No one was actually charged or convicted of anything. That’s because the crimes contested in the mock trial this week in Britain’s Supreme Court aren’t on the books – not yet at least.The trial was a means to demonstrate the proposed crime …
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The Disaffected Lib: Lomborg’s Lolly Cut Off
Denmark’s climate change enfant terrible, Bjorn Lomborg, is getting booted off the dole. The economist turned climate change denier had been receiving handouts of about $1.5-million a year from Denmark’s former rightwing government. &n…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Libya’s Missing Missiles
The good news is that the new guys in Libya have accounted for about 15,000 SA-7 missiles from Gaddafi’s arsenal. The bad news is that Gaddafi was known to have 20,000 of the damned things and no one seems to have any idea where the missing…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Wisdom of the Great – George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a lit…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Monster is Dead. Clifford Olson Is No More.
Cancer has finally erased Clifford Olson from the ranks of mankind. The serial child killer died this afternoon in a Quebec hospital.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: News From the Begging Bowl
Just got the word from Ralph Goodale. The LPC Deputy Leader suggests if the party can just get another $50-grand by midnight, they’ll be able to send an even stronger message to the Cons and NDP that the Libs “won’t be pushed around ever ag…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Supreme Court of Canada Backs Insite
Vancouver’s safe injection site has been saved from Harper’s attempts to shut it down. The Supreme Court of Canada has held that not allowing the clinic to operate would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.The Court stopped short of …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Defective Government on Both Sides of the Atlantic
All too often these days we’re visited with the consequences of defective government. By defective government I mean the weak leadership incapable of taking the hard decisions necessary to benefit the country and future generations. D…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Tar Sands on Trial
Should ecocide join the ranks of crimes against humanity? The Brits are debating that at the moment.should the bosses of polluting companies and the leaders of environmentally-unfriendly states join those responsible for mass murder in th…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Radical Religious Conservatism Has Little Place for the Real World
I keep trying to believe the radical religious right isn’t a threat but that isn’t working.A study just released by Baylor University goes a long way to explaining the twisted thinking of our exalted Ruler, Steve Harper. It suggests that fundamen…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Climate Change – Harper Has It Covered. Okay, You Can Cry Now
Don’t worry, be happy. The Harper government knows all about climate change and it’s got that one covered according to Steve’s Envirostooge Peter Kent.Kent was reacting to a government report warning that climate change could cost Canadians…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Don’t Be Calling Me for Money
As a former Liberal I’m finding the “ex” part is being overlooked these days. Whenever the Libs pass the begging bowl I can expect to get an e-mail about it.What I don’t understand is exactly what the Libs have done that would warrant me, a…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: I’m Okay With It, the Rio Grande Norte
The Americans are talking about fencing off part of the Canada-US border. Their term is “selective fencing.” The US Customs & Border Protection Agency is canvassing local governments from Maine to Washington state for their input….
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: This Seems to Surprise Americans – In Canada, Blacks are as Healthy as Whites
In Canada, white people are no healthier than our black people. When I read that my reaction was, “well, duh.” Why would a Canadian achieve different health outcomes based on race? Well apparently what we mi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Healthcare in America – a Tale of Feast or Famine
We’re all familiar with the accounts of America’s healthcare “have nots,” the tens of millions who get by with no health insurance and the hundreds of millions who are vulnerable to partial health insurance or capricious insurance companies.  …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Before You Slam Shut Your Mind on Nuclear Power, Read This
It’s a reflection of how little most of us know about nuclear power generation that we fell apoplectic at the Fukushima reactor disaster. The tragedy of Fukushima is if we allow an accident caused by a tsunami at an aged, “first generation”…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is It Anarchy When Our Elected Leaders Do It?
I’ve always understood “anarchy” by its dictionary definition as a state of political or social disorder resulting from absence of government control. My layman’s grasp of the concept was of some wresting of government control by a gang of, well,…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Here! Earth Overshoot Day has Arrived.
Nothing to celebrate, actually. Today is estimated to be the day on which mankind has consumed the entire stocks of renewable resources our planet will generate this year. Today is Earth Overshoot Day.As the graph shows, we’re e…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Far Will Obama Grovel?
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to be weighing “punitive” measures against the Palestinian Authority for having the temerity to seek statehood from the United Nations.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is evaluating Israel’s n…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is Obama Buying Netanyahu Time to Finish Annexing the West Bank?
“Not now” is Barack Obama’s answer to the Palestinian Authority’s appeal for statehood. It’s hardly unexpected coming from a feeble executive who can’t even get basic legislation passed through his own unruly Congress. The Republican’s will…
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