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May, 2009:

Old 666

Old 666, the story of a single B-17 taking on 17 Japanese fighters off the Solomon Islands.

The yard

A couple of times a year I post about the yard and it is slowly coming to shape this year.  It didn’t winter well and looks horrible right now. We had a large cedar shrub get split in half this year because of the snow accumulating on it.  When we looked at it, it was [...]

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Why break up the Juniors?  They couldn’t handle the pressure :: “I think Junior has more scrutiny on him than anyone I’ve ever met,” Hendrick said. “He can’t walk without people wanting to know what’s going on with him. It’s hard for him to live life. There’s just so much pressure. I don’t think I [...]

Outrage at the deficit is all politics

Ian McDonald is saying what I have heard all this week about the deficit. A federal deficit that was forecast at $34 billion as recently as the January budget is now projected to be a least $50 billion. That’s quite a miss, 50 per cent on the upside, from a finance department better known for [...]

How Frank Stronach outwitted Sergio Marchionne and got Opel

My apologies to all of the Case New Holland readers of this blog.  David Olive posts a story about your boss, Sergio Marchionne getting outsmarted which I have posted below. ….so Berlin ultimately favoured the bid by a consortium led by Magna. Opel-Vauxhall becomes the first Canadian-controlled automaker since 1918. when the Oshawa, Ont.-based McLaughlin [...]

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Believe it or not, the people of Saskatoon twice elected this guy as MP and almost voted him in as mayor Why the Obama administration won’t release the rest of the Abu Garib photos.  According to a retired General, they are too indecent. :: These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency. I am [...]

Land of the Lost Souls

The New York Times has an except from the book Land of the Lost Souls by Cadillac Man about being homeless in New York City. It hit me hard in the first couple of months out there. Nobody was talking to me, I mean nobody. When you’re homeless, who would talk to you? People don’t [...]

Introducing… Government Motors

Wow, the U.S. government now owns 72% of General Motors. The latest plan for the troubled automaker, which is expected to file for bankruptcy by Monday, calls for the Treasury Department to receive about 70 percent of a restructured G.M. Including the more than $20 billion that has already been spent to prop up G.M., [...]

Spring hits Saskatoon

  Wendy, Mark, Oliver and I were out of a walk along River Landing and downtown Saskatoon on Monday evening.  You can find some more photos on Flickr.

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Tucker Carlson to launch right wing Huffington Post :: Yawn… Hillary Clinton not making a lot of progress in retiring her campaign debt :: Not that she isn’t busy being Secretary of State or anything. Canadians are dragging around a lot of consumer debt :: The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada says families – [...]

Mark’s learning to become a lethal weapon

On the weekend Mark took in a seminar with a 7th degree Karate black belt and had a lot of fun.  Black belts from all over western Canada were at Mayfair School which probably meant that there was no safer place in all of Canada over the weekend. The sensei spent a lot of time [...]

Oliver learning to drive

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Michael Pollan has a great little writing cabin that he built himself Miller Hull architects have designed two of the nicest cabins I have ever seen Star Trek Food 101 :: Where did I put my Romulan Ale? The National Day of Prayer is praying for the media :: Well considering Dick Cheney has been [...]

The Summer of 09

I was trying to plan out our summer the other day and started to enter some of it into Dopplr and Upcoming.  It isn’t that busy of a summer for us but according to Upcoming, here are the events that we are taking in. June 26+ :: Saskatchewan Jazz Festival :: None of the headline [...]

The book that has no face

Well I quite Facebook the other day and am not one of the 200 million cool kids out there any longer.  It’s not that big of deal for me as about a week after I signed up, it lost a lot of interest for me.  I suppose it would be really good if you were [...]