New Democrat Party leader Jack Layton was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009. He also underwent hip surgery just before the recent federal election campaign. Today he announced that he has a new cancer and is taking a leave of absence. The federal …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Mayor Ford: User Fees For Everyone…But Him
You probably don’t need me to tell you that Rob Ford is a hyprocrite and a liar in addition to being a mean-spirited prick. All that is apparent every time he opens his mouth. Nonetheless, it is useful to see the many ways in which he brings himself in…
Continue readingOur ugly government
My friend and sparring partner deBeauxOs has a post up that everyone should read. And be sure to follow the link. Just a few weeks in office with their majority, and the Harper thugs are trying everything in their…
Continue readingIIlicit money flows
Not really into re-blogging articles but this essay effectively puts money laundering and corruption into context. It is useful for explaining key processes in the ‘the web of secrecy, collusions and the players that drive and sustain the world o…
Continue readingCNN’s Erick Erickson: “Secular leftists and Islamists are both of this world. Christians may be traveling through, but we are most definitely not of the world.”
Yep, he said that. And I must say, I agree. At least about the ‘leftists’ part. We are definitely of this earth. As for those non-leftists floating around in the ether, good luck to you! Hope you arrive at your destination in one piece. Oops, that was supposed to be . . . → Read More: CNN’s Erick Erickson: “Secular leftists and Islamists are both of this world. Christians may be traveling through, but we are most definitely not of the world.”
Continue readingThe Dominion blogs: Dispatches from a pool shark on the frontlines of Suburbia – Part 1
suburbia_diver_web.jpg Not that type of pool. I’m a lifeguard. I work at private swimming pools all around the island of Montreal as a substitute or stand-in. When you’re sick or don’t want to work for whatever reason, I’m your guy. I’ll bike over to your pool and sit there for
Continue readingThings Are Good: Bike Sharing at a Women’s Shelter
Despite the local mayors attempts to stop cycling in Toronto, Torontonians are all about bicycling into the future. Now a local women’s shelter has stepped up to help women of Toronto in a related way: by providing the women they help with wheels.
The idea, the shelter said in a news release is to “provide women […]
Morton's Musings: If you get a tweet saying "someone said this really bad thing about you" DON’T FOLLOW THE LINK!!!
It is a bogus phishing program. Trust me, if people say bad things they do it openly… .
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Sentence appeals
R. v. Preddy, 2011 BCCA 324 is a helpful source for the law regarding the limited scope of sentence appeals: [17] Sentence appeals are limited in scope. The approach to be taken by …
Continue readingMorons and lunatics
The prescient Umberto Eco, in Foucault’s Pendulum: A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn’t know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has a logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic, on the…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford refused to pay election fines
City officials waived fines related to Ford’s election campaign – The Globe and MailRob Ford was fined $13,362.25 for 483 infractions of the bylaw governing the placement of election signs. He delayed almost a month past the due day for appealing the…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Norway: Terrible Side-Effect of Islamophobia
The horror, tragedy and seeming madness of the killing spree in Norway are almost impossible to imagine. There is a temptation to focus on the mourning and solidarity with people in Norway and to resist analysis as something cold and foreign to the hum…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Forget Tornadoes. Lets Talk–Unendingly–About Heat Waves and Global Warming
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Earlier this year, I grew uncomfortable with attempts to link the massive tornado destruction that we saw in the U.S. to climate change. As I explained then—based on an int…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Mark Steyn Sees The Truth
And then starts tap dancing as fast as he can. Sorry Mark, you are not being “fitted up”, but called out. No need to fit you up, your writing speaks for itself.Some of us believe this is an early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war. If the insurgents em…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Puppets in Revolt: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and the United States
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Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: First things first
Meanwhile, for those wondering what the NDP has been up to in its first summer as Official Opposition, the Hill Times has part of the answer:(W)ith so many new and young MPs, the question begs asking about whether or not this year’s summer caucus meeti…
Continue reading350 or bust: Response to Norway Horror: Faced With Inhumanity, We Must Be More Human
The contrast between Norway’s response to the brutal terror attacks last Friday and that of the United States after 9/11 couldn’t be starker. Imagine if President Bush had instead said, like Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg,…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Compare and contrast
One party’s response to a limited amount of Parliamentary resources:“New Democrat MPs were responsible for 56 per cent of all private members’ motions, and 59 per cent of all private members’ bills. Compared to other parties, that’s four times …
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: is rob anders only supportin’ morton? anders loyalists flocking to wildrose.
Proving again why he should never be trusted with the responsibility to stand-in for a cabinet minister at a press conference, Calgary-West Member of Parliament Rob Anders, inappropriately used his time at the podium to boast his support for Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Ted Morton. This is hardly the first time Mr. Anders has displayed […]
Continue readingThe Mumpsimus Blog site Community Blog List: The Mumpsimus Blog – Myth, storytelling and modern writing
Back in 1949, Joseph Campbell, a follower of Carl Jung, wrote a book called The Hero With a Thousand Faces. It traced the story of the ‘hero’s journey’ through the world’s mythology, showing how every major tale, regardless of culture, shared common el…
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