Monthly Archives: October 2007

Throne Speech Passes, Stephane Dion Sings Soprano

Jack Layton contributes to the desperate search for Stephane Dion’s missing testicles.

This one is set to go off

This is the itch that AveWatch has been scratching for over a year, and the big story that nobody in the main […]

Garth Turner Admits to Spamming Halton Voters

Garth just doesn’t know when to stop talking. Take this exchange in Steve Janke’s on election databases:
As for email blasts for fundraising and related political activities, the list used was compiled from people who contacted me for political purposes, not from CIMS, and blasted by a private contractor. Were there some Conservative supporters on that […]

Black Cinema & White Criticism

Armond White rides to the defense of mediocre black director Tyler Perry. Why is Perry consistently slaughtered by the critics? Yep, you guessed it. If you have an ear for the absurd with an intellectual bend, this may be one of the funniest articles you ever read. Some excerpts [including a spirited defense of R. […]

Ontario: The Teachers Union Economy

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Across the provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador is expected to be the growth leader this year, with Alberta moving into the lead in 2008, rivaled only by Saskatchewan. Manitoba’s steady growth and inflation rates will keep it in the middle of the western provincial pack, and B.C.’s growth rate will move slightly downward. RBC’s forecast for […]

How do you get Albertans to work an extra day a year?

Replace an existing holiday with the proposed Pierre Trudeau Day! Undoubtedly inspired by the birth of Emperor Pierre The Third.
[Xavier. Who could make this up?]
Who comes up with these ideas? Oh right, Liberal MPs from Toronto. All hail our future Liberal Overlords!

Labour Unions Mistake Alberta for Hamilton

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Alberta’s largest labour organization is threatening to launch an election-style campaign aimed at punishing the ruling Tories at the ballot box if Premier Ed Stelmach scraps a government-commissioned panel’s proposal to raise oil and gas royalties.
What. A. Joke. Where do union threats actually mean anything nowadays? Hamilton? Windsor? Nice cities, those.
Counterproductive too. What kind […]

Small Dead Fossil Records

I see guest poster Lance at Kate Werk’s Small Dead Animals has touched off a mini-firestorm with a post on Intelligent Design.
All are welcome to carry on discussion here instead if they’d like to provoke discussion on a favorite topic of mine — the political philosophy of scientific discussion.

All Ye With Ears, Listen!

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Politics is not about going into an election every chance you get. Politics is about proposing good policies and opposing bad policies.
Bow before your oracle, wretches.

Even Peter nods…

Socrates never DID much of anything, because he couldn’t quite figure out what virtue is.
Peter Lawler then goes on to discuss a Fred Thompson candidacy. I don’t dispute his political analysis of Fred Thompson necessarily. But Socrates never DID much of anything? Don’t tell that to Victor Davis Hanson or he’ll bore you […]