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Politics / Re: Steve and Senate Reform

« Last post by sparqui on May 18, 2013, 11:48:29 AM »

ALL OF US should line up outside the office of Nigel Wright and demand OUR $90,000.00 cheques! 

No kidding. I'm amazed that Wright has $90k just sitting in a chequing account (one step up from keeping savings under the mattress).

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Politics / Re: Steve and Senate Reform

« Last post by Toedancer on May 18, 2013, 11:09:48 AM »

Nigel Wright would have the sidewalk hosed down w/ disinfectant afterwards, he's much like Liberal Mac Harb in that respect. Re: Ford, my friends who still work in the addiction field are all offering to clean his crack pipe and placing little surprises inside it, the kind that make a spark & flash. They're being silly of course.


While this is going on we should be thinking ahead as to IF Harper prorogues parliament, when would it happen? My best guess is immediately after Sona refuses to sign a gag order, early June. Of course that's based on another IF, would Sona do that? We have to ask why the gov't hired terrorism prosecutor Croft Michaelson. May 31st    (wrong thread, sorry)

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USA / Re: Obama/One term?

« Last post by Toedancer on May 18, 2013, 10:54:14 AM »

Obama has 3 major scandals to deal with right now.
Benghazi - IRS - AP reporter snooping


Seizure of AP journos phone records  - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/14/associated-press-phone-records


Benghazi not over - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/17/get-caught-up-on-benghazi-in-five-short-paragraphs/


IRS going after Conservative groups - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/05/18/whos-going-to-jail-over-irs-scandal-probably-nobody/


And there are plenty of alt media discussing all this as well. Between the 70 something illegal wars he's managing and this trifecta scandals hitting all at the same time one wonders how he can get anything done at all. I'm expecting something big to happen, a big distraction and then it will be politicized to add tot he burden and the circus continues in North America.

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Politics / Re: Steve and Senate Reform

« Last post by Boom Boom on May 18, 2013, 10:47:22 AM »

ALL OF US should line up outside the office of Nigel Wright and demand OUR $90,000.00 cheques! 

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Environment / Re: tar sands

« Last post by Boom Boom on May 18, 2013, 10:40:26 AM »

A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit

A picture is worth 1,000 words:
 
 

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts

« Last post by pogge on May 18, 2013, 10:11:54 AM »

onpoli.ca: Ontario Daily Digest: May 18, 2013

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News / Re: Surveillance

« Last post by Toedancer on May 18, 2013, 09:22:10 AM »

This is where Harper is this wknd.


TPP - 11 Governments Are Meeting in Peru to Figure Out How They Can Control the Internet[/size]
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/11-governments-are-meeting-in-peru-to-figure-out-how-they-can-control-the-internet#ixzz2TeNHdvRv

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Canada / Re: Toronto and Ford ....

« Last post by Toedancer on May 18, 2013, 08:33:45 AM »

But there are many snobby elitists who drive SUV's without maxed out credit cards who would prefer a slim, mannered w/ social status Mayor of their fine city. I'm thinking of the bourgeois Board of Directors of the Toronto Zoo and many others like them who consider themselves 'progressives'. I'm not thinking of Ford himself. His racism and bigotry are worn on his sleeve, the snobs simply live in areas where they are never confronted with multi-culturalism.

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Politics / Re: Steve and Senate Reform

« Last post by Boom Boom on May 17, 2013, 11:29:36 PM »

Diane Francis:   Abolish the Senate, Our National Disgrace

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Canada / Re: Toronto and Ford ....

« Last post by lagatta on May 17, 2013, 11:19:33 PM »

She's a reactionary bitch, which is no news. Admitting she voted for Ford is the same as admitting she'd like to run me over with her car. Classism? Come on. He is the son of power and privilege, pretending to be "working-class" as in boorish. What an insult to working people.

There are lots of people who are anything but the ruling élite who have highbrow tastes, simply because we have managed to learn to read and write, and don't spend every day off work running mall to mall in fucking SUVs on maxxed-out credit. Of course I have relatives like his followers, doesn't everyone? "Ordinary people" who hate xxx group of people. He is the Minister of Hate, and the Minister of Stupid.

What Blatchford is mouthing is the worst kind of rightwing populism. Don't hate the people who actually run the world economy, hate intellectuals, artists (most of us dreadfully poor), scientists, people who read something less mind-destroying than the Toronto Sun or Le Journal de Montréal. They are the élite after all, and highbrow! Ford is in no way less élite (in a meaningful, economic sense) than the "highbrow" people she mentioned in Toronto. Not all parts of Etobicoke are tiny postwar bungalows or shoddily-built tower blocks.