6287…Tory Oh Tory
Yahoo.com tells all that the Stephen Harpers have done it again. They open their piece with this prose “This has to be one of the biggest blunders in the history…
July 2013
Abdulelah Shaye released after jailing at Obama’s request: Jeremy Scahill on Shaye and horrific U.S. bombing of al-Majalah
The courageous journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye who was imprisoned in Yemen following a request from the Obama administration, has been released after serving 3 years in lock-up. Shaye’s ‘crime’ was…
Republicans sacrifice environment to spite Obama, says Rachel Maddow [VIDEO]
In the aftermath of another fossil-fuel-related disaster, TV host and political commentator, Rachel Maddow, says House Republicans are sacrificing the environment and resisting President Obama’s clean energy alternatives. The post…
The Day Obama Humiliated Stephen Harper
Well we all know he's an oil pimp. We all know he says he's an economist.We all know he's been claiming that the Keystone XL pipeline would create tens of…
Stephen Harper is getting ready for Halloween
He always likes to give himself plenty of time. Remember he prorogued Parliament for quite a few times.
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Top Physicist Withdraws Support For Climate Sceptic Professor Sacked By Australian University
A PROMINENT and influential French physicist who had voiced support for a climate change sceptic fired from his Australian university has withdrawn a threat to report the case to a…
Stephen Harper Thinks You’re Stupid: Yet Another Reason
You know it’s a rough day for the prime minister when the Sun News Network demonstrates they aren’t always a Fox News North Conservative Party lapdog by calling them on…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Peter Buffett rightly questions the trend toward making the provision of basic necessities subordinate to a corporate mindset, rather than putting human…
Does the Solution to Climate Change Rest On Economic Reform?
What follows began as a comment I attempted to leave at A Puff of Absurdity in reponse to a post by Marie Snyder that you really should read. In it,…
Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Just two games ago, I noted that there was still one major question facing the Saskatchewan Roughriders: whether the team’s offence could function without Darian Durant at the controls. But…
Advice from the “Old White Guys”: Alberta Progressives Listen Up!
The Republicans may hold the secret to the progressives’ return to power…yes, seriously! Let’s start at the beginning… Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson in their glib little book The Big…
Kids: Photographic evidence
My daughter this morning groaned on Facebook that I post so many shots of Sloane the lab, people aren’t going to know I have kids. In my defence, social media…
nyc action alert: join striking fast-food workers on monday, july 29
If you live in New York City, you have an opportunity to stand beside working people in their struggle for a better life and healthier communities. 84% of New York…
Did Ulysses arrive in the same ship he left in?
Is identity the continuity of substance or essence?
Another Portrait Of Engaged Citizenry
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Too Stupid to Live – Literally
Mound of Sound has a post at Disaffected Lib about the likelihood of doubling GHG by 2100. If we don’t do something very quickly and very intentionally, then, based on…
Knee-jerks to Trudeau on pot.
Having listened to Liberals argue over legalizing marijuana for the past 50 years, it is important to understand exactly what Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said last week in Vancouver. He…
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