Truck driver Paul Whitcomb doesn’t like tree-huggers:
He’s leaning Republican, and has a warning for environmentalists who may come to Williston: “People will probably want to tie you to one of the trees you wanna hug.”
Ha-ha-ha! What a kidder! Of course, maybe us regular folks should talk that way about these oil industry parasites. Maybe we’d get more of a hearing for our views if people knew how upset we are about how they’re putting civilization at risk for their own pecuniary self-interest. (I know, I know. Some environmentalists do talk that way already. Only when they say it, it’s not received with a chuckle about the common sense of the salt of the earth. When a greenie talks like that, he or she is condemned for being an unhinged, eco-radical …
The Conservative mindset, ladies and gentlemen. Aren’t they adorable?
(Via Cam Broten.)
THREAT TO CANADA: The Mysterious Female Uterus (by Deep Rogue Ram)
H/t CanadianCynic and the plucky gals at Dammit Janet.
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Some people use Québec to scare non-Québec Canadians to whip up nationalistic feelings of patriotism so that we simply fall in line. Just like Marois has done to avoid talking about real policies, commentators in the ROC are doing the same thing.
It’s easier to scare people with the belief that Canada is about to collapse because of Québec than to allow Canadians to see which public policies are possible, like 7$/day daycare. If Canadians knew about Québec’s approach to social programs they might just start demanding them in Nova Scotia or Ontario. They might start taking to the streets in the hundreds of thousands.
Instead: fear separation. Fear the separatists who hate Canada like terrorists hate freedom.
Quebec and the rest of Canada: Why we shouldn’t fear conversations about sovereignty | rabble.ca
From the wondrously awesome Nora Loreto.
Source: rabble.ca
Today, our Tea Party of Canada government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper is dedicated to signing “trade agreements” that ensure high-paying Canadian jobs are exported as quickly as possible to more efficient foreign jurisdictions, such as China, the role of public education is well on its way to being outsourced to corporate shills, and the final long weekend of our short Canadian summer is devoted to what might be called the Twenty-four Hour Hate, a day-long frenzy of official and media sponsored loathing for the weakened vestiges of the labour movement.
The lesson: it's about Jack's legacy of generosity, not about these tiny little people - posted by sol chrom
More repurposing.
Jack, I hope you’re on a dock somewhere enjoying a beautiful sunny day, a nice deck chair, and a full cooler.
Zay geszundt, dude.
Jack Layton, RIP - posted by sol chrom
Repurposing something from a year ago. Just thinking about it, I get verklempt all over again.
We are better for the time he spent among us.
What you have is a war between money and evidence. The money (which is for all intents and purposes unlimited) is being spent to spread disinformation, poison the public conversation, and destabilize democracy. The evidence, the hard data, points to the tar sands being a total dead end—fiscally, spiritually, environmentally.
in societies where the elites do not suffer from the consequences of their decisions, but can insulate themselves, the elite are more likely to pursue their short-term interests, even though that may be bad for the long-term interests of the society, including the children of the elite themselves.
From a Q&A with Jared Diamond. Not as if there are implications for Canada in any of this, or anything to do with tar-sands exploitation, or austerity, or class warfare or anything.
Source: oilcrash.com
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