James Wooten
Born in Chicago, raised in Toronto, 40-year resident of Ottawa. I voted for Harris in '24, Biden in '20, HRC in '16 and Libs in '15, ‘19, ‘21 and ‘25. I mute idiots/trolls.
- Canadian Tire at 1:30 PM on the Friday before the Victoria Day weekend should be avoided if at all possible. Mass mayhem in the parking lot.
- “Great Gulf has no plans to build on the site because it is a protected cultural landscape under the Ontario Heritage Act, said Kathleen Schofield, the developer’s president of low-rise residential.” Or until Dougie can be bribed into allowing development. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
- Another Holy Crap moment. The first jury was dismissed because of a lunchtime interaction between one of the defence counsels and a juror. If you’re an attorney at the heart of two jury dismissals you might want to look within yourself. 🤔 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
- [the judge] had received a note from one juror, which said that “multiple jury members feel we are being judged and made fun of” by Formenton’s lawyers, Daniel Brown and Hilary Dudding. Holy crap! www.thestar.com/news/jury-di...
- “The Hunger Games, 2025”, coming to a screen near you.
- Reposted by James WootenMy name is Eileen Laubacher and I’m running to defeat Lauren Boebert because I took an oath to defend our Constitution against all threats, foreign and domestic – even when those threats are sitting members of Congress.
- @theglobeandmail.com up to their old anti-Liberal mandate given them by their Thomson Family Overlords. Sure, let’s formulate a budget in the midst of an unresolved trade war. 🙄 www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
- So much wrong with this story. Bossé claims she received her returned ballot May 2nd and it was too late to vote in person. We have only her word that she received it May 2nd, and she’s only coming forward now because the vote was close. And where are the other returned votes?
- Apparently dough-heads are bitching and whining about this. Do said dough-heads have any conception how meaningless a budget would be right now while we are in the midst of an unresolved Trade War with President Dough-head? www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
- “A spokesperson for Elections Canada said…five ballots were received at the local office late ‘even though the return envelope contained an error in the postal code.’” Heard on CBC Radio there were 16 mail-in ballots not received or were late. Where are the other 11? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Reports are a 12-year old Moe made a list of similar demands to his parents: 1. No more 10:00 PM bedtime 2. Eating of vegetables optional 3. Must have a puppy 4. Washing of hands is optional 5. Brushing of teeth is optional PM Carney’s response expected to be similar. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- I want to see Solicitor General Sauer and Secretary of HHS Kennedy sing a duet on “America’s Got Talent”. No. No one wants to hear that.😖
- Solicitor General Sauer makes the shortest opening statement ever.
- I did *not* know the first tower of the TD Centre was completed in 1968. I thought it was much earlier in the ‘60s. Fun fact: I had a summer job in one of the TD Centre towers. Can’t remember which one.
- Heard a clip of Pete Buttigieg on MSNBC in Iowa saying “No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves (paraphrased).” Happy to hear someone finally saying this.
- So Trump goes to the Middle East and talks to Sauron and Saruman and they convince him to lift sancrions on Syria. Thr Department of State and Marco Rubio must wonder what the fuck they’re good for if Trump makes all the decisions on the fly. (Reference to LOTR.) www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
- “A February report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimated that at current growth rates, Syria would need more than 50 years to return to the economic level it had before the war, and it called for massive investment to accelerate the process.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
- MSNBC playing clips of Trump’s simpering praise of the Saudi dictator. At 9:00 AM. Please, I haven’t had breakfast yet, and this is sickening.
- I got caught up in “The Last of Us” in Season One, against my better judgment, but who wants to see an unhappy outcome for one of the main characters in Season Two? Also, Ellie was a massive PITA in Season One. Thus endeth my cultural commentary for this evening.
- Jeff demonstrated that he has listened to Canadians and has decided to change his “tone”, which many voters found unappealing. Behold, ladies, gentlemen and non-binary individuals, the kinder, gentler Pierre Poilievre. 🙄 www.youtube.com/live/_dk593O...
- The 1932-33 deliberate starvation of Ukrainians by Stalin is being repeated in 2025 by Netanyahu in Gaza. Has the world learned nothing from history?
- “At the time of the Holodomor, over one-third of the villages in Ukraine were put on ‘blacklists’ … Blacklisted villages were encircled by troops and residents were blockaded from leaving or receiving any supplies” Israel blockade of Gaza in its 10th week. www.democracynow.org/2025/5/13/ga...
- I remember that time when President Biden went on a Middle East tour of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE and he brought Hunter along to do side real estate deals. Oh, wait, that was Trump who brought along Uday and Qusay and that was this week.🤔 www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
- Listening to Althea Raj’s latest podcast and she interviewed a CPC_HQ MP who blames the toxic atmosphere in Parliament on former PM Trudeau. These people believe their own bullshit.
- “A Trump Tower in Damascus, a detente with Israel and US access to Syria’s oil and gas are part of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa’s strategic pitch to try to get face time with US President Donald Trump during his trip to the Middle East,” What, no free plane?🤔 www.timesofisrael.com/trump-tower-...
- Dare we hope they’re all flying together on Air Force One and there’s an MH370-type incident? 🤔
- “tech CEOs sat among oil executives, bankers, private military contractors, the chiefs of Coca-Cola and Uber, and American defense contractors from Halliburton, Northrop Grumman and Boeing” This isn’t a state visit, it’s a visit of American oligarchs.🙄 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- Heard Fred DeLorey on Peter Mansbridge’s podcast describe former PM Trudeau as a “wedge politician”. WTAF? Fred’s partisanship hanging out his fly.
- “Evan Solomon joins cabinet as Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.” Geez, missed the fact that Evan Solomon was even running in the election. 🤔 www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
- “the IPC estimated that one in five people in Gaza – 500,000 – faces starvation.” When will the world admit that Netanyahu an his fascist government are committing genocide? news.un.org/en/story/202...
- Heard on CBC Radio One: Gen Z calls Gen Alpha the “crusty iPad kids”. 🤔 issuu.com/graffitithev...
