 200 people…Wesley didn’t respond to a request for comment…Thunder told Torstar News Service in an email, that his salary was a bargain as a chief executive officer who has brought a lot of business to his community…’I have created an economy on our nation that is worth more than anything we will ever receive from them and (it) is the reason for getting rid of their tainted money,’ said Thunder. ‘I’m the most affordable chief executive officer in Canada, and that does not even include my 30 years of ground breaking leadership.’ ”
    Oh way to go, I guess the taxpayer dollars helped too. Oh and btw, that’s your job, your conncections are because you’re the chief, you a**hole.

  25. Milo Minderbinder Lives!

    [the Overseas Private Investment Corporation,] a little-noted federal agency … prepared to spend as much as $84 million to compensate an American company for losses sustained in the Israeli bombardment of a Gaza power plant.

    The power plant was built by Palestinian billionaire Said Khoury.

    Khoury partnered with the energy conglomerate Enron in 1999 to build the Gaza power plant, an unprecedented project for Gaza and one supported by then-President Bill Clinton.
    So the U.S. govt. supported the building of a Gaza power plant, then insured that power plant and paid for the bombs that were used to destroy it. Makes sense to me!
    [side note: I read Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 many years ago – excellent satire by the way – but I don’t remember it being quite the condemnation of capitalism that its wikipedia entry makes it out to be. It seemed more like a comment on the stupidity of war and a cynical treatment of the way that military quartermasters wheel-and-deal on the black market, but maybe my younger self just couldn’t see the real message of the book.]

  26. Ezra and Roger Kingcaid of QR77 (Rutherford’s replacement) go at it over the police response to the pro-Gaza rally/riot in YYC. Starts at 9:30 and should be up in the archives soon. A definite must listen…

  30. Ughly, Kemo Sabay.
    Chief vs chief.
    …-
    “B.C. First Nation chief was paid almost
    $1-million last year” (G-M)
    …-
    “It all comes down to money: Why Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair’s contract wasn’t renewed” (G-M)

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