This post is a collection of miscellaneous thoughts regarding the Nevada GOP nomination debate. There is no particular order or theme.
Cain and 9-9-9:
In the previous New Hampshire debate, just after Herman Cain’s ascendancy in the polls, he sp…
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Occupy Wall Street: The emerging global pro-democracy movement, where it stands, what it means, and where we go from here
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has already become a global grassroots populist pro-democracy movement, if we have eyes to see, has clearly already won a broad and growing base of support. What is needed now, I believe, is to further clarify and…
Continue readingTerahertz: Your direct line to Thomas Mulcair
Honestly, I haven’t been impressed so far with Thomas Mulcair’s campaign for the NDP leadership. His promise to move the party to the centre is worrying and threatens the progress we’ve made in growing a progressive choice in Canada. His NAFTA positioning is a bit worrying. He sounded a bit whiny with regards to building […]
Continue reading350 or bust: Just a Mom, Here For A Better World For My Kids
More links: The Global 99 Percent March In Hundreds of Cities Worldwide For Social and Economic Justice How Wall Street Occupies Washington
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Why I voted as I did in the Ontario Election
While I wrote quite a few blog posts on the 2011 Ontario Election, both generally and specifically with regards to my riding of Parkdale-Highpark, I never actually indicated precisely who I was voting for. I thus explain my reasoning here, belatedly, p…
Continue readingcmkl: The most convict-spiking state of the union thinks Canada’s tough-on-crime approach is crackers
They’re at it again, the Tories. On about being tough on crime with this omnibus anti-crime bill C-10, which has already been denounced by lawyers and jurists. But the best rebuke to their fact-free approach to punishing people comes from Texas.
Continue readingTerahertz: Nathan Cullen, the anti-democratic choice?
I guess you have to give credit to Nathan Cullen for finding an issue to distinguish his candidacy. Although, from the reaction of a number of NDP partisans I know on Facebook, including my own, this choice likely won’t help him defeat Brian Topp, Thomas Mulcair, or Paul Dewar (he may still have a chance […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Conservative Economic Myths – Thanks again Alter.net
The writers at Alter.net have been on a tear as of a late. I reproduce highlights from the article. The Top Five Here are five “conventional wisdom” doses of economic nonsense that we have been fed: 1. Business does everything better than government. Corporate conservatives argue that businesses and their one-dollar-one-vote system of decision-making […]
The Happy Wanderer: Would a Tea Party President Help the democrats?
Now some would go off and think the question doesn’t make sense, but think about it. If the Tea Party was in charge what would happen. Well the President would waver Obamacare which would rally the Democratic base. The Republicans president would veto …
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Cains 9-9-9 plan
I decided to refute Cains 9-9-9 plan considering he is apparently now a rising star. Mr Cain has been screaming about 9-9-9 for quite some time , but is it really going to do what he says it does. First let’s see the logic behind it. Cain wou…
Continue readingA. Picazo: #OccupyWallStreet – Calgary edition
So much has been written about the Occupy movement, it’s difficult to discuss it further without a sense of redundancy. At the same time, it’s difficult for the apolitical to fully appreciate the scope of the protests without understanding the motivation behind it. It’s also difficult to examine the #OccupyCalgary
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy Regina
These photos are from Day one. Day Three starts Monday.
Continue readingcmkl: If only everyone paid their taxes
Doug Saunders points out that the amount of money required to fix Europe’s debt ills is about as much as you’d get if you taxed all the money held in off-shore tax havens at 11 per cent.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The sensitivity of the Ontario election results to the Green Party vote
One of the interesting results of the Ontario general election was the collapse of the Green Party from its 2007 peak of 8% down to just over 3% in 2011. In this post I run the math on various counterfactual scenarios to see what would have happe…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Greens Launch Healthcare Platform Planks
A portion of the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s healthcare proposals are available on CBC.
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Quebec to be Represented in Parliament?
Representation by Population Brown’s idea way back to even before confederation. In Canada we are not quite there at total representation. In Canada some Provinces are massively over represented while others aren’t. Harper is going to give 30 new …
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Twitter and Facebook Failing
I’m having trouble posting and reading Facebook and Twitter suddenly, I suspect they are feeling the strain of extra eyes due to the Occupy Together protests around the world today. This is where blogs come in handy, when your micro-blogging sites are overwhelmed. I’m off to downtown Regina now, to participate in Occupy Regina. Together […]
Trashy's World: Irony, thy name is Johnny…
Or Steve…This article on the MotherCorp site is all about Ukraine’s imprisonment of the main Opposition Party leader… and how the PM is a tad worried about it. But this is the line that had me rolling on the floor laughing: Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Tuesday Canada was troubled by the prison sentence. […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: More Debates – Press Release
I sent this to various Saskatchewan media yesterday. It appeared in part in the Star Phoenix and Leader Post. This province has had its laws constructed and maintained over the last 20 years by the NDP (coalition w/Liberals), and Sask Party. To exclude other parties from the debate on TV is to only give the […]
The Happy Wanderer: Rick Mercer Thank You
Rick Mercer has outdone himself now. He ranted about the money the Finance minister is spending to try and cut government spending. 20 million dollars to find out how to cut spending. 90,000 dollars a day!
Rick Mercer is right …
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