Boys ‘n’ girls, let’s give this college senior a big hand here! No, really! They’re making it on their own without any help from anyone on very little! Or so it would appear…
Oh, college senior, but you are very much part of the 99% ! Say it loud! Say it proud, . . . → Read More: Nice Little ‘Manifesto’ You Got There, But, I’m Going To Burst Your Little Bubble–You ARE Part of the 99%
Continue readingIt appears that Chinese state-owned companies is investing billions into Alberta tar sands these days.
The Financial Post reported Chinese companies are poised to make even more significant investments in the weeks and months ahead.
Who knew that China was so well known for their human rights record? I would love to see how Ezzy Levant continues to . . . → Read More: Is Alberta Oil Still ‘Ethical’, Ezzy?
Continue readingIs there nothing the Batshit crazy won’t stop at in the name of austerity? Here’s something that could warm the heart of Super Vic Toews. According to a report from Daily Kos, it appears that Topeka Kansas, nor Shawnee County, can “afford” to prosecute perpetrators of domestic abuse.
The Topeka City Council on . . . → Read More: Austerity More Important Than Justice For Victims Of Conjugal Violence in Topeka, Kansas
Continue readingWot’s the big deel about ejucation anyway. Like tryin to fix that fony climate change, it’s only going to impeed the rappture.
TORONTO – Canada has an “enormous vacuum” at the centre of its national education leadership and should fill it with an intergovernmental council, says a prominent educator.
The recommendation is parting . . . → Read More: Canada under Harper: education falling behind other countries
Continue readingYep, Dear Lisa is busy sharpening her claws and no doubt finding ‘sexy’ ways to stamp on workers, yet again, boys ‘n’ girls, and this time, it’s Air Canada Flight attendants. Flight attendants, who are represented by CUPE, have voted to reject the latest deal negotiated between CUPE and management. Interesting twist. What . . . → Read More: And Here We Go Again! Lisa ‘I’m Too Sexy For The Proletariat’ Raitt Is Mad And She Ain’t a Takin’ It No More! Part D’Uh!
Continue readingSouthwest Airlines is the product of a true southern sensibility. Meaning there is little sense – or heart – in anything it does. It represents all that is ugly about the US south. Especially lately. It is making a name for itself not for excelling in air service but for evicting passengers for . . . → Read More: Southwest Airlines follies: “It’s a go” not the same as “I’ve got to go”
Continue readingBoys ‘n’ girls, I’d like to introduce a young political science and history student from the US who would like to contribute posts about American politics from time to time over here at Sister Sage’s Musings. His name is Scott.
Below is his post. Scott, I apologize for posting it a few days . . . → Read More: A New Contributor From America And His Belated Post
Continue readingI did see this pic of the orange stiletto on some of my facebook friends’ profile pics and wondered what it was. For them, I thought it was amusing; they were celebrating fall; the advent of Halloween; stuff like that. After all, I’m in Quebec and not privy to all . . . → Read More: Maybe It’s Just Me, But Isn’t The (O)NDP Supposed To Be a Forward Thinking Party?
Continue readingImagine my surprise when I read in today’s Globe and Mail that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he was “relatively confident” that we would see modest economic growth in Canada. What is modest economic growth, I wonder? Is it 0.3%, …
Continue readingYes, Boys ‘n’ girls, he really has. He’s gotten really disgusting! First, he’s been distributing this hideous and grossly misleading pamphlet, seen below, while campaigning in Brampton earlier this evening.
I’m getting a nasty sense of deja-vu when I look at this monstrosity, much like that ad ol’ Chuckles McVety had in . . . → Read More: Timmy Hudak Sinks To Another All Time Low And Goes All Chuckles McVety
Continue readingIt seems that Timmy Hudak is pulling a Stevie Spiteful. When in doubt, bring out the evul coalition bogey man!
Speaking at a Toronto hockey arena, Mr. Hudak repeatedly lumped the other two parties together and suggested any alliance would inevitably lead to higher taxes in the province. He said such a coalition . . . → Read More: Ontarians, Are You Getting a Sense of Deja-Vu?
Continue readingI find it not a little humorous that the National Post is back pedalling furiously over their publishing Charles McVety’s repulsive homophobic ad. Even more humorous is the Post’s high-minded explanation of why it published an ad that should never have been published in the first place.
The most humorous though is how . . . → Read More: National Post and free speech
Continue readingWell, this latest antic from the Harpercons, specifically, pitbull Johnny Baird, could fall under a few files: austerity for thee but not for me, do as I say and not as I do, Liberal Derangement Syndrome and removing all signs of Canadian identity.
Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, Pitbull Johnny has ordered up the . . . → Read More: I Guess Displaying Canadian Symbol is Exempt for Some And a Tiara With That, Mr. Baird?
Continue readingHarpercon MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt and Fetus Fetishist extraordinaire, Brad Trost is having a temper tantrum as of late:
Late in the afternoon of Thursday, September 22nd, I received a phone call from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) about a news story on the CBC that had run earlier in the day. The . . . → Read More: Surprised Stevie Hasn’t Scolded Bratty Brad For His Tantrum? I’m Not
Continue readingIt’s been blogged about again and again, but that is because it’s so stupid and at the same time, scary. With their majority government, the Tories are looking to spearhead an omnibus “tough on crime” bill to increase jail time among other th…
Continue readingDaoud Kuttab then continues on to say that the reason Israel isn’t allowing Palestine to be a state for no good reason.
Back in 1947, when the General Assembly voted to partition the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab s…
Continue readingI read this terrible opinion on the Palestine situation. This writer has written some facts, but neglects to mention any other facts that contradict him. First he state a quote from Obama
“when we come back here next year, we can have an…
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When I think of the war on drugs, I think of conservatives in western countries and their prohibition against marijuana. Of course, it’s a much bigger issue than that. It’s a war in which pleasure is something to deny and fear. But this war goes beyond mere denial of pleasure. It denies . . . → Read More: War on drugs ravages world’s patients living with pain
Continue readingYes, boys ‘n’ girls, put this one under the file of if this weren’t so sad and dire for Canadians, it might actually be rip roaringly hilarious. Stevie Spiteful and Deficit Jimbo are actually going to pay the firm, Deloitte, 19.8 million smackers or 90,000$ per day until about March 31 to help . . . → Read More: Harpercons Pay Private Firm 90,000$ Per Day To, Well, Find Ways To Find Cuts
Continue readingThat Ubercon wet dream of Stevie Spiteful’s that he went all ga ga giddy over at Mayor Boss Hogg’s hootenanny last summer that was videotaped. Yanno, that video that the Cons seem to feverishly keep chasing their tails, trying to keep it off the intertoobz without much success. Well, boys ‘n’ girls, here . . . → Read More: Now There’s a Comforting Thought…
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