Big orangutan kisses to all of you there for showing your support for the Quebec student movement. You have brought this ape to tears (and this rarely happens). Thank you. New York City Paris Vancouver Toronto
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From Orangutan: To New York, Paris, Vancouver, and Toronto
Big orangutan kisses to all of you there for showing your support for the Quebec student movement. You have brought this ape to tears (and this rarely happens). Thank you. New York City Paris Vancouver Toronto
Continue readingFalse positive: private profit in Canada's health care: Government Incentives Build Empires
The American Medical News reports that Fitch, a global investment rating service, found that incentives paid to hospitals for adoption of electronic health records (EHR) went to increased profits. Fitch also concluded that: “…the hospital companies analyzed in the report are not expected to use their positive cash flow to
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: California Moves To Ban Gay “Conversion” Therapy For Teens
Encouraging news coming out of California this week! The state senate is quickly passing some new legislation that would ban the practice of applying the unscientific and discredited practice of gay “conversion therapy” on anyone under the age of 18. The bill would also make anyone over the age
Continue readingObama jumps in front of the parade
Political leadership has been defined as figuring out where the people are going and then getting in front of them. If that’s the case, American President Barack Obama is clearly showing leadership with his support for gay marriage. A recent Pew survey showed that support for gay marriage in the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Oooh, This Could Get Nasty
China has provoked outrage in the Philippines by deploying this oil platform, the country’s first deepwater drilling rig, into the South China Sea. The rig, CNOOC 981, began drilling operations yesterday in disputed waters 320 km from Hong Kong. According to Reuters, civil society and political groups with links to
Continue readingWhy poor Americans vote Republican
One of the mysteries of American politics is why so many of the poorer, government-dependent jurisdictions vote for the party that pushes for smaller government and reduced social programs. An article in the May issue of the New Internationalist offers an explanation. The article points out that, for example, the
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: North Carolina Re-Bans Same-Sex Marriage
North Carolina conducted a statewide study yesterday to resolve the question once and for all: Are most North Carolinians narrow-minded bigots? The answer, of course, was yes.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: After a Long, Unexplained Abscence #cdnpoli
Abscence makes the heart grow fonder. That’s a bogus expression. It creates worry, and doubt. That’s what a lot of people were feeling when Brian-Michel LaRue disappeared from online life he’d been immersed in most waking hours for the first 6 weeks during the RoboCon drama broke wide open in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ads As News A Swindle
It’s bothered me for quite some time how the “professional” media tends to cover campaign ads (particularly attack ads) as news, and thus goads the victim of the attack into responding in turn. It’s not a coincidence that the way to respond in turn happens to send money to the
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: For Iran, A Generic U.S. Drone
Apparently, Iranian engineers have successfully decoded America’s captured reconnaissance drone and now Tehran intends to build a copy. The Islamic Republic’s military captured the US RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaisance aircraft last December. Dick Chenney is not going to like this. According … Continue reading →
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear CUNY and SUNY students,
Thank you, students at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the State University of New York (SUNY) for writing a beautiful open letter of support of the student strike in Quebec. I am elated that three of you from Brooklyn College visited Montreal over spring break to understand
Continue readingThe Monroe Doctrine is dead
A new age has dawned in the Americas. The Monroe Doctrine, a policy established by the United States ostensibly to keep European imperialists out of the Western Hemisphere but which eventually deteriorated into an instrument to maintain American dominance, is now effectively deceased. At the recent Summit of the Americas,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: BP Gulf Disaster Continues
I’ve been avoiding shrimp for close to two years because I expected this. Do you remember how the EPA said it was safe for New Yorkers to return to the area around Ground Zero, despite the obvious hazard to respiration from asbestos dust? The government’s action around the BP oil
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: What DOES Foreign Inducement Look Like Anyway?
It apparently doesn’t look like an American on a phone reading a script that’s supposed to convince Canadians to vote for a Conservative MP. Because there is a photo of that happening last election, and yet there are no charges laid, 10 months later, to enforce Section 331 of the
Continue readingI know more about American political parties than 92 per cent of Americans
Don’t take my word for it. The Pew Research Center says so. All I did was take their quiz about the two major American political parties and answer all the questions correctly. And that put me ahead of 92 per cent of Americans surveyed by the Center. Take the quiz
Continue readingPolygonic: The emperor’s new clothes: North Korea keeps on marching
Sometimes, you just want to give them a hug. Pyongyang put on this earnest show of transparency around its rocket launch, inviting foreign journalists into the heart of their futuristic Space Control Centres (SCCs). Witness the marvels of our microcomputers and our, umm, extraordinarily large antennae! It was one part
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Principal Disqualifies Student for Supporting Same-Sex Marriage
An assistant principal at Fullerton Union High School in California interrupted and disqualified a student competing for the title of Mr. Fullerton (A silly contest the school has going on, apparently) because the student said he hopes that same-sex marriage will be legal in California so that he can get
Continue readingAmericans increasingly support interracial marriage
At a time when Americans agonize over the shooting of Trayvan Martin in Florida, and racial tensions simmer, a Pew Research Center survey reveals at least one encouraging development. According to the survey, 43 per cent of Americans believe the national rise in interracial marriage is a change for the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: US Blocking UK Travel to Canada
This is completely outrageous. Better hope no one with your name ends up on the US No Fly list. This move makes the financial blockade against WikiLeaks, look like a simple administrative dispute.
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