Strike day

CON job on progress

A brief summary of some of the cuts to the public service announced to date shows a clear ideological bias against sciences, research, and the environment.

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These numbers reflect some of the cuts to-date and are pre-budget cuts.  The long term cost of backing up into ignorance will be staggering.  Harm to the environment, harm to education, harm to R&D, harm to our Canadian identity, harm to The Holy Economy as we become less and less competitive internationally through sheer ignorance and lack of R&D.

Breaking up the winter

My first amaryllis

 

I am just ever so proud

Friday night ode to superstition - Friday the 13th

Neat video here - 

And the much better Stevie Wonder version -

Because voodoo creeps me out but Colin James does not - 

The incomparable Nina Simone puts a spell on you -

Like I said before, you can cut their pay, but don't ever, ever kick them in the teeth

Workers who help Canadians obtain employment insurance benefits are demanding that Human Resources Minister Diane Finley apologize and resign for implying they have caused the backlogs that are forcing some jobless people to wait months for their first cheque.

The Canada Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU) said Thursday that about 2,500 of its members have filed grievances against Ms. Finley over a letter she wrote in November to the Charlottetown Guardian.

Cut jobs, attack pensions and benefits they fought for and won fairly, yes, they'll grumble for a long time before they act.  But blame them publicly for the elected government's screw-ups on top of all that, try to make them the villain in how cuts to services affect Canadians,  well, back at you  - 2,500 times over.

Good for you, folks at EI.  We add our many voices to yours.

So if a child is married to an adult in another country where such things are legal, is her husband allowed to keep raping the child if they move to Canada?

Because according to the CONs, she is still the old fuck's wife.

And if a woman moves to Canada from a country where women aren’t allowed to vote or run for office, does that mean she can’t vote in Canada when she becomes a citizen?

What a bull-shit line of reasoning to impose narrow, twisted, vile beliefs on others.

Harper keeps saying he won’t re-open same sex marriage debates, but he is changing our laws through the back door, getting Canadians used to the ideas, altering our very identity as he clearly has been stating he intends.

No one in steve’s party publicly expresses intent to change legislation without clearing it through him first.  Enough retired MPs, senators, and insiders have told us so and we have seen what happens to those who oppose him – Bill Casey, Garth Turner, Chong…

So when his CONsorts keep gunning for women’s wombs across the country, there is no doubt fatso wants the abortion issue to come out.  He can claim he didn’t open debate,  he can claim Canadians want it.  He can let his atavistic crew push through some law that opens the door to abortion (giving fetuses same status as Canadians when a woman miscarries due to an attack) then say it’s really a legal argument and he can hardly stop debate.  Or hell, just do away with debate at that point.

Death penalty?  Oh, no…he won’t go there, he says.  But once again, he is trying to change our mindset by picking and choosing which Canadians on death row in another country will be defended by our government.  You know, while all people are equal, some just plain don’t deserve equal treatment.

It’s a gut knowledge thing, ya know?  Tim Horton type wisdom if you get my meaning. 

The CONs play on that gut thing, play on divisiveness, point fingers at “other” until too many fail to look to reason when our laws are modified.

Because by then, too many just think it’s right because it kind of feels right.  And for those who in frustration try to protect our rights and freedoms as well as fair and equal systems for all, the systems that had been in place to defend those rights are so eroded and murky that there is less and less hope for sanity to prevail.

Our crime minister has no hidden agenda.  It has always been obvious – through his early speeches, his early affiliations, his ongoing actions in politics.

The almighty Economy seems to trump everything here in Canada.  Canadians buy into the bullshit that CONs are more fiscally responsible and that The Economy takes precedence over human rights, health care, the environment, the future of our children, decent public services, housing…

But too many Canadians forget that money – especially in a system where wealth resides in the hands of a privileged few – cannot guarantee a safe, healthy environment, equality, care for those in need, separation of church and state, health care for all regardless of wealth, protection of the innocent: things Canadians have long valued above all else.

Awwww...bye-bye Milo

gone

Oh well, there's good news

Superstitious Canadians needn't fear black cats or ladders this Friday the 13th, says an injury expert.

I guess what we should really fear is the ignorance of Canadians who actually need to be told this. Damn!

been sick

still going through tests, hope to get back to regular blogging soon.  This guy is out of control -

Looking to the future

Happy New Year

Happy Holidays, all

Fucking heartbreaking.

Caution: extreme brutality.

Scritp is Arabic, but the horror captured speaks in universal language.

I can’t find words right now for this brutality inEgypt.  How many of us, soft as we are, raised in a democratic country, would show such courage if our rights were threatened?

This is why we need to value and guard what we have and give what support we can to those who are offering up their lives for principles we hold dear.