I shouldn’t have to say it, but for the benefit of the cerebrally-deprived I will anyway: I am not a fan of George W Bush — far from it. But this is ridiculous: Next week’s appearance by former U.S. president George W. Bush at an event hosted by a local evangelical Christian university has been […]
Author: JJ
Careful, Operation Rescue…
… that “shoulder to shoulder” stance would put his hands in pretty close proximity to your wallet.
Continue readingFrom the “You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby” files
Read it and weep: A bus driver told Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to get on a separate bus from other Government leaders after mistaking her for one of their partners during the recent Pacific Forum, TVNZ has reported. […] An anonymous police source told TVNZ a bus driver stopped Ms Gillard as she was […]
Explodable Quotable
Yay! Here’s a Tuesday Night game for you: What rabidteabag-festoonedfoaming-the-mouthwingnutcalled Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme” whose days are numbered? “First, I think Freeman is over-optimistic when he asserts that there is consensusSocial Security is structured from the point of view of the recipients as if it were an ordinary retirement plan: what you get out […]
Comment of the day
The laughfest known as “the Tea Party Republican Debate” continues apace. Candidate Michelle Bachmann was in especially fine form last night, hinting darkly at horrible side effects from the cancer-preventative HPV vaccine; theories which have long since been debunked and dwell on the ragged edge of politics in the murky conspiratorial caverns that house ideas […]
“The Empire Is Eating Itself”
That’s the title of a Ralph Nader piece that ran in Counterpunch last week, and on this 10th Anniversary of 9/11 Weekend, with sovereign nations joining the “TBTF” club, stock markets careening every which way but loose and formerly robust economies grinding to, if not a halt, at least a noticeable slowdown, it’s as apt a […]
Sicksicksick
I realize this video clip of GOP contender Rick Perry at the candidates’ debate has already gone a bit viral, but it’s so creepy and sick and weird that I couldn’t resist posting it here. (I only wish I had a pukeworthiness rating system so I could rate it as “Triple Projectile Pukeworthy”.) On we […]
WTF is “Islamicism?
It’s bad enough in any scenario that we’d allow sleazy politicians to twist us around their porky little fingers like we had spines made of overcooked linguini, but now we’re even letting them make up the Scarywords they employ to click us into Freakout Mode and send us screaming and scrambling under our beds. In […]
Credible terrorism threat?
Hmmm? Or someone trying to take the wind out of Obama’s big speech in a few minutes? Good luck with that. The President apparently plans to reveal his his package on nationwide TV, and according to Tim Geithner, it’s “substantial“. Could be a hard act to follow. (And people wonder why I find their politics […]
The moose is loose
An apple tree, a fermented apple, a hungry moose.
Do the math.
Happy Labour Day
Enjoying your long weekend? Thank a labour union.
Meanwhile, here’s Johnny Cash with a “song for the working man”:
Cullen mulls NDP leadership?
As the next Parliament looms menacingly, the NDP must be weighing the pros and cons of a leaderless Opposition facing a bellicose and belligerent Conservative majority government, and coming up decidedly short. Sooner or later the question of who will fill Jack Layton’s considerable shoes has to be resolved, and members of the NDP caucus […]
Harper, Exposed
What would be a good name for this picture? “The Un-Hidden Agenda”?
(I don’t know what sick, twisted fucker is responsible for the actual painting or if he’s currently residing in one of Harper’s CONcentration Camps, but…
About that State Funeral
When the PM offered a state funeral for Jack Layton, I suspect most were mildly surprised since the protocol dictates that state funerals are reserved for Prime Ministers, Governor-Generals and Cabinet Ministers. Nobody else, Opposition Leaders included, makes the cut… unless the Prime Minister says they do. But under the circumstances a state funeral just […]
Majority of Canadians remember Layton fondly
According to an Angus Reid poll, a majority of Canadians agree with Jack Layton being accorded a State Funeral, and remember him with fondness: A majority of Canadians (55%) think Layton showed that politicians can have the common touch, and almost half (48%) think he will be lauded for his ability to engage with young […]
Adieu, le bon Jack
Agree with him ideologically or not, Jack Layton was clearly no ordinary politician, and the week following his passing has been no ordinary week. The widespread emotional outpouring in response to his death has been, dare I say it? Unprecedented? I certainly can’t recall anything quite like it. Of all the memorials to Jack Layton, […]
New right-wing game
It’s called “Let’s Make Lefty Heads Explode”. Here’s how it goes: A popular left-wing political leader passes away. The shock and sadness at this cruel turn of events transcends ideology as most everyone expresses their sorrow during the very human moment of shared loss and mutual comforting that ensues. We all hug, ever so briefly. […]
Niagara Falls to go Orange
The “Great Orange Wave” that made such profound changes to the Canadian political landscape last May apparently didn’t recede permanently into the electoral ocean. Since Jack Layton’s passing on Monday, everything’s been coming up orange! And then there was the CN Tower. Now it’s Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls will join the CN Tower in going […]
On the Irresistible Urge to Look Under Rocks
Human nature can be pretty perverse, and one of the more twisted aspects of it is that we can’t resist turning over the occasional rock, hoping to be stunned and grossed out and aggrieved by what’s crawling in the slime beneath. This truism is amplified in the Internet Age, when we run around lifting rocks […]
Oh no
The NDP loses a beloved leader who took his party to new heights, the “Little Guy” loses a tenacious and constant defender, and Canada loses a politician of extremely rare integrity: Jack Layton, who earlier this year led his party to an unexpected victory over the Liberals to become the official opposition party for the […]