Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The blogosphere is now out in force in chasing down new angles on Robocon. Dave pointed out that the misleading calls look to…
2012
Everybody Loves A Good Graph…
Complaints’RThem? TSMUVille …And Norm Farrell loves to make ’em out of publicly available data to make a point. So. How many of those 31,000 official complaints from official Canadians to…
Elections Canada "investigation": not good enough
There was no conduct reported that would bring into question the election result overall or the result in a particular riding. Although misconduct was reported in several ridings, there is…
Tornadoes Are Just God’s Whirligigs
How can a people be so damned quick to see what’s not there yet so unwilling to see what is? Is it because they can’t figure out who to bomb,…
A welcome to a new Progressive Blogger affiliate
Blog Name somecanuckchick dot com URL http://www.somecanuckchick.com/ Geographic Location of Blog Vancouver, Canada
Canada – The Petrotyranny
The revelations over how the federal Tories used a robo-calling firm (or firms) to contact voters in possibly 30 or more ridings during last year’s election – misleading them about…
Five advertisers drop Rush Limbaugh after Sandra Fluke slander
After Limbaugh called the woman refused at place at Darrell Issa’s birth control table ”slut” and “prostitute”, the media and the progressive blogosphere and even Republican presidential contenders (save Romney…
Let’s Do This – Book review of Making is Connecting by David Gauntlett
The optimism in David Gauntlett’s Making is Connecting (published by the fantastic UK outlet polity) is difficult to escape. Much like the plethora of networks, groups, clubs and civil society…
14 Cons conned voters from US Front Porch Strategies
Looks like Stephen Harper and his puppet, the hapless Dean Del Mastro, have been caught in yet another lie. Fourteen Conservatives have been found to have used an Ohio telemarketer,…
Legal Zoom Backs Law Student
After law student Sandra Fluke was called a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh for her testimony on birth control, several sponsors of his show have withdrawn sponsorship. The company stated in…
My early rankings #ndpldr
First note that the vote for the leader of the NDP is still 3 weeks away, and through the magic of the internet, there is no need to actually vote…
Six advertisers drop Rush Limbaugh after Sandra Fluke slander
I’ve made it a rule at LFR to no longer blog about Rush Limbaugh. His modus operandi is to piss off the left. Every time we write about him, we…
The Star Exposes Another Harper Lie
More and more, people are seeing the bald mendacity of the Harper regime. Despite their claims of electoral probity and refusal to use U.S. firms in their campaigning, it turns…
RoboCon: Connecting the Bots
Who is Pierre Poutine? The RCMP want to be all over Poutine like gravy. Are they already, and just firming up their evidence? They can probably obtain information on the…
celebrate international women’s day 2012
Today is International Women’s Day. We’ve come a long way. And we’ve still got a long way to go. Globally, the picture looks much worse. See the current issue of…
RoboKhan And Other Images
I hope you can make use of some of these cheeky images that could help depict the RoboCon Robocalls scandal that is sweeping the nation. Hey, our democracy is a…
THIS is what the Toronto transit fight is all about? REALLY?! #TOpoli – It’s a Remarkk-able life
As a resident of St Clair West, I really resent the presentation of the St Clair streetscape as some kind of second coming of Darfur. Yes, the construction was bungled…
Saturday At The Movies
This ad is for a newly launched cell phone of NTT Docomo, the largest cell phone service provider in Japan. The shell of the new phone is wood from domestic…
But So What?
Dalton McGuinty is right about the oil sands and its effect on Canadian manufacturers, says Andrew Coyne, but there’s nothing anyone can do about it so we all might as…
New Conservative Spin: Blame Elections Canada
I’ve heard it from enough sources over the last few days that I’m beginning to suspect this will be the message du jour by next week: okay, maybe some people…