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November 2011
Today’s War On Everything News
I’m going to run out of titles for these daily wraps for my radio program in a hurry. I’m hoping the links and videos are of use and get sent…
Today’s War On Everything News
I'm going to run out of titles for these daily wraps for my radio program in a hurry. I'm hoping the links and videos are of use and get sent…
Today’s War On Everything News
I’m going to run out of titles for these daily wraps for my radio program in a hurry. I’m hoping the links and videos are of use and get sent…
Expect fixed election dates? Get ready to fall on your butt, Charlie Brown!
Premier Alison Redford gets her Tory football ready. But the guy in the stripy short can’t be a real Albertan – the cloud bubble gives him away. Alberta politicians may…
OCW Vancouver/Victoria Update
The few remaining hardcore activists in Vancouver and Victoria continue to discredit whatever legitimate grievances initial supporters of the copycat OCW movement in Canada may have purported to represent at…
Charles Dickens and Service Canada
I make no comment: I but juxtapose. he Circumlocution Office went on mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of statesmanship, How not to do it, in motion. Because…
Jimbo Flaherty’s Ridiculous Economic Update
As usual he didn't see it coming. He doesn't know what he's doing. But goodness knows little Jimbo Flaherty is determined to try to fool us into thinking he's flexible."We…
Hey, Andrea Mrozek! Why Don’t You Practice what You Preach?
No, not at that dreadful site, Prowoman Pro-fetus. Her other activity, as manager of research and Communications at the Institute of Stepford wifery. You, boys ‘n’ girls, perhaps know it…
Trick or Fet(us)
Ewwwwwww: Some adults are appalled that children in Loganville got dolls of 12-week-old fetuses with their Halloween candy, Channel 2 Action News reports. Joshua Edmonds, who told Channel 2 Action…
Murray Dobbin Repost: Stephen Harper’s social engineering
The Harper government’s announcement that it will change the laws regarding capital gains taxes to encourage more charitable giving strikes an ominous note for the country’s political culture. Harper is…
Leadership!
Occupy Denver picks a leader: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock insisted that his city’s occupation name a leader in order “to deal with City and State officials.” And he got his…
How do you tell someone you love them when you are dead
Someone is pushing bad shit out there tonight, my busy ER nurse informed me. Apparently seven ODs on a Sunday night is large number at the Credit Valley ER. Patients…
If you go down to Tent City today
You’re in for a big surprise If you go down to Tent City today You better go in disguise… …preferably in a hazmat suit: An Occupy Victoria protester who has…
Election night in US. Sanity returning?
Signs of sanity returning to the US of A! TPM Blog Ohio voters turned back a anti-union law and the good folks of Mississippi look to be dumping personhood. Can…
Recap: Saskatchewan Election 2011
Watching the twitter feed for #skpoli I was struck by the animosity and venom towards both the NDP and its leader Dwain Lingenfelter. While the partisan in me wants to…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Packed-up cats.
"just another bad thing that happened in downtown Vancouver
Somebody overdoses decently out of sight in the east end and the response from the Vancouver government, the media and too much of public is a collective shrug. Have it…
An impassioned gale
In 1908's New Worlds for Old, H.G. Wells examined a nascent movement that he supported avidly. He wrote, "The early Socialist literature teems with rash, suggestive schemes. It has the…
What I Remember on Remembrance Day, The Unpopular Recall. . . . .
I honestly believe that Remembrance Day (or Veteran's Day as it was in the States when I grew up) does a significant and and lasting disservice to veterans of all…