Richard Hughes-Political Blogger

The other day I wrote a piece about cell phone reception, dead spots, and the controversy that can swirl around these things.

I later learned that Director Giles had come out swinging at a ‘Electoral Area Services Meeting’ as she had done some time back, against such a proposal citing health risks and the unpleasant aesthetics of the towers.

Soon shoppers will be able to call home on their cell phones from Country Grocer!

Well that was then but surprise, surprise a change of heart and an endorsement for a smaller tower to be installed behind Rona’s Hardware . Yeah!

Just a minute, what happened, what changed? I mean a complete reversal, a new beginning, a new found flexibility perhaps.

Now the very modern and up to date CVRD has set up a video service so that you can watch your elected representatives in . . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: CVRD Director Gerry Giles Has Endorsed A Cell Phone Tower For Cobble Hill!

Finance minister Jerome Kennedy took his budget “consultation” roadshow to Corner Brook the other day.  Former finance minister Tom Marshall showed up to help.  Tom has run more than a few of these farces so he could lend a hand if things got tough.

Well, all that was one thing.

The other thing is the way the video freezes in the online CBC story on the “consultation” in Corner Brook. 

Tom and Jerry look like they are desperately trying to avoid something unpleasant.  Maybe they got used to doing this during an awkward moment in cabinet when someone passed gas or went on some tirade about Randy Simms or “Quebec”. Tom looks up at the ceiling and looks thoughtful.  Jerry looks at something on his desk and tries to look equally thoughtful.

And then when the awkward moment passed, they could get back to business.

Then for a third thing, you have to understand that advertising shows up on websites based on a program that ties the ad to a key word associated with the story. They might also vary it by geography but in this case there’s an obvious connection between the story and this ad that popped up right next to Tom Marshall.

There’s a picture of some geezer who looks like he hasn’t had a good fart in a few years explaining how he wrote off his credit card debt.  “Click here to find out” reads the copy.

Maybe Tom is wondering if he should just give in and click the ad.

What’s to lose?  We couldn’t be in any worse shape than Tom got us into already when he was finance minister.

You cannot make any of this stuff up.

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Finance minister Jerome Kennedy took his budget “consultation” roadshow to Corner Brook the other day.  Former finance minister Tom Marshall showed up to help.  Tom has run more than a few of these farces so he could lend a hand if things got tough.

Well, all that was one thing.

The other thing is the way the video freezes in the online CBC story on the “consultation” in Corner Brook. 

Tom and Jerry look like they are desperately trying to avoid something unpleasant.  Maybe they got used to doing this during an awkward moment in cabinet when someone passed gas or went on some tirade about Randy Simms or “Quebec”. Tom looks up at the ceiling and looks thoughtful.  Jerry looks at something on his desk and tries to look equally thoughtful.

And then when the awkward moment passed, they could get back to business.

Then for a . . . → Read More: The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Who farted? #nlpoli

Richard Hughes-Political Commentator

How many times have you tried to retreive a call while at Cobble Hill’s Valley View Shopping Centre and had it drop off? Other times the calls do not connect at all! The annoyance in being able to remind your mate to pickup a carton of milk which you forgot to put on the list is frustrating. If the reception was better you could just caall or text them but alas the signal will not get through.

I noticed a We’ve got ‘Wi-Fi’ sticker on the door at Country Grocers the other day but did not try out as I was buying up some Valentine Day flowers and was too consumed with that task to remember to try it out. Has anyone out there tried it?

If it does work you would still run out of reception when you headed over to the Peoples Drug . . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: We Need More Cell Phone Towers in South Cowichan, Or Do We ?

Dear Readers: I have always had a thing for stuff that uses a play on words to get a point across……… and this one does!  

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Just ONE Drop…. A Carl’s Life Cartoon about Kids and Soap   Do you use bar soap or liquid soap at your house? How do you control how much soap your little one uses? Is this what happens in YOUR bathroom? I know it does at our house. Soap, toothpaste and toilet paper. All things you [...]

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Last week I watched “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” [9/10] which is a must-see movie, not only if you love it when alien bugs invade brains. I won’t spoil the ending, but someone important dies. I saw the end of “Death Race” [3/10] and I’m glad I didn’t see the beginning. == Time [...]

Dear Readers; They sure know how to have a good time down East! A  man accused of biting off his cousin’s ear lobe and swallowing it during a fight over loud music has pleaded not guilty to assault and other charges. Twenty-seven-year-old Emilio Mendoza was arraigned Wednesday in court and ordered held on $50,000 bail. [...]

The discovery of Richard III’s grave is pretty awesome. Bonus, he was still inside it! It’s really hard to get the motivation to leave a grave though, it doesn’t happen very often anyway, and is entirely with assistance. And here’s another thing entirely:

For some unknown reason I was not feeling myself Monday night. I had just been at a meeting, the day had been fine but the very end of the day was met with a not so great mood.I could not…

Of course, you can write in the snow too; Write with your finger.

-Here’s where I narrowly missed the Archives Week presentation on prohibition of alcohol.

Kids were getting chemical burns from a toilet seat (and probably desk, for a boy with burned elbows) at an Ottawa area school. Most likely the disinfectant was sprayed on but never properly wiped off and rinsed. One of my concerns with using publish washrooms that have just been cleaned, is chemical splash-back or toxic [...]

Dear Readers: Lots of song written about Mondays, now a few stories! KENORA, ONT. – Beware the man with a bad case of road rage and a hydraulic back-hoe at his disposal. At about 7 a.m. this morning, several cars were damaged — including a police cruiser — when a Kenora man allegedly lashed out [...]

An application was for employment, A program was a TV show, A cursor used profanity, And a keyboard was on a piano! Memory was something that you lost with age, And a CD was a bank account, And if you had a corrupted disk, It would hurt when you found out! Compress was what you [...]

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Recycling Bin What is the difference between what YOU see in the recycling bin and what your LITTLE ONE sees? This is SO true! My daughter is forever checking the garbage cans and recycling bag to see what we have thrown away.  She is convinced that anything we deem as “junk” can be used and [...]

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  The good citizens of Toronto faced 20 cm of snow overnight. This was back in ought four, but still, the trauma lingers on.  

I read recently that listing and  naming things we love reminds us to put them at the front of each day wherever and whenever possible.I am a lover of games so we played a game around this. Here is my abridged…

Dear Readers: Humour, my friends, is such a personal thing that no two people can agree on just what is funny. However! Your fearless reporter has a few short clips of what I consider to be the funniest bits of humour in the last fifty years! You might not agree, but ya have to admit [...]

These four older ladies who lived in Yugoslavia always sat outside together near the church and chatted about when they were younger. One month ago they pooled their money together and bought a laptop! Never having been, but having heard all about Florida, they just happened to click on St. Augustine, FL. They read about [...]