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Category Archives: United States

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Vegas Baby (March 2009)

My parents won a trip to Vegas back in 2009 which happened to coincide with a week Shea and I had booked off but planned to just spend at home as a staycation. But when we heard their news, we decided it was karma and we had to go with them.  So, along with our […]

Posted 31 March 2016 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

20+ Page Report on the Clinton E-mail Scandal

I haven’t finished the whole thing but this seems like a fairly even-handed, exhaustive look at this controversy from both Clinton and the Justice Department point-of-views.

Posted 30 March 2016 § Internet § News § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Canadian Donald Trump: How Rob Ford Won By Gaining The Support of People Who Don’t Vote…Except For Him

Former Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, died of cancer today at age 46. Whether you loved him or hated him, you’ll remember him.  Of course, that’s mostly because he was a wild-eyed addict who regularly made racist and offensive comments topped by his surreal admission that he used crack while in office. It’s not a perfect parallel […]

Posted 22 March 2016 § Canada § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Right here/Right now/Watching the world wake up from history”

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to visit Cuba in 60 years. I was trying to think of a good song to post to commemorate this moment – perhaps a popular Cuban song or a recent hit by a Cuban-American rap/dance artist? But then I remembered this song about the fall […]

Posted 21 March 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Hillary’s Killing It

Results are still coming in but right now, Hillary Clinton is declared in 3 out of 5 “Super Tuesday III” states and leading in two others. It’s not over yet but if this holds, it’s hard to say how Bernie has any path to the nomination and goes forward from here it becomes much more of […]

Posted 15 March 2016 § List § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Hillary Had A Bad Week #demtownhall

As the latest Democratic Town Hall beings on CNN, I thought I’d review a pretty bad week for the Clinton campaign… She had three major unforced errors in very short order this week: In an interview after Nancy Reagan’s funeral, Hillary said Reagan led the fight against AIDS in the 1980’s which is total bullshit and […]

Posted 13 March 2016 § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Fun With Library Displays (US Election Edition)

Sometimes I really enjoy working in a library… 😉

Posted 12 March 2016 § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Candidate Cribs

Can you guess which Presidential candidates live in which mansion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLE5TYBkMI

Posted 10 March 2016 § Humour § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Live Blogging the Democratic Debate #demdebate

Here’s some random thoughts… I wish Bernie would be more explicit in making some points.  Don’t just mention that you’re 20 points up against Trump in head-to-head polls; compare that to how Hillary does against Trump.  Similarly, when they bring up her delegate count including super delegates, point out that these delegates changed to Obama […]

Posted 09 March 2016 § List § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “No more lyin’/No more empty talk/Feel the bern/The bern/Feel the heat in our lives”

Pretty self-explanatory… “Feel The Bern” – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Posted 07 March 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,