Mr. Speaker, from 1913 to 1956, a period of over 40 years, time limits on debates were used 10 times. In the last 40 days, a time limit has been used seven times, making a new historical record. What used to be the exception to the rule appears to now be
Continue readingLife...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2011-11-05 22:32:00
Harper gives the Princess a big sloppy kiss at 1:10. !!
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Our own mind being narrow and contracted, we cannot extend our conception to the variety and extent of nature, but imagine that she is as much bounded in her operations as we are in our speculation.
David HumeA frightening insight. All we see is all we can comprehend but … reality may well be far greater than that.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Elizabeth May blocked from speaking on Remembrance Day
I'm sure there is a 'reason' but… . Even if she is technically an independent she does head a Party and she should have been allowed to speak:Elizabeth May (From her FB page)"I had planned to make a statement marking Remembrance Day …
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Remember, remember…
Crappy weekend, everyone! And Happy Bonfire Night to all you Brits and Guy Fawkes fans out there. Oh gawd, it’s November…or if you’re a guy trying to grow a ‘stache (a Guy Fawkes-style one?) for prostate-cancer awareness/fundraising, MOvember. And today was Bank Transfer Day, for those of you in the States (and elsewhere) trying to […]
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Appointment of Next Auditor General Betrays Conservatives’ Contempt of Canada’s Bilingualism
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Angelo Persichilli as his director of communications, he showed the Conservatives contempt of Quebec and the French language. The Toronto native can’t speak French. Last Thursday’s appointment of Michael…
Continue readingcmkl: Lemon of a battery
So the first battery I got with my laptop lasted six years, more than twice the number of anticipated charge cycles. The one I got to replace it in February is now dead. Or more accurately, it thinks it’s charged only it has exactly 0 mAh of power in it.
Continue readingTake off, eh?: Watching Hockey on TV
Just saw the "Stopthesteamroller.com" commercial; the sad last swing of a side going down. Oh well. Farmers are about to lose their wheat board, just as Quebecers are losing the gun registry that they approve of. Neither of these Tory moves were a surprise, were they? And yet, they won
Continue readingTake off, eh?: Watching Hockey on TV
Just saw the “Stopthesteamroller.com” commercial; the sad last swing of a side going down.
Oh well.
Farmers are about to lose their wheat board, just as Quebecers are losing the gun registry that they approve of.
Neither of these Tory moves were a surprise, were they? And yet, they won a majority last election. Go figure eh?
I could yammer on about compromise and the value of having a big-tent party closer to the middle of the spectrum, but what would be the point?
I hope people remember this next election, but I won’t bet on it.
Continue readingSun Media whines about expenses of Harper-appointed CBC boss
Hey Fox News wannabes, perhaps you would be better suited to complaining about the CBC if you didn’t go after Stephen Harper-appointed Hubert Lacroix. He’s only doing what the Conservatives do – living lavishly at the taxpayers’ expense.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Commonwealth Business Council Picks In-house Denier To Chair Climate Forum
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IF you were going to have a serious high-level discussion about, say, improving science teaching in schools, then who would you invite to chair the meeting?
How about an astrologer? …
Scott Walker gets mic checked!
From the estimable Brad Blog, I find this video from a speech by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at a Chicago engagement both amusing and important. We need more of this. Cross Posted at Let Freedom Rain
Continue readingCherry picking: military school pulls award to HNIC talking head
Don Cherry’s statement paints himself as the victim, of course. But the reality is not so kind to the puffed up bigot of Hockey Night in Canada. Expect Conservatives to recommence their bawling about liberal thugs tampering with the rights of…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Canadian Governments Lack Political Courage?
On Friday, Chantal Hebert published a provocative column in the Toronto Star arguing that Canadian politicians are populists who lack “political courage” and, in the wake of the last courageous decision to create our new Constitution in 1981, have preferred to engage in meaningless populist grandstanding while the Supreme Court “takes the lead” in deciding […]
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: In Over Their Heads
Bill Maher’s rebuttal to the right-wing talking point that President Obama is a failure because he’s “in over his head”…
You can watch the entire show at this site.
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Mistrusted neighbour
“Salmon farming along the British Columbia coast has expanded with encouragement from both Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and the B.C. provincial government.
The Canadian federal fisheries department is in a contradictory role. I…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Has the game changed or merely the players?
Recently, I was amused by a certain radio news-talk host angrily sputtering in response to callers’ claims that he was partial and passive in political coverage. He replied that, in a very long career, he’d followed his own conscience; management had …
Continue readingTrashy's World: Matt Schaub or Matt Cassel?
Schaub against the Browns which rank #3 against QBs. He is without top wide-out Andre Johnson again. But he has been quite consistent without him. Cassel is up against a PATHETIC Fish defense (#31 ranked). The Dolphins have yet to win a game. But they …
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