This Australian Paper May Have the Answer to America’s Gun Problem
I read the headline, “American gun obsession is based on a historical misunderstanding,” and I thought to myself, okay, here we go again. Arguments along this line are not uncommon.…
The Mound of Sound
Speaking of Bill "Job Churn" Morneau, How Do You Talk Someone Out of Their Health, Wealth and Happiness. It’s Easy.
A chilling report from Britain’s New Economics Foundation entitled, “Framing the Economy,“ examines how Brits were smooth talked into accepting brutal austerity. From The Guardian:What do people think the economy…
Hey, Yeah You, Holland. Cut the Crap!
This is the sort of thing you’ve got to expect in a massively overpopulated world. The Dutch are up to their dikes in cow shit. There is a dirty stench…
If This Keeps Up, I Might Start Feeling a Bit Sorry for Donald Trump.
Former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal is spilling the beans on Cap’n Hands, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America. President Donald Trump and his allies…
We’re Slipping. Canada’s Climate Change Survival Rating is Slipping
The University of Notre Dame’s latest Gain Country Index ranks the world’s nations on their ability to withstand the impacts of climate change. The index keys on two factors. The…
More Mueller Indictments
NBC News reports that special counsel Robert Mueller has issued indictments against thirteen Russian citizens and three Russian entities in connection with the tampering of America’s 2016 election. The indictments…
The Tar Sands Are a Big Loser. When Will Trudeau Wake Up to Reality?
Last week it was renowned Alberta ecologist, University of Alberta prof Dave Shindler, who along with Trudeau’s own Environment Canada and the Royal Society of Canada, demolished Alberta’s and Ottawa’s…
Schiff Lifts the Carpet, Gives the Public a Glimpse of What Lies Beneath.
The ranking minority member on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, says they’ve uncovered an abundance of evidence of collusion with the Russians and obstruction of justice involving Donald Trump.…
It Wasn’t Just a Crazed Kid with an Assault Rifle At that Parkdale High School Yesterday. He had Company, America’s "Bought and Paid For" Congress.
I watched Lawrence O’Donnell interview a father whose 15-year old daughter was at the Parkdale, Florida high school where 17 people, mainly students, were gunned down yesterday. The man’s daughter…
Once Again the NRA, the Gun Lobby and America’s "Bought and Paid For" Congress Deliver Living Hell to an American School.
For the record, we’re halfway into February of 2018. Today, Valentine’s Day, Florida chalked up America’s 18th school shooting of the year. At least 17 dead, most of them freshman…
The Dauphin Speaks – With Forked Tongue
It’s so typical of this government. In the wake of the controversial aquittal of a Saskatchewan farmer who shot and killed a young First Nations man on his land, Justin…
This Tells You a Lot About Today’s Economy
Washington-based Amazon has displaced Washington-based Microsoft to become the world’s third largest company (by market valuation). Here are the current standings; 1. Apple – $849 billion 2. Google – $746…
"What a Tangled Web We Weave… " More Stormy Weather Heading Trump’s Way.
That old orange bugger just can’t catch a break. Porn queen, Stormy Daniels, says that Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen’s admission that he paid her $130,000 in hush money not to…
Monbiot Warns Britons About the Trojan Horse Lurking Inside a Trade Deal With the U.S.
To Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, there’s danger lurking for the UK in any free trade deal with the United States: livestock laced with antibiotics. It looks like a proper zombie…
They’re Calling It "Snow Washing." Money Laundering, Canadian Style.
Is Canadian corporate law a money launderer’s dream? According to The Guardian, we’re right up there with Kenya. Canada is one the world’s most opaque jurisdictions when it comes to…
China – The Newest Challenge to Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty?
“Yeah, sure, you and whose army?” That was a fairly common taunt among boys when I was young. You and whose army is gonna make me. Yet it may find…
Trudeau Was Given Sophie’s Choice. He Didn’t Hesitate to Pick.
I never watched the movie, “Sophie’s Choice.” I found the premise just too creepy. A mother forced to choose which of her two children’s lives will be spared and which…
Grease the Skids, It’s Looking Stormy
It’s a now familiar pattern for the Trump brigade. At first deny everything, no matter how implausible the denial, and hope that whatever it is dies a natural death. If…
Sorry, Kim, But You’ve Officially Joined the Fossils
Kim Campbell made a bit of a fool of herself by claiming that women news anchors should not wear sleeveless attire. They lacked gravitas she said. Sorry, Kim, the world…
Nobody’s ‘Sposed to Be Seeing That, ‘Ceptin Your Man and Even Then Only With the Lights Out!
Canada’s first female and legendary drive-by prime minister, Kim Campbell, has succumbed to a bout of loose-lipitis. Her Kimship delivered herself of the opinion that it’s just not right for…