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http://bcblogs.myblahg.com BC Blogs Feed. en-us Squish http://bcblogs.myblahg.com I REALLY LIKE ALJAZEERA — beats the hell out of Fox news. Covers areas that mainline North American newsnets seem to ignore.And it seems that child abduction is turning into a nasty problem.China is struggling to cope with a wave of child abductions which sees more than 200 babies... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/chinese-heartbreaker.html October 07, 2008 11:31:00 pm "Internal documents obtained through access-to-information requests show the RCMP commissioned at least two critiques from academics at a time when a growing number of reports from respected scientific journals pointed to benefits, including a reduction in drug-related deaths, from the site, Pivot... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-have-to-add-more-rcmp-shit.html October 07, 2008 10:52:00 pm No one knows for sure where Harper's genius reputation comes from.Here's my take.During his early NCC and Reform days he was always the smartest guy in a room full of morons and semi-literate troglodytes. They were impressed with a guy so much smarter than they were that they could barely follow a... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-acquire-genius-reputation.html October 07, 2008 09:58:00 pm Next Tuesday is October 14th, election day.Here are my predictions for some of what we can expect to see unfold during the day. I warn you that it may take digging through several layers of the intertoobz looking for very local sources in order to find reports of same but find them I believe we... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/predictions-for-next-tuesday.html October 07, 2008 09:35:00 pm Let's put this one to bed once and for all.There is no such thing as a non-strategic vote. Doesn't exist in this or any other democratic universe.Every citizen who marks an "X" does so with strategic intention. Every single one.If the strategy is to elect a Conservative it is known as "strategery"... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/every-vote-is-strategic-vote.html October 07, 2008 09:27:00 pm The scene: The moat of the Imperial Palace, Tokyo at 11 A.M. today.It's not me, but I work a block away and a few more of those 45 degree-85 percent humidity August days and I wouldn't necessarily rule it out for next year.Update: Now you know (none of) the rest of the storycrossposted from the... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/there-but-for-grace-of-god-go-i.html October 07, 2008 09:24:00 pm We are neighbours. We work across the street from one another. You are Prime Minister of the Parliament of Canada and I, across the way, am a writer, theatre director and Artistic Director of the French Theatre at the National Arts Centre (NAC). So, like you, I am an employee of the state,... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/fascinating-letter-to-harper.html October 07, 2008 09:19:00 pm "A resident of La Ronge says he witnessed a uniformed RCMP officer delivering campaign signs in Northern Saskatchewan for Conservative candidate Rob Clarke, a direct violation of the police force's policy."OK, so that's clear enough.Anywhere else in the country the outfit is out doing the bidding... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/uniformed-rcmp-officer-in-marked-rcmp.html October 07, 2008 08:10:00 pm The Liberal PlanThe Real Agenda... http://bcinto.blogspot.com/2008/10/two-new-liberal-ads.html October 07, 2008 05:15:00 pm Tories are falling. We'll see how well they do once people get to look at the platform (pdf) (not opening for me for whatever reason - the Tory website is probably inundated with hits today). Anyway. Assuming the platform doesn't have any effect one way or the other, I point you to this from the... http://kerplonka.blogspot.com/2008/10/comparative-elections.html October 07, 2008 01:53:00 pm Today's goodness from Nanos:All the polls are showing the same trendlines. The polls are tightening between the Conservatives and the Liberals and the NDP is dropping. By uniting behind Stéphane Dion and the Liberal Party, we CAN throw-out the Harper Conservatives and elect the truly... http://bcinto.blogspot.com/2008/10/boo-yah.html October 07, 2008 01:11:00 pm Stéphane Dion has just made his third visit to Battleground British Columbia. He spent yesterday on Southern Vancouver Island, a region where support has been growing strongly for the Liberal Party and where we hope to make strong gains on October 14th with Briony Penn, Anne Park Shannon... http://bcinto.blogspot.com/2008/10/stphane-dion-in-bc-for-round-three.html October 07, 2008 12:25:00 pm Election Wishes....Dion, Harper and Layton are flying on the Executive Airbus to a gathering in British Columbia when Dion turns to Harper and says, chuckling, 'You know, I could throw a $1000 bill out the window right now and make someone very happy .'Harper shrugs and replies, 'Well, I could... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-lighter-note.html October 07, 2008 11:30:00 am Bobblehead Steve.The doll with the spring-loaded head.Canadian Tourism Commission :Canada's Go To Guy Hits the Streets through direct mail in the US"You may have heard about Steve.The little guy from Canada is getting around and he's driving a whole new CTC campaign in the US geared to meeting,... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/bobblehead-steve-and-book-of-steve.html October 07, 2008 11:24:00 am Bobblehead Steve.The doll with the spring-loaded head. Canadian Tourism Commission : Canada's Go To Guy Hits the Streets through direct mail in the US"You may have heard about Steve.The little guy from Canada is getting around and he's driving a whole new CTC campaign in the US geared to meeting,... http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2008/10/bobblehead-steve.html October 07, 2008 09:43:00 am The Liberal Party’s BC campaign recently launched Harpocracy.ca, a new Web site that tracks and documents the epidemic of Conservative election candidates skipping all-candidates meetings, dodging media interviews, and otherwise avoiding public scrutiny and accountability.The list... http://bcinto.blogspot.com/2008/10/join-muzzle-watch-at-harpocracyca.html October 07, 2008 07:45:00 am NaPo : "In a marked change of tone entering the final week of the election campaign, the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, said Monday he's in the midst of working on "secondary plans" to protect Canada from the ill-effects of a global financial crisis should conditions worsen in the country."CBC :... http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2008/10/plan-b-what-hell-happened-to-plan.html October 07, 2008 06:02:00 am Margaret Atwood gets it. (h/t West End Bob)So does Kevin Brooker, columnist at the Calgary Herald :Beware Government deals made secretly"With all of the structural problems in the U.S. economy, is now the time to give deep integrationalists encouragement to do what we never asked them to do in the... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/spp-and-election-08-from-star-wars-to.html October 07, 2008 03:34:00 am The Canadian Federal election is an admittedly frustrating affair that is puncuated by poor leadership on one side, and leadership in entirely the wrong direction on the other.  Despite the chaos, there's one thing we all can readily agree on - a Harper majority would bode poorly for... http://consciousearth.blogspot.com/2008/10/help-stop-harper.html October 07, 2008 01:25:00 am WITH ALL THE FINANCIAL HOO-HA recently, plus Stevie and the Goppers, it's easy to lose sight of other people's problems.According to Murray Feshbach in the Washington Post, Mr. Putin has a whole panoply, especially health-related. Why should you care? A country with this kind of health problem has... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/putin-problems.html October 06, 2008 08:10:00 pm Kevin Brooker, columnist at the Calgary Herald, gets it :Beware Government deals made secretly"Before you go into the voting booth next week and do your part to help give Stephen Harper's Conservatives a parliamentary majority [ahem], there's something you need to think about.With all of the... http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2008/10/spp-and-election-08-from-star-wars-to.html October 06, 2008 06:40:00 pm I've just come back from the local grocery store - and I noticed that the store is selling these cloth grocery bags. I've seen these things from time to time when I have been standing in line at the check-out.I think of these cloth bags as being just one more elaborate ritual to complement the... http://somenamedia.blogspot.com/2008/10/cloth-grocery-bags.html October 06, 2008 02:25:00 pm Just stumbled across a series of videos on YouTube (h/t) called bad dates with Stephen Harper. Written and performed by rich, gala going, wine-swilling Toronto artists, each short video features a woman talking about her "bad date" experience with Stephen Harper. Some of them are quite funny.... http://bcinto.blogspot.com/2008/10/bad-dates-with-stephen-harper.html October 06, 2008 02:09:00 pm The professor is caught plagiarizing?Given what Dion's star candidate Bob Rae has said, this means Dion is helping reinforce a trend of "Canada losing its voice", stuck as a mere "parrot" of international associations.I certainly expect Bob Rae to resign in disgust ;)... http://kerplonka.blogspot.com/2008/10/well-how-about-that.html October 06, 2008 12:49:00 pm Harper: On the campaign trail, Harper played down fears of a recession in Canada and said the main problem afflicting the world economies is the freezing up of bank credit, which has hurt companies and consumers looking for loans. "Our main advice is obviously to encourage co-ordinated action, to... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/mr-dithers.html October 06, 2008 12:33:00 pm Buckets rides again!Buckets has discovered another case of Stephen Harper cribbing another speech.One wonders at this point just how much of Harper's statements are original.... http://somenamedia.blogspot.com/2008/10/caught-with-their-pants-down-again.html October 06, 2008 11:38:00 am Palling around with terroristsSarah Palin says Barack Obama palls around with terrorists because an acquaintance of his, William Ayers,was once a member of the Weather Underground, back when Obama was eight years old. As future Alaska Gov. Dave Noon (aw cmon Dave, run! please! Wouldn't you just... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/palling-around-with-terrorist.html October 06, 2008 10:57:00 am I went in to see my Doctor last week. It's time for me to start using insulin to treat my diabetes. My doc is thrilled with the 50+ pounds I have lost since May. He asked me how school was going. I told him it was going really well.He said "A lot of people would have given up, facing the kind of... http://somenamedia.blogspot.com/2008/10/support-in-unexpected-places.html October 06, 2008 10:39:00 am I went to visit my great aunt recently, and she looked troubled. Finally she said, "I just can't do it."I waited."I've voted Conservative all my life," she said. "But I can't do it any more." She shook her head, and I could see it tore at her. I saw her parents and grandparents standing behind... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/target-demographic-bails-out.html October 06, 2008 06:39:00 am "Police zapped a runaway sheep that was blocking traffic with a Taser stun gun, a weapon issued for use in violent situations.Motorists trapped in the traffic jam caused when the sheep got out of a field in north Wales in Britain were horrified to see the sheep stunned by police then carried to the... http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2008/10/police-taser-runaway-sheep.html October 06, 2008 06:12:00 am 1) An NDP candidate has, apparently, plagiarized a speech as well.Now, according to former New Democrat Bob Rae, this is proof positive that "Canada is losing its voice" and its sovereignty, a mere "parrot" to right-wing foreign corporate media. Right?;)2) Someone remind me: Why are we still... http://kerplonka.blogspot.com/2008/10/bits-n-pieces.html October 05, 2008 11:55:00 pm With most of the world's people facing the catastrophic fallout of the worst US presidency in history and the now undeniable threats facing the Earth's environment, there seems to be an almost universally shared sense of flux, change and uncertainty.  As unpleasant as that might feel,... http://consciousearth.blogspot.com/2008/10/campaigning-for-change.html October 05, 2008 11:05:00 pm Some of us take our politics more seriously than others but I think we all agree that, no matter what our political views may be, everyone who gets involved, whether its taking a lawn sign or volunteering on a campaign, is doing their own bit, in their own way, to make Canada a better place. I have... http://bcinto.blogspot.com/2008/10/break-lines-of-liberal-supporters-cut.html October 05, 2008 03:08:00 pm Some of the Liberal campaigns in British Columbia are doing some interesting things with video. Here are offerings from Briony Penn (Saanich-Gulf Islands) and Ian Sutherland (West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country).... http://bcinto.blogspot.com/2008/10/some-great-bc-videos.html October 05, 2008 01:32:00 pm The typical Sunday morning consists of sleeping a bit late, some kind of egg dish breakfast, catching up on local newspaper reading and watching "Driving Television" with Zack Spencer . Even though since moving to Vancouver we have been able to shed our vehicle (YAY!!!), I still enjoy keeping up... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/faithful-leaders.html October 05, 2008 01:13:00 pm 1) Keep Dion in Quebec and tell him to speak French and only French. I do not want to see him speaking English on any news clips. Every time Dion is heard on English speaking television or quoted in an English speaking news paper, the Liberals loose votes. 2) When attacking the Conservatives in... http://themaplethree.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-needs-to-be-done-to-save-furniture.html October 05, 2008 12:33:00 pm Via Impolitical..Terrorism is defined as the use of fear, often through violence or the threat of violence, with the intent to produce a political outcome. From The Star:Toronto police patrolled a midtown area overnight, after vandals cut brake lines on at least 10 cars parked at homes with... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/election-terrorism.html October 05, 2008 12:17:00 pm I didn't make this. A friend of mine saw the previous post and made the following on the condition I posted it to YouTube and that this friend was not identified. Here you are: To me, it doesn't seem sarcastic or vicious. It just evokes pathos. A lot of pathos.***UPDATE: Video just uploaded,... http://kerplonka.blogspot.com/2008/10/homemade-attack-ad.html October 05, 2008 11:50:00 am In my peregrinations around the intertoobz this fine, wet morning I have come across a few bits and pieces that caught my fancy.The Toronto Star, for example, reports that a VP of an investment firm has made explicit the underlying modus of investment firms everywhere. He's allegedly taken to... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunday-miscellany-sunday.html October 05, 2008 11:41:00 am "The Star shopped at 18 retailers in the GTA and found lead in about one in every four [children's] products purchased."A pacifier.A Disney bracelet testing at 445 times the legal limit on lead in jewellery marketed to children.A child's jewelry clasp at 700 times the federal limit.Wait. A... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/toxic-toys-now-with-700-times-more-lead.html October 05, 2008 06:42:00 am "The Star shopped at 18 retailers in the GTA and found lead in about one in every four [children's] products purchased."A pacifier. A Disney bracelet tested at 445 times the legal limit on lead in jewellery marketed to children. A child's jewelry clasp that tested at 700 times the federal... http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2008/10/toxic-toys-now-with-700-times-more-lead.html October 05, 2008 04:52:00 am I am watching a film about Bethoven. The film explores the life of the maestro as he is slowly becoming more and more deaf. It attempts to evoke empathy for the hearing impaired genius.There aren't any subtitles - and I can barely hear the dialogue, so it's almost impossible for me to enjoy it.You... http://somenamedia.blogspot.com/2008/10/irony.html October 05, 2008 03:56:00 am Douglas is 2 years and 2 months old. We started playing with him and a soccer ball the other day. He dribbles the ball, and he passses with what I consider to be eerie proficiency. I wonder if there are any soccer teams for 2 year olds.... http://somenamedia.blogspot.com/2008/10/amazing.html October 05, 2008 12:08:00 am It's time the rest of us had a poster to put in the window. I'm printing mine and putting it up tonight. Go for it! Copy it, link to it, repost it freely elsewhere, The original is 2680 x 2280 at 180 dpi. I will forward it to you if you cannot get it from this post. However it is copyright... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/real-majority-poster-for-rest-of-us.html October 04, 2008 08:58:00 pm In a more ironic world, instead of dubbing this thing over with buzzers and Baby Elephant Walk, they would turn it black and white, put on sombre music, and ask if Stephane Dion hates Canada. ("What kind of Canadian can't play hockey?");)... http://kerplonka.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-smell-election-ad.html October 04, 2008 08:56:00 pm Excellent post from 900 ft Jesus :How you can be true to your party of choice and still vote strategicallyOK, outside of the Libs, who really likes strategic voting?No one. Every single election we have the Libs shouting at us at last minute: The Cons are coming! The Cons are coming! Vote for us or... http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2008/10/strategic-voting-all-politics-is-local.html October 04, 2008 07:23:00 pm A columnist sees some potential in the new democratic Iraq which looks suspiciously like the very theories on which George Bush was basing his intervention in that region.As I said, in forty to sixty years, I'd just love to see whether or not Bush becomes positively Trumanesque with his historical... http://kerplonka.blogspot.com/2008/10/redemption.html October 04, 2008 07:14:00 pm 1) Perhaps Harper is turning into Pearson? It's quite easy to see why, immediately post-debate, Harper's lead would shrink a little bit. Yours would too if you were basically doing nothing but responding to attacks from four opponents.2) Paul Martin thinks there'll be a Liberal government on the... http://kerplonka.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarcastic-election-stuff.html October 04, 2008 07:01:00 pm Beloit College is, well, Beloit College, to be found at 700 College St., Beloit, WI 53511, according to the website. They publish the Mindset List.          Each August for the past 11 years, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., has released the... http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/10/perspective-dept.html October 04, 2008 01:25:00 pm This is too funny:The wild, the whimsical and the wacky from the campaign trail Source: The Canadian PressOct 3, 2008 20:36Seeing Tory doubleOTTAWA _ Note to Tory war room: not a good idea to shoot down allegations of plagiarism with copycat notes.Conservative officials responded to fresh ... http://bcinto.blogspot.com/2008/10/conservatives-plagarizing-themselves.html October 04, 2008 01:16:00 pm