In today’s NYT, columnist Paul Krugman writes “Donald Trump Is Trying to Kill You.“ Krugman explores how Trump’s de-regulation rampage is giving rise to threats that will accelerate premature deaths among Americans. It’s a limited focus piece and I won’t get into it. However it did raise the question of
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The Disaffected Lib: Jennifer Rubin – Trump Is Losing It.
She’s a conservative pundit. That said, she writes for the Washington Post. She gets her paycheque from Bezos, the guy Trump routinely targets. Still, Jennifer Rubin makes some the arguments that Donald Trump is coming unglued. In the past 24 hours, Trump – who will be 74 in November 2020
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Monbiot’s "Hail Mary" Pass – Let’s Re-Wild
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, argues we must recruit nature to help thwart climate change. He notes what we all by now grasp – that 1.5 C “do not exceed” cap, that’s gone already. We are in very dangerous territory now. Here’s what he thinks might help. To prevent a full-spectrum
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Norway Shines a Light We Don’t Care to See
Little Norway and it’s big sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, are once again leading the way, this time by plunging into alternative clean energy investment. Not for the first time Norway is demonstrating how screwed up Canadian energy policy has become and will continue to be until we get
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Chill Out. It’s Blogging. That’s All it Is.
There are some bloggers who imagine their opinions matter – that they make a real difference, shift Earth’s axis. Those bloggers are idiots. One of these morons accuses me of paving the way for Andrew Scheer’s horde to take over this October. Apparently my “sniping” at their idol is meddling
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: And Now For Something to Cleanse the Palate of Your Mind
Climate change, Brexit, Jody and Jane, Justin Trudeau, the mentally defective Donald Trump and more – it’s all crap, utterly dispiriting crap. That’s when you need to cleanse the palate of your mind. Voila – the amazing, world record holding freediver, Guillame Nery in the magnificently spectacular short film, “One
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: If Russian Bombers Were Coming Over the North Pole
If Canada was under attack from a foreign power would we say, “oh, we must deal with that but in a way that doesn’t impact the economy”? I ask that because it’s akin to the excuse I get from Liberals about the Trudeau government’s grossly irresponsible actions on climate change.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Trump Is Losing His Marbles
There’s recently been a noticeable decline in Donald Trump’s mental faculties. Here’s one example when he repeatedly complains about the “oranges” of the Mueller investigation. Equally worrisome are two instances this week where Trump mentioned his New York born father, Fred, having come to America from Germany. It’s tempting to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: You Loved Him When He Tore into Stephen Harper. Probably Not So Much Now. Michael Harris Takes Justin to the Woodshed.
Corruption, the exercise of official powers without regard for the public good, exacts a monstrous cost on multiple levels. Michael Harris is at it again, casting bones and reading entrails, Justin Trudeau’s this time. He writes it’s not looking good for Canada’s prime minister. None of this needed to happen.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Was Wrong with Breaking Him on the Wheel?
Okay, fair enough, the wheel would be a bit excessive but an hour on the rack, that might have worked. In search of levity there’s a story of an Ontario scofflaw who has been banished from Prince Edward Island. Banishment? How quaintly medieval. An Ontario man has been banished from
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Hilarity Ensues in the House of Commons
A bit of stand up comedy in the House of Commons as the prime minister hosted a “Daughters of the Vote” gathering. A few of the attendees greeting Justin Trudeau by turning their backs on him. What if that catches on? The second clip shows the prime minister extolling diversity
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Crimes Against Humanity
Bear with me while I vent a little – no, a lot. If you want to measure the sincerity and determination of the government’s efforts to thwart climate change, try this: 1. – Remember that climate change is the first existential threat that human civilization, Canada included, has faced. It
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: So, When Does SNC-Lavalin Stand Trial?
Can you imagine if Cap’n “Cash for Access,” protector of every tax cheat in the KPMG/Isle of Man scheme, “Damn the climate, full speed ahead” pipeline builder and SNC-Lavalin benefactor got his new, and presumably much more compliant, A.G., Dave Lametti, to give the defendant a DPA parachute? Seriously, can
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: J W-R Is Out.
Jody Wilson-Raybould is been turfed from the Liberal caucus. Jody Wilson-Raybould says she’s been told by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that she is no longer a member of the Liberal caucus and will not be permitted to run under the party’s banner in the fall election. “I have just been
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A "National Emergency" – Who’s Kidding Whom?
Change is afoot. The latest report on climate change in Canada is unsettling. It’s even ominous. The only surprising part is that anyone would be surprised by the report or its findings. They closely mirror reports that we’ve been getting, at least weekly, for the past several years. The CBC’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Canada Rigged Brexit
James O’Brien, who hosts a call in show on LBC radio, London, explores how a furtive little company from Victoria, BC, AggregateIQ, helped the Leave campaign fix the Brexit referendum.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada Warming at Twice Global Rate
The federal government is scheduled to release a report tomorrow that concludes our Great White North is warming at twice the global rate. Don’t worry, we’ve got a carbon tax to fix that. Entitled Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR), the study was commissioned by the Environment and Climate Change Department,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Cambridge Analytica – "In the Beginning"
It began as a means to thwart Islamist recruitment. But then… Here is Chris Wylie describing how they built the technology that came to be diverted into the effort to skew Brexit and the 2016 American elections. What many don’t know is that Cambridge Analytica has its origins in another
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Wall Street Gets Climate Savvy
It’s the money, Honey. It has finally dawned on Wall Street that climate change comes with a price tag. From IBM and AccuWeather Inc. to outfits like Riskpulse, Jupiter and DTN, companies that track weather have created an intensely competitive new industry in just the last five years. Their client
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Carbon Taxes and Other Meaningless Gestures
The Liberal government’s carbon tax comes into effect today in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick. In those provinces, Ottawa will be levying new taxes on fossil fuels. Based on federal figures, the tax in the four non-compliant provinces will result in an approximate cost increase of 4.42 cents a
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