While talking about market regulation, I came up with an example of a situation where I think more government oversight and fines would be useful at protecting Canadians. It occurred to me, that it’s practically a metaphor of Saskatchewan’s current Sask Party government. “Unfortunately companies that are too big to fail get neither the government […]
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Giving Thanks For Campaigns
It’s a holiday, so I almost forgot to blog anything. But some newsworthy things are underfood, err, underfoot. CNET.com was a trustworthy download site for more than a decade, but has fallen to the spyware wolves. Avoid download.com and cnet.com or lose your computer to the wolves. == And the Saskatchewan election campaign isn’t even […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Anonymous Promoting Occupy Saskatoon Protest
Someone identifying with the Anonymous Internet group may have decided that Saskatoon sounded obscure and cool enough to be participating in Occupy Wall Street, that they deserved a little extra boost of attention. The Saskatoon news media jumped all over it, but with an unbalanced article that appears not to have made an attempt to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 99% Paying The Taxes
This video demonstrates that nothing has been done in more than 25 years to close the tax loopholes that Reagan supposedly wanted to close in 1985. Obama is saying the same things, literally, as Reagan did. The Bush(s), Clinton, and Obama governments since have lost ground for the 99% of us. This is one big […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Depression Not Out of the Question
Watch our “economist” Primer Minister manage us into a economic depression (and ecological depression).
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Design Regina – Larry Beasley
We can fix Regina at the same time that the urban health and community issue is being better understood across Canada. The problem is that most people live outside of downtown metropolises, but want to spend most of their day downtown. First are some destructive steps: Most cities are not determined by modern developers, they […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Russian Unicorn and Misread Lipsync
These videos are not just misreading of lips, they are music videos in their own right. They all have lyrics that might make you blush, so don’t let any kids hear them or you may hear some interesting words repeated at awkward moments. Obama goes off track to make friction after we eat lunch: Russian […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Lawyers Win
There are no winners in the upcoming legal battle between tobacco companies that hid the dangers of smoking, and the governments who regulated and once encouraged the use of the cancer causing drug. The losers are clearly the Canadian taxpayers, and everyone who has lost a loved one to the normalization of a deadly addiction. […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Curb Your Urge to go Stateside
America is going to start building a fence to keep out “terrorists” from Canada. If you’ve got ripped MP3s on your iPod, good luck staying out of the courts. The Appease American Imperialism Act is almost through the House of Cave-ins. With aggressive idiots like this working for Homeland Insecurity, why would you want to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Civics, Humour, Space, and Water
I’m going to assume that Calgary’s Civic Camp is a success, because they have an awesome mayor who nobody expected to win. == Things could be worse. These disasters will make you smile. == http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/dawn/20110915/vesta20110915-640.swf Embedded video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Vesta is a minor planet in our solar system, […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: State Did It For Lulz
The State Department is one of those organizations that deems a hyperlink as “publication” of the material it links to. Publicity, almost certainly, but it’s impossible to knowingly and forever publicize what is being linked to, because websites are dynamic and links get broken due to their targets’ changes. And the State is eager to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Design Regina – Adapt Early
Our competitive advantage is that we’ve not yet adapted to large urban growth, but we have that opportunity now. Or we can be “a mid-size city with big city problems.” Traffic congestion is about to explode in Regina. We are only 11km from top to bottom, or west to east. Sprawl will make commute times […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Still Big News
In case you ever wondered whatever happened to WikiLeaks, it’s still making headlines in the news, from diplomatic cables that are in some cases years old. This is because there’s such a large volume of lies from our governments, that it’s going to take years to reconcile history with the truth. This morning there were […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Green Party of Sask Leadership Meeting
I attended the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s leadership meeting on Sunday, at the Glencairn Community Centre. There were probably close to 50 people in attendance, with others voting by email.
More to come…
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Parking at UofR
In 15 minutes, at 1:30, be at the Ad Hum Pit to hear concerns and solutions to the limited parking available at the UofR. Many people are displeased by the amount of parking sold at the main campus. People who must drive, and those who want to drive, are saying they can’t easily find a […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Design Regina
Introductions underway at the first Design Regina presentation series at the UofR Education Auditorium. Fred Clipsham gives a greeting on behalf of Mayor Fiacco. Tonight is Participatory Democracy. 7:22 the current Regina plan was designed 25 years ago. Demographics have changed, and so have technology and desires of the population. Infrastructure isn’t all in good […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Adopt a Job Creator/Billionaire
The most important thing to do in a recession is to make sure the extremely wealthy are well taken care of so they can get back to the business of creating jobs for the lesser humans.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Home, Home on the Strange
Isn’t it strange how oil companies can act as if they have the rights of people, but if they commit crimes or need police protection, they are suddenly special entities? If you built a pipe through your neighbours yard, and it leaked toxins thousands of times, do you think your neighbour wouldn’t sue you into […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: History is Written by the Terrorists?
The victors are often said to be writing history. Then why have terrorists defined the last decade of history as the “Post 9/11″ decade, if they aren’t the victors? Or are terrorists simply the excuse given by radical reformers in government who have now overtaken the previously cherished civil liberties that were rights for Americans […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Letter to Councilor Regarding Regina Recycling
Regina has no curb-side recycling program in place. Residents can pay $93/yr for a private recycler to pick up by-weekly. Hi Louis [Browne], I hope you had a good Summer. Assuming Regina makes 1/4 as much waste as Edmonton, we should get $2,000,000 to employ people who sort/sell trash at our landfill. I’ve been realizing […]