Book Of Norm

Have dual citizenship? How about being a naturalized citizen? In Canada, you are now second tier. This is something that strikes home as a US and UK dual citizen. The concept of stripping away someone's citizenship and sending them into exile is both anachronistic and reeks of a totalitarian police state. Citizenship is not optional. Once someone has become a citizen, they are part of your country. 100%. Forever. You cannot go back on that contract. It is even more revolting to call it "Strengthening Canadian Citizenship" just as attacks on minorities have always been legitimized (anti-gay? you're "strengthening marriage", anti-immigrant? you're "strengthening society"). Terrible See a Judge anywhere in the new process? Nope - they skipped that part.

Planning a trip soon? You may have seen T-Mobile advertise their Simple Choice Plan. $50/mo, 1GB of LTE data and (big perk!) http://www.t-mobile.com/simple-choice-international-plans.html It seems like a great deal. Step off the plane and instead of the hassle of trying to find a local SIM card, you already have unlimited (slow) data & texting - which is really all you need most of the time.  Since I was flying to the UK where much of my family lives, I went to the page, clicked the link and signed up for a plan. This plan in fact: Simple Choice Unlimited Do NOT get off a plane and start texting with this plan. T-Mobile will charge you a MINIMUM of $0.50 per text and at least $1/mb for data.  Where's the trick? You singed up for a "Simple Choice Plan" and EVERY "Simple Choice" plan comes with international travel right?  Nope.  T-Mobile maintains there are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLANS.  1) Simple Choice Unlimited ...

In a shocking twist, it turns out taking away people's nail clippers and water bottles does not make flying safer.  Seriously, I always though the TSA were a crack squad keeping me safe in the skies. I never listened to those naysayers who said "it's just to make it look like we're doing something." I refused to believe it "No!" I said "my shoes clearly are potential life threatening devices which need to be thoroughly scanned by that guy who looks at 8,356 images an hour and is really paying attention right now." I happily took my laptop out of my bag but left my equally large tablet in, stood in the full body scanner and got shot with harmful radiation, submitted to deep cavity body searches because it MEANT SOMETHING. Now, they've taken all that away from me. Now, when the overweight TSA lady tells me my nail clippers are too large I will no longer feel safe on the plane. When my bag gets pulled aside because I have too many wires an...

“If I’m president of the United States and you’re thinking about joining Al Qaeda or ISIL, I’m not going to call a judge, I’m going to call a drone, and we will kill you.” From the speech Lindsey Graham gave as he announced his desire to become supreme chancellor... err President of the United States. At this point apparently thinking about joining the (seriously fucked up and evil and should be wiped out) terror organizations is enough of a crime to be executed. Clearly Mr. Graham realizes that a statement which so blatantly contravenes the constitution flies in the face of the fact that the President's ultimate purpose is to uphold the constitution? He must intend to pass a new Thought Crime amendment, squaring up that little unconstitutional aspect of his preferred foreign policy.. Or maybe the republicans have simply taken up the Obama school of Presidenting: the constitution, courts, and citizens are obstacles to be ignored in the righteous cr...