Thanks, Ezra, for making right wing politics
even more unappealing!
Saw some coverage from the blogs Buckdog and Let Freedom Rain of the vile spectacle of a certain Ezra Levant on a Fox North show with Michael Coren. As you can see from the screen ca…
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RedBedHead: A Sea Of Orange Hope
It’s not fashionable to be earnest these days when irony and cynicism are the king and queen. But they’ve been deposed today at Roy Thompson Hall where there is a sea of people – many on orange shirts and hats, the colour of the NDP. My guess is that t…
Continue readingRedBedHead: David Menzies Shows How Fast Racist Lies Travel The World
Racist code words and lies, Menzies is an excellent
example of “objective journalism.”
I was sent an article this morning from August 5, written by a freelance journalist named David Menzies, detailing his “shocking” experience of not only being assa…
RedBedHead: Jack Layton & Steve Jobs
I’m a tech nerd and a Mac Head, for sure. I have a Macbook Pro and an iPhone and we have an Apple TV. I’m almost embarrassed to say that I’m a little bit excited to see the new iPhone 5/4S and only pushing the limits of my common sense has prevented me…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Education Makes White People Dumb
You will eat, bye and bye,In that glorious land above the sky;Work and pray, live on hay,You’ll get pie in the sky when you die- Joe Hill song
This interesting study of patterns of church-going and attitudes to family values is interesting. It demo…
RedBedHead: I Owe Jack Layton $20,000
I’ve been a bit swamped with work in recent days and in my own world, so I was shocked to hear about the passing of Jack Layton. I must admit that it made me misty eyed. I won’t pretend that I agreed with everything Jack stood for but he was a principl…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Good Gaddafi, Hello NATO
There will be much celebrating across Libya over the next several days even as the mop-up operations get under way. Of course, there’s no guarantee that this will be over for a while. It’s hard to know what kind of resistance to the rebel victory will …
Continue readingRedBedHead: "Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right…"
Well, there’s something you only ever hear from economists when they’re pooping their pants because the system is going in to meltdown. We heard it in the early 1990s and again when the financial crisis hit in 2008. And now Nouriel, who resists the del…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Riotous Double Standards
Some riots we like, some not so much – by Oliver Heinrich
I’ve been swamped with work – and working on a longer post on science geek stuff that I hope to post by Monday. In the meantime, my old friend Oliver sent along the above cartoon, hopefully th…
RedBedHead: Why Keeping Interest Low Won’t Save The Economy
As the old saying goes – expecting different results while repeating the same act over and over again is a sign of psychosis. That, however, has never stood in the way of government policy where bureaucratic inertia, the desire of the ruling class to c…
Continue readingRedBedHead: More Capitalism vs Democracy
I was reading this article in Foreign Policy – a “debate” between two highly respected international economists, Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer when I came acros the two quotes below. What was interesting was just how similar they were to the quote I …
Continue readingRedBedHead: I Heart Giorgio Mammoliti
It’s not every day that a politician comes along who is so totally and completely ridiculous and juvenile, such a cartoon character, that they are a like a gift from God for the people who stand opposed to their political camp. With that in mind, may I…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Babylon Burns While I Fish
I’m on a bit of a holiday this week, at a rental cottage up in the Muskokas. It’s quiet, the air is clean and the loons are warbling as sun sets. Meanwhile the world seems to be going to hell in a hangbasket – what’s up with that?
Global stock markets…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Capitalism vs Democracy
This article in the Globe & Mail about the ongoing debt crisis in the USA and Europe caught my attention. Not because it offered any interesting or unique insight into the origins or solution to the present debt crisis facing western capitalist nat…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Americans Hate Congress Want Jobs
This New York Times poll is interesting. It shows that despite the media onslaught and the lies pumped out by the Republicans, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that creating jobs ought to be a higher priority than making cuts. If we broke it down…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Libertarianism Is Not Paleo
What does supporting wars against people in far off
countries have to do with being paleo?
A couple of years ago I had put on about 20 pounds and was generally feeling pretty crappy. I remembered some pros at the tennis club where I once worked talki…
RedBedHead: After The Debt Ceiling: Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Economic Meltdown
It must have been pretty weak pixie dust, that debt ceiling agreement that was supposed to stave off imminent collapse, put America on a sound economic footing and bring sunshine and joy to the democratic peoples of the earth, because its affect on the…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Why Is The NDP Buckling On The Bloc?
It’s sad to listen to Nycole Turmel’s mea culpa’s in the news as she pleads over and over that she is now and has always been a federalist. Almost half the province of Quebec are sovereignist for God’s sake. It’s a legitimate political stance and suppo…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Nycole Turmel & The Media’s B.S. Loyalty Test
This is a story that isn’t a story.
NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel has a long history as a union activist and progressive. She was president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada for a number of years and can point to a significant victory for …
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