Showing posts with label Lost Touch With Reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lost Touch With Reality. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Retirement Of The Likes Of Bob White...
...opened the gates of mediocrity in the union movement. IMHO if unions want to turn things around it will be done in the boardrooms not the streets.
Kelly McParland: Some helpful suggestions for organized labour
The Toronto Star has a secret memo from two big labour unions in which they concede they could go the way of the dinosaurs unless they reinvent themselves.
The paper, titled “A Moment of Truth for Canadian Labour,” says the economic pressures of globalization, growing employer aggression, hostile government policy and public cynicism have weakened unions significantly during the past two decades. “If unions do not change, and quickly, we will steadily follow U.S. unions into continuing decline,” says the paper, which is marked “confidential.”
“We must reverse the erosion of our membership, our power and our prestige.”
Membership in private sector unions is down to 17.4%, compared to 75% in the public sector. In the U.S., private sector membership is even worse — just 7% — and even public sector membership is just 35%. Canada could go the same way. Read More »
Kelly McParland: Some helpful suggestions for organized labour
The Toronto Star has a secret memo from two big labour unions in which they concede they could go the way of the dinosaurs unless they reinvent themselves.
The paper, titled “A Moment of Truth for Canadian Labour,” says the economic pressures of globalization, growing employer aggression, hostile government policy and public cynicism have weakened unions significantly during the past two decades. “If unions do not change, and quickly, we will steadily follow U.S. unions into continuing decline,” says the paper, which is marked “confidential.”
“We must reverse the erosion of our membership, our power and our prestige.”
Membership in private sector unions is down to 17.4%, compared to 75% in the public sector. In the U.S., private sector membership is even worse — just 7% — and even public sector membership is just 35%. Canada could go the same way. Read More »
Friday, May 13, 2011
You Can't Put A Nut...
...back in the shell once you cracked the shell.
Why you can't argue with a conspiracy theorist
“The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding or slight discrepancy to defeat 20 pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than 10 normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumours, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists, as the late lawyer Louis Nizer once observed, that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.”
— Vincent Bugliosi, from Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Why you can't argue with a conspiracy theorist
“The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding or slight discrepancy to defeat 20 pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than 10 normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumours, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists, as the late lawyer Louis Nizer once observed, that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.”
— Vincent Bugliosi, from Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Concrete Benches And Pink Umbrellas Satisfy Hume BUT...
Hume: On the waterfront, Doug Ford needs a business lesson
...Kuitenbrouwer put on his prescription glasses and
Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Waterfront’s bright future still only on the billboards
...Kuitenbrouwer put on his prescription glasses and
Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Waterfront’s bright future still only on the billboards
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Sunday, January 09, 2011
The Speech Police Jumping For Joy...
Rex Murphy: Don’t censor Mark Twain
What would Mark Twain think of prissily bowdlerizing Huckleberry Finn.
Or — to be more specific — what would he think of a U.S. publisher’s recently announced decision to purge a new Huck Finn edition of the n-word?
We actually have, at least indirectly, a very good idea of what he would think. Twain, a word-artist if ever there was one, wrote a sentence that every would-be censor should be forced to mutter a hundred times while seeking forgiveness from the goddess of literature: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug” Read More »
Or — to be more specific — what would he think of a U.S. publisher’s recently announced decision to purge a new Huck Finn edition of the n-word?
We actually have, at least indirectly, a very good idea of what he would think. Twain, a word-artist if ever there was one, wrote a sentence that every would-be censor should be forced to mutter a hundred times while seeking forgiveness from the goddess of literature: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug” Read More »
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
IMHO She Would Have A Hard Time...
...getting invited to one of the daily Tim Horton morning coffee klatches held across Canada.
The Spew: Joy Behar adds another conservative “bitch” to her hate list
October 26, 2010 12:29 PM by Michelle Malkin
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The Spew: Joy Behar adds another conservative “bitch” to her hate list
October 26, 2010 12:29 PM by Michelle Malkin
78 Comments
8 Trackbacks
Friday, October 22, 2010
What Next?
Will Social In-activists lobby various levels of government to not accept taxes from "horror film" venues that in most cases are more explicit and "horrifying;" close down all haunted houses at carnivals, etc.
Goar: Horror show for former patients
By Carol Goar
Fri Oct 22 2010
Why did no alarm bells go off on when SickKids Foundation endorsed a horror show in a former psychiatric asylum?
Goar: Horror show for former patients
By Carol Goar
Fri Oct 22 2010
Why did no alarm bells go off on when SickKids Foundation endorsed a horror show in a former psychiatric asylum?
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Saturday, May 08, 2010
The Deck Now Has 54 Cards...
Family furious at police over man's death
...do you think Facebook participants will start coming forward and identifying suspects that the community refuse to identify?
...the race card was 53 and now the homophobic card makes 54.
Harper gov't won't fund T.O. gay pride festival
...do you think Facebook participants will start coming forward and identifying suspects that the community refuse to identify?
Facebook site accuses cops
The Facebook community has rendered its verdict: The cops killed 18-year-old Junior Alexander Manon.
...the race card was 53 and now the homophobic card makes 54.
Harper gov't won't fund T.O. gay pride festival
Tories target Pride Week, Grits say
Counterpoint: Yakov Rabkin on Pride parade
...Comrade Miller should be able to find the $400k for gay pride in the same place he found the $1.5B:
Metrolinx says no to Miller's $1.5 billion offer
Anti-gay bias is behind a federal government decision to drop Toronto’s Pride Week from the list of tourism events that received special funding this year, the Liberals charged Friday.
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Let's Not Forget...
...he did TEXT a $10 donation to Haitian Relief and he attended the Bono concert to feed hungry children.
Friday, April 16, 2010
The Bogeyman Will Eventually Break Out Of The Closet...
...and our only salvation might be if Haiti, et al have recovered and we can ask them for fiscal help.
When is a user fee not a user fee?
Ivison: Amid all the tinsel about Rahim and Helena and whether Larry King will make Liz Taylor his ninth wife (I just made that up but there's a certain insane symmetry to it), important things are happening in the new Hollywood of the North.
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When is a user fee not a user fee?
Ivison: Amid all the tinsel about Rahim and Helena and whether Larry King will make Liz Taylor his ninth wife (I just made that up but there's a certain insane symmetry to it), important things are happening in the new Hollywood of the North.
MORE...
Saturday, February 27, 2010
A Break From Poverty, Hunger, Child Abuse, Terrorism...
Life: Hampson
Lady Gaga and the hermaphrodite controversy
Was it fake? Real? It didn't really matter. A penis is every girl's best accessory if she wants to make a statementFriday, January 22, 2010
When Push Comes To Shove It Is A Simple Matter...
...who gives and gets the money. Is It value added?
Rethinking Afghanistan
How the US is attacking Taliban funding
Official: Cracking down on Taliban funding is "like punching jello."
• "It's a perfect war. Everybody makes money."
• Good money after bad in Afghanistan?
Monday, January 11, 2010
You Only Need To Read Blogs Highlighting Diversity Issues In England
- David Frum: England made Abdulmutallab
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Abdulmutallab vanished to Yemen for training before the attack. Still, it’s not primarily Yemen we should be worrying about today.
American intelligence did not act on multiple warnings of danger, and Dutch screeners overlooked the explosives on Abdulmutallab’s person. Yet even these near-lethal Dutch and American mistakes should not disturb us most.
The most daunting danger exposed by the underwear bombing is a danger that originates among Great Britain’s radicalized Muslims.
Margaret Wente: This is not the language of resistance against foreign occupation. It's the language of apocalyptic salvation.
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010
Two Criteria..FREE And Let Someeone Else PAY
I think this list was meant to go to Santa Claus...
In 2010 we want...Toronto
In 2010 we want...Toronto
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.