Partisan rants & city politics
LibraryThing allows me to generate a little dealie bopper with random book covers from my personal "library", so the technological imperative - also available in poem form - demands I put it over there on the right somewhere.
Gold, Stephen, gold:
Here's how it works. The president makes decisions, he's the decider.
The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down.
Make, announce, type. Put them through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head.
You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know--fiction."
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"So, you would think that if they're going to have salmon on the menu you would check to make sure, you know, and I take her at face value, it was a mistake but at the same time, oops, oh my God, right."Here, the CKNW News Talk 980, have a trophy.
I wonder what it feels like, for a cluster of sari-wearing South Asian women strolling along the pedestrian tunnel between the North-South and East-West platforms of Spadina station, to encounter an Asian dude playing Sitar through some serious effects pedals (surrounded by a cluster of gangsta-looking white kids)?
While most of the auditioning entertainers are guitarists, the list of instruments played at the auditions has included the balalaika, violin, kalimba (thumb piano), cello, saxophone, mandolin, cimbalon, dizi (Chinese Flute) pan flute, banjo, dijerridoo, bassoon, hurdy-gurdy and steel pans.
Speaking of taking pages from Tex's playbook, this just in:
Tories keep media away from coffins
The Conservative government has taken steps to keep the public from seeing images of flag-draped coffins when fallen soldiers are returned home from Afghanistan.
For the first time since the Afghan mission began, the government will shut down an Ontario airfield when the remains of four soldiers killed over the weekend are returned Tuesday.
Government officials said the new directive is permanent.
It echoes a policy attempted by the Bush administration. Concerns that a stream of images of coffins draped in the Stars and Stripes would diminish public support for the Iraq war prompted the White House to impose a publication ban...
A source at the Department of National Defence said that the request for privacy did not come from the military, and flew in the face of longstanding Canadian Forces practice.
Ahh, the power of the Internet. It's great for finding reviews of consumer goods before you buy them, isn't it? Except that most reviews are either written by sites that got the product as schwag -- often from an advertiser that makes (or sells) the product -- or are essentially reviews of press releases for products that don't yet exist.
Yesterday, word emerged that Harper will change government policy so that Parliament's flags will not be flown at half mast each time another soldier is killed in Afghanistan. We've got Remembrance Day to comemorate fallen soldiers both contemporary and historic, after all, so why bother making a fuss about a few more war dead?
"We have witnessed the party that governed our country over most of its history, embroiled in behaviour that is comparable to that of countries at the bottom of the world corruption index...
"We saw an orchestrated attempt to impugn a Canadian political leader (Harper) whose integrity is beyond reproach and a person who openly honours Christian values, but respects all religions."
"The TTC will welcome a much-anticipated addition to its fleet of surface vehicles on Thursday, April 20th, with the arrival of the first Orion VII Low-Floor Hybrid bus. Member of Parliament Mike Wallace, Ontario Transportation Minister Harinder Takhar, Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten, and Toronto Mayor David Miller, representing the three levels of government that provided the $112 million funding for this 150-bus purchase, and TTC Chair Howard Moscoe will all be on hand to welcome the first environmentally friendly hybrid bus, the first hybrid bus fleet in service in Canada..." Labels: ttc
The City provides free post and rings, on any City-owned property, upon request. Request them for any number of locations and ask for as many as you think each location requires. Post and rings area great way to increase bicycle parking anywhere in the City, such as at offices, stores, buildings or parks. Use the on-line form or call 416-392-9253.
To test Google Calendar's functionality (and my competence therewith), I created a shared public calendar for Seneca College's Summer 2006 academic dates, which should now be available in XML or iCal format.
Larissa and I share a transferable Metropass, but she uses it to commute to Humber most weekdays. When I have daytime errands to run (which is often) I feel like a chump paying token/ticket fares or waiting until the pass is free in the evenings (but many stores are closed and bus service is less frequent).
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