And we’re back
Good trip, great to be home.
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And we’re off!
We’re travelling until next Wednesday (Dec. 21) so I’m not sure how much blogging I will be able to do. In the meantime, enjoy these:Creepy Christmas Carols for a Less…
Have they no shame?
Apparently not.Do whatever you like, Conservatives. Andy’s got your back.
"Whose fake park? Our fake park"
No, this is not actually an Onion story, even though the AV Club is on the Onion website: Real Occupy Wall Street occupies Law And Order’s fake Occupy Wall Street…
Halleluia Chorus two ways
Quinhagak school 5th grade class in Alaska: Port Orchard school does the Silent Monks
The least surprising ruling in the history of jurisprudence
Of course the federal court ruled that Gerry Ritz broke the law. The 1998 law says the people who own the Wheat Board, the farmers, have to be consulted before…
Just when you thought it was safe to come out from under your desk
Via Balloon Juice: Gingrich to Republican Jewish Coalition crowd: “I will ask John Bolton to be the Secretary of State.”
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Shorter Con Tony Hillyer: The true victim here is, of course, me. He made shooting gestures at the Opposition when the Harper Conservatives voted to dismantle the gun registry, and…
Backfire
That loud noise you hear is another heavy-handed, shoot-the-messenger reaction from the Harper Conservatives blowing up in their face — chiefs from across the country are standing with Theresa Spense…
"Grief industry"
Isn’t it a shame to see so many people all across Canada exploiting the Montreal Massacre for their own selfish ends — thank goodness we have Canadian Sports Shooting Association’s…
Great line of the day
Dr. Dawg creates The Pantsafire Chronicles to document the continual Con lying about gazebos, chandeliers, false rumours, fishing trips: …when the weather turns colder, the poor folks in Attawapiskat can…
The nightmare before Christmas
Another dispatch from the front of the War on Christmas: An Ontario school is replacing their Christmas concert and of course some parents are flipping out. Be careful what you…
Smashy smashy
As disappointed as I was to find out that some of the leading G20 protest leaders I had defended for the last year actually did endorse the juvenile and pointless…
Tweet tweet tweet
This is hilarious. During a school visit by the Kansas governor Sam Brownback, a teenager in the audience, Emma Sullivan, tweeted to her 65 followers that said governor “sucked” and…
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Shorter Globe and Mail: I’m shocked, SHOCKED, that the NDP are advertising between elections! Why, that’s just like what the Conservatives have done for the last five years! How unseemly!
Its never too early to start your Christmas shopping
From Dr. Grumpy’s Gift Guide
Sigh
Ottawa Citizen columnist Dan Gardner describes the politics of ruthlessness: Each time the tone seems to have reached bottom, down it goes again. When the House of Commons marked Remembrance…
End of the beginning?
With the gradual dismantling of Occupy camps in Canada, I think we are witnessing something end. But it is not over — it is evolving. As Star columnist Catherine Porter…
That was then and this is now
I was thinking this morning about what Canada was like on November 20, 2005.Paul Martin was Prime Minister. He had negotiated a national day-care program and the Kelowna Accord. With…
Eff#ctive
While the media pearl-clutches over Pat Martin’s “eat my shorts” comments, nobody else really cares. And all the publicity actually made Canadians aware of how the Harper Cons are trying…