September 2003

Evil Reptilian Kitten Eater from another Planet

September 12, 2003

Whoa… the Eves team is really reaching now.  Where does he recruit his staffers?  From the local high school?   

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Foppiano 1999 Petite Sirah

September 12, 2003

We drank a bottle of the Talomas that I’ve written about earlier tonight with dinner.  Post dinner I decided I wanted another glass, and fetched a bottle of Foppiano 1999 Petite Sirah from the cellar.  I love this wine.  Spice, pepper, berries, chocolate, and a little bit of the "barnyard" that Pinot Noir is famous [...]

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I’m Back

September 12, 2003

Have y’all noticed?  I’m back.   

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What’s in a hate crime?

September 8, 2003

It’s been an interesting week, hasn’t it?  Hopefully the irony of the Alliance motion, followed by bill C-250 hasn’t been lost on anyone.  On the one hand, a group of "Reformers" in Parliament has pushed hard for a motion to not reform the marriage laws in Canada.  The motion was narrowly defeated.  The next day [...]

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Responding to the Smug Canadian

September 8, 2003

My smug friend posted a link yesterday to this site, responding to this.  He wrote: The Canadian Alliance has been bitching about parliamentary reform since their earliest days when they were called Reform. The message has been falling on uninterested Canadian ears ever since because it is such a difficult problem to solve. How do you explain [...]

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Orange SPV

September 8, 2003

A couple of days ago one of these appeared in the courier parcel.  The SPV is a GSM phone running the Windows Smartphone software from Microsoft.  Over five years in the making, in my opinion this thing is a darn good product.  It synchronizes with my calendar, email, and contacts (I’ve got over 1300 contacts [...]

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A tie vote

September 7, 2003

Most disheartening of all about last nights’ vote was that the first time round it was a tie vote – 134 to 134.  It was not until the speaker of the house ruled that the original Alliance motion had to stand, which called on Parliament to take "all necessary steps" to preserve marriage as an [...]

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Thierry and Guy Fat Bastard Shiraz

September 6, 2003

I picked up a bottle of this wine at the LCBO last week because it had such a lovely name.  Fat Bastard is a wine with an Australian name (Shiraz) but a French vitner.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t live up to the name.  It’s not a fat wine at all.  In fact, rather thin and vinegery.  [...]

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Notwithstanding minority rights

September 6, 2003

Tonight’s vote in the Commons on the definition of marriage was a sad sad affair.  Sad that so many Canadians feel it necessary to vote on such a basic issue of human dignity and kindness.  Sad that it was so narrowly won.  Sad because some of those who would lead our country (Peter Mackay, Steven Harper) [...]

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Can Dalton McGuinty suck and blow at the same time?

September 5, 2003

The Ontario Liberals are promising not to raise taxes, and balance the budget, while simultaneously hammering on the Conservatives for running a secret multi-billion dollar deficit.  Applying a little logic leads one to the following conclusions: Either Ernie Eves is telling the truth, and there is no deficit, or Dalton McGuinty is lying when he says he [...]

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