My partner and I have been talking much about the horribly tragic death of two boys in New Brunswick a couple of days ago. KP is snake-o-phobic and this just confirmed her worst fears, especially with a reptile shop around the corner that sells large snakes. For me, while it
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RedBedHead: On Pythons & Media Generated Paranoia
My partner and I have been talking much about the horribly tragic death of two boys in New Brunswick a couple of days ago. KP is snake-o-phobic and this just confirmed her worst fears, especially with a reptile shop around the corner that sells large s…
Continue readingRedBedHead: On Pythons & Media Generated Paranoia
My partner and I have been talking much about the horribly tragic death of two boys in New Brunswick a couple of days ago. KP is snake-o-phobic and this just confirmed her worst fears, especially with a reptile shop around the corner that sells large snakes. For me, while it
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: ConCalls: Duffy’s Crime Uses RCMP Time #cdnpoli
It’s unfortunate that it’s taken over 2 years for the RCMP to dig into Conservative election records. We desperately need some authority to enforce election laws, because not paying a bill to make it seem as if a spending limit isn’t exceeded, is two kinds of crime. CPC MP's defence
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: Credit, Where Not Due, Accomplishes More
If you don’t care who gets the credit for something, you can accomplish more. That works in both directions. You can pass an idea along without asking for anything in return, or someone can steal an idea and not give desired credit. @JohnKleinRegina thanks! didn't know about this … will
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Nothin’ To See Here #cdnpoli
John Gormley attempts to sing a lullaby; Mixes up the words. [L]eave us alone to reconnect with life and keep the warmth coming. And get back to us when you’ve fired some Senators and Toronto is done. […] advice is neatly summarized in Seven Things You Need to Stop Doing
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: 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
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Hollywood Hatchet, Swedish Swindle
The problem with how Sweden, the UK, and the United States have been treating Julian Assange of Wikileaks, has dragged on for years. It’s left the foremost journalist in the world stuck in a London apartment building that houses the Ecuadorian Embassy where Assange is trapped as a political prisoner.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: NOT a “threat to national security”
The Conservative government is out of control. The Guardian UK newspaper confirms what environmentalists have already suspected (since the Conservatives have openly accused them previously): This Conservative government regards environmentalists as a threat to national security. It’s offensive, absurd, and an extreme step into authoritarian police-state behaviour. -(UofR image, to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Newspaper Comments Highlight Canadian Racism
The comments sections on some newspapers and online news sites can be infamously bad. The Calgary Herald’s commenters, many of them frequent enough to be “top commenters”, put on a despicable display today. Chief Spence ended her hunger strike, and was hospitalized as a precaution because she’s been without proper
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Throw National Post a Lifeline
I haven’t encountered a Kelly McParland article that I can say I agree with. His latest, about Elizabeth May’s attempt to subvert the stalemate in Parliament amongst the opposition parties, is missing the point. May isn’t just out to help the Green Party, which of course is a given, despite
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Another Poutine Style Recording in #RoboCon
Elections Canada may be allowing the Conservative Party to set the glacial pace of the criminal investigation across Canada into illegal election robocalls that misdirected and harassed electors. May be? Who are we kidding. It’s well past 600 days since the crime that calls into question the right of the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A News Hope
I missed this Rap News from last May. You won’t want to miss it. If it’s confusing though, you’ve got fifty minutes of documentary catch-up, plus some news footnotes to follow up on. Plus, it helps if you’ve seen Star Wars. If this is all greek/geek to you, it’s a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oh Kay, That’s Low
“The doctors haven’t actually examined Ms. Spence. They seem more like political cheerleaders with medical-school degrees.” (fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/04/barbara-kay-on-theresa-spence-you-call-that-a-hunger-strike) But Barbara Kay has examined Chief Spence? She questions the seriousness of the Chief because her hunger strike includes no solid food for 25 days, but has some nutrients suspended in water? No,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: On a Trek for Stars
I can’t simply make a fun Star Trek related blog post, I have to tie it into the Canadian political discourse also. So, here we go. Ottawa Citizen reporter, Glen McGregor came up with a manifesto to guide modern journalism. He’s seen journalism fall prey to some ridiculous habits, like
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Week of Hell #RoboCon
The Conservatives have had a (deservedly) rough week, and it’s about to get more rough next week. The Council of Canadians’ court challenge is Monday. The Prime Minister closed out the final news cycle hour this week by actually taking questions from the press, (which has hardly ever happened before).
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: CBC vs. Postmedia vs. Elections Canada #RoboCon
There’ve been several Canadian media organizations investigating the RoboCon election fraud scandal linked to the Conservative Party. In February, Postmedia broke the story by tying the many localized reports of misleading phonecalls together by unleashing details of the mysterious Pierre Poutine alias. At that time they also reported there were emails from Elections Canada staff […]
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