Harper fell off the meter as usual. I think Ann Coulter and Herman Cain made the Batshit Insane level just above Harper.Read details here.
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Garry Queale Says Video of Bus Driver Threatening Autistic Man Is "Inconclusive"
If you have yet to see the video of an OC Transpo bus driver yelling at and threatening an autistic man named Matthew Taronno, you need to see it. It’s posted at the end of this post.This is, obviously, something that offends almost every person who ev…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Wedge
The hiring of a uni-lingual English speaker has nothing to do about qualifications. Like everything else with this government, it is about throwing meat to the base and practicing wedge politics. Harper has calculated that he can rule forever if he keeps his rural-Ontario/Alberta axis intact. He knows his voters
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Wedge
The hiring of a uni-lingual English speaker has nothing to do about qualifications. Like everything else with this government, it is about throwing meat to the base and practicing wedge politics. Harper has calculated that he can rule forever if he kee…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Wedge
The hiring of a uni-lingual English speaker has nothing to do about qualifications. Like everything else with this government, it is about throwing meat to the base and practicing wedge politics. Harper has calculated that he can rule forever if he keeps his rural-Ontario/Alberta axis intact. He knows his voters
Continue readingAll You Really Need to Know About Herman Cain
Herman Cain sees the Virgin Mary on a tortilla: He has won over some voters . . . by telling them that, when he was suffering from colon cancer, he knew he would be cured because he met a hospital worker named Grace and had a surgical incision in the …
Continue readingThings Are Good: USA Can be 100% Powered by Geothermal Energy
Here at Things Are Good we like geothermal energy and countries that use it. The USA could be on the list in the future!
Researchers from SMU that have received funding from Google have released a map that shows the potential of geothermal energy production in the continental United States. The conclusion is that there is […]
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Asking for Drugs
In the Emergency Department, part of a nurse’s job in discharging patients is to figure out if they are good to go home, because in part it’s good nursing practice, but mostly you don’t want to have them bouncing back in a few hours because they didn’t understand something, or have a question. So you […]
Blunt Objects: Sask Votes 2011 – With a Liberal twist
I will be going over the Saskatchewan results tonight, and I also have a little projection running which, using all the polls so far, gives the following numbers:SaskParty – 62.7%, 44 seatsNDP – 32.6%, 14 seatsGreen – 2.5%Liberal – 1.7%Others – 0.4%Not…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Don’t Believe in Science (or Many Other Inconvenient Truths)
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Over the last year here at DeSmogBlog, my writings have converged around a set of common themes. On the one hand, I’ve shown just how factually incorrect today’s political …
Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #11
Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Trost Trashes Oda
Some additional detail around the Tory Gov’s recent decision to re-fund Planned Parenthood International that I don’t think has appeared elsewhere:
Trost said he understands that six staffers in the office of International Cooperation Minister Be…
Continue readingIs criticizing Israel "anti-Semitic"?
I shall be watching the progress of this libel trial with considerable interest. For all sorts of reasons….
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Sun Also Rises
Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times that solar power is no longer the Impossible Dream:
. . . progress in solar panels has been so dramatic and sustained that, as a blog post at Scientific American put it,
“there’s now frequent talk of a ‘Moore’s law’ in solar energy,” with
prices adjusted for inflation falling around 7 percent a year.
This has already led to rapid growth
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for November 7, 2011
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, November 7th, 2011:
Doubts about Klout undermining its, well, clout – http://goo.gl/XRUsz
Michael Power » Canada & The PATRIOT Act: Get Over It (?) -http://g…
Dead Wild Roses: Other chairs available, O provider of kibble…
Occupy the Living Room Chair, coming to a comfy seat near you! Filed under: Humour Tagged: 3 cats, Cute, Kittens, Occupy Armchair
gay persons of color: Melissa Etheridge criticizes Australia’s failure to recognize equality
In reference to Australian leader Julia Gillard’s stance against equal civil rights, openly gay American singer Melissa Etheridge told The Sunday Telegraph:”It’s kind of ridiculous that we are completely contributing citizens and in this day and age, w…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: One of these things is not like the other
89% of domestic shooting homicide victims are female.
The bill before Parliament will make it easier for domestic abusers to arm up.
John Rafferty and Bruce Hyer are upset that they were disciplined for supporting that bill.
Continue readingHarper should reveal his Donors
The Harper Conservatives want to end to make it harder to get a loan to run for leader of a party. They want to make sure the loan is for $1100 or less from an individual or is from a bank or credit union. Sounds like a smart policy. This way we …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: What recession? Profits, greed and gifting thrive in TV land by John Doyle
Recently the CRTC released figures about commercial Canadian TV stations, showing their operating revenues in broadcasting came to $2.15-billion in 2010 – an increase of 9 per cent from 2009.
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