Comments on The Burd Report: I am sure this opinion will be used as evidence

Last week Port Hope Police Chief Ron Hoath spoke a...

2009-02-26T17:21:00.000-05:00

Last week Port Hope Police Chief Ron Hoath spoke about the savings to be had from amalgamating police services. This week Chief Hoath said that he had been ordered by the police board not to speak about police amalgamation or joint services with Cobourg. Evidently all the talking will, from now on, be done by the mayors and the CAOs.

Your "Sanity in Port Hope" remark may have been too hasty a conclusion, easily made, like a hole in water.

I made a mistake this morning too much sunshine an...

2009-02-18T12:49:00.000-05:00

I made a mistake this morning too much sunshine and haven't converted from mexican time yet. If you read the story before 8.54 am Wally was right. If you read it after 8.54 am I was right. I didn't fact check aggressively enough and proofreader Wally pointed it out, I then rewrote the story and sat in a corner for ten minutes.

Hey Wally - read the item carefully. Ben wrote tha...

2009-02-18T12:35:00.000-05:00

Hey Wally - read the item carefully. Ben wrote that a 20 year old driver was smoking in a car with a 15 year old in it. That was the fact as reported and I think you got it all screwy, n'est pas?

Once upon a time I learned that totalitarianism is...

2009-02-18T11:50:00.000-05:00

Once upon a time I learned that totalitarianism is a situation where
(1)everything is prohibited except that which is permitted,
whereas a democracy is defined as a situation where
(2)everything is permitted except that which is prohibited.

Over my lifetime, I have witnessed an escalation of things that have to be controlled, curtailed, restricted, monitored, regulated, restrained, moderated, shut down, prohibited, banned. All kinds of unproductive govern mental bureaucrazies have been set up as overseers of it all. The forces of NO NO NO have infected our universities whereby students cannot display images, hold meetings, speak freely.

All done in the name of some social good, environmental good, health good, ad nauseum. Whatever happened to the days when a child could drop his popsicle on the ground, wipe it off with a dirty finger, and continue licking it to the depths of his happy little heart?

I want my childhoodlum back! Pass me that joint, please.

So, Good ole Jeff, the tiny perfect Deputy Mayor, ...

2009-02-18T11:11:00.001-05:00

So, Good ole Jeff, the tiny perfect Deputy Mayor, has, in effect, outed himself. He returns from vacation wearing a stunning out-fit loomed with the warp of hubris and the weft of nemesis. Looks good on him

Love the story of the deposing of Jeff Lees. Could...

2009-02-18T10:55:00.000-05:00

Love the story of the deposing of Jeff Lees. Could we try something similar in Cobourg?

What I want to know is whether Jeff Lees and Hector McMillan are really the same guy or just clones? They seem to sing from the same prayer book. Both are big guys with big mouths who seem to think they know what's best for everybody else.

Yes Wally I was wrong , the driver had a ciggie an...

2009-02-18T08:52:00.000-05:00

Yes Wally I was wrong , the driver had a ciggie and the cop knew there was a 15 year old in the car

My understanding from news reports is that the dri...

2009-02-18T08:48:00.000-05:00

My understanding from news reports is that the driver was smoking, and that once the car was stopped, the 15 year old female passenger got out an lit up. Where did you learn that the 15-year-old was the only one smoking inside the car?