Lithuanian Traffic Blotter: Vilnius Mayor Flattens Illegally Parked Car with a Tank
He looks like he's had some practice at that, too!
August 2011
Liberal Party Dumber than Sticks…MSM even Dumber
Fine. I'll blog about Nycole Tumel. You made me cause you're so f@cking stupid. 1. The Liberal Party talking birds like Scotty Popcorn and Rob not Gold but some other…
Environmental Working Group Reveals EPA Knowledge of Water Contamination From Fracking
Screen shot 2011-08-03 at 11.29.37 PM.png Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been known by the EPA to contaminate underground sources of drinking water since 1987. In a 25-year old investigat...
Somebody sent me this today…
Ruin? Hell. That would be the best present I could get today. Thanks, Ben Auslander!
Canadians Embarrassed (Again) After Government Overestimates Its Carbon Reductions
NRTEE-logo-270px-eng.jpg The Canadian government is again being called out for providing misleading information about its commitment to reducing carbon emissions. The National Round Table on the ...
Planned Parenthood meets Bollywood!
In celebration of the new law requiring all US health insurance providers to cover birth control and other preventive health measures for women with no “co-pays” (out of pocket expenses,…
NDP vows to wean Ontario off nuclear power
Canada has (or had) world leading nuclear technology. Nuclear technology is ecologically sound. We should explore alternative energy sources and ways to limit energy use -- but we need nuclear…
G20 Police Abuse Reaches The Stage
Like so many other innocent people who fell victim to the madness that engulfed the police during last year's G20 Summit in Toronto, Tommy Taylor experienced an unwarranted arrest and…
Stephen Harper’s Horrible Fishing Trip
Well I see Stephen Harper has surfaced at last, and I was shocked to see that he was looking a little pale around the gills.At first I thought this might…
Nycole Turmel’s induction in the federalists’ wonderland
Surprise, surprise! Belatedly, the Globe & Mail “discovers” that an elected NDP member of parliament — in this case interim party leader Nycole Turmel — has been a member of…
Green energy contrasts
There are the federal Conservatives, speaking yesterday: “Canadians gave our Government a strong mandate to complete our economic recovery and focus on continued job growth,” said Minister Oliver, speaking in…
Hard to rage against the machine…
… when looking out at a scene like this. Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission Bans Fracking Disposal Wells Due to Earthquakes
Screen shot 2011-08-02 at 2.23.46 PM.png The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission has voted unanimously to ban disposal wells for unconventional gas drilling wastes in a region that has been…
That Conservative "war criminals" list
While Vic Toews is bemoaning the CBC state broadcaster’s refusal to act like, well, a state broadcaster, the home country of one of these “war criminals” is wondering who the…
We Don’t Need a Lecture from Alberta “Firewall” Harper
The Conservatives pride themselves on their ability to throw opposition leaders under the bus. And they’re at it now with NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel. She is a self-proclaimed federalist…
Austerity and Welfare State Practices
I'm going to dip my toe back into the blogging pool via a quick "Lookee here!" post. In the last little while, lots of energy on the left has been…
Turmel Turmoil
We all knew the NDP’s flirtation with the separatists would emerge as an issue at some point during the 41st Parliament. I just don’t think anyone expected it to move…
Janus Jack Layton and The Quebec Policy
Recently, having crushed the Bloc in the 2011 elections, there was a flurry of discussion in the media and blogs around the ambivalent NDP policy regarding the right of Quebec…
Ongoing support from the Liberal Party to Stop the Meter
The half-a-million Canadians who stood up for the Internet by signing and sharing the Stop the Meter petition received some support from the Liberal Party today. Hon. Geoff Regan, Industry…
Juxtaposition
Kenneth Rogoff describes the type of policy needed to push developed economies out of their current slump:too many policy-makers have relied on the belief that, at the end of the…