I have some minor issues with the questions, but overall its cool. Take a look. But, let me just point out one: How likely do you think each of the following parties are to provide false and misleading information to voters through telephone calls with pre-recorded messages during a political
Continue readingViagra= Slut
Channeling the inner Stoopid from the Republicans in the US…. ARE YOU sick and tired of paying higher health care costs so these sluts can go and have as much sex as they want? CAFFERTY: Well,you know, the answer is Viagra is used to treat a medical condition, erectile dysfunction.
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Nanos, Robocalls, and Super Tuesday
Sorry for my lack of posting the past three days – but I haven’t missed much anyways. The big thing I did miss was the recent Nanos Research poll, showing for the second time in a row, the Liberals in second place. The topline numbers (and changes from the last
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: No more reprehensible MP than this guy
Veterans called NDP hacks, Jeff Davis, Postmedia News “OTTAWA — Calgary MP Rob Anders — who embarrassed himself by falling asleep in the Veterans Affairs committee last week — offered an apology to veterans in the House of Commons Tuesday. “…After nodding off in a committee meeting held in Halifax,
Continue readingTrashy's World: Why has there been a…
… secret robotic plane orbiting in space for the past year? No one seems to know. What the robotic space plane has been doing in orbit for so long remains a mystery, since Air Force officials have not commented on the flight’s details due to its classified nature. Outside experts,
Continue readingPeggy Nash or Bust
OK time to get off the fence. There are presently two visions of social democracy at play within the NDP. One that wants to drag the NDP further to the neoliberal centre and one that wants to take a pause … Continue reading →
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Asbestos registry needed, says cancer patient
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Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: RoboCon – If The CPC Have Nothing To Hide, Why Are They Hiding?
The one thing that always amazes me about Politics, when you are accused of doing something wrong, and if you didn’t do it (ADScam, In and Out, RoboCon whatever) why not just lay your cards on the table and serve up the opposition parties a huge, heaping pile of SHUT
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: The drumbeat of war
The last few weeks have seemed eerily similar to the build-up towards war with Iraq. First you have the pundits flooding the media with talk of how war is inevitable, then eventually the political leaders follow. At least it sounds like there’s a reasonable adult at the helm: ‘This is
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Here’s Why It Shouldn’t Be Up To The States
Even in jurisdictions where same-sex marriage is legal, gay couples in the United States are paying a lot more in taxes because the federal marriage benefits available for straight couples aren’t available to gay ones. I guess that’s one strategy for paying down the debt—tax the gays instead of the
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A very good year, for a few
The Rich Get Richer: 2010 Was a Very Good Year to Be in the 1%, Derek Thompson, senior editor at The Atlantic “This recovery has been a luxury item. For the bottom 99%, real income growth over the first two years of the recovery was one-fifth of one percent. The
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Dean Del Mastro: Knower of Everything
On previous episodes of Dean Del Mastro: Knower of Everything, Dean didn’t trust the survey results in a Peterborough newspaper poll, so he commissioned his own robo-push poll, in an effort to “protect democracy”. Then, last week Dean argued the Liberals used a US call centre and the Tories never
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Step on It
People take their laws seriously, as they should.
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The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world, who discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight—as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in … Continue reading →
Continue readingBuckdog: Conservatives Didn’t Declare Payments Made To Robocalls Company, Can’t Explain To Elections Canada Why Not
“OTTAWA — Elections Canada investigators probing the robocalls scandal are interviewing workers on the Conservative campaign in Guelph, Ont., and trying to determine why payments made to an Edmonton voice-broadcasting company were not declared in financial reports filed with the agency. In recent days, the agency has spoken to at
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: We’re gonna have a Rev-o-lu-tion
I woke up this morning, you were on my mi_i_i_i_i_ind – no – I woke up this morning thinking about Quaility of Life. Gotta get back from the 60’s! I have felt, indeed known for at least 30 years that the quality of my life has been on a slippery,
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: We’re gonna have a Rev-o-lu-tion
I woke up this morning, you were on my mi_i_i_i_i_ind – no – I woke up this morning thinking about Quaility of Life. Gotta get back from the 60’s! I have felt, indeed known for at least 30 years that the quality of my life has been on a slippery, downhill slope. As my Standard of Living has risen, my Quality of Life has fallen in a relatively constant and inverse relationship. A first look at my Twitter account had a tweet that pointed to a story about people who are more concerned about Q-O-L than about S-O-L and who are willing to make real sacrifices to back up their values, even when no one is willing to listen.
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“Journalists wouldn’t be able to do their jobs without whistleblowers. Theirs is the lone voice emerging from the din, the one that tips us off, gets us started, delivers the key documents, provides an insider’s view of an otherwise unknown world.”
Consider the case of Leyla Wydler, a broker who, back in 2003, sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about her former employer, the Stanford Financial Group. A year earlier, it had fired her for refusing to sell certificates of deposit that she rightly suspected were being misleadingly advertised to investors. The company, Wydler warned in her letter, “is the subject of a lingering corporate fraud scandal perpetrated as a ‘massive Ponzi scheme’ that will destroy the life savings of many, damage the reputation of all associated parties, ridicule securities and banking authorities, and shame the United States of America.”
It was a letter that should have woken the dead and, as it happened, couldn’t have been more on target. Wydler didn’t stop with the SEC either. She also sent copies to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the trade group responsible for enforcing regulations throughout the industry, as well as various newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. No one responded. No one at all.
In the fall of 2004, Wydler called the examination branch of the SEC’s Fort Worth District Office to relay her concerns. A staff person did hear her out, but once again nothing happened. More than four years later, as the aftershocks of the global financial meltdown continued to play out, the news finally broke that Stanford had orchestrated a $7 billion Ponzi scheme which cost thousands of defrauded investors their savings.
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Some surveys done in the US have indicated that the feeling of individuals’ satisfaction with their lives was increasing until the mid 1960’s and then began falling, a trend that continues to this day. The increased complexities and stress we have been building into our societies and lives is outpacing any increase in enjoyment.
The only thing we gain is a pile of junk which has to be disposed of by those we leave behind, thereby causing them extra stress and costing them time and effort. All of which ties in with the stresses we have put on the planet through our manufacturing, transporting, consuming and disposing of our junk — but that’s my other story!
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Continue readingThe Left Stuff: We’re gonna have a Rev-o-lu-tion
I woke up this morning, you were on my mi_i_i_i_i_ind – no – I woke up this morning thinking about Quaility of Life. Gotta get back from the 60’s! I have felt, indeed known for at least 30 years that the quality of my life has been on a slippery,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In Missouri, Truman, Disney and Mark Twain Share the Stage with Rush Limbaugh
Apparently the state of Missouri sees Rush Limbaugh as one of its greatest native sons. “…state House Speaker Steven Tilley (R) has commissioned a statue of Limbaugh to stand among those of Harry Truman, Walt Disney, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mark Twain and others who, unlike Limbaugh, wouldn’t also qualify for an
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Want The Job? First, Let’s See Your Social Networks Accounts
It was bound to happen. Prospective employers asking demanding to inspect job applicants’ social network accounts. Employers and colleges find the treasure-trove of personal information hiding behind password-protected accounts and privacy walls just too tempting, and some are demanding full access from job applicants and student athletes. In Maryland, job
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