Last Friday, exactly one year after the massive natural gas pipeline blast that killed eight and leveled a San Bruno, California neighborhood, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) brought the controversial New Jersey-New York gas line one st…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On wedges
Greg offers up an important response to the Cons’ initial line of attack on Brian Topp. But let’s also note how the latest barrage fits into the Cons’ broader strategy in taking on the NDP.Remember what happened as part of the silly season of summer, w…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Debt Crisis: A Case of False Memory Syndrome
The acclaimed author, Milan Kundera, has written that, “The struggle of man
against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” But the ongoing
world financial crisis shows how false memories can fool us and make us
unable to confr…
Writings of J. Todd Ring: The schizoid nature of the Western world: Overcoming the root paradox of Western civilization – and our own minds
The Western world is still trapped in a paradox and a self-contradiction of our own making: we are schizoid with regards to the body, the material world and to our physicality. On the one hand, we have, as people of the modern world, embraced our physi…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: It’s a Good Thing Tim Hudak Wasn’t Around When Plavnice Podatransk Came to Canada
The latest Tim Hudak ad focuses on his grandfather, a Czech immigrant who “believed in the value of hard work”. There is even a close up shot of his immigration papers dated 1898.All I can say is that it was a good thing that Tim Hudak wasn’t around th…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Polluters Join Forces To Pressure Obama On Oil And Gas Drilling
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In the wake of President Obama’s speech on job creation last week, major players in the energy industry have banded together to put pressure on the president to speed u…
Continue readingDTK: Oh, Dear Hudak.
It should have been easy to run McGuinty out of town. Why, he raised taxes! Horrors! There’s unemployment and everyone blames unemployment on the current government. Gas prices are high. That green energy thing seems like such a rip off. And still, Timmy-boy, you screwed it up. You screwed it
Continue readingDTK: Oh, Dear Hudak.
It should have been easy to run McGuinty out of town. Why, he raised taxes! Horrors! There’s unemployment and everyone blames unemployment on the current government. Gas prices are high. That green energy thing seems like such a rip off. And still, Timmy-boy, you screwed it up. You screwed it
Continue readingDTK: Oh, Dear Hudak.
It should have been easy to run McGuinty out of town. Why, he raised taxes! Horrors! There’s unemployment and everyone blames unemployment on the current government. Gas prices are high. That green energy thing seems like such a rip off.And still,…
Continue readingCRTC to limit ear bleed volume of commercials
It took long enough. Canadian TV is an annoying business. Mostly due to commercials. I rarely watch anything that has commercials. I’m pretty much stuck with them because I watch sports. I’ve gotten pretty good at hitting the Mute button when a commerc…
Continue readingI was directed to this doc by one of the denizens of okc…
The Pipe thepipethefilm.com In a remote corner of the West of Ireland sits Broadhaven Bay. It is the perfect picture postcard, where the high cliffs of Erris Head and the Stags of Broadhaven stand sentry at the mouth of the bay against the mighty Atla…
Continue readingLeDaro: Amnesty International: Rebels also carried out torture and killings
“Rebels as well as pro-Gaddafi forces have perpetrated killings, torture and other abuses during the uprising against the Libyan regime, say human rights investigators.” The GuardianSo when Harper and other NATO nations intervened in Libya they sai…
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Presenting Mount Allison’s Year of Science and Discovery President’s Speakers Series
Every year, Mount Allison decides on a theme for its speaker’s series. This year’s speakers are among the most renowned scholars in their fields. This year’s list is below along with a link to the Mount Allison organized Facebook events.
I think many…
Continue readingGlobe: China’s Xinhua a trap for unwary Western politicians
No Globe & Mail, your headline is wrong. It should read: “China’s Xinhua a trap for unwary ‘Harper Government’ officials”. Let’s be honest here, OK?
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Tim Hudak’s Kamikaze Run
Hand’s up those who think it is politically smart to go into a city with 9.1% unemployment and tell the voters he is going to cut 200 more jobs? Also, who thinks it is good policy to cut government spending in a recession? Tim Hudak that’s who. Good lu…
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: epic rap: dr. seuss vs shakespeare
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Continue readingBuckdog: Teaparty Republicans Cheer The Concept Of Letting Someone Without Health Insurance …. DIE
(Republican Leadership televised debate – September 12, 2011)If you are not completely disgusted by the value system of Right wing extremists, then there is something wrong with your sense of being a human being. In their world, if you have money – you…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: My own thoughts on the Livent appeal
There will be howls that the sentences are too short. I disagree. The two convicts are not young men and a sentence of several years is a long sentence for anyone. Picture being locked away, your freedom of movement gone even for a week — it's not…
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Inside the wire
Taliban gun attack, explosions rock Kabul Afghan security forces were battling with Taliban gunmen near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Tuesday after insurgents launched an unprecedented, multi-pronged attack on the city. That CTV story went up just a few minutes ago and the word "unprecedented" is used at least a couple more times. If you want updates, you might be better to keep an eye on this Guardian piece which is set up to be updated in real time. It’s not clear to me that this is over. This reinforces two things I’ve suggested recently. The first is that Canadian troops aren’t a whole lot safer for being pulled out of Kandahar and reassigned to a training mission. The second is that despite the optimistic assurances of everyone from the top military brass to Pamela Wallin, I think we’re losing. We’re not accomplishing anything by remaining there….
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: McGuinty’s Graph Misleads on Corporate Taxes
Further to Jim’s excellent critique of the Ontario Conservative platform’s graphs, I am similarly struck by the Liberal platform’s lone graph. “Cutting Ontario’s Taxes on New Business Investment in Half” (page 25) purports to show that corporate tax cuts are required to get the province’s “Marginal Effective Tax Rate” below the US and OECD averages. […]
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