In last night’s debate, Mitt Romney said, as governor of Massachusetts he looked around and noticed a distinct lack of women in senior positions. So he went to women’s groups to seek their help. “And — and so we — we took a concerted effort to go out and find
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The Disaffected Lib: Romney Fun Time
Among Mitt Romney’s gaffes in the second debate was his remark about “binders full of women.” When the subject of helping women achieve pay equity came up, Mittsy dodged the subject by talking about his days as Massachusetts governor. According to the latest Romney fable, he asked a women’s group
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Here’s Lil’ Stevie
This shouldn’t come as a surprise but here’s Rick Mercer’s take on the dickhead we know as Steve Harper Yeah, it’s Lil’ Steve and, yes, he’s a dildo. CBC “comedian” Rick Mercer has painted the face of Canada’s 22nd prime minister on a wooden penis. The piece of “art” is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Costs of Keeping Cool
North Americans had a tough and expensive time keeping cool over the summer. A prolonged heat wave coupled with sustained drought (that continues in many places) drove demand for plenty of air conditioning. Know how much electricity Americans, in a normal year, consume for cooling? More than the entire electrical
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada’s Outrageous Geoengineering Scam
The Harper government knew of Russ George’s plan to seed the waters off the Queen Charlotte Islands with a hundred tons of iron sulphate. The Harper government also knew that this was the very sort of geoengineering experiment in ocean fertilization that is banned by the UN’s convention on biological
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Your Boot, Government Ass – Insert
Interesting and timely observation from EnviroCan climatologist David Phillips. He says it’s time for the public to ensure their government authorities are planning for climate change. “The insurance industry is absolutely convinced that what they are seeing is the result of climate change. Since 2000 they are paying out gobs
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Dalai Lama Calls for Climate Change Action by All World Leaders, Even Ours
Maybe Steve Harper should stop taking orders from his Beijing mandarins long enough to listen to the Dalai Lama. Speaking at MIT, the Dalai Lama warned that every nation will suffer if leaders don’t recognize common interests and responsibilities in responding to climate change. “Whether we can really solve these
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Think You’re Creative? No, You’re Just Sick
I’m not sure this will come as a surprise but there’s a link between creativity and mental illness. It’s no coincidence that so many great comedians, for example, are or have been manic-depressives. Now a study of more than a million subjects finds that creativity is often an actual part
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Women Are "Too Diabolical" to Vote
That remark actually came from a woman, Tea Party leader Janis Lane, a former marketing manager who is now the Central Mississippi Tea Party president. Okay, now brace yourself. “Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting. There is nothing worse than a bunch
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: That Other Pole – the Antarctic Is Also Changing Fast
In the northern hemisphere our focus is primarily on the Arctic and the vanishing sea ice. Australians tend to focus on their backyard, the Antarctic, and they’re being warned that change is rapidly spreading. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) told a Senate estimates hearing today “rapid changes” taking place across
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Olive Grove War Re-Ignites
How do you steal a Palestinian’s land? It usually begins by destroying his olive groves. Destroy his livelihood and then you can claim the land unoccupied and build a settlement. It’s the olive harvest on the West Bank and, true to form, Israeli settlers with the help of the Israeli
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: You Can’t Open the Door If You Won’t Pick Up the Key
The keys to a Liberal comeback are at their feet. What remains doubtful is that they’ll ever pick them up. Canada is facing a few enormous challenges. Let’s call them, in the political context, “issues.” Political parties either take up issues or treat them as non-issues. It’s a matter of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Inequality is Monkey Business
Even monkeys know inequality is just plain wrong
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: San Fransiscans Hit the Beach to Dump Citizens United
A picture is worth a thousand words, at least when it’s a photo of an estimated thousand people who gathered on a San Fransisco beach to call for the end of Citizens United and the corporatization of American democracy.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Suckers!!!
Like the autumn leaves, the myths about the F-35 stealth light bomber are finally falling. Now it’s beginning to emerge that the F-35 may just be the warplane our potential adversaries want us to buy. As Travis Sharp, an analyst with the Centre for a New American Security puts it,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Tough Chewing for Sunday Brunch
Pop a Zantac and try to digest McMaster prof Henry Giroux’s lament on the Disappearance of Public Intellectuals. Here are a few excerpts: As a theater of cruelty and mode of public pedagogy, economic Darwinism removes economics and markets from the discourse of social obligations and social costs. The results
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Climate Change In Our Own Backyards
When global warming impacts come up, it’s often focused on vanishing Arctic Ocean ice or retreating glaciers or tropical islands inundated by sea level rise. But global warming at home? Not so much. Yet there are windows into what’s happening in our own backyards in the temperate zone. The Boston
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will the Opposition Stand Up for Canada?
The NDP and the Libs should be storming the Bastille over Harper’s Canada-China Trade Agreement and Harper’s craven sell out of our country. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk calls it “economic treason.” The one politician we can rely on to sound the alarm, Elizabeth May, exposes the venal duplicity of Harper’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Economist Pleads for "Radical Centrist Politics"
The ordinarily conservative magazine, The Economist, is calling for radical political reform, what it calls “true progressivism.” One reason why Wall Street accounts for a disproportionate share of the wealthy is the implicit subsidy given to too-big-to-fail banks. From doctors to lawyers, many high-paying professions are full of unnecessary restrictive
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