Red Friday Rally And Parade In Petawawa

Mulder

I received the notice below directly from Lisa Miller. I hope anyone within a short drive of Petawawa will be in attendance. After filming the original Red Friday Rally (see links on this page) and after catching Lisa and Karen drop the puck (by fluke) while I was at a Sens hockey game this year, I sometimes feel that I am destined to promote Red Fridays!!

I am not sure if I will be able to make it, but I think that it would be great to attend the event in the town where it all started. I am sure it will be a grand Parade of red.

Lisa Miller and Karen Boire are pleased to announce:

Petawawa will be holding a Red Friday Rally and March of Military Appreciation on May 11th, 2007.

Time: 9:30am
Location: Petawawa Legion Parking Lot (Located at 3583 Petawawa Blvd.)

The Rally itself will be short in time. (approx. 30 minutes total)

National Anthem – 9:30 am
Prayer for our troops – 9:40 am
Speeches
10:10 am the roads will be closed and participants will be asked to form the rows of the parade.

Two Parade marshals will be there to help people form up and stay organized.

The Parade route will be as follows:

Down Petawawa Blvd, up Victoria Street and ending behind the town office.

Pictures can be taken from the bottom of the hill at this point.

Due to road closures, our timings must be strict. The OPP will be on hand to participate and to ensure safety during the Parade.

Dear Press Reporters … Just Stop!

Mulder

Just stop. You aren’t helping.

My thoughts and prayers are going out to every family member and friend of the VT victims, but I have to tell the press….Just stop.

Your repetitive naming of the shooter is not doing society any favours…so just stop.

You can repeat the victims names ad infinitum but when it comes to the shooter just zip your lips. There is no need to turn this monster into an icon for whack jobs everywhere, but more importantly, others like him should be seeing that they will NOT be infamous when they go on killing sprees. There names should NOT be known to the world. Let them die with no one remembering them.

Just stop.

And airing the videos and photos of this whack job?? Just stop. We don’t care.

Go ask the family and friends of the victims if they want to see this guys face over and over.

I heard someone say today that if a monster was holding hostages and told the press to give him coverage, the press would not do it.

So why do we give the coverage to the monsters who do go postal? They don’t deserve it so just stop!

Just stop making this monster a reality TV star.

I never thought this would come out of my mouth, but go back to covering the Anna Nicole Smith saga.

I Love It When A Plan Comes Together

Mulder

We all hate garbage. Some of us just want to deal with it better than others. But the hard work by some to change the views on how we handle our trash is paying off.

The corporation (Waste Management Inc.) wouldn’t budge. They worked every angle possible to move their plan of expanding the Carp Mountain (a garbage dump) forward. Then the city of Ottawa had it’s election.

And the new sheriff in town declared war on dump expansion.

A scant 6 months later, the plasma gasification pilot project is under way and the corporation feels competitors (like Plasco Energy Corp) nipping at their heals and Waste Management is now realizing that their lack of effort to be modern may end up costing them millions, if not billions, of dollars.

In a letter to council yesterday, the last holdout in the turnabout, Waste Management, has informed local politicians it’s withdrawing a proposal for the Carp dump and is coming back with something entirely new, with an emphasis on an energy-from-waste facility, more recycling and less of an emphasis on expanding the dump.

Sue Sherring’s article also points out the city councilors who deserve some credit.

Councillors, including the likes of West Carleton’s Eli El-Chantiry, Kanata’s Peggy Feltmate and Stittsville-Kanata West’s Shad Qadry have also played a role, and with their help, the taxpaying public found a way to voice discontent.

But there is one other person Sherring fails to recognize who may have played one of the most instrumental roles in all of this. Stittsville businessman Gilles Chasles, the man behind nodump.ca and one of the biggest advocates fighting the expansion of the dump.

I can just see Hannibal from the A-Team lighting up his cigar right now…

Julian Fantino Taking (Lack Of) Ball(s) And Going Home

Mulder

In an effort to imitate an 8 year old, new OPP commissioner Julian Fantino is looking to pack up his officers and leave Caledonia because one Caledonia city councilor feels the OPP has created a two-tiered justice system.

Well “Wahhh wahhh wahhh!” to you too Julian.

Fantino’s anger was directed at one councillor in particular, Coun. Craig Grice, over an e-mail he sent to Gary McHale, a controversial Richmond Hill resident who has staged protests in Caledonia against the OPP and Six Nations presence on Douglas Creek Estates.

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Grice said he does not support the April 22 march and does not endorse McHale’s actions.

But he does agree with McHale that the OPP has created a “two-tiered” justice system in Caledonia.

“Caledonia citizens are frustrated with the OPP,” he said.

Grow up and address the problem Julian. Running and hiding won’t help matters for you or your boss, the Yellow-Bellied McShifty.

Mailbag

Mulder

The following was sent to me by a friend and I just felt obligated to share.

    “Inconvenient Truth”, interesting we don’t see this on the evening news programs and the major newspapers .

    LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.

    HOUSE # 1:

    A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.

    HOUSE # 2:

    Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

    HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

    HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States , George W. Bush.

H/T to Frank C. in Ottawa for sharing this one.

It's Not All That Bad When You Can't Blog Consistently

Mulder

Well, I have recently discovered a few interesting things that I CAN do (and a few I can’t):

1) I can still attend a blogger gathering in Ottawa and enjoy political banter with Victor (PhantomObserver), Clive (DoggerelParty), Jordan (Clear Conservative Thought) and Jordan’s friend Vanessa as I did last night.

2) I can still post my Smackdowns as they are pretty clearly part of the public record.

3) I can still do book reviews and as a matter of fact, I just finished reading Lowell Green’s How the granola-crunching, tree-hugging thug huggers are wrecking our country! And outside of the fact it took a few chapters to realize Lowell was writing the way he actually speaks, it was a very informative read with plenty of URL’s and places to go to look up the facts he presents. His views on social program waste, environmentalist deceit and criminals getting away with nothing but a slap on the wrist are surely an eye opener.

Lowell was even nice enough to dedicate my book with the words “To Steve at Officiallyscrewed.com. Keep up the good work Steve. Lowell Green”. Truly an inspiration and a big reason so many ridings in Eastern Ontario vote Tory blue. Thank you Lowell.

4) I can continue to promote the good solid values of the CPC that I agree with.

5) I still can’t figure out how to set up the site to manage the three guest bloggers who have stepped forward to keep OfficiallyScrewed.com alive … but I will so bear with me Mac, Matt and W.

6) I can still slag on the CBC (although I will refrain from doing so while playoff hockey is on)

I guess this is my way of saying I am not totally gone, nor are my Smackdowns!! If the sidekick to an American Icon (Peace Moonbeam) can make his way to my site and whimper at my announced hiatus, then I know I need to continue to blog, even if it is sporadic.

Buddy Can You Spare A Blog Post?

Mulder

This is a very hard thing to announce, but due to a commitment I recently made to the political process, I will be stepping away from blogging. The situation is definitely temporary, but it may be an extended period of time. (at least 9 months and no I am not pregnant).

I am looking for guest bloggers who may help keep the site fresh and active over the coming months, and I will be sharing my video layout with a friend of mine so he can continue the tradition of the Video Smackdowns. I think showing the world some of what goes on in Question Period is important.

If you feel you would like to help out by being a monthly guest blogger and cross posting here at OfficiallyScrewed.com, I would be glad to consider you. Just drop me an email at webmaster@officiallyscrewed.com and I will do what I can to eithersplit up the time in some appropriate manner, or arrange for multiple guest bloggers.

Please include your current blog name and URL, a contact email, a nickname you want to post under (preferably the name you use on your blog).

It really is leaving a pit in my stomach to step away from writing for even a few days, let alone several months. I will still provide the back end support on the site with things like the poll, graphics, links and the Ottawa Valley Blogroll, but my writing needs to hop into the backseat.

Another Liberal Supporting The Budget?? Is Keith Martin Coming Home?

Mulder

If I heard correctly in todays Oral Questions, Jim Flaherty mentioned that the member from Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca (Liberal Keith Martin) plans on supporting the budget.

Hmmmm…..

Keith Martin actually left the Canadian Alliance Party to sit as an Independent before running for the Liberal nomination back in 2004 according to Wikipedia in protest of the merger between the CA and the PC Parties. He eventually won the nomination and the seat and sits as a Liberal now.

This could be a very interesting turn of events shaping up. Perhaps a homecoming?

Thank You For Officially Unscrewing Me Mr. Flaherty

Mulder

I still say spending on tax credits is not really spending. And because of this, I want to thank the Minister of Finance for his budget because it DID drop my tax burden.

The new $2,000 child tax credit will help my family with $310 more for Cookie and $310 more for T-Bone, my two children. The end of the marriage penalty will help my family with $209 more dollars for TBH, my wife.

Thank you Mr. Flaherty for giving me back $829 every year. This may not seem like much to some people out there, but it’s a month’s groceries to me. It’s the cost of the registration fees for my children’s sports. It’s the cost of two out of town trips when my kids compete in a sport that they excel at. It’s two or three monthly car payments. It’s 14 or 15 gas tank fill ups. It’s the cost of that new computer for my kids. If you’re Scott Reid or John Duffy, it’s 20 cases of beer or 1000 bags of microwave popcorn.

But more than anything, it is just plain appreciated.

Thank you.