6204...Cote Ste. Luc Loves Marois

Wait, no, that is not it.

This Canada Day pic is copied from Facebook and was taken in Cote Ste. Luc, a neighbourhood on the north west side of MTL.



By the way the note to Premier Pauline Marois is illegal.

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6203...Glastonbury Update: Mick And Keith

From The Daily Mail via WRAT FM, New Jersey and Dean Rivando on Facebook comes these two scary monsters.




They are still upright and working though which is more than I can say for many of us old timers.

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6202...Poor Senator What's Her Name

That would be "Government Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton...[who tells The Hill Times that]...the Senate expenses scandal-which has rocked the government and the Prime Minister's Office for months, has seen the resignations of three Conservative Senators and one Liberal from their parties' caucuses, along with the resignation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff, and now includes an RCMP criminal investigation-has been 'trying' on Canada's Upper Chamber."  A nice six month run for the Red Chamber.  Let's see, Senators Brazeau, Duffy, Harb and Wallin have, allegedly, been caught stealing and Senator Fairburn has been caught not knowing what is what but still voting.

Interestingly neither the Tory leader nor Senator James Cowan, the Liberal leader in the Senate, have suggested that the unelected chamber just sucks the big one and should be abolished.

The only Senators in your capital that have any respect carry a big stick with them when they go to work.

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6201...AB Sen Points Out Harper's Lies

That would be Liberal Senator [you thought it would be a Tory?  Really?] Grant Mitchell who last week on his website pointed out that our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, be telling nose stretchers when it comes to job creation.

The Senator writes that "We are inundated with an onslaught of propaganda about how the Conservative government is creating jobs.  I became very skeptical of this mantra when I saw them reporting jobs created since 2008-2009, rather than since the beginning of their mandate in 2006. And with good reason. They state that they have created 910,000 jobs since 2008-2009."

He then goes on to list how the Stephen Harpers have, at best, spun the narrative.

1. That half of these jobs are replacements for jobs lost between 2006 and 2008. So, they have created in the order of only 450,000 net new jobs since the beginning of their mandate. That amounts to roughly 5,500 jobs per month. Paltry.
2. How many of these new jobs were Temporary Foreign Worker jobs?
3. How many of these new jobs were unpaid internships which they count as employment?
4. How does the quality and pay of these jobs compare to that of the jobs lost?
5. Why it took Harper over 7 years to start lamenting the lack of skills training that is at the root of jobs going without people with the qualifications to fill them?
6. That 254,000 young peoples' jobs were lost from 2006 to 2009 and that they have not been replaced at all, and in fact 3000 more have been lost since then. And, how many more jobs lost were replaced by unpaid internships which would mostly be filled by young workers.

Imagine, the Stephen Harpers lying.

I am aghast.

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6200...Sarah Palin's Freedom Party

Y'know I had really high hopes for the former Governor of Alaska from the first time I saw her, which was the night she gave her speech as the Veep nominee at the '08 Republican convention.  Others may have disrespected her but not I.  This has changed.  Methinks she has got a big dose of the crazies now.




The latest news from Sarah Palin is why I think she has a big dose of the crazies.  The latest is that the GOP is too liberal for her.  Wants to branch out on her own.  The New York Daily News, Archie Bunker's paper of choice by the way, reports that "Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin entertained building a "Freedom Party" 

while answering Twitter questions on Fox News Saturday."


She so wants to be a 1000$ question on Jeopardy this time next decade, eh?

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6199...Christian Values

This applies on both sides of the border.



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6198...God Has A 50K Ask

The helicopter needs rotors.  

The Dailykos.com tells the WFDS that "Bishop I.V. Hilliard of the New Light Christian Church has his Texas congregation talking after he sent out a newsletter asking his congregation to donate $50,000. Was he starting a food pantry? Working with disadvantaged families? Moving people out of homelessness? Oh, no. He needs new blades for his million dollar helicopter."



Apparently if you, that is you, not me, pledge 52 dollars a week for 52 weeks the Lord will look into getting you, not me, a new ride.  

Yeah, surrrrrre.

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