http://www.forgetthebox.net More than a Montrea Blog, Better than you think Mon, 20 May 2013 17:54:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.forgetthebox.net/syria-chemical-war/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/syria-chemical-war/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 05:32:57 +0000 Trent Lee http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=50513 In Washington and Ottawa, signs of political unwillingness and inaction for Syrian intervention are beginning to show. All signs suggest a concerted misleading effort to end Syria’s civil war are nothing more than empty rhetoric and political shadowboxing. Following recent UN reports alleging use of chemical warfare in Syria, UN investigator Carla del Ponte claimed ]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/syria-chemical-war/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/how-republicans-are-killing-santa-claus/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/how-republicans-are-killing-santa-claus/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:37:42 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=50295 Taking a look at President Barack Obama’s latest budget proposal, you’ll find it trims Social Security benefits for millions and concentrates very heavily on deficit reduction. What you might not realize is that Obama is playing right into the hands of a decades old Republican strategy]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/how-republicans-are-killing-santa-claus/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/political-minority-groups-us/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/political-minority-groups-us/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:17:50 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=49814 When it comes to social/political groups however, there is an unacceptable amount of people out there speaking for the minority who not only have a voice, but are speaking louder than a huge majority of us. This shouldn’t be acceptable in a democratic society. Look at One Million Moms]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/political-minority-groups-us/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/the-devastating-effects-of-the-news-medias-portrayal-of-steubenville-rapists/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/the-devastating-effects-of-the-news-medias-portrayal-of-steubenville-rapists/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:45:43 +0000 Aaron Blair http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=49651 On March, 17th, 2013, Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville, Ohio, were found guilty of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl. The defendants, both members of the town’s cherished Big Red football program, dragged the victim to a series of parties on August, 11, 2012, sexually assaulted her and documented the brutal ]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/the-devastating-effects-of-the-news-medias-portrayal-of-steubenville-rapists/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/bitumen-bubble-bust-why-alberta-oil-sands-is-sinking-canada/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/bitumen-bubble-bust-why-alberta-oil-sands-is-sinking-canada/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:00:38 +0000 Trent Lee http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=49318 Not since Confederation has a nation-building project determined so much of Canada’s future, divided Canadians and equaled the endeavor of CP Rail, than Alberta pipelines. Several projects have been proposed but nothing perhaps more politically contentious than the Keystone XL, which would run pipelines from Alberta to parts of central United States. While Northern Gateway ]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/bitumen-bubble-bust-why-alberta-oil-sands-is-sinking-canada/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/shh-dont-say-gay/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/shh-dont-say-gay/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:00:09 +0000 Aaron Blair http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=49281 There is a preposterously detrimental bill brewing in Tennessee, referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. This bill is a revived and modified version of the bill Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield proposed in 2011, which threatened to bar teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom in grades K-8. Originally this bill had been ]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/shh-dont-say-gay/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/austerity-comes-to-america/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/austerity-comes-to-america/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:00:36 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=49217 *This post originally appeared on QuietMike.org, republished with permission from the author. It has been nearly two years in the making. What started out as part of the budget control act of 2011, later morphed into the fiscal cliff just two months ago and has now turned into the “Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2013.” ]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/austerity-comes-to-america/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/a-republican-civil-war/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/a-republican-civil-war/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:00:23 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=48786 Since Barack Obama won his second presidency back in November, a war has been brewing between Republicans and their Tea Party offspring. It is by no means a war between differing ideals or ideology, although they have their differences]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/a-republican-civil-war/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/state-of-the-union-2013/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/state-of-the-union-2013/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:03:15 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=48603 Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States. After the familiar introduction, Congress and the American people got a dose of how President Barack Obama intends to govern over the next four years]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/state-of-the-union-2013/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/al-jazeera-america/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/al-jazeera-america/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:04:12 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=48391 Al Jazeera is coming to America. At the beginning of 2013, the publicly funded Qatar-based broadcaster acquired Current TV, a progressive television station]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/al-jazeera-america/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/40-years-of-having-a-choice/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/40-years-of-having-a-choice/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:00:08 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=48213 Over the last few years, as conservatives have shifted further to the right, we have seen a massive movement to limit access to abortion and reproductive rights]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/40-years-of-having-a-choice/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/jyoti-a-light-for-change/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/jyoti-a-light-for-change/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:00:19 +0000 Dawn McSweeney http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=48062 Her name was Jyoti Singh Pandey. The attack reads like a cross between a depraved nightmare and a bathsalts bad trip: Jyoti, a 23 year old physiotherapy student and her male companion  are trapped on a moving bus, repeatedly and violently violated, beaten and discarded, naked and bleeding. Then the assailants try to run Jyoti ]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/jyoti-a-light-for-change/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/quiet-mikes-2012-year-in-review-top-political-cartoons/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/quiet-mikes-2012-year-in-review-top-political-cartoons/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:15:50 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=47750 Quiet Mike takes a look back at 2012 through the year's best political cartoons]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/quiet-mikes-2012-year-in-review-top-political-cartoons/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/fiscal-myths/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/fiscal-myths/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:00:17 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=47587 By now, everyone has heard the words fiscal cliff. It’s one of those terms coined by politicians that give a false impression on what it actually is, like the right to work laws or clean coal. The fiscal cliff refers to the economic consequences that might result from tax increases and spending cuts due to ]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/fiscal-myths/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/another-day-another-american-tragedy/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/another-day-another-american-tragedy/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:00:09 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=47331 Last Friday, tragedy and heartbreak once again took over the American consciousness as another psychopath went on a shooting spree, the likes of which were never seen in the country before. In Newtown, Connecticut, a small town of 27 000 people, a young man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School. Armed with two pistols and an assault rifle he went on to murder six adults along with twelve girls and eight boys all aged between six and seven. The gunman then proceeded to take his own life and will never pay for the atrocities he’s committed. We have seen this type of scenario play out time and time again, but rarely has the number of victims been so high and never have they been so young]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/another-day-another-american-tragedy/feed/ 0 http://www.forgetthebox.net/wal-mart-helping-to-keep-america-poor/ http://www.forgetthebox.net/wal-mart-helping-to-keep-america-poor/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:00:51 +0000 Quiet Mike http://www.forgetthebox.net/?p=46828 Last week, Wal-Mart employees took to the picket lines to protest low wages and poor benefits on the busiest shopping day of the year. Black Friday protests took place in over a hundred cities in 47 States and attracted thousands of other activists outside of the company. The nationwide, yet semi-isolated strikes may have brought a little more awareness toward the general public, but it did very little to dissuade Americans from partaking in one of their favorite pastimes; shopping]]> http://www.forgetthebox.net/wal-mart-helping-to-keep-america-poor/feed/ 0