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Saturday Snap – “Day Five of Election Night” Dance Party

It was a bit delayed while the counts come in slowly over the past few days. But Tuesday night’s light show has reappeared in our living room as backdrop for a very enthusiastic dance party now that Joe Biden has been annouced as President-Elect of the United States.

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Indoctrination Begins Early (April 2011)

¶ Posted 05 November 2020 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Politics § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Bernie Called It

Pretty much word-for-word… https://twitter.com/onikasgivenchy/status/1323857811734933504 (via)

¶ Posted 04 November 2020 § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Red, White and Trump Better Be Blue When This Is Over

Putting the smart lights to good use for a US election theme tonight…

¶ Posted 03 November 2020 § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “2020, 24 hours to go/I Wanna Be Sedated”

I saw this clever play on words from the lyrics of a Ramones song on Twitter and had to steal it for today’s Music Monday post with 2020 being the craziest year in a century and twenty-fours until we’re watching election returns in the United States… “I Wanna Be Sedated” – The Ramones

¶ Posted 02 November 2020 § Humour § MusicMonday § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, music, unitedstates

Reviewing Ryan #skpoli #skvotes

Okay, a week has passed, most of the races potentially impacted by mail-in ballots have been decided, and since we just celebrated Halloween, what better time to assess a very scary election result for the NDP? I was going to do a more general post with my random election thoughts but since at least four […]

¶ Posted 01 November 2020 § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, saskatchewan

What If Saskatchewan Had Proportional Representation? #skpoli #skvotes

With at least eight ridings still to be decided, I’ll likely do a longer post with some thoughts on the Sask Election once the mail-in ballots are counted and we know what the final count is. But after a conversation on Twitter with a former high school classmate who felt the BC election didn’t represent […]

¶ Posted 27 October 2020 § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “So go about your earthly mission/Don’t trust no politicians/You look to yours and I will look to mine”

“You Look To Yours” – Colter Wall

¶ Posted 26 October 2020 § MusicMonday § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – The American Election: Controversy, Campaigns and Complexity (November 2016)

I attended a presentation at RPL about the history of American elections just prior to the 2016 US election. It was a great presentation but I’ll always remember the Q&A at the end – someone asked “Who do you think will win?” and the presenter looked out, half chuckled (as did most of us in […]