Diasable the Enablers on the Queen of What?

Meet Murray, the Pilot.

Murray was my next-door neighbour. Murray was a drunk.

With Captains like Murray at the helm, it's no wonder Canadian Pacific Airlines went tits up.

One day I came home and my son, Sean, then age about 3, told me that Murray, the drunk pilot, had been driving his motorcycle across all the lawns, including ours and that he had almost hit Sean.

When I found Murray a few minutes later, he was enjoying another drink with his buddies in a back yard not too distant.

I had a hockey stick in my hand.

This is what I said,

"Hey, Murray, come by our place again on your motorcycle drunk and I'm going to fucking decapitate you. Please do this cause I really want to hurt you."

That was the last we heard of Murray, the drunk pilot.

Now here's my thinking about this sooooo Coastal funny story about how everybody on BC Ferries is smoking pot.

Shoot the fucker at high noon in the town square.

Drug and alcohol testing are both mandatory and random in the transportation business in America. I'm up for that. What's the problem, Bunkie?

Oh, according to the wisdom of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, you cannot discriminate on the basis of disability, and ....wait for it...drug & alcohol addictions are classified as disabilities.

Of course, this fits the logic that likes to claim that just because I call something blue, it is therefore blue.

If you believe that drug & alcohol addictions are disabilities, you need a thorough head cleaning, and if you think that some dorkhead deckhand on the Queen of IforgethwereIam is disabled because he smokes a joint twice a wek, then we're in really, really big trouble.

THE BUYING OF THE VOTE

The other day, Guest Blogger Victor wrote about the favorite Canadian political pastime - The Buying of the Ethnic Vote.

Today, we get the ultimate story illustrating Victor's point.

The Liberals, urgent for the Indo-Canadian vote, spent $25 Million of your tax dollars on an immigration office in India, that has resulted in hundreds o clearly bogus applications. Citizenship and Immigration Canada officials begged the government NOT to open this office as they were well aware of the corruption that was the norm in the Punjabi city of Chandigrah.

Of course, the government did not listen. They wanted those Punjabi-Canadian votes.

Smile Though YOur Heart is Aching

John Furlong wants me and you to make Vancouver a more welcoming place for his Olympics.

That's nice, John.

Clearly spending too much time with BC Ferries workers.

This is one of the most unfriendly cities in the world, in one of the coldest countries on earth.

Smiles should be recorded by roving photographers just to prove that they occasionally break through the rude indifference.

O.K. Just for you, John, I'll leave my car at home and quit work early.

Smoke much, Buddy?

Sam Fools Nobody

Miro Cernetig nails The Idiot Mayor this morning. If you missed it, here it is. It's a beaut.

Testing? Exams? Results? We Couldn't Do That. It isn't Nice

The Bloomberg administration and the New York City teachers’ union announced an agreement yesterday on a plan that would give teachers bonuses based largely on the overall test scores of students at schools that have high concentrations of poor children.

Can you imagine the BC Teachers' Federation agreeing to something like this????

Read the whole story and ask yourself what New York teachers understand about education that we don't

Victor Sails the HMS Mildew

Hi Mensch:

No doubt, Mildew will rise to the defense of BC Ferries crew who may have been Stoned at Sea.

Mildew believes that cannabis and Canada are made for each other. The Weed Leaf Forever.

What Mildew will not acknowledge is that weed today is not the weed of the 60's. In the 60's, a few tokes would sharpen your appetite for strawberries, peanut butter whatever. Weed today will turn your legs into cement pillars and your brain into yogurt.

Mildew is quite happy with the prospect of a truck driver, dozing on BC Bud, driving a gas truck past your neighbourhood school. He celebrates the idea of a BC Ferry, under the guidance of Captain Crunch, squashing docks and boats while Captain Crunch does a doobie on the bridge.

Mildew, and his employer, The Vancouver Stunned, are hopelessly out of touch.

The Boulevarier

Who's handling the PR in Victoria?

Further to our Graham Bruce post of yesterday...Vaughn palmer reveals that Mr. Bruce's response to the accusations that he did not properly register as a lobbyist were delivered to the press by a government employee.

BUt he doesn't work for the government.

Who's handling the PR at 12th & Cambie?

After 3 months of saying, FUCK YOU, VANCOUVER, City Hall, which still hasn't managed to get the library workers back to work, buys a half page in the Sun - with YOUR MONEY - and says, "THANK YOU VANCOUVER."

If I had the money, I'd buy a half page too, and say, "NO THANKS."

Forget the Cowboy Hats Already. Let's try dealing with Reality

The reason nothing ever gets done is that we still live in Simple Town.

Everybody wants a hero and a villain, white hats and black hats. The world, apparently is peopled with Good Guys and Bad Guys.

I guess that's why we all love sports. A beginning, a middle and an end. A final score. Somebody won, YEAH! Somebody lost, BOO!

If only life was even remotely like that.

Take Stephen Harper, please.

The man says he's going to do some things about crime. Right away, he is immediately cast, by the water cooler crowd, as a sonofabitching Law & Order Demon.

But look at most of his proposals; think about them for a second.

If you're found guilty of 3 violent or sexual offences, you are liable to be branded a dangerous offender. ALL RIGHT BY ME.

Stiffer penalties for impaired driving. REALLY ALL RIGHT BY ME.

Mandatory prison sentences for gun crimes. ALL RIGHT BY ME.

Tougher bail conditions for gun crimes. ALL RIGHT BY ME.

Young people who commit serious crimes are held accountable to their victims and communities. ALL RIGHT BY ME.

And - although not addressed in the Throne Speech - taking a hard look at the poisonous mistake of "safe" injection sites, free needles, and free drugs. REALLY, REALLY, REALLY ALL RIGHT WITH ME.

So, for all of these considerations, with which most Canadians totally agree, the chattering classes immediately let their knees jerk in unison, "Oh that Harper!"

Well, Harper is no hero for me; but these policies seem to me long overdue and I welcome them.

Her Day in Court - Why is this Necessary?

Hi David

I just came back from another pre-trial hearing regarding my legal action for compensation for businesses losses due to the RAV debacle. Me, and my lawyer - them and their 6 lawyers. Who knows how much money they have spent to fight me, instead of giving compensation.

We have another hearing on November 7th and 8th where the bullies will try to have my case dismissed.

Thanks for your interest in this just cause for compensation. I will keep you posted on next steps.

Regards
Susan

Susan Continues Her Assault on the Canada Line Juggernaut

The EditorProvince - Small Business Week feature - October 16/07Abby Palmer - "Growing her Business"

Abby really is a wonderful example of the kind of entrepreneurial spiritthat it takes to be successful. She's energetic, thoughtful, creative,determined and she did her homework.

That said, we would not be celebrating the success of her business had shestill been in her location on Cambie Street. All around where her shop was,are empty stores and struggling family run businesses. The RAV/Canada Lineand every level of government neglected to do their homework and factoradequate compensation into their business plan, to ensure that the smallbusinesses would survive this unprecedented hardship.All mitigation has clearly failed, and after two years of construction manyfamilies are in financial crisis as a result.

It is outrageous that we areexpected to bear this unfair burden, and are being forced into businessfailure by the Province of BC and this several billion dollar governmentdriven project.

The best laid plans, and decades of hard work are now in jeopardy for hundreds of people, as the ripple effect of business losses reach not justowners, but employees and suppliers, and the residents as well.The Province indeed should be celebrating the successes of the smallbusiness community as we represent 98 percent of all business in theprovince, and have made a major contribution to the 4 billion dollar surplusthis year. And they are showing their appreciation by destroying thelivelihoods of the small independant shops that line their RAV/Canada Lineroute by refusing to take responsibility for the consequenses of thisconstruction. If this can happen in our neighbourhood, it can happen to anysmall business anywhere in the province. This is wrong and must be maderight.These families and all small businesses deserve better than bankruptcy.

Compensation is the right thing to do.

Susan Heyes Hazel&Co

Danielle de Niese: Handel Arias

Hello!

Victor Finds the "CON" in Conservative...and uncovers POLENTA POLITICS!

It is sad, although not surprising, to read in today's Globe, a story stipulating that the Conservatives have a strategy to woo the urban ethnic groups in Canada.

For three decades, the Liberals have been the five dollar political whore in Canada's multicultural brothel. They would say anything, promise anything, to fill school buses with bovine voters from various ethnic halls, temples and churches.

Now the conservatives have discovered that there is voter gold in those hyphenated-Canadian hills.

So here is my question. Will the Conservative promises in Urdu, Hindi, Farsi etc. be the same as the promises in English/French. We already know that the Libs would sell their souls for a cabbage roll or shawarma.

Now, the PCs have officially embraced polenta politics.

They will, like the furtive John, pay a quick visit, love awkwardly, leave money on the bedside table, and stumble on to the next ethnic bedroom, trying to pull on their blue pants over their conservative brown shoes.

The Real News is Alarming...and Essential

Regular commentor "Murdock" has alerted us to therealnews. com and in particular a frightening story about the CIA. This story also carries back to Canada and the Arar case.

Check it out. It includes a first-rate video cast.

Pseudo-Science Strikes Again

The trouble with most so-called "studies" is that they tell us what we already knew ages ago. Money not well spent.

Yesterday, I was singularly depressed by a TV commercial for a van.

The commercial shows a "family" all piling into the van and each person disappearing up their own asshole playing with a different electronic device. One boy is on his X-Box, two kids are playing some other thing, mom is on her computer, dad is driving and watching a movie. Everybody is having a grand old time. The van gets to a spectacular cliff overlooking a beautiful sunset-draped beach. Everybody continues playing with their toys.

This is, apparently, the groovy new family configuration. Great.

So this morning the Vanier Insitute for the Family announces with front page fanfare that "Family Time is Losing out to Technology." Apparently, they have discovered that people "can be isolated even when under the same roof."

Brilliant.

Why the study? Why the announcement?

All they had to do was ask the ad agencies. Or you and me.

7-Eleven Model for the Homeless Exposed

Bev Meslo, writing in the Letters to the Editor, today, absolutely nails it on the subject of Campbell and Coleman's cynical shelter money.

She calls it the "7-Eleven" model.

Read the letter.

Graham Bruce is Guilty of breaking the Rules

Graham Bruce was the BC Labour Minister.

Now he is a lobbyist.

It is not credible or acceptable that he claim he didn't know he had to register as a lobbyist. This is sheer arrogance and lies.

Shut the man down.

I Hate Your Team. I Sabatoge Your Bus

Hockey is so serious in the Hinterland that people cut the brake lines on a team bus???

Oh, yah, the backwoods are a great place to raise kids.

If you missed this story, you're in luck. Here it is.

Air Canada & WestJet should be grounded until, they GROW UP

The Conference Board of Canada is trying to get a handle on CO2 emissions.

But Air Canada and WestJest have both refused to disclose information on what kind of imprint heir little enterprises are making on the environment.

Now, that's great Corporate Citizenship.

I'm Sorry, Your Policy Has Been cancelled Due to High Winds

Are you familiar with the many insurance companies that have gone broke?

No, of course not. Maybe you're more familiar with the Insurance Companies, who, like, banks, have marble floors and 40 foot ceilings and towering towers.

Well, check out the latest from the Excited States, where it is now becoming commonplace for major insurers to cancel people home coverage for fear of catastrophe like hurricanes.

This is the best example of the dry rotten underbelly of Corporate Thinking I've seen in a long time.