I’ve coined a new word, Mormonstrosity, to refer to the unfit-for-prime-time, Republican presidential candidate, Mitch Romney. My creative instincts were piqued when I read of Romney’s assertion that, “Syria is Iran’s only ally in the Arab world. It’s their route to the sea. It’s the route for them to arm
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The Disaffected Lib: Clark Kent Defies Corporate Media, Quits Daily Planet
Superman has had it with the corporate media. Faced with the takeover of the Daily Planet by a conglomerate, Clark Kent has quit and may turn to blogging instead. “Why am I the one sounding like a grizzled ink-stained wretch who believes news should be about, I don’t know, news?”
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Shit Republicans Say – or Music to Rex Murphy’s Ears?
Mitt Romney endorses Republican Indiana senate candidate Richard Mourdock. And Romney isn’t budging even though Mourdock contends that rape is no cause for abortion because, if the victim becomes pregnant, that’s god’s will. P.S. Be sure to get out to the UBC campus to catch Rex Murphy denounce secularism.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: At Least His God Has a Sense of Humour
The Newfie Screech has descended on the University of British Columbia. Noneother than T-Rex Murphy has crossed the country to deliver a 3-part lecture at Regent College, UBC’s evangelical graduate school. Murphy will preach to the choir – three times, count’em three – about the evils of secularists, how they’re
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Grounds for Divorce
Is Steve Harper trying to engineer the breakup of Canada? That might be just what the prime ministerial bully boy accomplishes with his closet trade deal with China. The deal, that no decent Canadian, emphasis on decent, would ever accept may be Harper’s way to endow China with the leverage
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Haida’s Lousy Eco-Bet
Read between the lines in the financing agreement between the Haida and the North Coast Credit Union and it appears the Old Massett Village council’s $2.5-million gambit was a scheme to generate lucrative carbon credits to flog on world markets. Too bad the band council and their partner, controversial carbon
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper Government Winging It With Canada’s Future
The Auditor General has slammed the Harper regime for spending tens of billions of dollars without cabinet, much less Parliament, knowing the long-term consequences. In his fall 2012 report released Tuesday, Auditor General Michael Ferguson concluded the Department of Finance Canada often does not take into account the impact of tens
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: My High School Projects Were Never Like This
Hold onto your hat. The history of everything in two minutes by Zack Hemsey.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Defending What’s Ours
The police didn’t intervene. From the comments of Victoria’s deputy police chief, Del Manak, it actually sounded as if the cops were on side with the demonstrators. “It’s a peaceful, vocal protest and we don’t want to get in the way of sending a strong message to government.” Victoria police
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What a Romney America Could Look Like
Wanna see something scary? BusinessInsider.com has a thorough rundown on how Mitt Romney would change America into a country of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. It’s an eye opener.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Who Says Israel is an Apartheid State? Why, a Majority of Israelis, That’s Who.
Two-thirds of Israeli Jews want Palestinians denied the vote if their country annexes the West Bank. Three out of four are in favour of segregated roads for Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, and 58% believe Israel already practises apartheid against Palestinians, the poll found. A third want Arab
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: This Is My Mecca
I make it pretty plain that I’m a biker. I had my first serious crash in, I think, 1965. ’75, ’85, ’95, ’05, what is it now, 2012? I’ve ridden Europe, N. Africa, most of N. America, a hunk of Central America and a gaggle of island states most of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Only 44?
Only 44? That was my first reaction to the announcement that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had agreed to send 44 observers from its human rights office to monitor America’s elections this year. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP and the ACLU, among
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: BC’ers Turn Out to Say No to Northern Gateway.
Organizers of the Defend Our Coast protest were hoping a thousand people would turn up outside the BC legislature to say “no” to the bitumen pipelines and supertanker initiative. The weather was anything but helpful – unduly cold and wet. But they turned out, thousands of them, and stood in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: More Trouble for Old Massett Village
They say it was a salmon restoration project. The banking documents suggest it was really about flogging lucrative carbon credits. “It” was the dumping of 200,000 pounds of iron sulphide in the Pacific off the Queen Charlotte Islands. The council of the Old Massett Village band borrowed $2.5-million for the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Against Our Will, Without Our Consent
The only thing Steve Harper can count on if he tries to ram through the Northern Gateway pipeline/supertanker project is a united British Columbia determined to stop him. Even our unelected/unelectable/outgoing premier, Crispy Clark, knows what awaits Harper. “Heaven forbid, it would be a national political crisis. Whether or not
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Suzuki On the Broader Issue at Stake in the Northern Gateway Battle
David Suzuki and the executive director of Coastal First Nations, Art Sterritt, write in today’s Globe and Mail that the upswelling of opposition among British Columbians to Harper’s Northern Gateway initiative is about far more than just pipelines. However hopeful it is to see everyone looking closely at pipelines and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Conrad Black Calls Rupert Murdoch a "Psychopath"
Former Canadian media mogul Conrad Black has never concealed his contempt for his Aussie contemporary, Rupert Murdoch. But now Connie has really dropped the gloves. “He’s a psychopath … like Stalin, except that he doesn’t kill people,” Lord Black was quoted in The Independent newspaper. “I’m not suggesting he’s a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Petty Can Israel Get
Last week ambitious students around the world took the SAT, or scholastic aptitude test, their ticket to a chance at a good education and a bright future. Students around the world except for Palestinian students that is. It seems the Israelis received the exams for the Palestinian kids and withheld
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: If You Consider Yourself Progressive, You Need to Watch Where Your Future Could Be Headed
Sure, it’s the United States. But Canada is lashed tightly to its gunwales. And we’re taking on water. You need to watch this.
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