It’s such a bitch being well off in an affluent homeland. Just as these folks:
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The Disaffected Lib: Doom And Gloom – The Stones Return
They’re not going anywhere, not yet at least. The Stones return to celebrate their 50th year of rock and roll. Doom and Gloom.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Who Says Shit Like This? Oh yeah, …Republicans – Again
“Some Girls Rape Easy” Wisconsin state representative Roger Rivard says his pappy taught him to be wary of “consensual” sex because “some girls rape easy.” “He told the Journal Sentinel that his father had advised him not to have premarital sex, and he took that seriously. ‘He also told me
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Those Damned Vikings and Their Carbon Taxes
What’s wrong with those backwater pinkos in longboats? Don’t they know that socialism doesn’t work? Can’t they get it through their Scandinavian skulls that they’re supposed to be dying off prematurely in poverty? Apparently not. Not only are the Norse awash in Kroner that they’re setting aside for future generations,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35, A Nuclear Strike Bomber?
Surprise, surprise – the F-35 is being designed with a nuclear weapons capability. Presumably even Steve Harper hasn’t got the guts to add a nuclear arsenal to Canada’s military establishment but, with that guy, there’s no telling. A nuclear capability on such a range-limited warplane suggests one thing – nuclear
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Youngest Old Man in the Liberal Party
The Ottawa Citizen’s Sue Riley looks at Justin Trudeau and sees the youngest old man in a Liberal Party full of old men. …The Liberal leadership hopeful’s much-anticipated launch speech last week was disappointingly banal. He ran through the familiar Liberal checklist: a nod to strength in diversity, the Charter
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: To the Big Picture, Does the White House Matter?
A substantial majority of Canadians want to see Barack Obama re-elected. Why? To be sure, the Republican offerings of late have been unpopular here and pretty much around the world, Israel perhaps excepted. It could be that Ike was last truly popular conservative president of the United States on the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Who Says Shit Like This? Oh Yeah, …Republicans.
If Barack Obama has achieved nothing else, he has fundamentally disproved the notion of a post-segregationist America. Even before the Obama family moved into the White House the floodgates of blatant racism opened. The latest degenerate is Arkansas Republican lawmaker Jon Hubbard who has just written a book, “Letters to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will the Country that Gave the World Democracy, Lose Its Own?
The prime minister of Greece warns his country is on the verge of becoming the next Wiemar Republic. Antonis Samaras is appealing for funds to fend off the outright collapse of Greek society. “Greek democracy stands before what is perhaps its greatest challenge,” Samaras told the German business daily Handelsblatt
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: I’m Not Like My Father – J. Trudeau
When it comes right down to it, Justin Trudeau really has just one thing going for him, his youth. It’s sad that he doesn’t seem to want that getting in his way. Trudeau showed he’s simply a younger version of the traditional, celo-packaged Liberal hack when he hemmed and hawed
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Living Beneath the Drones Overhead
The villagers hear them. They know the distinctive buzzing sound of the American drones patrolling overhead that the villagers call “mosquitoes.” The US missile-attacks destroy militant training compounds and cars but they also hit mosques, homes, religious schools and civilian vehicles. I witnessed the fear, stress and depression this causes
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Jeffrey Simpson Pronounces Northern Gateway D.O.A.
Globe & Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson writes that the Enbridge/Harper/China Northern Gateway pipeline proposal is dead – stone cold dead. To survive, the Gateway pipeline would have to push past the growing opposition of British Columbians in general, the opposition of the current Liberal provincial government and the NDP government
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: God Save the Queen
Neil Young, bless him, recorded this ode to HM
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: NATO Went to War for America, Why Not Turkey?
Like the United States, Turkey is a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Article 5 of the NATO charter obliges all members to come to the aid of any other member under attack. For the second day running, Turkey has received artillery barrages fired by Syrian government forces.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Fighting Corruption with Vitamins
Malnutrition is a huge problem in Afghanistan. One-fifth of Afghan kids are malnourished and that increases to one-third in combat zones. 60 per cent of children under five are stunted. Tens of billions of dollars of foreign aid flows into Afghanistan but much of that disappears into the gaping maw
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is Your Cell Phone Giving Away All Your Secrets?
Privacy? That’s a thing of the past. The Surveillance State is the new reality and, barring massive government intervention, it’s here to stay. How are you liking that fancy Android cell phone? Don’t bother answering that, we already know. Taxpayer-funded programs have created malware for Android smartphones that can remotely
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Connecticut Court Aquits Rapist Because Victim Couldn’t Scream
Yeah, you heard that right. The Connecticut Supreme Court, by a 4 to 3 vote, overturned the sexual assault conviction of a man who allegedly raped a woman who “has severe cerebral palsy, has the intellectual functional equivalent of a 3-year-old and cannot verbally communicate.” The court held that Connecticut
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Giant Tar Sands Lakes for Athabasca
Big Oil has figured out it’s way too expensive to fill in their bitumen mines with soil and far, far cheaper to simply transform them into lakes. Here’s the kicker. Big Oil says we’ll have to wait for several generations to find out whether these lakes turn into pristine ponds
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Right Will Howl Tonight
Income inequality seems to have sprung up as a hot issue in the American elections. With a consummate rent-seeker, Mitt Romney, carrying the Republican banner, America’s crippling inequality – income, wealth and opportunity – was bound to bubble to the surface. Today’s American Right (no, they’re not conservatives) has reacted
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Watts, Charlie Watts
This is about as close as you can hope to get to the Stones’ epic drummer, Charlie Watts. In Old Gods, Nearly Dead, the narrative goes on at some length how Richards, Jones and Jagger knew, like all their rivals knew, that the band that could score that great jazz
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