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An excerpt from the article: Belo, a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 percent of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost 20 percent of its children going hungry. Then in 1993, a newly elected administration declared food a right of citizenship. The officials said, in effect: If you are too poor [...]
Oh Hilary, you are amazing. *love* Thanks to Shakesville for the video.
History is made every second of every day, but usually those moments are filled with useless trivia or bits that are only important to small amounts of people. Tonight, Barack Hussein Obama was announced as the president-elect of the United States, in an overwhelming landslide of electoral votes. This is a defining moment in our [...]
I have been swept up in the American presidential race these past few months. I am going to an election party tomorrow with a few friends (one of whom is an ex-pat American who absentee-voted) to hopefully cheer and celebrate when Obama wins. Being the neighbour, larger in size but only a fraction in population, [...]
Palin is just so embarrassing, I cannot believe that she has supporters. A Canadian comedy duo called The Masked Avengers from CKOI 96.9 FM in Montreal, Quebec pranked Sarah Palin, convincing her (and her team) they were receiving a call from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. ~ Daily Kos
I tried to watch the Pres debate last night but I couldn’t do it. McCain just kept spinning the same topics again and again (making it obvious that he and Palin got the same lessons) and Brokaw was such a biased fuck that he made me angry. Considering that it isn’t my country and I [...]
… both American and Canadian – don’t vote.
I didn’t watch it because I was too busy being entertained by the US VP debate – that and I already know who I’m voting for in our election. However, this snippet came to my attention and I literally guffawed out loud. Apparently, Layton also asked Harper point blank “Either you don’t care or you’re [...]