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Concerned Citizens Can Always Ask The Development Fairy
Ontarians want serious, transparent and accountable infrastructure planning processes based on clear and consistent rules.
Ontarians will settle for murky planning processes based on rules that appear to be made up on the fly.
Ontarians will get highways running through protected environments with little idea of how they got there.
SOURCE: The Amazing Chocolate Yummies Blog
[http://www.chocoyummies.net/]
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It May Be A One Party State, But It’s A Helluva Party – I Had a Hangover For Three Days!
How a political party becomes a cult of personality checklist
party abandons traditional policy platform, replacing it with whims of leader
party engages in propaganda campaign to distract followers from its lack of policies
party co-opts religious leaders to give legitimacy to its leader’s messages
purity tests for party membership based on support of leader are instituted
public denunciations of those who fail the purity test are conducted
purging from the party of those who fail the purity test takes place
YOU ARE HERE: party faithful become willing to commit violence against opposition on order of the leader
party takes control of the apparatus of elections to ensure the leader’s victory in future elections
SOURCE: Les Pages aux Folles
[http://www.lespagesauxfolles.ca]
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Four If You Include The Diarrhetic Penguin
The C.D. Howe Institute has recommended that the Bank of Canada issue a digital currency that can be converted into cash. To make it work, the right wing think tank says such a currency could become attractive if it was convertible to cash issued by the Bank, was well designed and was well regulated.
I can see at least three problems with the proposal…
SOURCE: The Financial Riposte
[http://www.canada.com/national/nationalwhippingpost/financialriposte/story.html?id=69ddccd4-f6f3-4f4f-9f25-a2eb4cc6a436]
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Everybody’s A Comedian (Some Are Just Better At It Than Others)
For Republican politicians like Representative Lauren Boebert, referring to Democratic politicians like Ilhan Omar as potential Muslim suicide bombers is the height of wit. The fact that, since she took office, Omar has received more death threats than almost any other member of Congress just adds to the comic effect.
Oscar Wilde would likely say something truly witty that would go over Boebert’s head if he wasn’t so busy spinning in his grave.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (aka: the garbage bag full of Jello that walks like a man) suggested to Boebert that she talk to Omar to work things out. Boebert agreed. Of course, her concept of “working things out” was to ask Omar why she had no sense of humour and to beg Omar not to kill her for making a joke. Omar, sensing that there would be no closure in the conversation, sensibly ended it.
Not content with that, Boebert offered a classic non-apology apology: “I apologize to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Rep Omar. I have reached out to her office to speak with her directly. There are plenty of policy differences to focus on without this unnecessary distraction.” Of course, unnecessary distraction is the main policy of the Republican Chaos Caucus, of which Boebert is a charter member, so the line between them may not be as clearcut as she would have you think.
SOURCE: Karl’s Big Red Web Page of Unreconstructed Marxism
[http://www.bigred.commie/articles/218^.htm]
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The Vision Is Breathtaking
Many Torontonians are complaining that service on the TTC has been reduced because its COVID vaccine mandate has reduced the number of bus and subway drivers. Apparently, they would rather die of a horrible disease than spend an extra 10 or 15 minutes on the public transit system.
Well, let me tell you: I’ve been on the Yonge-University line during rush hour, and I can see their point…
SOURCE: NOW and THEN
[http://www.now&thentoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=517427]
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Some TV Spin-offs Hard To Swallow
The Official Gilead Cookbook
Margaret Atwood
McClelland and Stewart Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Brace Yerself Jovanovich
437 pages
It is said that survival is a key theme in Canadian literature. Part of survival is, of course, eating. So, it should come as no surprise that eating was an important part of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Not as much, perhaps, as trying to get away from a government that controlled women’s bodies, but still present.
The Official Gilead Cookbook contains recipes “inspired by” the TV series based on Atwood’s novel. Some of the dishes, such as “Handmaid’s Heavenly Hash Browns,” look like they would be quite yummy, while others, such as “Religious Mishmash Stew,” seem barely edible. De gustibus and all that, I suppose.
SOURCE: Unread Book News
[http://217.204.44.89/cgi/NGoto/2/64382861?3518]
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Real Men Never Die, They Just Cede The Battlefield To Their Sons
Poet Robert Bly, known for what became a manifesto central to the men’s rights movement, Iron John, has died at the age of 95 after suffering from dementia for 14 years. He was first diagnosed with the mental disease when he admitted that felt sorry for women in abusive relationships. His dementia progressed when he argued that women should have equal rights to men. By the time he died, he was convinced that women getting custody of children in the majority of cases was just.
Surviving members of the Bly family ask well-wishers to donate to dementia research to help cure this terrible affliction.
SOURCE: Obits ‘R Us
[http://www.king.ids.net/~bdlm/obits_r_us.html]
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If I Were You, I Wouldn’t Bet Against That Horse
In his new book, Republican Rescue, Chris Christie breaks with Donald Trump and argues that the party should leave him behind and return to its roots. This is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, spearheaded a violent insurrection at the nation’s capitol and convinced 40% of the population that democracy doesn’t work!
SOURCE: Cohan
[http://teamcoho.com/video/opening-monologue-11-28-21]
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The Magic Mushrooms – It Had To Be The Magic Mushrooms
What Else Could Explain It?
Some people complain that Margaret Atwood is too hard on women (Marjorie Taylor-Green) in her novels, that she unfairly portrays many of them (Laura Ingraham) as complicit in the systems which oppress them (Lauren Boebert).
Whatever could have given her that idea (Amy Coney-Barrett)?
SOURCE: Womyn’s e-Vents
[http://www.womynsevents.fem/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1232]
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