Vocalizing to a small group of carbon-based supporters in Michigan earlier this week, “Mitt Romney” – the android launched many years ago by a venture capital fund to become the first completely non-human Republican nominee for President – pretended to express his/its deep affinities with and positive responses to various
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Canadian Soapbox: Is the Mormon faith racist?
Ron Paul has come under some fire for newsletters bearing his name that contained racist remarks some 20 odd years ago. The Texas congressman and Presidential hopeful has said he didn’t write them or read them, and thankfully he disavows them. Good on him. All is fair in love and war,
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Salem Harbor Enforced Shutdown: The Beginning of the End for Old Coal in New England
coal-wall.jpg This is a guest post by N. Jonathan Peress, VP and Director, Clean Energy and Climate Change, Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). It originally appeared on CLF's blog. On February 6, 2003 then-Governor Mitt Romney stood in front of the Salem Harbor Power Plant in historic Salem Massachusetts and,
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Santorumentum!
Def: The frothy mix of media hype and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of non-binding Republican primary victories. How sad is it that a moronic theocrat like Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum is viewed by a majority of Republican primary voters in the heartland of America as a
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Romney’s lack of concern for poor people
Campaign coverage often likes to jump from gaffe to gaffe as if this (and poll data) is the only relevant thing to talk about in a Presidential race. Perhaps it is just a function of the overly polished, trite vacuousness of the rest of their tightly controlled campaigns that the
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Blood Money
The SuperPAC supporting (but definitely not co-ordinating with!) Newt Gringrich yesterday released another negative “documentary” attacking Mitt Romney. Called “Blood Money” the film links the former head of Bain Capital to Damon Clinical Laboratories, a medical testing company the equity firm controlled during the early 90s that was subsequently found
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Greenpeace Calls On SEC To Investigate TransCanada’s Inflated Jobs Claims
keystone_xl_jobs.jpg Greenpeace USA President Phil Radford sent a formal complaint this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling for an investigation into TransCanada’s use of wildly inflated jobs figures in promoting its application to build the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The letter asks the SEC to review
Continue reading“What kind of man would mislead, distort and deceive just to win an election?”
“This man would: Newt Gingrich.” That, from a new ad about to hit the US from Newt Gingrich (except the last NG bit, it actually says, ‘Mitt Romney’) attacking frontrunner Mitt Romney. Which begs the question: does Gingrich have even the remotest sense of self awareness or shame? The ethically-challenged,
Continue readingRedBedHead: Gingrich: Vote For the Kook, I Mean Crook, I Mean Astronaut
This is awesomely awesome stuff and further proof that the American political system can only be defined as being from outer space. Newt Gingrich made a campaign speech in Florida in which he promised to establish a permanent moon base – for science tourism and advanced manufacturing – within 8
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Mitt’s SOTU Rebuttal
Inveterate flip-flopper and political windsock Mitt Romney criticizes Obama for his “extraordinary… detachment from reality” in terms of his words and actions; all the while being completely oblivious to his own extraordinary detachment – from irony! Romney is now claiming to be “someone who says what he means and means
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: When is Money Good Money?
Several years ago a story in the Readers Digest’s Life’s Like That, was a perfect anthem to the American Dream. The young man who had sent in the story, was attending business school, and in the summer worked at his father’s restaurant, a busy local eatery. With his new found knowledge,
Continue readingRedBedHead: Republican Contest: Battle Of The Scumbags
Where do they dig up these cretins? I mean, is it really possible that in the 21st century these guys can be the front runners of one of America’s two mainstream parties to be the next president? Seriously? On the bright side, I can’t see how the Republicans can possibly
Continue readingThe Equivocator: The Tea Party/OWS: The Musical (Spoliers)
I come from a very musical family (buy my sister’s band’s EP: The Prime Minister of Cool Chicks) and musical theatre has always been a big part of my life. One of my earliest memories is seeing a production of Brigadoon at the high school my father taught music at.
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: No Heat, No Light
Contrary to expectations and all the advance hype, it was quite a flat, disappointingly ineffective, and weirdly obtuse Republican “debate” hosted by NBC in Florida tonight. That was probably the most heated exchange of the evening – a pointless quibble over what constitutes “lobbying” on behalf of government sponsored entities…
Continue reading‘I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.’
Why Mitt Romney is losing. Mark Steyn ridin’ on Mitt’s jock.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Mitt Romney…Can a Mormon become President of the U.S?
The Canadian political scene is relatively quiet now that Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have finally attained majority status. For a political junkie that means looking south of the 49th for a fix, and let’s face it…no country does politics like the United States. The Republican race is heating up
Continue readingHow Newt Gingrich won South Carolina
The media and the blogosphere are full of speculation the last two days about how a philanderer and ethics violator like Newt Gingrich could win South Carolina and win it big. It’s pretty simple, actually. Marianne Gingrich (and Drudge and ABCNews) provided Gingrich with all he ammo he needed to blast
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Only in America!
Quite an appropriate theme song by Toby Keith playing at last night’s victory rally in South Carolina… Truly it can be said that “Only in America” could a pompous, selfishly scheming, ethically-challenged, morally bankrupt hypocrite like Newt Gingrich – who once grandiosely described himself as “the definer of civilization” –
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Über Mitt!
Mitt Romney gets asked what time it is and responds with a stilted history of watch-making through the ages… Good grief, I didn’t even know there was yet another Republican “debate” on the TV machine tonight. Guess I’ll have to view it online now to see if John King followed
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