It seems baseball is embroiled with yet another “performance enhancing drugs” scandal with a few very well known names being implicated by yet another “wellness clinic”. Are the accusations true? I have no idea, but baseball is slowly turning into a bit of a “Gong Show” in terms of this kind of stuff. Interesting how “America’s Game” is slowly sliding into Side Show Carnival silliness (America’s Game is now the NFL, if you are asking).

View from LCI(L) 306 of the 2nd Canadian (262nd RN) Flotilla showing ships of Force ‘J’ en route to France on D-Day.

The anniversary of D-Day was yesterday, a day that must be remembered in history. As a Project Manager I am astounded at the logistics that were overcome to make the invasion successful, and as an amateur history buff the bravery of the soldiers astounds me as well (whether I would have got into one of those landing crafts is a question I am glad I never had to answer).

I enjoyed some quality Rugby on Wednesday as Canada defeated Fiji here in Ottawa. A great game played, glad to see the Canadian side picking up an important win against a very strong (and fast as lightning) Fijian squad.

My Weekly Recap

Rugby in Ottawa and now the Mighty Penguins are faltering, quite the sports week:

Links for the Week

Lots of interesting stuff going on around the world this week:

Other Bookkeeping

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Video to Get Me Banned in China

Do you remember Tank Man ? Here is a Frontline video that talks about him, last I checked I wasn’t banned in China, this might change that.

Watch The Tank Man on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

If you are reading this after 4:35 PM May 31, 2013 I guess we survived another close fly by of a “Civilization Killer” lump of Rock. QE2 will (hopefully) fly by and we will have dodged yet another End of the World scenario from the Cosmos. As we are learning there are a lot of these big lumps of rock out there flying around, hopefully we have a good list of all of them?

QE2′s Path in 1998: The Rock is Nine Times Larger than It’s Namesake Ship

Toronto got another dose of nasty weather this week, with the Don Valley Parking Lot, being renamed the Don Valley Swimming Pool. If the last time they had bad snow they called in the Army, I suppose with this round they called in the Navy? Sorry, that is just a native Montrealer laughing at Torontonians expense (yes, Montreal has it’s own issues say with overpasses dropping on unsuspecting drivers (much like the poor Coyote in Looney Tunes)).

The Ottawa Senators (the hockey team) are done for the season, so that means talk in Ottawa is now about the Senators (aka JurASSic Park). More fun and games going on in the “Friends and Family club” portion of the Canadian Government.

My Weekly Recap

The Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer are here again, let’s hope my car’s air conditioning holds out for one more year, but I didn’t write about that this week:

Links for the Week

Lots of interesting info flying around this week, as those who are regular readers I have been going off the beaten track on some of my links, in most cases it is stuff I think is interesting:

Other Bookkeeping

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Silly Blooper Video

Hey this is the bottom of a very long post, and you should be rewarded with a long-ish video of cool news bloopers, shouldn’t you?

To say the entire Senators Expenses Event is more farcical than a Christmas Panto (usually an excuse for men to dress up as women (no I am not writing about the senate with that one (or am I?))). We have differing reports, we have misstatements about how loans are paid off, and we have two folks who were previously “highly respected” members of the media now being accused of being spend-thrifts with the public’s money. All in all a very entertaining brand of political fun and games. I look forward to see what weird turn in the road may be coming next? If Harper nominates a Pantomime Horse to be a Senator, his ascent to “Full on Caligula” will be complete.

Unfortunately the Ottawa Senators hockey club seems to be heading in the same direction as the aforementioned Senators, oh dear, that was a butt whuppin on Wednesday.

The Finest Pantomime Horse on TV, Secretariat (see Craig Ferguson Show for details) or is that Senator Secretariat ?

In Oklahoma we saw the shear power of nature and it’s ability to obliterate all man made things in an instant. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and the survivors after this horrific weather event.

In Montreal there was a boil water order for more than half the island proper (including my family that still lives there). Nice to see that a City of over a million has a single point of failure in their water distribution system. Luckily there are no issues with any other parts of the infrastructure in Montreal (just drive really fast under most overpasses).

My Weekly Recap

I was hoping to get a quick loan from the PMO just to tide me over until my next pay, however, that didn’t happen:

Links for the Week

My site continues to be a site under attack from many different forces on the Internet, so far no one has penetrated my defenses yet, but if you come here one day and find the site has turned into a site selling Pay Day Loans, you’ll know something is not very right (over 1000 attack commands a day so far):

Other Bookkeeping

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Fun Video Nothing to Do with Money

I love the cheering for the young lad, this is how all parents should be at all sporting events:

Hope your taxes were in on Tuesday, because if not, you might be in trouble (especially if you are part of the $29 Billion dollars still owed to the government in Taxes). Does this mean H&R Block’s business slows down? I don’t think so, it won’t be quite as crazy as it has been lately, but all businesses have their ups and downs. Well known Leaf lover the Blunt Bean Counter is now able to sit back, relax and enjoy the Leafs in the playoffs (for the first time in HD), I enjoyed that first game at least.

The Reaper Drone Coming to Your Neighbourhood?

Keeping up with my fun stories in the news, evidently an ambitious Entrepreneur in the states wants to introduce Drone Shield a system to tell whether you are being followed by a drone (honestly I am not making this crap up).  I already own a Raspberry Pi, so I guess maybe I can make my own “home brew” version of this, since many times around the Big Cajun Chateau I hear drones (or airplanes, or maybe they are just really big sparrows, not sure). Does this mean I have to update my Thought Shield Helmet™ to watch for drones as well?

The NHL Playoffs begin and thus the orgy of Hockey on Canadian TV begins and should last until about July, if I am correct in my estimations. I seem to remember the playoffs finishing around now when I was a kid, but back then there were only 12 teams too (and no one wore helmets). Makes me want to strap the National Geographics to my shins, break off a tree limb and play some hockey myself!

My Weekly Recap

The auditor general’s report always brings out the most interesting stuff, I am thinking of putting in an offer to the CRA to do some Tax Collection for them:

Links for the Week

May Day came and went without incident in Canada, but there were riots in Seattle? Did someone give them Espresso when they asked for Decaf?:

Other Bookkeeping

Remember my RSS feed is available too, and I have added an RSS Comment Feed as well. Have a look at my micro-blog on Twitter, where you can see a whole plethora of good articles and pithy comments by me as well. Twitter feed where I re-tweet many great articles by some of my featured writers (and make the occasional odd or off colour commentary on life (in 140 characters or less)). I am also on reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest and other Social Media sites (look for the BigCajunMan userid) as well. If you have social media accounts, don’t forget to vote for my posts (see the nifty dashboard on the bottom of each article, where you can cast your votes). As they say in Quebec, vote early and vote often! This site is iPhone Friendly (and Android , iPod Touch and iPad Friendly), enjoy it on the go, in a readable format for the device. If you are reading with an iPhone or Android device, drop me a comment and tell me if this needs any improvements. This site is also in the Kindle Blog list, if you are interested.

A Gratuitous Hockey Video

Mix hockey playoffs with the Who and how can you go wrong?