Cloud and I-Phone
This is more a question than a customary post. The radio says the new I-Phone will be storing all its data in the Cloud. Is this true? If so, does…
October 2011
Cher, cockroaches and the Liberal Party’s death
After Chantal Hébert noted that the Liberals' days may be numbered, and Susan Delacourt also stuck her fork in the Party, now CBC is doing a special on the death.…
Time For The 99% To Occupy Wall Street, And For Wall Street To Stop Occupying Our Atmosphere
Powerful words from Bill McKibbon and 350.org on Occupy Wall Street: This morning, the folks standing up for the rest of us, and for a just and sustainable system, may…
Rick Mercer Thank You
Rick Mercer has outdone himself now. He ranted about the money the Finance minister is spending to try and cut government spending. 20 million dollars to find out how to…
Interesting Timing
The PWU winds up its stealth social media campaign--employing Flogs and fake citizens--against the Green Energy Act, and a week later John LaForet resigns as president of Wind Concerns Ontario.
Seat allocation is only as hard as you want it to be
If what Ibbitson is saying today is correct, that federal seat reallocation legislation is going to be too late to add new seats by the time of the 2015 election,…
She can’t handle the truth #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale is like her benefactor, Danny Williams. neither liked the province’s legislature where they could be held to public account for their actions. So they have treated the…
Give A Damn Campaign Targets Unfit Parents
Cyndi Lauper has been promoting an important anti-homophobia campaign with a new message aimed squarely at parents who harm and discriminate against their own children. It’s a sad statistic that…
Mindful of the importance of process
CBC radio’s The Current had an interview yesterday afternoon that every single person in this country needs to stop and listen to. And yes, I’m being totally serious. They spoke…
Roubini on the Instability of Inequality
Business-school professor and economist Nouriel Roubini earned his nickname Dr. Doom by repeatedly predicting the chain of events that would cause the global economic house of cards to fall down.…
Double-barreled irony
The future isn’t looking too bright for the controversial Long Gun Registry, currently whiling away its final weeks on Bad Legislation Death Row, smoking rollies and using the ashes to…
Occupy Wall Street: We Are Not Afraid
I see that New York's monkey police are threatening to crackdown on Occupy Wall Street.A possible confrontation between New York police and hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protestors loomed Thursday…
Paul Crouch Jr. abruptly leaves Trinity Broadcasting Network
TBN’s legal spokesman didn’t have much to say this week other than “Paul Jr. has resigned from the organization to pursue other ministry work.” TBN is the largest Christian network…
Cheap shots: how a good crop can get you far in politics!
The Alberta Liberal Party website in context. Below, a detail from the site, your blogger's shot of the same event, shots of the U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan, from various angles.…
I have a right to live without hate
The Ottawa Citizen says: "The arguments of homophobes are easy enough to demolish in the open, using facts and sense. There's no need to drive such arguments underground. Expose them…
Solution for continued wealthcare
Report: A quarter of U.S. millionaires pay taxes at a lower rate than some in middle class, by Lori Montgomery, Washington Post, October 12/11 "A quarter of millionaires in the…
The Village has spoken
Ron Paul: Eyebrowgate, Or Just Kill Me Now:"we can’t have a man in the White House who wears fake eyebrows, and poor ones at that"Romney the dog-sh*tterer will win the…
999 = 666?
Like a stopped clock, it turns out that Michele Bachmann may well have been correct when she awkwardly quipped in the most recent Republican debate that “the devil is in…
Occupy Main Street
The protests that have broken out south of the border and are apparently moving north are misguided in their rage. What people remember about the financial meltdown of 2008 was…
Occupy Main Street
The protests that have broken out south of the border and are apparently moving north are misguided in their rage. What people remember about the financial meltdown of 2008 was…