More sleaze reports: Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement Congressional perks: Lawmakers’ most surprising benefits Super-PACs and Dark Money: ProPublica’s Guide to the New World of Campaign Finance More Money Can Beat Big Money
Continue readingOWS gives Luntz The Fear
Scary Occupy Wall Street has given infamous GOP strategist Frank Luntz The Fear: The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada’s Mandate At Durban Climate Talks Clear: Negotiate On Behalf Of Tar Sands, Not Canadians’ Future
A perspective on Day 5 of the Durban climate negotiations, from Ani, a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation representing Manitoba at the Durban climate conference. Ani works as a Public Education and Outreach Coordinator for Climate Change Connection, a project of the Manitoba Eco-Network. To read more, visit Ani’s
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Old Talking Points Die Hard: "Climate Change Is Beneficial" Edition
Climate-Change.jpg If you follow the cycle of anti-climate change talking points, you’ll notice a pattern that repeats itself every few years. In between spurts of outright denial, the anti-science crowd will occasionally revert back to a less-heard talking point: Climate change is actually a good thing. Even as the year
Continue readingcartoon life: My favourite kitty
Filed under: art, cartoon, digital, drawing Tagged: Cat, hair, shed
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy Christmas
OCCUPY CHRISTMAS! (Santa photo originally from from Tumbleweed:-) and released under Creative Commons license) Santa’s been abusing the 99% elves at his North Pole cold-shop. Lt. Pike comes to the elves’ rescue with his peppermint candy cane spray.
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Eddie Long divorce – on again, off again
Friday morning; I’m divorcing my husband. Court papers filed. Vanessa Long has been married to Eddie Long, head of the Atlanta New Birth Missionary Baptist Church since 1990, it is Eddie Long’s second marriage. Vanessa Long stated in the filing that the Long marriage was irretrievably broken with no hope
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Sharing urban roads
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Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Smeared But Still Fighting, Cornell’s Tony Ingraffea Debunks Gas Industry Myths
ingraffea.jpg Cornell University Professors Robert Howarth and Anthony Ingraffea made waves in April 2011 when they unveiled what is now known simply as the "Cornell Study." Published in a peer-reviewed letter in the academic journal Climatic Change Letters, the study revealed that, contrary to the never-ending mythology promulgated by the gas
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rob Ford Continues To Make An Ass of Himself
While the title of this post might strike many as redundant, even I, despite having borne witness to a great deal of asinine behaviour over the years, was surprised to see the following headline on The Star’s website a few minutes ago: Mayor Rob Ford to Toronto: Don’t read the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: One Bank to Rule them All
Centrist and leftist economists have been spending a lot of column inches wondering what has possessed the European central bank top brass lately. Even some mainstream to right-wing economists seem disturbed. The general consensus seems to be that the European crisis could have been avoided by the ECB acting as
Continue readingAide: Prime Minister’s hairpiece made in China
OTTAWA – A former aide to Prime Minister Cowboy Steve said today that the leader’s hairpiece was made in China. The PMO staffer, who left the government in July, also asserted that the piece was ‘prêt-à-porter’, rather than custom made. “Honest to God, with all his money, power and status
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: Caught between two worlds
With all the negative news coming out of Attawapiskat these days it’s easy to simply assign blame to a) the government; b) the reserve; c) the Canadian public, or d) all of the above. And in spite of the government’s assigning of a third-party manager the solution will, in all
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tories Make Play For Anti-Xmas Vote
…cave to radical Xmasists in HOC. So close. If they had banned celebrating they would have earned my vote forever. Meanwhile, its time once again for the annual Liberal War on Xmas. I will fight alone if I must, but I thought for a moment I had the Harper gov. on-side. In
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Setting aside a default
Roth v. Bourollias, 2011 ONCA 760, released today, deals with setting aside a default. In general on a motion to set aside a default, the court will consider: (a) whether the motion to set aside the judgment was brought promptly; (b) where there is a plausible excuse or explanation
Continue readingthe woodshed: I’d like to give the whole world a big hug…
Shamelessly stolen from PZ over at Pharyngula, music by Jonathan Colton, whose work you really, really need to become more familiar with. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Let’s Occupy #Attawapiskat in Twitter on December 7
I wrote a piece the other day on Attawapiskat, and how it enrages me. Not just the case in those communities, but how it’s representative of Canada’s largely racist relationship with first nations and, frankly, all “disposable” people. This, by the way, is an amazing piece with essential information about
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: No Wonder Harper Adores the American Right
How debased, how low-fallen has America become that a leading candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination can get away with saying something like this? Watch Newt Gingrich lament how America’s poor children won’t work “unless it’s illegal.” Get’em out to work just as soon as they can hold a
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Jobs Waning, Debt Mounting, Wages Slipping: A Bleak Outlook
Here are some followup comments that supplement my last post. The emerging picture of the Canadian economy is bleak. Inscribed as every government in the Western world is in neoclassical economic policy that shapes the global economy, the blame can be easily spread around, but our own government could be
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Ezra Levant’s Rant Has a Ring of Truth, But His Din is Deafening
One of my right-wing friends asked me to watch Ezra Levant’s take on the Attawapiskat crisis, feeling, I suppose, that he presented a compelling argument. Levant is right when he suggests that it is hypocritical for Charlie Angus to use the photos of the devastation against Stephen Harper. Angus has
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