Finally, this monstrosity called the Stanley Cup Playoffs are almost over.
For crying out loud, CFL training camps open in two weeks.
And because training camp means back to surfing the fan sites, shamelessly stolen from Riderfans.com:
Carter the Second
The weakest, most narcissistic “leader” in the world proves it.
One big ass mistake America. Weakness is the source of the scent that drives the mad dogs to a frenzy. When the strong aren’t strong, there is no leash to hold the murderous to heel.
I only hope that his tenure doesn’t end on the same notes as the peanut farmer’s.
It was a Gore-ious end to the bedding plants
When did Al arrive in the Battlefords?
Cloudy. 60 percent chance of rain showers or flurries changing to 60 percent chance of flurries in the evening. Wind northeast 30 km/h. Low zero.
Hubich’s Hill
Larry Hubich, President of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, rants about Newstalk 650’s, John Gormley. JG started the week talking about the Teamster Union’s unfair labour practices and flagrant breach of Privacy Law.
Here’s a thought, Larry, a Bill to force a province wide decertification of the Teamsters. I’m sure CLAC would be prepared to pick up the pieces of that unions ruined reputation and they won’t break the law.
Failing that, maybe the gov’t will enforce Section 15 of the Trade Union Act.
At the very least, it would be a change of pace to penalize someone other than business owners.
Cheers,
lance
Small Dead Downtime
Kate’s Internet connection is dead and is likely to stay dead for a day or two while she does an unplanned change of Internet suppliers.
Guest bloggers, please take this as an invitation to keep the place lively.
Cheers,
lance
The Greek situation
Well, two things should be blatantly obvious to even the most dyed in the wool socialist now.
- Civil Servants don’t pay taxes,
- A country, any country is damned foolish to tie their currency and economy to another finance department.
Paging Mr Murphy.
Another junket to the Holy Land! Get on that phone and do some more investigation.
Maybe Mr. Valpy will be more amicable this time.
Other pursuits
I worry that not having access to a slice and a burger might be detrimental to the troops morale.
Mind you, if this is the result of not eating MRE’s, then, by all the gods, CLOSE THEM!
This G2 must be a Democrat
This looks more like the proposed financing for ObamaCare than a plan to win hearts and minds in Obama’s Afghanistan.
Ah, t’hell with it, wing another Hellfire at that adobe on the left.
Ralph…call your office!
Your constituents have spoken.
Oh, wait, your constituents don’t get a voice…do they?
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“They just appeared to think they knew the subject well enough, or had a set enough idea in their heads as to what this kind of story was about, that they pursued only the lines of questioning necessary to fill in the blanks of that presumed story line.”
“On nothing more than a story in the paper and armed with no evidence, Fife laid out “the issue,” based on his personal suspicions.”
Blog Notes
Update: I’m back up now, but the fix seems to have been spontaneous, according to the service guy. If things get really really quiet around here again, you’ll know I’m back down.
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Kate’s Internet connection is down. A service person is supposed to be out sometime today.
For the moment, amuse yourselves in this thread.
Cheers,
lance
Narcissist? Who knew!
The Telegraph, doing the job N. American media refuses to do.
Is this a plan to “return to balance?”
Canadian Taxpayers Federation President Troy Lanigan explains the Conservative’s 2010-11 budget in Loonieland. New spending outstrips savings by a ratio of 14 to 1 and commits only to budget deficits for the next five years.
View other CTF videos here.
No wafer this week, Kady?
Good on Kady O’Mally (warning: CBC link) for digging into the truth about the nefarious relationship between the PMO and Google Canada . I suppose the Prime Minister could have gone on to Redtube (NSFW) instead of Youtube.
All sarcasm aside, it’s probably worthwhile bringing up a potential conflict of interest between Google and the PMO. I just think that the rest of her blog post is absurd. When challenged about the CBC being a registered lobby she states the difference being that ‘Google isn’t actually a media outlet — no, not even “new media”‘.
While I do applaud O’Malley’s raw blogging, I do think she should apply some traditional journalistic practices to her commentary. Like say, research. Google’s Section 11. Content licence from you.
Now, lest you think that I’ve gone off my rocker, remember, Google owns blogger.com and youtube.com to name only two. In short, Google shares all rights (except liability) with a content provider utilizing any of Google’s services. If a traditional media outlet spends most of it’s coverage replaying Associated Press, Canadian Press, et al., just like Google does, is it excluded from the ranks of ‘media’ too?
Kady continues sticking up for the Corp by saying that the PMO organized PM Harper’s YouTube conference and so it isn’t media. Well, of course, she would say that taking questions from ‘the media’ is much more important than taking questions from citizens.
For what it’s worth Kady, the term ‘media’ is a generic term. I wonder if you can find anything in here that might qualify? Maybe you should have used the more explicit, “traditional news gathering entity that hires people like me to follow specific stories and then to emit twaddle about them.” Oh, wait, Google does that too.
At least, it’s only a $B a year for this…cheap, really.
Cheers,
lance
Liberals in Training
Learning the wrong lessons from Adscam.
SDA Gets Results
It’d be a shame to pile on to Ryerson’s year long 110 page make work project. After all, we already did.
An alert reader who caught Margaret Wente’s evisceration of the Ryerson Task Force on Anti-Racism yesterday had the patience and strength of will to slog through the report. (PDF 1.2M 110pp)
The Appendix B Backgound section is definitely worth the read. (See below the fold)
Cheers,
lance
Just an insignificant sculpture in a roundabout
Via Gay and Right I learned that the Swedish MSM have taken a stand.
The money quote from the referenced link:
Gunilla Herlitz, the Dagens Nyheter editor-in-chief, defended the reprinting of the cartoon as a legitimate part of the story of the day. “I believe that, in this case, the cartoon is a part of the news and therefore we would like to show the readers what this is all about. But the cartoon is published in a context and is not the leading picture on the page.”
Now, where have we heard that before?
Course, in the CDN version, the small magazine wasn’t three national newspapers and so couldn’t compete with the big gov’t HRC apparatus and it’s desire to destitute.
This one wonders if the Swedes have an HRC. If not, by Allah (MHNBP), they’d better get one!
Cheers,
lance
Y2Kyoto – Unprecedented Warming
Err, no.
Via Bishop Hill, which is kind of ironic due to the study coming from the UofS. 🙂
From the full PDF (PDF, 378K, 5pp.)
“The interval from ∼230 B:C: to A.D. 40 was one of
exceptional warmth in Iceland, coinciding with a period of general
warmth and dryness in Europe known as the Roman Warm
Period, from ∼200 B:C: to A.D. 400 (23). On the basis of δ18O
data, reconstructed water temperatures for the Roman Warm
Period in Iceland are higher than any temperatures recorded
in modern times.”
Cheers,
lance
GOLD!
Maelle Ricker in Womens Snowboard Cross!
And what a fun sport to watch that is!