It couldn't be a more disturbing sight. The depraved Donald Trump soaking up the love of the religious right, bragging about the assassination of the Iranian general Qassim Suleimani.And claiming he ordered the killing to stop a war.When in fact the evidence suggests the opposite.Read more »
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Montreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Road to World War III
I was so happy to get back to Canada just in time to see the last sunset of 2019. And I was looking forward to enjoying a slightly more peaceful year in 2020. So imagine how I feel to see us such a short time later, teetering on the edge of
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Only the brave make predictions.
People love to make predictions as we start a new year. I was laughing at a particularly amusing one the other day by a Toronto Star writer, Tony Burman. He was predicting that Donald Trump would resign from the presidency and get a pardon from incoming president Mike Pence. All
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Foresight is 2020: It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without a Top Ten List of political predictions
This year, foresight is 2020! It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without AlbertaPolitics.ca’s Top Ten Political Predictions for 2020, so your blogger will gaze into his crystal ball one more time and tell you what’s up next. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). No one seems to have
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Paul Thacker discusses the importance of addressing the climate crisis as a health issue. CBC takes a look at a few of the ways a deteriorating climate is affecting Canada. And Taylor Noakes points out the central role a national public transit
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Home Alone Farce
It's an ugly little farce. A Home Alone 2 horror show, starring Donald Trump. With the increasingly deranged Trump blaming Justin Trudeau and the CBC for allegedly editing this brief cameo role out of the movie. Read more »
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib discuss Donald Trump’s holiday menu of serving the rich and feasting on the poor, while Paul Krugman comments on the cruelty of a Trump Christmas. And Nick Purdon and Leonardo Palleja tell the stories of people facing
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: ‘You’re a mean one,’ Mr. Trump.
It is a surprise that nobody has taken that novelty Christmas song about the Dr. Seuss character who did not like the Who having Christmas and simply substituted ‘Mr. Trump’ for ‘Mr. Grinch.’ But here it is Christmas and it is the proper thing to find something nice to talk
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Happy Holidays! Alberta’s economic prospects may underwhelm, but at least you can spin them as you like!
Happy Holidays! At this time last year, it looked as if Santa would bring something for everyone in Alberta, regardless of their political orientation. This year, though, maybe not so much. Lumps of carbon-dioxide-emitting coal, maybe. Leastways, you can spin recent economic outlooks for the province any way you like,
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: In a divided America.
Where else would the GOP be? But sitting on Donald Trump’s knee. The symbiotic relationship involved defies logic. Donald Trump, his followers and the republican party are bound together at the hip. They need each other and they deserve each other. And do not use logic to try to split
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman writes that the most frightening aspect of the U.S. Republicans is the party’s commitment to climate destruction for political gain: My sense is that right-wingers believe, probably correctly, that there’s a sort of halo effect surrounding any form of public action.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Justin Trudeau Helped Make Trump A Laughing Stock
Well just as I predicted, the Trudeau Trump fake scandal went nowhere in Canada, and expired shortly after it was born. Despite the frantic efforts of Vassy Kapelos, and other CBC minions, who blew that teeny tiny fluffy story until their faces turned blue, to try to bring it back to life.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: There has to be a pony in there.
You cannot have all that cast-off material from a barnyard without a pony in there somewhere. The speech-from-the-throne writers must have figured that if you have to use weasel words, you might as well use a lot. So, if you could stand one more reading of that speech, that the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Media and the Fake Trudeau Trump Scandal
For more than two years the CBC program Power and Politics has been a television playground for Andrew Scheer and his foul Cons.A place where Vassy Kapelos and her mostly right wing panellists use one fake scandal after the other to try to destroy Justin Trudeau, while allowing Scheer to corrupt our
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: When something becomes A Thing
And the NATO “hot microphone” thing has indeed turned into A Thing. My regular readers didn’t care what I had to say about it, either: Conservative followers and friends were incensed. Still smarting from the election result, they pounced on Justin Trudeau’s unguarded remarks. It was shocking, they claimed, that
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump’s Triumph?
It will only be after someone translates the French word “merde” for him that Donald Trump will really know what the audience of world leaders thought of his plans for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Trump’s triumph this week is the meeting of the organization in England to celebrate
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Hey Canada! Alberta here: Get off our lawn! And would you mow it, please?
Watch out, Rest of Canada! Jason Kenney, our leader here in Alberta, has mastered the art of sucking and blowing at the same time! You’re in for it now! This is the New Alberta, and you’re going to need to get the hell out of our way! We’ll be taking
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jason Hickel observes that what progress has been made in human health and quality of life is the result of progressive policies, not leaving plutocrats to do what they will: (S)ocial services require resources. And it’s important to recognise that growth can help
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Gunfighter versus Gunfighter.
It’s a classic Hollywood film script. The ‘good’ gunfighter has to buckle on his six-gun just one more time to take on the ‘bad’ gunfighter. Whether the ‘bad’ guy is coming in on the noon train or waiting down behind the livery barn, there is always a lot of worrying
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Booing Alberta’s premier at public events like Sunday’s Grey Cup — let’s make it a Battle of Alberta thing!
Is the United Conservative Party’s honeymoon over? God knows, it ought to be. Sadly, though, it’s probably not. Yet. Just the same, it was mildly encouraging to hear a few boos for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in a recording of the the opening ceremony of Sunday’s Grey Cup game —
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