“There are no checks and balances here, and we’ve got to restore them.” Sensenbrenner, Republican who drafted the Patriot Act II. Go read 2001/2002 debate over the Patriot Act – NOBODY thought it enabled mass, indiscriminate, bulk collection of all Americans' records.— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 11, 2013 Sensenbrenner pointed
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Senate Is a Cartoon
I’ve been cartoon-ified by Jim Sadlemyer! Larry and I unintentionally wrote a joke used in ParlimANT Hill. Duffy’s PMO scandal with Nigel Wright just gets more filled in, and bigger as time goes by. Harper’s really wearing this crime heavily now, after skating away from Cadscam and Penashue’s campaign pay-off.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 4 Atom Bombs of Heat Per Second
Need to visualize the amount of heat trapped due to the greenhouse effect enhanced by excessive carbon dioxide levels. By raising carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s air, the land, ice, and oceans are warming significantly, even during the last 15 years when climate change deniers attempt to claim there hasn’t
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Deep Municipal Scandals
When we thought Toronto’s crack Mayor Rob Ford was about to take the national scandal prize, Montreal’s replacement Mayor Michael Appelbaum rides (in a police car) to the rescue with corruption charges. What major city mayor is next to implode? Are Canadian municipal elections selecting the best political candidate they
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wallin Says Sorry, But Doesn’t Step Aside
Maintaining her power over Canada, doesn’t seem like the best way to apologize for ‘accidentally’ cheating Canadians out of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not entitled? How many ppl get invu'd on @CBCTheNational by former coworker abt our "responsible but not @ fault" mistakes? #cdnpoli #Wallin— David Paterson
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Elections Canada Keeping Secret Files Illegally
Sixth Estate pointed this out long ago, but CBC is starting to realize the pattern where Elections Canada is breaking the law, and denying the public (and media) access to candidates’ election files. Eve Adams’ files are not right. Elections Canada must explain. Penashue records removed from election spending file
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Turkey Arrests CBC Journalist Sasa Petricic
Saša Petricic has been arrested in the midst of covering the Occupy Gezi protest in Istanbul. This is an outrage which the Turkish government will not be able to defend themselves from. .@evakatrina @DFAIT_MAECI Turkey must #FreeSasa! @sasapetricic— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) June 12, 2013 Short hours before his arrest, this
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Greenwald on CNBC
Strong congressional oversight means asking direct questions & getting straight answers. 1.usa.gov/1a0EIY3— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) June 11, 2013 Encrypt your shit: Spooky reading after #Snowden: Julian #Assange's call to take up arms against the surveillance state | Cypherpunks cryptome.org/2012/12/assang…— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 11, 2013 The world is not sliding, but
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: NSA Watching the Innocent
Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State) has been collecting domestic Americans’ phone and Internet records since at least
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Rathgerber Out of the Strong, Stable, National, Majority, Conservative Government
Who could forget Harper’s “strong, stable” majority comment during his victory speech in 2011 after his party swept to surprise power on a wave of election fraud supporting his party? Two years later, the Cons have lost disgraced Minister Penashue to a campaign overspending (and illegal contribution) crime for which
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Working Closely With Election Fraud #cdnpoli
Two more Conservative MPs need to be removed from the House for election overspending. That’s what Elections Canada has said, but the Speaker of the House disagrees. In an application filed May 24, Glover seeks an order forcing Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand to accept a revised campaign financial return
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Yep, Still Defrauded #RoboCon
*Canada: 0 Days Without Election Fraud* You can start at the beginning in great detail… Or you can jump to the end of the beginning. You can draw conclusions so simple a child, or a computer scientist could make them. I’m sure the corporate media will tell us if there’s
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The Fridgularity wins IRDA award for best humor book
Exciting news announced at Book Expo America (BEA): The Fridgularity won the IndieReader.com Discovery Award (IRDA) for best humor, 2013. Hugh Howey, bestselling indie author of WOOL and Amy Edelman, founder of IndieReader, announced the winners of the 2013 awards … Continue reading →
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: But is it news?
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford seems to get more than his fair share of headlines these days, most of them negative. The stories that follow are full of allegation, innuendo and “unnamed sources.” Gripping tabloid stuff. Real time soap opera. But … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Coal Hard Truth #skpoli
“We depend too much on coal” — @MayorMandel #p2syyc; glad someone said that too— Chris Turner (@theturner) May 29, 2013 .@MMandryk IEA says we have ~3 years left (worldwide) to stop building coal power to avoid 450ppm. SaskParty renewables investment is poor.— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) May 29, 2013 The Leader-Post
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Conservative Coverup #RoboCon #cdnpoli
Mayrand has come out to say finally that the Conservatives are not cooperating with the investigation into the robocall election fraud of 2011. I do not find this surprising, and if you’ve been reading my blog the past year, you’d know that’s because the evidence points to the Conservative Party
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Toronto Conservative Politics
Fords. Drugs. Murder. I think Ford should have stepped aside when he was turfed for conflict of interest. He clearly broke under the pressure, and his world has crumbled around him. Gawker writes: As we initially pledged, if we are unable to consummate a deal and obtain the video, we
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ethical Amnesia: Confused As Harper
I’ve been misquoted as Stephen Harper by multiple public forum commenters at the Huffington Post, CTV News forum and on Facebook! The misquote was so plausible, and written originally by Kevin Wood, that I spent some time (like Stephen Lautens) trying to trace its source in newspapers. I couldn’t find
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Conclusions You Can Confirm Using CIMS Computer #RoboCon #cdnpoli
Stephen Taylor was confused this morning. If he read my blog instead of dismissing me as a bother, he wouldn’t be so confused. He thought the Federal Court Robocalls judgement was saying that no Conservative could have been involved, because the judge had said he’d seen no evidence suggesting that.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Fraud, but No Punishment #RoboCon #cdnpoli UPDATED
The Federal Court found there was fraud in the 2011 federal election (duh), but decided the irregularities were not enough to justify calling byelections to let a fair election play out in each of the six challenged ridings. Six contested election results stand but Federal Court finds evidence of robocalls
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