Our Nation’s Reputation
to the tune of John Brown’s Body (Battle Hymn of the Republic) Our nation’s reputation has just gone up in smoke. Our scientists are muzzled – is this some kind of joke? Librarians and researchers cannot discuss their work Without the OK from their boss – as if they’re only clerks! Chorus: We’re demanding free expression. This is unbearable oppression. Harper, you need to learn your lesson Just let them speak out loud! You’ve canned the research institutes whose job is to collect Environmental data that has earned the world’s respect But...
Read MoreRaging Grannies are Mad about Muzzling Event
We raged in front of the Library and Archives building, Thursday, April 18 We watched in horror while Stephen Harper placed gags on scientists, librarians and backbench MPs. But the Grannies couldn’t be muzzled (Harper tried). Instead, they sang about this outrage before chasing Stephen Harper away. Check out the words to Song 1, Song 2. See photos by the Ottawa Citizen here. The Press Release following the event Raging Grannies held a rally for muzzled scientists, librarians, and MPs. OTTAWA : 4 pm, 18 April, 2013, Library and Archives Canada Twenty Raging Grannies...
Read MoreCathleen’s letter in the Citizen on removing the bear/salmon sculpture.
Iconic symbol of the Canadian wild Letter to the Editor, Ottawa Citizen, March 23, 2013 Re: Widow irate at plan for Stanley Cup monument, March 19 and Widow might OK moving sculpture, March 20. Let me get this straight. Canada’s National Capital is planning to remove a sculpture – Bruce Garner’s Territorial Prerogative – an iconic symbol of the Canadian wild, and replace it with a monument to a trophy? For those who don’t know the importance of bear and salmon, I had the good fortune to live for some years very close to the Adams River in the interior of B.C.,...
Read MoreGet Sick, You’ll make somebody richer
Tune: Glory, Glory Oh, listen to the pussy-footing ’round and round the block hinting here and hinting there this privatizing talk At universal medicare they’re starting now to balk It’s now full speed ahead. Get sick, you’ll make somebody richer (x3) It’s for-profit healthcare now!! Two-level medicine is great if you’re on top Too bad if all the rest will have to wait until they drop. Medicine’s a business that’ll never have to flop And it’s now full speed ahead!! The sicker we get, the richer we will make them...
Read MoreGeriatric Sexpot
Tune: There will always be an England I’m sixty and I’m sexy At least that’s what I hear From the programs seen on t.v. And the talk shows on the air. The magazines print articles By some authority, All telling me at 60 I’m as sexy as can be! f’m seventy and sensual, Though it really doesn’t show. Geriatric experts tell me I’m mature and ell aglow. They say hidden wells of passion Are bubbling up in me, And at seventy I’ve hit my peak Of sensuality! Oh I’m eighty, and I ought to, There’s no time-to put things...
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