A Modest Proposal for Our Struggling Canadian Teabaggers

I suspect we have all been entertained by the bold, revolutionary fervor displayed by our Canadian Teabaggers. Whether it’s fearlessly addressing tiny crowds in parking lots or harassing folks whose religion they despise, they inspire us all with their grim commitment to sipping the dregs of American crazy and game attempts to whip up comparable levels of hysteria in our calmer, kinder climate. But doesn’t it seem just a little – silly?

Why I Am An Atheist

The first conclusive evidence that God, if it ever existed, has abandoned its creation.

The Important Part Of This Story –

– is not that RCMP spies labeled Rene Levesque “a suspected Communist“, the important part of this story is that the RCMP spies on Canadians.

Balb’s Best of Ireland

Treats Thalian, Epicurean and Euterpian from the Emerald Isle.

Shorter Mike Duffy

Noam Chomsky = bad

Critical thinking = bad

Conservatives = good

Stephen Harper Says

Step out of the car and prove you are sober.

There are all sorts of different ways that the proponents of this chunk on intrusive law are going to try and spin it, but essentially that’s what we’re looking at – drivers in Canada will soon be pulled to the side of the road and forced to prove that they are sober.

Stephen Harpers Government

Getting things done — or at the very least talking a real good game.

CIDA’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund: millions raised, nothing spent

Give it to Mikey

A photographic salute to Michael Ignatieff’s bold and unequivocal response to the Harper Budget.

A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words

I popped over to the Liberal.ca site to have a look at what they had to say about the latest Harper budget but didn’t get much passed the image of Ignatieff they have on the page — that’s a “Oh please don’t make it a budget we absolutely have to vote down!! pose if I’ve ever seen one.

Pop Culture Iconosynchronicity

Elvis and Che. A curious coincidence that occurred fifty years and one hour ago.

Fiscal Conservatism At Work

I’ve always liked the way our politicians describe the acquisition of debt – and the current bunch of (supposedly) fiscal conservatives are no exception.

After racking up a $53.8 billion deficit this time around they’re planning on a $49.2 billion deficit next year, a $17.5 billion deficit the year after that, $8.5 billion the year after that, and a piddling $1.8 billion the year after that — that must be good ‘eh? I mean… the numbers are getting smaller so that must be good – right?

Sure it is, it’s absolutely peachy keen, until you start doing things like using the word “annual“, and digging out a calculator – because what Uncle Jim Flaherty is really saying is that they’ll have added $130.8 billion in “accumulated debt” (not counting interest on that debt) to what we already owed when they started.

Harper Says It – Lowell Green Parrots It

Such is the way of hyper-partisan politics.

I’ve been listening to Lowell Green in the mornings for years, it’s part of the news/talk radio addiction that has become part of me – and until this morning, after the GG read the Throne Speech Stephen Harper penned for her yesterday, I had no idea that Lowell was so very concerned about the wording of the Canadian national anthem.

Should Funny-Looking Clothing Be Outlawed?

It’s no surprise that the usual terrified Muslim-haters are leaping on the bandwagon to applaud a Quebec school board who kicked a student out of class for wearing a niqab. It was a bit more surprising to see the expulsion celebrated by some “progressives”.

Thoughts On Thursdays Ottawa West-Nepean By-Election

On election day, when you vote for the “lesser of two evils,” you shouldn’t be shocked when what you get is evil.

The Game Was Big

Like many Canadian fans of the game I spent yesterday afternoon in a sports bar with others of like mind, drinking cold beer, eating potato skins and pizza (with maybe some apple crumble and ice cream for dessert), and cheering on Team Canada as they took on Team USA for Olympic gold.