The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 21, Just a brief, Sunday note….
I’ve been out of touch with them for quite a while, but all the mafia I knew were great church attenders. Mostly Catholics, they usually made the earliest mass on Sunday – before breakfast, but after a night of checking gambling and hooker receipts. (Something, I guess, like casino operators.)
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Of all the events that occurred during my blogging hiatus, the one that struck me as the most significant, even including the massive flooding of my hometown, was the Earth experiencing for the first time in millions of years an atmosphere containing 400 ppm carbon dioxide, as measured at the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Do Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau Have in Common? Plenty.
It strikes me that if you want to avoid trouble it’s probably best not to look the other way while it approaches. There’s something about taking one upside the head unnecessarily that seems counter-intuitive. So why are we doing just that on so many fronts? Why do we keep turning
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Gerald Kaplan discusses how the privileges of power have contributed to the utterly callous response to the Lac-Mégantic rail explosion by Stephen Harper and Ed Burkhardt: For me, of all Burkhardt’s outrageous statements nothing surpasses his public accusation that the train’s engineer, Tom
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: 19 Things We Can’t Say About Afghanistan
Canada’s indulgence in martial boosterism has come and gone. We’re no longer all that keen on kicking Taliban ass in Afghanistan. Like our American counterparts we hardly even mention the place any more. That goes in spades for the former Hero of Kandahar, Steve Harper. Remember the days – oh,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Farmer’s Lament
I think that, at some level, most progressives “get” what this Brit farmer is saying. Food, especially cheap food, is on the mind of many Britons this week after the head of supermarket giant, Tesco, warned that the days of cheap food are over. Around the world there is more
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Japanese Quickie
Teddy here with a quick update on politics elsewhere in the world. In Japan an election was held today for half of the upper house. I’ve cobbled together this table to explain it: I hope this mish-mash makes sense. It should be noted that the Democrats, Your Party, and Restoration
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Pleading not guilty, by itself, does not suggest an accused is a danger
R. v. Hasan, 2013 ONCA 487 makes the important point that a claim of innocence prior to a finding of guilt is neither an aggravating factor for sentence nor proof the accused is a danger: “The fact that he pleaded not guilty and maintained his innocence was not and does not show that
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Kill the Apostrophe? Rubbish! Keep it!
A site has popped up with one of the stupidest ideas about English I’ve read in the past decade or two. It’s called Kill the Apostrophe. Subtle. At first, I thought it was a joke, a spoof. After all, how can one realistically get rid of perhaps the most significant
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Long to reign over us?
You have to admit, there is always that stoic admiration for the old Queen. Nobody wants to say anything nasty about her. And then there are those God-awful hats. You would swear the old dear brings along a porta-potty in them so she never gets caught short. But there is
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The Home Care Consolidation Debacle: Fred Horne’s Mission Impossible
Like Tom Cruise in Ghost Protocol, Health Minister Horne is tearing through the building trying to stay ahead of the explosives he’s set to detonate. The big question is will he make it out in time. So far Fred has successfully blown up the AHS board, slashed the number of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice: Conversations I Wish I Had.
Oh you know what happens, the doorbell on Sunday morning, the feeling of dread when you open the door and find someone who is going to attempt to show you ‘the way’ and save your soul and all of the other assorted delusional religious nonsense that gets peddled before
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Monstrous
It was General Philip Sheridan who said, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” In Canada, we like to think that our history is not as savage as that of the United States. But a study from the University of Guelph puts the lie to that sop. Our government
Continue readingDemocracy Under Fire: Be Careful What You Wish For!
Abolish the Senate? Be careful what you wish for, we all know that it has become highly partisan and some of those appointed feel they are entitled to their entitlements and take even more, reform is needed but do away with it entirely? I maintain that it is not the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Regime and the Maple Leaf Forever Tree
I'm sure it was just a coincidence eh? Just another leafy victim of this massive thunderstorm that smashed into Toronto yesterday. But how ironic that just days after the Con regime announced it's taking the maple leaf insignia off the shoulders of our soldiers, the Maple Leaf Forever tree should come crashing to
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
So I decided earlier this week to add Salon.com to the new links on my blogroll.Then they publish this ridiculous piece of Drudge-report link-bait, apparently because they thought they should be contrarian about Obama’s fine Trayvon Martin speech.Then they published this ridiculous piece of tripe about how Ted Cruz could
Continue readingBuckdog: Bell of Batoche Returns To Batoche, Saskatchewan 128 Years After It Was Looted As War Booty
(Church at Batoche where Battle was fought ..) 128 years ago, the bell that rang in the Roman Catholic Church in Batoche, North West Territories (Saskatchewan) was stolen as a trophy of war by Canadian troops from Ontario. Today, the Bell was returned to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince
Continue readingAlberta Diary: The optics of politics in Alberta, or how to stay focused and in the picture…
Your blogger with the premier of Alberta. Somewhere below: Your blogger with a person who very well could be the next premier of Alberta. Or not. ST. ALBERT There’s something to be said for getting along with people even if you don’t agree with them. Seriously, you can get stuff
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