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By Warren, on March 9, 2014, at 10:13 am From “Chris,” email Roadhammer_@live.ca, IP 24.138.62.169. He’s somewhere in Nova Scotia, looks like.
I know you won’t approve this, but you still have to read it.
I hope to HELL that some illegal with a firearm shoots you, takes your wallet and then robs your house because he now has your address. Maybe he will take a family member hostage.
THIS is why I own firearms.
Of all the shootings in the U.S., how many are from legal firearms owners?
You’re just a left wind metrosexual who does nothing but run their mouths and (Read more…)
By Warren, on March 8, 2014, at 10:45 pm [This is a reworked/expanded version of the post I wrote a few days ago. Quite a few of you claimed to like it, so I worked it into 625 or so words. Cheers, W.]
Now that Quebec’s separatist government has called an election – and now that there is a very real prospect of the Parti Québécois seizing a majority in the National Assembly – strap on your seat belts. We’re in for another bumpy ride, Canada.
In recent years, of course, it has been become de rigueur for the commentariat to declare that the separatist movement was “dead. (Read more…)
By Warren, on March 8, 2014, at 10:34 pm Check what this genius tweeted tonight, then later deleted. Wow.
Then again, the possibility that he lives in a different time zone than the rest of us may explain a few things.
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By Warren, on March 8, 2014, at 3:52 pm “I’ll say to young women…learn how to play golf. Because you will find it’s immensely advantageous to your career.”
Those kinds of views are indeed “frankly out of date.” So is he. He’s yesterday’s man.
From the picture worth 1,000 words file: John and the Fords (to whom he donated thousands) laugh it up on the links..
By Warren, on March 8, 2014, at 10:52 am There are many awesome posters out there. This was one of my favorites for today.
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By Warren, on March 6, 2014, at 10:44 am Here, on the Reformatories adopting Justin’s position on pot and MP expenses – after previously mocking him on both. Holy flip-flop, Batman:
And here, about seven minutes in:
. . . → Read More: Warren Kinsella: Two Sun hits: on Harper copying Trudeau, and on how we can punish Putin for the invasion of the Ukraine
By Warren, on March 6, 2014, at 10:01 am Sigh.
Well, you guys know I – like Messrs. Chretien, Romanow and Broadbent, among others – favour progressives finally coming together. So that we stop splitting the vote, and so we finally defeat Mr. Harper.
You also know that I believe another referendum is increasingly likely – and that we all need all of the federalist political parties onside for that effort, as they mostly were in 1980 and 1995.
Thomas Mulcair has ensured that neither will happen. With this statement, he has (a) made any cooperation with Liberals impossible and (b) he has strengthened the hand of the Parti (Read more…)
By Warren, on March 6, 2014, at 9:29 am To wit:
“Detectives are investigating allegations of drug use and drug trafficking and trying to determine if there was an organized, aggressive attempt to retrieve the video of Mayor Ford smoking crack cocaine and making racially charged and homophobic remarks.”
What that sentence doesn’t say is this:
The detectives who are investigating Rob Ford are homicide detectives – not drug squad detectives. Why do you think that is? What is an “organized, aggressive attempt to retrieve the video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine”? Who organized it? And could that “attempt” include the actual murder of a young (Read more…)
By Warren, on March 6, 2014, at 8:26 am They’re also my current favourite band of all time: choreographed bubblegum pop fused with hardcore? Nobody has ever done that before!
The old metalhead at the start, horrified by what has happened to his genre? That’s my brother and his grizzled friends, realizing the genius and might of Babymetal, and that the end is nigh.
By Warren, on March 5, 2014, at 6:26 pm Straight edge, for the next 40 days.
Mayor Crackhead, care to join me? We can both submit to blood tests at the end.
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By Warren, on March 5, 2014, at 9:51 am
By Warren, on March 5, 2014, at 9:21 am
If the separatist Parti Quebecois government calls an election “soon, soon” – and if, as many expect, they win a majority government – strap on your seat belts. We are in for another bumpy ride, Canada.
In recent years, of course, it has been become de rigueur for the commentariat to declare that the separatist movement was “dead.” I’ve never agreed with them. When your politics are entirely about identity, and long-nurtured grievances and humiliations, you never give up.
Separatist longing is unkillable, because logic has nothing to do with the desire for a separate nation. If it did, (Read more…)
By Warren, on March 3, 2014, at 8:25 pm As Russia and the Ukraine slip towards war – and as the West looks on, unable or unwilling to do anything – it’s easy to forget that nice things still happen. The birth of babies, for instance.
Everyone likes babies. They are innocent and helpless and they make us smile. Like Johnny Depp once said, they are the only creatures evolved enough to convey pure love. Their arrival, therefore, is a time for celebration.
Their arrival is not, however, a time to associate them with genocide, or anti-Semitism, or depravity. It is not an occasion to mock the baby, or (Read more…)
By Warren, on March 3, 2014, at 7:04 pm
By Warren, on March 3, 2014, at 10:55 am Wikipedia is a joke, but here is a bit found thereon that I suspect has been accessed many times in the past few days:
“When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly independent Ukraine had on its territory what was the third largest strategic nuclear weapons arsenal in the world. It was larger than those of Britain, France, and China combined. On June 1, 1996 Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation when it sent the last of its 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads to Russia for dismantling. The first shipment of nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia (by train) was in (Read more…)
By Warren, on March 1, 2014, at 5:49 pm Following the great global recession of 2008-2009, the game plan of the Right was clear: repair the tattered flag of capitalism, fight any modest regulation of the banking system, and restore six-figure bonuses to all those 25-year-old millionaire hedge fund managers.
Oh, and vilify the Occupy kids.
The Occupy movement – much like the Tea Party movement, ironically – was anti-banker, anti-bailout and anti-bonuses. Its rallying cry, the 99 per cent versus the one per cent, attracted the support of the majority in every democratic nation.
Occupy was, most agree, the most successful populist progressive movement of the past Century. (Read more…)
By Warren, on March 1, 2014, at 5:46 pm Following the great global recession of 2008-2009, the game plan of the Right was clear: repair the tattered flag of capitalism, fight any modest regulation of the banking system, and restore six-figure bonuses to all those 25-year-old millionaire hedge fund managers.
Oh, and vilify the Occupy kids.
The Occupy movement – much like the Tea Party movement, ironically – was anti-banker, anti-bailout and anti-bonuses. Its rallying cry, the 99 per cent versus the one per cent, attracted the support of the majority in every democratic nation.
Occupy was, most agree, the most successful populist progressive movement of the past Century. (Read more…)
By Warren, on February 28, 2014, at 10:51 pm Capturing John’s donations to the Fords! Go Chris, go!
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By Warren, on February 28, 2014, at 1:36 pm Check this out. It’s only been a few hours, and the National Post have run an attack piece masquerading as a news story on…the Trudeau baby. I shit you not.
Quote:
It’s unclear why Trudeau chose the name Hadrian, however the Liberal leader is obviously no fan of history, since the Roman emperor most commonly associated with the name is surrounded by controversy.
Hadrian, who reigned from 117 to 138 A.D., is commonly called one of the five good emperors because of his economic stewardship of the empire and his lack of belligerence in launching wars on (Read more…)
By Warren, on February 28, 2014, at 12:01 pm Down tools. Hadrian Trudeau has just blown up the news cycle.
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By Warren, on February 28, 2014, at 8:22 am Not a good first week.
Dithers started his campaign with photographs circulating of him hanging out with his pals the Fords – at a golf course? Then social media started needling him with clips about how he’s a, you know, serial loser. Then he hurriedly launched his campaign – acting on the advice of his campaign manager, who previously achieved distinction for being prosecuted for making death threats – and his logo became a running joke, here and here and here and here. Then people started to remember how he never apologized for mocking Jean Chretien’s facial paralysis. Then folks (Read more…)
By Warren, on February 27, 2014, at 9:18 pm From a smart Liberal woman in my neighbourhood. Seems about right.
By Warren, on February 27, 2014, at 5:05 pm
Oh, and before I forget: print this one off, too. You know, how his campaign manager was the guy who was campaign manager to…Rob Ford.
By Warren, on February 27, 2014, at 12:42 pm This appearance by the OPP’s commissioner before a committee of the Legislature this morning was extraordinary. It will also ensure no one is ever charged over this deleted emails horseshit.
1. The constitutional rights of whomever was facing scrutiny have been trampled. The top cop and the Opposition speculating, in public, about jail time and charges? This thing is over. In the unlikely event anyone is ever charged, they’ll argue section 7, 11 and have the thing tossed in about five minutes.
2. There is no offence, here. Mischief? Seriously? The only reason the publicity-hound heading the OPP would mention (Read more…)
By Warren, on February 27, 2014, at 9:39 am
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