That’s right, Obama. Utah, home of America’s largest Mormon community – of which Mitt Romney is one – endorses the non-Mormon Democrat, President Barack Obama. Here’s what the Salt Lake City Tribune had to say: The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head
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LisaKirbie.com: GOP “full of racists”
Colin Powell’s former chief of staff says the Republican party is “full of racists.” Exactly no one is surprised.
Continue readingLeft Over: Greed is Driving a Steak Through My Heart…..
Canadians ‘need to know’ about mechanically tenderized meat – in CBC online October 26,2012 Warning!!! Vegetarians, this posting contains suggestive references to meat…. Once again, greed trumps safety… Since I grew up as an omnivore, I make no apologies for the fact that I love meat, a good, thick
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: New Kingston rehab and mental health hospital a departure from recent P3s
The decision to do a long-term private deal to build and maintain the new Kingston rehab and mental health hospital suggests the McGuinty government is ramping up its efforts once again to engage in major privatization of Ontario’s infrastructure. In … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: The Sanctity of Election Fraud
Below is my comment left on Sixth Estate regarding the disastrously wrong Supreme Court decision yesterday. It protects the sanctity of election fraud, instead of Canadians’ right to vote in fair elections. It’s “irregular” for there to be missing documents and many missing signatures from people vouched for. If it
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Geoff Campbell, storified
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Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Exchange Rates, the Price of Oil and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel
This is a guest post by Paul Tulloch, of LivingWork.ca and frequent commentator on this blog, reporting on some significant and timely work he prepared for the northern gateway pipeline review panel, analyzing correlations betwen the price of oil and the Canadian dollar. Exchange Rates, the Price of Oil and the Enbridge Northern
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Responding to Op-Ed Comments
Today’s assignment in PR Writing is to find an organization’s op-ed on a news website and comment on the risks and rewards to the organization in regards to the comment section and whether the organization acted in their best interest. I found Amnesty International’s condemnation of the UN Security Council’s
Continue readingLeft Over: So, Alberta, You Think BC’s Gonna Dance?
Oil companies going unpunished for thousands of North Sea spills I am including a link to this article in the Guardian online of Oct 25, 2012, because it is absolutely critical for anyone who is undecided re the true cost of that nasty pipeline across our beautiful Province, and linking to
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Privacy breaches can cost $214 per record — Cavoukian
The audience laughed when Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian said she got called on a weekend over a major privacy breach. “I don’t know how they got my home number,” she said teasing. Cavoukian rushed downtown to Toronto’s … Continue reading →
Continue readingPressing Politics: Nalcor Reponds to Critic’s “Erroneous” Conclusions
So, I had planned to continue my Muskrat Falls series based on my interview with Nalcor for today’s blog… but that changed late last night when I received comment from Nalcor VP Gilbert Bennett regarding the most recent arguments from … Conti…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Polls closing
The Saskatchewan civic election is winding up in half an hour. Polls close at 8pm, so get in line to vote ASAP if you haven’t yet. I’ll be out at some post-election parties where I’ll find out if it’s been me or one of my worthy challengers who’ve become the
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Tory MP Vellacott calls convicted criminals “heroines of humanity”
I guess this is what the ruling federal Conservative party thinks is tough on crime. You see, there’s this Reform Canadian Alliance Tory MP, Maurice Vellacott, who, quite frankly, is an abomination. He’s been in all sorts of trouble over the years (here and here). He’s also a hardcore pro-lifer,
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Do you make what Mitt Romney makes?
Didn’t think so.
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Obama bombshell?
So says Donald Trump. You know, the guy who’s convinced Obama’s not American. I always knew Trump was an asshole.
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Is it time for Ontario to put limits on overtime in health care?
Studies have shown that excessive overtime is directly linked to incidents of medical errors. In the U.S., medical error is the eighth leading cause of death – more than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer or AIDS. In October’s Synergist, the … Continue reading →
Continue readingPressing Politics: Water Rights and 2041′s Lacking Smoking Gun
Yesterday the 2041 group released a press release essentially saying that Hydro Quebec can hold the Muskrat Falls project hostage at anytime by determining the water flow downstream to Muskrat Falls. They did not say why Hydro Quebec would want ……
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sherry of Wood Mountain
A well known Wood Mountain resident passed away recently after a long cancer illness. Sherry Mielke was a friend of my family, and it’s not going to be the same visiting my parents’ home. I grew up working with Sherry’s computer requests, and building computers for her and her family
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Clown Apocalypse: The Clownsickle
One of the worst things about the clown apocalypse was just sorting out the sick from the opportunistic psycho-killers, who used the disaster to cover their own heinous activities. Many victims of these clown psychos, or clownsickles, as they are … Continue reading →
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