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Hydro finally came and trimmed the tree branches away from the power lines. Now my power won't flicker every time it gets windy and my cable won't slow to dial-up speeds when there's a storm. Hmmm...I should get one of those trucks with the bucket on it. That looks like fun.

Damned thing. 3 hours to get it apart because every damned bolt has been rusting in place since 1982. Not even an impact wrench will break these bolts free. I had to heat every one of them with a feckin' torch. Then, once I get the clutch out so I can compare, I discover that they sold me...

Stephen Harper fired fifteen (we think) staffers today. The number could be higher. This after losing three senior staffers, including his chief of staff, earlier this year. These were loyal people, some of them former candidates who didn't get elected. Although nobody in the Conservative...

Canada has just won another round in the softwood lumber dispute. I've lost track of how many times we've won this...how many NAFTA decisions the US has illegally ignored while levying millions in illegal tariffs. This should be the final attack from the US on softwood. We've won every...

From Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Cruel Confinement of 'Enemy Combatant' in United States Complaint Provides First Look at Isolation and Abuse (New York, August 8, 2005)—A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a...

Canadian National Rail, run out of Chicago since it was privatised, has caused two environmental disasters in a week. The first was when they dumped a bunch of oil into an Alberta lake, and the second was when they they dumped toxic chemicals into a BC River. In both cases CN was slow to act...

Marc Emery was arrested for breaking a law in a country that he wasn't in. He and two of his employees face extradition to the US where the sentences are long and prison conditions bad enough that Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have expressed serious concern. Irwin Cotler signed...

I first met the idiot across the street shortly after his new house was finished. This was a few years ago. I heard my wife talking to somebody on the step, then I realised that my wife was crying so I wandered out to see what was going on. This fat f*ck was threatening to kill our cats. I...

Ever just post something because nobody else is?

My neighbour gave me orders today. She's going away for the weekend. If her son has a party, I'm supposed to break it up before the cops get there and confiscate any marijuana I might find. She told me this on the front lawn. My neighbour's daughter was standing there smirking at the...

Black leather, chewed by a dog on one end, contains a bank card, a driver's lisence, a co-op card, a credit card, and some other cards. What the hell did I do with it?

I was just ripping some boards off the wall and found some WWII war posters. They're pretty rough and look like they were likely ripped out of the Star at the time. My guess is that cash value might be close to ten bucks if I bought the buyer $20 worth of beer first...these things are ripped...

I was out mowing and mowing and sweating and sweating. My wife had gone out shopping. I told her to buy me a bag of potatoes and some tobacco before she left, but had no other requests. She came home just as I was finishing mowing the front. She had bought me not one, but two kinds of beer...

I was walking over the footbridge from The Forks into Old St. Boniface the other night...you know, the bridge that Stephen Harper made a point of insulting during the last election. That cost the stupid little bastard 5,000 or 10,000 votes right there. Winnipeggers love that bridge. It’s...

http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature5.cfm?REF=328 That's right, they're spying on the Raging Grannies now.

Jerry Rawlings on the outcome of the G-8 summit. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1528010,00.html

Golf Rage in Calgary

Looks like Gurmant Grewal and his have been breaking the law. Now, according to the standards that the Harperites apply to others, this shows that there is widespread corruption within the Conservative Party. I think a major investigation is in order, not just of Grewal and his wife, but of...

Some woman just e-mailed me saying that she has implements for my walking tractor. She didn't say what though. Hopefully she has a deep tillage and a riding sulky. I really, really want a riding sulky. It would make my walking tractor one of the most dangerous inventions known to mankind. I...

It strikes me that when Conservatives figure out their budgets, they skip a lot. If their economic policies were a household budget, they wouldn't put in any for: Upkeep for their home and property (environment) Tipping the waitress at the bar (foreign aid) Buying presents for family...