Zorg Report: Justice Lampooned — Media Covers the Shafia Sentencing — America Shames Canada and Britain

Justice Lampooned  —  Media Covers the Shafia Sentencing  — America Shames Canada and Britain First up, the always bemused and inarticulate Andrew whatshishead on CBCNN, utterly out of his depth and dismayingly inarticulate.  He was joined by a greasy-headed kid named D’Souza, who embarrassed second-year journalism students everywhere with his

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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Make It Stop

“Unlike Big Oil, [greens] are not transparent about their motives.” – Financial Post complaining about American environmental groups who oppose leaky pipelines destined to spoil freshwater and the Pacific coast. And what are Big Oil’s unvarnished motives: A car in every driveway, and a top hat and monocle for every

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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Leaky New Year

Anonymous has cracked into Stratfor. What’s that? It’s a Shadow CIA that kept customer’s credit card info unencrypted and allowed mysterious “Robin Hood Hackers” access to millions of sensitive emails. What will we learn from those emails when they are eventually leaked? Probably super-cool stuff will be revealed. So far

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Blast Furnace Canada Blog: If you can’t track the guns, you can’t track the criminals

The Brady Law in the States, which is supposed to ensure felons don’t have access to guns (they are supposed to be flagged by a background check), has proven to be a joke, the NYT reports today.   In just one state — the State of Washington — nearly 3300 convicts have had their "right to bear arms" that they forfeited, restored.   In one case, a man out of jail for just two months shot dead his

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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy A Job

There is no shortage of angry people with no civics training, calling for Occupy Regina (Wall Street) protesters to “get a job”. As an Occupy Regina protester, I have a job. If I wasn’t employed, I’d still find a job volunteering, while I look for other paid employment. Those volunteering their time in Victoria Park […]

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