Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 21, 2009
Skynews keeps track of Iranian tweets on what’s happening in that country.
Here is a link to The Truth Laid Bear and its list of Iranian bloggers. Some of the blogs have been taken down, but there are links within some blogs to take you to other helpful sites to find out what is going on.
From [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 15, 2009
American television broadcaster and political commentator Bill Maher, an unabashed Obama supporter, takes a swing at the new president, saying (gasp) he wishes he was more like Bush. Here’s the link to Huffpo to view that.
I’d recently written on the president as movie star syndrome wondering if Obama had found the Oval Office yet.
If I [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 15, 2009
The plug will not be pulled on the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Yet.
Maybe.
Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff said Monday he was holding off on bringing down the Tory minority government, but wanted some answers from Harper on employment insurance issues, why the majority of recently approved infrastructure spending has not appeared to be spent [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 11, 2009
He has an impressive resume, does Halifax resident Ralston MacDonnell, the father of the press secretary clutz, Jasmine MacDonnell.
This link will include nothing on his Liberal bent or fund raising or goverment friendships, just pure professional accomplishment
Click here.
Out of interest, here is a thank you for Mr. MacDonnell from none other than Stockwell Day, at [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 11, 2009
A overlooked tidbit. Gossip but good gossip. From Stephen Maher again, Halifax Chronicle Herald, who reports from the infamous Raitt tape that apparently three of Canada’s top bankers told Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff to lay off defeating the government of Stephen Harper. Click here.
It could be bullshit, but there it is, reported from what’s on [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 11, 2009
A press aide in Ottawa makes $120,000 annually?
With that, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff’s comment on MacDonnell’s consistent screw-ups,”I don’t blame 26-year-olds” seems less politicially wise (blame the minister, not the help) and almost silly.
One hundred and twenty thousand dollars? A year? Ten thousand a month? For a fucking press aide? Twenty-five hundred a fucking week?
For [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 11, 2009
Here’s a juicy bit from Jeff Jedras, in his blog, BCer in Toronto.
Jasmine MacDonnell, the ever-forgetful one, actually tried to juicily bargain with the reporter, Stephen Maher of the Halifax Chronicle Herald, who found her digital recorder, once she learned he was running with a story on it.
My good God.
Anyway, he does it by simply [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 11, 2009
This story compares former former foriegn affairs minister Maxim Bernier stepping down after leaving cabinet documents in his girl friend’s home to Lisa Raitt being able to axe her aide, Jasmine MacDonnell and keep her job.
Story include description of MacDonnell’s reaction to learning she messed up.
From Star.com, back on June 4.
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 10, 2009
I have no idea why I keep flogging this horse named Jasmine MacDonnell, but the issue is strangely irrestistable. This is how the people in power in our government operate, this is how they talk, this is how they think, this is the unspun song we get before it becomes spin.
They are screw-ups. We always [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 10, 2009
Christy Blatchford’s writing style makes it sound like she just woke up, craves coffee and cigarettes, and has neither.
Plucked from Bourque, this jewel puts Blatchford-style perspective on the Jasmine MacDonnell-Lisa Raitt digital recorder thing. She comes out swinging and sticks up for Raitt with a great point.
No matter how you put it, MacDonnell, who has [...]
