The Duffy "Perp Walk"
To watch the disgraced senator performing this new walk craze, please click here. Recommend this Post
May 2013
6024…Marion Barry Landed On His Feet
He is the former mayor of D.C. who the government sicced a crack ho on back in the day and dropped the news all over the place. The National Post…
The lesson politicians need to learn from Obama: don’t piss off the media!
I’ve followed the media aspect of politics for a long time but not necessarily the politics itself. The former is far more telling about the state of a locale than…
Important Rob Ford-related annoucement by SFH
TORONTO – Shit From Hell, Canada’s best-loved geriatric punk combo, is entering the studo to record a song to raise funds for the purchase of the “Rob Ford smoking something…
zuheros to madrid / madrid, night one
This post has two parts: the clerk and the lost. The clerk. I had a good night’s sleep and woke up at the leisurely hour of 8:00. We had breakfast…
Mapping the world’s largest solar farm with Project 929
How large of a solar farm is needed to completely power the United States? The simple answer is that a solar farm 100 miles long and 100 miles wide would…
CBC: Professional cellphone contract negotiators haggle for customers
Professional cellphone contract negotiators are now haggling for better deals on behalf of Canadians who are either frustrated or unwilling to discuss their cellphone bills, contracts and plans with their…
Regina Hosed by P3 Waste Water
Regina City Council has voted to proceed with a 30-year public-private partnership (P3) in which a private company would design, build, finance, operate and maintain the city’s new waste water…
Prominent Canadians want Victoria Day renamed to honour Aboriginals
From Victoria Day to ‘Victoria and First People’s Day’. How does that sound? Prolific author Margaret Atwood, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, actor Gordon Pinsent and other prominent Canadians are…
Officer Bubbles Now Working For Rob Ford!
David is one of the notorious lawyerin’ Shiller brothers (the one that looks like Eugene Levy) . Officer Bubbles is Const. Adam Joseph, one of the reasons the Toronto 2010…
Synopsis of BC Election Result: We Should Have Known
{The following has been submitted for publication in the Omineca Express and Anahim-Nimpo Messenger–MC} I accept my share of humble pie for not predicting the re- election of the B.C.…
Rafe Remembers Elijah Harper, Constitutional Stand-off
Brian Mulroney needed political help in Quebec and persuaded all the premiers to support a set of constitutional reforms – labelled the Meech Lake Accord – whereby all the other…
Dr. James Hansen: Keystone XL, tar sands expansion “can be stopped”
By: Dr. James Hansen Today (May 9, 2013) 36 Norwegian organizations sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stoltenberg expressing opposition to development of Canadian tar sands by Statoil (the…
CPC Back-Benchers Say The Darnedest Things
Our govt has the highest ethical standards demonstrated by 3 resignations: 2 from Senate caucus & the PM chief of staff.@patbolland #cpc— Joan Crockatt MP (@Crockatteer) May 20, 2013
Harper’s House of Cards Disintegrating Under Weight of Conservative Senators
* We are living in interesting times, as the saying goes. Here in Canada, the house of cards that is the federal Conservative government of Stephen Harper is starting to…
‘One Thing Leads To Another’ – How Stephen Harper Single Handedly Created The Current Senate Scandal ..
When Stephen Harper decided to add Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to Canada’s unelected, undemocratic Senate, he started in motion a series of events that has ultimately become an ugly,…
Obama Admin. Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid Disclosure on Public Lands
On May 16, the Obama Interier Department announced its long-awaited rules governing hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on federal lands. As part of its 171-page document of rules, the U.S. Bureau of…