Instead of meeting with healthcare workers who showed up at the Saskatoon Cabinet Office today to talk about some of their concerns, the Premier and Minister of Labour snuck out the back door and called the cops to usher the workers away from public property. Let that sink in. —
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Show Trial Ending Investigative Journalism
Julian Assange's extradition hearings are frankly terrifying, and if you care about the free press, you should be worried, irrespective of whether you like Assange or Wikileaks. As the old saying goes, "Hard cases make bad law." 1/ pic.twitter.com/MLPwtW7hVr — Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) September 20, 2020 And read how
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Big Financial Enforcement Failure Leak
BREAKING: The BBC has documents showing that big banks have knowingly laundered $2 TRILLION for organized criminals & dirty billionaires. Ordinary citizens & democratic institutions don’t stand a chance in a world that allows this kind of crap. #cdnpoli https://t.co/mYAvudFWSJ — Gil McGowan (@gilmcgowan) September 20, 2020 If you wondered
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Republican President Tells Supporters To Vote Twice
Trump asked his supporters to commit a major crime, months after saying anyone who said what he just did, would make any Republican feel ill. Major newspapers barely mentioned the scandal. (Side note, if you look way way way way down there in the bottom right corner of WaPo today
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Teletubbies Falwell Likes To Watch
If you’re old enough, and into American odd news, you’ll remember Jerry Falwell saying he thought the purple Teletubbie was gay. His son carried on in the family tradition of spreading religious themed bigotry and hatred of queer people. "Christian" Trumpers who pretend they're so perfect, and pious, and cast
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Toxic Deadly Gaming Culture
One of the strangest things about modern tech is that you can easily hear what a dead murderer thought of himself and others. There are hours of video of this Rudy guy boasting about his video game prowess while calling women “pap smear”. Cops were warned about his violent harrassment
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Fixation on Ventilators morphs into Ventilation
“There’s no perfectly ‘safe’ level of ventilation because we don’t actually know what ‘safe’ is, since we don’t know how much exposure leads to transmission,” Angela Rasmussen, a Columbia University virologist,” That is from an article recommended by a virologist studying airborne diseases. The result is predictable: Stay Home to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Simpsons And Presidential Politics
They had Marge Simpson respond directly to a real political actor referring to the Democrat VP candidate’s voice as if it sounded like the cartoon character voice acted by Julie Cavner. Marge Simpson has something to say. pic.twitter.com/viux96bAPf — TheSimpsons (@TheSimpsons) August 14, 2020 https://twitter.com/i/events/1294361395413176322 The Simpsons have long delighted
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Looking Back 10 Years Ago
https://wp.me/pDJ8-h6 My blog post from 10 years ago, about a pandemic, and death rate in Russia.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Science In Use
Right Wing media started this year telling people that the new Coronavirus was the flu, and would cause no deaths in America. Fast forward to August and almost 150,000 Americans are buried due to COVID-19 infections they didn’t overcome. Even those who recover face other problems ranging from recurring breathing
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Children Thrown Away Like Masks
The coronavirus is airborne. Most of our plans are based on it spreading by droplets and unclean hands. #KeepYourChildHome and they'll thank you in later years, even if 2020 and some of 2021 is more difficult. Easier to rebuild social connections than a damaged heart. — Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Booster Shot For The Economy
I am so not impressed by the Sask Party’s response to COVID-19. Slow Moe took days to shut down schools in March after a pandemic was declared, and now he’s charging ahead without a plan to roll back to Stage 1 of a lockdown when kids start getting sick in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Herman Cain Dies
Herman Cain, former U.S. presidential candidate, dies after contracting coronavirus Oh my god. He didn't even know what a vaccine is. pic.twitter.com/yEMR4gFgp0 — Jessica H (@yesssi) July 30, 2020
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Post-lockdown
Even though everything isn’t re-opened, the Saskatchewan Government very much wants people to think and act as if everything is back to normal. They’ll deny that if asked. There’s no evidence of the Premier wearing a mask though to set a good example in public. As a result, the infection
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Flowers
There’s even a yellow lily too. The white peonies are almost all done. This was in Moose Jaw last week Squash Potatoes last week
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Is The Sask Party A Cult?
It’s hard to deny that the Sask Party could be a cult. I'm trying to think of a scenario where your Conservative supporters would not vote for your candidates. You could probably kill someone, go bankrupt, and increase air pollution and they'd still vote for you.Oh, wait, they will because
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: What’s Going On?
YouTuber David Doel was saying all the cops had to do to win mass public support was to come out and do nothing. They couldn’t even do nothing. They threatened charities, faked being poisoned, all while slashing tires, shooting eyes, gassing people, clubbing them, breaking old men’s heads, and playing
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Defund The Police is catching on
Cops DO have time to:– Check your ID if you're Black or Indigenous – pursue drug users despite cannabis being mostly decriminalized – kill people during welfare checks– break down your door in error while doing a raid in the suite downstairs– shoot journalists in the face — Saskboy from
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Power Out
First power outage in weeks, and it’s lasted at least 10 minutes as of writing this. There was heavy rain this morning, but it let up quickly. Getting word that the power outage is due to damage from a fire and won’t be fixed until after 5pm. Yesterday, friends noted
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Growing
Iris Potato tower The garden is showing increased signs of life, with peas, spinach, beans, and more all sprouting. My potato towers today are showing obvious signs of early success.
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