Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock on Star Trek, is dead from COPD. He quit smoking 30 years too late. Of the original Star Trek cast, Scotty and Bones have also passed away. Good-bye @TheRealNimoy. You made a lot of people very happy in this world, and that's a life well
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: More Debates, Not Fewer Debaters
The unethical fools at the Broadcast Consortium will probably gladly keep Elizabeth May away from the debates this year too. Especially amusing is the Conservative spokes-tool saying more participants would make it a gong show. Mulcair wanting a debate focused on women, while angling to keep the only female leader
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #DontLookAtTheSun Sun News Off The Air
#FunFact: Sun News was the first "national" "news" TV station to show one of my videos. Of course, followed by Gormley slandering me. — Saskboy K. (@saskboy) February 13, 2015 Gormley cooked up a conspiracy to try to blame me for his misfortune of attracting a protest to his book
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Why TV Keeps Almost Being Good
There was once a show called Revolution. And another called Scorpion. Each had a great premise: a world after electricity, and what happens when you have a bunch of geniuses trying to work together on cool projects. Each failed miserably [as art] almost immediately. Why? Nothing new here. Network TV isn’t
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Megamind Time Machine
We kicked off a Netflix addiction with “The Croods” [5/10] last night, and “Megamind” [8/10] this morning. At Christmas we replaced a tube TV with a more modern LED version that can get free broadcast channels and hook up to a laptop. Cutting the cable was made possible also with
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Weaponized Aryan Jesus?
The term “weaponized Jesus” comes from an article I read on politicsusa.com, from November 2013, titled “The Religious Right With Their Weaponized Jesus Are Not Christians.” It’s worth a read, if you enjoy the political-religious debate. I eventually traced the phrase back to a 2010 story in Mother Jones. It’s a
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Internet TV and Roku
I picked up a ROKU streaming stick this weekend at the local Staples store to get access to some internet TV. The box advertises 500+ channels, while the boxes for the upscale models 2 and 3 offer 450+ and 1,000+, respectively. However, the official webpage for Roku says you can get more than
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lang Still at CBC
Amanda Lang still hasn’t been suspended from reporting for the CBC. Meanwhile, Global did a little required housecleaning. “When people say they have no politics, it means that their politics aligns with the status quo. None of us are unbiased, none removed from the question of power.” – George Monbiot
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lang Should Be Fired Or Suspended
CANADALAND's investigation of @AmandaLang_CBC , by @sdbcraig , is now online: http://t.co/W7s8XUoX03 pic.twitter.com/FL23x8af34 — Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) January 12, 2015 It’s been brewing for Lang for quite some months now. Another Code Red crisis for CBC MT @JesseBrown CANADALAND investigation of @AmandaLang_CBC by @sdbcraig now online: http://t.co/Aj3IsE6mb1 — Chris Selley
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Falling Skies: Aliens as Metaphor
We watched the last of Season Two of the Falling Skies series last night. After a bit of research this morning, I learned I have two more seasons to watch and a fifth season has been scheduled. Something to look forward to. I wasn’t sure about how it would turn
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Export The Immigration Minister Please
It’s so fantastically shameful the Immigration Minister discriminates based on religion, denying Syrian refugees especially if they are Muslims. This would violate the Charter of Rights were these people Canadians. Not a good Christian case of “do unto others”, is it? == .@CBCAlerts if only we could export our low-price
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Record That Please
Ex-Anders aide stumbles around hunting dirt on @MarloRaynolds. Quotes CPC voter instead. Sun News runs it. Cabinet mins chime in. Beautiful. — Chris Turner (@theturner) November 25, 2014 When has recording things gone well for the Conservatives? She'll be fine. The Tories are compassionate and forgiving to their own when
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cancer Time Machine
One disturbing part of modern life, is that no one will escape this Earth untouched by cancer in their life somewhere. It’s a toxic environment we’ve created for ourselves, and with lifespans well past what they used to be, cancer is most likely to catch up with our bodies. I
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: CBC Live As Composed As A Live Blog
Ancient years ago, about 6, CBC journalists could be heard explaining to crowds how bloggers might one day be eating their lunch, but for the time being the responsible journalism was being done by the Main Stream Media. Then an armed gunman shot a soldier at the War Memorial before
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ottawa Attacked
A sad day of note in Canadian political history, as Parliament Hill was under gunfire today. A soldier was also shot at the nearby War Memorial. Putting the day’s events into perspective though, are Canadians less safe today because of our political leader’s choice to take us to war in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Flirting With Fascism
ICYMI: @DonMartinCTV does his last word on changes to the Copyright Act http://t.co/bLonc1F5om @ctvnewschannel #cdnpoli — CTV Power Play (@CTV_PowerPlay) October 9, 2014 It’s about damn time someone in the MSM noted the obvious. This isn’t akin to calling Harper a Nazi; It’s about calling a spade a spade. Hijacking
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Global Regina Bullied by Racists Into Censorship
Racists who were criticizing the launch of a new mosque in Regina, forced the TV station to remove the news story from their Facebook page, rather than report and delete the offensive comments. Some of the racists were not even from Regina (one persisting is from the deep south). When
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Sex, violence and TV shows
We just finished watching the third season of Game of Thrones on DVD this past weekend. Before that, we watched The White Queen, another DVD series (one season only, although it deserved more). As we watched both, I found myself wondering why directors and producers felt the need to insert
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Occupy Movement Gets Its Own TV Station
The Occupy movement has partnered with FilmOn Networks to create a free 24/7 Online “TV for the 99” television outlet for news, evidence, and commentary. The post Occupy Movement Gets Its Own TV Station appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Robin Williams is Dead
I blame Canada. The world lost a really genuine person who tried at least as hard as Jim Carey and Steve Carell, to make everyone laugh. Aww shucks, Williams was priceless. Let’s try to use this time to give hope to those with depression, and turn this problem around for
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