Friday, August 31, 2018
Thursday, August 30, 2018
The dangers od GOP complicity
Here’s House Republicans’ list of all the Trump scandals they’re covering up
It’s not a short list.
Republicans on the Hill have again and again claimed that there is no Donald Trump scandal worth investigating. But in a sign that maybe they aren’t operating totally on the level, Jonathan Swan at Axios reports that a “senior House Republicans office” has compiled a spreadsheetof all the things they believe House Democrats will investigate if they win a majority in November — and they are terrified of what these inquiries might turn up.
In total defiance of the (flawed) logic of the Madisonian constitutional system, Republicans have used their control of the congressional agenda to stymie any kind of rigorous investigation into dozens of urgent scandals swirling around the Trump administration.
Swan reports that “it has churned Republican stomachs” and includes the following:
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Trump would just turn it into a rally for himself
Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCain
President Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and other White House aides advocated for an official statement that gave the decorated Vietnam War POW plaudits for his military and Senate service and called him a “hero,” according to current and former White House aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. The original statement was drafted before McCain died Saturday, and Sanders and others edited a final version this weekend that was ready for the president, the aides said.
But Trump told aides he wanted to post a brief tweet instead, and the statement praising McCain’s life was not released.
Read more:
This administration is wrought with corruption at all levels
I think people underestimate the number of scandals hiding inside the agencies. To some extent, Trump’s daily personal drama masks the corruption and cronyism that is rampant at all levels of the administration.
Link: https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1033861245924003841
Link: https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1033861245924003841
Daniel Dale on twitter: Trump is lying again
Trump is lying about his approval rating again. He doesn't have a 52% approval rating even with his favourite pollster, Rasmussen - he's at 46% in their latest daily tracker. Overall, he's at 41.9% (FiveThirtyEight) or 43.6% (RealClearPolitics).
Link: https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1033878122633080835
Link: https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1033878122633080835
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Expanding the hate movement in the CPC
"Conservative delegates voted to adopt the policy, ending a longstanding consensus that citizenship is guaranteed to any child born on Canadian soil and opening the door to stateless children who hold no legal rights anywhere in the world."
Conservative Delegate Who Led Push to End Birthright Citizenship Linked to Campus ‘Alt-Right’ Scandals
Controversial campus conservative led push to make Conservative Party adopt Trump-style anti-immigration policy
The lead speaker on a successful resolution to make ending birthright citizenship the official policy of the Conservative Party of Canada has been at the centre of multiple “alt-right” controversies at the University of Calgary.
Keean Bexte, a former Conservative staffer, made national headlines last year after resigning in disgrace when his campus conservative club promoted a film produced by alt-right figures by sending an e-mail declaring “feminism is cancer.”
This weekend during the Conservatives’ national convention in Halifax, Bexte introduced and advocated for a resolution to “eliminate birthright citizenship”before a full membership vote Saturday.
The problem with the CPC is they don't think, they don't plan and they don't care: Hate meets their agenda
This Story Show’s Why Conservatives Attacks on Canadian Citizenship Are So Dangerous
Conservatives say being born a Canadian doesn't make you a Canadian.
At last weekend’s convention, Conservatives voted to end birthright citizenship for people born in Canada.
The alarming policy was met by denunciations from across the political spectrum, including a Conservative leadership candidate who worried about government being able to decide who is and isn’t a Canadian citizen.
But one of the best responses was from Bashir Mohamed, a Canadian citizen who was previously born stateless. The story is harrowing and worth reading in its entirety. It shows the dangers of creating stateless families.
Monday, August 27, 2018
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Silencing freedom of speech the neo nazi style
Educators slam Ford’s ‘snitch line’ for teachers who defy sex ed rollback
The Ontario government is creating what critics are calling a “snitch line” for parents to report teachers who refuse to stop using the repealed 2015 sexual education curriculum.
And Doug Ford warned that educators caught breaking the rules will face consequences.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Friday, August 24, 2018
The effects of their own inaction
"PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — As the nation plans new defenses against the more powerful storms and higher tides expected from climate change, one project stands out: an ambitious proposal to build a nearly 60-mile "spine" of concrete seawalls, earthen barriers, floating gates and steel levees on the Texas Gulf Coast."
Big Oil Asks Government to Protect It From Climate Change
Oil industry wants government to protect it from effects of climate change along Texas coast.
And the plot muddies
Michael Cohen paid a mysterious tech company $50,000 'in connection with' Trump's campaign
- President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, made a previously unreported payment of $50,000 to a tech company in connection with Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
- The document detailing the payment does not say which company Cohen paid the money to, or what, exactly, the company did for him.
- The payment suggests that Cohen may have been doing more for Trump, and for the Trump campaign, than had been previously known.
Here come da FBI
“HOLY SHIT, I THOUGHT PECKER WOULD BE THE LAST ONE TO TURN”: TRUMP’S NATIONAL ENQUIRER ALLIES ARE THE LATEST TO DEFECT
David Pecker and Dylan Howard corroborated Michael Cohen’s account implicating the president in a federal crime. And Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis says there are more revelations to come.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Trump insanity has spilled over to the CPC
U.S. AND CANADIAN RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS MARCH IN LOCKSTEP AS THEY DISMISS FACTS AS CONSPIRACY, DISAGREEMENT AS CRIMINALITY
Apparently infected by the decline of political discourse in the United States, the Canadian right is increasingly moving toward defining the use of facts that run counter to its narrative as conspiracy and policy disagreement criminality.
If you doubt this, consider recent Tweets by the likes of Calgary Conservative MP Michelle Rempel, who accused the Trudeau Government and the media of being in a conspiracy to use facts to challenge conservative orthodoxy.
The Canadian Press “Baloney Meter” a regular fact-checking feature by the national news agency, the Calgary-Nose Hill Conservative MP complained in a now notorious Twitter rant, is scheming with the Prime Minister’s Office to spin the news to the Liberal Government’s advantage.
“Their baloney meter is a spin tool for the Trudeau PMO,” she Tweeted last week. “Just look at Trudeau’s top henchman’s twitter feed useage of it. It’s that sort of editorialization disguised as journalism that degrades journalism writ large. Sad.”
What was the Conservative immigration critic objecting to, asked The Sprawl, an online Calgary news and opinion site? The CP reporter “cited migration data, put the recent migration numbers in context and called three experts for insight.” Joan Bryden, one of Ottawa’s most experienced reporters, then dismissed Conservative claims there’s a “border crisis” as “completely inaccurate.”
Monday, August 20, 2018
The unethical conservatives
The ethics of John Baird’s Saudi intervention
Where to begin with former minister John Baird’s stunning appearance on Saudi state TV?
The idea that a former foreign affairs minister could openly attack Canada’s human rights efforts in Saudi Arabia was shocking enough. The fact he further called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fly immediately to Riyadh to apologize to Saudi leadership seemed even worse.
But it was his appearance on the regime’s state network that made him seem like a willing propagandist. It was offensive to people from across the Canadian political spectrum.
Can you imagine any former foreign affairs minister — Joe Clark, Lloyd Axworthy, Flora MacDonald — acting in such a manner? But then, none of these former national representatives were paid advisers to Barrick Gold Corp., a mining giant with an ongoing venture in Saudi Arabia. In terms of ethical lapses, the Baird incident sets a new low.
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Friday, August 17, 2018
More bigotry and racism from the CPC
Thread by @Norlaine: "I can't bring myself to retweet the most recent Bernier tweet thread. It doesn't deserve oxygen. But he has joined the chorus of CPC voices […]" #cdnpoli
I can't bring myself to retweet the most recent Bernier tweet thread. It doesn't deserve oxygen. But he has joined the chorus of CPC voices saying there are 2 kinds of Canadians. Those the CPC like: white, Christian, "old stock"/"pure laine"... And everyone else. #cdnpoli 1/
And I feel that this is not the way any party seeking to run our country should be thinking and speaking. They are making bolder and bolder anti-immigration statements. Well, ok, specifically anti-brown people immigration. Australians and Brits and so on are cool with them. 2/
It is no good for a party, especially one who thinks they should be making laws and stuff, to be hating people who live in that country. To be dismissing some Canadians because they look or sound or love or worship or dress differently than the CPC ideal. 3/
Canada is a vast land mass. Our population is getting OLD. We are not having babies to replace us. We need immigrants. We have excellent security processes to make sure scary people don't get in, regardless of where/how they enter our country. 4/
The not so suttle views of a bigot
Diversity will 'destroy' what makes Canada great: Conservative MP Bernier
OTTAWA – Outspoken Conservative MP and failed leadership contender Maxime Bernier is accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of fostering a "cult of diversity" that he believes will destroy the country.
In a six-tweet thread posted Sunday evening, the Quebec MP says that more diversity will "divide us into little tribes" and bring "distrust, social conflict, and potentially violence."
He described this as "cultural balkanization." Balkanization refers to the geopolitical splitting apart of a state into smaller regions with tension between them.
The pigs of Canadian politics would sell their children to foreign interests
The pigs of Canadian politics have turned against their own government in a treasonous manner and support a country that believes in beheading those who disagree with their "pure society".... sick
The Conservatives Pick a Side — And It’s Saudi Arabia
Party allies with a government that beheads criminals and oppresses women and Shia Muslims.
tress, it’s said, reveals true character. If so, the stress of the Saudis’ quarrel with Canada has revealed the Conservative Party of Canada as a gang of sellouts, coming out solidly in support of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in the Saudis’ idle quarrel with Canada.
As the uproar began last week, Tory MP Michelle Rempel, shadow minister for citizenship and immigration, tweeted a thread paying lip service to human rights issues like the imprisonment and flogging of Raif Badawai and jailing of his sister Samar and blasting the Liberals’ “inconsistent” approach to human rights advocacy.
At the same time, shadow foreign affairs minister Erin O’Toole was tweeting: “My view is that a disconnect between our countries arose because of the use of Twitter as a substitute for proper diplomacy by the Trudeau government. Serious diplomacy requires effort. The Prime Minister and Minister should advocate face to face on issues and not by hashtag.”
That was just the warmup. The Guardian ran a piece on Saturday with a photo of a solemn Justin Trudeau and a mournful headline: “We don’t have a single friend.” Those weren’t Trudeau’s words; they were a quote from Rachel Curran, who used to be Stephen Harper’s policy director. She went on to say: “…in the whole wide world.”
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Rosie Barton on twitter "fails as a National news anchor".... you must read the comments
This is not a big story, but it's also extremely silly behaviour for staffers.
The link between Scheer and racism
A Not-So-Brief History of Racism From Andrew Scheer’s Conservative Party
The Conservatives under Scheer have a history of embracing racism to further their political agenda.
Recently Conservatives have made news coverage for racist and dog whistle attacks to further their political agenda. But this isn’t a one-time thing. Under Andrew Scheer, the Conservatives have a history of using racism and aligning themselves with far-right groups to further their agenda.
Here’s a list of the many times Andrew Scheer and his Conservatives embraced racism or were connected to racist groups.
Conservative MP Blaine Calkins Insinuates MP is a Radical Islamist – August 9, 2018
As reported by PressProgress, the website Blaine Calkins linked to is connected to Rebel Media:
The 2005 blog post was published by far-right blogger Daniel Pipes, President of the Middle East Forum, an anti-Muslim think tank which has provided funding to Rebel Media’s Ezra Levant – Pipes was even a guest on Levant’s 2016 “Rebel Cruise.”
We really don't need the Saudi's as friends
The Saudi attack on Canada is a political gift to the Liberals
Though they would never say so out loud, on some level Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland must regard Saudi Arabia’s imposition of sanctions and punishments on Canada as a gift.
The Saudi attack, despite being a time-consuming annoyance at an inconvenient moment, allows them to do something that no Canadian government could have done on its own: distance this country from an overly friendly relationship with a regime whose conduct, interests and regional influence are contradictory to democratic values.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
WTF Ontario just add them to the charity list rather than give them a hand up.... Pricks
This is not satire. The Minister responsible for cutting ODSP and OW is organizing a food drive.
Because why provide social welfare through the state and jeopardize middle-class do-gooders charitable acts and feelings of moral superiority?
Link: https://twitter.com/_SimonBlack/status/1027676285848436737
Link: https://twitter.com/_SimonBlack/status/1027676285848436737
A buck a beer is more important than those struggling financially
Red Tories are appalled that the Ford government cancelled the basic-income pilot program — despite the fact that, during the election campaign, Christine Elliott (now Ontario’s health minister and deputy premier) and PC spokesperson Melissa Lantsman confirmed that the experiment would be allowed to run its course before any decisions were made about its future.
The program, which was originally intended to last three years, allowed thousands of low-income Ontarians to sign up for a guaranteed annual income of about $17,000 for singles, or $24,000 for families. The only condition was that they had to allow their individual circumstances to be studied to see whether and in what ways their lives improved. Some conservatives believe that a basic-income program would save taxpayers’ money, since a simplified social-assistance system would require fewer civil servants to administer. It's also possible that such a program could help lower-income Ontarians lead healthier lives, which could in turn relieve some pressure on the province's overstretched health-care system.
Now, not only has the new government cancelled the program, but the minister responsible for it, Lisa MacLeod, has also denied that the cancellation constitutes a broken promise. Many red Tories now think that MacLeod looks foolish and that the government looks heartless. (The government, perhaps tacitly acknowledging that it chose to end the program too quickly, has just announced that there will be a “lengthy and compassionate runway” before the program is wound down.)
Hugh Segal, one-time chief of staff to former PC premier Bill Davis and a long-time champion of the pilot program, called the decision a “horrific mistake,” adding: “I am embarrassed, as a Progressive Conservative.”
The first rips in the Progressive Conservatives’ big blue tent
Monday, August 13, 2018
Rob silver on Twitter
So many unfortunate misunderstandings in the Conservative caucus these days.
It’s like a racist Three’s Company reboot over there these days.
Read the thread: https://twitter.com/RobSilver/status/1027646628507746304
Read the thread: https://twitter.com/RobSilver/status/1027646628507746304
Daniel Tisch on Twitter
Washington Post: 'Canada won't look the other way on #SaudiArabia. We shouldn't either' https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinio
ns/canada-wont-look-the-other-way-on-saudi-arabia-we-shouldnt-either/2018/08/07/c5b5483c-9a62-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.269141e53789&__twitter_impression=true …
Link: https://twitter.com/DanTisch/status/1027686440841486336
ns/canada-wont-look-the-other-way-on-saudi-arabia-we-shouldnt-either/2018/08/07/c5b5483c-9a62-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.269141e53789&__twitter_impression=true …
Link: https://twitter.com/DanTisch/status/1027686440841486336
Sunday, August 12, 2018
America's Clown Prince declares victory
Trump, down three touchdowns at halftime, declares victory
This is a grim moment for President Trump and his fellow Republicans.
A Trump-boosting Republican member of Congress has been indicted on charges of insider trading — from the White House, no less. Trump’s former campaign chairman and another former aide are squabbling in court over who is the bigger criminal. And in a closely watched special congressional race in Ohio — a seat Republicans have held for 35 years in a district Trump won by 11 points and Mitt Romney by 10 — the Republican was clinging to a 0.9-percentage -point lead Wednesday despite Trump’s intervention and vast sums of Republican dollars.
In situations such as these, there is only one thing for Trump to do: declare victory.
“Congratulations to Troy Balderson on a great win in Ohio,” Trump proclaimed, even though the number of uncounted provisional and absentee ballots meant the race could not be called. Trump further declared it “a great victory” in a “very special” race.
I first went there in 1949.... what a wonderful memory
The Real Story Behind Montreal's Orange Julep
Iconic in every sense, Montrealers everywhere are instantly flooded with waves of nostalgia any time someone says the words "Orange Julep." Whether for the famous orange-based beverage, its charmingly kitschy architecture, or the summer muscle car nights, everyone has a reason to remember Gibeau Orange Julep.
Simply put, the Orange Julep, which has rested (and will no doubt continue to) on Décarie Expressway for decades is a Montreal landmark, one known across the province and Canada at-large.
But while you may love the classic, creamy orange drink served only by the iconic casse-croûte, not to mention the amazingness that is the restaurant itself, there's probably a lot you don't know about the Orange Julep.
Saturday, August 11, 2018
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