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More Right Wing Yankee Rubbish

Tucker Carlson is experiencing another bout of verbal diarrhea.  Only a year ago he ridiculed this fine nation in a typically immature fashion and just last week he made the following statements. Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.
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Thriller

Tonight's game is thrilling.  The action is awesome and the good guys have the 6-4 lead half way through the game.  I'm spending more time on my feet than on my seat. Keep it up boys!  Help me forget Saturday night.
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The Monday Shuffle

Every Monday I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in iTunes and list the first ten songs that play.  Here are the ten tunes I heard today with a personal story about one of them. My Life - Billy JoelGreen Onions - Booker T. & the M.G.'sDown Another Day
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Why He's The Great One

In his illustrious NHL career, The Great Wayne Gretzky scored 894 goals and added 1963 assists for a total of 2857 points.  There is nobody like him.  He's the greatest player ever to play the sport. I've loved him for as long as I can remember.  I shared some of
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The Kids and Christmas

In the years between being a kid and having kids of my own, the Christmas season was missing something.  Not being a particularly religious guy, Christmas requires a child-like innocence and excitement to elevate it from a couple of days off to something magic. Although it's only December 17, this
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AFI Movies of the Year

I just read the AFI Movies of the Year Official Selections.  I've seen one movie on their list.  In my defense, I'm notoriously late getting to movies because I see so few in theaters and many of these are awfully fresh.  A number of the movies below are on my
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Dubya On His iPod

Wanna hear what Dubya has to say about his iPod?  He chatted briefly with Fox News anchor Brit Hume about it after Hume asked him what was on his iPod these days.  Here's the transcript. Bush : Beach Boys, Beatles, let's see, Alan Jackson, Alan Jackson, Alejandro, Alison Krauss, the Angels,
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Setting Up The Storm Centre

You know they're busy setting up the Storm Centre at 680News in anticipation of tonight's storm.  Earlier today they were predicting up to 30 cm but now I see they've downgraded it to 5-10 cm.  Hell, if they thought we were getting 2 cm they'd be in full Storm Centre
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Guest Blog Entry

Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com.  I received the following entry earlier today. The joke's been on us since we first elected these corrupt promise breakers in 1993.TeederYou're right Teeder, the joke has been on us for a while.  The joke's on us
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Guest Blog Entry

Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com.  I received the following entry earlier today. Dubya & Steven Harper a marriage made in heaven - too bad Mr. Harper doesn't accept these type of marriages. What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!AnonymousThis is the election nobody wanted.  We're all
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Arresting Developments?

Watching "Arrested Development" these days is bitter sweet.  It's sweet because it's so damn funny and smart but it's bitter because I know the end is near.  Or is it? There's word that Showtime is in talks to pick up the comedy.  Nothing's certain but just knowing they're talking about
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Gift From The Washington Times?

Patrick Basham's commentary in The Washington Times from earlier this month is entitled "Gift From Canada?" and it's all about Stephen Harper putting a big ol' smile on Dubya's face.  According to Basham, Harper may be Canada's Christmas gift to Bush.  Here are some excerpts from the article. Why does
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