trashy Profile
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2009-07-17
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My scribblings are mostly of a political bent. I also talk about family, sports or other things that.. catch my attention. I'm not going to change the world with my posts, but I have the.. satisfaction of knowing that I have said what needed saying.
Other Tags: canada, canadian politics, conservative party, attacks ads, stephen harper
Latest Blog Posts
- EC group at CAPE – pay attention!The rest of you need not read further as you’ll have no idea what I am writing about. But for the ECs… Please vote and vote against the 3 resolutions we are being asked to consider. The radical leadership of our once moderate labour group...
- Let’s call this a Thursday rant…on Jun 16, 2016 in Ottawa social media bike lanes complainers cyclists Game of Thrones OC Transpo rant sinkholes(… well, technically I am writing this on Wednesday night but it won’t pop up till tomorrow..) Rant # 1 – People on social media who make a fulltime job of bitching and complaining about everything. Like, EVERYTHING! A sampling from...
- Much ado about almost nothing…So here I am sitting wide-awake at 2 am because I couldn`t sleep last night, woke up with a blinding headache and spent most of the daylight hours slumbering away… In an attempt to find the peace that is sleepy-land, I thought I`d throw some words...
- Fort McMurray firesI don’t know about you, but I am blown away by the images I am seeing out of northern Alberta. Keep in mind that Fort Mac is a city of about 90,000 and much of it could go up in flames. If you are able, please donate to the Red Cross relief eff...
- Muzzling elected officials…… is a worrisome development and one that has been codified by the Ottawa Carleton District School Board (OCDSB). Trustee Blackburn is outspoken, no doubt. And sometimes, like all of us, she likely says things that she wishes she could take ba...
- National Volunteer Week, 2016Anyone who knows me is well aware of the importance I place on volunteering one’s time freely and gladly for the benefit of the wider community. Without volunteers, there would be little help for those down on their luck and living on the stree...
- The anti Uber argument…… reminds me of the old story of the electric light and the candlestick makers… NO! The candlestick makers said. We invested. We thought our industry would last forever! The electric light makers don’t have to go by the same rules!
- Here there be dragons…… are words that you can find on old sailor navigation maps that are meant to say: “Hey fools! Stay away from here! Like, don’t even THINK about it!”. The American people would serve themselves well to heed these warnings. Ra...
- That point when you know that something has gone too far…You know, extreme fashion like bell bottoms and clothes made from meat, a practical joke that pushed the limits of good taste, Boy George… That kind of too far. Sooooo, America? You have now and officially gone too far. Stop the stupidity. Now,...
- Quote of the week…… from the Guardian: Stephen Harper, Canada’s former prime minister, was a vacuous, anodyne nothing, as magnetic on the public stage as the podium he spoke from. His occasional efforts to ingratiate himself to younger voters – or rather the...
- About that storm…… that we had in Ottawa yesterday. All things considered, I think the City staff and equipment handled the situation the best they could. More than fifty centimetres of snow fell in about a 14 hour span… very challenging for City crews. H...
- The death of a newspaperI have never been the biggest fan of the Ottawa Citizen. Ever. Preaching, self-righteous columnists like David Warren turned me off the paper years ago. Their coverage is usually biased, overtly partisan and sometimes poorly written. However. And it...
- Diamond dogs and suffragettes….on Jan 11, 2016 in music david bowieIn spite of my love for his music since I was a child, I didn’t get a chance to see Bowie until the spring of 2004 here in Ottawa. I took my then 11 year-old eldest daughter with me. I thought it important at the time that her first live conce...
- Crazy will beget more crazy…So bye-bye 2015 and hi to 2016! 2015 was pretty momentous, yo. What with a new game in town on the Hill, the Jays making a legit run to the WS and Donald Trump proving once again that are neighbours to the south can be a bit unbalanced from time to t...
- Request that the CBSA ban Donald Trump from entering CanadaThe following is a letter from my buddy, Mike. ======================================= Open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada … Dear Sir: On behalf of Ca...
- The world may be a bit crazy right now…… but at least the weather is awesome – if you are a winter-hater like me! No white death powder in the forecast well into December! Woot! Yeah, Turkey has provoked war with Russia, the whole freaking world is freaking freaked out by what...
- Remember…(0) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario...
- Harperendum, the main stream media and some final thoughts on #elxn42…With the revelations that in the dying days of the campaign a strategy was floated in the CPC war room that would have Harper come out and declare that this would be his last election, it confirms something that I suspected a few weeks ago: that the...
- My predictions for Monday…… so you can all laugh at me on Tuesday… (0) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario...
- This week’s CPC attack ads – EXCLUSIVE!!!With the polls saying that the Harperites are in real trouble in many previously “safe” ridings, Canadians can expect to see and hear a whole new suite of anti-Trudeau ads over the final days of this looooooonnnnggggg campaign. My ope...
