tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186657282024-03-18T02:14:46.376-07:00The Galloping BeaverA tail dragging romp through the swamps of the worldDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comBlogger7490125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-12243818376386198242017-07-03T14:34:00.002-07:002017-07-03T14:34:10.645-07:00"Proud Boys" a national shameDue to employment related restrictions I'm not as free to post opinions on the internet as I once was, but when I saw this I thought it was something the ink strained wretches should know about and possibly look into. Seem a bunch of Gavin McInnes' little brownshirts decided to disrupt a First Nations and Metis event on Canada Day. Further, it seems they are all serving members of the RoyalRev.Paperboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14561796588927776371noreply@blogger.com143tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-28318991143878646492017-04-25T12:58:00.002-07:002017-04-25T12:58:42.300-07:00You humans do not have time......for another fucking war.
Warmly,
The EarthUnknownnoreply@blogger.com179tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-77452490220997585632016-12-04T05:41:00.000-08:002016-12-04T05:41:07.994-08:00More #ERRE thoughtsI'm finding it interesting to contrast the Liberal and NDP supplements to the ERRE committee report, found on pages 321-333.
The Liberal dissenting opinion makes frequent reference to witness testimony and descriptive data from the report to make its case for a comprehensive public engagement and knowledge building exercise prior to any hard decision on electoral reform.
In contrast the NDP Unknownnoreply@blogger.com89tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-31490353797413470212016-12-03T03:20:00.001-08:002016-12-03T03:20:04.524-08:00#ERRE report and poison pills There's a lot of hay being made of about Maryam Monsef's parliamentary attack on the Electoral Reform committee's report. In brief, Monsef went on the attack and accused the committee of failing in its job by producing a recommendation for proportional representation and a referendum on whether Canadians want it. In response, the committee members, other MPs, and the general public Unknownnoreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-76608998441281715732016-10-11T08:59:00.000-07:002016-10-11T08:59:41.771-07:00Let's have a little Locker-Room talk ...<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-28097389342524504382016-07-02T07:08:00.004-07:002016-07-02T07:08:39.445-07:00Politics in the UK: Boris Johnson editionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-38108562054465271372016-06-11T05:56:00.000-07:002016-06-11T07:12:57.573-07:00Threats? Oh dear.Often, people who issue threats are betraying the precarity of their own position.
As a major potential F-35 customer, a lack of or continued postponement a Canadian order likely increases the cost of the F-35 for other customers, perhaps prohibitively. This could be terminal to the program as it would also impact US orders.
More to the point, Canadians generally find naked threats Unknownnoreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-30077153334112163502016-06-11T05:30:00.001-07:002016-06-11T05:30:42.440-07:00Events unfold, the centre cannot holdSometimes things just happen.
In the UK just a short time ago, prime minister David Cameron created a monster in the form of a suggestion that, despite being publicly pro-EU, he would open a conversation, and later a referendum about Britain's withdrawal from it. Lord knows just what he was thinking (my own view is that he thinks very hard but finds thinking very hard). Fear of UKIP's fear ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-81291259335505352072016-05-11T01:17:00.002-07:002016-05-11T03:01:00.017-07:00Rex Murphy and the #ymmfireRex Murphy is talking the Fort McMurray fire. Despite a virtually universal outpouring of support and sympathy from across the land for the victims of the fire, he with his exhausting logorrhoea is doing his best to sow division. Referring to anyone of an environmentalist or activist strand who has criticised the Tar Sands, he utters:
And just to blow pepper into the sad eyes of those Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-28513831210020980902016-04-16T04:16:00.001-07:002016-04-17T03:18:14.268-07:00That LAV dealFrankly, the LAV deal is a shitty deal for anyone in Canada but the Tories, and I honestly don't believe the Trudeau, Dion, and the rest like it any more than of us. I think they probably know they've got no good defence for their decision. They've got advisors looking at the tea leaves and wondering what the next of war in the region will look like. We've got no idea where and how any weapons inUnknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-84025744131957681362016-04-13T08:22:00.000-07:002016-04-13T08:22:18.650-07:00Transparency is hardLying about major arms deals to illiberal regimes.
Dion, please resign.
Trudeau, we expected this of your predecessor.
If your hands were tied or your government were pressured by things we haven't seen, such as industry lobby pressure, petitions from other states, or something else entirely, explain it to us.
That's called transparency. It's hard, I know.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-84635723012466094052016-04-07T02:31:00.000-07:002016-04-07T02:31:06.594-07:00OK, LiberalsFix this.
It doesn't matter how many mayurasana JT can do on his desk or how gender-balanced your cabinet is.
Lying to us about the state of the nation's finances or how you spend our tax money, or anything really, is despicable.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-22378371410750055942016-04-05T10:18:00.000-07:002016-04-05T10:18:14.995-07:00Panama papers Reading the rolling accounts of the Panama Papers (Iceland's PM just resigned, David Cameron's family has some 'splaining to do), I think we're a scandal away from a popular revolt. Each one of these fucking document dumps nakedly shows how much of the game is rigged against us.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-7425804481244720932016-04-04T09:36:00.001-07:002016-04-04T09:36:11.656-07:00Silly peopleGood grief. The perpetual and tiresome CF identity crisis continues.
Pips will be removed and replaced by metal maple leaves, according to Lieutenant-General Marquis Hainse, commander of the Canadian Army. Gold braid will be returned to the uniform cuffs. These changes reverse some of the insignia changes brought about three years ago by the Conservative government.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-15329860898698371762016-03-15T08:53:00.000-07:002016-03-15T08:53:12.560-07:00Blue Lives Matter?!?!@£$*%($)£)What.the.fuck?
Cops in the town of Port Hope, Ontario have launched a "Blue Lives Matter" campaign that critics argue is tone-deaf at best and an egregious form of appropriation at worst.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-12551841697013972562016-03-09T09:03:00.001-08:002016-03-09T09:03:52.441-08:00Cons can't help themselvesYep, you just keep doing what you're doing, Conservatives.
Crass, insensitive, completely oblivious to context and lacking in basic decorum: they still haven't figured out this lost them the last election.
Perhaps they've forgotten how to do politics any other way?
Popcorn?
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-47456206294897263502016-03-08T15:31:00.000-08:002016-03-09T01:23:46.552-08:00F-35, IT editionThe latest fun from the plane that just refuses to work is that the radar sometimes fails and needs to be rebooted.
There are rumours that Lockheed Martin is proposing to install a direct line to their tech support in all production F-35s.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-55666737148708601472016-03-02T07:55:00.000-08:002016-03-03T00:33:19.544-08:00New Con boss on the TwittersI think it's going to take the Cons a long time to climb out of the pit their last boss and his pals dug them into.
They've maybe got an intractable problem now in that their vision of the country is simply unpalatable to 60 to 70% of the electorate. The Conservative share of the vote is likely to shrink further as the older generation (60+ years) of hardline Tory voters passes on. Younger Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-48118939403948826192016-02-08T09:09:00.001-08:002016-02-09T05:02:46.355-08:00Trudeau and ISIL: some guesses and thoughtsJust watching the press conference about Canada withdrawing CF-18s from Iraq and increasing the number of special forces and logistical support...some quick thoughts.
- Half a dozen CF-18s bombing the odd truck or position every few days is not massive air campaign. I'd venture to guess that there is an oversupply of strike aircraft in the region relative to available targets. Unless a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-24912039029476411182016-02-05T09:52:00.000-08:002016-02-05T10:39:31.046-08:00Brave "Albertans" cowardly lost an electionThe stuff being posted about Notley and other women in her government is appalling. Death threats, threats of violence are criminal because they have no place in a civilised society. This much should be obvious to the lawnorder conservative crowd.
But again, not really. So much is so lost on them.
Instead, we get yet another flavour of the cheetoh-crumb basement misogyny currentlyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-5667898392617704022016-01-20T06:13:00.000-08:002016-01-20T06:13:30.455-08:00Fascist aesthetics in North AmericaBetween the gaudy American and O'Leary, North American fascism has a distinct and tacky aesthetic compared to the martial notes of its European and Latin American ancestors. Instead, our wazzocks are fond of expensive ties and a Vegas aesthetic from about 1975.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-66472995618549245812016-01-08T06:03:00.000-08:002016-01-08T06:07:35.436-08:00IlLiberal adviceSo the Grit briefing book suggests "deepening" ties with Saudi Arabia, hence the deal for the little tanks.
Seriously, who gives this advice? And why in good heavens would a Liberal listen to it? (Dion, you're a sociologist and should get this.)
LOOK at the trend, the violence across the region is worsening, spilling over borders along Sunni and Shia lines. Well armed regional powers, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-79384674045434443492016-01-07T08:20:00.002-08:002016-01-08T03:24:43.493-08:00Strait of Hormuz 2017[Speculative news, 2017] The internal disintegration of Saudi Arabia continues apace, with the monarchy attempting to hold on to power amid violence between radical Islamist movements spilling over from Iraq, Syria and moderate Saudis pushing for democratic reform.
Troops with newly supplied Canadian-made armoured vehicles were filmed yesterday firing on unarmed protesters in what Twitter has Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-3051093049440259862015-12-17T16:45:00.000-08:002015-12-17T16:45:08.952-08:00OK, charge somebodyNo mention of the $90 000 cheque?
There's a crime in there, and isn't Duffy's.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-86682921390402735422015-12-11T10:27:00.000-08:002015-12-11T10:27:06.490-08:00Line up, you lying, cheating Harperistas ... here comes the busRemember this?
How about this or this?
So, from the mouth of a Harper conservative we get this:
“Basically what happened was that they
used robocalls to misdirect NDP voters, to split the vote and allow Gary
Lunn to win,” Duffy said.
“He knew
nothing about it, except that they phoned him afterward and said ‘You’re
welcome Gary.’ He said ‘What?’ (They said) ‘We got you in’.”
Lunn
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