The right can now play it down as the work of a lone nut. If he was a brown Muslim, well, let’s just say they would have portrayed him as typical. Take a look here and read the comments, you can see both arguments at play on same page (with a side of s…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Stephen Harper: Pay No Attention To The Stats Can Man Behind The Curtain
The other day I wrote about the fact that statistic show serious crime in Canada to be at a 40-year-low. Despite this, of course, the Harper Government is marching headlong in its pursuit of measures to combat crime, including, of course, the building …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
If there’s any good news in the report that it’s apparently impossible to keep corporate sponsorship off even the most political of public functions, it’s that it should be highly entertaining to see where the trend goes next. I for one look forward to…
Continue readingNorwegian terrorism: eggs, meet faces
Awkward. The mass murderer who set off a bomb in Oslo and opened fire on a bunch of kids in a camp turns out to be a right-wing, Christian, anti-Muslim activist, an admirer of Geert Wilders, an “ethnic Norwegian,” as…
Continue readingRedBedHead: KPMG – Helping Tax Dodgers & Corporate Fraudsters Everywhere
The Ford Bros Circus of Stupid decided that the best way to figure out which services we ought to toss on the bonfire was to hire auditing firm KPMG. Well, that’s not quite true. Doug Ford has said that they want to “outsource (privatize) everything t…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Science – It works B*tches – Why, rationally, you must accept Evolution
It is nice knowing that you are fairly right about something. Evolution happens to be one of those topics in that category. The funny/sad part is running across people who still “don’t get it” and either are deluded or have let their misplaced skepticism get the better of them. I try unsuccessfully to hide my […]
Anders Behring Breivik: portrait of a right wing extremist
While authorities work overtime to find international connections, the only known assailant in the deaths of 91 Norwegians is a deranged Christian fundamentalist terrorist known as Anders Behring Breivik.A devotee of far right wing Islamophobes Pam Ge…
Continue readinggritchik: Leaving books for strangers is a “thing”
So says my daughter. She was coming home from work on the subway the other night and found this book on the seat.
I love that people do this!
Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Gary Bauer’s Focus is the Harper Government’s Vision
I Burned my Bra For This? REAL Women of Canada and the Men Behind ThemAnother soldier in the war against American women, who helped to the launch a similar war against Canadian women, is Gary Bauer. Bauer was with the Moral Majority/Religious Right pol…
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change – Lite
Some Saturday fun – a cat caught barking until she notices the human:
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Hot Day, Light on Leaves
If you ever wondered about the value of street trees, here’s an object lesson. The trees across the street from our temporary digs shade the buildings there, which means they don’t receive nearly the same energy from the sun. The leaves are nearly bl…
Continue readingRecreating Eden: What Is That Mushroom Cloud Advancing on the City? Just an Amazing Thunderstorm?
This is a link from a friend from the storm we had Thursday night. The view from the terrace here was very similar, and I stood and watched the rising cloud for quite a while, as the lightning flashed. What it reminded me of was the photos of the A b…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Shorter Cosh
A right wing terrorist killed over 80 people in Norway, so Norway should adopt right wing penal policies.I call that the Obama Solution.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Children’s Hour
Ezra Klein cuts to the chase in today’s Washington Post. The White House wanted $400 billion in revenues, and John Boehner knew he couldn’t get the deal through the House:But you can’t get a deal unless you can get the votes. And what’s been clear …
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: An observation on the Norway bombings/shootings
As you’ve no doubt heard, a far right extremist gunman who holds anti-immigration, anti-Muslim views decided to vent his wrath on the governing Socialist Party in Norway yesterday, blowing up a government building and then massacring scores of young socialist teenager members on an island. The death toll is horrific.
I’m waiting for those on the extreme right of the blogosphere/political spectrum to declare Canada should be deporting all Norwegians; you know; paint the whole nation of Norway with one prejudicial brush as they do with Muslims, and as they did yesterday before the actual facts came out. The rush to presuming it was a) Al-Queda, and b) declaring […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Haunted Friday
On Friday April and I went to Kensington and its haunted mansion. It’s a historic house from the 1800s, redone into a haunted house and theme park with rides. The best parts were the gardens though. As we got to the end of the outdoor part, the sky opened up and it started to pour. […]
Trashy's World: Canada’s right – many are narrow minded and reactive hypocrites
I might have more to say about this later, but for now I just want to highlight the idiocy of some on the right of the spectrum here in Canada. Yesterday, when the news broke about the tragedy in Norway, the response by many in the Twitterverse, blogosphere and in the comments sections of news […]
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Traffic in the heat of the Summer of Love 2011
Fire trucks, Twitter and a 60 year old who dropped a hundred pounds in six months wanting a job today she didn’t want six months ago. Must be the Summer of Love 2011. All that is fodder for another post. For now let’s just check out the 10 …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Norway: The Horror and the Sorrow
If you sail a boat in a straight line off this Scottish beach where I played when I was a boy, it won’t be too long before you’ll find yourself in Norway.Which is why I know them so well, why this hurts so much.A lone political extremist bombed th…
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