Word of Mouth blog

Remember the days when the office of the American Vice Presidency was considered to be relatively powerless? Remember Spiro Agnew and all the jokes? Dick Cheney is doing his best to bring the ‘vice’ back into the vp position… becoming ‘the Stalin of the Bush Administration’.
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The imperial vice presidency

New details about his secret mission [...]

More on the struggle of our favourite activist great-grandma, Betty Krawcyk
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Dictated by Betty Krawczyk from Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge, BC.
Was I surprised at the denial of my application for release pending appeal by the justice of the BC supreme court? No. Not at all.
I was entirely aware when I applied [...]

This month’s writer’s group assignment, from my personal blog, Truth is a Crazy Poet
My Tomboy Job (and its Bitter End)
It wasn’t my first job, but it was the most memorable. I was seventeen, freshly fired from my first, low-paid, boring stereotypical waitress job for attempting to drink beer in the hotel bar. Well duh, of [...]

We have been approved for renewal of our developmental license, which had expired. Yes! Thanks to those who wrote letters of support.
Also, the second Island music compilation CD, Airwaves II, will be on sale this summer, featuring new music by Hornby artists. Watch for it!
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I like this idea…Insulated with “shrooms’ and no petro-chemicals. Great move!
- Phil
Young inventors insulate with mushrooms
Eben Bayer grew up on a farm in Vermont learning the intricacies of mushroom harvesting with his father. Now the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate is using that experience to create an organic insulation made from mushrooms.
More at home on a [...]

This happens to us all the time here on Hornby..except with other “critters’ like posssums and the ever present deer. Not such a closely knit traffic scene usually though. Thank goodness!
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Woman trying to avoid turtle on N.J. parkway loses control of car and crashes; Critter dies
from CBC.ca
UPPER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – Why did the [...]

Another Bush boy like Blair: PM Harper can’t wait until those same grotesque profits are made available in Canada.
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Michael Moore Attacks the Grotesque Profit Motive of the US Health Care System
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Moore explains how the the obscene profits made by the CEOs of “non-profit” hospitals started with Richard Nixon in this [...]

Just a note: Making needed connections and then boycotting the bastards
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If you eat at sushi restaurants and supermarkets supplied by True World Foods, you could be supporting Kyokuyo — a company at the heart of Japan’s commercial whale hunting industry.
Kyokuyo’s sale of whale meat in Japan fuels the continuation of whaling by Japan, violating [...]

it’s about time you guys!!!
- Phil
from CommonDreams.org
Democrats Press Plan to Channel Billions in Oil Subsidies to Renewable Fuels
by Edmund L. Andrews
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are seeking a major reversal of energy tax policies that would take billions of dollars in tax breaks and other benefits from the oil industry to underwrite renewable fuels.
The tax increases [...]

This is an excerpt from an truly excellent article which points out succinctly just how much we tend to flesh out and attribute meaning where none is intended, how we stumble and misconstrue, misunderstand, wrongly assume and even tend to abuse perfect strangers when we mistakenly try to fill in the missing blanks while we [...]