American Talibangelists recently took a giant step towards creating Gilead in the USA when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos were due the same legal protection as real children (although children there have less protection because Repugnicans care little about actual children than embryos). It extended the the
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Cathie from Canada: Happy New Year!
✏️ As drawn by @AnnTelnaes: Hoping for a better year ahead https://t.co/3Rqp9s3sjf pic.twitter.com/DhESNz78dh — Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) December 31, 2022 To bring in the new year, I have gathered some of the funnier posts I saw over the last few weeks. (Read more…)First, some Conservative politicians seem to be
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: The Beginning of the End?
Three stories tonight seem to have the same theme — that it may be the beginning of the end for Pierre Poilievre, for Elon Musk and for Donald Trump. First, for Pierre Poilievre: Evan Scrimshaw analyzes the Angus Reid poll tonight, comparing Poilievre at 3 months to the other Conservative
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Corruption of the Soul
Two very different stories this week, from different countries, and yet there is a connection at their core. Both the DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt and the Poilievre press conference freak-out demonstrate, I believe, the kind of corruption going on in our politics today. It doesn’t follow the usual definition of
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: A mind is a terrible thing to lose
Britain appears to have lost its mind over the death of a 96-year-old woman The queen’s funeral is absurdly excessive at this point. — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 16, 2022 Two football teams who played the weekend after the Queen died are being investigated and will be “dealt with
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: True Colours
Day Four of Poilievre’s leadership and his true colours are already showing: The nasty politics of the “real Pierre Poilivrer”. This is what he did to one of his own high profile MPs who dared support his opponent @JeanCharest_What would this nasty bare knuckes guy do to you?@HazelEros @gtlem @MerlinofCanada
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Sorting it out
I was trying to sort out the David Akin vs Pierre Poilievre contretemps yesterday and I couldn’t figure out what happened or who did what. I should just have waited for Dale Smith’s column today: …the federal government has announced their assistance package for low-income people dealing the effects of
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Transformation Is Complete
With Pierre Poilievre the newly anointed leader of the CPC, Canadians can take a step back and breathe a sight of relief – the masquerade is over. Ever since its formation in 2003, the CPC has been a hardline right wing ideologue party that cloaked itself in the moderate nature
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Slava Ukraini
Such wonderful news today from Ukraine – coming so fast now its hard to keep up: Pretty impossible to sleep tonight. The mood. The lyrics: “Russian ship, go f*** yourself!” #UkraineWillWin pic.twitter.com/qa9NEO0nV8 — Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇦 (@ZarinaZabrisky) September 10, 2022 Ukrainian women in Balakliya thanking Ukrainian soldiers for liberating them.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Just following up ….
Tonight, just some follow-ups on some of the stuff I talked about earlier this week: More on conspiracy theories and rage farming: Unbelievable. Do conspiracy theories cluster? Um, yep. – GMO fearmo Don’t forget the wind turbines that kill everything that flies and the poor kids mining cobalt for solar
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: #TRE45ON is trending tonight
Here’s some cartoons I saw today about the Mar-A-Lago raid — the warrant and document lists are out, and its bad for Trump. Very bad. NBC has obtained the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. It shows Donald Trump is under investigation for potential obstruction of justice and violations of the Espionage Act
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s news: Nelson moments
Today seemed to be a day of “Nelson” moments. There was that day-long Rogers outage: Having Rogers internet down all day meant spending the day talking with family. They seem like nice people. 🤣 — KNugent4118🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 (@knugent4118) July 8, 2022 I can’t grasp the scale of how bad this
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Weekend updates
Conservative leadership update: Maybe Poilievre has hired a new PR firm not staffed by 12-year-olds. He released a video today that conservatives actually liked. As for me, it worried me — it doubles down on the Conservative “freedom” meme which actually means “be as prejudiced as you want, we won’t
Continue readingScripturient: Debunking Poilievre’s Tweets, Part 2
This is a continuation of my debunking of a small sample of Pierre Poilievre’s (aka Skippy’s) 2022 tweets. His tweets are presented in italics; my responses follow in roman text. See if you can spot in his words 1) His lack of knowledge about the subject; 2) Blatant lies; 3)
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Pierre Poilievre — aka Skippy — tweets a lot. A lot. Not quite in the Donald-Trump-tweeting-on-the-toilet range, but close. And he often repeat-tweets his angry, bumper-sticker slogans that are little more than libertarian micro rages. They are big on emotion but empty on substance. no details, facts, or anything even
Continue readingScripturient: Poilievre’s Wacky, Quacky Economics
Pierre Poilievre — aka Skippy — loves cryptocurrency and wants to make Canada the world’s crypto capital. Crypto is a computing process, not a product, it’s well outside the capabilities of individual computer systems to “mine” so it is controlled by large crypto-mining farms owned by corporate interests, using vast
Continue readingScripturient: Debunking Poilievre’s Freedom Myth
If you listen to Pierre Poilievre, the leading — and rightmost — candidate for the Conservative Party’s leadership, Canada is a dictatorship suffering under the thumb of the tyrant, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. To escape from the authoritarian rule of the Liberals, Poilievre (aka Skippy) promises to make us “the
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(CP) – In a statement released today, Canadian Minister of Democracy Pierre Poilievre said that, while he supports North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s efforts to standardize haircuts (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26747649), he had already gotten his own. “It’s this guy, Larry,” Poilievre said. “He’s in Ottawa.” “I was talking to Kim
Continue readingZorg Report: Zorg Report 2014-04-11 09:54:00
(CP) – In a statement released today, Canadian Minister of Democracy Pierre Poilievre said that, while he supports North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s efforts to standardize haircuts (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26747649), he had already gotten his own. “It’s this guy, Larry,” Poilievre said. “He’s in Ottawa.”
“I was talking to Kim the other day,” Poilievre further stated, “and we basically saw eye-to-eye. We talked around various hair-stand and side-shaved issues, and then we came to an agreement that we both get along pretty well. Naturally our talks were private.”
Poilievre did add, “that cat iz dap!”
–zr
The Right-Wing Observer: Lukiwski doesn’t understand the meaning of transparency
Full disclosure: Tom Lukiwski is a four-letter word in my home. The fact this man continues to get elected in our home province embarrasses us deeply. He has a demonstrated ability, practiced really over decades, to offend people with thoughtless comments. Thankfully, we don’t live in his riding, so our
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