6146...Senator Goes To Jail

And not a nice joint either.

CBC reports that "Former Liberal senator Raymond Lavigne has been sent to jail for breach of trust and defrauding the Senate of more than $10,000 in phoney travel expense claims.  Lavigne was sentenced in 2011 to six months behind bars, and another six months of house arrest after his release, but he appealed both the convictions and the sentence."



Here is what this weasel did.  "Lavigne was convicted of having filed mileage expense claims totalling $10,120 for 54 trips between Ottawa and Montreal made by one of his Senate staffers.

He had charged the Senate $217 for each trip but paid the staffer only $50."  Eve Adams, are you taking notes?  He also got a 55K a year researcher, Michel Gendron, to chop down 60 trees at his shack in Wakefield, P.Q., just north of Ottawa.  Paid for by taxpayers.  Of course paid for by taxpayers.

The best part is that Mr. Lavigne will, thankfully, be getting his senate pension forever at 79K.  Indexed.  

The bad part is he is doing his time at the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Detention Centre.  They don't play at the Holiday Innes as the photo from The Ottawa Citizen below of a convict who got tuned up while residing there attests.

A word to the wise Mr. Lavigne.  STFU.

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6145...Ranch Dressing Flavoured Pop

OMG.

OMFG.

What are they thinking at Lester's Fixins?

These are the folks who have brought you hipster pops with flavours like chicken wing, Buffalo style, bacon, peanut butter and jelly.  The latest flav in their Rocket Fizz line is Ranch Dressing Soda.



According to the review in a Huffington Post earlier this week Coke and Diet Coke are safe.  To wit:   ""The smell is like blue cheese and plastic and smelly feet. The taste is just like sugar and coconut, but THE SMELL IS SO REPULSIVE THAT I CANNOT GET PAST IT."  More wit:  "You know, there is almost nothing I won't eat, but the smell of this alone made my eyes water. The taste isn't the problem, it just tastes like sugar soda. The problem is the lactic, blue-cheesy, synthetic aroma that enters your soft palate and nose as you swallow. Just thinking about it is giving me the shivers.

I mean, why not mess with buttermilk powder and garlic extract before you turn to some weird synthetic chemical? This tastes like you soaked blue cheese in sunscreen in a plastic tub on a hot day, and then forced it through a seltzer siphon. "

Available soon at an overpriced health food store near you.

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6144...Honey Boo-Boo Back In July

Pretend you don't know who she is.

She, of course, is Honey Boo-Boo, the star of TLC's number one show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, a show that gets 2.3 million viewers a week.  She is also the reporter that outted Anderson Cooper; even though everybody knew.  If you translated her ratings into hipster one would find that Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo beats CNN's Strombo by about 20 viewers to 1.  And is less self centred.



This season's debut on July 17 should be exciting cause it is the first ever Watch'n'Sniff show in television history.  The Wrap.com says "Here's how it works: The network is distributing nearly 10 million scent cards nationwide, including the July 5 People magazine and July 12 Us Weekly. Select Time Warner Cable retail stores nationwide also will carry the cards nationwide, and street teams will pass out the cards in major cities."

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6143...Regina NDPers Baby Duffy Doppleganger

Dya think while Dr. Marc Spooner, University of Regina prof and challenger to Ralph Goodale last time out, was campaigning Senator Mike Duffy, Kanata-PEI, may have whipped out to the Queen City for you know what?

May I present Thomas Corvus Spooner, newbornish, as exhibit number one.




Wait, no, if Senator Duffy flew to Regina he would have expensed it.  May be even double expensed it.

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6142...Wallin Splains All To CBC

See the problem, the reason, the Senator from Saskatchewan cheated on her expense thingys is coz, as she told CBC's The National, "There's a lot of paperwork particularly in government, every time you move, every time you go anywhere. Sort of more paperwork than is humanly possible to keep on top of. So I made mistakes..."



Yeah.  Surre.  Right.

Plus she has no staff and making a paltry six figure plus salary she cannot afford an accountant, a tax lawyer or batteries for her calculator.

Or she is lying.

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6141...Rob Ford's Cable: Is It Working?

Heard on CFRA yesterday that the mayor of Hogtown missed out on the news of the big police raid, 800 officers, coz his cable was out.

And the dog was on the phone.

My goodness Rob Ford does like to tell tales, doesn't he?

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6140...Don't You Know Who I Am?

Y'know if you have to say that then you can be pretty sure that they don't know who you are.

Thomas Mulcair, the chief Dipper, tried to pull that tried and failed canard on the Queen's Cowboys yesterday morning on The Hill.  CTV reports that he "...was involved in a security breach on Parliament Hill Thursday morning when he failed to stop at an RCMP screening facility and blasted through a number of stop signs.  The NDP leader reportedly only waved at security staff as he drove through the open gates. He then drove through at least six stop signs on the parliamentary grounds, even as an RCMP vehicle pursued his car with its lights on.  Mulcair did not pull over until he reached his parking space behind Centre Block."

Then, like the pompous ass he is known to be, he told the copper that he, the copper, was going to be "“in a lot of trouble.”

Mr. Mulcair's car looks like a Volvo; nice to see he buys Canadian.  

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