WhoNeedsToStayCleanForGeneWhenYouCan
FeelTheBernVille
Down south and just about everywhere else, including the House of Conrad The (Stateless) Marauder, the proMedia are obsessed with Donald Trump's fascist run at the racist ring.
But...
The very well respected Quinnipac pollsters have just released something pretty darned interesting as reported by Brent Budowsky of the Hill Times:
According to a new poll by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) destroys Republican candidate Donald Trump in a general election by 13 percentage points. In this new poll, Sanders has 51 percent to Trump's 38 percent. If this margin held in a general election, Democrats would almost certainly regain control of the United States Senate and very possibly the House of Representatives....
And.
Correct me if I'm wrong...
But.
Mr. Sanders has achieved these numbers WITHOUT any semblance of a progressive flipside to hate radio and/or FOX News.
(and, no, as Driftglass has been explaining, MSNBC does not count)
OK?
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015
The (Anti) Keef Report...Fight The Stenography!
Given the past performance of the Clarklandians, imagine if all of the Lotuslandian proPunditry started making like Laila by fact checking all of their press releases disguised as policy and/or actual governance.
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Previous (not-Anti) Keef Reports can be seen....Here.
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Monday, December 21, 2015
The Advent Jukebox, Day 21....The Christmas Song.
TheVelvetFog
RulesVille
It's the 'Chestnuts Roasting' tune penned by Mel Torme and Bob Wells lounging by the pool on sweltering mid-summer's day.
And then, of course, there was that first interpretation, never to be bested, by Nat King Cole.
I reckon the following version comes in #3,452,847th...
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You can listen to the entire Advent Jukebox....Here.
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RulesVille
It's the 'Chestnuts Roasting' tune penned by Mel Torme and Bob Wells lounging by the pool on sweltering mid-summer's day.
And then, of course, there was that first interpretation, never to be bested, by Nat King Cole.
I reckon the following version comes in #3,452,847th...
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You can listen to the entire Advent Jukebox....Here.
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Was The Plan To Get Mr. Duffy Off From The Get-Go?
NevermindTheCriminalsThisIsJustThe
SenateVille
Sandy Garrosino, writing in the VanNatObserver, is having a hard time with that question:
...Part of me will always wonder if the Crown always harboured (consciously or unconsciously) a death-wish for this trial. On Thursday, they just quit. There might yet be convictions on the minor criminal charges, but this baby's done...
Her piece is one heck of a primer on all that went down and why it is, exactly, that Mr. Duffy will likely walk.
And it's hard not to agree with her thesis.
But, regardless all that, the following bit stuck in my craw:
...(F)or his part, Duffy says he didn’t even know Nigel Wright wrote the cheque, and thought the Conservative Party was managing the financial side of the business. No evidence entered at trial conflicts with any of this.
Nigel Wright on the other hand, was determined to put a stop to the “Chinese water torture” of the unraveling PR disaster.
Senior respected lawyers for the PMO and Duffy then negotiated Duffy's “agreement" to repay (secured under protest and duress). Ben Perrin testified that while Wright kept key details of the arrangement from him, but that he would have spoken up had there been any “whiff of criminality” involved.
"The potential for there to be a criminal issue here was never in our minds,” testified Perrin. "We thought we were dealing with a potential violation of a Senate rule."...
{snip}
...And Ben Perrin wasn’t just some gussied-up notary public. He was lawyer to the PMO, senior policy advisor to the Department of Justice, a former law clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada, a former intern at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, and now a professor of law at UBC...
Why is so hard for me to let that passage sail on by?
Because I can't fathom how something that has all the appearances of a massive, orchestrated criminal conspiracy can be viewed as nothing more than a little institutional rule fiddling by a passel of high-priced, highly-respected and highly-senior lawyers who should know better.
OK?
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And as for the good Mr. Wright's involvement?...Well, we all know that Lord Black will be shocked, shocked I tell you, if anything further comes of that...After all, as the good Mr. Black himself told us awhile back, this (and everything else that is wrong with the non-gilded part of the world), is the fault of corporals everyhere.
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SenateVille
Sandy Garrosino, writing in the VanNatObserver, is having a hard time with that question:
...Part of me will always wonder if the Crown always harboured (consciously or unconsciously) a death-wish for this trial. On Thursday, they just quit. There might yet be convictions on the minor criminal charges, but this baby's done...
Her piece is one heck of a primer on all that went down and why it is, exactly, that Mr. Duffy will likely walk.
And it's hard not to agree with her thesis.
But, regardless all that, the following bit stuck in my craw:
...(F)or his part, Duffy says he didn’t even know Nigel Wright wrote the cheque, and thought the Conservative Party was managing the financial side of the business. No evidence entered at trial conflicts with any of this.
Nigel Wright on the other hand, was determined to put a stop to the “Chinese water torture” of the unraveling PR disaster.
Senior respected lawyers for the PMO and Duffy then negotiated Duffy's “agreement" to repay (secured under protest and duress). Ben Perrin testified that while Wright kept key details of the arrangement from him, but that he would have spoken up had there been any “whiff of criminality” involved.
"The potential for there to be a criminal issue here was never in our minds,” testified Perrin. "We thought we were dealing with a potential violation of a Senate rule."...
{snip}
...And Ben Perrin wasn’t just some gussied-up notary public. He was lawyer to the PMO, senior policy advisor to the Department of Justice, a former law clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada, a former intern at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, and now a professor of law at UBC...
Why is so hard for me to let that passage sail on by?
Because I can't fathom how something that has all the appearances of a massive, orchestrated criminal conspiracy can be viewed as nothing more than a little institutional rule fiddling by a passel of high-priced, highly-respected and highly-senior lawyers who should know better.
OK?
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And as for the good Mr. Wright's involvement?...Well, we all know that Lord Black will be shocked, shocked I tell you, if anything further comes of that...After all, as the good Mr. Black himself told us awhile back, this (and everything else that is wrong with the non-gilded part of the world), is the fault of corporals everyhere.
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Sunday, December 20, 2015
This Day In Clarkland: Hey Rubes! Look Over Here While We...
...Do This.
...The regressive MSP tax has gone from $108 a month to $130 a month — a 39-per-cent increase in just six years — and the rate is the same for families making just over $30,000 a year or those making $10 million...
And how much was that Clarklandian tax cut for those making $10 million (or even $100,000) again?
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And, as an indicator of the secret shift onto the backs of those that can afford it least, that $130 a month for a family making $30K equals $1,560 per year which works out to a more than five percent of their total income...As for that $100K family...Well, I reckon you can figure that out without any help from my $5.99 big button Staples calculator...So, I guess the Clarklandian motto is really 'Well-Off Families First!'
The bit above comes from Michael Smyth's latest in The Province which is a rather bizarre phone-it-in piece that leans almost entirely on the very fine finest-of-the-fine work of the CTF's Jordan Bateman who, as you might expect if you've been paying attention, plays both sides against the 'balanced budget uber alles forever' middle.
Interestingly, CTV is reporting an MSP number of $144 per month which works out to $1,800 and fully six percent for all those not-so well off Families who are last in Ms. Clark's books...Regardless CTF vs. CTV difference, the real issue here is that the rates are increasingly considerably faster than costs...In other words, it's actually a double-dipp gouge out of the back of those that can afford it least.
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Saturday, December 19, 2015
The Advent Jukebox, Day 19...Run, Run Rudolf.
AllIWantForChristmasIsABrandNew'LectricGuitar
(LoopingPedal)Ville
Just for the heck of it...
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You can listen to all of this year's tunes, all in one place...Here.
(LoopingPedal)Ville
Just for the heck of it...
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You can listen to all of this year's tunes, all in one place...Here.
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You See, Mr Beer 'N Hockey....You've Really Had A Wonderful Life.
MinneapolisVille
I have been reading Mr. Beer 'N Hockey's musings for a long time now.
For many a good reason.
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Here is a couplet from one of his latest:
I go on vacation
Then I go back to the f*cking mill...
In the missive under consideration, which appears to have been written at the end of Beer's latest pre-Christmas trip to Mexico, this little ditty is repeated over and over and over and over again.
Then, finally, he finishes with the following:
...Then I am going to die, motherf*ckers.
Which, I'm pretty sure, says something about how important it is to keep on keeping on while putting one front in front of the other.
The only thing is, Beer left out a whole heckuva lot.
Including his crazy Hockey family.
And all his crazier friends.
And all his trips to the track, here there and over the mountains everywhere - the more out-of-the-way the better.
And his first aid sprints to the rescue of all those who need it.
And The Clash at the Garden in 1980.
And all his dogs, named Hammer or otherwise.
And all the walks along the River and all those kids, 'n punks, and junkies 'n homeless bumped into almost always with a satisfactory result.
And Sonja.
And all his flying Captains Courageous Brothers.
And Roller Derby.
And the Guiding (Bertuzzi) Principle.
And never appeasing Fascists while always appeasing Martians (just because).
And music on the stereo.
And/or by the campfire...
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*Newly re-mixed cacophonous version...
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Friday, December 18, 2015
Advent Jukebox, Day 18...Baby Please Come Home.
Robocalls Revisited, Part Deux...This Is What A Real Opposition Looks Like.
AllYourDaemonDialers
WereThemVille
From Glen Sushiboy McGregor's OCit pro-blog:
The federal New Democrats are calling on Commissioner of Canada Elections Yves Côté to reopen the investigation into misleading phone calls to voters made during the 2011 federal election campaign.
The NDP says testimony given by Sen. Mike Duffy at his trial suggested Conservatives used robocalls dirty tricks in the 2008 election in the Vancouver Island riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, where Green Party leader Elizabeth May was attempting to unseat Tory cabinet minister Gary Lunn...
Gosh.
It's almost as if the screaming know-nothing meanies from the 2009 Bloggodome have finally been taken out of the cult-closet and brought into the light - dim as it may be.
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Need an update/refresher/catch-up on all that the good Mr. Duffy had say, under-oath, about Robocalls, etc?....Alison's is the place to find it.
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WereThemVille
From Glen Sushiboy McGregor's OCit pro-blog:
The federal New Democrats are calling on Commissioner of Canada Elections Yves Côté to reopen the investigation into misleading phone calls to voters made during the 2011 federal election campaign.
The NDP says testimony given by Sen. Mike Duffy at his trial suggested Conservatives used robocalls dirty tricks in the 2008 election in the Vancouver Island riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, where Green Party leader Elizabeth May was attempting to unseat Tory cabinet minister Gary Lunn...
Gosh.
It's almost as if the screaming know-nothing meanies from the 2009 Bloggodome have finally been taken out of the cult-closet and brought into the light - dim as it may be.
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Need an update/refresher/catch-up on all that the good Mr. Duffy had say, under-oath, about Robocalls, etc?....Alison's is the place to find it.
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This Day In Clarkland...Dealing With Mr. Loukidelis' Big Scary Numbers.
He'sNoAvagadro
6.02214129Ville
6.02214129Ville
So.
Mr. Loukidelis' report (see Ch.1) spends a whole lotta time and apparent effort, not to mention a passel of Staples $6.99 big button calculator time telling us that if you printed out all the provincial government Emails generated each year that they would stretch out to infinity and/or fill 3,767 Jerry Jones football-type emporiums.
Which means, what, exactly?
Well, as Paul Ramsey explains over at the Clever Elephant, that's peanuts in digital storage:
Let's recast this problem in more computer-centric terms:
- The government produces/receives 43TB of email per year.
- A 4TB hard-drive can be purchased for between $200 and $400.
- So depending on the amount of redundency you want, and the quality of hard-drive you purchase, it's possible store the entire years worth of government email data on between $8,600 and $50,000 worth of hardware. Or, to put it in terms Mr. Loukidelis might understand, for about the cost of one overly wordy report.
And lest you think that hard drives in a closet with a server is the only way to go, Mr. Ramsey has even checked with a local cloud-based storage company regarding their ability to store and make searchable 370 million Emails a year.
Their response was very straight forward...
Yes, we are capable of that.
Heckfire.
Maybe the cloud guys could even get in on that $100 million that the Clarklandians pulled out of a hat recently when they were trying to deflector spin their way out of that particular week's scandal.
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Whenever anything techy/IT'ish comes up that involves the Clarklandians, I always head over to Mr. Ramsey's place because he serves up the devils in the details (the latter of which are most often served up by Lindsay Kines in the VTC).
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
The Advent Jukebox, Day 17.... Jingle Bell Rock.
HowManyWaysCanYouRideA
SleighVille
It's E and me this time...Guitar and Uke.
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You can listen to all of this year's tunes, all in one place...Here.
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SleighVille
It's E and me this time...Guitar and Uke.
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You can listen to all of this year's tunes, all in one place...Here.
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This Day In Clarkland...Guess Spiderman Was Busy.
Book-Em
NotDanoVille
From the esteemed boss of the Lotuslandian Legislative Press Gallery, Mr. Tom Fletcher, in the Black Press:
B.C. Liberal Party executive director Laura Miller has resigned and returned to Ontario to face criminal charges stemming from deletion of government email records belonging to the Ontario government...
{snip}
...Miller posted a statement on her Twitter account Thursday, saying she has retained lawyer Clayton Ruby to defend her...
'Nuff said?
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Spiderman?....Well....You know....And, double well...Ontario!
One can only wonder how much it pained the good Mr. Fletcher to write the piece linked to, above.
Tip 'O The Toque to reader Keith E. for the heads-up!
NotDanoVille
From the esteemed boss of the Lotuslandian Legislative Press Gallery, Mr. Tom Fletcher, in the Black Press:
B.C. Liberal Party executive director Laura Miller has resigned and returned to Ontario to face criminal charges stemming from deletion of government email records belonging to the Ontario government...
{snip}
...Miller posted a statement on her Twitter account Thursday, saying she has retained lawyer Clayton Ruby to defend her...
'Nuff said?
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Spiderman?....Well....You know....And, double well...Ontario!
One can only wonder how much it pained the good Mr. Fletcher to write the piece linked to, above.
Tip 'O The Toque to reader Keith E. for the heads-up!
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Revisiting Robocall Ground-Zero.
AllTheStayPuftMarshmallows
ThatFitVille
First, from something I wrote awhile back:
...(I)t is my considered opinion that this abject fraud (of robocalling targetted NDP voters with the intent of steering them away from a candidate that could beat the Conservative Gary Lunn in Saanich in 2008), together with a whole lot of extra/over-the-limit 3rd party advertising that pushed, hard, for Mr. Lunn, very likely did affect the outcome.
But more on all of that later, because it is not really the point here.
And the real point is....?
That fraud, perpetrated with malice aforethought, is fraud, regardless.
And if malicious fraudsters conclude that they can commit their fraudulent acts with impunity based on their experiences the first time out of the gate (i.e. 2008)...
Well.
What did that mean for the next time the deal went down (i.e. 2011)?...
Now, from Alison's lede today over at Creekside:
Duffy, Sona, Finley, and Lunn
Three live accounts from CBC, CTV, and the Ottawa Citizen covering Mike Duffy's allegations under oath at his trial that:
1) Con campaign chair Doug Finley's "black ops" team perpetrated the Saanich-Gulf Islands robocalls in the 2008 federal election (Dec. 10 testimony) and
2) Doug Finley said Sona could not have perped the Guelph robocalls in the 2011 election because he hadn't taken their black ops course. (Dec. 16 testimony)
Go read Alison's entire piece.
When you're done I think you will be hard pressed not to conclude that these people really were out to co-opt Canadian democracy, all in the name of (according to Mr. Duffy at least) 'cleverness'.
Disgusting.
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ThatFitVille
First, from something I wrote awhile back:
...(I)t is my considered opinion that this abject fraud (of robocalling targetted NDP voters with the intent of steering them away from a candidate that could beat the Conservative Gary Lunn in Saanich in 2008), together with a whole lot of extra/over-the-limit 3rd party advertising that pushed, hard, for Mr. Lunn, very likely did affect the outcome.
But more on all of that later, because it is not really the point here.
And the real point is....?
That fraud, perpetrated with malice aforethought, is fraud, regardless.
And if malicious fraudsters conclude that they can commit their fraudulent acts with impunity based on their experiences the first time out of the gate (i.e. 2008)...
Well.
What did that mean for the next time the deal went down (i.e. 2011)?...
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Now, from Alison's lede today over at Creekside:
Duffy, Sona, Finley, and Lunn
Three live accounts from CBC, CTV, and the Ottawa Citizen covering Mike Duffy's allegations under oath at his trial that:
1) Con campaign chair Doug Finley's "black ops" team perpetrated the Saanich-Gulf Islands robocalls in the 2008 federal election (Dec. 10 testimony) and
2) Doug Finley said Sona could not have perped the Guelph robocalls in the 2011 election because he hadn't taken their black ops course. (Dec. 16 testimony)
Go read Alison's entire piece.
When you're done I think you will be hard pressed not to conclude that these people really were out to co-opt Canadian democracy, all in the name of (according to Mr. Duffy at least) 'cleverness'.
Disgusting.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
The Advent Jukebox, Day 16....Silver Bells.
Oddly enough, it almost seems like actual winter these days in Lotusland.
Imagine that!
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This Day In Clarkland...Pammy's Progress.
ForeverVille
One can only wonder...
Is that a list of all the confirmed LNG plants in that huge double-thinky billboard-thingy that towers above the podium behind the good Ms. Martin?
Because, trillions!
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