JOB HUNTING...duck, baby, duck...

This person seeks an executive position. He will be available soon,
and is willing to relocate. Hard to argue the facts.

RESUME: GEORGE W. BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20520

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Law Enforcement:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the
influence of alcohol. I pleaded guilty, paid a fine, and had my
driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has
been 'lost' and is not available.

Military:
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take
a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the
Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

College:
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a
cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business

in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find
any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my
stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal
that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our
friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected

governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies,
making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure,
Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
- I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions
in borrowed money.
- I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American
history.
- With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's
appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by
over 500,000 votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
- I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a
criminal record.
- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one
billion dollars per week.
- I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
- I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
- I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
12-month period.
- I set the all-time record for most home foreclosures in a 12-month
period.
- I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the
U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans

lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
- I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My 'poorest millionaire,' Condoleezza
Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
- I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a sitting
U.S. President.
- I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most
corporate campaign donations.
- My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends,
Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in
U.S. History, Enron.
- My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to
assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election
decision.
- I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against
investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent
investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent
investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.
- I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history.
- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
- I changed U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts.
- I appointed more convicted criminals to my administration than any
President in U.S. history.
- I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy
in the history of the United States government.
- I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S.
history.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations
remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
- I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
- I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. 'prisoners of war'
detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).
- I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any
President since the advent of television.
- I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year
period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over
the worst security failure in U.S. history.
- I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S. after the World Trade
Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated
country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
- I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people),
shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of
mankind.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked,
pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I

did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S.
citizens, and the world community.
- I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in
duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in wartime.
- In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for
attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
- I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans
(71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and
security.
- I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to
justice.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
- All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's
library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
- All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my
bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
view.
- All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President,
attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and
unavailable for public review.

Would you hire him?

FRee Speech Under Arrest

A number of people have asked for the context of Ezra Levant's Opening Statement posted this morning.

You can read here op-ed article from this morning's Sun, or read the comments after the video for other links to flesh out this nightmare.

Opening Statement

I was alerted to this amazing video by an article on today's op-ed page in the Sun.

The subject is FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

The TYRANT is the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

This is a most important document. Watch it. And remember it.

Malik New Posterboy for Chutzpah

A scorching new definition of chutzpah has arrived.

Ripudaman Singh Malik is suing Ujjal Dosanjh.

Malik, found not guilty in the Air India trial, is believed by most observers to be as guilty as O.J.

He "borrowed" $6 Million of your tax payers dollars for his defense and to date has repaid no a kopek.

He attended a recent ceremony "honoring" a terrorist.

Canadian jurisprudence continues to be taken to the cleaners.

COMMENTARY Audio Interview

I had the great pleasure yesterday of being interviewed by Joseph Planta on his excellent website, http://www.thecommentary.ca/

You can listen to this audio piece here.

Or...you can read a novel, eat an apple or watch the Discovery channel.

Dr. Jeykll & Mr. Lunn

David,

I am sure you have read the reports of how Gary Lunn has fired this woman from AECL. I am still reading and trying to find out what the real story is, but this picture from the Globe and Mail of our so-called "honourable member" from the idyllic riding of Saanich and the Gulf Islands is disturbing. I am thinking of printing out a few hundred copies and stapling them to all the telephone poles in Sidney, where Lunn's constituency office is. Sidney and the Gulf Islands are probably the most civil communities in all of Canada, and I'm not sure they would appreciate this man representing them in the House of Commons:

Best,
John

Huckabee Marries Church & State

Maybe you thought George Bush was dangerous. Maybe you were right.

But stand back, kids.

Because Mike Huckabee is on the horizon.

This madman wants to amend the American Constitution so that it is "in God's standards."

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And thats what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than trying to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.”

To watch the video of this retrograde, click the Crooks and Liars story here.

Tyee Scoops the Dailies, 3-0

Why has it taken http://thetyee.ca to reveal the questionable connections of 3 BC cabinet ministers?

In 3 separate stories yesterday, writers for the local online news source showed possible conflicts of interest for Rich Colman, Barry Penner & Gordon Hogg.

This morning I asked thetyee editor, David Beers, about these stories and he laughed, "It didn't really take deep investigative journalism. Just some basic looking up of the facts."

And where have our local dailies been on these stories?

Read all three pieces:

Here...

and here...

and then here.

Victor Takes on The World - Saudis, France, the Democrats...

No presidential trip to Saudi Arabia would be complete without a gift of deadly weapons. President Bush has continued that tradition that stretches back to Kennedy.

For those Canadians who believe that a Democrat victory will mean an end to international meddling, I remind them that it was a Democrat administration that sent 560,000 soldiers to VietNam, where 50,000 died. Not to mention 2 million VietNamese. Nothing will change in November 2008 unless America ceases to need oil. The irony is no amount of weapons will protect Saudi Arabia from its certain and eventually successful foe, namely the millions of saudi extremists who long for a return to the 7th century. When that happens, and it will, the Saudi Princes will return to doing what their grandfathers did; warming their hands over dried camel dung fire in the desert night. Princes my royal purple ass.

Then there's France, the world's shit disturber. France announced it will provide civilian nuclear technology to the Saudis. Like they need nuclear electricity? This tiresome country of Francxe has created havoc for two centuries trying to recapture its Napoleonic glory. After performing its surrender monkey act in two world wars, precipitating the VietNam war and coddling Saddam, it is at it again.

Private Security or real Police?

Congratulations to the Vancouver Police Union. They are suing the City for its pathetic decision to spend close to a million taxpayer dollars on "ambassadors."

The so-called "ambassadors" are private security employees. Their usefulness and accomplishments are more than questionable.

The police want more police.

Kim Capripants is one of the great supporters of this mistaken initiative. Nuff said?

Where's my Dramamine?

Big Transit Announcement.

Smoke & Mirrors. Blah, blah, blah.

The Monumental Premier - better than a Mental Mayor, I guess - wants so hard to belong to the WAC Bennett class, leaving behind him steel and concrete memorials - the Gord This, the Campbell That.

2020? That used to mean eyesight.

Sounds Fishy to Me

I ordered 2 pieces of halibut the other day. The bill was $26.95.

I told the Safeway clerk to put it back in the window and give me 2 pieces of cod. The bill was $10 something.

Even so.

What's with that?

Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Bureaucracy...

And from the Unbelievable But True crate comes this story:

You've got mail, but no more mailbox

This was a Globe & Mail headline today explaining how Canada Post is cutting back on service to rural mailboxes.

The story in full is here, and the best quote comes from an enlightened union spokesperson:

"Carriers are also worried about repetitive-strain injury from leaning out vehicle windows to stuff the mail into roadside boxes."

Jonathan Baker on Ecodensity, Global Warming and Snitty Hall

The following is a shorter version of a major paper prepared by Jonathan Baker, former City Councilor, lawyer and good friend.

Cool Zoning

Groucho Marx observed that politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, analyzing it incorrectly and applying the wrong solutions. That about sums up Vancouver’s proposed Eco density Charter.

Desperate to appear to be doing something about global warming, City Hall threatens to rezone huge chunks of the single-family neighborhoods of Vancouver and purports to apply ecological footprint theory to zoning. The argument is that high-density apartment living helps cool the earth, because it supposedly produces fewer greenhouse gases. Urban Planner William Rees is the father of Ecological Footprintism. In an article, “Is Humanity Fatally Successful” Rees argues that mankind should be perfectly happy with an income of about $7500 per year. It is comforting to know that we can achieve sustainability if we merely adopt the standard of living of a failed state.

Serious concerns about catastrophic climate change are not new nor are the occasional idiotic proposals to deal with it. In 1950 Emanuel Velikovsky, a charismatic psychoanalyst and amateur astronomer suggested that the earth might wobble and tip at any moment because of the accumulation of polar ice. Some politicians urgently proposed at the time that the US detonate as many nuclear bombs as necessary at one or another of the poles to lighten things up at the heavy end of the planet and thus save the environment.

Mark Twain joked a hundred and twenty-five years ago, “Everyone is talking about the weather but no one does anything about it.” Today City Council is about to take him up on it and rezone for a cooler climate.

Assuming that carbon dioxide and not gamma rays is the driving force of climate change, current climate models offer little benefit to decision makers. For all of the computational power available today, the climate system is too complicated to make a reliable computational model. It is made up of numerous interlocking subsystems, which interact with each other. In some cases there is uncertainty about whether changes would bring a positive or negative feedback. Today's models require that numerous assumptions be made but the wrong assumption can lead to an incorrect model result. There is no indication that the City has made any effort at all to model the impacts of its proposals.

This is a problem. Governments were certain that replacing fossil fuels with biofuels was a sure way of reducing CO2 emissions. That is not how it turned out. A study reported on January 9, 2008 supports earlier research that some biofuels result in more CO2 than fossil fuels.[1]

In this context of uncertainty where scientists argue about whether the world will end in fire or ice, City Hall thinks that by redeveloping single-family areas they will be doing their bit to save the world. They assume that high-density buildings are more sustainable with respect to CO2 emissions. It is quite an assumption. Old buildings have to be demolished and carted off to the land-fill. New construction itself demands a lot of energy. Apartments and their common areas with elevators, lights, heat, air conditioning and other facilities demand enormous amounts of energy and generate lots of carbon dioxide. [2]

An alternative to high-rise construction that has received a fair amount of political blabber is to allow and encourage small houses in yards. The infill, however, will happen at the expense of trees and vegetation which of course photosynthesize CO2 to produce oxygen. How good is that?

And have you heard the one about how the residents of the new improved dense areas are sure to commute to work by transit and shop in the neighborhood? The trouble is that Vancouver’s commuting and shopping patterns have already changed. Increasing numbers of people choose to live in the City, commute to work outside of it and shop at mega-stores. Increasing the density is just as likely therefore to increase car use.[3]

Dense urban areas are magnets. The boulevards of Paris, which has the best public transportation system in the World, are jammed with cars.

Increasing Vancouver’s density by redeveloping and paving over single-family neighborhoods will solve the politicians’ problem of raising money from developers. To propose it as an environmental solution is scandalous.

Sincerely,

JONATHAN BAKER ,

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[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080103144404.htm

[2] Eco D. Charter “Higher density buildings consume less energy and water, especially when combined with green design.”

[3] Eco D. Charter “Two key contributors to climate change are transportation and building energy use. EcoDensity can help reduce both. Well-located density puts people close to shops, jobs, amenities and services, meaning more trips are made by walking, biking and transit, instead of by car. This also creates a larger customer base for local shopping areas, supporting a wider array of shops and services, which in turn, means that even more needs can be fulfilled close to home. Similarly, putting people close to transit means more trips are made using transit, and makes better transit service more feasible

Susan, of Cambie Street Fame, Writes Bill Goo

Hi Bill

Sam Sullivan will say anything to promote himself - ANYTHING.

The audacity to blame "the past City administration" for the financial
disaster that the Canada Line has become is beyond the pale!

He was the only City councillor that would not meet with the merchants in
early 2005 when we desperately needed help - and now as Mayor has continued
ignored our concerns, and has turned his back on any and all financial help,
joining the Provincial choir with "it's not our project" - blame TransLink.

He cast his vote along with the other councillors for their CONDITIONAL
approval of the project - the many conditions included adequate mitigation
for the impacts of the project on the community and businesses.

Obviously this never happened. Lives have been forever changed and
livelihoods ruined needlessly and shamefully. This project was built on the
backs of the small businesses, for the profit of the builder and big
developers - the same people who now sit on the appointed TransLink Board!
There was and is no transparency - no accountability - no integrity.

Thanks Bill, for raising our concerns with the Premier. I just heard your
exchange ..."we've learned from what happened Cambie Street" says the
Premier. What has he learned? That you can destroy the lifes work of small
business people with absolute impunity while offering a limp "it's too bad
what happened there"....Has he learned that he can do whatever he wants, and
slap the face of democracy? I am disgusted by this arrogant dictatorship.

It will be very interesting how they justify boring down Broadway, after
promising a bored tunnel to Cambie merchants then double-crossing all of us
and bankrupting many in the process. They approved shutting down Cambie
which is the main route in and out of the City from all points South and
East, yet claim Broadway impacts would be of great concern. They need to
acknowledge this with immediate compensation for doing the wrong thing alomg
the Canada Line.

This is going to stick to our teflon Premier. We'll see to that, and we'll
get the financial relief that is due one way or the other.

Regards
Susan

Build the Line and Build it Right

I was in the San Francisco Bay area recently.

I travelled from the S.F. airport to the Oakland-Coliseum stop and back on separate days, a trip of about 50 minutes. I travelled from the Oakland-Coliseum stop to Powell Street and market and Union Square and back on another day. That's a trip of about 25 minutes.

On all occasions, I found the experience not pleasurable, but reasonable. Cheap, efficient, reliable, easy to understand and negotiate.

Has BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) reduced auto traffic on the Bay Bridge or roads in general? I have no idea, but I would guess not. We drove 4 times from the Oakland stop to and from my friend's house in Clayton. Each trip took one hour on a packed freeway system.

Does that mean BART is a waste? Not at all. It's a great system, millions of people use it every day, and if more lines are built, more will use them.

All of which is to say...if Premier Campbell wants to built more public transit, I say, "Do it!"

Now, if you screw up my 10th Avenue shopping district while building a subway to UBC the heartless way you have screwed up Cambie Street, I will be mightily pissed and lobbying to have your head.

But, that aside, build the damn things already. Only this time, try to do it right.

And while you're at it, throw in several hundred million in compensation for the Cambie merchants whom you have bankrupted with your callous negligence.

Whister Steal

Here's an idea.

Let Gordon Campbell and John Furlong live in a shipping container.

Sophie to the Rescue

It is always dangerius to read the Sun's Frances Bula on City Hall.

After 3 years of worshipping Larry Campbell without shame every morning on the front page, Bula has still been allowed to cover this important beat. Why?

This morning, she did it again.

In noting that The Nutty Mayor has some federal Liberal support, Bula Bula adds, in a great leap of non-logic, that "should allay past crticisms about Sullivan that he has surrounded himself with federal Conservatives."

Well, Frannie, here's the double scoop:

Sam has surrounded himself with federal Conservatives. That is not a criticism; that is fact.

And, being the wily little opportunist that he is, The Nutty One has added a few Liberal sychophants to the corral as well. One does not negate the other.

Now, look at the high quality that Nutty is choosing.

Former Liberal MP Sophie Leung.

Now there's a doer.

Can anybody point to a single contribution to the general commweal made by this ghost?

I say, "Keep up the good work, Sam. Surround yourself with shadows. That'll have great results. For us."

IMDb Video: Vantage Point

IMDb Video: Vantage Point

Feminism Stops at the Border - The Israeli Border

Feminism has its limits.

Here's the headline from Friday's edition of America's oldest Jewish newspaper, The Forward:

"Pro-Israel Ad Rejected by Ms. Magazine"

Ms. mag, by the way, bills itself as "more than a magazine - a movement."

Is that a set-up for some bad humour, or what?

Read the story here.