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Elections, Farewell Knowlton, May Done, and #Bestof-Financial

The “I’ll pick the one that stinks the least” Ontario Election continues with the mud flying and the Tories making an earth-shattering breakthrough: the best thing to do is not let Tim Hudak talk, show his face on occasion and gag him, seems to work too. If we could get the other party leaders to follow suit, then I’d be happier. My deepest sympathies to those luckily folks in the GTA that have the added joy of having the “Holy Crap They Are Going to Re-Elect Rob Ford” Mayoral Election at the same time.

I couldn’t find the Lucky Charms at the end of this Rainbow.

One of the voices of Canadian News was silenced last week with the death of Knowlton Nash, the voice of the National for many years on the CBC. Somehow I can’t see Knowlton reporting any Rob Ford stories. He seems above that kind of stuff. He was from a different generation. It would be nice if the “journalists” of today embraced some of Knowlton’s ideals.

The month of May comes to a close, and that can only mean one thing, Back to School Sales!!!

We drove through quite the odd Sun Thunderstorm, where it rained and was sunny and the glare from the rain on the road was quite blinding, but this interesting photo came on the right.

My Writings for Week Ending May 30th

June is almost here. That means less than six months to Christmas, folks:

  • Our Friends at Stats Canada ended last week with a stinker of a message with CPI Jumps to 2.0 in April 2014 in Canada, which might mean our friends at the Bank of Canada pondering actions to slow things down a little bit.
  • I am starting to sound like a broken record, luckily this generation doesn’t know what that means, so I guess I’ll just keep repeating Debt Won’t Just Disappear, no matter how hard you wish.
  • When I was looking at my first house the warning I kept getting from folks was not to end up House Poor, but that expression seems to have disappeared.

This Week’s Finest

If you are going to Twitter Bomb your favourite candidate in this Provincial Election, make sure you have the right person (some lucky Kathleen Wynn in the US is getting lots of nasty comments on Twitter) :

Good Guy Djokovic

If you made millions a year playing tennis, how would you treat the folks who work at the tournaments? Novak Djokovic earns full marks for this act of respect for the kid who was in charge of keeping him dry at the French Open:


Random Thoughts for 2014

Lots of these kinds of Best of articles in 2014. Here is a list of them.

Feel Free to Comment

  1. debt debs – I am a fifty-something wife, mother and new grandmother, who admits to having their “head in the sand” about their financial situation until amassing $247,500 worth of consumer debt for a total debt of $393,500. We've paid $121K in 2 years with four more years to go. Join my journey at debtdebs.com sharing ideas and motivation to all those coping with poor money management and bad debt decisions.

    Thanks for the link, BigCajunMan.

    I don’t know what to say about the election except that anyone who votes a liberal back in is either a teacher or unionized. Full stop. Have a great weekend!

    1. bigcajunman – Ottawa, Ontario – A simple blogger writing about his financial experiences as the Father of a wonderful son who is on the Autism Spectrum. Also writes about security and WordPress technology.

      I feel that none of these candidates are worthy of my vote, but I also know that I must (as a citizen of a democracy) vote, I have my ideas currently, but none of these leaders deserve my vote.

    1. bigcajunman – Ottawa, Ontario – A simple blogger writing about his financial experiences as the Father of a wonderful son who is on the Autism Spectrum. Also writes about security and WordPress technology.

      Or possibly Vladimir Putin.

    1. bigcajunman – Ottawa, Ontario – A simple blogger writing about his financial experiences as the Father of a wonderful son who is on the Autism Spectrum. Also writes about security and WordPress technology.

      Which one was your favorite? 🙂

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