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Category Archives: Politics
Permapout
What is a poor, spoiled, rich kid supposed to do when they don’t get their way? The answer is: they eventually learn is to pout. Maybe Mommy or Daddy would be inflexible enough to stop this dead in its tracks. … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Humour, Politics, Social Science
Tagged Donald Trump, how a rich kid solves a bully problem, ICBMs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, Kim Jong Un, Melania, Miss America, Miss Universe, more beautiful with a pout, nuclear weapons, parent voters, permapout, pout, racism, Russian dealings, servants, spoiled rich kid, Stormy Daniels, the Donald, the great pout off, Trump
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You Have Rights But Maybe Not Car Driver Rights
Myself and a group of partiers were walking home after drinking one night. There was no place to eat on the way that was still open. Except a Wendy’s drive thru. We knew that there was a hose that the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged bad area of town, black hose, can stomp on black hose to initiate drive thru order, car driver rights, carding pedestrians, Chandler Ave. pedestrian bridge, drive thru, good area of town, Kitchener, lots of pressure on a high heel, NIMBY, not in my back yard, pedestrian rights, racial profiling, showing ID, Toronto, Toronto police, Wendy's
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The Good Cop – Bad Cop of Rainforest Preservation
So far the rainforest preservation arguments have all been given by good cops. You know at least some of the arguments for preservation: Don’t cut down the rainforest because it produces a large percentage of the world’s oxygen supply. This … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Politics, Wry
Tagged Afghanistan, African rainforest, agent orange defoliates, animal habitat, bad cop, biodiversity, Brazil, carbon dioxide capture by trees, carbon dioxide release by burning wood, cleared rainforest makes poor farmland, climate change, Columbia, deserts, global warming, good cop, medicinal plants, mountains, oxygen supply, plant habitat, preservation, rainforest, the US military is mighty except in rainforest and mountains, USA, Vietnam
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KO Wynne for Wind?
People are attracted to their own names. Many Dennises become dentists and many Lawrences become lawyers. I think Ontario’s premier, Kathleen Wynne is no different. Wynne went into politics which contains clear winners and losers. It’s no surprise that she … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Politics, Social Science
Tagged Canada, Dennis the Dentist and Lawrence the Lawyer are disproportionately common, electricity generation, first-past-the-post system, K. O. Wynne, Kathleen O'day Wynne, Kathleen Wynne, Liberals, New Democratic Party, Ontario, opposition parties whine, politics has clear winners and losers, Progressive Conservatives, renewables, renewables are now one of the best bets, solar, the puns - my god - the puns, wind bag politicians, wind power
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The Chinese Revolt
Capitalism and communism make strange bedfellows. In China at its present state, with the communist party in charge of the government and capitalist businesses driving the economy, strange bedfellows is the norm. That such a contradiction in systems could make … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, Humour, Politics
Tagged Beijing, Beijing olympics, Beijing's smog, capital of China, capitalism, capitalists, China, communism, communist party, death struggle, maybe a new leader will abandon communism, National People's Congress, powerful economy despite the contradictions, premature deaths, solar panels, strange bedfellows, windmills
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See! 1984 Didn’t Happen!
I am just old enough to have gone through high school in 1984. Being science fiction literate, I was aware of George Orwell’s prognosis for that year. But Big Brother didn’t show up that year, at least not as heralded … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged 1984, 1984 as guidebook, AIs are good enought for limited things, album, big brother, book, Cameras are really cheap, Canada has secret trials, David Lee Roth, dictatorships, facial recognition software works now, fake news, free countries, George Orwell, Trump, Van Halen, watchdog media
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A Letter to the Editor of the Kitchener Post
I have written this letter to the editor in response to a letter in the Kitchener Post (a newspaper local to me), Climate Change Gurus Have No Evidence published on January 11, 2018 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I think you … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Politics, Science, Wry
Tagged .4 m ocean level rise, .8 degree celsius temperature increase since 1970, Al Gore, Antarctica, average surface temperature of earth, better hurricane projections, big oil, big tobacco, board up house because of hurricane, climate.gov, Europe, flee hurricane, global warming, Greendland, Kitchener, Kitchener Post, leading climate change advocate, Lloyd Fex, more hurricane deaths in early 1900s, NOAA, severity of hurricanes by deaths, severity of hurricanes by unadjusted dollars of damage, spot hurricanes by satellite, US Weather online, we're supposed to notice a .03 sq. mi. increase in the total polar ice cap., YouTube
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Canada’s Cultural Prosaic
For those who don’t know, prosaic means boring. Canada has long been smug about its cultural mosaic. This differs from the American melting pot. Instead of people from different cultures changing to fit in, the official line in Canada is … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour, Politics
Tagged America, Canada, Caribbana, Caribbean, cultural clubs, cultural mosaic, excitement can sure be scary, genocide, German, Irish, Kitchener, melting pot, nuclear powers, Oktoberfest, prosaic, St. Patrick's Day, Toronto, Utopias are boring, war
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A Couple Thoughts
Sonnet insurance stormed onto the airwaves in the last couple years, trying to appeal to optimists. A couple of their slogans were: “Protect your optimism, not just your things”, and “Don’t let anything get in the way of your optimism. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Politics
Tagged Amazon, do they know the mindset to get insured?, employees, employers, employs, insurance, jobs, optimistic advertising, optimists, pessimists, Sonnet insurance, usees, users, uses
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Malka
I just recently figured what “Imma” means. It means “I am going to”. Just look at it. It’s not a proper contraction because there are no apostrophes (and wouldn’t it have to use 3 apostrophes?) and its not a proper … Continue reading