tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32605451957558941492009-11-07T00:57:38.623-05:00******Notes Towards A British North American Restoration****Sir Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052750849770350973dredtory@yahoo.caBlogger107125http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifDredToryhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with Googletag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260545195755894149.post-71448162280862966932009-10-06T00:05:00.004-04:002009-10-06T00:17:48.051-04:002009-10-06T00:17:48.051-04:00As a public service, I hereby append below an internal memorandum allegedly sent by "Conservative" Party brass to "Conservative" riding presidents. I prefer not to divulge how it came into my...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Of those two hateful hemispheres of planetary...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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If anybody had a notion, Across the USA, To tie scum like Dick Cheney, Down to a board and say: "We're going to pour some water Down your throat 'till you die"; I think I'd laugh...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Really, I am already painfully...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Canada has just lost her first war—an inevitability, really, once we hitched our geo-political cart to history’s most fecklessly narcissistic empire. Once, we begged...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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I guess being lucky enough to sit on an ocean's worth of the planet's second most expensive natural...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Don't you just hate it when some ball-busting bitch demands that you tell Canadians what you plan to do with three billion dollars of their hard-earned cash? Just who the fuck does she...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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After spending four and a half years making Stéphane Dion look...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/DredTory?a=dpCHojLvoWc:KQrBq8Us1RU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/DredTory?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/DredTory?a=dpCHojLvoWc:KQrBq8Us1RU:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/DredTory?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/DredTory?a=dpCHojLvoWc:KQrBq8Us1RU:4cEx4HpKnUU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/DredTory?i=dpCHojLvoWc:KQrBq8Us1RU:4cEx4HpKnUU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DredTory/~4/dpCHojLvoWc" height="1" width="1"/>Sir Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052750849770350973dredtory@yahoo.ca6http://dredtory.blogspot.com/2009/03/der-torygang-twilight-of-clod.html