Hungry as an archway through which the troops have passed I stand in ruins behind you With your winter clothes, your broken sandal strap Take this longing from my tongue And all the useless things these hands have done Let … Continue reading →
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-02-10 17:15:00
LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: ANNUAL WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH: Coming up this February 14 (next Tuesday Valentine’s Day) Winnipeg’s annual March for Murdered and Missing Women. Here’s the invite.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Annual Women’s Memorial March of Manitoba Tuesday, February 14, 2012.5:30pm until 7:30pm.. To stand together united as one strong voice, for those who are
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: “Obock Obama”
Wearing a matching sweater vest, Foster Friess, the billionaire investor backing Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum’s frothy campaign to be Theocrat-in-Chief of the Free World, introduces his pet candidate at CPAC 2012: After opening with a mildly amusing joke at the expense of Mitt Romney, Friess goes on to observe
Continue readingMore Evidence That Ms. Clark Cannot Add.
SnookiDon’tDoNoMath TheSituationVille Remember how we took issue with the following statement from British Columbia’s current (not)Premier when she used it as a rationale to give $125,000 to Geoff Plant’s former man Friday to write a report about how what’s going on with our justice system? Clark said criminal caseloads and
Continue readingImpolitical: Canadian Foreign Policy Journal issue on the F-35
This morning I had a humorous item up on the F-35 brouhaha that occurred in the House of Commons yesterday. The superficial political excitement was focused on this statement from Conservative Julian Fantino: Fantino said a recent report criticizing the purchase in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal was “critical of
Continue readingFlat Earthers, here’s an event you don’t want to miss. Breakfast with Rex Murphy.
You have to wonder about these big-time charitable foundations. Last week we discovered that the much-heralded Susan G. Komen Foundation was nothing but a front for rabid right wingers and Republican henchmen. Now I see the Heart & Stroke Foundation here in Vancouver is hosting a breakfast with Rex “Never
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Response and Irresponsibility #nlpoli #cdnpoli
The premier whose government was responsible for directing the search effort for a young boy in Makkovik is now calling for an investigation into the actions of the people who weren’t responsible for the search. From CBC: Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier is calling for a review of the military’s role
Continue readingMorton's Musings: What noted Ontario judge played in Love Story (1970)?
Justice Durno. He played a goalie.
Continue readingIn self-defence
…may I and the rest of the 60% who voted against Harper in 2011 fire warning shots over the heads of Conservative cabinet ministers?
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: Negotiate, don’t legislate
With the appointment of a so-called “fact finder”, the BC government is apparently orchestrating its plan to legislate BC teachers and impose a contract. I say “so-called” because the government has appointed one of their own…we cannot expect any serious, independent report from an appointed government bureaucrat. He is not
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Never Let Facts Get In The Way Of Ideology: The Conservative Credo
That’s the only inference I can draw after reading about the report by Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page that there is no crisis in the current funding of Old Age Security, despite proclamations by Human Resources Minister Diane Finley and her dear leader, and hence no need for raising the
Continue readingTo all those who celebrate Anne-France Goldwater’s assaults on Marina Nemat and Carmen Aguirre, think again
Winners Free speech is only defensible when it is not libel, defamation or injurious to another human being. Goldwater’s attack was a baseless assault on other humans already called indefensible names and tortured enough. Goldwater deserves all the derision and scorn we can throw at her. That is real free
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Mash-up apotheosis?
I believe that John Hodgman may have achieved the apotheosis of Internet-type mash-ups. The following YouTube clip is video evidence of Dana Gould, doing his impersonation of Maurice Evans, portraying Dr. Zaius, doing a scene from Hal Holbrook’s “Mark Twain … Continue reading →
Continue readingExcited delirium
A man is Tasered for walking two lapdogs off-leash. Apparently the park ranger thought it would be educational. When the park ranger confronted Hesterberg and asked for his identification, for reasons unknown, Hesterberg gave her a fake name, and then tried repeatedly to leave. Finally, when he started to walk
Continue readingBlevkog: The Urban Transit Blues
I was made aware a few days ago that HRM is enduring a transit strike – a few people I know don’t own vehicles and have some level of dependence on mass transit to get to work, which makes it particularly painful. Even with its limitations, it was, in my
Continue readingTrashy's World: To see the power of Twitter…
… follow the rumours about the assassination of Kim Jong-Un in Beijing. Amazing. In all likelihood untrue, but very demonstrative of the power of social media. Me? I think he was scheduled to meet Harper but took the easy way out. Da-da-dum! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC: C-11 heading to committee
By Kady O’Malley for CBC As the Chamber prepares to shut down for the weekend, the time allocation hammer drops on the contentious C-11 — the copyright bill, to its friends and foes — which, by order of Government House Leader Peter Van Loan, will be dispatched to committee after
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Trinity Broadcasting Network board accused of diverting millions of dollars
In October, Paul Crouch Jr. abruptly left Trinity Broadcasting Corporation. The explanation given was vague. This may have been the reason why; his daughter, Brittany Koper, former TBN CFO, is accusing the world’s largest religious broadcaster of diverting over 50 million dollars from charitable assets to the company’s directors. The
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Okay, I Get It. Harper Needs China to Buy Bitumen So Canada Can Buy F-35s to Defend Canada Against China.
Okay, now it all makes sense. According to PostMedia’s howler, Matthew Fisher, Canada needs the F-35 to defend Canada against the creeping Red Menace, China: Despite its staggering cost, the jets’ capabilities have appealed to western governments deeply concerned with how quickly China is acquiring aircraft carriers and expanding its
Continue readingTwo authors pursued by a character
In the end, good triumphed over banality: Carmen Aguirre, the “bloody terrorist” who should never have been allowed into the country according to one of the judges, won the Canada Reads contest. And the judge, Anne-France Goldwater, ended up voting for her. It was either that, or another hockey book.
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