Not a bad way for the year to end, with the election of another woman as leader of her country. So congratulations to new Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson Miller, or Sista P as she is affectionately referred to for her folksy, plain-spoken style. Simpson Miller’s People’s National Party won
Continue readingThe Equivocator: 2011 in 10 @Uranowski tweets
Please follow me on twitter, @Uranowski, if you don’t already. Here are 7 of my favourite/most retweeted tweets of the year: March 6th: “If they are going to insist that we call it the Harper gov’t, it’s only fair that we call it the “Harper Revenue Agency.” – @JohnMcKayLib March
Continue readingthis-on-that: move out of the way, Orly Taitz ~ there’s a new crazy in town : ‘Mr. Basiago, Mr. Stillings confirm meeting Barack Obama on Mars’
Hmm, upon further reflection, (and a link I just came across) I’m gonna declare them all equally delusional. First, some lunacy from the Mars visitors. According to Mr. Basiago and Mr. Stillings, in Summer 1980 they attended a three-week factual seminar about Mars to prepare them for trips that were
Continue readingthis-on-that: move out of the way, Orly Taitz ~ there’s a new crazy in town : ‘Mr. Basiago, Mr. Stillings confirm meeting Barack Obama on Mars’
Hmm, upon further reflection, (and a link I just came across) I’m gonna declare them all equally delusional. First, some lunacy from the Mars visitors. According to Mr. Basiago and Mr. Stillings, in Summer 1980 they attended a three-week factual seminar about Mars to prepare them for trips that were
Continue readingthis-on-that: move out of the way, Orly Taitz ~ there’s a new crazy in town : ‘Mr. Basiago, Mr. Stillings confirm meeting Barack Obama on Mars’
Hmm, upon further reflection, (and a link I just came across) I’m gonna declare them all equally delusional.
First, some lunacy from the Mars visitors.
According to Mr. Basiago and Mr. Stillings, in Summer 1980 they attended a three-week factual seminar about Mars to prepare them for trips that were then later taken to Mars via teleportation.
In addition to Basiago and Stillings, two of the eight other teenagers in Major Dames’ class that they can identify today were Barack Obama, who was then using the name “Barry Soetoro,” and Regina Dugan, who Mr. Obama appointed the 19th director and first female director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…
Mr. Basiago states that during one of his trips to Mars via “jump room” that took place from 1981 to 1983, he was sitting on a wall beneath an arching roof that covered one of the “jump room” facilities as he watched Mr. Obama walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain. When Mr. Obama walked past him and Mr. Basiago acknowledged him, Mr. Obama stated, with some sense of fatalism: “Now we’re here!”
Mr. Stillings states that during one of his visits to Mars, he walked out of the “jump room” facility and encountered Mr. Obama standing beside the facility by himself staring vacantly into a ravine located adjacent to the facility.
For more crazy, and there is more, follow the link.
And now Orly. I can’t believe she is still at this! Even more disturbing though, is the fact that the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission would grant her an hour to spew her nonsense. But they did.
Dated Tue., Nov. 22 2011
Taitz and some foaming-at-the-piehole New Hampshire state reps filed a complaint Saturday to knock President Barack Obama off the primary ballot in the Granite State because he’s a forger and social security fraudster.
The state’s Ballot Law Commission flatly turned down the complaint with a very public 5-0 vote, causing birther bellyachers to make a showy retreat from the Concord hearing room, braying, “Treason!” “Traitors” and “You have no decency.”
After the decision, Orly’s firm grasp of reality, shone through.
“The level of corruption was unbelievable,” Taitz reportedly said later to Sharon Rondeau of something called the Post & Email. “We found out that all five members of the committee are Democrats. As I was presenting all of the evidence, people were listening and getting more and more angry.”
Of course, the chair of the commission is Brad Cook, a prominent Republican. I used to get a chuckle from people like these, but shit, when someone is this divorced from reality, it’s not a laughing matter.
The Equivocator: Canadian Politics Word(s) of the Year: 2011
Today is the final day for writing/releasing end-of-the-year posts. 2011 featured a federal election and provincial/territorial elections in Manitoba, Ontario, PEI, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Yukon and the NWT. At the end of 2011, Canada now has 4 female premiers (up from 2 at the beginning of the year), the BQ have
Continue readingLFR’s half-assed predictions for 2012
Occupy will stay underground and grow its infrastructure and goals. More and more organizations and individuals will pledge allegiance to the movement. The media will interpret this lack of visibility to the failure of Occupy and continue to treat supporters as dirty fucking hippies. The year of Occupy will have
Continue readingwmtc: happy new year: peace, love, revolution
Happy New Year to everyone in the wmtc community – friends and commenters, lurkers and loyal readers. Thank you all for being here. I wish you health, peace, and joy in the coming year. I wish the world continued revolutions.
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: None For The Road
Nation, it’s been awhile. I’ve been pretty busy – it turns out that running for a nomination is every bit as exhausting as I’d imagined. And then multiplied by 10 times. We’ve got a lot to talk about – and we will. But not today. I posted the below message
Continue readingThe BC Liberal Party’s Further Descent Into ‘American-Style’ Politics
PoliticsOfDestructionism’RUs LINOVille That was then (ie. Dec 23rd, 2011): “I don’t think Canadians welcome American-style politics. And so whether it’s American politicians or American interest groups, they all to American-style politics. And I don’t think anyone wants to welcome that in British Columbia….” Christy Clark in interview with Tom Fletcher
Continue readingCan it happen here?
A serious question, not necessarily answered in the affirmative, although I’m leaning heavily that way. Two stories caught my eye this morning. The first was a bitter reminiscence of life in a series of concentration camps (although we didn’t call them that) for Japanese-Canadians rounded up in 1942. The second
Continue readingthe reeves report: Mulcair reaches out to NDP’s environmental wing
NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair NDP MP and leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair has staked his leadership bid on the support of the NDP’s remaining environmentalists by pegging ‘sustainable development’ as the cornerstone of his campaign. It’s a policy decision he hopes will clinch him the leadership of the federal New
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 2011 Blog in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 54,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 20
Continue readingSome call them drones…
…others call them Job Creators: America’s growing drone operations rely on hundreds of civilian contractors, including some, such as the SAIC employee, who work in the so-called kill chain before Hellfire missiles are launched, according to current and former military officers, company employees and internal government documents. Relying on private
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Looking to 2012
"I made a gift for you" (click to enlarge) One of my children wrote this on my window yesterday. I will take it as my motto for 2012. Each day can I say, “I made a gift for you,” a gift of the day, a gift of my heart, of
Continue reading350 or bust: Happy Hogmanay
Tis the season for ‘best of” lists. So, to quote Julie Andrews, here are a few of my favourite things of this past year: Best book on the coming paradigm shift in “business as usual”: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by architect William McDonough & chemist Michael
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Continue readingThe Despots Win The Penant!
HeadsTheyWin TailsWeLoseVille Norm Farrell, along with every shiny, happy business page in N. America, has the story. _____ Although, to be clear, Norm tells it a little differently. .
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your year. – Paul Krugman once again laments the determination of anti-government fundamentalists to avoid learning the lessons that should have become glaringly obvious over 70 years ago: In declaring Keynesian economics vindicated I am, of course, at odds with conventional wisdom. In Washington, in particular,
Continue readingMuslim on airplane!
A story you won’t hear from the Usual Suspects. In the grand scheme of things, of course, this anecdote is no more important than this one in assessing the realities of geopolitics, terrorism and the price of tea in China. What is perhaps striking is—once again—the relative inattention paid to
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