Why I’m not freaking out about the idea of a Mitt Romney presidency I’m not complacent: bad things would happen. But I also have faith that, despite partisan politics, America arcs toward progress – a blog from Ana-Marie Cox posted in the Guardian online Nov. 5, 2012 Well, glad your
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wmtc: rtod: i ain’t marching (to the u.s. polls) anymore
I spent the summer and fall of 2004 working on a Get Out The Vote campaign for the Democrats, not because they were my party of choice, but because I was angry at the prospect of another stolen election, and I wanted to make a difference in the popular vote
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: URGENT UPDATE to FIPA Environmental Assessment.
Kevin Logan – Cowichan Converations Contributor URGENT UPDATE to FIPA Environmental Assessment.We posted a long detailed breakdown of the FIPA Environmental Assessment process a few days ago. See here. In that piece we noted the fact that the final Environmental Assessment seemed absent in the soon to be ratified FIPA.
Continue readingwmtc: voting for obama because of the supreme court? please check your math
When making the case for the differences between US Democrats and Republicans, many people’s first thought is the Supreme Court. High on their list of the importance of SCOTUS is usually Roe v. Wade, the case that established abortion rights for American women. There was a time when I would
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: This is Just the Beginning of the Hurricane Season!
This is not the end of the hurricane season, just the beginning. The Corporate agenda has dominated worldwide for longer than the earth and all inhabitants and species can tolerate. Fossil fuels and their subsequent pollution drive the attack on the planet. The degree to which the multi-national energy corps
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Even if you have seen this before, it still will make you smile.
This really is special. Enjoy.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: R*@#^d Ann, huh?
Maybe it’s because I was, at least in the first six or seven years of my life on this planet, a “slow learner” and had to spend Grades One and Two in the remedial program (along with very intensive speech therapy). Or maybe because it’s just Ann Coulter. I am
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: “You’re a priggish, gullible, British Fool”: Conrad Black
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Oh, this is special. Jailbird Conrad Black strikes out against BBC Interviewer. The National Post and of course PM Harper are falling all over themselves to cater to ahem, Lord Black. Conrad is out promoting his revisionist account of his troubles.
Continue readingwmtc: "all they talk about is taxes, but all people want is jobs": thoughts on why there are no good jobs and why no one is creating them
We visited family in the US this past week, and because of this, ended up hearing more about the election in two days than either of us have read, seen, or thought about in months, if not years. Which is not to say people talked non-stop about the election, only
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Fiery Missouri Preacher Delivers Strong Statements About Gays and Lesbians To Council!
Fiery Missouri Preacher Delivers Strong Statements About Gays and Lesbians To Springfield, Ohio Council! Listen all the way through, the best is at the end! Read a News-Leader account below. Here is what the local paper reported on these August 2013 meetings. How do you think such a motion would
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Billy Graham: Wrong about gay marriage
Billy Graham, who is into his eighth decade as a minister, is one of the very few people in the States who is so famous that the only address you need to write on an envelope is his or her name only, no box number, no state, no ZIP code — in
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Red Alert Women-Here Is What You Will Get With Romney & Ryan!
Former PM the Hon. Pierre Trudeau “Living next to you,” (Former PM) Trudeau told an American audience in a speech to the National Press Club in 1969, “is like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Mitt Romney Looked Like A Liar In Presidential Debate
Richard Hughes Political Blogger They say that pictures don’t lie. Well Mitt Romney you looked liked a liar in the debates. That is of course because he is a liar. Flip flopping around on environmental, social and economic issues Romney looked ill at ease. Lying does that. When Romney was pontificating about his
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: "Binders of women", Mitt?
There have been many foot in mouth moments in debates over the years. Think Gerry Ford’s comments in 1976 about how he would not allow the USSR to dominate Poland (of course, Poland had been a client state of Moscow since WW2). Carter saying that his daughter and youngest child
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hmmm- Australian PM Julia Gillard Is Not Such A Feminist After All!
Richard Hughes Political Blogger A few posts back I posted this story-Australian PM Julia Gillard strikes a blow for women everywhere. You may have seen it but it is now being called into question by John Pilger and published in the Guardian. Her treatment of the poorest and most
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canada’s Shame-The Alberta Tar Sands Revealed
This graphic video undresses the warm fuzzy PR spin advanced by the Oil Barons. They are more than willing to sacrifice northern Alberta for profits. It is worse, the greenhouse gas emissions make a lie out of any effort to be responsible. As a Canadian I am ashamed of what is being
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: One Term More
This election has produced some amazing videos, enjoy. One Term More – With Subtitles from One Term More on Vimeo.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Good ‘Fracking’ News From New York!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger As citizens learn more about the downsides of hydraulic fracking the inevitable protests follow. In Pennslylvannia, Nova Scotia, Quebec and now the state of New York the politicians are stepping back. This is not an easy response but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: President Obama Battered and Bruised From Last Nights Debate
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The question that dominated from last nights Presidential Debate was what happened to Obama? He was flat, lacked focus, energy and hunger. As far as the bumbling foot in mouth prone challenger Governor Mitt Romney his metamorpheus was surprising. He was focused, forceful and won the debate
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Khadr: Back in the Great White North
Omar Khadr returned to Canada this past weekend to serve out the remainder of his sentence at Guantanamo Bay. Unlike the “military commission” which gave Khadr no credit for time served on the eight year sentence he received for manslaughter, the “two for one” rule in effect in Canada at
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