As usual, the usual suspects want YOU to go back to sleep. Catering to the uneducated, the ideologues and the tin foil hatters. Because in Coren-land, all is a Librul conspiracy meant to make the Conservatives look bad. And ADSCAM. Also. Talk about personal responsibility. It’s always someone elses fault
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon – The Waiting Game Is Rigged To Lose
The full exchange is on my Black Knight post. D.I.D. writes: If we revert to mob mentality and, like the French Jacobins, call for the King’s head, then we are no better than Harper and his political mafia. I think we have to start shaking some trees already, to see
Continue readingHappy birthday, Douglas Adams
Today is Douglas Adams’ 60th birthday. Or it would be if he hadn’t been thoughtless enough to die in May of 2001, thereby depriving us of yet more of his insanely eccentric humour. I owe Doug a quite considerable debt. For his TV series “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,”
Continue readingChronicles of a Pure Laine: Times are good for Sovereigntists – Part 2
Léger Marketing published the results of yet another survey concluding that the PQ is in majority territory [in French]. Overall, the CAQ is at 24%, the PLQ at 28% and the PQ at 33%. This lead may not seem important, but one has to keep in mind that support for
Continue readingChronicles of a Pure Laine: Times are good for Sovereigntists – Part 2
Léger Marketing published the results of yet another survey concluding that the PQ is in majority territory [in French]. Overall, the CAQ is at 24%, the PLQ at 28% and the PQ at 33%. This lead may not seem important, but one has to keep in mind that support for
Continue readingChronicles of a Pure Laine: Times are good for Sovereigntists – Part 2
Léger Marketing published the results of yet another survey concluding that the PQ is in majority territory [in French]. Overall, the CAQ is at 24%, the PLQ at 28% and the PQ at 33%. This lead may not seem important, but one has to keep in mind that…
Continue readingToday’s Election Fraud Protests….Complete List of Times and Places
. Here’s the full list, just because it’s kinda/sorta hard to find all in one place: What: National Day of Action Against Election FraudWhen: Sunday, March 11th, 2012Where: Pre-planned rallies at sites nationwide. See list of major rallies below. British Columbia: Vancouver, BC: Rally outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre at
Continue readingFusing and Musing: A letter to my fellow Canadians
I think the following is very important for Canadians to remember and to help this memory I’m asking you to share and like this. So very, very few Canadians seem to remember that Canada has always been a country of moderates and it is that moderate stance towards social and
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: What’s the Matter With Mississippi?
This short film by Alexandra Pelosi asks some regular folks in Mississippi why the poorest state in America is also the most conservative:
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Roundup
Assorted news and notes from the NDP’s leadership campaign as we approach today’s final debate… – Niki Ashton pointed out how the NDP should be able to tap into the desire for democratic decision-making that once motivated the Reform Party before it was turned into a top-down organization under the
Continue readingBuckdog: Sask New Democrats Will Select New Leader In Spring 2013
Saskatchewan New Democrats will choose a new leader early in 2013. The decision to hold a leadership convention in February/March 2013 in Saskatoon was made at a party provincial council meeting this weekend. The exact date of the leadership convention, as well as the official start date of the race,
Continue readingWinning hearts and minds in Afghanistan, Ch. 3,234
More Afghan civilians murdered by one of their liberators. Whether it’s a wedding party or just prey, the bodies pile up, and the liberators are always sorry about that. Meanwhile, the current mayor of Kabul, Hamid Karzai, has decreed that women shall henceforward be second-class citizens. Remember, this is our
Continue reading"Where Did This Come From?"
AllTheRabbleRousingThatFits WithSeanGoneVille I don’t like to whack Mr. Holman’s rabble-rousers. Because they often have lots of interesting stuff to say. Stuff that I don’t know. Which is pretty darn rare these days. Not because I’m so smart. But rather because Lotuslandian broadcast media has become so dumb. But…. This morning
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Think Twice About Central America
So much for my plans of a once-in-a-lifetime motorcycle trip from Panama to Vancouver Island. That route, it seems, has become Murder Alley. While we’re all becoming aware of violent crime in Mexico, it’s actually Honduras that is now the murder capital of the world. There the latest murder rate
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: It’s his brand
Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star attended the Manning Centre for Building Democracy’s annual shindig in Ottawa this weekend and put up a post to summarize the proceedings. I thought her description of an exchange involving Nick Kouvalis of Campaign Research was interesting: Out in the corridor at one point,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Tar Sands Are Making Us Stupid
So suggests Thomas Friedman, and it makes good sense to me. When you have no resources, you become resourceful.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Tar Sands Fantasy Challenged
To hear Big Oil and its political minions tell it, the Athabasca Tar Sands will be restored to their pristine state once the black sludge is finally gone. This stands right up there with their promise, lo these many years, that they’re going to capture their carbon emissions and bury
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Decline of Climate Change Acceptance Scares Leading Scientists
Dr. Nina Federoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said at a recent gathering of the AAAS in Vancouver that she is “scared to death” about the public’s declining acceptance of global warming and the growing influence of well-funded skeptics who are spreading misinformation about climate
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Republicans Driving Votes to Obama
Women, check. The young, check. Minorities, check. Moderate conservatives, check. Liberals, check. The poor, check. The soon to be poor, check. The Republicans, it seems, have done a dandy job alienating voters from just about every group except affluent old white geezers like the Koch brothers and radical Christian fundamentalists.
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