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The Galloping Beaver: Odious and disgusting . . .
December 26, 2012 By Edstock
KUDOS TO MONTREAL SIMON: his post, "When the Cons Try to Cover Up Murder" is something you must read. Stevie will have much to answer for. …
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Sister Sage's Musings: While US gun nuts petition to deport Piers Morgan, Brits petition to “Keep Piers Morgan in the USA”
December 26, 2012 By Jymn
Like a lot of progressives and centrists, I’ve found the whole petition to deport CNN‘s insufferable Piers Morgan to be a laughable if not preposterous cause, even for the right wing. Even funnier though is the effort of British folks to keep Morgan in the USA. While the former petition has reached 70K signatures over the last week, . . . → Read More: While US gun nuts petition to deport Piers Morgan, Brits petition to “Keep Piers Morgan in the USA” …
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Northern Reflections: Democracy Or Oligarchy
December 26, 2012 By Owen Gray
The American editor and essayist Lewis Lapham has delineated the three hallmarks of democracy. Michael Harris refers to them in a piece he wrote for ipolitics:Lewis Lapham, author and twice editor of Harper’s Magazine in the United States, made the same point. Democracy, he wrote, announces itself in three fundamental ways: an honest public discussion about issues; accountability of the governors to the governed; and equal protection under the law.By Lapham's yardstick, Canada is not a democracy -- "let alone a parliamentary democracy. It is an oligarchy with a few well chosen friends …
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The Galloping Beaver: A present . . .
December 25, 2012 By Edstock
MACROPHAGES AND VIRUSES can kill cancer: According to George Dvorsky's article in io9, "Researchers create a ‘trojan-horse’ virus to eliminate cancer in mice".
clinical trials on humans could start as early as next year …
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Facing Autism Symptoms in New Brunswick: Autism Self Injury and Aggression Can Occur Quickly With No External Provocation
December 25, 2012 By Mentarch
The pictures set out below this commentary were taken in May 2012 and posted on Saturday, May 26, 2012 under the title Conor's Autism Reality: From Joy To Self Injurious Behavior In A Flash. I was taking these pictures of Conor enjoying a swing on the playground of his old grade school, Nashwaaksis Memorial School. It was early Saturday morning, no one else was around; there were no loud noises or disturbances. The weather was pleasantly cool and mild. Conor was loving his time on the swing and then ... just like that ... he was engaged in self injurious behavior …
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Sister Sage's Musings: Harper’s Problem
December 25, 2012 By Kim
Stephen Harper has a little problem. Her name is Theresa Spence. She is Chief of the Attawapiskat Nation and she is tired of being bullied. In fact, she is not going to take it anymore. On December 11, 2012 this leader started a hunger strike. Her demand is simple. She wants the Prime Minister . . . → Read More: Harper’s Problem …
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Daisy's Dead Air: Merry Xmas Everybody
December 24, 2012 By Daisy
Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
This song is a perennial pop-Christmas standard in the UK, and I have been on a five-year campaign to turn it into a Christmas standard here, too. I just love it!
Look to the future now, its only just begun.
Hope everyone is having a great holiday tonight! …
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Mind of Dan: Bah Humbug!
December 24, 2012 By Dan Moutal
Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it.
(via xkcd)
That is all. …
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Mind of Dan: The relativity of wrong
December 24, 2012 By Dan Moutal
A recent comment on Planet3.0 gave me an excuse to post a link to Isaac Asimov’s excellent essay on the Relativity of wrong, and I realized that I had never posted it here.
So here it is for the record:
The Relativity of Wrong
By Isaac Asimov
The Skeptical Inquirer, Fall 1989, Vol. 14, No. 1, Pp. 35-44
I RECEIVED a letter the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important. In the first sentence, the writer told me he was majoring in English literature, but felt he …
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The Galloping Beaver: Glen Coulthard: "#idlenomore in historical context"
December 24, 2012 By Boris
Very serious game.
With respect to the emergent #IdleNoMore movement, although many of the
conditions that compelled the state to undertake the most expensive
public inquiry in Canadian history are still in place, a couple of
important ones are not. The first condition that appears to be absent is
the perceived threat of political violence that was present in the
years leading to the …
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Northern Reflections: A Reader’s Response
December 24, 2012 By Owen Gray
Two days ago, I published a post on Stephen Harper and guns. Yesterday, I received an email from a reader. That term, while accurate, is a bit misleading. Like me, the reader is a retired teacher. But, unlike me, he has been an officer in the Canadian Forces. And, during summers, he used to shoot competitively at paper targets. He has been a friend for twenty-seven years. This is his response:Owen,Until I read your blog yesterday, I had never heard of the National Rifle Association of Canada, despite its existence since 1978. I was, however a member of two other shooting groups, the …
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The Galloping Beaver: If Chief Spence dies…
December 24, 2012 By Boris
If Chief Theresa Spence dies, the nature of Aboriginal-Government relations will radically change. At present there's simply no reason the other than decency that the Harper government will entertain a meeting or reconsider Bill C-45. There is no decency in today's Conservatives.
If Chief Spence dies, Aborginal people and their allies will have a martyr. If there is an uprising of some kind …
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The Galloping Beaver: "Settler Canadians"
December 24, 2012 By Boris
Note to the #idlenomore uprising: "Settler Canadian" is a well-intended but divisive and couterproductive term. Some of you are engaging in arguments about who is more authentic as an Indigenous person and who is "allowed" to participate in the movement. This does three things. First, it reproduces the mechanisms of colonialism by othering, by constructing boundaries and in-groups. Second, these …
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Daisy's Dead Air: Father Christmas, give us some money…
December 23, 2012 By Daisy
Father Christmas - The Kinks
[via FoxyTunes / The Kinks] …
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Peace, order and good government, eh?: Christmas music, if we must
December 23, 2012 By pogge
Happy holidays. Stay safe. …
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The Galloping Beaver: Stevie does Gangnam . . .
December 23, 2012 By Edstock
ACCORDING TO HUFFINGTON, the Air Farce has nailed it. Delightful! …
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The Galloping Beaver: Stevie needs a reading . . .
December 23, 2012 By Edstock
THE HR GIGER TAROT SET. Awesome. …
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Northern Reflections: Behind The Numbers
December 23, 2012 By Owen Gray
When Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page released a report two weeks ago, which documented the average annual salary of a federal employee as $114,100, there were howls from the usual critics. Andrew Jackson writes:The Canadian Taxpayers Federation was quick to jump on the report of the Parliamentary Budget Office on federal government pay and compensation, saying that it provided “shocking numbers on the overly generous compensation of federal government employees.” Echoing similarly-exaggerated claims by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and other employer …
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