Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008
I have no idea what channel I’ll be watching Thursday when the debates come on.
The English-language debate between Canada’s political leaders? Or Sarah Palin and Joe Biden south of the border?
I’m more enticed by the prospect of a Palin-Biden debate. I want to see if Palin gets destroyed or merely looks silly. If [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain suspended his campaign to work on the bailout package before Congress, but didn’t even manage to convince a single Arizona member of Congress from his own state to vote for it.
Arizona is represented in the U.S. federal legislature by eight members of the House of Representatives and two members [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008
Prime Minister Steven Harper’s announcement that a re-elected Conservative government would ban export of oil sands bitumen to countries with lower emission standards is getting reaction not only from Alberta, but from a rural municipality where a number of proposed upgrader projects would be located.
Here is the September 26 Conservative Party news release. Note the [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008
I just found this. I love it. An article on political attack ads by Judith Timson of the Globe and Mail. She suggests how would we fare under such ads? Delightful read.
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 29, 2008
The Globe and Mail reports U.S. consumer spending is down. Expect that to go down further as the credit crunch tightens. A report from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune says consumers will be more frugal this Christmas.
The credit crunch hitting main street is not a phenomenon isolated to the United States. Here is a [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 29, 2008
The wise falcon never shows its claws. Add to that, “until after the vote”.
Unfortunately Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, just had to stick her tongue out at the Republicans just before todays momentous and historic vote for a $700 billion credit crisis bailout and blame Bush and his [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 27, 2008
Hollywood actor Paul Newman died Friday following a battle with cancer.
One of my favourite writers, movie critic Roger Ebert, wrote this memorial tribute one hour ago.
Here are a few scattered scenes of Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, performed with Elizabeth Taylor in 1958.
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 26, 2008
When a presidential candidate’s party has conducted an unpopular war precipitated by an invasion of a sovereign country that didn’t have weapons of mass destruction or Al-Queda or 9-11 links, when it has run the world’s greatest economy straight into the ground, when it’s spending is greater than any other administration, when it took [...]
