REAL VALUE(S)

Patrick Kinsella - he who would rather not testify, thanks very much - boasted to BC Rail that his communications company had a "value-added component."

No doubt.

Getting the Premier elected and then re-elected would probably in the real world give a fella some extra grease.

You betcha.

More than once I have written in this space about the Great Triangle: Gordon Campbell, Patrick Kinsella and CN Rail Chair David McLean.

This has been for some time now the Great BC Buddies in Good Times Movie.

In this morning's Globe & Mail, Rod Mickleburgh reports: "At one point, CN Rail chair David McLean conveyed information to Mr. Kinsella that the deal appeared to be falling apart rather than dealing directly with BC Rail. Mr. Kinsella then conveyed CN's concerns to BC Rail, Mr. Bolton [Basi-Virk defense lawyer] said. “[Mr. Kinsella] may not be working for CN, but there's clearly a relationship.”

The defense will present further arguments to Justice Bennett on August 31st that they want Kinsella to be issued a subpoena.

You think?

REALLY BAD POLICY IGNORED

On Wednesday, I wrote about the truly mistaken and greedy plan for "revitalizing" the Little Mountain Housing properties at 33d and Main.

In yesterday's Courier, Tom Sandborn delivered a terrific piece spelling out even further the text and texture of this bad planning.

I had no idea until I read Tom's editorial that over 700 Little Mountain residents were forced out of their homes by this deeply uncaring government.

Where have they gone?

How much have their rents in their new digs gone up?

Who is paying for this disruption?

One sits by in horror and watches a democratically elected government in 2009 in Canada heave poor people from their homes and then say that the new development, which of course will involve corporate profits in the "new mix," will take years and years to appear.

As Sandborn so aptly closes his article, "A solution that put affordable housing ahead of a developer's convenience and politicians' expediency would be the real win/win."

Why is this public atrocity getting so little attention?

Can the mainstream media get any more complacent?

Yes,It's Silly...but it's funny.

Gordon the Chicken


Trevor the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several
hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets' and eight or ten
roosters, to fertilize the pullets' eggs.


Trevor kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the
soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time so he
bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell
had a different tone so Trevor could tell from a distance, which
rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an
efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.


The farmer's favourite rooster was Gordon, and a very fine specimen he
was too, but on this particular morning Trevor noticed Gordon's bell
hadn't rung at all!


Trevor went to investigate.


The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets,
hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover but to farmer Trevor's
amazement, Gordon had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.


He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.



Trevor was so proud of Gordon, he entered him into the London
Exhibition and Gordon became an overnight sensation among the judges.



The Result?


The judges not only awarded Gordon the No Bell Piece Prize but they
also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.


Clearly Gordon was a politician in the making: Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.


Do you know a Politician called Gordon?