Oh my gosh. This group of South Carolina women don’t seem to know who Stephen Colbert is. They don’t seem to get what he does for a living and some pretended to know who he is. It’s rather crazy that a roomful of moms don’t get political satire, or the
Continue readingThe Kind Of Thing We Used To Do…
WeShallOvercome SomedayVille …Before there was a Martin Luther King Day: Vancouver (CP) – The 60,000-man west coast longshoremen’s union in Canada and the United States agreed Thursday not to handle any goods from Alabama. The boycott will not end until the Negro in Alabama obtains his constitutional right to vote,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Fascist State of Alberia
Uh oh. Duck and cover. It looks as if Great Oil Pimp Leader is trying to whip us into a nationalistic frenzy, by demanding that the United States stop treating us like a national park. Any decision on developments such as the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline should be left to Canadians,
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Never Mind Northern Gateway, Keystone XL remains the main objective of Canada’s pipeline propagandists
A Canadian lobbyist ratchets up the pressure on the Obama Administration to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. Meanwhile, foreign celebrities boost the morale of radical Hollywood environmentalists as they prepare to interfere in Canadian affairs. Government and corporate officials and environmental radicals may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Joe
Continue readingknitnut.net: The art of worrying in the middle of the night
It is 1:53 in the morning and I am up worrying. I got tired of lying in bed worrying, so I got up. Some people are prone to worrying in the middle of the night. I am not usually one of them, so I find it interesting in a frustrating
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Never Mind Northern Gateway, Keystone XL remains the main objective of Canada’s pipeline propagandists
A Canadian lobbyist ratchets up the pressure on the Obama Administration to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. Meanwhile, foreign celebrities boost the morale of radical Hollywood environmentalists as they prepare to interfere in Canadian affairs. Government and corporate officials and environmental radicals may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Joe
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alberta election candidate update – january 2012.
With an election fast approaching, Alberta’s political parties are busy nominating candidates across the province. Here is a regional breakdown showing where candidates have been nominated and some of the recent updates. Nominated Alberta Election candidates by region (January 16, 2012) Airdrie: Former Airdrie Mayor Linda Bruce and current Alderman Kelly
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Naomi Klein Debunks “Ethical Oil” Fiction
As she delivers this brilliant rebuttal of the corporate-funded Ethical Oil fiction, Naomi Klein brands herself “an expert in corporate crap”. We don’t have ethical oil in Canada. We’ve tar sands oil, which is like …Read More
Continue readingExponential Book: Double whammy
We all understand that, sometimes, financial hardship is simply a fact of life. And I do believe that most of us are willing to endure painful sacrifices, in the pursuit of a common good. What exasperates people, is the perception of a general lack of vision, of a concrete, well
Continue readingMike Powell Fanclub: Radio Topics, January 17
Happy New Year! Well, belated, I suppose. I’m back after several weeks, and am ready to kick off 2012 with an exciting show. Tune in at 93.1 FM in Ottawa tomorrow at 7am! At 8:05, I’ll speak with Alex De Vries of Citizens for Safe Cycling about winter cycling and
Continue readingIt’s our ‘giant national park’. Let’s keep it that way.
Canada is not the exclusive property of Stephen Harper, the Conservative party or the oil companies. We share this land and we want to preserve our coastlines, lakes and rivers. We will not sell our soul for a buck. We want to keep this land pristine. Listen to us. It is not
Continue readingArt Threat: Photos of Martin Luther Kings’s tragic death published by LIFE for the first time
LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky captures the scene at the Lorraine Hotel after the shooting of MLK (detail). Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, and LIFE has marked the occasion by publishing historic photosgraphs that has been lost for 44 years. Taken on that tragic day
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Thomas Mulcair: He didn’t choose France for you
Thomas Mulcair is French by choice. It’s not terribly difficult to predict the sort of response that a political attack machine could run with this untimely revelation. We’ve seen it all before. A little over five years ago, New Democrats were quick to join the base nativist attacks on Stéphane
Continue readingcmkl: Urgent action required: remember you are not your audience
I send and receive a fair number of appeals for online actions. And I see phrases like “Act now” or “Urgent! Your help needed” a lot and I admit if I ever have any control over it, I usually edit them out. Especially if they’re in the subject line or
Continue readingThe Political Road Map: Why Beatles Music Will Solve Any Problem You Have.: Let it be :.
Looking back at many of my previous entries, I realized a serious foul on my behalf that required immediate attention…hence why this is my second blog entry for today and my third cup of coffee. Anyways…back on track to the more important things. The Beatles! Hit Cult Pop phenomenon, trailblazers,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why North Americans Don’t Get Climate Change
I was talking to a friend tonight about the studies and planning undertaken by the province and municipalities of the Lower Mainland of sea level rise projections. It’s a complex issue comprising impacts such as salt water inundation of fresh groundwater stocks, the extension of brackish water zones in
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Mother legally entitled to information about fetus including gender
Dr. Rajendra Kale suggests withholding the gender of a fetus from a mother to avoid a gender selective abortion. As a legal matter, absent legislation, such withholding is not possible — the patient is entitled to all medical information. McInerney v. MacDonald [1992] 2 S.C.R. 138 held, in the absence
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 16: Fighting the blands….
I’m late in writing today. The problem I’m having is that today’s Moncton Times and Transcript was almost entirely frivolous and pointless. It wasn’t just the usual mix of ads and misinformation disguised as news stories. It was supremely tedious, irrelevant and boring. I really could think of nothing to
Continue readingThe Political Road Map: SOPA and PIPA: Twins From Hell or Saviours?
If you have been surfing the internet lately, you might have seen various ads and user posts against something called SOPA. Alternatively, if you opened a paper today, you probably would not have seen anything relating to this unless that newspaper was the Toronto Star. So what the hell is
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