USA vs. Iran and Cubazuela
When w.Caesar should be gracefully entering his presidential lame duck status and thinking about who to pardon [whoops, he already got on that with Scooter Libby], he is instead feeding warm, bleeding horse meat to the dogs of war. From today’s Washington Post: In approving far-reaching, new unilateral sanctions against Iran, President Bush signaled yesterday [...]
Children of Poor Families in NDP Ridings are Worth Less than Children in neoLiberal Ridings
“The provincial distribution goals were met.” – Minister of State for Childcare, Linda Reid, October 24, 2007. I’m sure the government isn’t lying when they say that 53% of the 2,000 booster seats handed out to poor families in BC went to people in NDP ridings. “We achieved geographic reach across British Columbia.” – Linda [...]
Sassy Indian Squaw: Imagine, Create, Transform?
“This sexy indian costume comes with suede corsetted dress with leather fringe and matching anklet.” It’s the “Sassy Indian Squaw” Halloween costume and shock of shocks, it is going around the internet as a symbol of offense to all sorts of people. A few ironies lurk in the background, particularly in BC. 1. Halloween Mart’s [...]
Racist Survey Questions on a Survey about Multi-Culturalism
OK. Click on this image. I dare you. I’ll go into how offended I am by it below. If you find the questions fine, you can stop reading now and go here. I’m starting to become far more than mildly concerned about Innovative Research Group. I’ve already written about the creative nature of interpreting reality [...]
Some Simple Homelessness Arithmetic
BC’s 2006-2007 Budget Surplus: $4.1 billion Homeless people in Vancouver: 2,000 Homeless people in BC: 5,000 Cost of a home we could have purchased for each of BC’s homeless people with last year’s budget surplus: $820,000 Here are a few options. Share the Love: Twitter del.icio.us email RSS Facebook Google Bookmarks Digg LinkedIn StumbleUpon Technorati [...]
Please Urinate BEFORE Reading This
I HAVE warned you. It’s from here, Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About [bookmark it now]: It’s getting worse. I’ve mentioned this, in passing, before, but it’s getting worse. We were watching Hannibal on DVD the other week, and Margret was sitting beside me, looking at the screen, right from the moment I [...]
I’m Done with the Olympics
So Bruce Allen is a xenophobic bigot. Nothing new there. And having been turned off the Olympics from decades of drug scandals and corporate co-optation, VANOC’s de facto copyrighting of the number 2010, not to mention the International Olympic Committee [a global entity owned by who, regulated by who and accountable to who?], and during [...]
Note to TransLink: Your Riders Are Not Customers
I went to the TransLink website just now to search for the word “customer”. I found 376 references. I also have noticed that in recent days a canned announcement pops onto Skytrains regularly asking “Skytrain customers” to not leave their lame faux-news free daily newspapers [Metro, 24] lying all over the trains cluttering them up [...]
Global TV: Thoroughly Free of Irony
It’s one thing to criticize Global for being the brunt of the corporate concentrated media nonsense that pretends to be a free press in this country. It’s another thing to watch them physically concentrate their media [see below] with the plan to create new monster broadcast facilities in four locations in the country allowing them [...]
Unspinning the Bush Veto Spin
Not that Bush needs to veto much. He simply issues signing statements indicating the executive branch will not abide by this or that of the legislation he’s signing. Soft Fascism ‘R Us. But now the folks at the radically right Media Research Center have spun coverage of this nasty veto thusly: Again exploiting children and [...]
The Prime Minister is In
Maverick! Visionary Leader! Champion of Accountable Government! The prime minister announces…[trumpets]…that he will enter the National Press Building and stand before…[pinch nose here]…journalists, to answer questions. Maybe. And in the spirit of open government, he makes this announcement 20 months into his mandate, after using the PMO to stonewall the “free” press [such as it [...]
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