heartland logo.jpg President Joe Bast Dodges Responsibility – for Now It’s been a month since the Heartland Institute was caught in a St. Valentine’s Day Striptease – inadvertently exposing its entire budget and fundraising plan. Yet an objective analysis of the resulting internet and mainstream media coverage has to credit Heartland’s
Continue readingThe Vagina Ideologues
Oh joy, rapture and crapture! More excited delirium from the “Government-Small-Enough-to-Crawl-Up-Your-Vagina-and-Police-Your-Uterus” crowd: Conservative Arizona lawmakers hope Arizona will join a handful of other states in banning most abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, as proposed in House Bill 2036. House Bill 2800, which would strip Planned Parenthood of federal funds
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: tories scramble into damage control mode over no-work committee pay.
Alberta MLA's are scrambling to control the monster that has become the "Pay for No Work Committee." Scrambling to balance damage control with party unity on the eve of an election call, MLA’s in Premier Alison Redford‘s Tory caucus are returning pay earned over the past six months from the Standing
Continue readingChow Down . . . .
Now for a break from our regularly scheduled program: Hungry now ? ? ? ? Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Therefore, God?
My daughter was just telling me about the Singularity philosophy and others of the “I can’t understand it, therefore God?” ilk — and I was somehow reminded of The Philosophers’ Song:
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservative MP: "Federal Funding at all time high!"
This is a recent mail-out from fiscal Conservative MP Ryan Leef: “Federal Funding at all time high!” Don’t let the headline fool you, in the flyer he goes on to argue for the small government we have all begun to associate with Conservatives. Mr.Leef promises to cut cold temperatures in
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alberta election 2012: ian urquhart for senate.
Ian Urquhart for Senate Bringing some political diversity to the race, University of Alberta Political Science Professor Ian Urquhart has announced that he will run as an Independent candidate in the upcoming Senator-in-Waiting election. Active with the Alberta Wilderness Association, Dr. Urquhart is the first openly centre-left candidate to join the contest. His candidacy gives
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
Source: National Post: Robocalls: Who is Rick McKnight? An interesting story, that so far the main-stream media has left alone; I’d like to imagine that it’s to do some fact checking and further digging into the issue, but who knows. This isn’t a smoking gun by far, but it does
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Government Already Lying About New Audit That Hasn’t Even Been Published Yet?
Okay, before I go on, let me just say that this has become commonplace under the Harper regime. Nevertheless, the rest of the media is sagely playing dumb about the blatant illegalities at work here, so I’m going to play equally conveniently dumb going the other direction. As you will
Continue readingConvention Predictions
I’ll do a more detailed post about who my actual pics for leader are, but right now I’m going to share my predictions. 1. Thomas Mulcair will win on the 5th ballot. 2. Nathan Cullen (who was my first choice) will place a strong second. 3. Brian Topp really won’t
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4365…In A Country Full Of Crappy Places To Live
Ottawa came out number one. Our mayor Jim Watson was so happy, excited, ecstatic about the whole thing you would think he was hitting a porn star on a regular basis. My sources tell me he is not. Regina came number five. The city motto is “Come for the weather;
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4364…Whither Tim Tebow Goeth
Geez I hope I got that correct spelling wise or else Richard Schimelfenig of Delaware will be all over my case. Nonetheless if you care about these things you know that Peyton Manning, the Manning QB with one Super Bowl ring, is off to Denver, five years and 95 million,
Continue readingU.S. doctor urges colleagues not to perform transvaginal ultrasounds
Guest Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds – Whatever: ‘via Blog this’ It is our responsibility, as always, to protect our patients from things that would harm them. Therefore, as physicians, it is our duty to refuse to perform a medical procedure that is not medically indicated. Any medical procedure.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats bound for the floor.
Continue readingcmkl: Don Drummond, meet Hugh Mackenzie
Then take your stupid report and chuck it. The CCPA has published a new hunk of PDF by economist Hugh Mackenzie which slices and dices the Drummond report’s fiscal forecast and portrays it as a crisis-invention tool. I hate PDFs too, but I think it’s important enough to have a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Audio: Simi Sara, Damien Gillis Talk Private Power, Fish Kills and Enbridge
Listen to this interview of Damien Gillis by CKNW’s Simi Sara on recent revelations that so-called run of the river projects are killing fish. The two also discuss Provincial Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Steve Thomson’s appearance on Sara’s show this past Friday and the complete lack
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-03-20 21:49:00
CANADIAN POLITICS: DEFEND OUR SOCIAL HOUSING: True to form our present federal Conservative government is quite content to see funding for “social housing” (co-op, non-profit and public housing) gradually wither away as the following article demonstrates. The Harperites must be particularily happy that this is a trend inherited from previous
Continue readingBlunt Objects: "The lower-downs don’t get a choice."
Uh… I like BCL, a lot. Great blogger, great addition to the LPC family. But really? “A merger of parties has to be like a merger of companies. The lower-downs don’t get a choice.” I get his point in context – talking about how those deeper within the party ranks tend
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Obert Madondo’s Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Day 7 Update
This journal entry covers days 6 and 7 (March 19 & 20) of my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives’ draconian Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10). I started the peaceful protest at 12:01am … Continue reading →
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: GWPF & The Hockey Stick Curve
gwpf_0.jpeg The previous post in this series examined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Briefing Paper No3 "The Truth About Greenhouse Gases". Despite its title, Briefing Paper No3 said very little about such gases. Yet one subject (not directly to do with greenhouse gases) was discussed at some length within
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