In the States, that crazed pack of screaming ideologues known as the Tea Party only hate one thing more than the idea that a black man named Barack Obama could be their President and that’s his paltry industry supporting attempt to provide all Americans with healthcare. A plan that subsidizes
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Making Easter Eggs Today with Natural Dyes
One of the pleasant memories of my childhood is dying Easter eggs. When the kids were small, we did it too, frequently with friends who’d share an Easter dinner with us on Good Friday or Saturday and who had kids too. But when everyone grew up I put that aside.
Continue readingThomas "Karate Chop" Mulcair
I was looking at Canadian political websites and the header banner of the NDP site looked funny to me so I decided to edit it a bit. (click the images for full size) Here's the original: Here's the my take on it :
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Christy Clark Must Go
Of course Christy Clark must resign. It’s not going to get better as time passes. I would be the last to say that the entire problem is of her doing – she was handed a poisoned chalice by Gordon Campbell who is the ultimate Teflon man; he pays nothing for
Continue readingCo2 Art: Wildrose Tainted by Association with Harperism?
Danielle Smith: A wildflower blooming virtuous and free on the Prairie… or a programed-from-youth apparatchik of big oil corporatocracy and U.S. Republicanism? A legitimate enough question. If only it were the only question. The problem for Wildrose is that the federal Conservatives are not only their ideological “soulmates”. The Conservatives
Continue readingCo2 Art: Wildrose Tainted by Association with Harperism?
Danielle Smith: A wildflower blooming virtuous and free on the Prairie… or a programed-from-youth apparatchik of big oil corporatocracy and U.S. Republicanism? A legitimate enough question. If only it were the only question. The problem for Wildrose is that the federal Conservatives are not only their ideological “soulmates”. The Conservatives
Continue readingCo2 Art: Wildrose Tainted by Association with Harperism?
Danielle Smith: A wildflower blooming virtuous and free on the Prairie…or a programed-from-youth apparatchik of big oil corporatocracy and U.S. Republicanism?A legitimate enough question.If only it were the only question.The problem for Wildrose is t…
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: #FF – Follow Friday – Holiday Guest Blogger Edition
So, in case you haven’t noticed, Here and Here, I’m pretty riled up about the recent Federal Government decision to cut Katimavik. I think the conduct of the Conservatives have proven to be ideological, small and pathetic. But, as we all know, I never did Katimavik (I did Canada World
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: My $2 billion on F-35: How much really? and Why?
First, that figure the auditor general has been talking about, that $25 billion. While it’s a useful number to know about as a demonstration the Cons were hiding things, we shouldn’t take it as a serious guide to how much the damn things would cost. Sure, it’s a figure for
Continue readingQuotable: Arundhati Roy on the ghosts of capitalism
“Though capitalism is meant to be based on competition, those at the top of the food chain have also shown themselves to be capable of inclusiveness and solidarity. The great Western Capitalists have done business with fascists, socialists, despots and military dictators. They can adapt and constantly innovate. They are
Continue readingThe Pantsafire Chronicles: special edition
“There is no moving on from a lie this big.” So concludes a magnificent article by Postmedia journo Michael Den Tandt about the F-35 scandal, although the word “scandal” in this instance seems utterly insufficient. It doesn’t begin to cover the duplicity involved, the deep political corruption, the incompetence and
Continue readingcartoon life: Ocean view #17
Interestingly, from here on to the end, the quality of the images changes. These are references from photographs, whereas the previous images were drawn in situ, live, plein air. Filed under: art, digital, painting Tagged: art, ocean, painting, seascape, water
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
Jason Kenney edition. Is Jason Kenney Canada’s Joseph McCarthy? I think so… OTTAWA — New Democratic Party MP Don Davies says it never occurred to him when he innocuously snapped a photo at an anti-racism march in Vancouver last month that he would suddenly become the latest target in an
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Line Beauchamp,
Why would you offer a proposal to Quebec students that would place them in further debt, and then claim that you knew the students would reject the proposal? Is that not a waste of time, especially when one considers that the student boycott is costing taxpayers $104,000 an hour (or
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: A moral argument against the war on drugs
Brazilian police patrol a favela in Rio De Janiero. EPA/Marcelo Sayao Former Brazilian President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, has argued that the war on drugs has failed and cannabis should be decriminalised. He argued that the hardline approach has brought “disastrous” … Continue reading →
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Tuning out CBC’s tears Brian Lilley
Columnist says that CBC’s new online music service and the fact that it broadcasts in Mandarin and Arabic, are indications that the public broadcaster still receives too much money.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Alberta Votes Day 12: Who says a 40 year old government can’t come up with new ideas?
Raj Sherman delivers perhaps the best line of the campaign so far: ‘Alison Redford Invents Triage’ Alberta’s Tory leader has announced money for faster treatment in emergency rooms, but the Grit leader — an ER physician — says the program is already in place. Tory Leader Alison Redford said patients
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Hard Sell
Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor keep digging. This morning, in the Ottawa Citizen, they report that: A training manual used by call-centre workers soliciting donations for the Conservative Party outlines high-pressure tactics designed to overcome the objections of pensioners, widowers and the unemployed to raise money for the party. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Muscial Interude – So Happy Together – The Piano Guys
Skydiving with a cello = Awesome. “Happy Together” is a 1967 song from The Turtles‘ album of the same name. Released in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles‘ “Penny Lane” out of the #1 slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It was the group’s only chart-topper.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: CBC Truculence: Too Little, Too Late
About a year ago, I lamented the fact that the CBC, through Peter Mansbridge, seemed to be following a policy of appeasement toward the Harper government, probably in the forlorn hope of avoiding further decimation of its funding. Quite predictably, as we learned last week, that policy has proven to
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