Jan Ole Peek

Tag Archives: Political

An Inconvenient Truth

Forget about Steve Job’s keynote speech. Never mind Bill Gates’, either. If you see one speech, if you watch one movie or documentary this year, if you care about this planet we live on at all, watch An Inconvenient Truth. Never mind that Al Gore got screwed out of his presidency, whether you like him […]

Terror-free Gas? Proof of American Stupidity?

I bet people will buy into this, too: Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gasoline made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative opened the nation’s first “terror-free” gas station. By the way, later in the story it says that the first contributor of this group buys some of […]

Hunter wounded by Cheney ‘doing well’

CNN.com – Hunter wounded by Cheney ‘doing well’ Ok, I’m officially fucking scared now. The campaign contributor accidentally shot and wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney during a weekend quail hunt is “doing well” and will be released early this week, a spokesman at Christus Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, said Monday.

Canada has a new Prime Minister

So many things have happened since polls closed in BC last night at 7pm. The Conservatives have the most elected seats and will form a minority government. Paul Martin has decided he will step down after his Liberal party lost this election (big surprise there). What’s really interesting to me and very very wrong with […]

So glad not to be American

Miami Police Take New Tack Against Terror By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Writer MIAMI Miami police announced Monday they will stage random shows of force at hotels, banks and other public places to keep terrorists guessing and remind people to be vigilant. Deputy Police Chief Frank Fernandez said officers might, for example, surround a bank […]

BC teachers

News | canada.com network No fines maybe, but plenty of harsh words for our teachers. The judge froze their Union’s assets so the strikers now get paid nothing. Good! Nothing like an illegal strike to get me riled up. This is the only profession that gets 2 months off every summer. I don’t care if […]