When a sailing lesson turns into a swimming lesson.Hey guys…follow the boat with the motor and you’ll be fine.Or in the case of BBC Scotland, you can’t tell the difference between the weather woman and Rudolph Hess…The good news? It was the 7:30 am…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Harper’s plans for the Senate will create a showdown against the provinces.
Senate showdown looms – thestar.comOn one side, there will be the Conservative government. On the other side will be the opposition parties (or, at least the NDP) and the provinces – many of which would like to abolish the Senate altogether (as the NDP…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats under the table.
Continue readingDany Morin talks about his first three weeks
It’s time to start my end-of-sitting (brief as it was) roundups, starting first with new NDP MP Dany Morin. I spoke with Morin after Question Period today.Q: How has it been the past three weeks?A: The past three weeks were great, very informativ…
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Guest Blog: Micah Goldberg on Senate Reform
In America, the Book, Samantha Bee half-jokingly wrote that Canadians were too polite to cause a fuss over our redundant Senate. Seemingly, the times have changed. Senate reform has recently become a fairly hot topic in Canada, especially since our … Continue reading →
Buckdog: LulzSec ‘Mastermind’ – 19 year old Ryan Cleary Arrested For Hacking CIA , Sony, Nintendo, US Senate Computers
A teenage “recluse” who lives with his mother in Essex was being questioned by police last night on suspicion of masterminding an international computer hacking group. Ryan Cleary, the 19-year-old son of a college lecturer, is accused of being a
Continue readingOne year after G20: Activist Jaggi Singh’s sentence suspended…
By CLAC-Montréal; June 21, 2011 – rabble.cahttp://rabble.ca/news/2011/06/one-year-after-g20-activist-ja… Montreal, June 21, 2011 — Today, Montrealer Jaggi Singh, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), was sentenced for “inciting” peo…
Continue readingMeet British Tory Backbencher, Philip Davies–He Can Make Harpercon Cheerleaders Blush
I probably shouldn’t be blogging about this asshole, as I’m sure our labour minister, Ms Lisa Raitt would no doubt, find him, well, sexy. However, I’m sure what backward, assinine this British Tory backbencher is pushing will no doubt find its’ way here in Harperland and in the US, to make the tea-baggers . . . → Read More: Meet British Tory Backbencher, Philip Davies–He Can Make Harpercon Cheerleaders Blush
Continue readingLet me go out on a limb here; RCMP will find Cons did nothing wrong with G8 spending
Just a guess.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: We’re quite interested in what you have to say. Just not right now.
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Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Treaty 8 First Nations appeal to the UN to intervene against proposed Site C Dam
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Treaty 8 First Nations have taken their struggle against the proposed Site …
Continue readingLet’s be Marines! Get over DADT
Sgt. Maj. Barrett speaking to new Marines and I suspect to the attackers of DADT …
Sgt. Maj. Barrett, top ranked enlisted man in US Marines
“Get over it,” he said. “We’re magnificent, we’re going to continue to be. … Let’s just move…
On back to work legislation. Whoa, deja vu.
So, another conservative (note the small “c”) government, another round of back to work legislation. Canada violates its international obligations yet again, and is again grouped with such shining lights of liberty as Colombia. It’s the same old song a…
Continue readingthe reeves report: RCMP finally investigates Muskoka’s G8 ‘Legacy Infrastructure’
Uh oh – time for Tony Clement to get all huffy and defiant again because dammit, we just wont go away with the questions about how $50M was distributed throughout Muskoka! Circle the wagons, ’cause the RCMP are coming, Tony! First off, it’s about damn time someone looked into this! Chances are when something looks … Continue reading »
Impolitical: The results are in
While it’s interesting to have a glance at an early sense from Canadians on how they’re feeling about what they just elected federally, part of this Nanos poll seems utterly useless: About one-third of survey respondents (32.3 per cent) said Prime Mini…
Continue readingThey are going to create a monster here
“They are going to create a monster here, because you will have at the end of the day … an elected body that may or may not be elected, that the Prime Minister may or may not accept the recommendations that come out of an election. It’s going to …
Continue readingBuckdog: National Aboriginal Day – June 21, 2011
First Nations singers / drum group – ‘Iron Swing’ from Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats
Continue readingWhy the dolphins are smarter than us—recently revealed
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, animal advocate and a very funny man, once observed that, “Man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so o…
Continue readingHe robbed a bank of one dollar to get health care
North Carolina man robs store for a dollar so he can get health care in prison for medical problem
"The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," he told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of hit a brick wall with everything." With little money to his name and many medical problems, including a growth on his chest, two ruptured disks and an unidentified problem with his left foot, he said the