Confirming our collective suspicions, once and for all, that our mayor is an idiot. Second only to this guy.
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Open fire on the long gun registry
While I certainly don’t agree with the decision to abolish the long gun registry, I can say that I understand why the government is doing it: mainly to appease their core voters. What I do not understand in the slightest, … Continue reading…
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Lesbian Couple Asked To Leave Tim Hortons
A young lesbian couple was asked to leave a Tim Hortons restaurant in Blenheim, Ontario after a pastor complained to the manager that the two were kissing. The couple claims that they were simply holding hands and kissed each other the cheek when a manager told them to tone it down or have to deal […]
Continue readinggritchik: Frank is Frank
Tim Hudak would’ve been wise to have paid a bit more attention to his notoriously conservative, Progressive Conservative MPP, Frank Klees during the last session. A Conservative insider had told me that among senior Tory staffers, they generally didn’t “give a shit” about Klees. Here’s a quote from Klees himself after the 2009 PC leadership […]
Rob Ford: Help! Call 911! Marg Delahunty is after my body!
Marg to cop, "Where's a man when you need him?" Cop, "Obviously not here, m'am".
Too fucking hilarious. No wonder Conservatives are so afraid of the CBC. Marg Delahunty’s on the prowl. (Video here.)
“There was a lady dressed up and she was screaming my name: ‘We got you Rob Ford, we got you,’” . . . → Read More: Rob Ford: Help! Call 911! Marg Delahunty is after my body!
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: The damage from coal costs at least twice what it’s worth
It’s great to have some real estimates on this, and wow: Economists: Every $1 of Electricity from Coal Does $2 in Damage to U.S. Plus, the original source article even indicates this is a very conservative estimate because it doesn’t include costs related to climate change. I imagine it’d be a lot harder to tie […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Banks Refusing Your Money?
Did you know it’s possible to try and use your good credit, and functioning Visa or Master Card, and have the transaction refused for only $10? Try sending money to the corruption-busting website WikiLeaks, and you won’t be allowed! Visa and Master Card are among the willing participants of an ominous financial blockade that has […]
Slap Upside The Head: Tories Release “It Gets Better” Video
The federal Conservative party has released an “It Gets Better” video, telling GLBT teens to stick through the tough times after another bullying-related suicide made headlines last week. Now, I believe the Tories sincerely wish to reduce teen suicides, but the fact is they’ve consistently acted to effect policies to make life worse for GLBT […]
Continue readinggritchik: Federal Tories need to do better
Last week I posted on the “It gets better” video Conservative MPs, ministers and some staffers put together in honour of Jamie Hubley, the Ottawa teenager who took his life because of others’ homophobia. I was critical, highlighting how many of those in the video voted against same-sex marriage in 2005. (I also took exception […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Greater Purpose
I was down at Occupy Regina this afternoon, and went on the march too around downtown, after listening to the interesting speeches. After the main speakers were done, a man started shouting for people to listen to him, which the crowd did as he asked us if we understood that someone created everything. Then it […]
Writings of J. Todd Ring: Message to the ruling 1%….. When Popular Science runs a story about the global domination of the corporate elite, you know you’re fucked
Science confirming the obvious: a recent study by systems analysts shows a tight knot of control over the global economy by a handful of corporate giants, mostly banks – and of course, the billionaires who control those corporations. This is why …
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy Council
Occupy Regina has a speakers series this Saturday to listen to and participate in. I’ve invited the Regina City Council. I encourage you to also contact them. If you live elsewhere, please do the same. If the councilors do not listen to those on the front lines of the Occupy movement, Occupiers will have to […]
gritchik: Tim Hudak: “Pro-abortion”?
So says Campaign Life Coalition. They also say that on abortion, Hudak is “cowardly” and that he “used to be solidly pro-life.” CLC mentions that Hudak, since even before winning Tory leadership, has done nothing related to “life and family issues.” CLC emphasizes this point by reminding those so inclined to support CLC’s ultra conservative […]
gritchik: It’s the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine.
Continue readinggritchik: Conservative MPs tell teens “it gets better” – UPDATED
Like you, it was with deep sadness that I read about Jamie Hubley, the Ottawa teenager who took his life last week because he couldn’t take the bullying anymore. I have a son the same age. It hit home. No one – no child, no teenager, no adult – should be faced with the kind […]
The Progressive Economics Forum: Are the 1% just lucky?
I expect some folks who oppose the Occupy movement will weigh in on merit – that the top 1% are deserving of their riches because they include people who pay a lot of wages and salaries for ordinary folk. That is, the story of hard-working, risk-taking entrepreneurs who should not be punished for being successful. […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Embedded Slavery
The last week has been super-interesting politically speaking in Regina. Not only is there an election campaign underway, but Occupy Regina challenged bylaws and to this point has won us back our Charter rights to assemble peacefully in dissent of the government. While people in the “first world” work out how best to peacefully gain […]
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 readingCritical Brain Candy: What are the goals of Occupy Wall St? Income inequality is a good one
I know there isn’t a specific goal, given the movement doesn’t have a leadership and hasn’t made a clear attempt to define the goals, but I’m still confused. I imagine there should be some broadly accepted goals and even better would be at least a few that are clearly attainable, so the movement knows if […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy Regina Passes Fourth Night
I’ve had a great time every evening I’ve stopped by Occupy Regina in Victoria Park. The protesters are an eclectic and growing group of educated, and less educated, working, and disabled, homeless, and housed people from many different backgrounds. Tonight I talked with long time friends, friends recently met, and met a homeless woman named […]