Category Archives: Miscellaneous

One Hundred and Forty Five Years Ago Today

The first federal registration in response to the first federal trademark application was issued to the Averill Chemical Paint Company for a design with an eagle and a ribbon and the words, “Economical, Brilliant”.

This particular trademark may not be in use today, but trademarks can survive a long time. For example, the lodes U.S. trademark still in use was registered on May 27, 1884 — over 131 years ago. That’s a long time for a company to have exclusive rights to a mark, label, name, signature, or logo that exclusively identifies that companies products and/or services.

And given the importance of brand, societal damnation 39, this is an important legal advantage that cannot be overlooked.

LOLCat Says “Canada, Vote that [Person] Out”!

Last week, Canadian LOLCat said Canada, do NOT vote Conservative because, in LOLCat’s view, it was long past time for Harper to go.

However, since the election is tomorrow, SI wanted to be sure LOLCat hadn’t changed its mind. So we asked:

LOLCat, have you changed your mind about your opinion that Canadians should NOT vote conservative tomorrow?

LOLCat replied …


No way! It’s time to Vote that [Person] Out!

Why so hard on Harper, LOLCat. Not that we don’t agree that he deserves it, but I’m curious. Is it his invasion of our privacy? Is it his withdrawal from environmental protection? Is it his adoption of war-like ways and his love for Uncle Sam? Is it his treatment of sick moms on disability? Can you even settle on a #1 reason why Harperman, it’s time for you to go?

It’s his refusal to end the seal hunt!

Really? I know it’s cruel, but why does that particular injustice bother you more than his many efforts to enact legislation that violates our very basic rights and freedom?

If he allows those poor, defenceless, furry seal cubs to be bludgeoned to death, how do we know we’re not next? Our fur is just as soft …

Good point, LOLCat. Good point. You must be terrified. (FYI, if you, like LOLCat, love the seals too, you should sign the Humane Society International petition to end the seal hunt.)

So, in the words of our new Veterans Group slogan, tomorrow, remember its Vote Anyone But Conservative! And maybe Canada will have a future that doesn’t involve it becoming the 51st state …


Canadian LOLCats Do NOT Vote Conservative

LOLCAT Says – Canada, Do NOT Vote Conservative!

LOLCat, the election is coming up on October 19 (2015) and Harperman, the same individual whose party is effectively holding cancer sufferers, survivors, and their affected kin hostage by not matching up to $35 Million of donations unless the party is re-elected (Source: CBC News), wants to be re-elected.

What do you think, LOLCat. Should Canadians vote Conservative and, by definition, put the Harperman back in office? (Remembering that politics in this country does not work like politics in the United States. Whomever leads the party that gets the most seats gets to be Prime Minister, even if he [or she] is not elected in her riding!)

Before you answer, let me remind you that the Harperman is the same individual who:

  • forced Canada into the TPP negotiations
  • withdrew us from the Kyoto Protocol (making us the first developed country in the world to withdraw from this planet saving protocol)
  • cut funding to Veterans Affairs to the point that a Veterans Group has launched an Anyone But Conservatives campaign, Green Party included! (Source: Huffington Post: “veterans launch anyone but conservatives campaign during harper stop”)
  • … and then spent over $700,000 fighting a class-action lawsuit fighting wounded Afghan veterans who just wanted the benefits and care they were promised (Source: Huffington Post: “veterans lawsuit canada harper government”)
  • runs Billion dollar deficits while cutting social programs (Source: They Tyee)
  • introduced controversial bill C-51, which, according to the OSCE, violates Universal Principles of Human Rights and gives CSIS unprecedented new powers to spy on individual Canadians and revoke terrorist propaganda (Source: National Post)
  • put our safety in jeopardy every time we leave the house by slashing funding across all safety programs at Transport Canada (Source: Global News)
  • pushed First Nations to give up the rights to their land for oil and gas, land that took them decades upon decades to reclaim (Source: The Guardian)
  • spent over 1.3 Million fighting sick moms’ EI disability benefits, wait, what?!? (Source: The Globe and Mail)
  • made a secret arms deal with Saudi Arabia (Source: The Globe and Mail)
  • and who is, in leading Canadian minds, gasp!, pro-war (Source: Globe and Mail)
    and who apparently loves the smell of napalm in the morning
    (how anti-Canadian can you get? There’s a reason we’ve went from being one of the best respected countries in the world to a country that is literally spit on!)

And who has committed more sins than we can document in a single post, but which have been chronicled and made freely available by CUSP (Citizens United for a Sustainable Planet) on The Harper Sin List* page.

What say you, LOLCat?

We agree, LOLCat, we agree. Harper has singlehandedly ignored Canadian ways while destroying our reputation and our cultural heritage.

In the words of Tony Turner:

Harperman, it’s time for you to go!

We’ve had enough of your not-so-benign dictatorship!

There’s a reason the Canadian Christians think “Harper’s clock is in Jesus’ office” (mwpr.ca).