I added the blogger word verification to cut down spam. Robert at My Blahg found it difficult, gee Robert its only a bunch of letters now if you ate more carrots you could probably read them easier, and I turned it off and then I got spam comments on how to invest in the Grand Caymans.....so back on it went. Now I am getting too many Anon-My-Ass kinda postings, and while I appreciate most of them even if we disagree...well its kinda useless to discuss anything with someone who doesn't have the courtesy to have a name. I don't care if its a psuedonym but Anon don't cut ya gotta register here now to leave a comment. That goes for you too WK, enough with the Anon posts. There now back to our regular programing.
Friday, December 16, 2005
You Gotta Log In
I added the blogger word verification to cut down spam. Robert at My Blahg found it difficult, gee Robert its only a bunch of letters now if you ate more carrots you could probably read them easier, and I turned it off and then I got spam comments on how to invest in the Grand Caymans.....so back on it went. Now I am getting too many Anon-My-Ass kinda postings, and while I appreciate most of them even if we disagree...well its kinda useless to discuss anything with someone who doesn't have the courtesy to have a name. I don't care if its a psuedonym but Anon don't cut ya gotta register here now to leave a comment. That goes for you too WK, enough with the Anon posts. There now back to our regular programing.
Climate Change and Social Barbarism
Did desertification change a utopian idylic society into a harsh mean and brutal authoritarian one? My pal Larry Gambone asks the question and provides some links to this fascinating theory.
Progressive Bloggers down but not out
Progressive Bloggers and Liblog went down last night, came up gasped for air, and disappeared again. Server problems.....uh oh.... So if this page is slow in loading thats the reason. The links to PB are not loading. Wayne Chu was working on the problem when last I checked very early in the AM. Hey I hear that, ok the Blogging Tory's can quit cheering now.
Same Sex Marriage is here to stay
Well its nice to know that I am not the only one who interpreted Harpers comments on Same Sex Marriage in the debate last night as being an admission it's here to stay. GayandRight also came to the same conclusion.
"Stephen Harper has said the magic words. He will NOT use the notwithstanding clause to eradicate the right to same-sex marriage. So, what Harper has done is historic - it really makes SSM firm, and it also shows that this is NOT an issue that he is willing to expend a significant amount of political capital on."
Yep Harper staked the homophobic right in the heart......you will hear the screaming start in the morning. Once a few pundits and media types realise how he has extracated himself out this mess. By saying the Supreme Court directed parliment to decide, which it has, and that he won't use the Not Withstanding Clause, its done, fini. Non issue in the election. Except for the right wing which has a faint hope clause that a private members bill to overturn SSM would pass in the house. Fat chance. And after last night No Chance.
"Stephen Harper has said the magic words. He will NOT use the notwithstanding clause to eradicate the right to same-sex marriage. So, what Harper has done is historic - it really makes SSM firm, and it also shows that this is NOT an issue that he is willing to expend a significant amount of political capital on."
Yep Harper staked the homophobic right in the heart......you will hear the screaming start in the morning. Once a few pundits and media types realise how he has extracated himself out this mess. By saying the Supreme Court directed parliment to decide, which it has, and that he won't use the Not Withstanding Clause, its done, fini. Non issue in the election. Except for the right wing which has a faint hope clause that a private members bill to overturn SSM would pass in the house. Fat chance. And after last night No Chance.
Twelve Long Years of Scandal.....
In Ottawa......and Alberta. A tip o the blog to BBS who did this long massive documentation of twelve years of Liberal scandals. But I am still not voting for Harper.
I believe that the NDP electoral reform plan along with with Ed Schreyer's criticism today of the whole PMO/Cabinet/Treasury Board failures, presents the best way of cleaning up the Mulroney/Chretien/Martin mess.
Oh yes the Blogging Tories convinently forget that Chuck Guite did the same kind of dirty deals for the Mulroney PC government before his new masters gave him an open check book. I certainly would love to see a similar list of Alberta scandals done on King Ralph and the Tory Tyranny here. I mean in one month we have had more scandals in Alberta than Ottawa had in two years. And lets not forget BreX which ran up as a penny stock on the ASE and crashed big time.
The effort and outrage over the purported leak and profiting from the Income Trust Announcement is another issue the BT's are thumping their chests over. Now a lot of these folks are from Alberta so how come they ain't talking about the scandals in the Alberta Corporate Sector, the Alberta Stock Exchange and its monitor, the Alberta Securities Exchange Commission.
Here is a Tory appointed head of the ASC and he is fined for insider trading. To assuage his guilt over his illegal actions, he has a chat with Ralph who suggests he donate his ill gotten gains to the food bank. Yep thats just good old boy Alberta cronyism.
Now had the Liberals in Ottawa done this the howling of the BT's would have been blood curdling. But in Alberta, not a peep out of them. So if anything does come of the Goodale affair, perhaps he can take a page from Ralph Klein and visit a food bank.
But of course don't expect any outrage from the Blogging Tory's. Because what is s a democratic deficit, a tyranny, a one party dictatorship in Ottawa, applies in Alberta but even more so. But of course you know what they say about consistency and hobgoblins......
I believe that the NDP electoral reform plan along with with Ed Schreyer's criticism today of the whole PMO/Cabinet/Treasury Board failures, presents the best way of cleaning up the Mulroney/Chretien/Martin mess.
Oh yes the Blogging Tories convinently forget that Chuck Guite did the same kind of dirty deals for the Mulroney PC government before his new masters gave him an open check book. I certainly would love to see a similar list of Alberta scandals done on King Ralph and the Tory Tyranny here. I mean in one month we have had more scandals in Alberta than Ottawa had in two years. And lets not forget BreX which ran up as a penny stock on the ASE and crashed big time.
The effort and outrage over the purported leak and profiting from the Income Trust Announcement is another issue the BT's are thumping their chests over. Now a lot of these folks are from Alberta so how come they ain't talking about the scandals in the Alberta Corporate Sector, the Alberta Stock Exchange and its monitor, the Alberta Securities Exchange Commission.
Here is a Tory appointed head of the ASC and he is fined for insider trading. To assuage his guilt over his illegal actions, he has a chat with Ralph who suggests he donate his ill gotten gains to the food bank. Yep thats just good old boy Alberta cronyism.
Now had the Liberals in Ottawa done this the howling of the BT's would have been blood curdling. But in Alberta, not a peep out of them. So if anything does come of the Goodale affair, perhaps he can take a page from Ralph Klein and visit a food bank.
But of course don't expect any outrage from the Blogging Tory's. Because what is s a democratic deficit, a tyranny, a one party dictatorship in Ottawa, applies in Alberta but even more so. But of course you know what they say about consistency and hobgoblins......
I Thought of Kinsella
I came across this blog and immediately thought of Warren Kinsella. Don't know why that would be...he said sarcastically.
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