Coming to you from Space TV, the new TV series, Bitten, based on the Kelley Armstrong novel, Bitten.

Quite a few of the blogrolls I am on, to which I am traffic dependant, have not switched me over yet to my new address. Here's a little re-direct for my posts from last evening and this morning.

After three years, it's time to leave home. Other than some serious downtime when I was converting to new blogger, I have been well served here at blogger.com. However, with possible concerns about what I will be doing to make money it seems a good time to brand myself.

If you can't stand waiting for Santa to show up, here's a few links to wile away the interminable wait until midnight:

If you are wondering where Santa is, don't worry. Big Brother, who seem to have no currently pressing issues, are tracking Santa for you.

This is the third annual annual At Home in Hespeler Dec. 24th gift for my friends of the left. (ribald version, here):

In The Workhouse Christmas Day, by George R.

One day a friend of mine says to me, "The wife wants me to create a web site for the cat. What am I supposed to put for content on a cat's website?"

So I went off and wrote A Cat's Christmas for him.

Other years I have offered a taste, and a link.

The BBS Blogging Tories Site of the Week for the week of December 21st is:

ChuckerCanuck 2.0

Today's Rebel Is A Conservative

This year's Canadian Blog Awards has just finished and Chuckercanuck is already getting a start on the Best Blog Post Series for next year:

A Canadian Christmas Carol, Cha

One day a friend of mine says to me, "The wife wants me to create a web site for the cat. What am I supposed to put for content on a cat's website?"

So I went off and wrote A Cat's Christmas for him.

Other years I have offered a taste, and a link.

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When I didn't hear from the Prime Minister by the weekend, it was occurring to me that he was going to look elsewhere for Senate talent.

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One day a friend of mine says to me, "The wife wants me to create a web site for the cat. What am I supposed to put for content on a cat's website?"

So I went off and wrote A Cat's Christmas for him.

Other years I have offered a taste, and a link.

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One day a friend of mine says to me, "The wife wants me to create a web site for the cat. What am I supposed to put for content on a cat's website?"

So I went off and wrote A Cat's Christmas for him.

Other years I have offered a taste, and a link.

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An annual repeat post from Dec 23rd, 2006. All links are still active:

The Sun and Canoe.ca have produced a downloadable version of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. It is newly illustrated by the Sun's Pam Davies and is in pdf format.

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Keef.

It's hard to imagine that Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards lived to 65, and it would be easy to fire off a cockroach and Keith Richards joke and call it a birthday greeting. But I'll leave that to others.

Work is done for the year and I'm in the middle of my Christmas postings. Today, here's an old favourite from children's author, songwriter and poet Shel Silverstein. I first saw this one about ten years ago, and have always remembered it.

... if you want to survive here, you have to learn how to handle the curve ball.

Other than that bit of nit-pickery, this is my favourite Canadian Christmas Song (Yes, even more than Honky The Christmas Goose).

I hesitate. Yet I can't not do it. It came to my attention today that commenting was a problem for some people. I find comment moderation, commenting permission &tc. to be a tricky juggling act, and I'm always playing with it.

As of now, comments are wide open, and unmoderated.

Last night I posted that the effects changes to Employment Insurance in the mid-90's had a dramatic cost on the auto Industry, the payments for which have now come due. Mere hours later, The National Post hit the street with a front page comment by John Ivison that expands on my thesis.

The Blue Blogging Soapbox Blogging Tories Site of the Week for December 14th is:

Fuschi's Canadian Forum

"They that can give up essential liberty to gain a little safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

My friend Rick with his pitch for a Senate seat.

I know what it's like to worry for your job, so I have sympathy for the people at Sun media today:

It didn’t take long for Pierre-Karl Péladeau to assert himself at Sun Media.

... the Quebecor president announced 600 people will be laid off...

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The last few weeks a couple of things have happened. One is that the Parliamentary opposition, including the Michael Ignatieff led Liberals, have screamed for stimulus, in large part to the auto industry.

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...by Dylan Thomas

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve o

It's been a great week here at Home in Hespeler. Last Sunday I posted that I had finished writing the NaNoWriMo novel. It was my hope that writing the novel in a tight time frame would kick start some writing, and that this blog would be the beneficiary. It did, and it is.

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One likes to believe in the freedom of music.

Rush - Spirit of Radio.

Christmas always brings with it novelty songs. Whether it's Irish Rovers singing about Grandmas and Reindeer, or Bruce Springsteen warning of Santa Claus's imminent arrival.

In the news in the last week, the release of some tapes by the Nixon Library of conversations prior to a Dec 6, 1971 between then President Nixon and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Saturday Fluffernutter - all the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities.

I spent the better part of a week in the summer of 1977 in the back seat of a white Thunderbird with black vinyl roof going to Florida and back.

What are the actual qualifications for Senate? you might ask. Here's the list:

The Governor General appoints senators on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.

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Much like winning an Oscar or a Cy Young Award, to be considered for a Senate seat a person usually has to wage an internal campaign for their red velvet chair. With that in mind:

why should I be a senator?

Let me count the ways...

I have a degree in economics.

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Are apparently now being written by Achmed the Dead Terrorist.

Prime Minister.

Since it looks like you are going to be appointing a number of Senators in the next month, I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring. You see, I work for Chrysler, so it seems likely I will need a job soon. Don't think of it as patronage, think of it as one less auto worker on EI.

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Mark Steyn had a piece yesterday on the UN's Human Rights Day, and points out a bunch of human rights that Canadians celebrating this UN-est of days don't want you to have:

Today is Human Rights Day, the day that commemorates the United Nations' adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

...how screwed up is the music biz?

Local sports fans are all knickery-twisty over some poor girl who sang the national anthem at last Sundays more money than brains bowl at the Rogers Centre, nee Skydome, nee the place where tax dollars go to die.

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As noted Monday, At Home in Hespeler celebrated it's three year blogiversary this week. On day three of the blog, I posted my first picture of the day. It has proven to be a popular feature, so much so that I sometimes feel guilty posting them - I feel like I'm padding my numbers.

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What were you doing 365 days ago - to the minute. It's not often you can answer that question with any accuracy, but today is one of those days. It was exactly one-year ago today, at exactly 9:00 PM (4:00 PM shitty snowy Toronto time), that Led Zeppelin walked on the stage at London's 02 arena.

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