Politics
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Photo by: Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel For those who don’t know, I don’t live in the U.S. I live in Canada, which means I still have a large vested interest in the activities of our friend and neighbour to the south. As such, I have been following with some interest the campaigns for the leadership of…
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A post has shown up in the Facebook updates of a couple of people I know which got me a little wound up. Being me, I quite naturally fired off a response and moved on, but I couldn’t get it out of my head. It kept nagging at me, so I did a bit more…
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Here in Ottawa, the National Capitol Commission (NCC) issued an eviction notice to the Occupy My Last Nerve crowd in Confederation Park. The official midnight deadline passed and the Occupiers are still Occupied Occupying a park they have no right to camp in. Kudos to the NCC for being spineless bureaucrats worried about offending a…
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Usually, I try not to write about the same thing two days in a row. This isn’t my fault though. If the Occupy the Media people would just shut up, I could move on peacefully. Instead, they are talking about maybe issuing demands. Really? Demands? Who do they think they are? What right do they…
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It seems some jokes have a shelf life. Apparently, people are done laughing at the Occupy (Camp) Wherever movement. Now, like “Train-wreck” Charlie’s one man show, it’s time to get them off the stage. The protesters have proven their irrelevance. Two months into their protest, the only people who care about their pet issues are…
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Working on catching up on my NaNoWriMo project so not a lot of time for the blog tonight. Serious backlog of writing to take care of. The timing is however quite excellent. I had not idea what to write about tonight. Of course, this is also true of the novel I’m supposed to be writing. …
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Greetings from the land of poor but quick writing. One of the key pieces of advice for this process is don’t edit as you write. Just get the words down on the page and worry about everything else later. That’s why I specify poor writing. turns out it’s not too hard to write badly. Writing…
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In a recent article in Macleans, Jesse Brown was talking about the new Aakash tablet which is being made in India. It’s not here yet, but it’s likely coming soon. The first thing to know about it, is that it’s a bottom end tablet. The processor is slow. The networking is substandard and there’s no…
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Conservative Canadian Senator Nicole Eaton has launched a campaign to replace the beaver as the symbol of Canada. What you may wonder did she want to replace it with? The “majestic and splendid polar bear”. According to the allegedly honorable member, “The polar bear is the largest terrestrial carnivore… holding reign over the arctic for…
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So yesterday I wrote about the Conservatives plan to spend billions on new F-35 fighter aircraft. Here’s a quick follow up. The tab for 65 F-35 fighters will ring in around nine billion dollars. But wait, it gets better. When you purchase a bunch of shiny new aircraft, you need parts and service on them. …
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