Lawmakers in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday passed a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in the city of nearly five million inhabitants. The city’s governor, Georgy Poltavchenko, has vowed to sign the legislation, which would mak…
Continue readingThe fulsome Dean Del Mastro
What, Dean, ducks not yet in a row? “Vikileaks” won’t be dragged before HUAC the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics until next week? “We are going to extend a courtesy that the Liberal Party would probably never extend to us,” [Del Mastro] said. “We would encourage
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Memory Hole
Lest we get swept up in the Conservative narrative that this is a fiction, cooked up in the last week by the opposition. I take you back to election day, May 2, 2011. Note in particular, the first paragraph.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Memory Hole
Lest we get swept up in the Conservative narrative that this is a fiction, cooked up in the last week by the opposition. I take you back to election day, May 2, 2011. Note in particular, the first paragraph.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Memory Hole
Lest we get swept up in the Conservative narrative that this is a fiction, cooked up in the last week by the opposition. I take you back to election day, May 2, 2011. Note in particular, the first paragraph.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Big Boiled Wolf
When I hear Vic Toews howling that he’s being victimized. WAAAAAAAH !!!! Because he can’t do his job after being “anonymously degraded” by Vikileaks. “I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member of the House,” Toews said, adding that the
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: edmonton tory candidate posing for photos at police service media conference.
PC candidate Steven Young on the Edmonton Journal website. Staff Sergeant Steven Young was the face of the Edmonton Police Service at a media conference held yesterday announcing the police service’s new advertising campaign. Mr. Young also happens to be the nominated Progressive Conservative Party candidate in Edmonton-Riverview, a position
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich,
If you were my father, I’d be very ashamed.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": In Fairness, This Is Nonsense
I have to say that I find the following paragraph highly offensive: Also in fairness, the reluctance of the Tories to endorse a wide-ranging inquiry might simply be evidence of a lesson well-learned from watching the results of the Liberals’ Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship scandal. Why is it fair
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": In Fairness, This Is Nonsense
I have to say that I find the following paragraph highly offensive: Also in fairness, the reluctance of the Tories to endorse a wide-ranging inquiry might simply be evidence of a lesson well-learned from watching the results of the Liberals’ Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship scandal. Why is it fair
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": In Fairness, This Is Nonsense
I have to say that I find the following paragraph highly offensive:Also in fairness, the reluctance of the Tories to endorse a wide-ranging inquiry might simply be evidence of a lesson well-learned from watching the results of the Liberals’ Gomery inqu…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Breitbart RIP
Rightwing loudmouth Andrew Breitbart is no more. The 42-year old died last night apparently of natural causes. Salon.com chronicles Breitbart’s descent into the hardcore radical right. Or, if you want to know just how vile this creep was, watch this:
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s On. Anonymous Under Attack.
The battle to disrupt the Anonymous collective is underway. The latest campaign has been directed at Spanish-speaking activists. Spanish cops arrested several suspects earlier this week and further arrests followed in South America. The group now says it wasn’t police technical sleuthing that got them but infiltration of one website
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Taking Love Where We Can Get It
A very sweet little tweet. Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue reading“Stratfor Wanted Assange Out by Any Means”
by: Yazan al-Saadi While publicly underplaying the significance of WikiLeaks activity in combating government secrecy, senior execs and analysts at private US intelligence firm Stratfor privately described Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as a “terrorist” and “delusion nut” who “needs to be water-boarded” and made to “move from country to country”
Continue readingRoboscam: what is to be done?
“I’m not convinced that there are such systemic issues raised here as to warrant a public inquiry,” opines Andrew Coyne, “and I’m not sure anyone has really made that case.” Let me have a go. With help, of course. 69 ridings (not 21, pace Aaron Wherry, who knows of the
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Robocall: Is Elections Canada failing Canadians?
Disquiet is being voiced in several circles about the apparent tardy response of Elections Canada in investigating the voter suppression attempts that appear to have taken place in dozens of ridings in the May 2011 election. Take this response, for example: But the elections agency said the use
Continue readingAmericans prefer small government … or do they?
It is a practically a cliche that Americans prefer small government. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center would seem to confirm this. When asked if government regulation did more harm than good, 52 per cent of Americans agreed while only 40 per cent felt regulation was necessary for
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Attention Rick Santorum, You’ve Got Mail
This should play neatly into the hands of nutjob Republican candidate, Rick Santorum. As a devout, even rabid Catholic, Santorum draws a lot of flack for his extreme social conservatism and the hyperbole in his arguments against everything from same sex marriage to abortion. Now a couple of British medical
Continue readingLeDaro: US Tea Party membership drive
Tea Partiers are giving free gifts to lure new members – specifically made for membership drive.
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