4156...Cheap B*stard

That would be Outremont MP and NDP leadership front runner Thomas Muclair.

The Ottawa Citizen's front page reveals such.

Mr. Muclair has given Z E R O dollars to the Dippers since forever.

Perhaps he is not aware of the 75 per cent tax credit.

Or he is a cheap b*stard.

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4155...John Travolta Has A Tear In His Eye

For his co star from back in the day, Robert Hegyes aka Epstein on Welcome Back Kotter.

I was tipped by Facebook friend Dave Yazbeck who linked me to a Los Angeles Times article that sadly tells that the sixty year old Mr. Hegyes died in New Jersey yesterday of a heart attack.

Sadness.

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4154...Mopeds Cull The Herd

Send this to Stephen Harper please.

I was on 2KHOU's website yesterday. It is Honolulu's oldest TV station. Or not.

I digress.

They had a great story about how mopeds are picking off seniors at an alarming [if you like cotton heads that is] rate.

Apparently allowing super annuated people who have had their licences pulled by the DMV to ride motorized vehicles [that go like 30 KMH] has resulted in a lot of uncoordinated old people with vision and balance issues in Hawaii to die.

Mr. Harper, if they dead you don't have to pay jack.

Here is the plan: on everyone's 65th birthday they get a moped. No license, no insurance and soon less geysers crowding the mall.

Culling the herd.

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4153...Stephen Harper Now Takes On Oldies

Before I wrap my garbage in it I always take time to read the Ottawa Citizen, the paper of record in your capital.

In today's wrappings was a story that our beloved leader, who is in Davos, Switzerland for the Smart Guy Money Conference, is planning on f*cking with the money old folks get in our Canada, and it ain't much, like six hundredish. What the Stephen Harpers plan to do is "...gradually change the Old Age Security system so that the age of eligibility is raised to 67 from 65."

This won't affect his base who are RRSP'd and Real Estated up their hineys. No, the folks that it will affect are those at the bottom, the one per cent of the ninety per cent, who didn't plan ahead. And don't vote.

Personally I think Mr. Harper should just buy old folks a moped when they hit 65.

Works in Hawaii.

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4152...Ron Paul Went Yard

That is what Len Berman tells me.

Mr. Berman sent me an email that said, in part, that "You might be interested to learn that Paul is the only Congressman to have ever hit a home run over the fence in the Congressional baseball game's 50-year history. And you thought he was just another pretty face."

And he did it without steroids.

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4151...Jerry Jones Has Alzheimer's

Or stupidizer's.

I don't get it. I have a TV and watched the Dallas Cowboy's owner/s team choke it out a number of times this year, specifically against the New Jersey Jets early and the New Jersey Giants in a must win game in the very last game of the season.

The key choker was Quarterback Tony Romo.

Yet Jerry Jones told CBS Sports that, I paraphrase, "...Romo was the man...the rest of the team lagged behind..."

Mr. Jones, wtf?

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4150...Tim Thomas

In case you don't know him, Tim Thomas plays goalie for the Stanley Cup champeen Boston Bruins.

Pains me to say that btw: Stanley Cup champeen Boston Bruins.

I digress.

The other day, Monday, the Big Bad Bruins were invited to meet President Obama at the White House. Mr. Thomas, an American and the best goalie in the world, declined to join his fellows at the White House because he thinks that the Prez sucks as a Prez and that is that.

Geez you would have thought he had killed someone. Everyone is weighing in on this and, with the notable exception of moi, everyone is hating on Mr. Thomas. An example thereof was in/on Boston.com today quoting the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Deval Patrick who said that

“He’s a phenomenal hockey player and he’s entitled to his views, but it just feels to me like we’re losing in this country basic courtesy and grace,” Patrick said.

“I didn’t think much of President Bush’s policies – two wars on a credit card, prescription drug benefit that we couldn’t afford, deficit out of control – but I always referred to him as ‘Mr. President.’ I stood when he came in the room,” Patrick said in his monthly appearance on the “Ask the Governor” segment on WTKK-FM.

“There are rules to live by so I don’t want to make more of this than is deserving. I guess I’d prefer to pay more attention and offer more commentary when there are acts of grace as opposed to the reverse,” he said...

Okay, so here is the deal. First off America [and Canada] is supposed to be all about freedom. So, doesn't it follow that Mr. Thomas should be free to not go to the White House?

End of story.

There has to be more important sh*t going on in this world than a man who wears a helmet to work declining to meet the POTUS.

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