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Timing eh? Today, the Film Pink Ribbons, Inc. opened in theatres. An exploration of the Pinkwashing by the Susan G Komen race for the cure. And how perfectly useless and offensive SGK and all their corporate partners are. The National Film Board of Canada. ROCKS. Here is the trailer. Wait for the fireworks from evil litigious “charities”. Popcorn? – Syndicated from http://www.acreativerevolution.ca PrivatizeEverything ThatWackyBuiltVille …And Wanting More. Dave of the Galloping Beaver left the following in the comment thread to yesterday’s BC Rail privatization post: Oh! This is delicious! And I have another one for you. Gordon Campbell offered up the BC Ferry system … for sale. No bidders. Stena looked at it and barfed. More in the near future. Now. Dave, just like a couple of other favourite bloggers who focus on all things maritime, has never steered us wrong when it comes to BC Ferries. Thus, we can’t wait to read all about what he has to say on this one. . . . . → Read More: The Gazetteer: Listening To What Dave Says… – Syndicated from http://pacificgazette.blogspot.com/ “Caterpillar took the tax cut, locked out its London workers, then shut the plant altogether to export their jobs to the US. Shame. To London’s Caterpillar workers: I visited you in January with my solidarity and you still have it today. Don’t give up the fight! — Caterpillar a empoché le crédit d’impôt, lock-outé ses travailleurs, puis fermé l’usine et rapatrié les emplois aux USA. Scandaleux. Aux travailleurs de Caterpillar: je vous ai soutenu lors de ma visite en janvier et je le fais maintenant. Continuez le combat!”Thomas Mulcair MUNCIE, Ind.—”Bulldozing its way through a high-profile dispute . . . → Read More: Buckdog: "Caterpillar took the (Harper) tax cut, locked out its London workers, then shut the plant altogether to export their jobs – Syndicated from http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/ Like reality television’s Big Brother, Lawful Access just keeps coming back. Having died on the table of Parliament’s last session, Bills C-50, C-51 and C-52 are bound for a legislative reincarnation this time around. And, with the Bills again on the horizon, Conservative Member of Parliament and Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews, has fine-tuned his relentless spin on the honest concerns of well-informed, pro-Internet Canadians. read more – Syndicated from http://openmedia.ca Andy Moor – Halcyon – Syndicated from http://accidentaldeliberations.blogspot.com/ TALI-TUBBIE. Now, that sure is something you don’t see every day. – Syndicated from http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/ We seek to establish a narrow line between ourselves and the feathery zeros we dare to call angels, but ask a partition barrier of infinite width to show the rest of creation its proper place. Yet bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours and was poured from the same fountain. - John Muir – Syndicated from http://jmortonmusings.blogspot.com/ It’s 13 years now since Chavecito was sworn in as president of Venezuela. And, contrary to all the right-wing lamestream media naysayers up here, he’s not dead yet, and neither is Venezuelan democracy, which is going stronger than ever. And of course, that was the plan 13 years ago yesterday, when Chavecito swore on the “moribund” constitution of 1961, as he called it, to give the country the constitution and participatory democracy it deserved. Since then, not only has that plan prospered in Venezuela, it’s caught on like a wildfire throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, with the ALBA alliance, . . . → Read More: News of the Restless: Festive Left Friday Blogging: Lucky 13 – Syndicated from http://www.sabinabecker.com Very cool and very disturbing. Filed under: Friday Night Flicks Tagged: short films – Syndicated from http://torontoemerg.wordpress.com First they were told they must agree to have their wages cut in half, their benefits slashed, and their pensions gutted. Then when they refused to get down on their knees, they were locked out. Tonight they’re worrying about how they are going to feed their families after their plant was closed down. Even though as one worker said “we made damn good trains.” Even though the Caterpillar hogs were making record profits. Caterpillar revealed Jan. 26 it had record-high sales and a profit of nearly $5 billion US last year, up 83 per cent from $2.7 . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: Electro-Motive and the Sellout Cons – Syndicated from http://montrealsimon.blogspot.com/ Simon  Capitalist Pigs, Con Klowns, Con porkers, Electro-Motive lockout, union rights  (3 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
Fetus fetishists whining and crying victim because they didn’t get their way with Komen/Planned Parenthood? Now whoever coulda seen that coming!? K-Lo breaks out the violins on Twitter: But not before the deranged SUZANNE had added her dulcet tones to the rising tide of whine: Oh well, I suppose it changes things up from regular [...] – Syndicated from http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com JJ brain damage, fetus fetishists, komen, occupy the cure, Planned Parenthood  (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
Blame Twitter. Someone was tweeting about a musician named Lincoln Durham the other day and when he included the magic words — slide guitar — I went off to see what I could find. The result is the set you see before you beginning with Living This Hard.
Once I’d found Lincoln Durham I poked around some more. I thought this was interesting: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings with Another Free Woman Gets To Walk Away.
I’d seen Will Kimbrough before but not this track and it makes a good closer. This is Piece of Work. Have a good weekend.
– Syndicated from http://www.pogge.ca/ Today the HarperCons stepped into the cesspool polluted waters tarsands issue to announce a water monitoring project which will take 3 years and $50 million to fully implement. the regina mom agrees with Halifax NDP MP Megan Leslie; this is a PR stunt. And, trm shares Edmonton MP Linda Duncan’s concerns that First Nations’ communities were not adequately consulted and that many more tarsands projects could be approved before this monitoring begins. trm considers this announcement to be a reflection of the great work the ecojustice community “radical groups” are doing to educate citizens on the issues. . . . → Read More: the regina mom: Oh, Those ‘Radicals’! – Syndicated from http://thereginamom.com thereginamom Activism, Alberta tar sands, Amnesty International, Andrew Frank, Canada, Canadian Politics, China, Ecojustice, Economics, Enbridge, environment, First Nations, Joe Oliver, labour., NDP, North American Energy Security, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oil & gas, stephen harper (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
This blog has officially gone to the dogs Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed – Syndicated from http://kevinswoodshed.blogspot.com/ Looks like the folks at Bad Lip Reading (BLR) got their mojo back after a few duds following the priceless Rick Perry BLR, “Save a pretzel for the gas jets”… Maybe it helps if the subject is stark raving mad to begin with. Just a theory. p.s. Sorry for being MIA for the last week. That’s what happens when you get super-busy with work. Not that I’m complaining! – Syndicated from http://redtory.wordpress.com redtory 2012 U.S. Election, BLR, humour, Republican Party, Rick Santorum (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
…but was secretly nurtured and guided by former Bush Press Secretary and Planned Parenthood critic Ari Fleisher: Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, secretly helped guide Komen Foundation’s disastrous strategy regarding Planned Parenthood. Fleischer personally interviewed candidates for the position of “Senior Vice President for Communications and External [...] – Syndicated from http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com JJ breast cancer, fetus fetishists, komen's charitable status, komenFAIL (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
Almost $100 has come into my Paypal account from people I’ve never met. Two of them people I’ve never even heard of. You people are awesome. Thank you. And more people have emailed to ask for an address. You people are also awesome. May whichever God you believe in bless you. And if you’re atheist, may you experience a run of luck that almost (or actually!) makes you believe in God. This is extra awesome this week because my washing machine and my water heater need work. EESH. In kid news, Pop is hilarious. He’s utterly addicted to . . . → Read More: Feminist Christian Socialist: You people rock – Syndicated from http://feministchristian.blogspot.com/ I haven’t been to church in a couple of weeks. My back has been giving me serious grief. That’s also why I haven’t been blogging much. I can’t sit more than a few minutes. So this post has taken me MUCH time to write. Elseweb, I saw a silly pic of Jesus saying, “Get real. Like Jesus would ever own a gun or vote Republican.” Someone replied, “Sorry, Jane, but ‘teach a man to fish’ is a conservative value”. I laughed and wrote, “No it isn’t. Teach a man to fish suggests universal education, and that’s a liberal value”. . . . → Read More: Feminist Christian Socialist: Christian Conservatism – Oxymoronic and regular moronic – Syndicated from http://feministchristian.blogspot.com/ In 2003 Clayton Willey was arrested by RCMP officers in Prince George for causing a disturbance a few hours later he lay dead. A coroners inquest in 2004 ruled his death was the result of a heart attack brought on by a cocaine overdose. This despite the fact that Clayton was pepper sprayed, beaten dragged through the detachment striking his head several times off the cruiser, the concrete floor and more than one door jamb plus he was tasered multiple times while laying face down his hands cuffed behind his back and his feet hogtied. The inquest discounted the tasering . . . → Read More: Trapped in a Whirlpool: No Justice For Clayton Willey – Syndicated from http://trappedinawhirlpool.blogspot.com/ Well, maybe. At least consider the Komen controversy well and truly #occupied: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation backed down from its decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion and birth control services, a move that had thrust the world’s largest breast cancer charity into a deeply politicized controversy. Komen [...] – Syndicated from http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com @font-face { font-family: “Arial”; }@font-face { font-family: “Cambria Math”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; }span.backgrounder { }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; } Alberta and Canada have just announced a multi-year plan for monitoring the oil sands. Boosting the program from $20 to $50 million a year, the governments promise more and better data, as well as public access to the monitoring results. The increased costs are to be funded by industry, according to the Environment Ministers who made the joint announcement. . . . → Read More: Senator Elaine McCoy Hullabaloos: Monitoring the Oil Sands – Syndicated from http://www.albertasenator.ca/hullabaloos/ We at OpenMedia.ca work for Canadians. You fund us, you spread the word, and you play a huge role in shaping who we are. It was because of your input that we started the Stop The Squeeze campaign—hundreds of you have written to us about the cell phone market’s high prices, tight contract, and disrespectful customer service. The Stop The Squeeze campaign focuses on the Big Three cell phone companies’ stranglehold on the industry, maintaining that the less choice Canadians have, the worse things will get. We depend on competitors independent of the Big Three to keep . . . → Read More: OpenMedia.ca: Stop The Cell Phone Squeeze gains support from indie provider Mobilicity – Syndicated from http://openmedia.ca Sheesh. What a day for my Intertoobz connection to go wonky. It was actually worse than having none. I could read the bloody headlines on Google News but the linkies wouldn’t work. I could get into Twitter intermittently, but again the links didn’t work. So. First. WOO-HOO! For a good parsing of Komen’s apparent cave and apology, go read Dr Dawg, who concludes, as we do, that Komen still bears close watching. That said, let’s celebrate while we can. (This is so rare an event, I betcha many of us are wondering which end of those roll-out party noisemaker . . . → Read More: DAMMIT JANET!: That Blew up REAL Good! – Syndicated from http://scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.com/ fern hill abortion does not cause breast cancer, Planned Parenthood, PR disaster they will teach forever, Susan G. Komen Foundation, us winning a little (2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
In the post below about Afshin Javid, one of the questions commenters are asking is why women who experienced inappropriate sexual contact by this former Vancouver Christian Fellowship staff member have not gone to police. Again, this is a situation where Canadian Christians are doing the right things, helping victims, notifying the ministerial association ( Christian Ministers Association) contacting a BC church Javid supposedly represented himself as a staff member of, warning media and parachurch conferences where Javid is scheduled to participate, pleading with Javid’s current church (Church of Zion) to keep him out of ministry, and . . . → Read More: Bene Diction Blogs On: Afshin Javid, Vancouver Christian Fellowship and sexualizing – Syndicated from http://www.benedictionblogson.com The latest opinion poll from Angus Reid Public Opinion shows that a new paradigm in BC politics has held and even increased in the last three months, most notably with a widening gap between the NDP, now up 2 to 42%, and the Liberals, down 3 to only 28%, which in an election held now would produce a large majority for the NDP; but also important is that support for the Conservatives went sideways, up only 1 to 19%, and for the Green Party was up 2 to only 10%. – Syndicated from http://thecanadian.org The Common Sense Canadian home page Common Sense Journalism (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
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