…I’m still harvesting tomatoes on October 10… Picked a half dozen yesterday and may get another two or three!
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Continue reading350 or bust: McKibbon: The Sky Does Not Belong To Exxon
Bill McKibbon addressed the crowd gathered in Washington Square this past Saturday as part of “Occupy Washington”. Here is the text of his speech, thanks to the crew over at It’s Getting Hot in Here: Today in the New York Times there …
Continue readingJane Taber and Candy Hoeppner Are Now Into Fiction: Part 1– Diabolical Wedgie Games: The Politics
Yes, Jane Taber is all ga ga giddy, again, for her precious Harpercons and this time it’s over her new girlfriend, Candy getchergun Hoeppner. Boys ‘n’ girls, Janie is all ga ga giddy this time because she is of the belief that Candy getcherguns Hoeppner, and she alone, is responsible for collapsing the . . . → Read More: Jane Taber and Candy Hoeppner Are Now Into Fiction: Part 1– Diabolical Wedgie Games: The Politics
Continue readingHow investment and helping can go in hand in hand. Or why you should learn that hoarding large sums of money is bad for the economy and humanity.
This post has been immediately inspired by a semi-recent vlog-brothers video that somebody linked me. The part that’s relevant to this post, and the part that really interested me was the website in which you can become your own banker/lender of money. To anyone, but primarily to those in the developing
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Panic of the Plutocrats
That’s the title of an excellent article by the New York Times’ Paul Krugman as he writes about the hysteria being elicited in the power elite over the implications of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. From Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, descr…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On royal demolition
Yesterday I posted about one way in which the Cons’ threat to go over the head of Canada’s governing institutions in order to hold onto power looks to have plenty of repercussions in the years to come. But let’s note another massive gap between the Con…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Motivation and demotivation #nlpoli #nlvotes
“Complacency is your greatest enemy in an election,” Progressive Conservative Leader Kathy Dunderdale said Sunday. “When it’s hard to motivate people to become engaged to get out and to cast their ballot, then you have a concern about that….
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Much on the Progressive’s Wishlist but much for which we should be grateful
We should be grateful to the occupy wall street folks who may just have started the non-violent socio-economic revolution for which we’ve all been waiting. The democratic character of this movement, the rapidity with which it is spreading, and its brea…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA. This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice,
we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We w…
Canadian Dimension Feed: Is something happening here?
Occupy Wall Street – and now Bay Street? The 99%? Conservatives losing elections all over the country? A Red Tory elected head of the Alberta Conservatives? American billionaires demanding to be taxed at higher rates?
Is something happening here…
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Canadian Thanksgiving: Marvelous Weather, Lots of Food, Much to be Grateful for
I must say straight up that I’m not at all a believer, but I do think it is instructive and good for ones spirits to now and then take stock of what one has. This has not been an easy year for us, but our experiences have been so much better than tha…
Continue readingThe Wandering Joe: Oh yeah, torture…
I’m not sure why this wasn’t more of a story during the election, but the Afghan Detainee issue has once again made the papers. Afghanistan’s internal security service and police use torture and other abusive methods to extract confessions from suspected insurgents held in a number of detention centres around
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4072…How About Some Football!!!
It is going to be a Monday night football party in suburban Windsor tonight. The venue is that cute little town across the pond from the Motor City, Deetroyit, where the Lions will be taking on the Bears of Chitown.This will be the first MNF game in a…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 30, 2011
The Harper Conservatives’ choice to talk about everything but the economy continued on September 30, with the day’s debate taken up by the Cons’ anti-refugee bill as well as a first look at the latest incarnation of Senate reform. The Big IssueLet’s gi…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4071…Imagine
Me, in a Speedo, washing my car on Thanksgiving Day in Ottawa.That is how warm it is here.The image of me in the Speedo should keep you from over eating on this festive day.WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4070…Greatest Wedding Ever
And I went to it.Last night at a bar, Nostalgica, on the campus of the University of Ottawa.I have been to prob 1000 weddings as an altar boy, dj, waiter and guest so I know of what I speak of. Bar b que with steaks or sausage, Lucky Ron playing music…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4069…Buffalo Tim Hudak Slept Well Last Night
His Bills destroyed the Dream Team Philly Iggles in Mr. Hudak’s hometown of Buffalo yesterday.At least one thing went right for him this week.Perhaps he could get his old job back working on the Peace Bridge?WFDS
Continue readingHere’s To The State Of The Golden Era….Verse 3
.Here’s to the Lies of the Era’s Spinners…In the midst of all the plenty….A decade of children going down…And the Seniors who need our help most…Get shuffled round and round…While the Helpless and most Vulnerable are shouted down by Clowns……
Continue readingThe Wandering Joe: Oh yeah, torture…
I’m not sure why this wasn’t more of a story during the election, but the Afghan Detainee issue has once again made the papers. Afghanistan’s internal security service and police use torture and other abusive methods to extract confessions from suspected insurgents held in a number of detention centres around
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Murray Dobbin comments on the role that the Occupy protest movement can play in countering corporate power that’s faced far too little opposition for far too long:Why now? Perhaps it is the international dime…
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