16 hour shift yesterday. Beyond tired today. Started day with flat tire. It’s minus only -41 out today. After the last two days, it is like a heat wave. If it climbs into the -20s I may start wearing the Magnum P.I. shorts. An interesting profile on Warren Buffet from 2004 Why is your plane [...]
January, 2008:
2008′s First Blizzard
Last night a blizzard rolled into town according to Environment Canada Blizzard conditions persisting over western areas this morning and should gradually taper off by afternoon. Blizzard conditions expected to develop over eastern areas this morning and then taper off this evening. An intense low pressure system over western North Dakota this morning will track [...]
Billary
The New York Times today is all over Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic nomination. They mostly involve Bill’s involvement and what that means. Here are the highlights. From Bob Hebert Bill Clinton, in his over-the-top advocacy of his wife’s candidacy, has at times sounded like a man who’s gone off his medication. And some [...]
"When we see the budget"
Say whatever you want about American politicians but I think one area that Canadian political leaders have them beat is our ability to mock ourselves. This video comes to you via The Hour and is a wonderful mockery of Stephane Dion’s answer to the question of “When are you going to force an election?”. While [...]
Huskies down the Golden Bears
Saturday night Wendy, Mark, and I headed to the PAC to watch the University of Saskatchewan Huskies defeat the University of Alberta Golden Bears 74-52. The game wasn’t that great to watch. The Huskies jumped to a 10 point first quarter lead and then extended it to 25 by the fourth when the reserves were [...]
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A New York Times graphical critique of campaign logos :: The ‘Kerry Edwards’ logo of a few years ago comes in for particular ridicule The Future of Ideas has been re-released under a Creative Commons license. So what went wrong with the Rove Presidency? Also Larry Lessig wonders what happens if the Rove virus crosses [...]
On the Take
Warren Kinsella has posted about this but all of it sounds a little familiar. Unless I am missing something, much of this was talked about in Stevie Cameron‘s (whose website was just hacked) book On The Take and the money came from the PC Canada Fund. While the optics of bag loads of cash being [...]
What’s New Around Here?
A couple of weeks ago I posted about The Blind Side which generated some good discussion in the comments. What caught me off guard were a couple of e-mails that were sent about the post and the hypocrisy in me posting it and advocating the position that I did. Apparently because I haven’t raised any [...]
The War Room | Lesson Four: Get Your Message Out (For Money!)
Okay, back to the War Room. Lesson Four is why and how you need to get your money out with paid media. It’s an interesting chapter if you are a fan of political history and offers the background into how political advertising evolved over time. Kinsella talks about Daisy, perhaps my favorite part of Kicking [...]
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This says it so much better than I can. Fred Thompson drops out of GOP race which confounds the commentators who thought he dropped out months ago Saskatoon celebrates the opening of the new Persephone Theatre :: Wendy and I got some tickets for Christmas and will be taking in a show on April 2. [...]
