This one goes back a few years now… April 6, 2006 Thursday Final Edition SASKATCHEWAN: Mayor’s approval rating with felines is suspect BYLINE: The Star Phoenix Residents of a village in southern Saskatchewan may want to be on the lookout for a cat that’s got a definite taste for politics.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Relax, It’s All Recycled Pee Anyway
This Guy Not Only Drank Your Water First, He Made It. London’s Thames Water utility is polling city residents for their views on drinking recycled sewage water. It’s one solution being considered for a looming water shortage facing the British capital. London residents are being asked by the company for
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Humans: Too Invasive or Too Compassionate to Survive
In my last post, and elsewhere over the years, I went all Agent Smith and suggested that humans are a virus that can’t be contained. All other animals work within their environment to regulate their population. As long as people don’t mess things up by moving animals around (like bringing rabbits
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political…
This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political panel and again concluded that Canada must abolish its senate immediately. Abolish it now! There is no time for messing about. The dishonourable, fraud-committing senate serves no legitimate purpose in this day and age, and it’s debatable whether
Continue readingLeDaro: The Door To Hell: World’s Mysterious Places
“This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it
Continue readingLeDaro: The Door To Hell: World’s Mysterious Places
“This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5982…When Will It Be Dean Del Mastro’s Turn?
To face the music. This has dragged on for a long, long, looooooonnnng time. May be I will run into him at the Chinese buffet this week and I can ask him. WFDS
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: On Vancouver Island, Women Still Get a Taste of Frontier Justice
If you’re going to run afoul of the law on Vancouver Island, you had better hope and pray you’re not female. If a man is arrested in Victoria and goes before the court and his case is adjourned for a few days for a bail hearing, he arrives at the
Continue readingExcited Delirium: 100% Guarantee by 100% Corrupt Harper Government
It’s 100% time to put 100% of the 100% crooked and 100% corrupt Stephen Harper Conservatives behind their 100% publicly funded 100% privately owned prison system. I’m 100% astounded and 100% shocked that Peter Mackay would be 100% idiotic enough to offer a 100% guarantee concerning the cabinet seat for
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Nova Scotia votes – (not on) May 21
Teddy here to let you know CBC has opened up a NS votes page:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nsvotes2013/listing the vote date at May 21st. This comes as a surprise to me, as I have indeed been following NS to see when the election is, and this date seems too soon. I will investigate and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: And the Walls Come Tumbling Down
Another look at the century old and ongoing, lethal aftermath of the way Britain and France carved up the Middle East following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire post WWI. It’s a topic addressed here in several posts, the most recent just yesterday. We’re now witnessing the walls, built by
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5981…Manti T’e’o’s Girlfriend #69 On Maxim List
Maxim is a men’s rag that yearly puts out a list of what it considers to be the 100 best looking women in the world. Manti Te’o’ is a former linebacker for Notre Dame who was drafted by San Diego a few weeks ago. Even if you are not a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Daniel Boffey catches one of David Cameron’s top aides saying what most Cons leave as an unstated assumption: that recession and depressed wages are good for business (as long as “business” is defined only to mean short-term profits based on exploitation): The prime
Continue readingBuckdog: Sask Premier Brad Wall Hypes Job Creation Of ‘16,700 New Jobs’ In Last Year – Reality Is That 65% Were Temporary Foreign Workers …
The Hype ……. The Reality ……. “Saskatchewan may be creating thousands of new jobs, but most are held by migrant workers according to a recent study by the Canadian Labour Congress. Between 2008 and 2011, 65 per cent of “net new jobs created” were held by temporary foreign workers, the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: You Know a Guy’s Nuts When…
Let’s say you’ve got a neighbour and your neighbour has a really big bulldozer and your neighbour becomes fond of using that bulldozer late at night to dig seemingly random holes. Chances are that guy’s nuts. Port Angeles, Washington resident Barry Swegle is a logging contractor and, you guessed it,
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: May 12: 1000 women in Bangladesh…
1000 women in Bangladesh buried alive. They had been locked into a ramshackle building to ensure they would stay for their full, long work hours to ensure they really earned their $38 a month. And it collapsed. That should not have suprised anybody. Women have been abused, overworked, underpaid, crippled, killed
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is Trauma Counselling Actually Harmful?
It seems standard these days that survivors of traumatic incidents of man-made or natural disaster are quickly whisked into trauma counselling. It seems pretty intuitive – people are traumatized, people get counselling. A report from The Observer claims new studies show counselling can actually worsen mental health outcomes for trauma
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: But Would It Still be "Royal"?
This is what can happen when Conservatives become too full of themselves. Britain’s Conservative government is openly talking about privatizing the Royal Mail, a crown corporation, and not just going private with it but selling it to offshore buyers. [Britain’s business minister, Michael] Fallon said the government would sell Royal
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On distortions
Yes, there’s generally reason to be skeptical of corporate apologists trying to claim a populist, anti-corporate-welfare mantle while pushing for business to contribute less and less to society as a whole. But even if we weren’t going to hold that skepticism against the Fraser Institute’s Mark Milke, there are two
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