Molly’sBlog 2011-12-06 23:58:00
PERSONAL: WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART FIVE: One thing I am certain of about the Occupy Movement (much more certain than how it will all end up)…
politics
And on December 6th
The Tories take the dismantling of the long gun registry one step closer to reality. One MP with a stunningly insensitive display of glee.
Bowing to Republican Pressure, EPA Eases Boiler Emission Standards, Threatening U.S. Economy and Health
boiler emissions.jpg The U.S. EPA has bowed to pressure from Republican members of Congress and relaxed the proposed rules for boiler emissions. By allowing utility industry companies to make “upgrades”…
Open Government
A government so open, that it lost its marbles. If we had journalists who uniformly understood that letting politicians get away with flaming lies would lead us into a mess,…
Hope As A Gas
What if we could frack for natural gas without polluting the drinking water tables? I don’t think it’s as easy as this article suggests. Your only concern cannot be the…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-06 00:25:00
CANADIAN POLITICS: THE RICH GET RICHER: Oh my, is this “news” ? During good times the rich pull ahead as they manage to grab the fruits of expansion. In bad…
Lies Don’t Matter
There may be no way to get fired from a cabinet job in the Harper Government. Well, unless Peter MacKay takes off his shoes and throws them at a helicopter…
Standarize Electronics
Electronics work best when there are standards to follow. Without standards we wouldn’t have CDs that could be read in any nearly CD-ROM or DVD drive. We wouldn’t have radios…
Canadian Banks Made Millions from Illegal Secret Fed Loan
The other day I saw a video of Dennis Kucinich, an American Congressman, reviewing a scandal which I thought was years old. It was actually breaking news with important new…
Ottawa NDP Leadership Debate Thoughts
The debate was good. Exciting even. After several months of being forced to sate my political appetite on the Republican leadership contest, the NDP leadership debate in Ottawa provided a…
Canada Moving Years Back!
With The Kyoto deadline at the end of the month Canada is in no way going to reach it’s target of 6% below 1990 levels. In fact in 2008 the…
Tea Party Ignorant of the U.S. Constitution
Eight reasons why the Tea Party appears ignorant of the American constitution: 1. Congress enjoys a Constitutional authority to provide social services. 2. SCOTUS has upheld broad federal powers under…
GOP Leadership Contest: The Likeability Factor
Pundits seem to love to profess multitudes of differing explanations for the see-sawing GOP leadership contest that has seen, respectively, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain and now Newt Gingrich…
Democrats are Dreaming
In a somewhat strange turn of events it seems the Democrats who contiguous talk themselves as being the party that will save Social Security is now the party that quite…
Peter Pinocchio
Filed under: caricature, illustration Tagged: caricature, Conservatives, humour, Lies, parliament, Peter Mackay, politics
I love my politically-engaged town!
Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Giant squirrel ravages government office
So here it is. I’ve seen it more than a few times and it still makes me chuckle. I also like it because it’s not your typical union campaign video.…
Attawapiskat: laying out the numbers
This excellent explanation of what happened to the so-called millions sent to Attawapiskat all over my little corner of the internet, but I want to share it anyway. Another inbound…