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A Palm Reading From Palin’s Future

It’s 2013. Sarah Palin has been elected President of the Unites States. In her first foray into international affairs she announces that she’s going to resolve this pesky and long standing dispute between North and South Korea. Her adoring supporters revel in her steely resolve, and her self proclaimed willingness to “take the bull by the tail and look it firmly in the eye”.

February 8, 2010 | 4 Comments | Permalink

My Inheritance Should Be Here Soon

 

I have been trading emails for the last week with a very nice Nigerian man named Reverend David Johnson who is very concerned that I get the inheritance that is due to me and thought you all might be interested in how that’s going :-)

February 7, 2010 | 5 Comments | Permalink

Every Now And Again –

 

– you just want to grab people and shake them until they quit being so f*cking stupid.

It sounds like something from a distant, darker time. Acting on anonymous calls to a snitch line, authorities single out people on the basis of their race and order them to leave town. “We trust that you understand the seriousness of this letter and will govern yourself accordingly,” the eviction letters conclude.

 

But it was just this week that the letters were delivered by Mohawk chiefs to non-natives residing in Kahnawake, a reserve southwest of Montreal. The recipients’ offence was moving in with a Mohawk lover, and they were given 10 days to pack up.

When the law is wrong people have an obligation to not only ignore it, but to actively work at overthrowing it, along with those who instigated it.

February 7, 2010 | 2 Comments | Permalink

What Happens In Iraq –

 

– apparently doesn’t always stay in Iraq

U.S. soldier ‘waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn’t recite alphabet’

February 7, 2010 | 1 Comment | Permalink

Because That’s The Way It’s Always Been Done

 

A short video that sums up the political process very nicely.

February 7, 2010 | 4 Comments | Permalink

Dear CBC Radio In Ottawa

Dearest CBC: without wishing in any way to disparage the anecdotal prowess of your hosts, if I wanted ersatz bonhomie I would be listening to stations that feature “personalities” with names like “Woody” or “the Shark”. These are not examples to emulated, CBC: these are object lessons in how horribly wrong radio can go – distilled stupid, boiling iodine rubbed directly into our frayed and quivering early morning minds.

February 5, 2010 | 23 Comments | Permalink

I Suppose I Should Feel More Sympathy Than I Do – But…….

 

The cops in Inuvik are apparently feeling demoralized because a man who assaulted one of their own got a light sentence for doing so – I’ve tried to work up a bunch of sympathy for their plight but, because of things like 15 year old girls being tasered while handcuffed and the officer pulling the trigger being cleared by his mates, and others of the brotherhood quite literally getting away with killing folks, it’s sort of a tough job.

February 2, 2010 | 3 Comments | Permalink

Every Once in a While the Mask Slips…

…and the real ugly shines through.

February 2, 2010 | 37 Comments | Permalink

Spring Is Coming !!

 

Yes folks, not one, but two (count ‘em two!!), of our great nations most famous furry prognosticators have emerged fromtheir dens to tell us that spring is coming early for Canadians this year.

February 2, 2010 | 11 Comments | Permalink

Apologia pro absentia sua

I won’t be very present here for the next few weeks, for the usual seasonal reasons, and then some. Stay calm. Be brave. And watch for the signs.

February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment | Permalink

Oh Jeeze, They Let Both Secrets Out Of The Bag

 

We all assumed that the biggest secret in Olympic history, and the biggest secret in Canadian National history, would remain ….. well ….. secret – now we want to know who talked.

February 1, 2010 | 13 Comments | Permalink

Just Trying To Do The Right Thing?

Ten American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti at a time of growing fears over possible child trafficking.

 

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“In this chaos the government is in right now, we were just trying to do the right thing,” the group’s spokeswoman, Laura Silsby, said at the judicial police headquarters in the capital, where the Americans were being held pending a hearing before a judge on Monday.

January 31, 2010 | 15 Comments | Permalink

Let Them Eat Eskimo Pie!

In which Charles Anthony of the Politic dons his Marie Antoinette ruffles and prescribes a cure for Inuit infant mortality.

January 31, 2010 | 6 Comments | Permalink

Who Says Growing Old Has To Be Boring

The FBI says the so-called “Geezer Bandit“ has struck again in San Diego.

 

The FBI says a frail, elderly man gave a clerk a note demanding money and pulled a handgun Wednesday at San Diego National Bank. He left with an unspecified amount of cash.

January 30, 2010 | 8 Comments | Permalink

Shorter PMO

 

Other than the fact than a whole bunch of people saw three of them in the sky, and took pictures, there is absolutely no indication of a rocket launch over Newfoundland.

January 29, 2010 | 6 Comments | Permalink

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