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Hey there Canada.
Are you enjoying the vibrant parliamentary debates going on over the contentious issues facing our country? No? Me either.
The current government is running legislation through the House Fire-Hose of Commons faster than the particles being smashed at the LHC. Again, let me extend my heartfelt thanks to southern Ontario voters who just couldn’t vote for the NDP or the Liberals and held their nose and voted for the Conservatives. Good show, honest. I didn’t want our government to have to deal with those troublesome encumbrances like parliamentary debate or oversight or heck, even sombre second though. That whole compromise “thing” is completely out of date in the 21st century.
I honestly do not know which is worse; the partisan gridlock in the US or the inscrutable rule by Omnibus bill here.
The idea that with a little more god in school tragedy is avoidable really burns my buns. Adding more falsehood to peoples lives is never a good thing. It saddens me to see people talking so unabashedly about how their magic dude in the sky could fix things if only people believed in him. These are not your run of the mill godbots, but elected officials. These are the people who we are supposed to trust with our welfare; espousing beliefs equivalent to saying unicorns and dragons exist. Mind boggling.
The NRA is a nasty piece of work, with fetishistic cult-like tendencies that, when not actively promoting a misinterpretation of the American Second Amendment, are engaging in the audaciously vulgar misinterpretation of what self-defence is. No regular citizen needs a gun capable of firing five bullets a second. Lastly consider the following, owning a gun means that you have an instrument granting you the power of near instantaneously killing another human being and that is the real purpose of guns – killing people.
Liberal viewer intersperses reactions from the republicans and the democrats on the recent school shootings and it would appear that other than the ‘more god’/’arm everyone’ mumbo-jumbo the Right has nothing to offer.
It doesn’t get made any simpler than this. Yes these are US stats, but do you think it’s really all that different here in Canada? Ya, neither did I.
This information is put together by Laura Bassett at The Enliven Project. Data was pulled by the FBI. Go over to their page of the details.
Not being able to add anything more to the raw power of this, I figured I’d add some tips on how to stop rape. They go as follows:
1. Dudes: Don’t rape
2. Seriously DON’T RAPE
3. Don’t joke about rape.
4. Don’t threaten rape.
5. Don’t defend rapists.
6. If your bro tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.
7. Don’t be friends with rapists. Make sure you tell the rapist that you won’t be friends with him because he is a rapist.
8. Teach your children not to rape.
9. Teach your friends not to rape.
10. DON’T RAPE
I think that about covers it.
I wonder who we’ll blame after the next super hurricane or the next drought? I’m curious as to what will be the explanation for those that come after us be when we’re done here on Earth. Let it be shown here in 2012 that we’re still talking about if climate change is a serious topic or not.
Short term planning and thinking will be the end of us. Honest.
As far as I am concerned, the NRA needs to pack its’ bags and go away. Bill Moyers says it better than I could right now.
Democracy, human rights, humanitarian intervention all fall at the wayside when it comes to the West supporting “stability” in the Middle East. We wonder why the residents are so pissed off at us and cheer when bad things happen to the West. I’m guessing it has a little something to do with the fact that while promoting “human rights and democracy” worldwide we simultaneously support vicious authoritarian regimes that cater to our interests while grinding their populace to dust.
Go figure.
Noam Chomsky summarizes the process quite nicely on article excerpted from Alter.net. Here are some of the highlights:
“So that wasn’t very pretty, but what about the other countries? Well, the countries that are most significant to the United States and the West, generally, are the oil dictatorships and they remain very stable. There were efforts to try and join the Arab Spring, but they were crushed, very harshly, with not a word from the Western powers. Sometimes it was quite violent, as in eastern Saudi Arabia and in Bahrain, which were Shiite areas, mostly, but it resulted in at most a tap on the wrist by the western powers. They clearly wanted the oil dictatorships to remain. That’s the center of their power.
In Tunisia, which had mostly French influence, the French supported the dictatorship until the very end. In fact, they were still supporting it after demonstrations were sweeping the country. Finally, at the last second, they conceded that their favorite dictator had to go. In Egypt, where the United States and Britain were the main influences, it was the same. Obama supported the dictator Mubarak until virtually the last minute – until the army turned against him. It became impossible to support him anymore so they urged him to leave and make a transition to a similar system.
All of that is quite routine. That’s the standard operating procedure for dealing with a situation where your favorite dictator is getting into trouble. There is case after case like that. What you do in that case is support the dictator to the very end, regardless of how vicious and bloody he is. Then when it becomes impossible, say because the army or the business classes have turned against him, then ease him out somewhere (sometimes with half the government’s treasury in his pocket), declare your love for democracy, and try to restore the old system. That’s pretty much what’s happening in Egypt.”
Chomsky called it. How long before we can get back to “business as usual?”
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