James Madison, one of the US’s Founding Fathers said that a government “…without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a tragedy or a farce, or perhaps both.” Sure reads like someone describing our own council and their refusal to listen to the public
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The Disaffected Lib: Think North Korea is Scary? Not As Scary As This.
You don’t ever want to hear somebody with serious psychological issues and his finger on the nuclear trigger say this about his new job: “I thought it would be easier.“ Yes, Donald Trump keeps showing how ill-prepared and ill-suited he is for the American presidency. It began with health care
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: CBC House Cleaning Claims the Vapid Evan
Evan Solomon was always a pathetic pseudo-journalist. Ask an intriguing question, politician spins or lies or evades or trots out talking points, then Evan…what does he do? Move on. Nothing to see here. Waste of air. The world is better off with him off the air. January 10, 2014 What
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 readingConservatives create problems, not solutions
#cpc #gop #lpc #ndp #cdnpoli #politics In the news; the appeals court in California overturned a ban on same sex marriage. This ban was a citizen inspired law triggered by the then legalized gay marriage laws in California. The court found essentially that rights, once given, cannot be taken away.
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 readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Politics and Disasters
Even to people not desperately in need of help in the wake of last year’s Hurricane Igor, it was pretty obvious – at the time – the provincial government was more geared to stoking and stroking political egos than anything else. By the second or …
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Leaked Attack Ad: Education
So two people have passed me CDs with attack ads. I now have, in my possession, three attack ads blasting the Progressive Conservatives and then the Wildrose-. They’re well written, short, and made to be shared. What I really like about this set …
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "Tory Times are Tough Times"
Let us reminisce, shall we, on some of the great contributions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to our democracy and to accountable, responsible government.{Video by cmjhogan}Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "Tory Times are Tough Times"
Let us reminisce, shall we, on some of the great contributions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to our democracy and to accountable, responsible government. {Video by cmjhogan} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: "Tory Times are Tough Times"
Let us reminisce, shall we, on some of the great contributions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to our democracy and to accountable, responsible government. {Video by cmjhogan} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingThe Harper Government In A Nutshell
Just in case it has not yet sunk in how incompetent are Harper and his Harpies in matters of governance and responsible budgetary spending:
1- They spent some $2 millions last year in a narcissistic exercise of monitoring what the media says about the…
Continue readingIntermittent Blogging Ahead
Well, it looks like 2011 will be as bad as 2010, with regards to my professional life (among other things).
(Yes, my mother died last June, but I don’t expect anyone from my immediate family to pass away this year …)
Back there, I explained how the…
Continue readingPollution/Environment: Harper & Co. Talking The Talk …
… but still not walking the walk. Nothing new here, eh?
Well folks – here’s one more note added in proof (emphasis added):
Canada oil sands: Pollution monitoring is censured
A scientific panel has found Canada has "no system" for monitoring how Alberta’s oil sands projects may be polluting local waterways.
Academic reports found that extraction plants were sending toxins such as mercury a…
Continue readingComing to Canada Soon ? ? ? ?
Welcome to Crazytown . . . .H/T: drfRecommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Continue readingAnd So It Begins . . . .
The organized lynching of truth-telling by way of FoxNoise, of course.From The Guardian this morning:A Fox News contributor and former state department adviser has accused WikiLeaks of conducting “political warfare against the US” and called for those …
Continue readingIs There a Chiropractor in the House ? ? ? ?
This vs this.It appears the current government’s spending priorities need a fiscal adjustment . . . .Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Continue readingCanadian Coup de RCMP . . . .
*Updated link due to the Lady Alison’s astute discovery. (Thanks, Alison!) Apparently the story disappeared off the web ’til it reappeared this morning at the updated link to the Montreal Gazette below . . . .As “drf” exclaimed when he pointed this* …
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