Obama to Bomb Canada?

Lose Your Head!
Here’s the latest delirious scare-mongering from Glenn Beck.

It’s difficult at the best of times to follow Beck’s logical train of thought (because it tends to travel down winding tunnels of paranoia) but what he seems to be suggesting on today’s program is that the Obama administration (which [...]

Then & Now: FEDEV & FEDNOR

Then:
“We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.” — Stephen Harper
Now:

I suppose Harper should be given credit for his “evolving” [...]

Harper’s “Flood of Patronage”

Not that I subscribe to the “liberal media bias” trope that Conservatives are always moaning on about, but it has to be admitted that this story from The Canadian Press about the Harper government’s latest round of appointments to various boards, quasi-judicial tribunals and quangos seems rather skewed:
Weeks before Stephen Harper named some of his [...]

Is Minotaur Goring Detainees Torture?

ONN’s In The Know panelists discuss the closing of the controversial detainee labyrinth and debate whether the Minotaur’s brutal interrogation techniques yielded valuable intelligence.

Meanwhile, over at ABC News…

Controlling the Senate

Does anyone on planet Earth (aside from these two guys) really give a toss whether the Conservatives may eventually regain control of the Senate?
Oh the audacity of these Liberals. They think the Senate should do everything humanly possible to thwart the will of the people & block Tory gov’t legislation, but it’s supposed to [...]

Stop Socialist Fire Departments!

Mike McIntee punks some of his radio listeners with a proposal to privatize local fire departments.

Decline & Falling: Part III

“So far and no further!”
Interesting juxtaposition between colonial racial policies with respect to the treatment of indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada and Rhodesia.

Good thing that such institutionalized racism has been completely eradicated here in the Great White North!

Hyperscore™

ForaTV: “Composer and inventor Tod Machover argues that musical notation is nothing more than a way of remembering what you did so that you can do it again. He ties that to a piece of software he created called Hyperscore, which allows children to write sophisticated music using basic lines and color.”
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TMOH: Pissing on Kennedy’s Grave

I guess it would have been just too much to expect El Rushbo to park his venomous bile for the day…

Bonus: Job hunting tips for liberals!

Small Dead Nutsacks Update: Dare if you can to read through the comments and behold the class act that is the [...]

Commercializing Truth

“Truth is, we get the truth we want.”
Fora TV: “Australian barrister Julian Burnside outlines content-related constraints on the media industry. He emphasizes the role of profit as a manipulator of content, claiming sports, sex, and political misconduct as the three most lucrative story topics for media sources.”

Complete video here.