Friday Bullets For The Week Of The Blackout

The power went out. From 3 pm to midnight yesterday. Sat around in one room for the evening and marveled at the power of the battery. I tweeted and listened to radio. Ice was to blame. Ice from the sky. Fortunately, it appears to have rained all night washing away the coating. A few trees in the neighbourhood fell. Now, there is good reason to have those ribs in the freezer:

♦ I like beer as much as the next guy. Probably more. But I am not sure why one of Ontario’s less interesting brewers deserved $1,000,000 in tax support annually.
Really? I assume the PM does not know every implication of every Federal legal brief. And besides. If the brief was correct in relation to same sex marriage, it also means that the same is true for different sex marriage – if you don’t meet a foreign level of consanguinity in your home country, a Canadian marriage would not be valid. No one believes that.
♦ Let’s be clear, then. I am the guy who backed Harper this week, not the National Post. No Senate reform, please. No need to entirely lock up Federal governance, Steve.
♦ Scots apparently are not free to make up their minds. Time to revive the Declaration of Arbroath. “It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” Makes you weepy just thinking about it.

There. Done. Gotta work one more day before the gorging of rib fest begins. Thanks, blackout, for reminding me to make time for ribs.

One thought on “Friday Bullets For The Week Of The Blackout”

  1. [Original comments…]

    David Janes – January 13, 2012 9:48 AM
    Steven Harper has his hands in everything the government does, just like Professor Moriarity or Dr. Octopus. Why, I read on Facebook this morning that it’s just like Germany in the 1930s now.

    (BTW – Happy new year!).

    Ben (The Tiger) – January 13, 2012 7:25 PM
    http://tigeronpolitics.wordpress.com
    The Scots can state their minds whenever they like. But separation referenda aren’t a unilateral thing — as the Canadian experience shows.

    There’ll be a UK version of the Clarity Act, count on it.

    Although I’m not sure the outcome will be the same, nor am I sure it should — a velvet divorce between Scotland and England wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.

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