Last big act of pointless violence in the USA was on Patriots Day, the Boston Marathon. Today the annual Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans was broken by a spree shooting. CBC.ca reports, via The Associated Press, that “New Orleans police say 17 people have been wounded in a shooting
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5983…More Lawyers Than Janitors
That’s D.C. for ya. I was listening to FOX Sports’ [on Ottawa’s The Team 1200] giving baseball score updates and the talent, I think it was Rob Dibble, pointed out that 1/19 people in Washington are lawyers. This, of course, explains a lot. A whole lot. WFDS
Continue readingDISSTEMPER: Cabinet Containment
Ottawa was abuzz this past week because of the latest addition to Parliament Hill. We refer, of course, to the introduction of Cabinet Containers. The idea was apparently inspired by Edmonton’s new hospital-based baby boxes. These baby boxes are today’s equivalent of leaving unwanted babies in baskets on doorsteps
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Indigenous resistance grows strong in Keystone XL pipeline battle
By: Crysbel Tejada and Betsy Catlin | First published by Waging Nonviolence on May 8, 2013: On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey smog that camouflages itself into the sky. The ConocoPhillips oil refinery that makes its home there uses overcast days as a disguise to release more
Continue readingcmkl: Almonte 114km
There is such a thing as hill karma. It’s just an immutable fact. If you’re coming back to where you started, every metre of ascent will be returned unto you in equal part. But with wind, there is only the Murphy’s law codicil: “always against you.” Even if you’re just
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Radio Free Canada: The Cultivation Of Fear And Other Tory Sins
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Radio Free Canada: The Cultivation Of Fear And Other Tory Sins
This is rather interesting: Recommend this Post
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Conrad Black and Danielle Smith
Conrad Black, the Canadian media mogul and convicted felon* was in Calgary last week to have a “conversation” with the Calgary business elite (and me) over lunch at the Calgary Petroleum Club. The big question is why does Baron Black of Crossharbour—oh let’s just call him Conrad—continue to draw sell-out
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Obama, Biden Parroting Bogus Gas Industry Talking Points
For several years, both President Obama and Vice President Biden have been singing the praises of natural gas and hydraulic fracturing, claiming that the upcoming “cheap energy boom” would bring hundreds of thousands of jobs to work-hungry Americans. The claim, which reached the most ears during the President’s 2012 State
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Michelle L. Erstikaitis Really IS a Super, Duper, Nazi! No Fool’n!
Last week we received a message from someone proporting to be Michell Erstikaitis. As the message is chock full of da krazy, we are going to assume that it is indeed her. Suffice it to say she REALLY wants it to be known that she is a neo-Nazi. Really. She
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Guest Commentary From The Salamander On Pierre Poilievre And The Company he Keeps
Because he doesn’t maintain his own blog yet offers blistering commentary that lacerates the pretensions of his subjects, I am once more placing as a guest post the searing analysis The Salmander offered in response to my post on the hypocrisy of that old young man, Pierre Poilievre, currently one
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cats On The Net
This one goes back a few years now… April 6, 2006 Thursday Final Edition SASKATCHEWAN: Mayor’s approval rating with felines is suspect BYLINE: The Star Phoenix Residents of a village in southern Saskatchewan may want to be on the lookout for a cat that’s got a definite taste for politics.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Relax, It’s All Recycled Pee Anyway
This Guy Not Only Drank Your Water First, He Made It. London’s Thames Water utility is polling city residents for their views on drinking recycled sewage water. It’s one solution being considered for a looming water shortage facing the British capital. London residents are being asked by the company for
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Humans: Too Invasive or Too Compassionate to Survive
In my last post, and elsewhere over the years, I went all Agent Smith and suggested that humans are a virus that can’t be contained. All other animals work within their environment to regulate their population. As long as people don’t mess things up by moving animals around (like bringing rabbits
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political…
This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political panel and again concluded that Canada must abolish its senate immediately. Abolish it now! There is no time for messing about. The dishonourable, fraud-committing senate serves no legitimate purpose in this day and age, and it’s debatable whether
Continue readingLeDaro: The Door To Hell: World’s Mysterious Places
“This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it
Continue readingLeDaro: The Door To Hell: World’s Mysterious Places
“This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5982…When Will It Be Dean Del Mastro’s Turn?
To face the music. This has dragged on for a long, long, looooooonnnng time. May be I will run into him at the Chinese buffet this week and I can ask him. WFDS
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: On Vancouver Island, Women Still Get a Taste of Frontier Justice
If you’re going to run afoul of the law on Vancouver Island, you had better hope and pray you’re not female. If a man is arrested in Victoria and goes before the court and his case is adjourned for a few days for a bail hearing, he arrives at the
Continue readingExcited Delirium: 100% Guarantee by 100% Corrupt Harper Government
It’s 100% time to put 100% of the 100% crooked and 100% corrupt Stephen Harper Conservatives behind their 100% publicly funded 100% privately owned prison system. I’m 100% astounded and 100% shocked that Peter Mackay would be 100% idiotic enough to offer a 100% guarantee concerning the cabinet seat for
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