More Right Wing Empathy
Via Warren Kinsella, Michael Coren says, well, I will just quote him verbatim: Tragic irony. The teenagers at the socialist youth camp on the Norwegian island who were victims of…
July 2011
Amy Winehouse: 14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011
A wild talent. All temperament, ache and need. Every note was like a bit of her life ebbing away. She was 27....
Justice Julius Isaac Obituary
Chief Justice leaves a legacy of giving and nurturing Deaths - The Globe and Mail http://bit.ly/qBfwdm Jul 22, 2011 – Working through school as a miner and railway porter, he…
So when will they put the logos on the Legislative Assembly?
You know how big name musical acts often have specific corporations sponsoring their tours? Welcome to politics in the 21st century. Twenty-six organizations invested between $5,000 and $50,000 to sponsor…
Amy Winehouse dead
Shocking and heartbreaking such a talent succumbing so early in a promising life. In Postmedia, Michael Coren blames the Norwegian victims.H/T: @jonkay
“Not an inch of space”
Never mind that Europe is supposed to be all metric all the time, here’s a quote relating to yesterday’s tragedy: "That the perpetrator apparently comes from the far-right scene shows…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Jeffrey Simpson laments the Cons' evidence-averse crime policies. But it's worth noting that Simpson is off base on one point: much as he…
Michael Coren blames Norwegian victims as “socialist children” “who showed no empathy at all for Jewish suffering”
I thought the Washington Post was grossly irresponsible for keeping up a hate column by Jennifer Rubin blaming Muslims for the Norwegian tragedy but this bit of hate speech from…
Conservative government now monitoring unreported crime
Ministry of Justice officials confirmed Friday that the government has recently started compiling statistics of unreported crimes. A spokesperson for MP Rob Nicholson told reporters "We are carefully tracking crimes…
Michael Coren blames Norwegian victims as "socialist children" "who showed no empathy at all for Jewish suffering"
I thought the Washington Post was grossly irresponsible for keeping up a hate column by Jennifer Rubin blaming Muslims for the Norwegian tragedy but this bit of hate speech from…
Your liberal media: Washington Post still has Jennifer Rubin piece up blaming Muslims for Norway bombing
Shameful the way the right has peddled this horror conducted by a right wing extremist as Islamic terrorism. Even more shameful when the Washington Post does it and neglects to…
Celine Dion’s funny pictures and controversy
See more images here.Read the story here
Colossal ASSHOLE Alert
This just blows my mind:Leftist SyndromeTragic irony. The teenagers at the socialist youth camp on the Norwegian island who were victims of terror had just demanded that Israel remove the…
A blogging bishop
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. As traditional as a church may be, as the world changes, little things about how the church does things may change…
Teen gets 18 months probation for racist vandalism
Teen gets probation for anti-Semitic graffiti By Daryl Slade, Calgary Herald July 22, 2011A teen who spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti on two synagogues and a Holocaust memorial 20 months ago has…
"Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation" Stockwell Day
This is a pretty ordinary sentiment but I picked it because Stockwell Day was often portrayed as a radical beyond radical. In fact, Mr Day appreciated well the constitutional role…
Well Thank God He Is A White, Right-Wing Christian
The right can now play it down as the work of a lone nut. If he was a brown Muslim, well, let's just say they would have portrayed him as…
Stephen Harper: Pay No Attention To The Stats Can Man Behind The Curtain
The other day I wrote about the fact that statistic show serious crime in Canada to be at a 40-year-low. Despite this, of course, the Harper Government is marching headlong…
Deep thought
If there's any good news in the report that it's apparently impossible to keep corporate sponsorship off even the most political of public functions, it's that it should be highly…
Blogsy experiment
So, I bought Blogsy from the app store and it turns out to be really nice. Easier to use than the WordPress app. And it seems to deal with images…