Heading to Frontenac Park. This should be interesting
We're heading off tomorrow for some canoe-in camping. With the whole fam. Frontenac Park. No portages, but we do have to take all our stuff with us in the canoe…
2011
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito, neither down nor out
On the contrary, he’s very much up and at it. And here’s the proof: The hair may be gone — for NOW — but the dimpled grin is still exactly…
Bloc Quebecois not separatist party: NL NDP leader
You read that correctly. Newfoundland and Labrador NDP leader Lorraine Michael is quoted by VOCM making the argument that the Bloc Quebecois is not a separatist party: On VOCM's Backtalk…
3978…I Hated This When It Happened To Me
I am reading the Ottawa Sun this morn' and as filler they have a story about a lad in India, a feller, who goes to the doctor with an ache…
This word is new…to me…
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Friday Night Fun
Master musicians are their instrument.Ya, I'm a Rush freak.
Bond rater drops American credit rating
From the Globe, in a story that Standard and Poor’s had lowered the United States government’s rating from AAA to AA Plus: “The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal…
"Progressive policies follow from progressive values. Get clear on your values and use the language of values. Drop the language of policy wonks"
George Lakoff in "Don't Think of an Elephant". A very helpful book about how language defines debate and ultimately decides who wins elections. Worth reading.
Friday night
This is a little on the cheesy side, but heck, am a sucker for progressive house with piano, major key, etc. So infectious! Have a good night.
S&P downgrades US credit for first time ever to AA+ from AAA
Reportedly, S&P cites GOP "intransigence on taxes", "the act contains no measures to raise taxes or otherwise enhance revenues" and "the prolonged controversy over raising the statutory debt ceiling". So…
Telus appoints former federal government minister Minsiter Stockwell Day to its board
Photo from Mr_Stein on Flickr It looks like Big Telecom is getting in close with the government. Today Telus has announced that former Conservative Public Safety Minister (also former Minister…
The 7 Stages of Dow
After nine ominous down days on the stock market, yesterday investors were treated to a 500-point fiscal bungy jump with a worn-out cord that took them on a wild ride…
Friday night
You go to Banglin' tell my boys You go to Banglin' tell my boys What times I'm havin' up in Illinois Illinois Blues was written by Skip James, who referred…
This ten year old vogue model seems like the horrific answer to that question posed by one of Dorothy Allison’s characters…
"What's a south carolina virgin? At's a ten-year-old can run fast."Constructed as a pedophile's dream "seductress", posed to titillate as tween sexual serf stand-in for coat hanger thin adult sexual…
Welcome to the official opposition…
...and all the anonymous news reports that come with it:NDP 'unease' surrounds Turmel's Bloc secrecyThere's a serious unease in the NDP over interim leader Nycole Turmel's memberships in two Quebec…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Gerald Caplan calls out the non-stop and substance-free gotcha politics facing the NDP since the public started recognizing that it had a legitimate chance…
Stop me before I invest again!
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"Playing ‘gotcha’ with the NDP" – by Gerry Caplin
"It never stops and never will. The moment the NDP seems even close to power, the knives come out.The election was May 2. The NDP's rise began barely two weeks…
The NDP Mole
A Liberal that's fled for greener pastures, maybe? Anyone know what Herle's up to these days?