Happy National Corvette Day!
From your USA Automotive Industry!
P.S. We are in shambles.
Why? Inability to see predict change? Inability to adjust to current change? Reliance on subservient and dedicated servants in Legislatures across the West?
With rumours of Chrysler’s imminent bankruptcy, GM worth what it was worth in 1955, crumbling domestic infrastructure, peak, and systemic [...]
Christie Blatchford had a bit of a run in with the security state last week. In her article in Saturdays Globe Blatchford recounts the excitement that began with a discussion of ongoing terrorism trials in Canada:
… I told Rosie about some evidence at the Khawaja trial, particularly the testimony of a key witness, himself [...]
San Diego Country isn’t happy with the McCain family. Turns out, one of the many trusts that administers one of their seven homes hasn’t paid taxes in four years. McCain’s trust scrambled to pay nearly all of the outstanding debt to the county. $1,742 of a total $6,744.42 remains.
If that seems like an [...]
Yes, Bill C-61. Ashamedly, I feel I haven’t discussed it on here as much as I should. Luckily, Michael Geist has reorganized his entire blog for learning about and engaging the bill’s life ahead. Please check it out until I get something more thorough up here.
Here’s a new user rights video from OpenSourceCinema that [...]
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) made history today by overturning the US$2.5 billion in punitive damages granted to the victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster. It was, they determined, excessive — and therefore reduced to US$507 million. Remember, too, that the US$2.5 billion was about half of the US$ 4 billion that [...]
George Carlin and Keith Olbermann discuss USAmerican democracy as it stood in late 2007.
“This country has been sliding downhill for a long time and everybody’s got a cellphone that makes pancakes so they don’t want to rock the boat. They don’t want to make trouble. The people have been bought off by gizmos and [...]
Thanks, George.
I wish the world remembered you were more than seven words you can’t say on TV.
You will be greatly missed and doubtless remembered.
As the BBC reports, Mugabe’s Back. He’s now the sole remaining candidate in the presidential run-off on Friday and can do nothing but win an overwhelming majority.
Perhaps it was these compelling posters and not his tyrannical strong arm tactics that brought him marked his resurgence. Or, maybe it was the murder. Yeah, probably the [...]
From Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing:
Last year, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation created a new radio show, Search Engine, to chronicle the shifts being wrought upon global culture and politics as a consequence of technology. It was smart, funny, broke important stories, changed Canadian politics, won awards, and was a global success.
So the CBC cancelled it.
A [...]
The Tories have been in full swing demonizing the Liberal Green Shift plan. Liberals rebutted last week with an official launch and media campaign.
Choices each party have made reveal much about their perspectives on Canada and Canadians.
The Tories, apparently, think Canadians are ignorant five-year olds on a Sunday morning. Comparing the two spots, the Conservative [...]