A mustache to die for
The things that worry religious fundamentalists never fail to amaze and amuse me. For example, Muslim fundamentalists have threatened to kill Malik Afridi because of his mustache. Admittedly, Mr. Afridi’s version of the handlebar is rather extravagant, but considering that the fundamentalists are big on facial hair themselves, you might
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Time magazine writer Michael Grunwald celebrates in the possible violent death of Julian Assange
Wingers hate Julian Assange because he threatens the contrived security of the USA. But this from a Time magazine writer goes beyond the pale. No wonder he deleted it post-haste. Time magazine must be so proud. After all, Grunwald is only painting the rag’s true colours. UPDATE: Just to be
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Saturday Night Special: On Friday Night News Dumps, Lamar Alexander’s Shirts, And Other Weighty Matters
I love Rachel Maddow. Some of the reasons for my ardour are on display in the following video from her show. Enjoy. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Recommend this Post
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Sunday’s Sun: abolish the Senate. Then abolish journalists in the Senate.
The revelations about Sen. Pamela Wallin — and her apparent willingness to use the treasury as her personal piggy bank — will get folks talking again about abolishing the Senate. And that’s good. The Senate is an anti-democratic abomination. And, as everyone from the federal NDP to the Ontario Liberals
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Not-so-unlikely-alliance: US/Canada right wing and Vladimir Putin
With Russia’s blatant homophobia making headlines in North America, right wingers north and south of the border are giddy with barely-guarded admiration for the barely-veiled tyrant leader of Russia. Now, the far right has even more admiration for Putin as the Breitartians are breathlessly reporting an anonymous (of course) Egyptian
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The NDP: Moderates not Socialists
Many Canadians simply will not consider voting for the NDP and one of the most common reasons for this provided, either explicitly or implicitly, is that the NDP are socialists, or at least far left nutters. While there is undoubtedly any number of more legitimate reasons to not support the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Israel Wants Amended Deal on American Arms
Israel and the U.S. are renegotiating their 30-billion dollar weapons (military aid) deal. Israel wants a clause in the amended deal that commits the U.S. to maintaining Israel’s QME or “qualitative military edge.” They won’t come out and say it in so many words but Israeli officials want America to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Advice For Mark Steyn: If You Are Serious
…lose the beard and ditch the fruity, fake Brit accent. Yankees don’t want to hear that shit. Its OK when you’re playing an intellectual come to lecture them on their colonial inferiority. But if you want to lead ’em, you’ll have to learn to talk white. You’ll also have to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Retired Marine Colonel Warns of America’s Covert Domestic Army
Homeland Security is pre-staging a massive para-military force, a domestic army being assembled because the government fears the people.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Binge-watching The Wire
“ We’ve been binge-watching The Wire lately — didn’t see it when it first came out, but all the episodes are available on our Shaw box so we’ve been watching two or three a night. Now we can see why people have said its the greatest TV series ever broadcast. Great
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Hedges’ Empire of Illusion
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” – James Baldwin Thus begins Chris Hedges‘ Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Con Porky Action Plan Ads Pulled for Fraud !!!!!
As if Stephen Harper's foul Porky Action Plan ads weren't annoying enough. Especially since we're paying for them. Now it turns out his newest ones are being pulled because they are FRAUDULENT !!! A Harper government advertisement touting a jobs program that does not yet exist has been pulled from the airwaves and
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: CNRL Cold Lake Bitumen Seepage Hits 1.2 Million Litres, Reports AER
The ongoing trouble on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range in North Eastern Alberta, where oil company Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) has numerous in situ oil recovery sites, has yet to show signs of abatement. Underground oil spills on CNRL’s Primrose facility have been leaking bitumen emulsion into the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Let’s Not Be Too Quick to Do Harper’s Bidding – Again
Stephen Harper’s overarching goal since he signed up with the Reform Party has been to shift Canada’s political centre far and permanently to the right. With the collaboration of the Liberals, now Conservative-Lites, and the NDP, now Latter Day Liberals, Harper has succeeded handsomely. A secondary goal was to change
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Mine’s CEO to meet with Tahltan elders in Sacred Headwaters over eviction notice
Fortune Minerals CEO Robin Goad is reportedly flying into the Sacred Headwaters, in northwest BC, for an emergency discussion this evening with elders of the Tahltan Nation. The 5 pm meeting will address the eviction notice issued by a group of 30 or more Tahltan elders, referring to themselves as
Continue readingI have met the enemy and they ain’t all capitalists
I am no fan of capitalism. An economic system based on greed and founded in patriarchal values is flawed at its roots. But the tendency of so many on the left to blame all our problems on capitalists is simplistic, unfair and false. It is scapegoating. Despite the system, like
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The New World Disorder or How the West Must Learn to Live With Planet Chaos
It seems that not a day passes without news of some bombing in Iraq or massacre in Afghanistan, atrocities in Syria and Sudan and Somalia. Now we watch Egypt transform into the latest charnel house of brutal misery and despair. And these are just the nations that still make our
Continue readingLeDaro: More videos from Egypt -Mayham
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT U.S self-interest and why it will not interfere to stop Egyptian military from massacring the civilians.WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is heavily dependent on Egypt to move personnel and equipment to Afghanistan and around volatile parts of the Middle East, complicating U.S. efforts to place pressure on
Continue readingffibs: In the end they are all just..
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