Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2013-04-21 17:03:00
ALTHOUGH THE FOLLOWING LETTER CONTAINS PROFANITY, THE ESSENCE OF THELETTER IS TOO GOOD NOT TO PASS ALONG. I APOLOGIZE IF THE FOULLANGUAGE OFFENDS ANYONE. This guy went all out with…
April 2013
Silence During Tragedy
I went to a history conference, and one of the PhDs at the front was talking about the common occurrence of silence during tragedy. And, while those around me discussed…
FreeD Makes The Big Leagues: Norton Software Dubs It A "Hate" Site
So I was checking out the wifi at my new place by downloading a few software updates and got something from Norton that I didn’t want (and have since uninstalled).…
I don’t think this ad is scaring Harper
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t think the new PSAC ad attacking the Harper government’s environmental record is all that effective. The Public Service of Canada VP thinks otherwise,…
Harper’s Thuggish Contempt For The Environment
This video probably speaks for itself, but for its full context, click here. H/t rabble.ca Recommend this Post
Don’t Sugar Coat It, Maggie
Ah, Margaret Thatcher, the giggles just go on and on. There were not many people in this world that Maggie liked and a good many that she despised, among them…
Sphincter of the Week – Surprise, He’s a Brit; No Surprise, He’s a Tory
Our Sphincter of the Week award goes to Midhurst county councillor, John Cherry, a Tory of course, for his opposition to a proposal by Brixton’s Durand Academy to expand to…
Israel and Peace in the Middle East
What is the biggest threat to stability and peace in the Middle East? It is not Iran, Iraq, or Syria… it’s Israel. The government of Israel – especially prime ministers…
The True ‘Nature’ Of The Harper Conservative Government …
In their blind, unfettered drive to advance the interests of the Oil industry in Canada, Stephen Harper has slashed federal environmental protection budgets and put a choke hold on democracy…
American Taxpayers Paying the Price of Climate Change
Their Congressional representatives may dispute it, call it a hoax even, but the U.S. government is doling out big money in relief for those hit by climate change impacts. According…
Big Story – British Columbians Speak Out
RCMP in suburban White Rock foiled an apparent burglary/home invasion after receiving reports of two males trying to break into a home. The suspects took off but inside the officers…
Here is a Completely Objective Promo for the BC NDP ;-) Well Sort of…
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger We need a new government after 12 years of the Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark BC Liberals. I am wholeheartedly supporting Adrian Dix for Premier and…
5893…Bush III In 2016?
That’s what Bush II is advocating. The Daily Mail reports that George W. Bush, I am certain you remember him, “…told Parade Magazine ‘That’s for Jeb to figure out, you…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – I wouldn’t go as far as Haroon Siddiqui in suggesting that all temporary foreign worker programs be shut down entirely (at least absent…
On Climate Change, Money – Or Its Absence – Talks.
I can give you six hundred and seventy four billion reasons to believe the scientific consensus on climate change. $674,000,000,000.00 – that’s the amount the top 200 energy companies spent,…
April 21: Sunday ruminations…
Many years ago, while teaching in China (Canadian history, of all things), I had a student who graduated to become one of the wealthiest men in China. Then, after he…
April 21: Sunday ruminations…
Many years ago, while teaching in China (Canadian history, of all things), I had a student who graduated to become one of the wealthiest men in China. Then, after he…
5892…The Aftermath Of 420 On Parl Hill
From BOB FM’s Milky’s Facebook comes the truth. Ah, to own a corner store near the Hill must have been like winning the frigging lotto yesterday.WFDS
Nuclear Fangs for the F-35 – Obama’s Light Bomber
Don’t Worry, This Will Only Hurt for a Second The United States is refurbishing 200 nuclear bombs for use aboard the F-35 light attack bomber. The old B-61 gravity bombs…