We All Support The Troops…
Until they come home and want us to spend money to mend them. Then they are just another obstacle to cutting taxes.
2011
No, no . . . we don’t go there
I’ll play some classic Bob Newhart later, but this is just such a great (recent-ish) sketch he did on Mad TV. Alltop is compelled to be funny.
Jurisdictional concerns must be raised promptly
BTR Global Opportunity Trading Limited v. RBC Dexia Investor Services Trust, 2011 ONCA 518 deals with the need to assert jurisdictional concerns promptly. The Court holds: &...
The Herrera case: Negative results in the first round of testing
One chapter ends and another begins in the ongoing mystery of baby-theft and illicit adoptions in Argentina. This one, unfortunately, offers no easy answers for the time being: The DNA…
Conrad Black Eviscerates Rupert Murdoch!
"Fallen media baron Conrad Black is taking a swipe at News Corporation chair Rupert Murdoch, describing his former rival as untrustworthy, malicious, and someone who has “difficulty keeping friendships.”In a…
Obama, moderate Republican
That's Paul Krugman's view. He shares it with Ezra Klein and Digby. RedBedHead goes even further.End of the progressive dream in the US? Yep.
Italy Votes To Kill Its Economy To Save Its Debt Rating
The parasites and rumour-mongers who run the debt ratings agencies, having done their work getting the Greek government to screw their population, have moved on to Italy. Let's be honest,…
David Legates Asked To Step Down As Delaware State Climatologist
legates1.jpg David Legates announced this week that he was asked to step down as Delaware State Climatologist, a position he held for seven years. A long-time denier of the human…
Hugo Pinell Participating in the California Hungerstrike
Excerpted from a letter to Kiilu Nyasha:A hunger strike has been in effect since July 1 and I've been with it, altho is very hard to know what's going on?…
RCMP to investigate the Looters In Suits $50 million expenditure 100km from Huntsville (un-approved G8 spending)
RCMP finally investigates Muskoka’s G8 ‘Legacy Infrastructure’ « the reeves reportExcerpt from The Reeves Report:Because of an election-time early leak of the Auditor General’s G8 report which I wrote about…
Nameless and homeless: Affordable housing—if not now, when?
Remember their names: Eugene Upper Erwin Anderson Mirsalah Aldin-Kompani and hundreds more who died on Toronto streets since ‘97 From Nameless-Homeless, an unpublished rant in progress Here’s the grim context.…
Does Life Get Better Than Fresh Strawberry Pie?
It’s strawberry season in Canada, although here in our corner of the Canadian Shield there are no strawberry farms within 200 kilometres, and no organic ones within 500 kilometres. But,…
AMO targets Tim Hudak over ‘eco-fee shell game’
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) issued a press release yesterday afternoon attacking Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak over his – and his caucus’s – confusion regarding eco fees.…
Sanity test three
Anyone who takes Michele Bachmann seriously as a candidate for president of the United States is certifiably nuts.Why do Republicans keep doing this?
The Endless Two-Faced War in Afghanistan Nose Dives
While myopic NewsyDupes like TorStar's Rosie DiManno and that guy whatshisname at NatPo fell over each other gushing that Canada's "mission" to Afghanistan settled the Taliban's hash in Kandahar, events…
With Canada’s rich/poor divide widening, will seniors be forced to rural areas?
As I approach senior age territory, it’s becoming more and more apparent that I’m in deep shit. I’ve spent most of my adult life traveling and working around the world.…
Economics for Dummies: Happy Bastille Day!
Sing the choirs of cacophony: And like the good band says: La Guillotine will claim her bloody prize… A new survey from Insite Security and IBOPE Zogby International of those…
Doh!conomics: How to turn a doughnut economy into a feudal society
There’s a hole in the economy where the middle class used to be. And the Harper Government is making it bigger by busting unions. You’ve heard of Reaganomics? That’s where…
Murdoch a No Show, Defies UK Parliament
Rupert Murdoch is plainly feeling the heat. He closed News of the World and dropped (for now) his bid to buy BSkyB cable but, despite previous assurances by News Corp…