We’ll be gone on vacation for a couple of weeks — now that we have retired, its the first time in 25 years that we have been able to travel in September!
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Cathie from Canada: Whoever has the most trucks wins: redefining winning in war
Our ideas about war have mostly been patterned after WW1 and WW2, where states sent their armies to war against other states, eventually somebody won, peace agreements were signed, and the soldiers all came home and got real jobs.That isn’t the way war is anymore.What we see now are numerous
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Murder, she wrote
The “root cause” for why Indigenous women are murdered and missing?Men are killing them. Usually, white men.Really, its as simple as that.Sarah Hunt asks why are we so hesitant to name white male violence as the reason for missing and murdered Indigenous women: I fear that no amount of increased
Continue readingCathie from Canada: What a strange week
What a strange week it has been — horrible bus crashes and nine-year olds with Uzis and Russia invading the Ukraine but lying about it while the American media flips out about Obama’s suit colour and England flips out about ISIS — and I flip out because Shaw in Saskatoon
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Shorter, on the government jets
Shorter — why the Harper Cons couldn’t decommission four of its six Challenger jets: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. In fact, the Harper Cons will likely end up buying two more if they can find some place to hide the bill — because
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Wrong side of history
Well, in one sense, I guess you could argue that Harper is right when he says that bringing to justice the murderers of Aboriginal women is a law enforcement matter. Ultimately, of course it is. The problem has been that Canadian law enforcement hasn’t been finding out why so many
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Jaywalking in Ferguson
I found this report on Daily Kos to be shocking and horrifying Ferguson makes 2.6 million dollars a year from court fees. In 2013, the court “disposed of 24,532 warrants and 12,018 cases, or about 3 warrants and 1.5 cases per household.”There’s your smoking gun. If it seems the town
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Ridiculous
Doesn’t Canada’s official languages commissioner have better things to do than investigate John Baird’s tweets? Is this the goal, to make the commissioner’s office look ridiculous and trivial?If so, they’re succeeding.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s flying pigs
Flying pigs were in the news today. Justice Minister Mackay actually said that the Harper Cons are still considering tickets for pot possession and he expected us to believe it. Next we’ll likely be told that the PMO is reconsidering letting federal research scientists talk about global warming and the CRA is finishing
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Why don’t they have a protocol for an officer-involved shooting?
One of the many things I don’t understand about the Ferguson police department is why they apparently do not have a protocol for dealing with any shooting in which an officer is involved. It is a routine in Canada when an officer shoots a civilian, that the officer is suspended,
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Ferguson police shoot Brown in the back again
So six days after the shooting, Ferguson police suddenly decide that Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery? The cynicism of this ploy is incredible.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: That was then, this is now
This is becoming painfully stupid. Now the braintrust in our PMO think they can get Canadian medical associations to do their dirty work for them by sponsoring anti-Liberal ads next fall. And they want to spend $5 million of our dollars on this bizarre project. These are the same guys who
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Pottery Barn Rule
Reading today’s news about Iraq — Obama warns of long-term strikes — I conclude that the United States is now caught by the Pottery Barn rule — you broke it, you bought it. President Barack Obama justified the U.S. military’s return to fighting in Iraq Saturday by saying America must
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Really? Is that all you’ve got?
Really, Harper Cons? Is this the best you can do? Is this all you’ve got? Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney used his parliamentary email account to circulate a Conservative attack on Liberal leader Justin Trudeau over the Liberal leader’s 2011 visit to a mosque in his Montreal riding….Neither Kenney nor Public
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I have a tablet!
So because of my retirement I had to give up my office laptop so I bought one of my own, just another good old lenovo think pad which I’m used to using now.And I also wanted a colour version of a kindle so I could use it for cookbooks —
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Memories
Dr. Grumpy has a post titled Memories… about the lessons he learned when his father helped a stranger one day. It reminded me of one of my own most distinct memories of my mother: She was at the bus stop downtown one day when a woman with a young child
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Shorter
Shorter President Obama on why the United States “tortured some folks’ after 911: When the going gets tough, how could anyone expect America’s leaders to respect its Constitution? Of course, what Obama doesn’t mention is that they had a President who was telling people to go shopping, and a Vice-President who
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Saturday funnies
To start your Saturday, here’s some goat balancing fun: Chèvres en équilibre – goats balancing on a flexible steel ribbon – YouTube:
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Whose job is it to play by the rules?
Here’s one thing that I don’t blame former Alberta Premier Alison Redford for doing — taking her daughter with her on many of her government flights was the right thing to do. This is kind of thing any parent SHOULD do, and we should expect it when we elect people with children
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Shorter
Shorter Mark Levin: John Baird and Stephen Harper are my new BFFs! Its nice to know our Canadian leaders are so popular abroad!Who is Mark Levin? Well, here’s how Media Matters describes him: Levin is known for his inflammatory commentary, including the recent claim that the “key” to a Hillary
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