Interview
Immediately below you will find a link to Joseph Planta's website, The Commentary.
Click in and you'll hear, if you like, an interview he did with me the other day about my recent re-acquaintance with real and effective drug treatment.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tiny Minds
The City of Vancouver, apparently with mot much else to do on a Tuesday, has come up with a new by-law.
If you run a restaurant here, your daily take must now include more than 50 per cent in food sold, rather than wine and other intoxicating beverages.
This is to discourage places from selling chips and BLT's while pouring out the booze in barrels.
This is to discourage so-called restaurants from acting like bars.
But lurking behind this idiocy is the simple fact that bar and pub licenses are made almost impossible to get.
This is a problem created by the very fools who are now rendering an even dumber answer to the problem they created in the first place.
Vancouver Councillor Raymond Louie has publicly defended this new nonsense.
Ray, you gotta know when to keep the head low and keep very still.
I'll have the Pasta Bullshetta and a small house red, please.
Mass Confusion?
A choir full of kids and parents and choir masters and the Premier of Newfoundland all seem to have heard someone invite the choir to sing in the opening ceremonies in a certain little hoe-down planned for next February.
The someone who it is alleged by all of these people who are apparently suffering some mass delusional experience was Gordon Campbell, the Premier of British Columbia.
Mr. Campbell remembers it differently. “I said to the choir: ‘You know, wouldn't it be great if you could sing at the Olympics?' Not the opening ceremonies; I never had any control over the opening ceremonies.”
Hm...
Now, the offer is coming in not from Campbell, but from George Abbott t sing at a smaller less visible venue.
Problem is half the kids have stopped going to practice after two years of dreaming is down the drain.
Nice.
Wouldn't it be fun to be a cabinet member in a local government.
"Hey, Wooden Head. Go clean up my mess, will ya?"
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Bargains! Hurry While They Last!
Here's watcha get:
Four tix to all events
Opening & Closing ceremonies
Gold Medal Men's hockey final (even if it's between Uruguay and Bosnia)
Spot in the torch relay
Supplied car and driver for all 17 days of event.
Cost?
A BARGOON!
Only $285,000.
When calling, ask for the Club 2010 packages.
Cautionary note: Bleeeeep! ( a B-flat, I believe)
Careful to avoid giving out your home or office street address.
Big men in little white coats may soon arrive.
This is, remember, The People's Event.
It is bringing people together.
People with deeeeeeeeep pockets, that is.
Slow Gnus Day
Talk about a non-story.
B.C. inmates to receive flu vaccine before prison staff
I spoke to the warden of a major institution about half an hour ago. We were talking about something else entirely, but when this idiocy turned up we both laughed.
The truth is that the inmates will get their shots about 22 seconds before the staff.
Who(m) Can You Trust?
Juanita Castro, Fidel's baby sis, has revealed after 48 years that she was a CIA spy.
Gee whiz.
If you can't trust your kid sister...
Monday, October 26, 2009
Boring and Irresponsible
There is only one thing of interest in the front section of today's Globe and Mail.
It is this.
Not one, not two, but three whole pages of ads from the CBC.
How much did that cost?
Of taxpayers money.
To let us know that Peter Mansbridge had a poo. That Peter Mansbridge popped a pelican. That Peter Mansbridge played the piano in pindergarten.
Has anyone noticed?
The CBC is a corrupt organization.
It is valuable and necessary, but it is a mess and it spends our money in the worst ways unimaginable.
I'm Not Paying...So There!
Catalyst Paper Corp has withheld about $17-million in taxes from four B.C. town's where its mills are located: Powell River, Campbell River, Port Alberni and North Cowichan.
Another company, Celgar, refused to pay its $3.6 million in property taxes this year and instead filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court asking for a judicial review of the town's tax rates, where it operates in Castlegar.
Pretty cheeky for a company that has just been given...wait for it...$57.7 million in bail-out money from the federal government.
Now...
A) I don't get federal bail-out money. Do you?
B) If I refused to pay my taxes, RevCan would first seize my home and car and first born and then throw me in jail.
Double standard to go with your double-double this morning?
Lovely
So you won a gold medal for your country way back when.
Big deal.
Get lost, Sister!
Last week we saw John Furlong crying croc tears on the front pages about how the Olympics was helping humanity.
???
Well, he's not helping athletes who competed and triumphed for Canada.
No invites, no tix.
Read it and kack.
Then send Mr. F. a friendly little note at info@vancouver2010.com
Parity
There was a time for a few seasons there when the phrase "on any given Sunday," really meant something in the NFL.
Now, what've we got?
35-7, 42-6, 37-7, 38-0...
Getting the picture?
And that was just yesterday. A week or so back, there was 58-0 for the Patriots over somebody.
Vat da heck?
Now, we're watching a handful of elite teams who seem to have their way with the patsies as they will. That would be your New Englands, your Colts, Saints, Broncos and Vikings - unless they're playing a real team, like the Steelers.
And the bottom of the heap?
Well, they have never been so bottomed.
Looking up at a far away sky from a very deep well indeed are the Raiders, the Browns (Have the Browns ever had a winning season after color TV?), the not-so-Titans (Who were 13-3 last year!), St. Louis, Kansas City and Tampa Bay.
We're talking big zeros in the in column after seven weekends.
Other than Oakland, where the 90-year old (at least!) and completely nutty Al Davis has been systematically destroying a once storied franchise for about a decade now, who can explain the new layout?
Not me.
And confession:
In a perverse way, it is kind of fun to see the occasional blow-out.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
And from a Cop who knows...and cares...
David, I agree with you that this nonsense must stop. It's funny in jest but too sad in reality. When I was walking the DTES beat in the 80's, I used to joke about all this stuff, but low and behold, these kinds of idiotic 'programs' became reality, so I stopped joking about it.
The SIS was pre-fitted to create a crack inhalation room (shouldn't the science have come first?). Did you know that the new pieces of Brillo the addicts stuff into their glass pipes release toxic vapours according to the HR 'safer crack smoking' guide? I guess crack is 'toxins with benefits' then (like crack lung).
The drug policies are so gangrenous now that when I hear of harm reduction, I think of 'arm reduction' as evidenced by the plethora of recent amputations seen in this very sick addict population. Too bad there wasn't a drug to treat stupidity to go with your proposed HR quarantine room David. These guys are so far behind in their thinking that they actually think they are ahead. Can they OD on stupidity?
Oldtimer
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David, I spent the evening at Eagleridge Emergency. I was there because our family doctors office isn't open enough hours to treat all of his patients.It was a zoo. Ive seen a lot of busy emergency wards but this was beyond my ability to describe. Woo, Peckinpah, and other violent genre movie makers might be able to do it justice.
So the thought of spending tax dollars to give crack heads a comfy place to get high makes me sick. That group of left wing do gooders should be placed in the emergency ward of a different hospital every night until even the dumbest of the dumb realize that our health system is on the verge of melt down. Until we can look after the people that our paying the taxes to support the crumbling health system we should place duct tape on the mouth of any wing nut that wants to spend money to make addicts comfy. If an addict wants to get clean we should have to provide the means. If an addict wants to be comfy, to hell with him/her.
Headlines We Can't Get Enough Of
Ottawa deaf to pleas for B.C. crack-inhalation site
Hahahaha...couldn't happen to a nicer town.Mark Townsend is the executive director of the Portland Hotel Service Society which runs Insite. He and a few other geniuses want to open a "safe" crack smoking room.
Hahahaha...
Service are being cut back in every area of public health, but we should give crackheads a place to smoke.
Hahahaha...
Here's how poor Mark describes the utopia he envisions: "a designated place to smoke crack cocaine in the company of health professionals..."
The part that I love is "in the company of health professionals."
Question.
How could you call yourself "a health professional" and want to spend your time standing around losers who are smoking cocaine? How? Why?
Oh, sorry.
I know.
I am not supposed to call these contributors "losers."
They are substance users.
One of Mark's friends in this lunacy is the appropriately named Evan Wood. He's a researcher. He says that having such a facility would be "ground-breaking."
No, Ev.
Having treatment programs that graduate clean and sober men and women - that would be ground-breaking.
"You're using, basically, supervised injection sites and inhalation rooms as a strategy to recruit people into addiction treatment," adds Mr. Science.
We remind Mr. Wooden Head once again that when he decides to come out of his bubble and check out the modern world, what he'll find is what every parent of every addict has known for a very long time here in B.C.
THERE IS ALMOST NO ADDICTION TREATMENT.
Beds are few and inappropriately expensive.
Here's what I propose.
A room that will hold for safe keeping Mark Townsend, Evan Wood, Larry Campbell, Sam Sullivan and all such fellow travellers.
This room will keep them from hurting themselves, but, more importantly, it will keep them from further HARMING the community.
Now, dat's harm reduction!
SHOPKEEPER AND DANGEROUS OFFENDER, PART II
Christie Blatchford, as she often does, has absolutely nailed the story to which I referred briefly in yesterday's posts.
David Chen, the Toronto shopkeeper who captured a chronic thief and crack addict and for his reward has been charged with several offenses, has a family of four and employs 10 people.
"Prosecuting David Chen brings the administration of justice into disrepute and renders the law an ass. Giving a break to the very crack-addicted thief Mr. Chen was chasing is an outrage."
Read the whole piece and marvel at how retarded and twisted is our justice system.
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