John R. Bolton

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- Sheila and I were at The Saddledome last night with her workmates to watch some professional lacrosse. The Calgary Roughnecks were in playoff action against The Edmonton Rush. This is the second time we have been to the dome to watch sports. The first time was to watch the Calgary Hitmen. The Roughnecks were the best team in their division during the regular season, but got handed their hat last night against Edmonton. In fact the Roughnecks stunk up the joint, getting bombed 19-11. There is no best of 5 or best of 7, the Roughnecks are done for the season. 11,061 people were at the game.

I have to tell you, going to a lacrosse game is different than seeing hockey. During game play in hockey there is no music playing, but they’ve got it cranked during lacrosse. It’s a real party atmosphere… with lots of AC/DC. We enjoyed ourselves despite the loss of the home team. We’ll definitely be going back next season. Next up a Calgary Stampeders game and The Calgary Flames.

Roughnecks sent packing by upstart Alberta rival – Calgary Herald

The Calgary Roughnecks vs The Edmonton Rush.

- Here’s a shot of downtown Calgary as we left the Saddledome last night. It was at about 9:30. Right now we’re getting about 15 hours of sunlight a day. Too bad the camera doesn’t do the scene justice.

– The Flames have a few banners to display. Notice the one in the middle… The Stanley Cup Championship banner and the McDonald Vernon and MacInnis banners at the end on the right.

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* The best way to discredit someone you think is a fool…

Let them talk.

The Republicans can learn a lot from this video and should use it to attack Obama on unemployment, debt, the so called war on women, class warfare etc.

More on Obama: Obama Launches Campaign in Empty Arena – Breitbart

More again: Krauthammer: Divider-in-Chief – National Review Online

Why Obama can't run on his record - Source: Drudge

Ethnicity, race, gender, class. One more box to check: the young. Just four years ago, they swooned in the aisles for Obama. No longer. Not when 54 percent of college graduates under 25 are unemployed or underemployed.

How to shake them from their lethargy? Fear again. Tell them, as Obama repeatedly does, that Paul Ryan’s budget would cut Pell Grants by $1,000 each, if his domestic cuts were evenly distributed. (They are not evenly distributed, making the charge a fabrication. But a great applause line.)

Presidentially related: A great read.

Compulsory Blindness – National Review Online

I marched into the courtroom every day for nine months and proved that there was an undeniable nexus between Islamic doctrine and terrorism committed by Muslims. The Blind Sheikh, the jury was allowed to learn, was not a fringe lunatic; he was a globally renowned scholar of sharia whose influence over a spate of international jihadist organizations was based on his doctorate from al-Azhar University, the world’s most influential center of Islamic thought. And when I demonstrated the straight-line, undeniable logic of the evidence — that scripture informed the Blind Sheikh’s directives; that those directives informed his terrorist subordinates; and that those subordinates then committed atrocities — the government gave me the Justice Department’s highest award.

Today, I’d be ostracized. No longer is the government content to be willfully blind. Today, it is defiantly, coercively, extortionately blind.

The last word on Obama.

* Meanwhile, the socialist to the north…

Should never become Prime Minister of Canada.

Can you trust this man? Look at his shifty eyes.

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair targets oilsands – Vancouver Sun

Mulcair also discussed the need for the “internalization of the environmental costs” of oilsands and other natural resources development and making the “polluter pay.”

He said he’s not against oilsands development, but said it should be carried out in a sustainable manner.

There was some reference to an article Mulcair wrote for Policy Options magazine, which was published just prior to his winning the NDP leadership race in March. In it, he proposed a “comprehensive cap-and-trade plan that would be based on the principle that polluters pay.”

Typical leftism. Instead of making Ontario, Quebec and the loser provinces raise their game, drag the winners and producers down to their level.

By the way Mr. Mulcair… CO2 is not pollution.

* Goodbye old friend.

Canada Stops Making Cents as Flaherty Lets Penny Drop – Bloomberg

Today on Deep Cuts & Lost Classics… It’s The Who week. I’ll try to stay away from the typical Who stuff and give you a taste of some deep cuts this week. To me the ‘Who’s Next’ album is an album of solid hits, but that’s probably because I listened to it so much during the 80′s. Enjoy today’s deep cut.

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- I had to leave the house early this morning and will be updating later. Ya’ll come back now, hear!

- Look for my new column at OurHometown.ca later today. It’s full of astute observations.

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- I’m going to keep things relatively short today. I’ve decided to finish my book. It’s something I’ve been working at for over a year and I’ve never really focused on getting it done. I won’t say too much about it, but I will say it involves some of my favourite topics.

- Another reason to keep things short? I’m working on my column for OurHometown.ca. It should be posted online in the next 24 hours.
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* Another nail for the global warming coffin.

Global warming policies might be bad for your health

Poverty is a Much Larger Public Health Threat than Global Warming

• The contribution of diseases of poverty (e.g., underweight, malnutrition,
unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene) to the global burden of death
and disease is currently 70–80-fold larger than that of global warming. (Table
2; Figure 1; WHO 2009)

• Deaths from diseases of poverty and excess winter mortality are real
(WHO 2009; Falagas 2009), whereas those from global warming are based
on hypotheses and models which short-circuited the scientific method and
have not been tested rigorously (McMichael et al. 2004, p. 1546).

* Wikipedia is not a reliable source.

Obama ‘Forward’ campaign slogan inspires Wikipedia editing war – The Daily Caller

My favourite part of the story?

But for every attempt to be somewhat serious, another relied on stand-up comedy.

“Seriously, what a strange slogan,” one nameless editor wrote Wednesday evening. “You’d think they’d want to go backwards… back to when people had jobs… back to when health care was affordable… back before Obama ate Bo cause he had the munchies.”

* These people are insane!

It’s hard to imagine someone actually producing this.

Related: The Trayvon Martin Conspiracy: Was He Sacrificed So Dick Cheney Could Get His Heart? – Before It's News.

Related again: Sharpton Assures Radio Caller That Cheney's Heart Did Not Come From Trayvon Martin – NewsBusters

Today on Deep Cuts & Lost Classics… This weeks theme. Women who rock. Today Grace Slick and Jefferson Starship.

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- Sorry I missed out yesterday on the blog. Sheila and I are looking for place in Calgary and I spent most of the day cleaning the house. We have someone coming by to see the place tonight.

- My congratulations to Prime Minister Harper and The Conservative Party of Canada. Today marks a year since they won a majority government.

Harper government has had a good first year – Globe & Mail

On health care, the Conservatives did not try to overachieve, or at least overpromise: They insisted that the provinces innovate. They did not stuff them to the gills with money, because those so stuffed do not innovate.

- I know the dog and pony show at Cornwall City council has been embarrassing, but it’s been so quiet I think we need another scandal.
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* The narcissist in chief.

Yesterday Barack Obama visited Afghanistan and gave a speech on the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Yesterday Obama took credit for the success there. It’s like George Bush never even existed. Funny how a man who opposed the war on terror at every turn is using this as a launching board to his second term. Read the following paragraph from his speech yesterday. It’s stunning in its hubris.

But over the last three years, the tide has turned. We broke the Taliban’s momentum. We’ve built strong Afghan security forces. We devastated al Qaeda’s leadership, taking out over 20 of their top 30 leaders. And one year ago, from a base here in Afghanistan, our troops launched the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. The goal that I set — to defeat al Qaeda, and deny it a chance to rebuild — is within reach.

Link: Transcript: Obama hails 'light of a new day' in Afghanistan – CNN

* CO2 is not pollution.

The cancellation of Kyoto and the recent cancellation of a carbon capture project in Alberta is encouraging, but we need to stop talking out of both sides of our mouths when it comes to global warming. The next post is discouraging.

Energy Department Announces New Mapping Initiative to Advance North American Carbon Storage Efforts – ENews Park Forest

Created through the North American Carbon Atlas Partnership, a joint cross-border mapping initiative by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, NACSA includes both low and high estimates for potential carbon dioxide storage capacity in North America.

Global warming has become a big business. It’s going to be hard to kill the AGW religion.

The atlas was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada and the Mexican Ministry of Energy. It also included work from the Department of Energy’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships, whose 400 organizations have worked over the last decade to characterize geologic storage opportunities in the U.S. and Canada and provide inputs to DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory’s National Carbon Sequestration Database and Geographic Information System.

Of course, we could always just crucify carbon capture companies and organizations.

* OWS.

* Someone please make her stop!

Watch the video below… you won’t believe it.

N.J. Mom Busted For Taking Girl In Tanning Booth – The Smoking Gun

A New Jersey woman has been charged with felony child endangerment after she allegedly took her five-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, where the child suffered serious burns.

Today on Deep Cuts & Lost Classics… This weeks theme. Women who rock. Today Janis.

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- Off for a doctors appointment this morning. I’m going for a physical. I was thinking how this might affect my health. Or maybe how not going to see a doctor for a physical in Ontario might have adversely affected my health. In Ontario I avoided the doctor like the plague because of the waiting I had to go through to get to see one. Imagine how this inaction might have affected me down the road. Imagine how many people miss being diagnosed each year because they do the same thing. Instead of a relatively inexpensive check-up, they end up spending thousands on treatment. I have never had a full check-up before. It will be interesting to see how my cholesterol and blood work comes out.

- I’ve posted a couple of stories today about the Conservative government. They’re in a virtual dead heat with the NDP in recent polls. One thing that isn’t discussed about party support is that you won’t find too many Conservative voters switching to the NDP, but NDP supporters might jump ship and go to the Libs… and vice versa. You will never find me voting for any party that wants a national child care program or thinks we need to save the world from global warming. I find those things more threatening than a $16 glass of orange juice.

- What do you do with ministers that misspend taxpayers money? Ya throw da bums out!

- I haven’t noticed too many people commenting about hockey on Twitter. Now that the Senators are gone, very few seem to care about the game. I always wondered how NFL Football managed to create such excitement about their league. People look forward to games whether their team is playing or not.

- I noticed Twitter is down this morning. I like Twitter. I visit it everyday. I’m still thinking about dumping Facebook… I hardly ever use it. Sheila says I should just purge it of a few hundred people I have accepted as friends… She may be right.
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* This just gets better all the time.

The cure is worse than the disease.

Cuisinart of the sky.

Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study – Telegraph

“Wind energy is among the world’s fastest growing sources of energy. The US wind industry has experienced a remarkably rapid expansion of capacity in recent years,” he said. “While converting wind’s kinetic energy into electricity, wind turbines modify surface-atmosphere exchanges and transfer of energy, momentum, mass and moisture within the atmosphere. These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate.”

The study, published in Nature, found a “significant warming trend” of up to 0.72C (1.37F) per decade, particularly at night-time, over wind farms relative to near-by non-wind-farm regions.

What’s next, solar panels are giant magnifying glasses that warm The Earth?

Related: The sorry lessons of green-power subsidies – Globe & Mail

Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty has predicted that the subsidies will propel Ontario to a world-leading position in green-power technology, creating thousands of jobs. Sadly, the Fraser study shows quite the opposite as the province’s already beleaguered manufacturing heartland sees its former electricity-cost advantage transformed into a competitive millstone.

Ontario isn’t the only place where grand green-power dreams have turned into a nightmare.

* Must’ve been good OJ.

By this logic a couple of croissants will do the Liberals in.

Tory stumbles and NDP strength spell trouble for Liberals – Globe & Mail

A federal minister paying top dollar for a glass of nutritious orange juice at a luxe hotel she moved to so she could smoke is not only great irony. It may have briefly been the most hazardous episode yet to the political health of the Conservatives.

I think this is part of a master plan by the Conservatives. Stealth destruction of a political party with citrus fruit.

More: $16 glass of OJ a symbol of government excess – The Chronicle Herald

* Naturally.

Direct from Kookyfornia.

New Calif. Law Would Ban Texting While Biking; What’s Next? – CBS Los Angeles

What’s next? No texting while walking, of course.

As you would expect.

* Tickets anyone?

Titanic

Titanic II: Australian billionaire says replica ship will set sail in 2016 – Globe & Mail

“It will be every bit as luxurious as the original Titanic, but … will have state-of-the-art 21st-century technology and the latest navigation and safety systems,” Mr. Palmer said in a statement. He called the project “a tribute to the spirit of the men and women who worked on the original Titanic.”

Today on Deep Cuts & Lost Classics… This week… chicks that rock. Today a song written by Bruce Springsteen, but given real life by a lady rocker. Enjoy.

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Personal story:

- If you ever need someone to take care of a grievance you have with a company… you need to call my wife. She spent many years overseeing the tough customer service calls for AT&T and knows how to get results.

My wife Sheila and I ordered a new bike from my friend Cookie at Kalrim Cycle in Cornwall and it was shipped to us through Purolator. Naturally we were very excited about it and anticipated its arrival. It was expected on Friday, so I hung around the house for it. Using the tracking service from Purolator I noticed it was loaded on a truck at 8:50am in Calgary for delivery in Strathmore. The depot is only 30 minutes from our front door. I waited all day for it to arrive, but it never came. Just before 8pm the tracking showed it had been returned to the depot.

Yesterday morning Sheila called Purolator to see why we had to wait all day for her new bike and if we could make arrangements pick it up. Purolator doesn’t deliver on Saturday. We found out that Purolator contracted someone to deliver it and it hadn’t been returned to the depot, but was sitting on or in a truck somewhere in Calgary. Which raised our ire a wee bit… this bike cost a lot more than your average department store bike and we weren’t too pleased that it was sitting somewhere unattended. We were told the bike wasn’t available until Monday morning. That’s when Sheila went to work. She found out the name of the President of Purolator, correctly guessed his e-mail address (it wasn’t available anywhere) and sent him a very effectively worded e-mail to explain our disappointment with his company (she also cc’d the Calgary depot). Within the hour we got a reply with his apology for poor service. Isn’t that great? The story doesn’t end there.

At 3:30pm yesterday we got a call from a woman in Moncton. She is the Director of Corporate Customer Service for Purolator. She was very apologetic on the phone and told me the president had contacted her. They were making arrangements to track down the contractor to get the bike and have it delivered. It showed up at our door last night at 8pm. I’m amazed.

I think there’s something to learn here. The next time you get mad because of poor service, don’t get all hot under the collar and certainly don’t yell at someone on the phone. Be polite and act cool. Then again, you could always call my wife.

Sheila wrote the president thanking him and his employees for their help.

Sheila's new bike.

* Warmers on the march.

Just when you think the world is finally coming to its senses on global warming, they ratchet up the nonsense even further.

Remember the scare tactics? Ice in the Arctic will be gone, Polar Bears endangered, glaciers all melting, storms are stronger and more prevalent, millions will die. All wrong, but that doesn’t stop them. We must continue the fight against the clueless. Here’s the latest from the warming front.

Al Gore at Hampshire College: Global warming is real and needs to be addressed now – Masslive.com

Typically:

Those remarks drew wild applause. Gore did not take questions or meet with the media. According to campus officials, he was on a tight schedule.

Still waiting: Al Gore Challenged to International Global Warming Debate – NewsBusters

Watch.

More fear mongering: One of the arguments against global warming is its destruction of the economy and waste of taxpayers money. So, what do you do if you’re pushing a warming agenda? Create a scare for businesses if they don’t act.

Canadian businesses ill-prepared for global warming, says panel – Ottawa Citizen

This one is just crazy!!!!

Baseball's Tim McCarver: Global Warming Increasing the Number of Home Runs – NewsBusters

“It has not been proven, but I think ultimately it will be proven that the air is thinner now, there have been climactic changes over the last 50 years in the world, and I think that’s one of the reasons balls are carrying much better now than I remember,” McCarver said during Saturday’s game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals.

Thank goodness for people like Lorrie Goldstein and Lawrence Solomon:

Goldstein: Apocalypse postponed – Toronto Sun

Even though Lovelock is revered by global warmists for his Gaia theory and his previous writings predicting billions would die from it by the end of this century, his latest comments have prompted outrage from the same quarters.

Suddenly, the godfather of global warming is being condemned as everything from over-the-hill (he’s 92 and shows no signs of slowing down) to allegations he’s just seeking publicity for his new book and playing into the hands of climate deniers.

All these allegations are absurd.

Lovelock is a self-made genius, who already has all the fame he needs.

Lawrence Solomon: Censored science – Financial Post

What else has the press, in its wisdom, decided to keep from the public in recent days? One eye-opener is the advance of ice in both the Arctic and the Antarctic — both are now at or above average levels. Another is an announcement by researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken research foundation that the world may be heading into a prolonged period of global cooling — the Japanese study compared sunspot activity today with sunspots that preceded the Little Ice Age in the 17th century to find close similarities.
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Had questioning of global warming not been taboo to most journalists, these stories would have doubtless merited ink and air time, not least because they tell a fresh story. Because the subject is taboo, the press censors itself.

* Dogging the POTUS.

Mark Steyn… writing his way through the liberal BS.

Steyn: Cuisines from My Stepfather – National Review Online

Just for the record, Romney’s father was not a polygamist; Romney’s grandfather was not a polygamist; his great-grandfather was a polygamist. Miles Park Romney died in 1904, so one can see why this would weigh heavy on 86 percent of female voters 108 years later.

Meanwhile, back in the female-friendly party, Obama’s father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney’s great-grandfather. It seems President Obama is the first male in his line not to be a polygamist. So, given the “gender gap,” maybe those 86 percent of American women are way cooler with polygamy than Governor Schweitzer thinks. Maybe these liberal chicks really dig it.

* Kimmel on Olbermann and Gore. Funny.

From The White House Correspondents Dinner.

More (with video): Jimmy Kimmel rips on Obama, Secret Service – Globe & Mail

* You can’t make this stuff up.

Why being a liberal means never having to engage the logic centers of one's brain – American Thinker

I feel for the liberals in Oregon on this one. Showing how much you care about little fishys and pretty birds is what a green citizen must do or else you will be thought of as a raper of the environment. But to be caught between killing a protected bird or allowing pretty little bug eyed fishys to be devoured like an oil company devours the environment must be causing enormous stress. Hospitals should be alerted that some liberals will not be able to handle the pressure and may become catatonic – or worse – begin non-stop babbling, reciting from memory Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.”

Today on Deep Cuts & Lost Classics… More from the British band do the blues week. Today, A band I have always loved, but never had a lot of hits. Their biggest was ‘I’d Love To Change the World’ from 1971. Like many British groups they started off playing R&B. Today the lightning fast guitar work of Alvin Lee and Ten Years After.

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- I’m getting off to a slow start this Saturday morning. I will be updating a little later today.

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* The Right Opinion

- Don’t forget I’m looking for donations for the Bike-a-thon Plus on May 26th. I’m raising funds for The Children’s Treatment Centre in Cornwall, Ontario and for Little Warriors in Alberta. Both groups help sexually abused children. Please click the link to find out more and make a donation. Thanks.

Bike-a-thon West

- My new column should be going up today at OurHometown.ca. It’s full of opiniony goodness.
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* Providing more left wing talking points.

May Day Mayhem on Its Way – Front Page Magazine

The actions planned for May 1 are part of what left-wingers are calling the “99% Spring.” They are designed to disrupt the U.S. economy and ultimately to extinguish what remains of Americans’ cherished economic freedoms in the increasingly socialist Obama era. Leaders also hope to press lawmakers to promote the fraud known as “green energy” and to give those with student loan debts a massive $1 trillion bailout at the expense of taxpayers.

MoveOn and former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones’s “Rebuild the Dream” group are just two of the major left-of-center organizations that are gearing up to inconvenience Americans and manufacture chaos next week. Though activists in various urban centers have different plans for this Tuesday, they are all united in their hatred of the economic system that made America great while uplifting its poorest citizens.

* Come on lefty’s, admit it, Joe Biden is an idiot.

From the Mark Levin Show last night.

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More from the Joe Biden hit list. Again from Mark Levin.

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* Here’s a treat. (h/t Five Feet of Fury)

Dennis Miller talks with Ted Nugent. The Motor City Madman talks about his run in with the Secret Service and talks music. Miller knows his stuff too. This is great audio. Enjoy.

Yesterday I sent an e-mail to Kathy Shaidle from FFoF and she sent this back to me. I got a laugh out of it.

Today on Deep Cuts & Lost Classics… Today we continue our ‘British bands do the blues’ theme. My selection is Cream covering Albert King. One of my all time favourites.

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- What do you call a bunch who pass a budget by abstaining? Cowards. NDP supporters should be ashamed of themselves for voting for these losers.

Forster, NDP abstain on budget – Niagara This Week

- Would the last person to leave Ontario please shut all the windows an lock the doors? Thanks.

Matt Gurney on Ontario’s credit rating: That thud was the first shoe dropping – National Post

Someone should get Ontario’s Finance Minister a glass of warm milk. Dwight Duncan has admitted to the media before that the prospect of Ontario’s costs of borrowing suddenly spiking keep him awake at night. This won’t help.

- What would you do to the Quebec students who are ramping up violence because they’re entitled little minds don’t like paying the lowest post secondary school fees in the country? I’d round up the trouble makers and tell them they have forfeited their school year and next year too. Treat them like they’re children and send them to bed without their supper.

85 arrested after Quebec protests turn violent – Globe & Mail

Banks and other businesses, cars, even a police station had their windows shattered by an angry mob that spilled out from a larger crowd of thousands of student protesters.

If there was violence after they implemented my plan, I’d ban anyone involved from post secondary education for life. Problem solved.

- I’m not a hockey fan, but I have a prediction about tonight’s Senators/Rangers game. The Rangers will win and we’ll all look back the Senators success in the first round as the Rangers big scare before they have a long run in the playoffs.
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* Let’s talk about abortion.

Did you know a doctor in Canada can perform an abortion a day before its scheduled birth? Pretty disgusting isn’t it? Yet, the left and so called women’s rights groups think we should never discuss this horrific fact. We have no abortion law at all in this country and we should. Even the United Stated has rules on late term abortions. I have my doubts anything will change here, but why shouldn’t we discuss it? Pro choicers, what are you afraid of?

Motion a 'backdoor' for Tories into abortion debate: NDP – Vancouver Sun

Toting banners with slogans like “reproductive justice now” and “if you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child,” the pro-choice group vowed to fight back against what they describe as an attack on reproductive rights.

I always find it amazing that these people label this as reproductive rights, when it is actually the exact opposite. There’s nothing reproductive about aborting a child.

* The world’s most obvious story title?

Read it over a couple of times. Really? They’re checking phone records to track phone calls… I never would have thought of that.

Elections Canada diving into phone records to track suspicious election calls – Canada.com

Elections Canada investigators are seeking phone records to trace calls seemingly designed to send Northern Ontario voters to the wrong polling stations.

My solution to this robocall problem? Ban them. No one likes getting them anyway.

Related: This is embarrassing.

Elections Canada targeted voters by race: docs – London Free Press

Elections Canada has said it doesn’t phone electors but new documents obtained through the access to information system show they did phone some voters and the determining factor was race.

For the last three federal campaigns, Elections Canada has hired the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) to target select ridings with phone calls aimed at boosting the native vote.

It’s a nothing story to most of the media, but imagine if the Conservatives had done this?

* Spinach energy.

I have better idea for the Obama administration. There’s this stuff in the ground called oil… go get that.

Obama EPA: First Algae, Now Spinach – Fox News

Today on Deep Cuts & Lost Classics… We continue our British bands playing the blues theme. Today a song from a trailblazer in British Blues.. with Eric Clapton on Guitar. Enjoy.

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- I’ll have to keep it short to start today as I am out of the house having a coffee at Sunridge Mall in Calgary this morning.

- Why am I in Calgary today? I came in to get some blood work done. My new family doctor is checking me out with a full physical next week and needed to check my oil. This is remarkable to a former Ontario resident, where family doctors are as rare as a Dodo bird. To add to the healthcare pleasure here in Alberta, I went into a walk-in clinic this morning at 6:30 and walked out at 7:25. As I was leaving the nurse who took my blood handed me a card and said, “Next time call the number on this card and make an appointment, that way it won’t take so long”. I replied, “That wasn’t long, in Ontario I would have had to wait four or five hours”.

- I hate having to beat up on Ontario all the time, but despite the troubles they have with healthcare here, it’s nothing to the trouble in Ontario.
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* I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Ronald Reagan said those words are the 9 most terrifying words in the English language. Case in point.

Rural kids, parents angry about labor dept. rule banning farm chores – The Daily Caller

The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.

Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

If this is a child labour issue to the Obama administration, does the federal government in the United States think parents who have made their kids do chores on the farm are abusing their children?

Update: I stand corrected.

Is the Obama administration intervening in farm chores? – The Moderate Voice

Today on Deep Cuts & Lost Classics… Since I’m not near my digital music collection I dug up this classic from Zeppelin. The theme this week is blues tunes by British bands. Surprisingly this is one of the few blues tunes Led Zeppelin didn’t steal from a black blues singer. Enjoy.

- John Bolton music fact. I went to see Zeppelin’s movie The Song Remains The Same back in the early 80′s and thought their live version of today’s song was the best thing they did in the concert. So, I went out the next day and bought the soundtrack album, only to find ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’ isn’t on the album. Luckily with the release of a lot of material over the years the song is now in my collection.

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