The ever so controversial Sunday paper News of the World, which defies even the vilest of descriptions, is finally folding this weekend after 168 years after it got caught up in even more phone hacking scandals. The paper has raised eyebrow…
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Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Another blow for DSK? (And yet another random rant about the double standard)
Just when when Dominque Strauss-Kahn thought he finally got a lucky break, now a French writer by the name of Tristane Banon has filed a complaint that he raped her in 2003. DSK in turn has filed a counter-complaint accusing her of filing a…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Case against DSK on shaky ground
The free world was shocked when Dominique Strauss Kahn was charged with sexual assault a few weeks back. But now, DSK’s bail conditions have been significantly relaxed after the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (son of Jimmy Cart…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: SCOTUS okays violent vid games
The US Supreme Court ruled today, 7-2, violent video games are protected by the First Amendment and California had no right to pass a law that banned the sale of such games to people under 18. The majority judgment was written by that noted sarca…
Continue readingwmtc: pulitzer-prize winning u.s. journalist comes out as undocumented immigrant
There’s an excellent and eye-opening story in today’s New York Times Magazine. Jose Antonio Vargas was born in the Philippines, and came to the United States at age 12. He has lived the American dream, fighting for a quality education, pulling himself …
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Democracy in America
Another day, another nadir of utter stupidity… “This is what democracy looks like,” the dancing assclowns shouted in defense of their right to behave like jackals at public memorial sites. Meanwhile, their country is in a total shambles… $15 trillion … Continue reading →
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: BREAKING: Jack Kevorkian dead
Source: Detroit Free Press. All I can say is, he put forward an issue many of us don’t really want to talk about on the agenda.
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”? John Cole at “Balloon Juice” has a thread up documenting some pretty hilarious
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”? John Cole at “Balloon Juice” has a thread up documenting some pretty hilarious
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Democrats pull another one out of the hat
A big surprise in last night’s by-election in New York 26 — the north and eastern suburbs of Buffalo, most of the “southern tier” and the western edge of Rochester. If you live in the Hamilton – Toronto area and therefore get the Buffalo affiliate…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: SCOTUS: California prisons overcrowded — duh
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court said that California is in violation of its own consent decree regarding prison conditions related to overcrowding — an unfortunate result of the well intentioned but totally misguided three strikes law that applies to …
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Obama: 1967 borders, please
It’s quite the provocation in the minds of many, but Barack Obama has done an almost complete reversal of what he said when campaigning in 2008.
At a meeting of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, then Senator Obama said that he suppo…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Harper’s anti-democratic senate appointments.
Harper has appointed three senate seats from among his party. Here is the kicker: these people just lost their election campaigns to be MP’s.
Opposed to supporting democratic influences it is actively rewarding loyal party members even thought they l…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Splitsville for Ahnold, Shriver
Divorce is never a simple matter. Especially when it involves Arnold Schwarzenegger and his soon to be ex wife Maria Shriver. It is just possible if the truth above his love child came out during the 2003 recall, he might have never been electe…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Strauss-Kahn arrested
When I heard the news late Saturday night after work that IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn had been arrested for an alleged sexual assault in NYC just as his flight to Paris was getting ready to take off — presumably, the flight that would take him on…
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AMERICAN POLITICS:ANOTHER SORT OF FIRST OF JULY:Well now that the great raison d’être for America’s far flung wars is safely swimming with the fishies it might just be time for that country to question why they continue to fight. A peace coalition cal…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Why would anyone doubt the killing of Osama bin Laden?
So Osama bin Laden is now officially dead, okay.
Still there are tons of people out there who doubt the story. Some think he’s still alive and others contend he’s been dead for years. There are plenty of American citizens who doubt what thei…
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Ireland hits the polls, and the wall
In terms of politics, this is truly an earthquake.True, the top two parties in Ireland are pretty much Tweedledum and Tweedledee (they’re both centre right) but after all the ballots have been counted in Ireland the party that has pretty much dominated…
Continue readingMore Notes From Underground: How The Anti-Fluoride Craze Explains Sarah Palin
Tom Flanagan is upset that Calgary’s city council has decided to end fluoride treatment of Calgary’s water supply. This is, as Flanagan correctly points out, against all evidence about the safety and benefits of fluoride in the water supply. Of course, as the Big City Liberal observes, Flanagan is reaping
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