The Monday Morn
I'm not one of the lucky ones
Well it never happened - my sitting by the phone and sending telepathic messages to the PM didn't work. I am not one of the 18 people who will win the lottery this morning. The PM is to announce the names of his new Senators today, or tomorrow - but soon. All we have to do is wonder at the qualifications needed to be one of the lucky 18 as we scan the list and look for character to jump out at us so we can say, "Good Choice, Steve!". My bet for one of them is the Puffster, the four foot cubed personality that oozes unction - Mike Duffy. of CTV. Well at least the appointment will do two things: increase the minimum width of a Senate stool and get him off the airwaves.
The Nanny State strikes again
Say goodbye to the best buy of the Season, "Buck a Beer" is dead. In a story in the G&M this morning here, one of the regulatory boards that the Government has (buried so far deep in the bowels of the Province nobody knew about it) has decided to raise the minimum price of a box of beer. Citing its "Social responsibility" mandate this obscure board has raised the price from $24 to $25.60 a case. This is supposed to send the message that beer is too cheap and some people may abuse it and the raise will forestall that possibility. [that message stands by itself - ed]
Now how about that snow?
The snow must have been cumulatively 30 inches high at the end of the driveway. The plethora of ploughs pushed the piles [enough -ed] higher all weekend. All we have to do is to sit for another day and we can have more - can't wait!. Seriously as a spectator on the main road that the Town trucks travel on it has been my privilige to observe just how much salt this stretch of University gets - a lot. Surely two applications might do it not a dump from each truck.
How to steal an election (a Conservative view)
Normally it is the left of centre pundits who scream about stolen elections, but Minnesota has produced the same cry from Conservatives, inevitable really they are now losing. Here is an article written from the Con perspective about (the author calls himself the Intellectual Conservative) Franken stealing the votes. BTW he is now ahead by a slim margin giving the Dems in the Senate another seat.
Well it never happened - my sitting by the phone and sending telepathic messages to the PM didn't work. I am not one of the 18 people who will win the lottery this morning. The PM is to announce the names of his new Senators today, or tomorrow - but soon. All we have to do is wonder at the qualifications needed to be one of the lucky 18 as we scan the list and look for character to jump out at us so we can say, "Good Choice, Steve!". My bet for one of them is the Puffster, the four foot cubed personality that oozes unction - Mike Duffy. of CTV. Well at least the appointment will do two things: increase the minimum width of a Senate stool and get him off the airwaves.
The Nanny State strikes again
Say goodbye to the best buy of the Season, "Buck a Beer" is dead. In a story in the G&M this morning here, one of the regulatory boards that the Government has (buried so far deep in the bowels of the Province nobody knew about it) has decided to raise the minimum price of a box of beer. Citing its "Social responsibility" mandate this obscure board has raised the price from $24 to $25.60 a case. This is supposed to send the message that beer is too cheap and some people may abuse it and the raise will forestall that possibility. [that message stands by itself - ed]
Now how about that snow?
The snow must have been cumulatively 30 inches high at the end of the driveway. The plethora of ploughs pushed the piles [enough -ed] higher all weekend. All we have to do is to sit for another day and we can have more - can't wait!. Seriously as a spectator on the main road that the Town trucks travel on it has been my privilige to observe just how much salt this stretch of University gets - a lot. Surely two applications might do it not a dump from each truck.
How to steal an election (a Conservative view)
Normally it is the left of centre pundits who scream about stolen elections, but Minnesota has produced the same cry from Conservatives, inevitable really they are now losing. Here is an article written from the Con perspective about (the author calls himself the Intellectual Conservative) Franken stealing the votes. BTW he is now ahead by a slim margin giving the Dems in the Senate another seat.
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