Haiku to the weather

I am unhappy It snowed in the night I will hibernate signs of winter catpaw will hide under the covers spring come back BUGGER… it’s cold and it isn’t even Halloween! I’m going to crawl back under the covers and hibernate until one of the following happens: Spring returns There is world peace The world [...]

“After the last eight years, there’s a lot of clean up do”

Interesting article passed by me this morning. It was written by CC Goldwater, the granddaughter of Barry Goldwater. The Goldwaters are long-time conservatives and hardcore Republicans. Barry Goldwater was the 5 term Senator from Arizona and candidate for the presidency who died in 1998. He can be described as the original maverick in some ways [...]

Hypocrisy – gasp! On an election campaign? Who’d a thought!

If this were true, then why did the Republics so blindly follow the Bush administration into launching a war? Where were the Bush children – all the Bush clan! Did any Bush except for Bush Senior serve in any war? Where were all his advisors’ and their children? Cheney’s family? Any serving there? Any other [...]

The mobilisation of the angry mob

I, like many others around the world, are anxiously watching the circus surrounding the US Presidential election. While polls are stating Obama is in a clear lead, I can’t help but worry. The old Yogi Berra line, “It ain’t over, till it’s over” comes to mind. Obama was very smart in warning his campaign troops [...]

Sarah Palin: role model?

According to Senator McCain, in tonight’s debate, Sarah Palin is a role model for all women. Catpaw has a response to this: Bwahahahahahahahahhahhahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahah …. oh damn, I just snorted my milk through my nose. I forgot rule number one of watching Presidential debates, don’t sip anything when the topic of Palin comes up. Twitter This [...]

Just curious, but how come

Why has no one vigorously challenged my favourite victim of foot-in-mouth disease, Sarah Palin, about her membership in the Alaska Independence Party? This group advocated armed insurrection to boot the US government out of Alaska. Although they downplay it now, as early as 1994, they were advocating this. In the early 90′s, the group’s founder [...]

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