Bye Bye Bigots.

From the Globe & Mail:

CALGARY — After almost four years of “telling it like it is” – a moral code that’s attracted its fair share of controversy – the print edition of the Western Standard, the Calgary-based bastion of Albertan conservative politics, has been shut down. Publisher Ezra Levant said in an interview that while the Western Standard name will likely live on in some form on the Internet, the tough state of play facing all Canadian publishers means it’s not viable to continue the magazine in its hard-copy format.

“We weren’t near enough to being in the black to carry on, and you can’t save the world if you can’t pay the rent,” he said, adding that last-minute talks with potential rescuers had fallen through, forcing the closing to be announced Friday.

I’m going to sleep well tonight.

Heading out

I’m heading out to Barrier for the next couple of days to work in the mountains , hopefully I can come up with something good to write about. I was thinking maybe a short story about a militia bake sale to raise money for new weapons , someone makes negative comment about a lovely lady’s rice krispy squares , husband pulls gun to defend wife’s honour and a Jacob Reynolds look alike gets shot.

Sounds like a good one to me.

Cascadia

I happen to stumble across this clip of Glenn Beck discussing secession with two very promient secessionists from the League of the South and the Second Vermont Republic. I started to read into secession movements and was surprised to discover one that advocated the states of Orgeon , Washington and parts of Northen California to join with my province British Columbia to form a new nation called Cascadia. While it seems like a ridiculous idea to some the secessionists do make some strong arguments. People are fed up with over bearing Federal Governments in both countries , Peak Oil , Endless War and runaway Corporatism are only going to strengthen these movements not to mention the total lack of leadership on Climate Change could factor in as well.