Obama's 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner : VIDEO.
You saw this, right? Yes? With Seth Meyers? And Donald Trump having his racist white ass being handed to him?
I suspect he will be referring to this as his fourth bankruptcy.
Love Means Never Having to Say "Clean up your side of the bed."
Now, to clarify, I am not at all big on the media stereotypes of men vs women. It is disgusting how often I am bombarded with television commercials depicting women as the anal-maniacal geniuses keeping the chaotic household together while the idiot husbands watch sports and buy sport cars they can't afford or tools they are incapable of using correctly. It is gross and obviously inaccurate if you have ever left your house for more than six seconds.
That being said, sometimes there are glaring differences between men and women that arise in certain situations and make me smile.
That being said, sometimes there are glaring differences between men and women that arise in certain situations and make me smile.
This is our bed. On either side are utility shelves* with piles of stuff on them.
This is my side, complete with a cartoon Greg drew of himself in an antique frame, a humidifier that looks like a spaceship, essential oil burner, herbal balms and sleeping aids, incense in a hand-made holder from India, my favourite books, antique suitcase with old diaries, a hat box with love items from Greg, and my Valentimes present- an iron dress frame. Oh, and a candle.
And this... this is Greg's side. His blood pressure monitor, diabetic pen, pill bottles (empty, full, partially full, mystery bottles), receipts, action figures, business cards, spare Kleenex from his pockets, Old Spice deodorant and body spray, Dr. Pepper pop tops with codes for a Thor contest, spare change, mail (opened, unopened, mystery mail), lotions, ipod and headphones, lube, chap sticks, sleep mask, medication, stuffed animals, nasal spray, remotes, massagers, 2 pairs of glasses, candies, 2 wallets, keys, zip drives, Apple ID stuff, and any love note I have ever written him since we began dating almost 3 years ago.
I love him.
*While we told ourselves ages ago that the utility shelves were temporary, they have become more than sufficient for our needs and will likely be our nightstands until they turn to dust.
"This kind of talk will get you FOLLOWED..."
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xo
Thank you so much, new Twitter friends.
Star Wars Blu-Ray Details to Be Revealed On-Line May 4th
Are you excited about the Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-Ray release coming this fall?
If you are like me and can't wait to get your hands on the Star Wars Blu-Rays on September 16, then you want to check out a special announcement by Lucasfilm on the holiday of all holidays. May 4th.
May the 4th be with you. Get it, fourth, force.
Currently the website has a countdown clock until May the 4th, but we should be getting some pretty massive news regarding the specifications and possibly the external and internal look of the box set. The tag line for the announcement is; "all will be revealed."
I highly suggest you pre-order your copy of Star Wars on Blu-Ray now, as they are going to be flying off the shelves. In fact, if you don't have a Blu-Ray player yet, go get one, and while your at it pick up The Clone Wars on Blu-Ray, it looks incredible.
You can Pre-Order Star Wars on Blu-Ray at Amazon.com: Complete Saga, Prequel Trilogy, Original Trilogy.
SOURCES: StarWars.com, Maythe4th.starwars.com, and Jedi Temple Archives
World Dance Day in the school
"The urge to dance is a natural impulse, dancers worship nature in their way, they connect with the universe and feel its juices trickle into them."
April 29 is the World Dance Day. World Dance Day was established in 1982 by the International Dance Council - CID of UNESCO to bring attention to the art of dance every year on April 29 birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727), a French dancer and balletmaster, generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century.
Education:
Wim Wenders dedicated a extraordinary documentary to Pina Bausch. I think the most beautiful tribute to the art of dance.
Dance is also a good therapy for young people in the school. Dance movement therapy and the power of dance is used to inspire, uplift and heal.
Dance is a fun and fresh integrative part in the curricula. Sir Ken Robinson's TED lectures on education and creativity are very inspiring about free expression of the kids.
There will be many performances in colleges and out of doors today. So, don't miss the opportunity to let your students express themselves by dancing in the school gardens.
"All through the year we teach dance, we rehearse, we perform within four walls. On this special day dedicated to dance, let us mark the difference by practising, teaching or performing for everyone to see. It might be cold and rainy, the floor is certainly not good enough, the wind takes the music away, but the beauty in those movements and the joy on those faces will brighten the hearts of the spontaneous audience of passers-by."
President of the International Dance Council CID UNESCO, Paris
G-Souto
29.04.2011
Copyright © 2011G-Souto'sBlog, gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com®
If Time Doesn't Exist, Then What Am I Wasting..?
Thank you, Crown & Anchor for another Thursday worth not forgetting.
;)
xoxoxoxoxmeow.
Landlady Says VOTE.
Our landlady is an older, take-no-shit kind of woman and she gets stuff done. She sends out a monthly memo reminding people in the complex when the rent is due and to generally stop being douchebags. That is why we love her.
Now we get to add 'Get democratic, Assholes' to the list.
Donna, you are excellent.
Now we get to add 'Get democratic, Assholes' to the list.
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Donna, you are excellent.
Greg Goes Hockey All Over Your Asses.
The sound is shitty pub-after-the-game quality, but I think his facial expressions really say it all... also, my laughter should never be that close to a microphone. Sweet Fancy Moses.
Not in Our Names.
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Some people have asked why I am so invested in this particular election.
And they have ever right to be curious, for I have not always been this way.
While I have always been a huge fan of the more micro-politics of relationships and social structures, the macro-political interest waned. For most of my life I was Geo-politically ignorant, and then I became overwhelmed and willfully ignorant. I felt powerless, and getting involved in politics did nothing but reinforce that feeling.
So, why now?
Why get so involved now when it is clear that Canadians have exercised their right to maintain willful ignorance to the point that we may be the least powerful than any other time in history? (Don't believe me? Check out how many rules, laws, bi-laws, mandates, regulations, policies, etc we live under compared to a hundred years ago. It will shock you.)
It would be easy to chalk it up to be aghast at what Harper has done to us, but it is more personal than that.
I have realized that he has been doing this to us for FOUR YEARS and I had NO IDEA.
What the hell was I doing when he was fucking over our aboriginal communities, and sending detainees back to be tortured, and cutting off planned parenthood funding, and attempting to de-regulate banks, and cutting women's advocacy funding by 50%, and breaking campaign regulations to buy his way into parliament for the second time, and weakening regulations to protect us from pesticide carcinogens and GMOs, and then turning around and cutting the long form census down to only "pertinent details" because what do you need the people's information for when it is not in your design to govern for them anyway...?
What the hell was I doing?
Feeling powerless and pretending that I didn't realize it.
And I have a sneaking suspicion that too many others were as well, because if it wasn't for the other parties citing him for non-confidence of the House, would most of us even have realized what the hell he was doing over there?
When he didn't get his way, he fired people, fraudulantly hired others, prorogued parliament TWICE, shrouded numerous documentation, banned transcripts from meetings, and basically told the Canadian public to shut up and mind our own business. And we did.
And look at what the hell happened:
And it is my fault.
Not ALL my fault, but I was here... ignoring what he was doing to us.
Now, I am not going to get all maudlin and feel sorry for myself anymore than I am about to feel sorry for our country about this. Sometimes timing is everything.
Because look what has happened:
On behalf of all Canadians, sir, I would like to thank you. You have done it! You have really done it. You’ve managed to get us interested in federal politics.
This campaign season began several weeks ago with you standing solemnly in an empty Parliament to dismiss a supposedly unwanted election — triggered, of course, by your government being held in contempt of Parliament — as something sure to disappoint Canadians. You didn’t pull this dismissal out of thin air: after all, the last election, held just a couple of years ago, had the lowest turnout in Canadian history; young people between eighteen and twenty-four stayed home in droves, with less than 40 percent bothering to vote. Your party subsequently wrote off the electorate, especially its youngest constituents, and your rivals seemed to agree — in this month’s televised debates, there was very little mention of any issues of interest to young people. It seems like you all assumed that young Canadians won’t vote because they don’t care, so why waste your breaths?
But something has happened. There has been a ground swell of engagement by Canadians of all ages. The internet is ablaze with political talk, more people watched the debates than the NHL playoffs, and on campuses across the country — during final exams — students are holding vote mobs. Vote mobs, Mr. Harper! The very Canadians you dismissed as apathetic, it turns out, aren’t after all. They are forming mobs, sir, and a mob is the next best thing to a riot.
We saw something like this in 2008 — i.e., an unprecedented number of young and discouraged voters becoming engaged in politics for the first time in their lives. The problem was that it happened in American politics, and it centred on the charisma of Barack Obama. The sexiness of the American presidential election only served to highlight the dullness and hollowness of our Canadian choices, further discouraging voters.
But all that is changing, Mr. Harper. Things are really turning around. There are mobs, sir! Mobs! And this exciting shift is largely thanks to you.
I would like to tell you that your own charisma is inspiring Canadians to become involved in this election. Or that one of your competitors is taking the country by storm with a message of hope and change. But, much like last time, this election is pretty much void of any charisma, save for one plucky challenger. Left wanting for something positive and hopeful, Canadians have found an equally powerful inspiration in response to what you lack. These vote mobs, this Facebook chatter, the viral videos, and potty-mouthed websites that show the increasing engagement of those young voters you dismissed are not partisan per se, but are united, instead, by a severe distaste for the Harper Government and the questionable ways it runs things. Canadians from all walks of life, from the Arcade Fire, to Margaret Atwood, to Joe Nobody, are lashing out against your five years of secrecy, contempt, and hypocrisy. Canadians are engaged in federal politics now more than they have been in a very long time, thanks to you. And it looks like many young Canadians will now decide to vote for the first time. But unfortunately for you, Mr. Harper, it will be for anyone other than yourself.
Best,
A voter"
This is what happened. People got invested. I got invested.
Finally.
And it is a beautiful thing to witness. From all of us.
Miss USA Has TSA Pat-down in Dallas Airport That Borders on Molestation.
Indeed. THIS is not a choice any human being should have to make.
This is terrible.
Heir to the Empire: 20th Anniversary Edition Preview: Annotation #7: Heir Mitth'raw'nuruodo
Star Wars Books on Facebook has released the latest in a series of preview annotations for Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Heir to the Empire: 20th Anniversary Edition. Annotation #7 involves a curious random factoid that doesn't have much to do with the story but focuses on what can sometimes be lost in translation.
ANNOTATION #7:
"A small thing that I never would have anticipated, and never even knew before I was invited to a Star Wars convention in Munich: The "thr" combination apparently doesn't exist in German, or so I was told. German Star Wars fans therefore have terrific difficulty pronouncing Thrawn's name." -- TZ
It would be curious to know what the German pronunciation or attempted pronunciation of Thrawn ends up sounding like.
SOURCE: STAR WARS BOOKS ON FACEBOOK
Del Rey Spectra Twitter Book Giveaway: Features Two Star Wars Books
Del Rey Spectra the imprint of Random House that publishes Star Wars books is holding a giveaway via Twitter that ends at 5pm EST on April 29th.
DelReySpectra Del Rey Spectra: If you RT w/ #DRS5K, you'll be entered to win the 6 print books on this list http://bit.ly/gMzJIr (US & Can, 18 and up; ends 5 pm ET 4/29)
The six books are paperbacks:
Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi Allies by Christie Golden
The Hidden Goddess by M.K. Hobson
The Star Wars Craft Book by Bonnie Burton
The River of Shadows by Robert V. S. Redick
Will Supervillain Be on the Final? by Naomi Novik
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Sources: SUVUDU and @DelReySpectra
Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi Allies by Christie Golden
The Hidden Goddess by M.K. Hobson
The Star Wars Craft Book by Bonnie Burton
The River of Shadows by Robert V. S. Redick
Will Supervillain Be on the Final? by Naomi Novik
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Sources: SUVUDU and @DelReySpectra
SandTroopers.com First Look at Savage Opress TCW Action Figure
I am not really toy collecting side of the Star Wars fan community, but I am a big fan of Savage Opress so I found this news from Sandtroopers.com to be really cool.
One of their contributors CommanderPhoenix got some pictures of the new Savage Opress action figure part of Hasbro's Star Wars: The Clone Wars line.
Head over to Sandtroopers.com for the complete photo gallery.
One of their contributors CommanderPhoenix got some pictures of the new Savage Opress action figure part of Hasbro's Star Wars: The Clone Wars line.
Head over to Sandtroopers.com for the complete photo gallery.
Ashley Eckstein's Her Universe Update: New Products and a Sale
Ashley Eckstein the actress behind Ahsoka Tano and geek girl fashion impresario, will be co-hosting Disney's Star Wars Weekends this summer. In conjunction with this she has announced that her clothing company will be unveiling two new shirts and two previously adult shirts in kids sizes. The shirts will be available exclusively at Disney for a limited time, presumably before becoming available on the Her Universe website.
Her Universe also has six of its shirts on sale as part of its 50% off sale.
Head over to Her Universe to check out the sale.
Head to Disney's website for details on Disney Star Wars Weekends.
Her Universe also has six of its shirts on sale as part of its 50% off sale.
Head over to Her Universe to check out the sale.
Head to Disney's website for details on Disney Star Wars Weekends.
Off Topic: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows 2 Trailer: Harry is a Right Ornery Git
This is just to awesome not to share.
I was a late comer to the Harry Potter phenomenon. I saw the movies before I read any of the books, an while I liked the first few movies as the tone has gotten darker an more mature I have found myself really getting into the story. Ginny is awesome. I can't wait to see Mrs. Weasley in action.
I was a late comer to the Harry Potter phenomenon. I saw the movies before I read any of the books, an while I liked the first few movies as the tone has gotten darker an more mature I have found myself really getting into the story. Ginny is awesome. I can't wait to see Mrs. Weasley in action.
Lightsaber Rattling: Social Media Update (Facebook, Twitter, & Forums)
I thought I would take a minute to say thank you to all the readers for making my little blog an overwhelming success from my perspective, and to let you know where you can find and interact with me in different social media forms.
Lightsaber Rattling has an official Facebook page. We are up 96 likes and I would love to get that number over 100 soon. If you haven't liked us yet please do and stop by and leave a comment.
I am also fairly active on Twitter, I usually Tweet (@Pete_Morrison) links to articles as well as engage in #Starwars and #SWEU discussions. I generally Tweet about Star Wars, but watch out for some sports related tweets and occasionally other topics, but generally you want see me tweeting about standing in line waiting to buy laundry detergent. I am up to 229 followers an would love to see that number get over 250 soon.
I have over the years posted on the Starwars.com Message Boards. Some of us Internet veterans still like the message board format as a way of interacting. Call us old, but at least we have evolved away from the AOL chat rooms....With the official site message boards shutting down, I have very happily migrated to the EUCantina.net Forums. This is a message board run by my friends and fellow Star Wars fans over at EUCantina. There is a strong core group of members there as well as a large group of new members joining and even some VIPs. You should head over and give the great looking new message board design a look, pull up a chair and join the conversation. Look for me posting as LightsaberRattling so that any fans of the site will be able to easily find me on there.
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Fighting cyber bullying with Shakespeare?
This week we celebrated the Bard's birthday William Shakespeare (April 23).
And suddenly I found on Facebook this interesting project. In honour of Shakespeare's birthday, an adaptation of a classic play to help nurture the emotional experiences of young people, specifically around bullying.
"A Shakespeare play on Facebook? Yes! It's true! And it's happening NOW! You can be a part of Shakespeare's classic comedy as we present it in real time over three days."
The project explores social media as an educational tool and will send a powerful message about cyberbullying to today's plugged-in students.
"In Much Ado, the villainous Don John destroys an innocent girl's impending marriage by conspiring with others to make her appear unfaithful. The girl, Hero, fakes her own death to escape the scorn of her fiance and family until the truth can be revealed and the lovers can be reunited.
Much Ado also features the memorable characters of Beatrice and Benedick, who start the play at each other's throats and learn to love each other through some clever trickery on the part of their friends."
(about the play)
Much Ado About Nothing is presenting on a special page through status updates, posts, pictures and videos.
The students helped create separate pages for their characters complete with pictures, in-character bios and likes.
It’s a great way to make Shakespeare more comprehensible to teenagers, kids, and especially kids who don’t enjoy Shakespeare right away.
A hip-hop introduction to "Much Ado About Nothing" is an original animated adaptation, written and performed by Flocabulary.
Watch the video below and discover how Shakespeare really got his idea for the play!
Education:
It's a creative project to introduce in the classroom, Literature and Civics curricula.
The project is meant both as an educational resource and a tool to combat cyber bullying. And that is a fanstastic idea to motivate students to learn about Shakespeare in the school and to fight cyber bullying.
Facebook has been the site of much cyber bullying. But Facebook is making efforts to provide a slew of tools and resources available to report abuse.
The project is hosted on Facebook, where many students are already present!
I have developed cross- curricula projects with my students to fight bullying in the school, some years ago, based on literature, music and civics. Cyber bullying came after.
The performance is in full swing (it began yesterday), but you can catch up on the action by reading everything that has happened so far.
"Cyberbullying is a serious issue for today's youth, so we're very excited to bring this message into their territory and language," said Jessica Semler, program coordinator for The Ophelia Project. "From a literary standpoint, it is great to show how relevant and spot-on Shakespeare still is."
G-Souto
27.04.2011
Copyright © 2011G-Souto'sBlog, gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com®
References:
Weekly Reader
Much ado about nothing
A social media theater production
READ Magazine: Fiction, nonfiction, and reader’s theater for grades 6–10, April 15, 2011
The Street, Weekly Reader And The Ophelia Project Take On Cyberbullying With A Shakespeare Play Presented On Facebook, April 6, 2011
ALBERTA SENATOR TOMMY BANKS: A Letter to the Voters of Canada.
"There is only one thing about the outcome of the May 2nd election on which Mr. Ignatieff and Mr. Harper agree. It is that one of them will be the Prime Minister of Canada. Mr. Layton, Mr. Duceppe and Ms. May are not in the running to form a government. They can’t. It will be either Mr. Ignatieff or Mr. Harper.
That is the choice, and it is a very clear – in fact, stark choice. We will choose between openness or secrecy. Between listening or refusing to listen. Between someone who respects Parliament or someone who disdains it. Between things we can and will do now or things that, (provided of course that everything goes well), we might do in five or six years. Between someone who answers all questions from Canadians, or someone who won’t accept any.
Between Mr. Harper who said “It’s past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act”, or Mr. Ignatieff who said “ . . . we don’t want user fees. We want universal, accessible, free-at-the-point-of-service health care, paid out of general revenue. That’s just bottom line. Otherwise we get two-tiered”.
Between buying jets or helping vets. Between real early childhood learning and care or Saturday-night babysitting. Between respect for our great institutions or contempt for them. Between helping families or helping big corporations. Between the Canada that we think we have, or the way in which Mr. Harper has already changed it.
Over the past few years Mr. Harper’s government has quietly engineered so many changes that there are some ways in which our country is barely recognizable. Many of us don’t yet realize the extent of those changes, because many of them have been brought about very carefully and gradually – almost imperceptibly in some cases.
This is diabolically clever. If these things had all been done at once, there would have been loud protests and reactions. But moving just one little brick at a time doesn’t cause much fuss – until you realize that the whole house has been renovated. And we’ve hardly noticed.
These are changes that are at the very heart of who and what Canadians are. They are changes to the protections that used to exist against the tyranny of the majority – or against a single-minded my-way-or-the-highway autocrat. These changes are losses to our very Canadian-ness. Let me remind you of some of them:
The Law Commission of Canada was created by an Act of Parliament in 1997. It worked very well. It kept an eye in a sort-of avuncular way, on necessary reforms of the law, including election law. The Commission couldn’t actually change law; but it was very good at letting governments and everybody else know when changes needed to be made and why. It was our legal Jiminy Cricket, and it performed a valuable service for Canada. The Commission was created by an Act of Parliament, and any government wanting to shut it down should have been up-front about it. It should have come to Parliament with a Bill to rescind The Law Commission of Canada Act. That’s what any of our 21 previous Prime Ministers would have done.
But to Mr. Harper, Parliament is an inconvenience. Somebody might ask “Why are you doing this?” But he didn’t want to go through all that Parliamentary trouble; so, rather than proposing the abolition of the Commission (a proposal about which there would have been pretty fierce debate on all sides), they just eliminated all funding for it in the federal budget. Governments can do that. Poof – no Law Commission.
Nice and quiet. Just one little brick. Hardly noticed.
Then there was the Court Challenges Programme, set up in 1994, which was the means by which a bit of legal help could be provided to a private individual or small organization who didn’t have a lot of money, and who was taking on, or being taken on by, the Government of Canada. It leveled the legal playing field a bit. It was a perfect example of fundamental Canadian fairness.
By convincing a tough panel of judges of the reasonableness of your cause, you could get a little help in paying for some lawyers to go up against the phalanx of legal beagles that could always, and forever, and at public expense, be brought to bear against you by the State. In other words, if you weren’t rich, and if you were taking on or being taken on by the Feds, you might have had a chance. But Mr. Harper doesn’t like being questioned, let alone challenged. It’s so inconvenient! Solution? Quietly announce that the Court Challenges Programme is being, er, discontinued. Poof – no Court Challenges Programme – no court challenges.
Hardly noticed.
The Coordination of Access to Information Request System (CAIRS) was created (by a Progressive-Conservative government) in 1989 so that departments of government could harmonize their responses to access-to-information requests that might need multi-departmental responses. It was efficient; it made sure that in most cases the left hand knew what the right hand was doing, or at least what they were saying; and it helped keep government open and accountable. Well, if you’re running a closed-door government, that’s not a good idea, is it? So, as a Treasury Board official explained to the Canadian Press, CAIRS was killed by the Harper government because “extensive” consultations showed it wasn’t valued by government departments. I guess that means that the extensive consultations were all with government departments.
Wait! Wasn’t there anybody else with whom to extensively consult? Wasn’t there some other purpose and use for CAIRS? Didn’t it have something to do with openness and accountability? I guess not. Robert Makichuk, speaking for Mr. Harper’s government, explained that “valuable resources currently being used to maintain CAIRS would be better used in the collection and analysis of improved statistical reporting”.
Right. In other words, CAIRS was an inconvenience to the government. So poof – it’s disappeared. And, except for investigative reporters and other people who might (horrors!) ask questions, its loss is hardly noticed.
And the bridge too far for me: Cutting the already-utterly-inadequate funding for the exposure of Canadian art and artists in other countries. That funding was, by any comparison, already laughably miniscule. Mr. Harper says that “ordinary” Canadians don’t support the arts. He’s wrong. And his is now the only government of any significant country in the world that clearly just doesn’t get it.
All these changes were done quietly, cleverly, and under the radar. No fuss. No outcry. Just one little brick at a time. But in these and other ways, our Canadian house is no longer the kind of place it once was. Nobody minds good renovations. Nobody even minds tearing something down, as long as we put up something better in its place. That’s not what has happened.
Mr. Harper fired the head of the Canadian Wheat Board because he was doing his job properly. He removed the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission because she wanted to make sure that the Chalk River nuclear reactor was safe.
Hardly noticed.
There are many more things that were hardly noticed: Cuts to funding for the Status of Women, Adult Learning and Literacy, Environmental Programs, museums funding, and more. All quietly, just one brick at a time.
Hardly noticed.
As to campaign promises, everybody in sight on every side is guilty of breaking those. Except the Federal NDP of course, who haven’t yet had the opportunity. (It’s very easy to make promises that you know you will not likely have to keep).
But the government promised to end wait times in health care. They didn’t. They promised to end, once and for all, the whining of some provinces about the non-existent “fiscal imbalance”. They didn’t. They said they had brought final resolution to the softwood lumber problem with the U.S. They haven’t. They promised to create thousands of new child-care spaces in Canada. They haven’t. They promised not to tax income trusts (“We will NEVER do that!” they said). They taxed them. They promised to lower your income tax.
They raised it.
They said they had a good “made-in-Canada” plan to meet our obligations on climate change. They don’t. Mr. Harper has said plainly that whatever the Americans do is what we’ll do too.
They campaign on a platform of transparency and accountability; but they’re now trying to discredit the Parliamentary Budget Officer that they created, because he’s trying to do the job that they gave him. Mr. Harper said that our form of government, evolved over centuries from the 900-year-old British Westminster tradition, was all wrong. We had to have fixed election dates, because otherwise, democratic principles would be trampled. ”Fixed election dates”, he said, “stop leaders from trying to manipulate the calendar. They level the playing field for all parties”.
So Parliament (remember them?) at Mr. Harper’s insistence, passed a law requiring fixed election dates, which Mr. Harper promptly broke.
Somebody once said that we get the kind of government we deserve. What did we do to deserve Mr. Harper? He once said that we should all “Stand Up for Canada”. Well, let’s do that. We just have to decide whether the present version of Canada is the one that we’ll stand up for. Or stand for.
Thank you,
Tommy Banks (an Alberta Senator.)"
The Real Mikey.
Lisa Lampanelli suggested her Twitter followers also follow RealMikey.
So, I did.
And THIS is what I was bombarded with this morning:
Clearly, Mikey has suffered a break up, thinks he's funny, hate mornings, and doesn't understand simile.
Thanks, Queen of Mean.
(Thanks for the tip, Anonymous.)
- And Anonymous (from comments) is correct; RealMikey's tweets are lame jokes you can easily find if you take five seconds to Google. They are lifted from bad joke forums and sites your grandparents would get a kick out of for ten minutes.
He is just embarrassing.
I don't understand his 100,000 followers, but I understand even LESS Lampanelli's desire to promote him.
- I also posted a comment on YouTube reminding him to take it easy when ripping off jokes for Twitter because he is liable to get busted and embarrass himself. It was promptly deleted.
- He must have taken my comment to heart, though, because he deleted the tweet linking the "Thank you" video from his Twitter. Probably for the best.
So, I did.
And THIS is what I was bombarded with this morning:
Clearly, Mikey has suffered a break up, thinks he's funny, hate mornings, and doesn't understand simile.
Thanks, Queen of Mean.
UPDATE:
(Thanks for the tip, Anonymous.)
- And Anonymous (from comments) is correct; RealMikey's tweets are lame jokes you can easily find if you take five seconds to Google. They are lifted from bad joke forums and sites your grandparents would get a kick out of for ten minutes.
He is just embarrassing.
I don't understand his 100,000 followers, but I understand even LESS Lampanelli's desire to promote him.
- I also posted a comment on YouTube reminding him to take it easy when ripping off jokes for Twitter because he is liable to get busted and embarrass himself. It was promptly deleted.
- He must have taken my comment to heart, though, because he deleted the tweet linking the "Thank you" video from his Twitter. Probably for the best.
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