Hamilton Saint

Netanyahu to stage hunger strike for world peace. http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/netanyahu-strike-against

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CCR did an extended version (about 11 minutes) of the song on one of their early albums.

The Onion. You Know about The Onion?

And here he is playing with Bert Jansch in 1967 - before they founded Pentangle.

Here's Renbourn playing with Stefan Grossman. Doing Charles Mingus's "Goodbye Porkpie Hat".

John Renbourn is known primarily as a founding member of the traditional folk/jazz group Pentangle. He was a great guitarist. Nice fellow, too - I interviewed him for a local radio station back in the late 80s. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/26/guitarist-and-songwriter-john-renbourn-founder-of-pentangle-dies

I've had a cat before; now I have a dog. And this is my favourite Gary Larson cartoon.

Pathetic. But this has not been accurately reported. Prospect Magazine asked their readers to select their "favourite" thinkers. The Daily Mail identifies Naomi Klein as a "US author", by the way; she is, of course, Canadian!

We just got back from a week at the Iberostar Resort (all-inclusive plan) on the south-west coast of Cozumel Island (off the north-east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula). Excellent place. Very good food. Excellent diving location. It was about 30 degrees C all week. (Got back home yesterday; it was -10 C!) An interesting mix of people: mostly Americans, Canadians, French and Germans. Primarily older couples (40s-60s), but also some young children and a fair amount of teenagers. I would recommend the place to anybody.

Our Lady of Providence School in Alton (when we lived in Longmoor Army camp in late '50s) Our Lady of Mercy and St. Joseph Catholic Primary in Lymington (when we lived in Norleywood in the Forest in late '50s) Hythe Primary School (1960-1964) St. Mary's College in Southampton (1964-1969) Nelson High School in Burlington, Ontario (1969-1970)

The irony is that you are calling somebody a "no-nothing", but you don't know how to spell the word.

Ironic error there. That should be know-nothing.

Ha, Ha, Ha!

I have just noticed harvey's posting of Allen Toussaint's "Last Train" above (post #5322). Here is what Hamilton's King Biscuit Boy (Richard Newell) sounds like when filtered through the production work of Allen Toussaint. The song is called "Mean Old Lady", recorded in 1974.

Here is one of Hamilton, Ontario's great blues musicians - Richard Newell (aka King Biscuit Boy), doing a song called "Hoy Hoy Hoy". This is from a German TV program broadcast in December, 1971. The backing group is the Birmingham band Idle Race (Jeff Lynne was in that band in the 60s).

Nice choice!

I'm not a theist, so we can skip the poem, the prayer, and the hymn. Time for more of my music!

"In My Life" The Beatles "Into the Mystic" Van Morrison "For A Dancer" Jackson Browne something from Gabriel Faure's "Requiem Mass" the "Adagietto" movement from Mahler's 5th symphony It's gonna be a long service!!

Well, generally speaking. The monarch and her representatives follow a neutral position in the politics of the day, but there is a theoretical opportunity to interfere in certain situations. Check out what happened in Australia in 1975 - the Governor General, Sir John Kerr, dismissed the government of Gough Whitlam and installed Malcolm Fraser as the new P.M. This was referred to as "The Dismissal". The same thing could quite easily have occurred in Canada in 2008, if Governor-General Michaelle Jean had denied the controversial request for prorogation. She agreed to Harper's desperate ploy because she feared a "dreadful crisis" if she had refused.

The Governor-General is the Queen's representative; so in a political sense, she did have the opportunity to unseat the government - by denying the request for prorogation, as I explained. I don't know what you mean by "so-called Governor General". I'm not a Liberal supporter, btw; but I definitely oppose Harper - the most anti-democratic political leader I've ever seen.

Yes, that's Michael Moore. His first feature documentary, Roger & Me is about the economic collapse of Flint, after General Motors closed the auto plants there and moved them to Mexico, where they could pay the workers a fraction of what they did in Flint.

If we could get so lucky. She had the chance to do that in December, 2008. The Liberals and N.D.P. had agreed to a coalition and were about to bring in a vote of no-confidence. P.M. Stephen Harper went to the Governor General (the Queen's representative in Canada) and asked her to prorogue Parliament. She agreed, unfortunately - if she had declined, Harper's government would have fallen, and the parties then able to form a coalition would have been invited to form the government. [Oh, and btw, she's our Queen, too.]

My first home in Canada, after arriving in 1969, was in Burlington - which lies between Toronto and Hamilton on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Like Oakville, immediately to its east, Burlington took in a large number of British immigrants in the 50s and 60s. I settled in Hamilton because I attended university there (McMaster University) for 7 years in the late 70s and early 80s. Many Ontarians look down on Hamiltonians because of the city's so-called working-class reputation. The steel industry - and its associated manufacturing facilities - lies on the northern edge of the city, which is the sight that people have of the city, as they whiz past on the highway. But that's only a small part of the city. It is true that the central core of the city has gone through a couple of decades of decline - caused by a general flight of home-owners into the suburbs, and the relocation of large retail outlets ("box-stores") to the outskirts of the city, where they can build acres of parking lots for cars around the stores. But in the last five years there has been much rebuilding, new construction, and revitilization of the city core. I'm sure this trend has been going in the UK, too. Hamilton is actually a good city to live in. It doesn't have the self-absorption of Toronto - which is perennially obsessed and anxious about whether or not it as a so-called "world-class" city. I live in the west end of Hamilton. It's like a village inside the city - near the university. There is a wonderful marsh nearby with lots of hiking trails through the woods on either edge. Also nearby is the Royal Botanical Gardens - which has four or five different gardens and lots of woods to walk through. Great areas to walk the dog! It's much cheaper to buy houses in Hamilton, than Toronto. Probably about 50% cheaper. Many young people are finding Toronto impossibly expensive - especially when they are trying to buy their first home. Many of those who dislike the suburban scene, and want the vibrancy of city-life are moving west to Hamilton. Well, that's a bit about the city for you ...!