Conservative Senators are complaining today about news that they’ll be losing a cafeteria in one of the buildings in which Senators work, the Victoria Building. Former Conservative party president, Don Plett, unfamiliar with the phrase “entitled to their entitlements” apparently, said this: “What a bad, bad idea. The Victoria cafeteria
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Impolitical: Harper’s latest F-35 big 180
Harper yesterday: While the government isn’t giving any guarantees Canada will buy the F-35, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the country will remain involved in the stealth fighter project to ensure Canadian companies can continue participating. “We have received literally hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for the Canadian
Continue readingThe Ethical Oil Spokespuppet Smear
A little bauble I ran across today … I can’t say for sure whether Ezra and Kathryn are faithfully represented, as I’ve never met them in person, but … snerk. (h/t Jymn) Related posts: Let Freedom Rain: “National Necrophilia Week”: Ezra Levant wears orange wig, drinks Orange Crush. Mocks Layton’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Republican Hypocrisy on Contraception, Liberty, Et Cetera
The government should not impose its values on the people of American, unless of course, its christian religious values. I wonder if anyone in the GOP has read George Orwell’s 1984, because they certainly seem to be running from the same playbook as the Party…. Jon Stewart and the
Continue readingYou can’t make this stuff up
So the politician who used to spill plenty of ink to deride other politicians for holding town halls decided to hold one on his own. (More likely, it was decided for him, what with a bunch of NDP higher ups coming down from the mainland with marching orders). And so,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Attack of the Theocrats!
Sean makes some great points, let me reiterate them. Why are parents allowed to watch their child die because they believe in magic? Christian Science and faith healing are utter bullshite and yet they continue to torture children, often to death, because of their mysticism. The Christian Right then
Continue reading@ToewsVic has brought this humiliation upon himself | #cdnpoli
… with his contemptible, sanctimonious hypocrisy. With regard to @Vikileaks30, the sordid details of Toews’ personal life were not “leaked.” They were set out in documents available to anyone with reasonably effective research skills. There was no breach of the law, so there’s nothing to investigate. I can’t really improve
Continue readingVic Toews wants a Probe
And I’ve got just the cattle prod for the job. No seriously… after beclowning himself to the point where he’s become an Internet Meme, (no, really) he’s calling for A Probe: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is calling for an investigation into the source of a Twitter account that is being used
Continue readingA Choking on my Coffee Moment With Laughter
I have to learn to not read funny, ironic things in the news while sipping my coffee or anything else for that matter. It appears that (quelle surprise) the Greek parliament accepted yet another futile bail out package in exchange for even more useless draconian austerity budget. Naturally, Greek citizens
Continue readingRedBedHead: Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Drops The "H-Bomb"
I’m not talking about that other H-bomb, the one that the US government dropped on innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No, I’m talking about Adolph Hitler, yes, that H-Bomb. Every time our leaders want to justify a war against another people they whip out the Hitler’s name. He is
Continue readingMore on the "Blessed" Season . . . .
As Rodney King would say: “Why can’t we all get along?” From the CBC and other sources today: Clergymen brawl at Bethlehem church Fight erupts at traditional site of Jesus’ birth The annual cleaning of one of Christianity’s holiest churches deteriorated into a brawl between rival clergy Wednesday, as dozens
Continue readingbennie Speaks . . . .
But should anyone listen? From Global Post yesterday: Pope Benedict XVI urges faithful to see through “superficial glitter” of Christmas Pope Benedict XVI has urged worshipers to see through the “superficial glitter” of Christmas during the traditional Christmas Eve Mass at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Pope Benedict XVI lamented
Continue reading@GeorgeMonbiot takes down the corporate media
George Monbiot – Unmasking the Press: ‘via Blog this’ Too bad about Hitchens, but the best thing I’ve found about the corporate media this week comes from Monbiot. Everything you need to know, including the essential 99 percent versus 1 per cent dynamic, is in here. The class-warfare element is
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Stop your “more for me please” rants, Dundernomics edition #nlpoli
Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador is nothing if it is not funny. Last week, Premier Kathy Dunderdale warned the crowd running the province’s fish processing industry – and everyone else in the province too – that they can’t “constantly turn to government” to fix every problem out there. So on
Continue readingVicious Catholic Child Molesters becoming parody of selves
Presumably, the title “Catholic Church Child Safety Co-ordintor” is meant to be reassuring, to inspire confidence in parents and everyone else who’s been watching aghast as the Catholic Church disintegrates into a cesspool of perversi…
Continue readingImpolitical: Consistency on merit based appointments
In the news this past week, we have seen that Senator Leo Housakos is not thrilled with the Auditor General appointment: “Tory senator remains critical of unilingual AG appointment.” He’s against the unilingual appointment, fair enough, the job require…
Continue readingApology Of A Poseur
(The following was inspired by Deepak Chopra’s quackery-laden and hypocritically self-serving review of Richard Dawkins’ book, The Magic of Reality. Enjoy).I find myself saddened – yet also outraged – by Richard Dawkins’ latest written offering, an i…
Continue readingOh, look: everything Team Ford touches turns to crap. Don’t look so surprised
I’m all for respectful dialogue and agreeing to disagree, but there’s a point at which you just have to admit it: we are right and they are wrong and clinging to their illusions just makes them look even dumber.For Christ’s sakes. All those disgruntled…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Most Annoying Thing About Cycling in Ottawa
We all agree that Ottawa is a great place for cycling, but it is not perfect. Apart from the fact that the City of Ottawa and NCC have to do a better job of completing the system and linking their pathways together there is the problem of a lack of was…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Canada’s right – many are narrow minded and reactive hypocrites
I might have more to say about this later, but for now I just want to highlight the idiocy of some on the right of the spectrum here in Canada. Yesterday, when the news broke about the tragedy in Norway, the response by many in the Twitterverse, blogosphere and in the comments sections of news […]
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