BC Teachers’ Union Protests Anniversary of Christy Clark Hamfistedness: Good Guys Wear Black–But Not Always…
Friday, January 27, 2012
Welcome to ‘Black Friday’. No, the market hasn’t crashed–yet… There is no update to the ‘Batman’ series. No national mourning. Giorgio Armani isn’t switching from earth tones. The day of the euro-trash suit isn’t about to return. Instead, the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, in the always missing wisdom of their perpetual fight with any non-NDP government, is at it again. To protest the ten year anniversary of losing the ability to bargain for class size, composition and percentage of special needs teachers, they’ve suggested... [Continue reading]
Please Pray for the People of Burns Lake–Particularly the Native Aboriginal People…
Thursday, January 26, 2012
What a travesty the mill fire has been on the tight-knit community of Burns Lake. Many of the native aboriginal people of the area were employed there and will surely suffer as a result of the devastation. So what does the Premier do? She hikes her high heels up there and stands for some shameless photo-op (I know, I know, why am I shocked) instead of offering some real help, or some specific relief that the infrastructure necessary to rebuild the mill is guaranteed and these folks need not worry. Instead, the head of the Christy party couldn’t bring herself to go beyond easy sounds bites... [Continue reading]
The CBC’s Stephen Smart IS NOT in a Conflict-of-Interest: So Say the Trollops Who Defend Their Close Relationships to Christy Clark’s Shameless, Corrupt Government
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
There was a tremendous methodology–and intelligence to Muhammad Ali’s ‘Rope-a-Dope’. If you let your opponents fire their best punches early, and you can sustain the hits, then knocking them out becomes routine. Even top contenders lost badly. Amazingly, Smokin’ Joe Frazier (a far more devastating puncher than Ali–but not better boxer) fell pray to this and perhaps the best example was George Foreman, whose ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ didn’t go very well at all. Well beyond illustrating Ali’s genius, it also demonstrated the thoroughly limited... [Continue reading]
The American Dream Remains Acceptable to Americans–But Only if You’re a Democrat???
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Imagine, if you will, a Massachusetts politician so dizzily wealthy that the common folk can’t relate to him. How does a quarter of a billion dollars grab you? Someone who has served his country by committing to the support of charity work like no other; someone who has redefined political leadership in his state; someone beloved and hailed with much fanfare by his base supporters for his commitment to purpose. And his vast wealth is a mere afterthought… You think, of course, that can’t be referring to Mitt Romney–and you’d be correct. I am, in fact, referring to... [Continue reading]
The Political Cancer that is Newt Gingrich: The Republican Presidential Nomination Made a Mockery by Evangelical Christianity and Other Associated Far Right Wing Evil
Monday, January 23, 2012
John Adams, one of the fathers of American confederation, once remarked about a fellow progenitor, Thomas Paine, that “…without the pen of the author of ‘Common Sense,’ the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” Mr. Paine, who emigrated from England in 1774 to fight for a revolution which few truly understood, wrote what is considered one of the foremost (and all-time best selling) tomes in American history. In it, he reasoned without the largesse and unapproachability of Enlightenment Era writers. Although laden with Biblical references, his was a commoners... [Continue reading]
CBC Ombudsman Levels Conflict Deflection by CBC Vancouver of Their Victoria Bureau Chief: Stephen Smart’s Conflict Finally, Officially Outed!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Let me tell you about a guy named Merv Adey. He’s one of my long-time and most loyal readers. He leans left, I don’t. We’ll agree on some things. but not all–far from it. His background is completely different from mine. In point of fact, we don’t have a whole lot in common. But his super-articulate contributions to this blog are a source of great pride, privilege and knowledge–he’s one of the readers I learn from and enjoy reading. When I summon readers to do something on principle–as I did when I was censored by a former CKNW staffer, Merv is first... [Continue reading]
Deputy Premier John Cummins: Far-Fetched? Perhaps, But Let’s Have a Closer Look…
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Over the last almost year, since Christy Clark’s operatives stole PIN numbers to make her Premier, her personal numbers and those of her party have plummeted. Her spin doctors can lie to the public all they want; the message is clear: The Christy Clark Experiment is not working. Far from it, it’s threatening to take the party into Gordon Campbell territory. During the same time, you’ll have noticed, a surge in the fortunes of the BC Conservative Party under the leadership of John Cummins. This is not a phenomenon that was unexpected. Regardless of the window-dressing she commits... [Continue reading]
Mr. Harper’s BC Huffy Harridan Lets Him Hang: Now Christy Loves You, Now She Doesn’t….
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Well, now that didn’t take long, did it? Not 48 hrs after the Premier of BC’s office invited the Prime Minster to an ambush photo op at the hockey game of Ms. Clark’s son, she’s turned on him. No, you say? Read on. At the final press conference today for the Premiers’ summit on healthcare, hosted this week by a completely embarrassingly, obviously out-of-her-depth Christy Clark, the Prime Minster was appropriately excoriated for cutting off the provinces efforts to negotiate in December, by unilaterally declaring the “increase” demanded as a “non-starter.”... [Continue reading]
Dear Prime Minister Harper: Are You Feeling Well, Sir? What the Hell Were You Thinking?! Most Disappointingly, You Weren’t…
Monday, January 16, 2012
Right after I appeared on Brian Lilley’s exceptional Sun TV show just one week before the last federal election (May of 2010), I was removing my mic and fighting with the bit of make up that ended up in my eye, when a former Sun colleague listening to the interview emailed me: “Are you sure about your prediction of a Conservative majority? There’s little chance of that, don’t you think?” “No, they’ll have it,” I wrote. “My only concern is that, as per every single historical implosion at that level, some entirely self-absorbed asshole in the... [Continue reading]
Tim Tebow’s Terrific, Tenacious Testament
Sunday, January 15, 2012
I’ve always had a very complex, if not complicated, belief system. I was raised strictly Christian Orthodox; we, my three sisters and I, attended Sunday school and were thus in church every single Sunday. I was an altar boy for five years. Every week was one more painful exercise in providing my mother an opportunity to tell her friends that I would be a priest. A statement which had me believing I should join the French Foreign Legion as soon as possible. And if I was to run away, I wanted to do so with the Sunday school teacher that always sat in the front row, with the thick, curly locks... [Continue reading]
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