Hooray! Justin is in
Trudeau enters Liberal leadership race: ‘I love this great country’ | CTV News And I’m not surprised his first stop is going to be Calgary, the lair of the beast.…
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Great line of the day
Talking about the “sex-selective” abortion motion which Parliament is now being asked to vote on, Dawg says: the abortion “debate” that Harper insists will not be re-opened continues to shamble…
Here’s to the new TV season!
Thumbs up!Great acting, great action“ Interesting characters, potentially lots of fun Thumbs down – What a disappointment – overwrought, trite Just dumb Ehhh, maybe — worth a couple more episodes…
Yes, but he was right about Powerpoint
So the Politico piece about how Ryan is going rogue and using PowerPoint now was just a joke though perhaps one that cut a little too close to the bone.But…
So we’re just afraid to discuss abortion?
Conservative pro-lifer Laurie Hawn says glibly ‘Nobody’s anti-life and nobody’s anti-choice’, a stunningly stupid statement because the 91 MPs voting in favour of Woodward’s disingenuous motion to “study” when life…
How to play football
Goofy – How To Play Football (High Quality) – YouTube: ““ If the replacement refs could just learn the game, they might avoid more calls like this:
The honoured dead
We just spent the summer watching all those “War of 1812” ads and now we find out that the Harper Cons have spent five years and three-quarters of a million…
Taxes "owed" vs. taxes "paid"
What’s the difference between taxes owed and taxes paid?Everyone is talking about how Romney’s info dump yesterday showed that he did pay taxes between 1990 and 2009.But PricewaterhouseCoopers said in…
Calling them out
Sixth Estate calls out Harper on his excuse for pension “reform” and the Globe and Mail for falling for it.First of all, its not much of a reform: The “reforms”…
Be nice to the people you meet on the way up
Because you’ll meet them again on the way down, as Mitt Romney has now discovered — he shouldn’t have said all those mean things about Jimmy Carter: James Carter IV…
Great line of the day
Laura Clawson at Daily Kos sums up the Occupy impact:: There may no longer be occupiers sleeping out in parks every night, there may never have been a unified set…
Occupy Wall Street is back, baby
It’s already September 17 on Wall Street and the crowds are building in Zuccotti Park. Here’s a photo taken around midnight. Follow #s17 on twitter for the latest news.
Empty chair Obama betrays America!
Romney said this week that Obama sympathized with the embassy rioters and everybody else said “Whaaa?”What we didn’t understand was that John Bolton and Dan Senor and the rest of…
Who knew?
I guess the biggest news of the day is that Kate Middleton has breasts. Wow, people. Just, wow.
What Juan Cole says
When things are going wrong in the Middle East, I always check on what Juan Cole says about it to gain some perspective on how serious it really is: What…
#romneyshambles
I thought we would have to wait until the debates for Mitt Romney to demonstrate his manifest unfitness to be president. Instead, it happened already and its still eight weeks…
Bush and Cheney were the hollow men
Its like caring for someone who had been mentally ill, as they gradually recover their sanity and begin to understand how delusional they were.As the years go by, the United…
Banjo Bowl
The Banjo Bowl in Winnipeg follows the Labour Day Classic in Regina — which (ahem!) the Riders won this year by 52 to zero, thank you jeebuz. How the Banjo…
In the blink of an eye
I was about to post something a little snarky last night about how Pauline Marois couldn’t quite close the deal with Quebecers. Then I read about the shooting and saw…
Invisible Obama Derangement Syndrome
*Yesterday upon the stairI met a man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayOh, how I wish he’d go away Jon Stewart thanked Clint Eastwood for making it clear to…