Fri Nov 30, 2007 – 10:12 pm
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Malkin nominated Stupid Name Boy for Jerk of the Year, but I think he should be congratulated for inadvertently preventing the AIDS research industry from getting another red cent.
Fri Nov 30, 2007 – 1:47 pm
Who knew that a beer fridge in your garage could be so evil?
The government-commissioned study says the old, inefficient “beer fridges” that one in three Canadian households use to store their Molson and Labatt’s contribute significantly to global warming by guzzling gas- and coal-fired electricity. [via: politicalstaples.com]
Read all the gory details at New Scientist. […]
Thu Nov 29, 2007 – 8:28 pm
Garth Turner, Her Majesty’s parliamentary representative for all parts of Halton minus Main Street in Milton (I go there daily, and it’s all the better minus the bearded one!), stated yesterday on The Garthitopia that his seat mate in the Commons, Robert Thibault (Liberal, West Nova) drew him out the plans that will ultimately use […]
Thu Nov 29, 2007 – 12:33 pm
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Earlier in his remarks, Schreiber, a German-Canadian businessman, said he wouldn’t co-operate with the committee until he is told how long he can stay in Canada.
His case, he said, will go before the Ontario Court of Appeal on Friday where a decision will be made regarding his extradition to Germany where he is wanted on […]
Thu Nov 29, 2007 – 11:54 am
A couple of days ago, the entire left-hand column at National Newswatch was filled with “opinion pieces” on Karlheinz Shreiber. Today, Jason Kenney pointed out what every Canadian who is not a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery already knows: No One Cares.
Jason Kenney mentioned on MDL tonight that he hasn’t had one email from […]
Wed Nov 28, 2007 – 8:36 pm
Emboldened by David Miller’s tenure as Mayor of the Centre of the Universe TM, many of Ontario’s other mayors and city councilors have recently gone on a spending binge, with budgets full of pet projects and good intentions.
On the latter note, we’ve seen such bright lights as a ban on two-garage houses and on […]
Wed Nov 28, 2007 – 6:17 pm
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Ideology is substitute religion, a belief system based on ideas that are often contradicted by history and common sense. Yet men will adhere to ideologies with a zealotry that borders on fanaticism.
Marxism, fascism and socialism were are ideologies, gods that failed. So, too, is democratism, the Gospel of George W. Bush.
Democratism is a belief that […]
Wed Nov 28, 2007 – 2:23 am
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“Hi, I’m Miga, a snowboarding sea-bear who is part orca whale and part marketing gimmick contrivance!”
A mutant bear-whale and a bear with wings? Dude, this isn’t Douglas Point.
Ha:
I still think “Ted the Tazer” should have won with “BC Bud” as runner up.
Tue Nov 27, 2007 – 9:51 pm
Neoconservatism is the first variant of American conservatism in the past century that is in the “American grain.” It is hopeful, not lugubrious; forward-looking, not nostalgic; and its general tone is cheerful, not grim or dyspeptic. Its 20th-century heroes tend to be TR, FDR, and Ronald Reagan. Such Republican and conservative worthies as Calvin Coolidge, […]
Tue Nov 27, 2007 – 9:23 am
Unfortunately, I have to agree. If Tucker Carlson is hemorrhaging viewers, it’s because he never revised his neo-conservative “let’s go create democracies throughout the world!” schtick that is, post-Iraq, becoming increasingly illegitimate and, let’s be honest, just plain goofy.
And, of course, being America, there are conservatives willing to offer alternatives to the obsolete “youngish” neo-cons:
Lou […]
