One of the few benefits of not having any political power is that you get to sit back and watch the majority power fall all over its own ideology and arrogance.
Less than 40% of Canada voted for these guys. That’s not a mandate for anything other than doing . . . → Read More: Outasite! Supreme Court bludgeons Con ideology with reality.
Continue readingIn Saudi Arabia, the religious police regularly patrol the country for citizens who may be flaunting the Kingdom’s version of Islam, especially when it pertains to women exposing too much flesh.
Think this kind of thing only happens in the in the medieval backwoods of Riyadh? Think again. In Brooklyn’s Park Slope . . . → Read More: Time for another Slutwalk, this time in Brooklyn
Continue readingWell, this latest antic from the Harpercons, specifically, pitbull Johnny Baird, could fall under a few files: austerity for thee but not for me, do as I say and not as I do, Liberal Derangement Syndrome and removing all signs of Canadian identity.
Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, Pitbull Johnny has ordered up the . . . → Read More: I Guess Displaying Canadian Symbol is Exempt for Some And a Tiara With That, Mr. Baird?
Continue readingUPDATE: Anthony J. Hall, from the Comments at Let Freedom Rain:
I attempt to put the whole Vancouver Club/Jack Cram/pedophilia/BC Indian title scandal in broader context in chapter 8 of my new book, Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization and Capitalism McGill-Queen’s University Press).
Where is the investigation into the police treatment meted out . . . → Read More: The Vancouver Club, Dick Cheney and pedophilia: a tale of perversion, politics and privilege
Continue readingBoys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons want to hold a parliamentary hearing regarding the future of the CBC, basically. And guess who their star witnesses will be? Yup! You guessed it! Pierre-Karl Peladeau, Ezzy Levant, and of course, king McCarthyist of the CBC watch, Brian Lilley-white. Oh yeah! Like they’re going to reliable, impartial . . . → Read More: And Now, Introducing the Witness for The Harpercon Prosecution, Fox News North!
Continue readingWikileaks has uncovered a mystery worthy of a Hitchcock film, involving a Canadian, the infamous Bagram prison, schizophrenia and the disappearance of a man into thin air.
Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail is an Canadian-Egyptian mistakenly captured in Kandahar in 2006 and detained for 18 months in Bagram while authorities decided what to do with him.
. . . → Read More: What happened to What happened to Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail??
Continue readingMan, these Conservatives sure know how to lie live the high life. Tuxedos, lobsters, jets, search-and-rescue helicopter rides.
I should be born again as a Conservative. Like waking up one morning and realizing I didn’t have to be accountable to anyone or anything. I could do as I please, dine like a king, get chauffeured around at my . . . → Read More: Killer elite. Peter MacKay took military jet to dine on lobsters.
Continue readingWell, not the real Sun News Network. But 22 Minutes’ Geri Hall does a bang-on impression of a Krista Erickson Fox News North type host ‘quizzing’ Margaret Atwood. It goes something like this:
Host: “Don’t libaries (sic) cause cancer”?
Atwood: “Of course not”.
Host “Oh, I didn’t realize you were a medical doctor? . . . → Read More: BREAKING. Fox News North quotes Margaret Atwood: “Libaries (sic) cause cancer”
Continue readingAt which point will Harper pull out the bathroom break trick?
A. Not getting what he wants out of Ban Ki-moon.
B. David Cameron resists Harper’s warmondering on Libya.
C: Leaders express disgust with Harper’s lack of commitment to women and children.
Cross posted at Let Freedom . . . → Read More: Harper off to UN
Continue readingHaroon Siddiqui hits these columns out of the park. Much needed to be said but our media has been reluctant to shout out the obvious.
‘Islamophobia: The new anti-Semitism‘
Just as the Muslim world turned against the U.S. and Europe, Americans and Europeans turned against Muslims, including their own minorities, nearly half of . . . → Read More: Two powerful Star columns on Islamophobia. The new anti-Semitism. Tactics of Islamophobes.
Continue readingDan Gardner goes in-depth on what is really a simple story. The Liberals established a solid economic foundation, preparing Canada in the case of hard times … or Conservatives. Both have happened. Once in power, the Conservatives promptly took the credit for Canada’s economic stewardship. As the country’s deficit continues to grow and government . . . → Read More: Vancouver Sun: Canada’s economic miracle exposed
Continue readingFrom the estimable Where I Wander blog:
Continue readingIt always strikes me as odd when non-right wingers embrace Ron Paul, treating him like some kind of old man puppy dog. While his stand on overseas wars and drugs are enlightened, his other views are somewhat less than enlightened – let’s just say, downright medieval. You know, in a ‘let em . . . → Read More: Compassionate conservatism XXIV: Ron Paul demonstrates his compassionate side
Continue readingI haven’t had that much exposure to Fox News North but from what I’ve seen there’s obviously something fishy happening at that network which is symptomatic of a bigger issue with the North American right-wing male of the species. Listening to Brian Lilley’s chipmunk voice or recoiling from Mark Bonokoski’s lispy spittle or . . . → Read More: Sun News Network and the emasculation of the North American right wing
Continue readingWhen a university takes money from an oil company to build skepticism for climate change, you not only have a dishonest higher educational body but also one that goes against everything that is sacred about the pursuit of knowledge. It becomes one big Con of a PR firm, you know like the Fraser Institute. Plus, . . . → Read More: Oil Illiteracy. University of Calgary paid to deny climate change.
Continue readingThe horror continues. Here are two items that bring the American psyche post-9/11 into instant, ugly focus.
At the GOP debate tonight, the crowd loudly cheered a suggestion that society should let an uninsured man die. Alan Grayson: “It’s sadism”.
GOP debate crowd cheers letting uninsured die
The crowd also responded heartily to accusations that Ben Bernanke . . . → Read More: GOP debate: the ugly face of conservatism. Also, never fly on 9/11 if your skin is brown.
Continue readingTasha Keirridin is a frightened woman. She is terrified of everyday life. She wants a man around to protect her from the inconveniences of life, the petty criminals and especially the big bad Muslim men with big black beards (emphasis mine).
Personally, I’d like to see some more law and order in this . . . → Read More: Tasha Keirridin embraces the Daddy State
Continue readingIn another move back in time, Stevie Spiteful plans to reintroduce two anti-terror clauses that were originally introduced in 2001, but expired in 2007. Here they are!
One allowed police to arrest suspects without a warrant and detain them for three days without charges if police believed a terrorist act may have . . . → Read More: Harper Sounds Islamophobic Dog Whistle, Again, Just In Time to Commemorate 9/11
Continue readingWell, the regressive hits just keep on coming from Stevie Harper, don’t they? What is foremost on Stevie’s mind today is something earth shattering in his world–every Canadian Foreign mission must have a pic of her highness, Queen Elizabeth II hanging on their walls by week’s end.
Rick Roth, a spokesperson for Foreign . . . → Read More: Harper Issues Edict: Hang Pic of Queen By the End of the Week…And Photo in Need of Caption
Continue readingHarper could have said this himself on the CBC last night. In fact I think he did. It fit right in with his fear mongering about ‘Islamicism’. (Funny, it almost rhymes with ‘narcissism’.)
H/T: @AnonymousIRC
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