Steve has been lonley since his ‘top’, George W. Bush, has been out of power. Oh sure, sure, there’s the occasional liason at the ranch, but it’s not enough. Steve has the driving need to be a ‘bottom’ to someone in the limelight. So Harper Valley contacted “Name That Fantasy Inc.” where they scientifically […]
The Happy Wanderer: Cut Defense!!!!!!!!!
The Defense budget in the U.S is 20% of the U.S budget. That is of course double than what it was in 2001. If the U.S wants to get back to the surplus years of the 1990’s then they will have too cut into defense heavily. Except a lot of the defense spe…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: June 16, 2011
While June 16 was a shortened day due to the NDP’s weekend convention, it wasn’t lacking for a few notes of interest.Issue of the DayWhile the Cons took the opportunity to serve notice of their intention to impose back-to-work legislation at Air Canada…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Trade talks with Europeans = “doing a back-room deal with a group of serial rapists”
What your humble e-scribbler said: this guy could be an accident waiting to happen. Wait no longer. After musing about breaking his major campaign promise to the people of his riding, noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary decided to in…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Our Foreign Affairs Minister Doesn’t Keep Up With World Events
Recently, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said: “Canada is emerging as a destination of choice for Chinese investment and Chinese investors and we welcome that”. He didn’t go into specifics beyond that and on its own merit, that’s not a news s…
Continue readingAs useless as it is, the monarchy is still better than Stephen Harper
Just ask Stephanie and Kimberly Tepper. They have been forced to write the Queen to take action to help free their father Henk Tepper, the New Brunswick farmer stuck in a Lebanese jail. Stephen Harper will not step in. Hell, he won’t even respond …
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: library books on U.S. side, checked out Canadian
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the Canada-U.S. Border http://ow.ly/5vrsV
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The Dawgly Carte Opera Company
Things have been awfully serious in here the last few days. So it’s time to stoop once again to outright theft from the late W.S. Gilbert. One half of one verse of this appeared six years ago at Stageleft…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Rationalizing Corporate Canada’s Cash Stash
Statistics Canada figures indicate that private non-financial corporations held $471 billion of cash in the first quarter of 2011 ($322 billion of Canadian currency plus $149 billion worth of foreign currency). Including short-term paper would bring this total to half a trillion dollars, enough to pay off the national debt (i.e. accumulated deficit). Cash hoarding […]
Continue readingBecause they are horrible people
People are scratching their heads over why presidential candidate Herman Cain’s Iowa staff resigned. Most are a little less perplexed by the defection of Newt Gingrich’s staff. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin have historical problems with keeping staf…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Greek bailout?
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The Indignati [middle class protesters] are not stupid, and are well aware of two salient points. First, the 'bailouts', as they are always called, are no such thing. Taxpayer-funded capital injections into otherwise bank…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Letter from Bomani Shakur of the Lucasville 5
The Lucasville 5 are five prisoners who were framed for the murder of snitches and guards in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot. The 1993 riot and hostage taking was one of the longest in u.s. prison history, and yet it ended relatively peacefully. It was…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: WikiLeaks – What Media Should be Like
Upset about troop movements and diplomatic cables being exposed to the public? Accountability and public oversight is *such* a pain. Notice how much coverage Wikileaks has been receiving from the media as of late, close to zero-ish, by my accounting and it is not accidental. Reporting actual news and happenings is dangerous and requires […]
Morton's Musings: Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene iv
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Like It or Not, DSK Reveals a Lot About Ourselves
‘Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing.’There has been no shortage of supposedly progressive bloggers who were more than ready to assume Dominique Strauss-Khan guilty of sexually assaulting a New York hotel chambermaid…
Continue readinggritchik: Leaving the rat race behind
We decided to get out of town for few days – traffic was brutal yesterday but side roads helped – for some R & R. And we must’ve needed it, too: I slept for 11 hours last night. It was the Best Sleep Ever. Whether it was the fresh country air or the beer, I […]
Morton's Musings: B.C. man launches suit over wrongful convictions
There is a common thread in wrongful convictions — a lack of disclosure. If we want to avoid sending the innocent to jail (here for nearly three decades) we cannot cut back on the obligation of prosecutors to disclose all relevant information:http://b…
Continue readingwmtc: report on war resisters fundraising dinner from u.s. peace activist bruce beyer
This past week, the Toronto chapter of the War Resisters Support Campaign hosted a fundraising dinner at the United Steelworkers Hall. These dinners, which we hold four times a year, are informal gatherings of friends and supporters, with music, campai…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janice Kennedy highlights the consequences of turning back the clock 80 years when it comes to collective bargaining rights:In the world of Stephen Harper and Co., big business rules. Period. The concep…
Continue readingWhile Marc Emery rots in jail, people wring hands over Conrad Black
Many progressives have been harsh towards Conrad Black, the fraud who has been convicted of multiple charges despite a phalanx of lawyers and friends in high places. He really is that guilty. Then again, many other progressives feel that he penal…
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