The civic elections for Regina and municipalities in Saskatchewan are coming up on Wednesday Oct. 24th, 2012. It’s more significant to me than most elections, because this is the first where I’m on a ballot. Well, you won’t see “Saskboy” on the ballot, but you will see my “in-real-life” mainstream-alter-ego’s
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Dead Wild Roses: The Religious Antagonist – Ultrasounds and Abortion
The RA doing what he does best, getting in the face of people who seek to strip people of their status as human beings. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Abortion, Anti-woman legislation, Pro-life, Pro-life fail, Ultrasounds
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Message From Paul Manly with Video Message From Jim Manly & Eva Manly
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Jim Manly is a former MP for Nanaimo Cowichan and a retired United Church Minister. He has long stood for justice on many fronts where disadvantaged peoples needed help and voice. He presently resides in an Israeli Jail, arrested as a protester participant on board the Humanitarian
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Ex-New Democrat MP Jim Manly arrested and in custody. Aid ship to Gaza seized.
Jim Manly Former Nanaimo-Cowichan NDP MP-Refuses release until all protesters are released. Former Nanaimo-Cowichan MP Jim Manly refuses to sign release dcoument until all protesters released. Here is an update from the CBC. More news stories on illegal seizure and arrest of Israeli Blocade Protesters. Israel Seizes Gaza-Bound Aid Ship This
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Israeli’s Illegally Seize Humanitarian Ship ‘Estelle’
Soldiers wearing masks are now trying to board the ship. The attack took place (illegally in) international waters.” The Humanitarian Ship ‘Estelle’ loaded with a variety of goods destined for Gaza was illegally boarded and seized in International waters, short of their destination. Former Nanaimo-Cowichan NDP MP Jim Manly is
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan NDP MLA Bill Routley Stood Up For Cowichan Seniors And Won!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberal attack on seniors through their wrong headed policy of forcing Seniors to take computer driving tests and or road tests in unfamiliar vehicles on unfamiliar Victoria streets has finally been corrected. Bill Routley and his Constituency Office staff rolled up their sleeves after countless
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It Is Time For Our Politicians To Legalize Marijuana-No More Bullshit!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The growing list of politicians that are calling for the legalization and or decriminalization of marijuana has just gained another truth teller. The latest to join that list is former BC Liberal Solicitor-General Kash Heed. Former Solictor-General-BC Liberal MLA Joins The Growing List Of Politicians Calling For
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Fiery Missouri Preacher Delivers Strong Statements About Gays and Lesbians To Council!
Fiery Missouri Preacher Delivers Strong Statements About Gays and Lesbians To Springfield, Ohio Council! Listen all the way through, the best is at the end! Read a News-Leader account below. Here is what the local paper reported on these August 2013 meetings. How do you think such a motion would
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Red Alert Women-Here Is What You Will Get With Romney & Ryan!
Former PM the Hon. Pierre Trudeau “Living next to you,” (Former PM) Trudeau told an American audience in a speech to the National Press Club in 1969, “is like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Council Support Increased Super Tanker Traffic
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Hard to believe but North Cowichan Council turned down a motion objecting to the threat faced from increased oil and bitumen carrying tanker traffic along our coastlines. What are these people thinking? Moved by Kate Marsh, she had one other Councillor support her effort but it
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Rebranding: Not Interested in Scraps
The goal is government. I’m interested in a party that wants into government. Anything else is a waste of time. It’s a waste of time to just complain and oppose, along with it being fundamentally unnatural and strange. I want a value-based and focused support of ideas. Bottom feeding and walking by
Continue readingROAR!: PEI Liberal MLA shows no shame to emotional crowd at Province House.
At least that is the headline I would very much like to see, on the news tonight, in the paper tomorrow. Of course it’s not likely. All we’ll see is a 20sec soundbite on the 5o’clock news that Liberal MLA, Bush Dumville was booed by a large crowd when he tried to
Continue readingAnother Step to Take: Complexities of Affirmative Action
When I first heard about the court case in the USA Supreme Court of a Texan who claims that she was denied access to the further education of choice because less qualified minority students were accepted on the basis of race, my first instinct was to think poorly of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Preservation of Life – AKA Gun Control.
The media is responsible for the people’s erroneous view about guns and violence in society. Good work by CNN to get some facts and information into the debate. “The good news is that as America becomes safer, fewer and fewer Americans feel the need for a weapon. The overall
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Obama regains “Eye of the Tiger” in 2nd Presidential Debate
I missed the first Presidential Debate last week, but gathered from the chatter that Mitt Romney stole a round from a woefully-underprepared President Obama. The commentary gave the sense that Obama prepared for the event in the way Apollo Creed prepared for the fight in the first Rocky movie. As
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Mitt Romney Looked Like A Liar In Presidential Debate
Richard Hughes Political Blogger They say that pictures don’t lie. Well Mitt Romney you looked liked a liar in the debates. That is of course because he is a liar. Flip flopping around on environmental, social and economic issues Romney looked ill at ease. Lying does that. When Romney was pontificating about his
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Clean Coal?
Romney said during the first debate there is an “Economy Tax”, and the US “can continue to burn clean coal”. Neither exists. The former was his attempt to coin a phrase, and the latter is a (very dangerous) lie. “Clean coal” is a phrase paid for by the dirty coal
Continue readingPop The Stack: The oil in those pipelines…
Note to Mr. Romney on this paraphrase about the price of gas:“It was $1.80 per gallon when Obama came in and now it’s over $4 per gallon….something something…pumping oil in by pipeline from Canada.” At $1.80 per gallon…there would be no oil in that pipeline! The oil from Canada, from
Continue readingPop The Stack: The oil in those pipelines…
Note to Mr. Romney on this paraphrase about the price of gas:“It was $1.80 per gallon when Obama came in and now it’s over $4 per gallon….something something…pumping oil in by pipeline from Canada.” At $1.80 per gallon…there would be no oil in that pipeline! The oil from Canada, from
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