Monthly Archives: August 2009
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!
Shorter Hunter: A handful of people posted some “mean” remarks when pointing out my fact-challenged partisanship, catastrophic stupidity and phenomenal ignorance, so now I’m not going to allow any of these “lefty trolls” who disagree with me to post any … Continue reading
Filed under Blogging Tories, Free Speech, Idiot Bloggers
Cons Get Tough on Immigration
Drawing once again on his unfailing knack for savvy public relations, Immigration minister Jason Kenney has refused several requests on compassionate grounds that would have allowed 69 yr. old Stefania Elzbieta Magdziak, a blind Polish grandmother who’s lived in Toronto … Continue reading
Filed under STEPHEN HARPER Govrnment of Canada
Selling Out Canada
The Vale-Inco strike is just another fine example of the Stephen Harper government Standing Up For Selling Out Canada. Industry Minister Tony Clement (also responsible for the Northern Development Agency, locally dubbed “FedNot”) has excused both the Brazilian conglomerate Vale … Continue reading
Filed under Labour Issues, STEPHEN HARPER Govrnment of Canada
Big Bucks, Big Pharma
I posted this in segments quite some time ago on the old blog, but here’s the whole documentary. In light of the raging dispute over healthcare in the U.S. these days, it’s worth another look as this is one of … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care & Medicine, Obama Administration
Holidaze
Assholes Conservatives for Patient’s Rights, the well-funded astrotruf group run by disgraced former Columbia/HCA executive Rick Scott (who was ousted from the company that was subsequently fined a record $1.5 billion for Medicare fraud) will be running commercials in the … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care & Medicine, Obama
Democracy Inaction
Robert Reich makes a very interesting point this morning. The so-called “Gang of Six” (comprised of three Democrats and three Republicans) that are holding healthcare reform hostage in the Senate Finance Committee, together represent only 2.6 percent of Americans.
Filed under Health Care & Medicine
JR: Just Racist
Boy, it sure doesn’t take much to stir up the hateful anti-immigrant sentiments of ignorant racist scumbags over in Bloggin’ Tory Land…
Filed under Blogging Tories, Idiot Bloggers, Racism
Family View of Government
Not sure that I can agree with Lakoff’s theory about differing views regarding government and free markets between “liberals” and “conservatives” being largely based on their family history (i.e., authoritarian as opposed to nurturing) as it seems overly simplistic, but … Continue reading
Filed under Conservatism, Liberals-Progressives, Psychology, Science
And Now for Something Completely Different…
Truth or Fail! (I got one of them wrong, but I’m not telling which.)
Filed under Games & Silly Stuff
O’Reilly Channels Jesus
I sort of wonder why Bill O even had the good sister on his program seeing as he barely let her get a word in edge-wise, instead spending most of the “interview” reiterating paranoid misinformation about healthcare reform and imagining … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care & Medicine, Religion
