tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51069712011-10-28T23:55:08.858-04:00semi-lucid political thoughtsbecause I'm an idiotEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comBlogger3001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-55599562253600489872011-10-28T23:53:00.001-04:002011-10-28T23:55:08.872-04:00Where did all the links on my sidebar thing go? I had links to lots of other blogs. I have no clue how this thing works anymore.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-88562472079524756772011-10-28T23:39:00.001-04:002011-10-28T23:40:28.300-04:00Wow that was fun. I thought I was never gonna remember my password.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-77788208400395712022010-01-25T14:36:00.002-05:002010-01-25T14:42:15.295-05:00"Crises can be opportunities as well"Conservative strategist Goldy Hyder comments on how the Earthquake in Haiti has drawn attention away from Stephen Harper's prorogation of parliament. From a political standpoint, the federal Conservatives are happy that millions of people are without food and homes. Meanwhile nearly every business I have been to in the last week has a collection for Haiti Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-2706537700581588572010-01-20T15:06:00.003-05:002010-01-20T15:15:46.292-05:00Conspiracy or Glitch?Google Suggests is the name for that little dropdown box you see when you are entering something in Google. It is intended to be completely impartial, and advertisers depend on this.But recently somebody has discovered something interesting. If you start entering text such as "Christianity is", you will be presented with options such as "Christianity is not a religion" or "Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-32705626050736790782010-01-19T06:54:00.005-05:002010-01-19T07:11:55.033-05:00ConanI rushed home last night to watch Conan O'Brien, he was so funny last week and I wanted to continue watching this train-wreck in progress. He knows people are behind him right now, and jokes about the NBC late night situation drew huge applause. Other jokes didn't.I have always found him to be funny and quirky, but I am not sure that his current appeal will follow him if he moves to Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-25806210524803370022010-01-13T12:01:00.007-05:002010-01-13T12:37:39.349-05:00PROROGATION (part 2)From the Free Dictionary Online:-(verb) to discontinue the meetings of (a legislative body) without dissolving it- act later than planned, scheduled, or required (delay)- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions (stop)- stop dealing with (hold) example: "hold all my calls til March"- render temporarily ineffective (suspend)Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-61433343045008888082010-01-12T14:43:00.012-05:002010-01-13T12:37:08.044-05:002 years. Wow this blogger site has changed. I am going to have to get my image at the top of the page fixed.PROROGATIONCanada currently does not have a sitting government. I have always found it a bit odd that we pay these federal politicians over $140,000 per year, yet they take a month off for Christmas and 3 months off for summer holidays. Of course it's not all sitting at the pool Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-40784039614375179172007-02-13T16:21:00.001-05:002010-01-13T12:38:50.706-05:00I'd be fooling myself if I tried to make myself believe that my blog still gets read. After a long absense, punctuated by last years' fit of poetry and profanity, my blog has gone the way of Kevin Federline....never really made it big, and now hardly worth a shrug.Still, I find it interesting that shortly after I started posting about Bourque's pro-Conservative headlines, I have begun to see a Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-83011260179471017052007-02-09T06:16:00.000-05:002007-02-08T06:37:01.831-05:00Bourque Bias WatchHeadlineIS DION TANKING ? TORIES OPEN 7% LEADThis bias in the way headlines are routinely rewritten is so obvious it is boring. The Tories appreciate the work he is doing for them:"Bourque is a must read around our shop. He's frequently got the scoop way ahead of everyone else." Devin Baines, PC Party WebmasterEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-6114932634793995262007-02-08T06:27:00.000-05:002007-02-04T15:46:54.920-05:00bias 101:Where is Bourque's take on the recent poll suggesting most Canadians think that the Conservatives' recent anti-Dion commercials were unfair? He has said nothing, which is typical whenever anything critical of Harper hits the headlines.Bourque headline watch:GRIT GAGGLE Greets Garth.What is a Grit Gaggle? Why does Bourque choose to refer to the Liberal Caucus as a "Gaggle"?MEANWHILE, Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-85172002790521976522007-02-04T15:22:00.000-05:002007-02-04T15:46:55.134-05:00Am I the only person who has noticed that Bourque has become a Conservative shill? I have been considering reactivating this blog to discuss this, and also because it impresses my girlfriend that I write.For those who read Bourque, pay attention to the verbs. Among many of Bourque's paid clients, according to his website, includes the Conservative Party of Canada. The result: Liberals "Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1155614094743075062006-08-14T23:53:00.000-04:002006-08-14T23:54:54.756-04:00Toronto zoo's Tiger Cam...see the babies Yay!!!http://www.torontozoo.com/SpecialEvents/AGFTigerCam.aspEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1155192779402251592006-08-10T02:52:00.000-04:002006-08-10T02:52:59.403-04:00Elizabeth is not a commieEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1139957681963801572006-02-14T17:51:00.000-05:002007-03-19T22:51:24.795-04:00It's my Birthday!!!38 years old!!!OK that's all.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1139531444784387472006-02-09T18:31:00.000-05:002006-02-09T19:30:44.803-05:00OLDI'm old. I'm a 37 year old man, with a few grey hairs on my chinny-chin chin (and a lot of blonde ones too). I wake up in the morning and say "Euchhh".I hate parties, well I don't mind if it's just three or four close friends, in which case I'm happy as a happy thing.I'll finish this laterEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1139411055731224472006-02-08T09:58:00.000-05:002006-02-08T10:04:15.733-05:00After three years of writing my nonsense, meeting people online, and just experimenting, my blog has become a bit of a mess. A lot of the original template code has been changed, and my blog has been in terrible need of housekeeping for a very long time now. So today I'm deleting a lot of links from folks I haven't heard from in quite a while, and adding some new ones. Still unsure about Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1139357525046927632006-02-07T18:45:00.000-05:002006-02-07T19:12:05.056-05:00The Moon is a slut.What is gravity?From Wikipedia online:"While a great deal is now known about the properties of gravity, the ultimate cause of the gravitational force remains an open question and gravity remains an important topic of scientific research."I'm sitting in my apartment, and for some reason all my stuff is stuck to the floor. My keyboard is lying on my lap, and my hair is not all Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1139194781227817882006-02-05T21:58:00.000-05:002006-02-05T21:59:41.236-05:00I just found out that if you type my name (Micheal Wilson, spell it right) in Google and click the "I'm feeling lucky" button, you will get stuck looking at my blog.To be honest, they just said "I'm feeling lucky". They didn't specify if that was going to be good luck or bad luck.OK I'm just too sick tonight to say anything else.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1138919307803066502006-02-02T17:21:00.000-05:002006-02-02T17:28:27.813-05:00All your Blog Are Belong to ME ALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO ME OK shut up Mike. And you can all have your blogs back it was just a joke.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1138660149239317002006-01-30T16:47:00.000-05:002006-01-30T17:29:09.256-05:00My ex girlfriend has a blog that she started on the day we broke up. I can't tell you where it is because you aren't old enough to visit that website. It's pretty common practice to slag your exes, and in my opinion maybe I have reason to. But she's not a bad person, things just weren't right. Whatever.Anyway, I've been reading it for a few months now, and as hard as it is for me to say this Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1138592929322970982006-01-29T22:45:00.000-05:002006-02-02T17:30:27.686-05:00ALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO MEALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO MEALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO MEALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO MEALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO MEALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO MEALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO MEALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO MEi MEAN MEEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1138073478968286312006-01-23T22:10:00.000-05:002006-01-23T22:37:58.963-05:00Nobody reads this yet, and all of my old readers have bid me adieu I'm sure, though I wouldn't be surprised if Warren finds if amusing to watch me go from semi-serious commentator to wack-job.Out of curiousity I just checked to see what kind of hits I am getting from search engines. The most popular search phrase seems to be every imaginable variation of the phrase "Ann Rohmer's breasts" (I don'tEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1137712888806644272006-01-19T18:21:00.000-05:002006-01-19T18:21:28.873-05:00meEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1137498912180967392006-01-17T06:42:00.000-05:002006-01-17T06:57:10.670-05:00You add your sugar, you add your milk, then stir 12 times.Then you pick up your mug, and start to walk to your computer with it, when suddenly "CH!"A few drops spill out onto the floor, and you know it's coming, you can feel it welling up inside your nose. That tickly sensation that starts lightly, then grows rapidly into...oh damn you need to find any surface to put your mug down on right now...Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1137286412745252122006-01-14T19:50:00.000-05:002006-01-14T19:53:32.760-05:00Is this not still the most boring website on the planet? I know that none of then folks who used to read this blog come here anymore, because I didn't write to it for over a year, and God knows why anyone would want to come look at it now that I've basically turned it into whatever it's going to become.And this is the most boring post of all.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1137106133468450932006-01-12T17:44:00.000-05:002006-01-12T17:48:53.470-05:00OK I just looked at my last post and realized I forgot to finish my main point. I've decided to keep calling it "semi-lucid political thoughts", because it kindof has a sexy funky feel to it, and it might fool people into thinking I am much deeper than I really am.And if you don't agree then YOU CAN GO TO my comments section. OR HELL!!!.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1137105866531470292006-01-12T17:20:00.000-05:002006-01-12T17:44:26.543-05:00OK, blog name. I was wondering if I should change the name of my blog to something from Leonard Cohen, or just call it "Crap Crap Crap" (which it should have been called all along).But It has already gone through a few name changes before it finally got here, it was originally "PC Leadership Thoughts" or something equally lame, then for about 5 minutes it was called something else which I can't Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1137103650710506932006-01-12T17:06:00.000-05:002006-01-12T17:07:30.710-05:00Whooooooooooooo are you?Who whoWho who?Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1137103295119189142006-01-12T16:54:00.000-05:002006-01-12T17:03:45.653-05:00IN THE MIDDLE OF A FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN, WHAT COULD BE BETTER TIME FOR A POLITICAL BLOG WRITER TO SCRATCH HIS NEEDLE ACROSS HIS RECORD AND SHOUT:All right, Toronto, it is time for this town to get down! You've got Mikey - Doctor Mikey Fever, and I am burnin' up in here - Whoah! We all in critical condition, babies, but you can tell me where it hurts, cuz I got the healing prescription here Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1137033166164989262006-01-11T21:32:00.000-05:002006-01-11T21:41:46.133-05:00I have a puffy on my chinny-chin-chinThis is me. I don't know how this picture actually got here, I was fucking around with something and voila! Hell, I don't even know how the work "voila" got hyperlinked in the last line. Blogger sure has changed since I was a kid, with my little political blog.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1136769247313331792006-01-08T19:54:00.000-05:002006-01-08T20:23:57.216-05:00I've had several people bugging me about where my blog is, why I haven't said a peep about this election.PEEPThere, maybe too disingenuous, but it's more than I care to write about this one.Sorry guys, if we have an election again in the future that is about more than rearranging seats, I'll be back.I haven't even been watching the news for the last few months. If I didn't have to pass several Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1119910217515185732005-06-27T18:09:00.000-04:002005-06-27T18:10:17.520-04:00A lot of Canadians are opposed to Gay marriage. A lot of Canadians dislike the Liberals.A lot of Canadians are supporting both the gay marriage bill and are voting Liberal however, because the only option appears to be the views of an angry man. Stephen Harper is possibly the only political leader in the country's history whose political fortunes would improve if he were to disappear for a Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1113994294892639092005-04-20T06:35:00.000-04:002005-04-21T06:34:26.506-04:00Here's a challenge to the MPs who want to call an election right now, less than a year after the previous one. Why not save the country some money. You should resign your seats, we can have by-elections in your ridings, and be done with it.Personally I would like to see the Gomery Inquiry publish it's completed report, likely due in the fall, before parties begin using it as a political tool to Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1113308208874628732005-04-12T08:16:00.000-04:002005-04-12T08:16:48.876-04:00Should parliamentarians be subject to the same laws as the rest of us? Or are they somehow above the law, like BC Premier Gordon Campbell when he basically got off "scott-free" on his DUI charge in Hawaii a few years ago?This week, Peter Mackay was given 2 back to back week-long driving suspensions for two separate speeding infractions last fall. However the judge agreed to postpone the Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1113222239723992002005-04-11T08:17:00.000-04:002005-04-11T08:23:59.723-04:00Scott Brison and Peter Mackay were long considered the heirs apparent of the Progressive Conservative Party. Blah blah blah, then one day....The two men found themselves on opposite sides of the aisle in the House of Commons, neither a PC anymore. And neither has done a very good job in their attempts to excuse their new party's policies and mistakes (as seen each week on Craig Oliver's Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1112284840271799182005-03-31T10:45:00.000-05:002005-03-31T11:00:40.276-05:00I'm waiting for the girl to get ready, so I probably have 3 or 4 hours to write here. What has happened vsince the election. Hmm... Stephen Harper's Conservatives have basically joined the Liberal caucus, voting alongside the government on virtually everything in the past 9 months. The most interesting moment in the Conservative Party's last 9 months was when Peter Mackay got pissy about some Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1110646367184530702005-03-12T11:51:00.000-05:002005-03-12T11:52:47.186-05:00I'm getting ready to go to work. It's Saturday. And I have a gorgeous woman sitting here wishing I could stay home today. Life is either good, or else the world is coming to an end.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1109566831231050932005-02-27T23:57:00.000-05:002005-02-28T00:00:31.230-05:00I've been away a while. Apparently I'm getting married sometime this year, though I don't know when just yet. For those who have missed me, I say hi. For those who just found this by accident while searching on google for Mike Wilson the undersea explorer, I say hi. Hi.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1097475976150567032004-10-11T02:25:00.000-04:002004-10-11T02:26:16.150-04:00Just found out about the death of Christopher Reeves. I wouldn't usually post about an entertainer's death, but for some reason it feels like something good has gone.
Crap.
Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1096923841236624392004-10-04T17:02:00.000-04:002004-10-04T17:04:49.383-04:00un piece de merde
Well, I just downloaded the biggest piece of crap I’ve ever used. Because I’m a Sympatico ultra high speed user, they keep offering me free stuff, and today I said I’d try the Musicmatch thing. It’s advertised as a paid music search program (700,000 songs), and –oh boy- they wanted me to use it for free. I was all excited, until I used it.
First of all, you can’t download the Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1095564515286120082004-09-18T23:24:00.000-04:002004-09-18T23:56:22.780-04:00I have been sort of keeping an eye on the PC Leadership convention throughout the day, and currently the candidates and their families are starting to file back into the convention hall, which means that the second and final ballot results are going to be announced soon.
On another note, regarding a subject I brought up in my last post, an attendee at the convention tells me that the signs and Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1095535181736082812004-09-18T13:49:00.000-04:002004-09-18T15:24:03.130-04:00I haven't said anything about the provincial Tory race, mainly because I've never been overly interested in provincial politics. The only people who are, it would seem, are the journalists sent out to cover the story. And in their case it may only be feigned interest, the way a journalist sent to a Toronto City Council meeting pretends to care about the outcome of those boring proceedings.
Go Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1095366938440860912004-09-16T16:12:00.000-04:002004-09-16T16:35:38.440-04:00Here's a development I wasn't expecting in the Hockey standoff.
According to an Ipsos-Reid poll commiossioned by the Globe, CTV, and TSN, 52 per cent of Canadians who were surveyed said they blame the players for the strike, while only 21 per cent laid the blame with the owners.
Half of those surveyed think that the NHL season will not go ahead. Well, duh...
And approximately 2/3 believe thatEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1095294062641098282004-09-15T19:36:00.000-04:002004-09-15T20:42:06.520-04:00Call it a lockout, a strike, a failure at the negotiating table, it sucks. warning: this post contains references that may leave non-Canadians scratching their heads
I am referring to the NHL situation, and the announcement today by Gary Bettman (300k, 56k, audio, text)that the owners will not go ahead with this season without a bargaining agreement with the players.
This is a situation in Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1095173698401927322004-09-14T10:39:00.000-04:002004-09-14T10:57:36.283-04:00When is Andrew Coyne going to blog again?
I'm hardly a fan of his, although he seems fairly intelligent when he does Sunday Edition on CTV. The man is a fan of Stephen Harper and the Reform err.. Canadian Alliance, and -oh wait- I mean the new Conservative Party. His comment section is one of the busiest on the internet, populated with Canada-bashers, George Bush supporters, and the usual ReformEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1094887589882245652004-09-11T03:24:00.000-04:002004-09-11T03:26:29.883-04:00Anniversary
Anniversary of 9/11 number 3. :-(
Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1094781932948860372004-09-09T22:03:00.000-04:002004-09-09T22:06:34.030-04:00Oh crappy, I think my blog is broken. I edited it yesterday, did some major stuff, and it was working fine, just the way I wanted it to look.
Now I can't see my little right-handy linky bar, or more than one post at a time.
crappy crappy crappy
update:
OK it's fine now. That was weird.
Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1094774947086771552004-09-09T19:48:00.000-04:002004-09-09T20:09:07.086-04:00Harper buys a United Right
Political discussion, even when angry and bitter, can still be done with a degree of civility. My onetime arch-badguy, Terry Pearson, and I, found civility, after an extended period of non-civility (is that even a proper phrase) a few years ago, and we've been boring each other to death ever since (kidding). I deserve an award for my run-on sentences.
Anyway, I Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1094773219736378392004-09-09T19:31:00.000-04:002004-09-09T20:12:16.100-04:00Politics, lifestyle, and current events, with an R-Rated twist.
A new Blog, called NYHotties.com, has piqued my curiousity. It's written by a New Yorker named Alexa, and she discusses everything from the RNC convention delegates, to the recent US Open tennis championships, to being a "mindless corporate drone".
This is an extremely well-written blog, insightful and easy to read. It's so well Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1094687241214201942004-09-08T19:30:00.000-04:002004-09-09T08:55:04.296-04:00How to become Campaign Manager for the Kerry or the Bush team?
Step1: Be a Yank (oops, I'm out of the running already...)
Step2: Devote yourself to your party for, say, 20 years or so
Step3: Be smart (this is starting to look really bad for my chances)
Step4: Be a political friend of the candidate for several years prior
Disqualifications:
a) make sure you've never posed for Hustler,
b) never Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1094674103688829302004-09-08T15:51:00.000-04:002004-09-08T16:08:23.686-04:00Summer's coming to a close and kids are back at school. When I was in school this used to be a melancholy time for me and probably everyone else who had just finished their 2.5 month summer vacation. 10 more months of school.
Now it's just another work-week for me, but somehow the Labour-day weekend still marks the end of summer for me. Time to get back to the normal routines, no more Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1094280490926218972004-09-04T02:33:00.000-04:002004-09-04T02:49:09.746-04:00Terrorists kill 200 in Russian school
You're shocked. You're pissed. You're Russian. You want those behind this heinous act to be found.
Once the smoke clears, just remember the one thing that some in the US Administration forgot after 9/11. There will be an urge to seek revenge, but your next moves should be about justice. If you act in vengeance, you will fail. Terrorists are known as Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1094272660348251072004-09-04T01:20:00.000-04:002004-09-08T15:46:02.730-04:00Continuing Warren Kinsella's theme for today, I got thinking about what I was doing 20 years ago today.
Before continuing reading this post, please get the song "Mad World" by Gary Jules into your head, as the background music to this post. To help jar your memory, it begins "All around me are familiar faces..."
It's strange how important events can magnify our memories of what we were doing Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1093962570076239972004-08-31T10:16:00.000-04:002004-09-08T15:48:54.163-04:00Tomorrow is September 1st, a thought that make me sigh .
Already I can feel a bit of chill in the air, at the end of what was a very rainy summer here in Toronto. For the first time in many years, lawns are still green in August, not the burnt-out brown that usually comes from our normal lack of summertime rainfall and scorching heat.
Soon the parliamentarians will be back on stage, playing outEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1093448257240066112004-08-25T11:09:00.001-04:002004-08-25T11:37:37.240-04:00"George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller
"Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'" —Craig Kilborn
"Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he is going to ask President Bush for help with Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1093360599994630482004-08-24T10:55:00.000-04:002004-08-24T11:16:39.993-04:00Talking 2 Americans
what's it all aboot?
Does anyone else get tired of having Americans say "you said aboot"? It's cute as first but after a while it starts to become reminiscent of some Beavis and Butthead episode.
"Hey Beavis, that guy said aboot..."
"ya, ya hehheh that's pretty funny"
"Canadians talk funny..."
Anyway, those of us who deal with yanks daily have stories that rival Rick Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1092803642540402572004-08-18T00:23:00.000-04:002004-08-18T00:34:02.540-04:00IN THE NEWS Wed, Aug 18, 2004
Absolutely nothing is happening on the Canadian political scene (remind me, who won the election again?).
Canada performing mediocrely at the Olympics (congrats to Émilie Heymans and Blythe Hartley).
Monty Python's Meaning of Life on CityTV Wednesday night.
Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1092629479646835482004-08-16T00:04:00.000-04:002004-08-16T00:11:19.646-04:00What do the NHL playoffs, Canadian federal and provincial elections, other random political events like the Queen's visits and referenda, the olympics, and other international sporting events all have in common?
If you're quick, you can catch your local Stephen Harper supporter watching the CBC. Don't be surprised a week later though, when they go back to bashing the mother network.
Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1092067613359568162004-08-09T11:50:00.000-04:002004-08-09T12:06:53.363-04:00BBQ Season
The concept that politicians can get away with pretty much whatever they want during the summer (in Canada at least) crossed my mind on Saturday, while I was at a big old barbecue north of Coboconk (Coby to the residents) on Saturday.
It was the 4th Saturday in a row I've been to one BBQ or another, playing sports and basically having a wonderful summer weekend. During the winter Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1091763589688628032004-08-05T23:36:00.000-04:002004-08-06T07:36:57.940-04:00"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we,"
George Bush slip-up, Aug 5 2004
Bush is hilarious. I'm almost starting to hope he wins again, just for the comedy value of having him in the White House.
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call me Mr. Gullible. I told everyone at work that Maggie Thatcher had died Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1091406485387260922004-08-01T20:23:00.000-04:002004-08-01T21:37:26.353-04:00Today marks the one year anniversary of My Grandmother's death. The family got together yesterday in Oshawa, however it was not primarily to mark this particular occasion, rather it was to mark the engagement of my cousin Cherie to her army boyfriend, Mikk.
Maybe we spend too much time marking anniversaries. We start by marking wedding anniversaries, our birthdays, and other important events in Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1091203975883962052004-07-30T11:58:00.000-04:002004-07-30T12:13:29.806-04:00In Wacky But True News
Apparently in some places in the US, eating candy is an offence. That's fine, garbage is a problem everywhere, but like in a big corporation such as the one I work for, police are human beings and are supposed to make sense of policies (laws). They are supposed to understand the purpose of those laws, and make exceptions where the spirit of the law is not being Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1090708710173573962004-07-24T18:20:00.000-04:002004-07-24T18:43:17.693-04:00Just got back from Company picnic. High Park in Toronto.
Holy crap I'm sweaty. Too much soccer and football. Having folks from your office trying to tackle you on the playing field is a strange experience. Jason Bigio kicked me in the face accidentally and I'm going to give him crap on Monday if I have a welt or a bruise. Sonny, my team's goaltender, had a case of beer on ice by his net, Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1090538369515529262004-07-22T19:12:00.000-04:002004-07-22T19:19:29.516-04:00Yay I'm back.. Fishing was just swell, and.....
what the heck? It looks like somebody changed the blogger edit window while I was gone. Ohh and now I can post in courier font, big normal tiny.
This is just so silly. Who wants to read my crap with all these dumb effects?
Still, I have to post this to see what it looks like.
Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088817256050549212004-07-02T21:13:00.000-04:002004-07-02T21:15:25.263-04:00My Complaint about Stephen Harper
(intended only in fun)
Auto-Generated by Pakin Complaint Generator
I'll get right to the point. Mr. Stephen Harper's apostles merely present their allegations as though they were true, a technique known as a "conclusory" or "Kierkegaardian" leap. And that's why I feel compelled to say something about gutless, incompetent fogeys. If he continues to exploit the Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088814206959942842004-07-02T20:17:00.000-04:002004-07-02T20:41:33.626-04:00Braaady in the Mooorniiiiing.....
Old CFTR fans might enjoy this, an old Jim Brady show from around 1979. All the songs have been cut out, as have Russ Holden and Darrell Dommer's traffic reports.
It's about 8 minutes long. Someone must have been digging around and found an old tape in a box somewhere....
Click here to listen. (requires Real player. You know how to find it.)
By the way, Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088812733700384072004-07-02T19:14:00.000-04:002004-07-02T20:42:19.463-04:00I am taking a leave of absence from my blog. I am going on vacation to sunny cottage country. I will be returning in the middle of the month so be sure to come back to read about my adventures.
Of course if it gets all rainy or something I may write a bit and post from up north.
I will be in Fenelon Falls, the hometown of such famous people as my friend Avery Haines (of CTV Newsnet fame), Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088629808205334242004-06-30T17:07:00.000-04:002004-06-30T17:10:08.206-04:00You may have noticed I changed my banner during the election, on an afternoon when I had nothing to do and I was playing with Photoshop.
I still write the same crap as before though.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088549258130600912004-06-29T18:45:00.000-04:002004-06-29T18:47:38.130-04:00Wow. This might be the first election in history where everybody won. The Bloc, the NDP and the Conservatives all picked up a substantial number of seats, and the Liberals finished just 20 seats shy of a majority.
Hooray for the winners!Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088477867466353262004-06-28T22:51:00.000-04:002004-06-28T23:42:57.096-04:00It's over, Liberal minority
Currently it looks like a Liberal-NDP coalition, with approximately 163 seats, but those numbers are likely to change by the time this is over.
Worst thing that could happen to the Liberals would be that they might have to rely on the BQ, which would give the Conservatives a compelling campaign issue 2 years from now.
Analysis: Bedtime.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088469721954032192004-06-28T20:37:00.000-04:002004-06-28T23:40:59.180-04:00Election results comparison with 2000
All results as of approx 11:30pm when I had to go to bed.
Atlantic Canada
2000
L 19
C 9
N 4
2004
L 22
C 7
N 3
It looks like the Sponsorship scandal didn't have a huge effect out east...
Quebec
2000
L 36
B 38
2004
L 19
B 56
Ontario
2000
L 100
C 2
N 1
2004
L 77
C 22
N 7
Man
2000
L 5
C 3
N 4
2004
L 3
C 7
N 4
Sask
2000
L 2
C 10
N 2
2004
Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088461007464563092004-06-28T17:51:00.000-04:002004-06-28T18:23:14.886-04:00Election night
I have absolutely no idea what is going to happen tonight. I've started watching the 2 Towers as a distraction.
Still I can't help but wonder if there will be any point during the night when a winner will be declared/predicted, or even if we'll know before we go to bed. There are so many unknowns, and each region of the country will have to be looked at almost as a separate Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088394893990523202004-06-27T23:19:00.000-04:002004-06-28T14:21:15.276-04:00Centuries, Volume II
OK, here's my second-round election guesstimate.
Liberals: 121
Conservative: 112
NDP: 24
Bloc: 50
Independent 1
My first prediction was a little higher for the Liberals and a little lower for the Conservatives. So where does the credit lie for the stronger Conservative showing?
Harper has spent half the campaign on the defensive due to stupid comments by Conservative Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088252707454069912004-06-26T08:21:00.000-04:002004-06-26T08:25:07.456-04:00To those Quebec federalists who are condidering voting for the Bloc Quebecois
in order to send Paul Martin a message, why not try this instead: e-mail.
A vote for the Bloc will later be translated by them as a vote for sovereignty. Also it will help elect Stephen Harper.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088222251401414112004-06-25T23:33:00.000-04:002004-06-28T02:02:05.690-04:00Still working on the prediction. It's getting late for predictions, but really I have no clue how the election is going to go.
update:
Thanks to Ian at Vancouver Scrum, and to Warren Kinsella (who ran against TED White back in 1997) for pointing out to me that I had confused Randy White with Ted White.
Anyway, today's post is entitled:
Holy Chickens!
(to heck with the courts, eh?)
I'm Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088134618055466702004-06-24T23:26:00.000-04:002004-06-24T23:36:58.056-04:00I guess it's time for me to think about my second election pool prediction. Just to refresh, here was my first entry:
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I'm obviously the only one who thinks the libs can still pull off a majority. Not wishful thinking, just faith in the Canadian voters to flock back to the "safe choice" the instant Harper makes his first dumb comment.
Liberals: 159
Conservative: 78
NDP: 26
Bloc: 45
***Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1088118166101397422004-06-24T18:37:00.000-04:002004-06-24T19:05:30.860-04:00Conservative criticizes his party's exploitation of the Holly Jones trial.
from a letter published in yesterday's Toronto Star:
"The Tories are wrong to exploit the death of a young girl for political gain and are wrong to make wild accusations about Mr. Martin's view of child pornography,"
Stephen Thiele, first vice-president of the Etobicoke Centre Conservative Association
Actually, this is Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087932532265275792004-06-22T15:27:00.000-04:002004-06-22T23:05:37.086-04:00More polls show the Liberals beginning to pull ahead of the Conservatives
Ipsos-Reid
Liberals 34%
Conservatives 28%
NDP 16%
SES
Liberals 34%
Conservatives 31%
NDP 21%
With a week left in the campaign, the voters are beginning to make their final decisions on what their voting intentions are. It's possible to define voting intentions almost in a formulaic way. This formula would go something Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087882060535815372004-06-22T01:09:00.000-04:002004-06-22T01:32:15.956-04:00Blah blah blah blah, blah blah Stephen Harper blah blah Air Canada. Blah, blah blah les blah et la blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Air Canada Public Participation Act (yawn).
Blah Harper Blah,
"Language service requirements would be moved toEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087773188478638972004-06-20T19:12:00.000-04:002004-06-20T19:32:43.463-04:00Portrait of a frightening man
From an article in Sunday's Ottawa Sun
MAUGERVILLE, N.B. -- It is a dreary Saturday morning in small-town New Brunswick, and Stephen Harper isn't exactly warming hearts among the overflow crowd of Conservative faithful packed into the old two-room schoolhouse. On this day, the Conservative leader is in an ugly mood, the Iceman's habitual cool heading toward the Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087753598928417332004-06-20T13:33:00.000-04:002004-06-20T22:25:10.020-04:00Apologize already, and be done with it!
Stephen Harper's insistance that the PM supports child porn is not winning him any points among the undecided voters.
The only folks who don't seem to think Harper is losing his cool are this guy:
a greasy long-haired Thunder Bay Conservative that CTV news last night showed hopping out of his pickup truck and lunging drunkenly at Jack Layton yesterday,Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087649810966386682004-06-19T08:26:00.000-04:002004-06-19T08:56:50.966-04:00Regarding the Conservatives and their accusations about child-porn
Yes this was a horrible attempt to cash in on the Holly Jones case, which made headlines 2 days ago, and yes it deserves some sort of an apology.
But it is unclear if it will affect the Conservative Party's polling numbers, which are already showing signs of falling (the SES polls which I despise show them dropping 8 points in Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087612785222976052004-06-18T22:37:00.000-04:002004-06-18T22:39:45.223-04:00New Polls
Holy crap, the Conservatives really went a little overboard today with their suggestion that Paul Martin supports child porn. Stephen Harper even took 2 press conferences before he even suggested it might have been a mistake.
And now there have been 2 polls in a row showing the Libs ahead, one showing them ahead by 6 points.
Neat.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087612053748585992004-06-18T22:20:00.000-04:002004-06-19T08:07:31.270-04:00Horror Story
Haven't been posting since my computer contracted a virus the other day. Don't know how it got there, and since it started I have only gone online to search for solutions.
Yet somehow my computer is getting more and more viruses.
I've run Norton and Ad-Aware, now both are finding approx 150 objects with each scan, but can't fix the problem. I'll probably have to reinstall Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087443149389055272004-06-16T22:27:00.000-04:002004-06-16T23:32:29.390-04:00The Exodus Continues
And you must not oppress a resident foreigner(Exodus 23:9)
The exodus grom the Conservatives continues to pick up pace. Yet another influential Tory has broken ranks to support the Liberals. Bruck Easton, the man who used to sign my PC Party membership cards, and a major figure in bringing together the PC Party and the Alliance, today announced his disillusionment with Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087358184172932982004-06-15T23:56:00.000-04:002004-06-15T23:59:43.700-04:00my first digital self portraitEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087338631398581472004-06-15T18:26:00.000-04:002004-06-15T18:30:31.400-04:00Raymod Tomlin over at VanRamblings discusses last night's debate and discusses what to look for in tonight's English debate.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087267460020864712004-06-14T22:33:00.000-04:002004-06-14T23:13:13.743-04:00French Debate
Tried to keep cribnotes, but nothing new was being said, so I started noting behaviour and stuff like that.
During the first hour, there were 2 times, once in a debate with Duceppe, and once with Layton, that Harper nearly blew a gasket.
Duceppe managed to control a lot of the debate through the first hour. During this time Harper looked nervous and was dominated by all 3 of theEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087253898555636182004-06-14T18:58:00.000-04:002004-06-14T19:31:57.553-04:00What does Stephen Harper have in store for this country?
Dec 8, 2000, Harper had an article published in the National Post, entitled "Separation, Alberta-style: It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada"
A few quotes:
"It is to take the bricks and begin building another home -- a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta"
"Separation will become a real issue the day the federal Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1087105363224466692004-06-13T01:42:00.000-04:002004-06-13T03:10:09.046-04:00More on the Perils of Polling
David Olive writes in the Star's election blog (why does everyone suddenly have to have an election blog this year?) on an issue I wrote about a few days ago, the SES election polls.
Olive addresses the polling question that SES uses, and points out that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are not even mentioned in the question. OK, not much point in my giving a Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086923814389841742004-06-10T22:57:00.000-04:002004-06-11T07:37:02.776-04:00What's up with Bourque? The guy created the best site in the country (possibly one of the best in the world) for quick access to the most important news from all different sources. Mr Bourque is respected, and has always presented the headlines and links to the stories as is, until this election.
Now it seems he is colouring the headlines with his own opinions.
Ane xample is the CBC articleEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086911932907816852004-06-10T19:45:00.000-04:002004-06-10T19:58:52.906-04:00Why is it that when a movie comes on tv that I already own on DVD, meaning I could watch it without commercial interruption in 5.1 dolby surround with SRS and a bunch of other crap which I don't use because I don't know what the hell it is, that I always end up sitting and watching the "edited for tv" version.
You know, the version with the little TBS symbol in the bottom right, Mel Gibson Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086904721480340052004-06-10T17:57:00.000-04:002004-06-10T19:18:03.006-04:00I had to post something to move that horrible Stephen Harper head further down the page.
I'm trying to understand the polls that have been coming out recently over the past few days. First we have the SES rolling polls which for the past week have been giving the Conservatives a growing lead over the Liberals, then yesterday and today a Leger poll and an Ipsos Reid poll showed the Liberals Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086786151222424502004-06-09T08:56:00.000-04:002004-06-09T09:02:31.223-04:00Ed's Back!
The NDP have a nice little website, simple yet it convey's their message. That is if orange on green doesn't make you ill.
Just watched a fun little video from their site called "Ed's Back", which looks like something a bunch of 80 year old ad execs might produce if they were trying to target the "MTV Generation". It runs a little long, but it's interesting.
Windows Media. For Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086655022791359092004-06-07T20:33:00.000-04:002004-06-07T20:37:54.120-04:00Loathsome. That's the first word that I think of when I see the following picture of Stephen Harper, which I stole from the Bourque website.
Click on the picture to visit Bourque Newswatch.
Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086559007830516892004-06-06T17:54:00.000-04:002004-06-06T18:54:36.006-04:00National Post story
Harper's press secretary slaps Canadian Press photographer, tells him to 'shut up'
Anger boiled over on the Stephen Harper campaign this week when press secretary Carolyn Stewart-Olsen told a Canadian Press photographer to "shut up" and gave him two gentle slaps on the face, saying she was not happy with the pictures he has been taking.
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Harper's defenders are driven Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086487844412937152004-06-05T16:25:00.000-04:002004-06-05T22:10:44.413-04:00I'm working on a post, go away.
No, wait, if you're looking for something to read, try this from the Washington Monthly. It's an article called Blog Navel Gazing, and is related to the issue of the post I'm working on.Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086405123685386302004-06-04T22:49:00.000-04:002004-06-04T23:55:30.003-04:00New girl from work has a blog. Not a political blog, a wacky blog.
A wacky, wacky blog. This girl has enough steel pierced thru her tongue to build a car.
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and something fun I found on her blog: bukakkeEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086320120676366692004-06-03T23:14:00.000-04:002004-06-03T23:52:16.350-04:00I'm putting my foot down (some would say I'm stamping my feet). Nobody is allowed to phone me between 10:45 and 11:30 while the election campaign is on. Fortunately the hockey game is in OT which means I can still catch The National.
While writing this, Calgary scored the winning goal. I haven't watched a lot of Flames hockey, but I have to say that I am very impressed by their defence, basedEarthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106971.post-1086310394474213812004-06-03T20:43:00.000-04:002004-06-03T21:28:33.646-04:00Things you don't need to happen during your election campaign
Stephen Harper's election campaign seems determined to go off the rails. I've avoided criticizing Harper for insignificant flaws in his campaign, but it's pretty hard to ignore what happened today, especially since the occurrence was caught on camera.
The picture below is of Bob Smyth, an elderly protester being punched in the face Earthwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03978544573763135416noreply@blogger.com