tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55449282108499141202012-01-30T10:26:05.494-08:00Let Freedom RainMedia, culture and residual politicsJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.comBlogger41171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-30089487440816862452012-01-29T05:51:00.000-08:002012-01-29T15:31:49.825-08:00Brian Burke has had it up to here with Don CherryDon Cherry loves the Leafs. He loves them almost as much as he loves the Bruins. However, he does not love Leaf coach Ron Wilson. In fact, Cherry uses every little slip of Wilson's (granted, there are a lot) to rail against Leaf management for not doing exactly what Mr. Cherry wants. And what Cherry wants is everyone to be just like him.
So when Ron Wilson failed to applaud during a ceremony Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-35919661693929816062012-01-29T05:05:00.000-08:002012-01-30T06:07:09.668-08:00Scene from Syria, Saturday January 28, 2012. Rodney Kirkland, Sr. edition.
Oops. Turns out that was Oakland last night.
UPDATE: Dr. Dawg has the goods on an Oakland cop, annual salary $202K and unbelievably works for the Youth and Family Services agency, who apparently beat a pregnant woman leukemia sufferer off her bicycle and allegedly beat her as she was being carried away on a stretcher. Luckily, Anonymous (I'm assuming) is on the case and identified the brute:
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-26932690062992318652012-01-28T12:26:00.000-08:002012-01-29T18:12:07.228-08:00The Pension Plan fiasco. Who cares? There are few jobs for someone 60, let alone 65 or 67. Or 25.
I've been watching bemusedly - and with no little horror - the arguments waged between elite media types, celebrated authors and lowly bloggers over Stephen Harper's hint about raising the qualification for old age pension from 65 to 67.
It's all academic, literally. What's not being considered in these finely-wrought debates and dissertations is that there is no work for those over 60, let Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-87617405657092320762012-01-28T08:24:00.000-08:002012-01-28T09:18:16.637-08:00Harper vs. Harper: Elijah tackles Stephen's Daddy State
Truer words have rarely been spoken. First Nation chief from Manitoba Elijah Harper says what needed to be said, that 'the federal Indian Act treats aboriginals like children and chains them to the government for their entire lives'.
Asked about his seminal moment in history, Harper said he opposed the Meech Lake accord for the same reason he wasn't too pleased about this week's Crown-First Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-30516944144226885442012-01-27T12:25:00.000-08:002012-01-28T13:18:28.383-08:00"Alpine perch": did Bob Rae compare Harper to Hitler?Dan Gardner just tweeted this:
Did Bob Rae really use the term 'alpine perch' to intentionally compare Harper to Hitler? I have a lot of respect for Dan Gardner but I wonder if this time he's stretching it a little thin. I did a quick Google search on the term and didn't find any references to Hitler, even hyperbolic examples.
Dan Gardner is at times inscrutable. Was he joking or was he Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-7390585752790632472012-01-27T12:13:00.000-08:002012-01-27T12:58:54.105-08:00“What kind of man would mislead, distort and deceive just to win an election?”
“This man would: Newt Gingrich.”
That, from a new ad about to hit the US from Newt Gingrich (except the last NG bit, it actually says, 'Mitt Romney') attacking frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Which begs the question: does Gingrich have even the remotest sense of self awareness or shame? The ethically-challenged, disgraced former Speaker could be asking the titular question of himself as much, if notJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-7783992542553449642012-01-27T10:49:00.000-08:002012-01-27T11:47:28.357-08:00Does this look to you like Obama's threatening Jan Brewer (R-AZ)?
Of course not. But judging from Brewer's breathless account and headlines from the usual bevy of right-wing blogs, a 'threatening' Obama "intensely" reproached the Governor for comments about the "thin-skinned" president in her book. After the exchange, Brewer immediately made her rounds of the media, regaling all within earshot that the president precipitated a contentious fight on the Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-43852590860826579942012-01-27T09:50:00.000-08:002012-01-28T12:41:43.871-08:00A shock to the system: Harper goes after seniors
Or, almost-seniors. Those approaching the age of 65 must be gasping for breath this morning, learning of Harper's hint at perhaps raising the age for receiving 'old age' benefits to 67. More sinister are his plans for OAS and the Guaranteed Income Supplement, necessary programs for caring for those who are not able to support themselves on what they have saved and what the government providesJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-48708181921069463722012-01-27T09:29:00.000-08:002012-01-27T09:39:11.023-08:00Enemygate: Harper's divisive politics
Margaret Atwood has dubbed it 'Enemygate'. ForestEthics whistleblower Andrew Frank accuses Harper of bullying tactics. John Bennett of the Sierra Club frets that this is “a scary time for Canadian democracy”. With the Prime Minister calling any opposition to his pet Keystone project, "enemy of the Government of Canada", the lines have been drawn. The Conservatives will do anything to bully, Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-38597181890461706352012-01-27T08:04:00.000-08:002012-01-27T08:22:38.532-08:00Rogers Communications wants to change Ontario law so it can continue 'misleading advertising' in peace
I love when the right and big corporations use the 'free speech' (or in this case, 'freedom of expression') argument from everything to excusing defamation and libel to putting out false claims about products.
The legal battle with Rogers began in November 2010, when the bureau went to court to levy a $10-million penalty for a "misleading advertising" campaign involving the company's Chatr Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-57431113467165199362012-01-27T02:21:00.000-08:002012-01-27T07:20:10.490-08:00Media Matters: US media favoured Keystone XL proponents over opponents by wide marginNo surprise here.
With the exceptions of USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, every news outlet included in this study quoted or hosted more people in favor of the pipeline than opposed.
That's just the US media. You can comfortably posit that the coverage in the largely conservative Canadian media to be far more slanted toward favourable coverage of all things pipeline.
UDATE: deSmogBlog Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-72564945426096043812012-01-27T02:04:00.000-08:002012-01-27T02:08:13.571-08:00Brock University prof: Stupid people attracted to conservative beliefs, prejudice.
No comment necessary.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-12569280518486433172012-01-25T11:31:00.000-08:002012-01-25T11:38:03.700-08:00You can forget women drivers in Saudi Arabia. Female driver who defied Saudi motoring ban dies in fatal accident.
This is sad news on more levels than one.
A woman who defied a driving ban on female motorists in Saudi Arabia has died in a car crash.
Another was hurt in the crash in the only country in the world where females are banned from getting behind the wheel.
A police spokesman said that one of the women was killed instantly but the other had to go to hospital to be treated for her injuries.
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-44777872740631019972012-01-25T08:10:00.000-08:002012-01-25T12:55:48.961-08:00Gerry Nicholls snaps the ball. NCC prez Peter Coleman punts. Hilarity ensues. UPDATED
Canada's Hyper-Partisan Pundit
(Scroll down for scrumptious update.)
Here's the first assignment for the Globe & Mail's new Public Editor Sylvia Stead. Explain to non-partisan Canadian citizens why the venerable grey lady is publishing a Conservative loyalist like Gerry Nicholls who regularly spreads his right-wing propaganda in rags like the Sun empire, National Post and the Frum/Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-81982528785705220782012-01-24T09:29:00.000-08:002012-01-24T11:16:19.047-08:00Criminal defamation is one thing but when those who support blogger Charles LeBlanc have to claim anonymity, there's a problem
I first heard about Charles LeBlanc's plight this morning. He's been charged with defamation, was raided by the Fredericton police and had his PC taken. Going to his blog (it is almost impossible to navigate - Charles suffers from ADHD), I can only rely on third-party accounts of what happened.
This post is not about the defamation. It's about the fear shown not just by LeBlanc's Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-46800274740376680412012-01-23T14:59:00.000-08:002012-01-23T15:01:39.669-08:00Alright. Alright. Alright.David Wooderson lives! (The song ain't bad, either.)
If your memory needs jogging: (Looks the same, don't he?)
Cooool!Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-46065842156887143802012-01-23T12:08:00.000-08:002012-01-24T15:00:43.474-08:00Another reason to hate the Bruins. Tim Thomas refuses to go to White House.
I didn't know Tim Thomas' politics before now but I should have. The Bruins, regarded as NHL's dirtiest team and favourite of HNIC, the eastern media and Conservatives like fugitive Patrick Ross, have in their midst an Obama hater. His name is Tim Thomas. I knew the guy was a whiny douche. I just didn't know how much.
Don Cherry must be so proud.
Thomas, a known fan of conservative talk showJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-53495063059696246842012-01-23T09:15:00.000-08:002012-01-23T11:15:31.184-08:0097 out of 100 climate experts think humans are causing global warming
From John Cook's Skeptical Science blog comes this intriguing bit of factoid goodness.
The 97% figure comes from two independent studies, each employing different methodologies. One study surveyed all climate scientists who have publicly signed declarations supporting or rejecting the consensus (Anderegg 2010). Another study directly asked earth scientists the following question "Do you thinkJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-50900313244603527582012-01-23T08:59:00.000-08:002012-01-23T11:04:39.399-08:00‘I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.’Why Mitt Romney is losing.
Mitt Romney takes issue with Mark Steyn ridin' on his jock.
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-46451226518793180522012-01-23T06:43:00.000-08:002012-01-25T09:59:10.226-08:00Will Globe & Mail's first Public Editor (aka Ombudsman) make a difference? The question of Sylvia Stead.
Public Editors, or Ombudsmen as they are more often known, can be iffy things. Defined loosely as "one that investigates, reports on, and helps settle complaints", the role can be broadly defined.
The New York Times is probably the best example of an effective Public Editor, where its 'Ombudsman' researches complaints of bias by its reporters and opinionators and serves as a protector of the Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-9016952904404443022012-01-22T15:23:00.000-08:002012-01-22T17:05:12.729-08:00How Newt Gingrich won South Carolina
The media and the blogosphere are full of speculation the last two days about how a philanderer and ethics violator like Newt Gingrich could win South Carolina and win it big. It's pretty simple, actually.
Marianne Gingrich (and Drudge and ABCNews) provided Gingrich with all he ammo he needed to blast off the last debate with a brilliant bit of victimhood. CNN's rather dense John King handed Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-71596856290440676632012-01-22T12:18:00.000-08:002012-01-22T16:03:11.233-08:00The big Iraq FAIL. What say you now, Jason Kenney?
The first time I took notice of Jason Kenney, he was an omnipresent presence on the TV during the lead up to the call for a war in Iraq. Our PM Chretien was standing up to Bush as were most nations around the globe. But one little porcine man five o'clock shadowed an ugly anti-Canadianism on the horizon using his opposition to our stance on Iraq to wrest Canada from its peaceful moorings and Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-35853027357263419332012-01-22T08:52:00.000-08:002012-01-22T11:41:50.264-08:00This can't be good. Newt Gingrich gives shout out to Stephen Harper.
Eww. If you thought Stephen Harper was a little creepy and his methods suspect, you will think even less of our PM after last night's South Carolina GOP primary. Newt Gingrich, disgraced in so many ways over his career for not just his philandering but his breach of ethics, referenced Harper in his acceptance speech after his huge victory in the state. Of all the candidates to praise our PM, Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-79508647298163382572012-01-21T08:56:00.000-08:002012-01-21T09:40:59.949-08:00PZ Myers takes on Jonathan Kay's exhortation that we should all read the bible
A fellow blogger recently speculated that Jonathan Kay is actually one of the more moderate Conservative writers. I had my doubts but nodded reluctantly. I wish I had read this before that comment so I could have something with which to laugh down such a preposterous claim. Thankfully, PZ Myers has done the job beautifully for me.
Jonathan Kay is some conservative Canadian columnist who doesn’Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-32280006845310903622012-01-21T05:59:00.000-08:002012-01-23T10:13:22.063-08:00"Obama's white half tries to sing"
The latest from the wonderfully transparent Kathy Shaidle, as noted by Alicublog.
UPDATE: From the Department of Unintentional Self-description, this:
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-31755130237366404322012-01-20T14:26:00.000-08:002012-01-20T14:26:24.732-08:00OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis has Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair's back who has Mayor Rob Ford's backI think they call this a circle jerk.
In a two-sentence letter to Blair today, which Blair released to the media, Lewis wrote: “I have reviewed the three Toronto Police Service recordings you provided. I can confirm that the statement you made in a public release on October, 28, 2011, is an accurate interpretation of the content of the tapes.”
Just release the tapes so we can decide for Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-73973013984319373512012-01-20T06:09:00.000-08:002012-01-20T06:12:15.582-08:00Police watchdog: 5 cops who beat Adam Nobody should be charged
Yeah sure, but will these officers ever be charged? Not likely. Even if they are charged, chances are great that they will get off. It's the way it works these days. If you are a cop, or any person in authority, and you abuse your authority, you will be coddled by your internal 'investigators' and most likely exonerated.Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-32600515412342962422012-01-20T05:38:00.000-08:002012-01-20T09:43:05.275-08:00Media's anti-Occupy stance revealed. More than half of Canadians support the movement.
By reading 90% of the Canadian media, you'd have thought the people who Occupied cities across Canada and the world were unemployable dirty fucking hippies intent on violence and rape.
Seems a majority of Canadians - and most of the world - still do not share the media's jaundiced view of the mostly young people who pitched tents and gathered in overwhelmingly non-violent protest of a Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-52563185205243828872012-01-19T22:11:00.000-08:002012-01-19T22:22:34.548-08:00Nancy Pelosi: Keystone XL oil was "always destined for overseas ... it wasn't for domestic consumption."No surprise here.
“If the Republicans cared so much about the Keystone pipeline, they would not have narrowed the president’s options by putting it on the time frame they did,” Pelosi said. “They left him very little choice…. This oil was always destined for overseas. It’s just a question of whether it leaves Canada by way of Canada, or it leaves Canada by way of the United States. So without Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-38349516299345007092012-01-19T21:05:00.000-08:002012-01-23T13:01:46.949-08:00The ironing is delicious: Jon Stewart vs. Boston Bruins.I just love this mash up video that pits the Boston Bruins whining (and dirty play) against the Vancouver Canucks (and every other team). A conservative's wet dream. Puts it all into perspective.
Bring out the wahmbulance, the Bruins are in town.
UPDATE: As if to prove the veracity of the above clip, Andy Ference will be facing a hearing for attempting to run a Ranger through the boards intoJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-21267885997801483562012-01-19T12:24:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:35:09.491-08:00A right-wing blogger's take on feminism
Slithering through the right-wing blogosphere - from Vox Populi via Instapundit to Canada's proud wingnut Canadian Cincinnatus - is this revealing but puzzling comment about feminism, using the tragedy of the Costa Concordia as an excuse for a lame joke:
Those big, burly crewmen shoving aside women as they prioritized their own escape should have been wearing t-shirts that said "this is what Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-11337743530236099662012-01-19T09:54:00.000-08:002012-01-19T14:53:27.653-08:00Marianne Gingrich lays an egg. Drudge fails again. Gingrich career does not 'end in a single interview'.It hasn't been broadcast yet but from what was revealed from interviewer ABCNews' Brian Ross talking on The View this morning, Newt Gingrich's second wife reveals little that isn't already known, certainly nothing that could end the candidate's career. Mostly revolving around Gingrich's infidelities, the revelations are certainly salacious but also the red meat of what sinning 'family families' Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-70705757908395115712012-01-19T05:23:00.000-08:002012-01-19T06:03:15.836-08:00Obama's decision on Keystone XL a slap in the face of Harper
And, oh yeah almost forgot to tell ya, about that Keystone boondoggle ...
I doubt that Stephen Harper or the Conservative agenda factored one bit in the Obama administration's decision to scrap postpose the Keystone XL pipeline decision - at least until 2014 - but it sure does not look good for our PM's much bragged about foreign prowess.
In one move, Obama has exposed Harper as an Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-54218765266800549032012-01-17T22:15:00.000-08:002012-01-18T00:00:49.228-08:00
http://sopastrike.com/ Image by A Creative Revolution (H/T Dawg's Blawg)
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-30918230737425117902012-01-17T21:42:00.000-08:002012-01-17T21:46:32.480-08:00deSmog Blog: Enbridge chair and six of 12 directors are American
Talk about your foreign influence!
But according to a secret source (okay: it's the company website), Enbridge Chair David Arledge and six of the 12 Enbridge directors are (everyone get ready to gasp in unison): AMERICANS!
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-21570849319266334322012-01-17T21:03:00.000-08:002012-01-18T10:43:04.670-08:00Chatty Kathy Marshall doll debuts
Just pull the ring. You know exactly what she'll say next.
Kathryn Marshall. She's no puppet. She's a doll.Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-44148512707544724652012-01-16T20:58:00.000-08:002012-01-17T06:03:19.109-08:00It's our 'giant national park'. Let's keep it that way.
Canada is not the exclusive property of Stephen Harper, the Conservative party, Alberta or the oil companies. We all share this land and we want to preserve our coastlines, lakes and rivers. We will not sell our soul for a buck. We want to keep this land pristine. Listen to us. It is not the United States speaking. It is Canadians and it is British Columbians doing the talking.
Thousands of Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-1894044970817610512012-01-16T11:01:00.000-08:002012-01-16T11:25:09.936-08:00The Conservative Communist Manifesto: Keystone pipeline edition
fixcas
So Obama may balk at the KeystoneXL pipeline, primarily over environmental concerns. How does Harper respond? Without blinking an eye, this leader of 'ethical' everything and champion of 'human rights' will deal instead with a country rife with human rights abuses and unethical everything. Not only that, China is communist, in case you forgot.
Right now, the US conservatives are Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-53705029490859506582012-01-15T06:32:00.000-08:002012-01-15T07:00:35.165-08:00G20 activist Amanda Hiscocks: I have no room for guilt or fear
Amanda Hiscocks to judge: "By focusing on the KKK’s tactics and not their politics you’ve missed the point entirely."
Go here for an excellent post on the woman facing a 16-month sentence for 'counselling to obstruct police and counselling to commit mischief' prior to the G20 protests. Read her full statement to the judge, where she takes on his digusting and wildly inappropriate comparisons Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-39287730134027266362012-01-15T02:42:00.000-08:002012-01-15T02:42:28.294-08:00'Fetus Fetish' takes on whole new meaning in TexasThis is so off the wall to be considered truly sick. Yet in Texas, it's barely raising eyebrows.
THANKS to an appeals court ruling last week, doctors in Texas may be forced to deliver a speech describing the physical features of a fetus before they perform abortions. And women will have to listen.
In other words, the state has passed a law that baldly interferes with the relationship between Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-85825370938562288832012-01-15T02:18:00.000-08:002012-01-15T02:27:20.934-08:00The Gingrich who stole Christmas: fire all government employees with liberal views
This is so perfectly representative of the right-wing mind. So fearful of freedom of thought and progress of any kind, the reactionary right-wing mind would rather not just silence liberal thought but obliterate it any way it can.
This statement by Newt Gingrich deserves an award for bald-faced authoritarianism and let's face it, fascism. Sound familiar?
“I think an intelligent conservative Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-78152650701755804722012-01-13T19:28:00.000-08:002012-01-15T11:55:56.136-08:00Huffington Post's Kathryn Marshall has meltdown on Power & Politics. Goes viral. UPDATED
When I looked this afternoon at the now famous Kathryn Marshall Ethical Oil freakout on youtube, the hits were just 6,000. It's now over 14,000 (UPDATE: as of this morning, well over 26,000) and rising. Word has been blazing around the web, snaking its way into the States where amused commenters are comparing Marshall's clueless and belligerent approach to that of the screaming heads of Fox Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-38846449579322897722012-01-12T16:57:00.000-08:002012-01-13T05:30:53.012-08:00Christy, what are you thinking? BC Liberals hire Harper aide and Enbridge lobbyist Ken Boessenkool as chief of staff.
If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC 'Liberals' fall, it's pretty obvious by now it's neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left political party hires a lobbyist whose previous tenure involved working as senior policy advisor and strategist to Stephen Harper and lobbying for Enbridge and Suncor, you know it has gone off the rails (emphasis mine).
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-77102076222616800632012-01-12T11:42:00.000-08:002012-01-12T11:46:42.820-08:00"Have a great day, buddy". Video of US soldiers urinating on Afghan corpses rocks the US. Right wing shrugs shoulders.
A video recently released showing US soldiers pissing on three dead Afghans has provoked outrage from all quarters. Except one - the right (emphasis mine).
Not everyone, however, was saddened by the events. Anti-Muslim activist Pam Geller wrote in favor of the incident. “I love these Marines,” she said, adding, “Perhaps this is the infidel interpretation of the Islamic ritual of washing andJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-25622431833408248842012-01-12T11:07:00.000-08:002012-01-12T11:29:42.452-08:00BigCityLib cleans up journalist's mess. Confirms Brazilian did sign up to speak at pipeline hearings.Go to BigCityLib's place for the details on how a simple e-mail clarified at least part of a sloppily-research article from Postmedia, intended no doubt to raise doubts about the pipeline hearings and capitalize on the 'foreign influence' scam.
Alison at Creekside comes up with another scenario involving the infamous Teneycke Snuffaluffagus hoax.
Hey, those progressive bloggers sure are Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-82612209320845822002012-01-12T10:43:00.000-08:002012-01-12T10:43:43.892-08:00“When Mitt Romney Came to Town”This is a devastating ad by Newt Gingrich. It is a brutal attack on Mitt Romney. No, it's actually a slap across the face of capitalism unbound. Right wingers are shocked, disappointed and plain livid. Their outlaw hero Newt has gone Occupier. No Democrat would have dared been so nakedly hostile. Hell, no Communist would have gone this far.
For his part, Newt is at once contrite and defiant in Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-27069006859435027392012-01-12T07:16:00.000-08:002012-01-12T10:29:25.128-08:00At last. Libs to invest big time in ads. Then blow it.
"Hey kids, look at this new ad from the Liberals! No, really."
Why do these ads have to be promoted in such a reactionary manner? The Libs sound defensive even when they are making the 'bold' move of investing in advertising. Making this about "defending" Liberal policy and its leader from the big, bad Conservatives is counter productive and just bad PR. It gifts the Cons more power and robs Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-69157900680544367322012-01-12T06:53:00.000-08:002012-01-12T06:55:11.171-08:00Harper: "Scientists? We don't need no stinking scientists!"
Especially the environmental kind.
But Corbett said the department is under “strict orders” not to reveal precisely what work these surplus scientists are doing. They broadly include engineers, scientists, biologists, climatologists, and chemical analysts from across the country, including 18 or so in the national capital region. They work in areas such as pollution, monitoring water quality,Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-2574877596279591462012-01-12T06:27:00.001-08:002012-01-12T07:22:14.748-08:00Santorum: Attacks on Romney are attacks on capitalismHarper: Criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.
Ethical Oil: Opposing the pipeline is un-Canadian.
George Bush: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
Benito Mussolini: O con noi o contro di noi.
The hubris continues.
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-22860252400288815282012-01-12T05:27:00.000-08:002012-01-12T05:49:53.931-08:00Drip. Drip. Drip. Conservatives chip away at our freedoms.
Jean Chretien has a point about the role the Liberals need to play in the age of a Harper majority - be bold. With the Conservatives chiselling away at the personal freedoms formerly enjoyed by Canadians - and non-Canadians - this country needs strong opposition to counter the upcoming tsunami of evangelical cleansing of our rights and freedoms.
“Unless we are bold. Unless we seize the momentJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-5816511959579466152012-01-11T17:24:00.000-08:002012-01-12T06:18:17.282-08:00Why is Ethical Oil too terrified to confirm if it is funded by Enbridge or not? UPDATED with video.
"Don't ask me hard questions. I'm a student!"
Wow. Just wow. Earlier today, watched Power & Politics with Huffington Post's Kathryn Marshall debating the Northern Gateway hearings with a representative from the Sierra Club. What was so amazing is that every time host Evan Solomon correctly asked if Enbridge was funding Ethical Oil, Marshall would loudly filibuster the question, refusing to Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-31609862698999717542012-01-11T09:05:00.000-08:002012-01-11T09:11:06.374-08:00Conservative solution to bad service: break the server's finger
"You schmuck'
Times are tough for the 1% these days. What with Occupiers, the press, even the government hounding them, the rich are getting edgy.
The poor just don't appreciate the sacrifices they have made. But what really pisses off the rich is that the fucking poor don't even know how to serve a proper meal anymore. Grrrr....
[Server] Kucik stated that Mrs. Castle requested that Kucik Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-41155998635946851202012-01-11T06:20:00.000-08:002012-01-11T06:42:46.708-08:00Armagedddon time for the American right. Gingrich is now a 'Socialist' and Perry is 'like something out of Occupy Wall Street'.
Hey Newt, pass me that copy of Little Red Book. Sure Rick, how about we spark one up?
As the US right does everything it can to destroy not only its own reputation but the economic and human health of its citizens (excepting of course the 1%), it keeps tainting its message with hate speech and outlandish claims against what it perceives to be its enemy. And let's face it, an enemy to the rightJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-66297599094180500002012-01-10T07:16:00.000-08:002012-01-10T08:49:15.486-08:00Ethical Oil's spin: media catching up to the blogsAgain, Alison at Creekside has come up with the goods. This time she provides commentary and the transcript of a complete undressing of Joe Oliver by CBC's Carol Off. You can hear the interview here. You can also hear the desperation in Oliver's voice. As Off presents fact after fact countering Oliver's claims, he keeps on ticking off the same talking points, stuttering somewhat at Off's Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-58201629794300422492012-01-10T05:06:00.000-08:002012-01-10T07:28:54.197-08:002012 Quote of the Year. "(Radicals) are a group of people who don’t take into account the facts but are driven by an ideological imperative"
It's only 10 days into January of 2012 and already we have a sure winner for lack-of-self-awareness
wingnut quote of the year. Thank you, Joe Oliver and congratulations. Your clueless statement may very well be the quote of the decade.Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-31610791970739628532012-01-10T04:17:00.000-08:002012-01-10T07:01:54.232-08:00Radical environmentalists, shame on you! Didn't you know the Northern Gateway will 'fund social programs'?Talk about shame. Pro-polluters and climate change deniers have none. Take one Joe Oliver, for example. This creep has the temerity to tell us that the Northern Gateway pipeline will be a progressive's wet dream.
“These are projects of enormous national significance – in terms of job creation and creating revenues to fund social programs – and we think decisions about these Canadian projects Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-27338124108215960562012-01-09T15:32:00.000-08:002012-01-09T16:02:23.922-08:00Bruin goon Brad Marchand given five games for "predatory" low hit on Sammy Salo
Does this look like 'self defence' to you?
Fueled by the rabid Boston press and the bigotry of media types like Don Cherry and Cathal Kelly, the Bruins have waged a PR war against the Vancouver Canucks with stunning success. Nobody talks about the Bruins' ganging up or Boston crowds jeering an injured Canuck or the Bruins diving all over the ice during the last game or the intent-to-injure Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-33507321807705828352012-01-09T12:46:00.000-08:002012-01-09T12:46:46.172-08:00Snoop Dogg busted for pot at same spot Willie Nelson got nabbed. Wants to smoke weed with Obama.
Gotta love the Dogg. But it may not have been the smartest thing to have 'several joints' on board the tour bus at the same Sierra Blanca stop in Texas where Willie Nelson was arrested. This is especially disappointing for Snoop as just last week he expressed his wish to sit down with Obama and get the president high. I don't think that's going to happen now.
Before I even said "Hi" to Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-10809381670825357092012-01-09T06:27:00.000-08:002012-01-09T10:42:49.157-08:00Next time some 'Ethical Oil' salesperson gives you the 'foreign influence' bunk on the pipeline hearings, mention Alison's post on the subject at CreeksideI watched in mild horror 'Question Period' yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of Alberta's 'Ethical Oil' lobby by Huffington Post's Kathryn Marshall. Her spiel was more about trying to trap Eric Swanson of Dogwood Initiative with circuitous and unrelated arguments rather than engaging in honest discussion.
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-11803463097907071572012-01-09T05:52:00.000-08:002012-01-09T05:54:50.386-08:00So, how did that war go for you in Iraq, George?
Added by Timbotron via Blogdilla
And to think if Stephen Harper had been PM at the time, we'd be party to this.
The percentage of Iraqis who are suffering in 2011 is among the highest in the Middle East and North Africa region and the percentage who are thriving is among the lowest. The current percentage of Iraqis who are suffering is still lower than the high of 30% recorded in June 2008, Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-55985230864295524482012-01-09T03:39:00.000-08:002012-01-09T08:25:03.597-08:00Harper vs. Putin: like-minded matchup but it's nothing like 1972
It's a match made in totalitarian heaven. Two authoritarian bullies planning to face off in a rematch of the 1972 Summit Series. The joke is neither of these two leaders see themselves the way the rest of the world views them. Harper is so out-of-touch with his own iron-fisted image manipulation he actually wrote this about the 1972 series:
“It was as if the freedom of Canadians versus the Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-21735231955345839932012-01-08T13:05:00.000-08:002012-01-17T20:39:51.148-08:00Shirish Chotalia: so this is what Conservatives mean by 'human rights'
I've had too many bosses to count over my career in IT. Most were fine. A few were assholes who made life unbearable for the staff. So it's always worth a fist pump when I read something like this.
The rulings that Shirish Chotalia, the Conservative-appointed chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, harassed two subordinates and engaged in “baffling, if not bizarre” behaviour is theJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-14998392190146427852012-01-08T11:07:00.000-08:002012-01-08T11:07:48.442-08:00Reporter does his job, challenges Romney. Gets dressed down by Romney aide.Here is what all reporters should be doing - journalism. Will he keep his job? I love the aide at the end, criticizing the reporter, "don't get argumentative with the candidate".
H/T: @dgardnerJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-6297490471495325652012-01-07T20:16:00.000-08:002012-01-07T20:37:17.328-08:00Claude Julien: the only honest Bruin? "We didn’t do enough to win the hockey game. Let’s be man enough to admit it and move on.”The Boston media is imploding over a rather meaningless mid-season game earlier today between the Canucks and that city's Bruins. Nobody has pointed out the Canucks were playing at 10 a.m. their time. I was pleasantly surprised the Canucks showed up at all, let alone beat and beat down the whiny Bruins.
The truth is the Bruins were goons today, diving and chirping like schoolgirls. I hope Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-41924344966127731072012-01-07T10:38:00.000-08:002012-01-07T10:49:20.198-08:00Michelle Obama in a firestorm over new book
I wonder why Laura Bush and other Republican First Ladies have books written about them while in the White House full of admiration and respect? But Michelle Obama, three years as FL, is undergoing the indignity of a scandal-inducing portrait in 'The Obamas' as a raging, controlling bitch, if you believe the early reviews and media coverage.
Makes you wonder why the author, Jodi Kantor, didn'tJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-71342344629676052782012-01-06T05:01:00.000-08:002012-01-06T05:14:48.999-08:00Alykhan Velshi's mom: it pays to be a denier
Hey Aly baby, can you spare a job?
Alykhan Velshi has lived a charmed life. He's been the go-to guy for Conservative causes. He's been richly rewarded for his support of Harper's agenda. He's a staunch climate change denier. He even helped initiate the whole crazy Ethical Oil ruse. Harper just loves the guy.
It's not just Alykhan who basks in the golden glow of Harper's gaze. Alykhan's mom Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-9681442181985600212012-01-06T04:35:00.000-08:002012-01-06T04:37:10.908-08:00No doubt it will end up with Romney but oh lord I wish it was Santorum or Paul
Romney will no doubt win his party's nomination to go up against Obama. That's not necessarily bad for Democrats - Obama will win no matter who the GOP throws at him - but personally I would love a dogfight between Obama and either Paul or Santorum.
Santorum is just plain religious ideologue crazy. When excited during public appearances, he can't help let the racism, sexism and homophobia Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-58172172459367439252012-01-05T13:54:00.000-08:002012-01-05T19:13:15.442-08:00Oh great. Liberals turn to Democrats for advice? Sheeit.Just as I was basking in the BC Liberals finally getting on the hockey-broadcast attack ad bandwagon a la Harper, along comes this news. Instead of enlisting Republican spinmeisters or the likes of Frank Luntz, the federal Liberals are listening instead to Democratic strategists for the 2008 US presidential campaign.
Not that Obama's 2008 campaign wasn't successful, but let's face it , it was Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-60426938608782836242012-01-05T06:12:00.000-08:002012-01-09T16:17:45.329-08:00Really Ipsos-Reid, a poll commissioned by Alberta's Enbridge on BCers' opinions on Northern Gateway, published only in Postmedia? Really?
Canadian polling companies have been taking a big hit lately and with good reason. One firm I thought would be above the fray is the juggernaut, Ipsos-Reid. Then I read about this iffy IR poll commissioned by Northern Gateway proponent Enbridge about British Columbian feelings toward the pipeline. Adding to the mire is that fact that the poll has been 'released exclusively to Postmedia News', Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-75478670783176460882012-01-04T20:53:00.000-08:002012-01-05T05:14:34.505-08:00I see the BC Liberals have learned from Harper's Ignatieff attack adsWatching the Canucks. Ad comes on real slick-like. I mean Conservative slick. It's a BC Liberals ad attacking a stuttering Adrian Dix. I swear the ad could've been made by the Cons. It looks and sounds exactly like any of the many Ignatieff attack ads. Oh, here it comes again. And again.
Mmm. Looks like someone in the Liberal camp has learned from the Conservatives' superlative messaging afterJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-42720345620274330352012-01-04T19:01:00.000-08:002012-01-04T20:32:16.078-08:00Welcome to Canada's new world of Haves and (mostly) Have Nots
Another generation's dirty effing hippie
Stephen Douglas captures Harper's new world order as it applies to Canada with a scalpel-like efficiency.
Harper and his cadre of conservative ideologues share this collective denial. In these hard economic times where concern is growing about the disparity of wealth, when one in nine Canadian children live below the poverty line while fewer than 4 perJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-55306579571599254272012-01-04T18:00:00.000-08:002012-01-04T21:06:02.103-08:00Nazanin Afshin-Jam shows off her true 'human rights' cred
Peter's latest search-and-rescue trophy
I don't know this for a fact but I doubt Mrs. MacKay has ever lifted a manicured finger for the 'human rights' of Canada's Aboriginal women and children. Or the thousands of children abused by the Catholic church. I could be wrong. One thing I do know for sure; by marrying into the Conservative party, Nazanin will be ensured never to go there at any timeJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-40231326543549571422012-01-04T17:41:00.000-08:002012-01-05T13:54:31.803-08:00Hey Ezra, chinga tu madre
Tu padre, too.Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-2054746093413742152012-01-04T13:40:00.000-08:002012-01-04T14:26:25.975-08:00Obama polishes his brass balls. Takes them out of storage.
Good to see Obama taking on the GOP by making not one major recess appointment but several. Took him long enough.
Even more satisfying is the impotent outrage from the right. Better still is that Obama can now use the wedge of GOP for the big corporations, Obama is for the common man and woman. I hope his media team is prepared to make this work. Judging from the past, they've let such Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-48560318779856562052012-01-04T12:19:00.000-08:002012-01-04T13:46:17.098-08:00Operation Maple takes on Globe & Mail. Number 6 in Gang of Seven.
Operation Maple has been doing a yeoman's job in pointing out the main pillars of Canada's Conservative media monopoly. So far OM has grappled with the following behemoths of industry:
Sun Media Corporation
Bell Canada Enterprises
The Rogers Dynasty
Irving Media
Shaw Media
And now at number 6, OM tackles the most elusive of all the Conservative-serving media operations. Known as Canada's 'Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-64994990091694403412012-01-04T09:32:00.000-08:002012-01-04T09:56:22.889-08:00Ron Paul to Newt Gingrich: yer a chickenhawkRon Paul is a lot of horrible things but he sure knows how to say what he thinks - and often what we're all thinking. I don't know why Paul hasn't done more of this. He could dress down the entire field of candidates this way.
“So right now, he sends these young kids over there to endure the danger, and the kids coming back, the young people coming back and the ones in the military right now, Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-52245592609815872952012-01-03T13:24:00.000-08:002012-01-03T13:34:19.095-08:00Santorum nephew rips Uncle Rick a new oneHate to link to the usually slimy Daily Caller but in light of Santorum's unbridled bigotry coming to light, this nugget warrants attention. I especially like this part (emphasis mine):
It is not the government’s job to dictate to individuals how they must live. The Constitution was designed to protect individual liberty. My Uncle Rick cannot fathom a society in which people cooperate and work Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-20507958571856407052012-01-03T05:03:00.000-08:002012-01-03T12:52:00.060-08:00"I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money"
The Republican field in the presidential race is becoming more and more transparent. By that I mean their racism, intransigence, ignorance, lack of ethical and moral clarity, is becoming harder and harder to hide. For Rick Santorum, his latest gaffe unveils how he truly feels about African Americans. It's enlightening, in the heat of the race to become the party's nomination for president, howJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-60393449237621698962012-01-02T10:23:00.000-08:002012-01-02T13:21:46.882-08:00Eric Cantor, epicentre of GOP tea party intransigence, exposed by 60 minutesEric Cantor, perhaps the assholiest of all the Republican assholes, stepped into it big time on the big stage of 60 minutes. In a classic bit of 'gotcha' television, host Lesley Stahl actually performed a bit of journalism, catching Cantor in demonstrating the intransigence that has become his - and his band of neophyte tea party Republicans' - trademark. And don't forget GOP ignorance of historyJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-45065262814378486032012-01-01T16:53:00.000-08:002012-01-02T12:37:08.940-08:00Obama drives them so crazy, they forget themselvesTaylor Ross Huffman, or Tbone for short, I hope your visit with the Secret Service goes well (but not too well).
Meet Taylor Ross Huffman. He was the Sophomore of the year for 2010 at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, Home of the Fighting "Texans." (The ladies' sports teams are called the TexAnn's. How quaint.) Taylor seems from all appearances like a normal southern frat boyJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-7917313427484593232012-01-01T11:10:00.000-08:002012-01-02T06:02:45.626-08:00A peek at Canada's Conservative media monopolyIf you ever want a glimpse of just how far right 90 percent of our media has become, look no further than National Newswatch. It's all encapsulated there. For example, take a look a today's "Featured Ink" column.
Notice anything particular? All but one article referenced are from Conservative media, QMI in particular. One is from the Calgary Herald, a product of the Conservative Postmedia Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-37548104929074686082012-01-01T10:33:00.000-08:002012-01-01T13:53:31.256-08:00Scott Stinson's alternate universe. "Stephen Harper said voters didn’t care about partisan tactics. He was right".
Stinson neglects to mention all those negative ads from the Cons broadcast for months personally attacking Michael Ignatieff and his family, part of a message machine which almost single-handedly conned the Canadian public into voting a Harper majority.
Does he mention 90 percent of our media went after 'Iggy' on behalf of the Conservatives and then endorsed Harper, a staggering percentage Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-31555402468326521402012-01-01T09:45:00.000-08:002012-01-01T09:52:41.676-08:00Exclusive! Brian Lilley's audition reel for Sun TV News.Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-27757746129479293212012-01-01T07:28:00.000-08:002012-01-01T09:45:56.123-08:00Brian Lilley: "Tough year for state broadcaster"
Brian Lilley reads prepared remarks from Conservative party
while Krista Erickson ponders the good ol' days
Judging by Lilley's employer's ratings, I'd say his statement is more than a little ironic, especially when you consider that Sun TV News serves at the exclusive pleasure of the ruling Conservative party. Plus, its ratings are in the toilet.
But I guess 'tough' is a relative term.Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-81153211927519588492011-12-31T11:10:00.000-08:002011-12-31T11:18:15.853-08:00LFR's half-assed predictions for 2012Occupy will stay underground and grow its infrastructure and goals. More and more organizations and individuals will pledge allegiance to the movement. The media will interpret this lack of visibility to the failure of Occupy and continue to treat supporters as dirty fucking hippies. The year of Occupy will have to wait until 2013. Instead of Occupy, social media and specific protests around the Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-40427981935316603702011-12-30T08:10:00.000-08:002011-12-30T08:46:50.992-08:00Wordpress takes down anti-Muslim site. Rightbloggers blow fuse.
Can't wait for the reaction from the Blogging Tories. "Free Speech!" "Sharia!"
A site promoting violence against Muslims, Bare Naked Islam, was removed by Wordpress at the request of CAIR (The Council on American-Islamic Relations). Apparently, the site contained threats of violence against mosques and comments like, ""I want [Muslim] blood on my hands."
[NOTE: "Bare Naked Islam" was one of Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-87674958064506969922011-12-30T07:53:00.000-08:002011-12-30T08:37:36.585-08:00Rob Ford's 911 problem
Classy! (Photo from Dammit Janet.)
There's something wrong with Rob Ford. We all know he's trash. But there's an undercurrent of rage surrounding the man that's almost Alec Baldwinish. Marg Delahunty is one thing; drunken threats another.
On Christmas, Ford’s mother-in-law called police between 4 and 5 a.m. to report that the mayor had been drinking and was taking his children to Florida Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-88449731883831304992011-12-29T16:34:00.001-08:002011-12-29T16:34:52.536-08:00"When we pick a president, we are in fact choosing a minister of God"I didn't write that. This idiot did.Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-13972490131364417332011-12-27T05:05:00.000-08:002011-12-27T05:25:57.576-08:00American's third Pearl Harbor: Newt Gingrich's failure to get on Virginia ballot9/11 has rightly been referred to as the US's second Pearl Harbor. Now we have a third instance, although this one is much more comical and sad than real.
Ah, the heights of campaign hubris and presidential fantasies. Not making the Virginia ballot had Newt’s campaign director Michael Krull opining on Mr. Gingrich’s Facebook page that it was tantamount to December 1941.
It's the Japs! No, Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-42583724826736405892011-12-27T04:44:00.000-08:002011-12-27T06:23:44.487-08:00Globe & Mail editors pick Harper majority as story of the year
Globe & Mail editors relax in Florida for prescribed vacay following another Con victory party
To celebrate, Globe editors put aside their crutches and patronizing air to low five each other over cocktails and wienies. No report on the obligatory congratulatory call from Stephen Harper although rumours of an army of nurses in attendance have yet to be established.
X-posted at Sister Sage's Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-41486199282613350842011-12-27T04:29:00.000-08:002011-12-27T04:54:46.428-08:00Siobhan Reynolds, RIP
One of the leading Americans fighting against the under-treatment of pain by the medical community has died. As with people who fight for the rights of patients to have access medical marijuana, Reynolds was a tireless campaigner against the misinformation about pain and its under-treatment, mostly stemming for the North American Judeo-Christian war on pleasure or any medication that might seemJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-91034523560819269172011-12-26T04:08:00.000-08:002011-12-26T04:36:29.688-08:00Just another day on the religious war front
Woke up the day after Christmas to read to following headlines:
National Review: "Silent Night", Mark Steyn on the 'War on Christians'.
Associated Press: "Nun's remains miraculously healed New York woman, Vatican says".
Reuters: "Islamists kill dozens in Nigeria Christmas bombs".
Atlas Shrugs: "EGYPT'S MAIN PRO-SHARIA ISLAMIC SUPREMACIST PARTIES TAKE 65% OF VOTES IN SECOND ROUND".
Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-89926958309399248662011-12-25T11:19:00.001-08:002011-12-25T11:26:33.982-08:00"Why do all the girls have to buy princesses?"Charming video of a little girl railing against gender stereotypes in products for kids, especially for girls.
The more cynical of us might say the little girl was coached. I find her too sincere to be anything than what she is: fed up with the cool stuff offered boys, separated from the 'pink stuff' condescendingly marketed to girls.Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-86327862867883764882011-12-25T03:04:00.000-08:002011-12-25T03:56:41.376-08:00How I learned to hate Justin Bieber
Look, I've got nothing against the guy. He's got a pleasant enough voice, he knows how to use it and he seems like a good and generous person. I could hear a Bieber song on the radio or on TV and it would be no better or no worse than 90 percent of the rest of music that is popular today.
(Let's put it this way - he's no James Blunt, a singer with a voice that has been known to send me to Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-91619354011128505392011-12-24T10:04:00.000-08:002011-12-24T10:16:41.889-08:00Text of 1997 speech by Stephen Harper to US right-wing think tankFor anyone surprised by Harper's moves and plans now that he has a majority, it is enlightening to read this speech our current PM made when he was VP of the 'United Citizens Coalition' to the Council for National Policy.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me begin by giving you a big welcome to Canada. Let's start up with a compliment. You're here from the second greatest nation on earth. But seriously,Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-37011935080955632252011-12-24T07:17:00.000-08:002011-12-27T06:40:09.994-08:00The Magnificent Seven: Stephen Harper's seven new Senators leaked
STARRING: Shotgun * Blogging T * Wenthataway * Ezzy * Huffer * The Poet * Blatched
The Conservatives' new best friend, the Canadian wing of the Huffington Post, has a take on who will be Harper's new Senators come January. LFR has its own sources. Funnily enough, the new Senators are almost all media folks. Even more curious, they're all female. Must be part of that new Conservative feminismJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-59148160523171689112011-12-23T14:09:00.000-08:002011-12-23T14:09:29.756-08:00Hey Chris Massa, ORNGE you glad you're boss?Pays well, doesn't it?
ALERT: LFR apologizes for this post. It was written in the holiday company of nieces and nephews and one uncle who specializes in that unfortunate 'old uncle humour'. Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-39980937744701724822011-12-23T05:05:00.000-08:002011-12-23T14:01:22.016-08:00What does it take to be a Sun News Network host?
C'mon Sun Newsfan, you know you want it
Apparently, this.
Jacqui’s television credits include co- hosting “Argos Access” with Michael “Pinball” Clemons, hosting “Dancing at the Palais” on Women’s Television Network, host/reporter on Sportsnet Ontario, co-hosting a late night talk show on Toronto One and until recently she anchored the daily Current Affairs show “Canoe Live” on Sun TV beforeJymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-88703190059278645692011-12-22T15:02:00.000-08:002011-12-22T15:04:23.260-08:00There's something about the name 'Koch': Minn gay community apologizes to disgraced ex-Majority Leader for her failed marriage
If you don't know the story of Minnesota's ex-Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, it's a simple tale of another family values Republican caught having an affair with a subordinate. Today the gay community of Minnesota owned up to Ms. Koch, apologizing for "ruining the institution of marriage and causing her to stray from her husband and engage in an 'inappropriate relationship'."
"On behalf of Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544928210849914120.post-54629492242303261062011-12-22T13:17:00.000-08:002011-12-22T13:17:03.451-08:00$200K payout to Chretien bad news for LiberalsThat's all the Liberals need, as bad a shape as they are in, to have the 'sponsorship scandal' dredged up again.
Funny, the Conservatives are living a scandal-a-day and yet you just know the big news for the next month will be Sponsorship. Adscam. Scandal.
*Sigh*Jymnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15331887342292476909noreply@blogger.com3