Thursday, April 19, 2007

Raccoongate

We got a couple of angry phone calls about everyone's fave power company today! That major outage in Clayton Park being blamed on a raccoon getting into a substation sparked a little bit of Hotline disbelief today. It brought back memories of such things like "salty fog" and a wayward gay pride day flag. As macabre as it sounds, you almost want to see the charred raccoon just to see if they're telling the truth.

Speaking of visual treats, the Rickster will be on CBC tonight with Norma Lee. He'll be part of the political panel, so if you can't wait until 9:30 tomorrow morning, you can see him tonight.

So Stephen Harper has a stylist eh? That's interesting. I bet you any sum of money he got her after going to Afghanistan and the media commenting on his stomach. Plus, when he went to Mexico to meet with Bush and Fox and he was mocked for wearing this heavy flak style jacket. I mean, no one wants to be criticized for what they wear or how they look, but can't his wife do the job for free? I'm not saying it's a woman's job, but isn't your spouse supposed to be your own personal quality control? I guess because she doesn't have "stylist" on her card, an expert was necessary. Whatever.

Did you hear the dog stats today with the Calgary guy? A man tried to get on, but we were about to break and to go the Calgary guys and he asked me what they were going to be talking about. I said "Dog control in Calgary" and he replied drolly, "That'll be fascinating". But it was really interesting!! 95 per cent of all dogs in Cowtown are licenced and they are making great progress in getting cats licenced. I really liked the guy, he seemed passionate about his job and he had vision! Can we hire him here??

Well...it's sports during the first hour tomorrow and lots of other fun things too...as per usual!

Until then,

Amber
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amber,

You missed one thing today, and that was Rick's rant about "gun control". I think Rick is going a little over-board about a total ban on all guns. I think there should be a total ban on all hand guns and a total ban on assault type automatic weapons. These weapons have no use in our society. A total ban. That means you cannot own any of these weapons, even as a gun collector. The hunting rifles should be allowed, but not any that are an automatic type weapon. Also, Rick mentioned about the registration fee for guns is no different then registering your vehicle. Well, Rick, that is not quite so. When you register your vehicle, it goes towards the roads and infrastructure, and you can use you vehicle 365 days a year. If I had a hunting gun, the fee are not spent to improve an area where I might want to hunt, plus I could only use that gun for the 5 or 6 week hunting season. If you look at it that way, I'm paying more to register my gun plus the hunting license for a very short window then you are paying to use your vehicle for 365 day a year. And remember, the money you spend is supposed to go toward road improvements. The money one spends to register their guns and buy a licence goes into general revenues. The sports person or hunter receives no benefit from the cash grab by the government. Also, the crooks and drug dealers will not be affected by the fees, only the law abiding citizen. Make the restricted weapons illegal and leave the sports hunters alone.

Mike in Windsor, NS

April 19, 2007 at 2:04 p.m.
Mr.k said...

Hello Amber

Caught Rick tonight on CBC.
I agree with everything he said.
I couldn't see what color socks he wore, but then again I didn't see any flash of white socks.

The other guy could loosen up a tad by loosing the tie.

If he thinks Elizabet May is a "windbag" then he should take a closer look at our MPs in Ottawa and our own provincial government under Rodney Macdonald, where this is a hurricane taking place.

When these politicans open their mouths there should be a storm watch alert issued.

Have a great day kid.

Richard

April 19, 2007 at 7:18 p.m.

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