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Dennis Kucinich crushs conservative doctor on Canadas health care system

Auto Date Monday, July 13th, 2009

This is why I love this guy, shame the U.S. doesnt have him as president.

Dennis Kucinich Sets Dr. David Gratzer Straight

Ah yes, I’m not surprised that psychiatrist David Gratzer testified this week that the Canadian healthcare system is just awful and how the poor deprived Canadians are simply pouring across the border to the Mayo Clinic to get specialized medical care.

Oddly enough, he forgot to mention that the Canadian government was not only sending them across the border, they were picking up the check. Yes, it’s a system so awful, even Canadian conservatives defend it.

How gratifying it was, to see Dennis Kucinich lay the smackdown on this guy.

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You’re probably not aware that for the past decade or so, right-wing American groups have been pouring a lot of money into Canada to undermine their health system. (Can you guess why? I knew you could! So American health care corporations can make a killing there, too!)

Dr. Gratzer’s biggest thing is hammering away on wait times – even though the long wait times are mostly for non-urgent care. (You can read a rebuttal about many of the common myths here.) He also thinks the way to bring down the cost of prescription drugs is… to cut back on those pesky FDA requirements!

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/not-ready-dennis-kucinich-demolishes

Bruce Sterling – reboot 11 closing talk

Auto Date Friday, July 10th, 2009

Wow, im still stunned from this speech and its nice to hear someone say this out loud.

Video after jump:
http://video.reboot.dk/photo/486788

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Vancouvers Car-Free Day on Main Street

Auto Date Saturday, June 20th, 2009

This is the first year I attended the Car-Free day in Vancouver and there was more going on then I expected. 

There was the usual boring booths and tents but by the end of the day there was six stages playing live music and some of it was alright.

I managed to snap off a few pics, hopefully they give you an idea of what the crowd and scene was like.


- There two were walking around in wedding gowns supporting the car-free day event.


-I liked the idea of this, sit down and listen to someone tell a story.


- Yar matey! this here be car-free day and me parrots love it!


- This should give you a sense of the crowd, lots of happy faces.


- You ever get the feeling that Canada plays checkers and Europe plays chess?


- Got to like the Tyee. www.tyee.ca

So that was last Sunday, seemed like a good crowd and the music was free and live.  Hard to get it wrong really.

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Here Be Dragons: An Introduction to Critical Thinking

Auto Date Saturday, June 20th, 2009

I am constantly running into people that lack even the fundamentals for critical thinking, often they will say “but everyone knows its that way” or “I felt better after I took that herbal remedy” or “they told me it was doctor recommended“. 

Not having a critical outlook on things is not only foolish it can be very dangerous, thats why a video like this is great to give people an overall idea of how to think critically and why its so important.

Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display.

Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.

Here Be Dragons is written and presented by Brian Dunning, host and producer of the Skeptoid podcast, author of Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena, and Executive Producer of The Skeptologists.

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Massive Panorama of Vancouver

Auto Date Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Not ideal, there was some blurring and some shading problems, also notice how the
boats path in the water seems mysteriously cut off.

All in all a nice
little experiment, first time I have tried a stitch project this large,
57 photos in all.

This was on a tripod but notice the rising right
slant. I could have cropped this but I didnt want to lose some detail,
might be worth going back to the same area and retaking some shots and
stitching it again.

Check out the image here … http://www.flickr.com/photos/arghmonkey/2275767598/

Dino Carnage Invasion

Auto Date Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Dinosaurs have invaded and the only thing that can save humanity are plastic soldiers.

Don’t believe me, click the link and see for yourself.

Check out all the photos at … http://www.flickr.com/photos/arghmonkey/sets/72157603964077442/

Quebec police admit to using undercover cops at protest

Auto Date Friday, August 24th, 2007

Finally the Quebec police force has come out and admitted to planting police officers in the protest crowd where they were caught on camera earlier this week.

The police force claims they were only there to weed out trouble makers which seems odd considering they were the ones holding rocks and being aggresive. Sounds like a line of bullshit to me.

Hopefully we can work to weed out these twisted police practices more often.

Cops disguised as protesters placed in crowd to start riot in Quebec

Auto Date Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Well we all should know that cops are capable of many deceitful and sleazy tactics, this is one of the latest and while it chills me to be reminded how disgusting our so called peace officers can be I have to say I smiled happily to realize that these three assholes were caught.

Now I am just waiting for people to recognize the faces of these pieces of shit so we can expose them as cops in front of the entire country.

What a shameful act by our enforcement agency.

Here is a picture of the face of one of the cops from the video clip.

Lets try to get some internet power behind this, pass this image on to friends and friends of friends, lets see if we cant figure out who exactly these guys are.