I’ve long been somewhat of a politics/history junkie, and as such I read a lot about both topics, from ancient times to modern; I read about events, wars, issues, personalities, elections, debates, governance, and the philosophy of politics. I read books, newspapers, websites, magazines, social media, and more books. I
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Montreal Simon: Please Help Save the Brutalized Albinos of Malawi
As you may know, I despise bullies of any kind with a passion. Especially those who terrorize children.And this has to be one of the most horrifying bullying stories I've ever heard about. It's like a bloody zombie movie.And it couldn't …
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: These are the types of NDP candidates Thomas Mulcair stands behind…
These are the types of NDP candidates Thomas Mulcair stands behind… Intolerance Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie Alexandre Boulerice says the NDP is against the niqab! [VIDEO, en français!] Mégantic—L’Érable Jean-François Delisle says the NDP should reopen Constitution to deal with the niqab. FYI Jean-François Delisle has backed off his initial statement that
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: What Kind of Politicians Ignore THEIR OWN SCIENTISTS?
In BC and Canada, politicians actively ignore the people and their own scientists. Why? OK, you tell me. What do you call politicians who ignore their own scientists? It’s not a trick question. What if scientists tell their political bosses about the climate impacts of ramping up a mythical $1
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Carbon Energy Is Dead, Wake Up?
The math is so easy. So why is BC ramping up coal and LNG production? STOP THEM! It really doesn’t get any simpler than this. Climate realities mean not ignoring science. Here’s some math. Let’s get off the coal, oil and gas. Click on the image for more enlightenment!
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: People Should Stop Attacking The Margaret Wente
It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t read Naomi Klein’s new book about climate change. It doesn’t matter because the internet of things. It doesn’t matter because most of what’s important in the world is in the comment section of news stories, not the stories themselves. We all know journalists are
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Occupying Homelessness?
Homelessness isn’t a policy thing regarding random people. It’s a thing for actual people. It’s not abstract, it’s in our face, yet we live in denial. Clearly, I’m no brain surgeon. But if there are homeless people, a civilized culture would find a way to use a progressive tax system
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Ignorance VS Hatefulness: How to talk about explain gay-bashing in Sochi
I’m kind of tired of people describing some racists, misogynists and homophobes as “ignorance”. ’Ignorance’ means that they just don’t know better, they are missing information and they just need […]
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Ultimate New Year’s Resolution
It’s mostly us. Many of us have heard of the idea of planning policy to consider effects seven generations downline. We’re pretty smart. It shouldn’t be that hard. But we have many incentives to think short term. Sometimes so short that we are ignorantly and apathetically victimizing our descendants. But
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected.I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors.1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected. I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors. 1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of Rob Ford. During
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected. I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors. 1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of Rob Ford. During
Continue readingLeDaro: Pauline Marois: Her proposed Charter of Hate-Values
It is already having an impact as a Muslim woman was harassed on a city bus by a bigoted moron. Also a mosque in Saguenay was attacked and disfigured. “A substance that appears to be pig’s blood was sprayed on the front of the mosque Saturday, and a letter containing hate
Continue readingThe Political Road Map: Someone Always Has To Die…
It has been a pretty busy week so far and this beautiful weather has been a much needed treat(ment) for the woes of working a stressful job and trying to get by. Fortunate for me, but unfortunately for 500 other people, there will no longer be good and bad days,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anti-Intellectualism in America
Browsing my news feed I found this piece and decided it was scary enough to share with everyone. I think I’d like to read Papantonio’s book and see what she has to say. Here is a radio dealing with her premise and some related information from Raw Story. “In
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: General Ignorance #nlpoli
CBC’s Heather Barrett had a solid commentary this weekend on the recent revelations about how much young people in the province’s university don’t know about stuff. Lack of inquisitiveness. Well, young people aren’t the only ones who don’t know basic stuff. Remember this cabinet minister? As we told you in
Continue readingLeDaro: New York Subway Murder: What is this world coming to?
Image from surveillance video released by the NYPD shows a woman wanted in the subway push death of a man in Queens on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. / WCBS It is staggering that there are such people out there, people capable of such hatred and cruelty. A woman shoved a man
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservative Fiscal Deficits & Ignorant Surpluses
Though many would say that fiscal deficits from this Conservative government are the most worrying, their lack of economic knowledge is far more dangerous.
Before showing the economic ignorance of Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre a quick introduction…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Seen.
This is not photoshop. What is colon hydrotherapy, you ask? It’s an enormous enema. A Dieticians of Canada publication describes it as follows: Colonic cleansing or irrigation, touted as a treatment for cleansing the colon, involves the insertion of a rubber tube through the rectum into the large intestine. A
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Challenging Homophobic NHL Fans
Having spent some time recently examining the NHL’s and NHLPA’s collective negligence about headshots, I was inspired to address the homophobia that surrounds hockey fandom last night. Sure the Canucks lost, but before that, someone called them a bunch of faggles in Twitterland. How did that all go down, and
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