From the American Foundation for Equal Rights this afternoon, a big court victory for same sex marriage in the U.S. When equality and love prevail, it is always worth celebrating: San Francisco, CA – Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling in Perry
Continue readingQuestion: What Do Sun TV and The Komen Foundation Have In Common?
Quick!HideAllTheAgendas! BehindTheBathtubVille Answer: Ari Fleischer. As is made clear in a fantastic post from Alison over at Creekside: Seems former White House Bush spokesy, sometime Steve fluffer, and anti-Planned Parenthood campaigner Ari Fleischer was involved in vetting job applicants for the Susan G Komen For the Cure foundation, which then
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Vic Toews, Minister of Torture and Morality We’ve always known that the Tories mission is to makeover Canada into a far-right Republican spa resort by stealth, since most Canadians hold values to the left of their lunacy. So, they change tax rules for film financing here and chip into same
Continue readingGoodbye and good riddance
Two obnoxious, hateful, right-wing “family” things went bye-bye today: Karen Fucking Handel from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the last faint flicker of hope for Prop Hate in California. I’m sure neither will be sadly missed.
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After a morning of gun-registry debate that devolved into Hitler references – seriously – it was time to take a break for the scintillating debate that is Question Period. And so, Nycole Turmel stood up to demand to know why we haven’t recalled our ambassador from Syria yet, like all
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Post Mortem – Madonna’s Half Time SuperBowl Show
If you watched the Super Bowl, not that there’s really something wrong with you if you didn’t, you might have enjoyed the half time show. Madonna staged an elaborate presentation and did a decent job of it. That said it was the Super Bowl and it wouldn’t be right if
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bell O’ Doom Tolls Louder For Cdn Print Media
As Mark Bourrie notes on his Facebook site, if you scroll down to the bottom of this piece you notice: (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed in Bangalore and Allison Martell in Toronto; Editing by Frank McGurty). Which is to say that Reuters has outsourced some of their reporting. One of Mark’s friends
Continue readingTerahertz: Cullen is still wrong #ndpldr
Leadnow.ca recently polled its email contacts to declare whether they agree/disagree with the statement “The NDP, Liberals and Greens should work together to defeat Conservative incumbents. After the election, they should cooperate to pass electoral reform.” They posted their preliminary results with nearly 8000 votes, and 95% of respondents agreed,
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Today in Gutter Politics: Special Godwin Edition
This is from earlier today in the House of Commons.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Robert Reich on America’s New "Downward Mobility"
What goes up must come down. Who knew that might be the epitaph of America’s once mighty Middle Class? Robert Reich sees through the latest unemployment numbers. They may look good but they’re a harbinger of a new “downward mobility.” “Most of the new jobs being created are in the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Global Weirding, European Style
One feature of climate change is the erratic arrival of weather extremes. Australia, for example, is enduring its second year of massive flooding following many years of extreme drought. Meanwhile, Europe is caught up in a severe cold snap. These photos via Der Spiegel: The Forum – Rome Trevi Fountain
Continue readingVic Toews A-OK with torture interrogation
The government has directed Canada’s spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has told CSIS the government now expects the spy service to use information derived from torture in cases where public safety is at stake. In related news, a
Continue readingShorter David Akin On The ‘Faked’ Oath Producer…
BusUnder ThrowingVille ….”We’ve outed her….She was ours…But now she works for them…..And she seems to have scrubbed her computer before she left us and went over to the other side…So?” Below are a few of Mr. Akins’ actual words, you can go and read them all, here, if you like:
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Proposition 8 Ruled Unconstitutional By Appeals Court
Great news for all our friends in the States! The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling today declaring that California’s Proposition 8 (which banned same-sex marriage in the state) is unconstitutional! I wonder if opponents of marriage equality will now finally give up and admit they’re
Continue readingTrashy's World: It’s 3 am in Beijing…
…Mr. Harper. Do you know what your MP’s are saying? Man, barely outta town and all discipline is lost! Is this guy for real? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YmLKKho2P4 Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingAlberta and Saskatchewan vie for pollution title
Alberta is generally considered to be Canada’s pollution champion. And it deserves the honour. With 11 per cent of the country’s population it contributes 34 per cent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Nonetheless, Saskatchewan can also make the claim. It only produces 7 per cent of the country’s emissions,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: California Gays Headed to the Supremes
It’ll be up to the US Supreme Court to decide the validity of California’s ban on gay marriage. A US Federal appeals court has ruled the ban violates the US Constitution. “…the panel found that Proposition 8 – passed by California voters in November 2008 by a margin of 52
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Information from torture can be used
The federal government has directed Canada’s spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture in cases where public safety is at stake. The order represents a reversal of policy for the Conservative government, which once insisted the Canadian Security Intelligence Service would discard information if there
Continue readingthe woodshed: turning pages
#9 Why Me? by Donald E. WestlakeIs there anything as pleasurable as a midweek day off (especially a Monday?) – sleeping late, getting up to strong coffee, a toasted western, and a Dortmunder novel you haven’t read yet when you have no other plans for the day? I doubt it.
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: Faux outrage!
Here’s the story so far: StatsCan approaches a Fredericton resident for a survey on technology. In subsequent communications between StatsCan and the candidate it is determined the candidate is deaf. The candidate’s daughter, who is of normal hearing, tells StatsCan they need to get a certified interpreter to be available
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