First grouse of season.
I sent the following message to my MP (NDP), about the provincial push to create a "harmonised sales tax" in Ontario. The federal NDP and Liberals do not suport the HST proposal, and the Conservatives are distancing themselves from it."One ramification of the HST debate that I have not heard elsewhere: Treaty rights. Currently, Ontario status Natives are not required to pay PST; but if taxes are "harmonised", then will First Nations consumers be forced to save receipts and seek reimbursement? Much of this spending will go unreimbursed and allow fed. and prov. government to avoid another tre

CutFoot Dances On
"Cut Foot Dances With A Beast"- continued

CutFoot Dances With A Beast
Find Maisy and Shannon. Please take a look.My bud, Ryan's immortal curmudgeon, Clarence Two Toes.Inspiring Native author, Sherman Alexie, coming out with new collection of stories; WarDances.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CutFoot Dances With A Beast

First taste of Autumn linkypost
Local peace activeist Gene Stoltzfus with some thoughts on low-level racism ("Our Way of Life") in the Northern Ontario hinterlands. (@ Gene Stoltzfus website, PeaceProbe.)"... in the late 50s as a student at Eastern Mennonite University (Virginia) I wrote and delivered a speech for an oratorical contest condemning segregation and racist thinking... After the speech a few people came to me to suggest that I may have stepped over the line and some people were offended by my speech. It was all very polite. Nothing like the doomsday, “Our Way of Life” protests I felt in Alberton last

Labor Day Night Late-Next-Morning post.
My bud, Ryan has been on a creative tear, lately!!!!Check him out at ryanmcmahoncomedy.com. I think that his URL has finally settled down. Make sure to check out the Clarence Two Toes podcasts.Check out the first installment of his improv vidcast, "Letters To My Daughters"...Boys Suck.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The YellowFace portrait's evolution This canvas has beeen around for a couple months. I have posted about it, previously, bu