Sure, But It’s All That Keeps the Bats From Escaping
Federal Court judge Luc Martineau isn’t impressed by Harper Public Safety and Family Values minister Vic Toews. The judge has given Toews 45 days to accept the transfer back to…
2012
Alberta Finds Mismanagement of Errors Causes Fracking Water Contamination
“There is no amount of regulation that can overcome human error,” said Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) spokesman Darin Barter. ERCB released an investigation report that cites inadequate management…
NRA Booted From Pillar to Post
National Rifle Association boss Wayne LaPierre has sparked a backlash of anger and ridicule at his suggestion that the solution to schoolhouse tragedies like Sandy Hook is more guns at…
Guns in America
There is a sudden momentum in America when it comes to the “gun problem.” A country totally puzzled with unprecedented divide. A problem that has unfortunately been about liberals and…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Kate Heartfield worries that the NRA knows exactly what it’s doing with its jaw-dropping response to the Newtown shootings – and that it…
Pfizer Abandons Heartland Institute
From one of the very few media outlets that has bothered to pick up the story, an early Xmas gift: A major pharmaceutical company has opted to sever ties with…
John Baird’s Black and White World
Harper ForMin John Baird doesn’t like ambiguity. When it comes to foreign affairs he views the world as black or white. No time for trifling shades of grey. You’re either…
Q: What’s the difference between a walrus and a banana?
A: You’d better find out, because if you ever try to peel a walrus…
Winter Solstice At Stonehenge – 2012 (14th Mayan Baktun Commences)
This was taken yesterday morning – December 21, 2012 at Stonehenge in England .. showing the first light of the Winter Solstice and the first day of the new Mayan…
Dec.22: blah….
It’s very hard to write a daily review of a newspaper that is trivia tarted up as news, clumsy propaganda, and important news with the important parts missing. In today’s…
The Huffington Post: Interesting Headline
TO LIVE AND DIE IN AMERICA 3 Shot And Killed In Mich… 18-Year-Old Shot Multiple Times, Dies… Man Kills Wife, Teen, Himself… Man Shoots, Kills Own Son… Cops Shoot Teen…
I’m with Raj. (Mergers, Kent Hehr, cont.)
Just pointing something out here. Raj Sherman says Kent Hehr can speak his mind on mergers and the very base frustration that the Liberal MLA from Buffalo has with politics…
“Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?!?!”
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. “Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about…”
Saturday Photo: Christmas Tree 2012
So this is Christmas… or at least the Christmas tree as it looked when the gang finished putting it up last Saturday. There are some presents under it now, to…
Steve Harper and that Vision Thing
The most myopic prime minister perhaps in all of Canadian history, Stephen Harper, may have diagnosed his own affliction. Shortsighted Steve, asked how his evangelist faith affects his decision-making, replied…
Harper And Guns
On the day the NRA advocated having an armed guard in every American school, Thomas Walkom wrote that the gun issue could come back to haunt Stephen Harper. For all…
”Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.’
The title of my post today, taken from Act Five of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, occurs in a graveyard. Hamlet begins musing on what may become of one’s earthly remains, as even…
The Massive Millstone Round America’s Neck
Fanaticism dooms Americans. As a people, Americans hold and are held captive by fanatical, irrational beliefs. The most terrible of these is the common conviction that their Constitution is sacrosanct.…
Steve makes light of a heavy topic
A new picture of Steve, from Steve’s gallery of Steve pictures.
i hate christmas is slightly hateful this year
I’ve noticed a distinct reduction in my annual irritation and disgust at the holiday madness this year.* An unexpected convergence of events has brought on a pleasant state of near-apathy.…