Showing posts with label Feel-Good Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feel-Good Stories. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2009

Scottish Parliament in Row over Haggisgate

Priorities. Priorities.

Political rivals are demanding the resignation of Scotland's justice minister after he decided to skip a major national conference on knife crime in favour of a trip to Canada to attend a series of haggis suppers celebrating the birthday of the famed 18th-century Scottish poet Robbie Burns.


So, without even a hint of irony, the opposition knives are out for the justice minister.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Cabinet Secretary of Justice in the Scottish parliament, Kenny MacAskill --



In the previous parliament, didn't he serve for a time as the Minister of Silly Walks?

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Not a Letter from Santa Claus ...

... but maybe even better. Three young boys from Kitchener, Ontario (one of whom is already reading "chapter books") receive "A Letter From Obama".

I wonder if Ashok's lucky seashell will one day find a home (exhibited under glass) in Obama's presidential library.