Iran has an elected President. Iran allows for protests against the government. Iran does not have nuclear weapons and is years away from having the capability to build them.Iran has not declared war with any country. North Korea has a dictator who doesn’t hold elections. North Korea does not allow
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon – The Waiting Game Is Rigged To Lose
The full exchange is on my Black Knight post. D.I.D. writes: If we revert to mob mentality and, like the French Jacobins, call for the King’s head, then we are no better than Harper and his political mafia. I think we have to start shaking some trees already, to see
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCalls – Another robocall from Guelph Appears
** I wrote the first part of this blog post a couple days ago, and the story is very significantly updated, so I felt it should get the full attention of readers so they have better context for what the Prescott tweets from the other day probably meant. ** There
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon – The Scope
What’s the scope of the RoboCall Conspiracy? Another Green blogger explained how to find Poutine, and narrow down who else could be involved, at least a day before the National Post figured it out and printed it. (I listed these details on March 1). March 4: “Mechanics of Robo-Calling: Not
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Robots Take Over the World
The Leader Post could not be more funny; Funny strange, and “haha”. In a week where Robocalls are on the lips of every politically aware Canadian, they run this photo gallery… Gallery: Robots take over the world Robots swim, play soccer, and fight with lightsabers in our 2011 robot round-up.
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Make Us Do The Right Thing
“I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932, in a statement to labour leaders who had advocated for bold policies. Leaders often explain that their failure to enact the right policies is because public support is either lacking or
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Why RoboCon matters to me, and Conservatives
I keep encountering Canadians who think the illegal robocalls scandal is no big deal. They suggest that many of the ridings that were won by Conservatives, were in bigger margins than the alleged number of misdirected non-CPC voters, so there’s no need for by-elections. I could not disagree more, and
Continue reading350 or bust: The Harper Government’s Approach To Scientists: Control The Pests
* Although Rick Mercer treats the current situation regarding control of scientists and their tax-payer funded research in Canada with humour, unfortunately it is no laughing matter when the government of a democracy goes to great lengths to suppress information that doesn’t line up with its agenda. In fact, it
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon – Black Knight Winning
Why do reasonable people consider that only supporters of Conservatives were responsible for the illegal robocalls? It’s because of evidence like this: ““Last week I was contacted by a voter who told me she received two calls during the election campaign. The first call was a live call asking her
Continue readingFirms Use #CPC Tactics To Halt Bad PR
Many of you will remember yesterdays post about John Fryer, the UVic professor who wrote a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail about the two day Manning Center intensive campaign course he attended where-in he allegidly had heard about Robocalls and voter suppression. Turns out the group
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon – Jones’ing for Poutine
Pierre Jones is now the alias of Pierre Poutine, the anonymous coward who’s behind the illegal robocalls that misdirected non-Conservatives, and self-identified undecided voters, away from election polls last Spring. According to Meier of RackNine, Jones used a Rogers IP address from Guelph during a mistake in concealing their identity.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: In And Out, Open And Shut Conviction
In & Out scam… $52,000 fine. Repaying Elections Canada for illegal campaign rebate for overspending in 2006 by ~$1,300,000 … 230,000 dollars. Occupying the Prime Minister’s Office… Priceless. Some things in life are free. For everything else, there’s Election Fraud. This civil case took a lot of chutzpah for the
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Red Chamber Blues
BC Premier Christy Clark took a break from bullying teachers yesterday to back the idea of elections to Canada’s Senate. If the private member’s bill introduced by Liberal John Les passes through the Legislature, which with the Premier’s support it almost certainly will, British Columbians could wind up voting this
Continue readingVancouver Observer Gives Intimate Look Into Conservative Suppression Tactics
Emma Pullman, Director of Research at Leadnow.ca, has published an article in the Vancouver Observer that promises to blow the deflections of the Conservative Party of Canada (RE Robocalls) completely out of the water. In her article she writes about John Fryer, Professor of Labour Economics at UVic and Member
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: “So dumb”
WARNING: The following is a disclaimer provided by Kady O’Malley, regarding the story within this blog post: “I’m sorry, but this is SO dumb” “Tories demand Liberals release call records – but refuse to follow suit“ The Conservatives are playing poker. “Liberals will release election phone records” Bluff called. What’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: Rough Week For Democracy
I know it’s going to be a rough week for the Conservatives, when there are election-levels of traffic coming to my blog for political information. I don’t know when I’ve had so many hundreds come through liblogs.ca, of all places, to my site. And that’s on the weekend! Canadians don’t
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Worst Scandal in Canadian History
We’re in the worst scandal in Canadian history. Stephen Harper was first elected in 2006 because Canadians were outraged over the sponsorship scandal. The Conservatives were not chosen because they were the best, but because the Liberals were the worst. Today opposition parties are focusing on the Robocall scandal, because
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Understanding the Current Canadian Political Situation
So much is going on in the Canadian political landscape, I really didn’t know where to start. That said, this article tries to cover a lot of the problems that are emerging as a result of treating Canadian voters like commodities to be traded and bought (or suppressed) using modern
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: The CIMS has Poutine’s Greasy Thumbprint
How many people play The Sims? Are you going to create a character called Pierre Poutine? Tracey Kent @TraceyKent @4got @tondamacc A CIMS user cannot make changes, run queries on any other ridings but their own. Access approval is hierarchical – @TraceyKent @4got @tondamacc That’s incredibly IMPORTANT information. It’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboKhan And Other Images
I hope you can make use of some of these cheeky images that could help depict the RoboCon Robocalls scandal that is sweeping the nation. Hey, our democracy is a worldwide joke, so we may as well laugh a little. Beats crying. RoboKhaaaan! *Saskboy takes a quick bow for the
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