Nothing like a little town hall meeting to mark one hundred days in office. A nice win one for the Gipper speech before a receptive audience to make everybody feel better in bad times. Barack Obama is perhaps the best president since Ronald Reagan when it comes to being able to speak to the hearts [...]
Warning! Warning! Left Turn Ahead!
29
Apr
First Kill the Hummer Owners
Posted by admin Published in Canadian Politics, Dumb & Dumber, Environment, Policy, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, U. S. politicsTags: Auto Industry, Bail Outs, Bio-fuels, Carbon emissions, Carbon recovery, Carbon reduction, Chrysler, Eco-Catastrophe, Fifth Horseman, Ford, General Motors, Green cars, Honda, Hummers, Hybrids, Hyundai, Jobs and Environment, Mitsubishi, Obama, Passive House, Public transit, Ronald Reagan, Toyota, U.S. Politics
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27
Apr
Well, it is time we peasants gathered together with our torches and pitchforks and marched up that hill to storm the castle. Dr. Frankenstein is making monsters again. Actually it is our education system and the monsters are our children.
A study of university professors in Ontario (Canada) reported students were immature, lazy and unprepared. They [...]
Tags: 1950s, 3 Rs, Afghanistan, Ann Coulter, Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Conservatives, Democracy, Education, George Bush, Leave It to Beaver, Right Wing, Schools, Social Changes, Social Science, students
19
Apr
Legacy of a Giant
Posted by admin Published in International Politics, Political Commentary, U. S. politics
The Good
The Summit of the Americas held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago focused among other things on the exclusion of Cuba. President Obama appears ready to engage Cuba but on what terms. A return to pre-Castro Cuba is not an option, at least for the people of the island. Fidel Castro was an [...]
Tags: Conservatives, Cuba, Democracy, Economics, Eduardo Galeano, elections, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, justice, Obama, Port of Spain, Raul Castro, Stephen Harper, Summit of the Americas, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Politics
17
Apr
The Few; The Proud; The Baggage
Posted by admin Published in Canadian Politics, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, WarAfter renaming a highway and a full court press by high command and the government to label each and every fallen Canadian soldier in Afghanistan a hero, in the end the Canadian military has shown they are just another parcel to be delivered. If it is more convenient or economic to jostle them to and [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Canadian casualties, CFB Trenton, Governor-General, Hero, Karine Blais, Minister of Defense, War
9
Apr
No Justice – No Peace
Posted by admin Published in Canadian Politics, Human Rights, Political Commentary, Political Economy, Social Commentary, U. S. politicsPoverty is not the cause of social turmoil as the common myth would lead us to believe. Rather, disparity is the culprit. People generally are accepting of poor circumstances as long as they feel the pain is felt universally. When Marx and Engels talked about the withering away of the state this is what they [...]
Tags: Auto Industry, Coercion, Coercive State, Conservatives, economic crisis, Economics, Engels, Injustice, justice, Marx, New Right, Police, Police culture, Poverty, Social turmoil, Wall Street, Wealth
7
Apr
Misfire to Tragedy
Posted by admin Published in Political Economy, Social Commentary, U. S. politicsViolence. Civil disorder. Unrest. Words that seem to be floating around a lot these days. At the ‘water cooler’ the conversation is on connecting the current spate of shootings in the U. S. to the economic downturn. Too early to really be conclusive on that one yet. We know from past experiences that there can [...]
Tags: Civil Disorder, Culture, Depression, economic crisis, Individualism, New Day in America, Revolution, Shootings, Social Patterns, Violence, Wall Street
3
Apr
Fires of Revolution
Posted by admin Published in International Politics, Political Commentary, Political Economy, Social Commentary, Society: Us v. The ManThe G20 fiddled as London burned with passion. People from all over descended on the city. Once more unto the breach Shakespeare said and so they came. CNN, that bastion of unbiased and insightful news, giggled at the foolish simpletons who clashed with police commenting that the protests would have no effect except perhaps on [...]
Tags: Capitalism, CNN, CSNY, Democracy, economic crisis, Economics, G20, Gandhi, Gordon Brown, IMF, Jefferson, liberalism, London, Martin Luther King, Marx, Payne, Protests, Stimulus, Stimulus Package
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