Stephen Harper’s Depraved Attempt to Revive the Terrorist Menace
As you know Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney made a surprise visit to Iraq, to try to whip up interest in the Great War on Terror. Which has been flagging…
May 2015
Teddy’s updated PEI prediction
Just a small change due to further research, each the Tories and Liberals gain and lose a seat. Also a change in colours to match the colours used on the…
Teddy’s final Alberta prediction
Not much to say, I’ll let everyone react to the shock in their own way, but in short, I am predicting an NDP majority in Alberta. I’ll have much more…
Fearful Symmetry #nlpoli
There’s a couple of constables in an office over in the basement of the old Memorial College building at Fort Townshend, right next to where the USO building used to…
Sadistic Police and Their Entitlements
If you wonder why police are losing respect as a credible element in a peaceful, democratic, civilized society, watch this video . Not only does a white shirt pepper spray…
A Perspective on Time
It was time. She’d fought against it for so long. She hadn’t thought that this day would ever come. She’d dreaded it, longed for it, prayed against it, prayed for…
NDP Leader Rachel Notley proves electrifying political speech-making still thrives in Canada
Surrounded by candidates, Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley pauses during her speech as something like 1,500 supporters cheer her on in Edmonton yesterday. Below: Part of the crowd at Sunday’s…
Ben E. King, Gone. B.B. In Hospice.
“Legendary Bluesman” somehow doesn’t quite do justice to B. Riley B. King. King, who has suffered from diabetes for it must be a couple of decades now, left word for…
An Orange Chinook howls in Alberta. Is the PC dynasty at its end?
How badly do the Progressive Conservatives need to mess up for Albertans to want to elect an NDP government? It may sound like a silly question in the context of…
Are Conservatives Too Dumb to Govern?
We already knew that the brains of progressives and conservatives are wired differently.And that Cons have a larger fear glandPeering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at University College…
Fearmongering or Hopemongering? It’s Your Call Alberta
“I think it has deteriorated into groundless name-calling, and it’s certainly not the strategy that I would take.”—Rachel Notley reflecting on comments made by Jim Prentice and Brian Jean To…
Kid Kodak open thread
To all long-suffering staff in the office of the “Ombudsman” Kid Kodak Marin: you can post here anonymously. No one will ever know your name, me included. Comment, in particular,…
Holding Police Accountable and Knowing Your Legal Rights
Holding Police Accountable and Knowing Your Legal Rights So, with all the BS happening down in the USA with Police being out of control and cracking skulls every chance they…
Two things you should know about my lawyer David Shiller
1. He never loses. 2. He loves beating guys who (a) don’t tell the truth (b) don’t know when to shut up.
The Study, and Other Stuff
There are three separate threads in Siemens’s response to my last post, all of which are fascinating: The thread concerning whether or not the study he published was bad, The…
Teddy’s final PEI election prediction
With polls closing in about 23 hours, I have finalized my PEI election prediction; presented here: I expect the Liberals to retain their majority, and the Tories to present a…
What rough beast slouches toward Edmonton?
The end of an era is approaching. The current Alberta Progressive Conservative dynasty assumed office on September 10, 1971 and has now lasted 43 years and eight months, but its…