For anyone concerned about the rapidly deteriorating system we call democracy, I urge you to read Dr. Dawg, who has done his usual excellent job of putting the pieces together, this time on Conservative criminal acts that appear to have compromised the last federal election. Recommend this Post
Continue readingLatest Anonymous video: "New Scandal Revealed in 7 Days"
Anonymous threatens once again a big scoop on Toews, this time to be unveiled a week from yesterday. Is Anonymous bluffing? I doubt it.
Continue readingThe new Conservative journalism: we really want to get to the bottom of Robogate. Stop laughing. We do!
Funny how fast Canadian Conservative writers and operatives can turn on the ethics charm offensive as they quickly close their bag of dirty tricks and begin concern trolling for truth and transparency when it looks good for them. Stephen Taylor and Tim Powers, Conservative writers both, have shown sudden concern
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – There’s been plenty of followup on Robocon, with columns from Andrew Coyne and Thomas Walkom on the Cons’ increasingly unethical culture, along with followup reporting from Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor on live voter fraud and Steve Rennie and Bruce Cheadle on Elections
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: What does Stephen Harper know that American intelligence agencies don’t?
Our prime minister’s concern regarding the Iranian threat to world peace has gotten a fair amount of attention in recent weeks. Stephen Harper insists both that Iran is definitely attempting to develop nuclear weapons and that the Iranians are fanatics who would use those weapons without hesitation. On the former,
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Scary Plants and the Reptilian Brain
Happy little girl that she is, Jeanne has faced the world with a smile since she was tiny. She has not been phased or frightened by much…until she started to walk with facility. Then within a couple of weeks she manifested behavior which can only be rooted in some reflex
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: In Which TorontoEmerg is Famous
OK, not really famous, but published on Kevin Pho’s site, KevinMD.com. Check it out, and Retweet/Like/comment as you will — it’s all in a good cause. I’ll repost it here sometime next week. I am this morning getting an uptick in visitors from KevinMD.com. Welcome, and free to poke around.
Continue readingQuestionable Election Phoning in BC – 2008
I had forgotten about this. During the 2008 election, there was an outcry in Saanich-Gulf Islands when a call went to residents the evening before the election encouraging them to vote for an NDP candidate who had dropped out of the race but whose name remained on the ballot. The Tyee: Ontario
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Robocall Scandal May Blow Over
It’s been more than two days now since the media caught hold of the latest Conservative election fraud scandal. Are they going to let go? Only time will tell. For the meantime, Twitter is buzzing with the news, and funny hash tags like #CPCCluetheBoardGame where people describe a Conservative committing
Continue readingThe new Conservative journalism: we really want to get to the bottom of Robogate. Stop laughing. We do!
Funny how fast Canadian Conservative writers and operatives can turn on the ethics charm offensive as they quickly close their bag of dirty tricks and concern troll for truth and transparency when it looks good for them. Both Stephen Taylor and Tim Powers, Conservative writers both, have shown sudden concern about
Continue readingLeDaro: GOP Debates and the State of the Republican Party
I admit, I am a political junkie. I enjoy following elections and rarely miss any national level debates whether Canadian or American. Watching the GOP presidential debate on February 22nd in Arizona, I have to say, this is the worse group of candidates any political party has ever put forward
Continue reading2012: Two panic narratives
The centre cannot hold. A four-year-old schoolgirl draws a picture of a man holding a gun. She says it’s a picture of her Daddy, driving away bad guys and monsters. The bad guys and monsters duly showed up at her school, dragged her father away in handcuffs when he arrived
Continue readingClip ‘n’ Save: How Sarah Palin does debates
Here you go. Her entire “debating” style, condensed: Next time Quitbull decides to string her rubes along with another half-assed dabble in campaigning, just pull this one out and use it to distract you from that grating voice. You might even want to invite some buddies and make a drinking
Continue readingOne person Robo Con: not likely
The Harper Conservative government has likely the most serious threat to their government since elected in 2006. Not the prorogued house in 2008, not the guilty pleas to election fraud, not bill C-30, its the robo calls or RoboCon as many on twitter are referring to the scandal. Andrew Acoyne wrote a good opinion
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Peter Has Some ‘Splainin’ To Do
Peter “The Prevaricator’ MacKay apparently has some ‘splainin’ to do to Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk regarding his misuse of military resources for political purposes. However, don’t expect MacKay, an emblem of the amorality that pervades the Harper regime, to be offering his resignation anytime soon. That kind
Continue readingcmkl: Cell phone plan calculator: an innovative, digital service government would have offered
Had it not been killed by Tony Clement Treasury Board President, mister innovation and open government. Most likely at the behest of the companies whose labyrinthine, usurious and deliberately devious plans the website sought to unravel so that people could compare them.
Continue readingROAR!: Push for Access and Equality going strong – PEI
Another Saturday, another look back at news articles, this time a certain PEI ‘Right to Life’ (otherwise known as Anti-choice) spokesperson (whose name I refuse to type) has (and I’m sorry, but I have to use my favorite line from InkMaster, right here) ‘shit the bed’ and let her zest for control over a
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: One Young Staffer is Not Enough
Conservative operative Michael Sona, is taking the fall for the voter suppression scandal and has resigned as a staffer. What the conservatives would like us to believe is that he acted alone. Give me a break. Sona, in the background during Ezra Levant’s sponsorship of Ann Coulter, is a product
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: What Does Romney Believe?
Things have not been going well for Mitt Romney. His speech in Detroit fell flat. And, this week, he made yet another gaffe. On the subject of the economy, he diverged radically from Republican doctrine. Cutting spending, he said, was a simplistic solution to America’s problems: If you just cut,
Continue readingFar and Wide: Outrageous
While we focus on robocalls, there is another story on the political radar, one that is simply an outrageous ABUSE of power, that puts the impartiality of the military into question: Defence Minister Peter MacKay almost ran from a military conference Friday morning as he dodged questions about emails that
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