Today, straight out of the mouth of a Conservative MP: “Tory MP says Elections Canada to blame for robocalls.” “I suspect that at the end of the day, if Elections Canada has the resources to do a proper investigation, they’ll find they’re themselves significantly responsible,” Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott said
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Dead Wild Roses: Tim Wise on Racism
A great Gumbo story oh, and an interesting lecture to boot. Oh and epic quote of the day – “Responsibility is what you take because of who you are.” Filed under: Ethics, Racism Tagged: Racism, Tim Wise, White Privilege
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: CPC: Deceivers, deluders, dissimulators
“Losers lose, winners win, cheaters cheat, and sinners sin; Dreamers dream, cryers cry, fools believe, and Liars Lie.” Conservative MPs used U.S.-based telemarketers, Greg Weston, CBC News The prime minister and his parliamentary secretary, Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro, claimed in the Commons that the Liberals were the only party
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Free Speech in the Face of Religion – Censorship on Youtube.
Being intimidated by the religious thugs threatening violence seems to be a growing fad. This needs to stop. I mirror this video that was taken down by youtube for a terms of use violation – (being offensive to the deluded). Here it is again on the blog. You and your
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Vic Toews You Were Warned – Anonymous steps up for the Canadian People
Let’s let Anonymous do the talking, hopefully Vic you get the message. Let’s get this viral, stat. Transcript here. H/T to JJ where I saw the video. Filed under: Ethics, Internet, Technology and Computers Tagged: Anonymous, Canadian Internet Privacy, Trampling on our RIghts, Vic Toews
Continue readingRPS Podcast: Privacy and Surveillance, The Vikileaks Edition
My new podcast is up. You can listen to it here. Enjoy Filed under: Harper Government, Harper Majority, Progressives Tagged: Ethics, OpenMedia.ca, Privacy, Surveillance, Vic Toews, Vikileaks
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: A Nasty, Medically Unnecessary, Coercive Procedure
This is just grostesque: A Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years through the Virginia House, despite bitter yet futile objections from Democrats, with one GOP delegate deriding most of the procedures as “matters of lifestyle convenience.” You want to put what where? [SNIP]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 40 Days of Fail. Anti-Choice Protesters Choose Not to Defend their ‘Loving God’.
I think the anti-choicer’s irony meters broke when confronted with the reality of their bloodthirsty sky daddy. The always controversial religious antagonist is back with another video displaying putrefaction known as religious morality. Filed under: Ethics, Feminism, Religion Tagged: 40 days of fail, Abortion, Anti-Choice Zealotry, christian fail on
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Where is the politically independent bureacracy? Going, going …
There’s still quite a bit of fallout from last week’s rather surprising admission that employees on the federal government’s payroll, the permanent civil service, were recruited to take part in a citizenship “reaffirmation” ceremony — and broadcast on the Conservative’s semi-official organ, Sun News TV. Seems that some of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion – Safe and Necessary
Sometimes there is a absence of reasonable discussion when it comes to the topic of abortion. The lack of solid empirical grounding for arguments leads to some rather wild and wooly debates. The Guttmacher institute has a new section called “Are you in the Know?” about women’s health and abortion.
Continue readingImpolitical: Exposing the fakery matters
On the news of the fake citizenship reaffirmation ceremony hosted at Sun News at the urging of Jason Kenney’s office, Chris Selley of the National Post concluded this about the episode last week: “But that’s just the usual stuff and nonsense. I don’t see how any of it makes a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religion poisons everything. Never fails.
Sometimes I get asked by the faithful as to why I advocate so strongly against religion. It is hard to know where to start sometimes, but sadly incidents like what is happening in Minnesota at Anoka High School makes it all to easy. Religion promotes intolerance, hatred and bigotry.
Continue readingImpolitical: The fake citizenship ceremony
“The minister is using his office like casting central…,” said Denis Coderre. While he’s at it, could Kenney cast a better individual in the role of minister, please? Original report. Of course this was worth reporting and the vigorous reaction by Sun News shows how seriously they’re taking it. And
Continue readingCanada II: Joe Oliver: Confirmed Denier
It’s time to pick a side. Joe Oliver is a denier. In case you live under a rock here is the basis of the issue at hand. Do you believe? Mr. Speaker, we really do have a minister for the 19th century because the Minister of Natural Resources fails to
Continue readingCanada II: Joe Oliver: Confirmed Denier
It’s time to pick a side. Joe Oliver is a denier.
In case you live under a rock here is the basis of the issue at hand.
Do you believe?
Mr. Speaker, we really do have a minister for the 19th century because the Minister of Natural Resources fails to…
Canada II: Joe Oliver: Confirmed Denier
It’s time to pick a side. Joe Oliver is a denier. In case you live under a rock here is the basis of the issue at hand. Do you believe? Mr. Speaker, we really do have a minister for the 19th century because the Minister of Natural Resources fails to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: White Liberal Guilt – Tom’s Shoes Marketing Strategy
Tom's – Made in China under human unfriendly conditions, oh but you're helping the poor, honest! “There are two reasons for every action. The good reason… and the real reason.” -J.P. Morgan Did you ever want to consume AND feel good about helping others all at the same time?
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Bill Moyers returns
Moyers & Company Show 102: On Crony Capitalism from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. David Stockman, former Reagan Budget Director, “If they’re too big too fail, they’re too big to exist.” Stockman, quoted by Tim Dickinson in How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich, Rolling Stone, November 9, 2011: “The
Continue readingCanada II: Tory Malfeasance Review
I haven’t spent all that much time collecting links but already this is starting to get impressive. Here’s a short trip down memory lane: Tory Malfeasance Articles Friends… The Harper Government, Ethical Oil…, Desmogblog, 2012-01-20 Lunch with the RCMP? Speak to the Minister, Globe and Mail, 2012-01-19 Deputy Director of
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