The face of a nation
This editorial cartoon, published on the Canadian National Post of May 18 2011, has prompted the Italian ambassador to Canada to write a letter to the newspaper, stating his displeasure…
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The Council of President Call
When I hung up the phone after the 135 minute Council of President’s call last night, I was wondering how I was going to write my blog entry in such…
Personally I Blame Harper For This #0008
Cause there is no one else whom we can blame for this. This is all Harper doing, his plan, his actions and his words. Jebus Fraking Cripsy,… wasn’t Raging PMS…
Donald Trump Won’t Run!
Personally I wanted Trump to run as it would have helped the democratics chances, but I am glad that the joke candidate is out as we might be able to…
“Don’t worry, it’s legal.”
“Don’t worry,” said the woman, “It’s legal.” This lass (same one as this post, actually) was commenting on the Conservative bypassing the spending limit on their 2008 campaign. Don’t worry,…
In Defense of Abortion
In this month’s Canadian federal election, abortion was not an issue. However, whenever election time roles around in North America, the issue of abortion tends to garner at least a…
An Occasional Zorpheous
Reading the CPC. NDP, Greens and yes, even other Liberals blogs, it can be said that everyone want a piece of the liberal corpse. Then I remembered this old cartoon,…
Personally I Blame Harper For This #0007
So the Christian Fundie-Retards have been embolden by the Rightwing Majority Rapture of orgasmic goodness know as Raging PMS and the SeePeeSee. They want everyone to know that abortion is…
TorStar Op-ed: Liberals have to create a next political centre
This past Saturday the Toronto Star published the following piece by Taylor Owen and myself on its op-ed page. Thought I'd put it here for those who might have missed…
Disaster: Slave Lake Burning To The Ground
With relatively little news published Sunday on the wildfires raging in northern Alberta, many Canadians will awake Monday morning to learn with surprise and shock the town of Slave Lake…
All’s Not Right: Splitting The Conservative Vote
People who are willing to listen to me rant and foam at the mouth about politics (not as large a population as you might think) have heard two consistent messages…
Huckabee Won’t Run.
One of the most like able and most suggestion as the solution to beat Obama in 2012 was Huckabee, But this Saturday Huckabee said that he wouldn't run. Now the…
After a jump to the left, the Liberal Party needs to take a step to the right.
Though I disagree with the notion that under Stephane Dion & Michael Ignatieff, the Liberal Party has moved ideologically to the left, I do believe that both leaders seemed to…
Facebook, Supporter of Gov’t Secrecy and Against Individual Privacy, Caught Anonymously Smearing Google
New York Time provided an insight to Facebook’s position on individual’s privacy: For years, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, has extolled the virtue of transparency, and he built…
Jabba The Ford – Toronto’s New Election Crime Overlord?
Now it’s just a question, not a statement of fact. Our corpulent Overlard Overlord seems to be running into some trouble with our Provincial Municipal Election Laws in the Toronto…
Akaash Maharaj: A Party of the Many
As long as I have been involved in the Liberal Party, it has been my conviction that for all its strengths, its one fundamental weakness has been an unhealthy obsession…
May Responds to Expense Query
Elizabeth May in a tweet just now responded to my query last week about travel expenses for a recent coast to coast trip May took to attend a memorial. @ElizabethMay…
Personally I Blame Harper for This #0006
So good old Tony Clement, our Industry Ministry, is going to invite the Oily Bigwigs to Ottawa to explain to Canadians why oil/gas prices go up and go down,… but…
The Best and Worst Thing About Each Canadian Political Party
What is your favourite and least favourite thing about Canada’s federal parties? As a Canadian who has intently followed US politics and is now endeavoring to take an active interest…