The New Sensation

Where does one start, this damn keyboard dares me, taunts me and challenges me to write something worth reading and while the world is ripe with stories my mind is quiet and I apologize for no posts but the time required to write means being selfish with family, this time they needed all my attention but with Dad now feeling better he demanded I post something and stop brooding.....

Well well well, brooding?......I couldn`t help but notice Michael Smyth again is not on the air on CKNW, that`s what, 6 of the last 7 weeks with no Michael Smyth on CKNW, nothing like extended holidays during the school season and at the start of a so-called new radio career, never mind I`m just musing to myself, I can`t help but think of the people of Japan, the human tragedy, entire villages wiped off the map and 20,000 plus dead, staggering numbers but the thing that sticks in my head is property values and radiation, can you imagine, who would want to live within even 200 miles of those permanently damaged reactors, the winds blow all directions and who would want to rebuild anywhere near that zone, already radiation is showing up in cows milk and in the grasses, how much radiation will reach the water table, I am no nuclear scientist(Maybe our good friend Seth can enlighten us) but I do know human nature, I wouldn`t move to Japan, I wouldn`t take land near the reactor even if it was free, the truth is folks, this disaster has probably permanently spoiled and radiated 1000s of square miles, more farm land gone, another assault on the world`s food supply, will the Japanese Government buy out the residents at pre-meltdown prices, I doubt it.....The Kalamazoo river was killed by Enbridge pipeline, the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf states are still reeling from the BP oil spill, can you imagine the damage to a giant Enbridge pipeline if we had a massive shaker, Enbridge`s proposed pipeline that would traverse thousands of rivers and streams, a pipeline going through mountain ranges in a active earthquake zone....Forgetaboutit Enbridge, blood will flow to stop such a project.....

Haiti, New Zealand, Japan, B.C.?.....Our turn is coming for the big one and I haven`t heard anything from Christy Clark about fast tracking all the earthquake proofing of our schools, we can`t afford to wait, forget about the BC Legislature I wouldn`t shed a single tear if politicians got squished like bugs on a highway during a big shake, besides, the odds that the BC legislature is even open during an earthquake is slim to none, how many days have our Elected(?) officials sat in the house in the last 2 years....A couple of months of sitting days at most in 2 years....However our students do attend school and if we have an earthquake of even 8 on the richter scale entire communities of kids will be killed, the thought of every child in some towns flattened by bricks and mortar is too much to bear, Gordon Campbell utterly failed in his seismic upgrading plan, another Gordon Campbell 2005 photo-op promising to earthquake proof our schools by 2016 and here we are in 2011 and a mere 15% of schools have been retro-fitted, at the BC Liberal pace of progress it will never be done.....

Christy Clark, if she really cares about families will announce that the entirety of her her $1 billion dollar slush fund will be spent on earthquake proofing schools and building new needed schools in Surrey, everyday a child attends class in an old not earthquake retrofitted school the Government is rolling the dice, I don`t want to hear about casinos, roofs and or rising health care costs, in fact friends if I was a parent of a child who went to a school that could collapse and kill it`s inhabitants during an earthquake I wouldn`t let them attend, I personally don`t think the risk is worth it, we as a human species didn`t have all this knowledge on earthquakes in the 40s, 50s, 60,s, 70,s, 90s when we built schools....You notice I left out the 80s and 2000s...Socreds and BC Liberals never built schools, they burnt them down and shuttered their windows....

Nobody is talking about this issue, well folks, we are........I would also like to touch on Christy Clark`s first couple of weeks in office.....The minimum wage being increased, it`s about time but nothing has been done YET on minimum wage, already the big business lobby is screaming and yelling and pulling their hair out over these first meager steps....Minimum wage to go up 75cents per hour in May/2011.....10 months later until the second increase of 75 more cents and finally in May of 2012 to reach $10.25 per hour....So here we have to wait 15 months to have our BC minimum wage rise the middle of the pack, I can almost guarantee that increase number two and three never happen, the Fraser institute, BC Chamber of Commerce, BC Business council, the Food and Restaurant association,oh the humanity of raising our minimum wage to the back of the pack over 18 odd months in the most expensive Province in Canada....The minimum wage had to rise, it took no hero to raise the minimum from the lowest to.....Oh yea, we are STILL the lowest, two months to wait until BC raises the minimum wage to the LOWEST MINIMUM WAGE in CANADA....That`s right people, even with the first increase we will still be dead last, and as for the other increases, so far off and no guarantee that they will go through, I`ll hold off on that one handed clap.....

Cluck Cluck met with Stephen Harper last week, the media asked what they talked about and Cluck Cluck Clark said she talked about reversing the Prosperity mine Fish Lake destruction project decision and said nothing about the HST fraud being perpetrated on BCers, not one word on when we vote down the HST, that friends is very troubling, Tesako mine is completely changing the scope of the fish lake prosperity mine and will be resubmitting a brand new less destructive plan and Christy Clark rather than dealing with the Federal Government on the looming vote removing our HST has chose to waste time on Fish lake project and leave the HST in place......Also Christy Clark is having the new Minister of energy Rich Coleman look at the rate increases and the $2 billion dollar smart meter fraud with BC Hydro executives....This is nothing but a con job, Christy Clark will not stop any of these Crown Corporation crimes from being perpetrated on BCers, it`s all smoke and mirrors and stalls......

And it also exposes all the BC Liberal MLAs as hypocrites, Ian Black the last two years citing Neils Veldhuis of the Fraser institute on how minimum wage will cost 111,000 jobs, it shows the mindless sheep Liberals who accepted the clean energy act that was rammed through the house without debate through closure, it shows how Blair Leckstrom and Bill Bennett, Hansen, Falcon, all of them voted to neuter the BCUC(British Columbia Utilities Commission) and strip away any oversight they had, where are those BC Liberals now standing up in defence of the clean energy act.....Gutless, spineless sheep, Bill Bennett comes groveling back begging Christy to take him back, Blair Leckstrom has come back to the BC Liberal tit to suckle and then there is the Cluckster herself, Cluck Cluck places Dr.Stiwell in the backbenches, McDiarmid gets back benched, any female with talent was shuffled into the bleachers, Mary Polak rises, the molly maid trained civil servant stays in cabinet while a true doctor gets short shrifted, obviously Christy Clark doesn`t want to surround herself with any other women with brains.....

Lastly friends, oh, and before I start...(@BC Mary,,,Mary, John Horgan was on the air last Friday with Simi Sara on CKNW between 2:00PM and 2:30PM and Horgan was asked about BC Rail and Horgan stated on air that he will call for a complete BC Rail inquiry into the sale, the players, the lobbyists and the indemnity policy)

Last Friday on the cutting ledge, the three stooges, Balderdash, Baldrey and Palmer, every caller was wanting a inquiry into BC Rail, despite the pathetic offering from Christy Clark, Palmer and Good and Balderdash were drinking the Christy Kool Aid....Let me get this Straight, Christy Clark under pressure announced that there would be a limited inquiry into the Government employee legal fee indemnity policy but....But none of the past pay-outs or cases will be looked at, the inquiry will simply look into the policy without Basi/Virk or any defendent guilty or innocent looked upon....ARE YOU KIDDING ME......Palmer/Badrey/Good/ those damn stooges think this review is appropriate, are they on drugs, let me put it this way, remember the insider rigged auctions at ICBC when Campbell`s buddy Paul Taylor was in charge, imagine looking into the policy on auctions at ICBC without looking at the fraud!....Imagine looking at radar speeding traps where cops are letting other cops go without examining those cases, imagine examining the operations on the bridges of BC Ferry boats without looking at the sinking of the Queen of the North...

The point I am getting at is this...Where the hell is the media, you can`t look a t the Government employee indemnity policy without examining the cases that went deliberately wrong.....Let me explain, if you are a BC Government employee and you are told to cut a cheque, deny a cheque, you are told  to deny benefits, order a review, or whatever, in the course of your Government employ you do what you are told and for whatever reasons someone sues you, individually or through class action as a dutiful employee you follow orders and get sued you should and must have your legal fees paid for, the policy is fine, let me put it this way, as a Government employee, you follow orders, get sued and lose everything for following orders, does that seem right, every Province has a Government legal fee indemnity policy for workers, the deals is....If you are guilty the legal fee indemnity is gone, you forfeit that right, a real simple policy......

But here`s the deal folks, Dave Basi and Bobby Virk knew how the indemnity policy worked, it was 100% explained to them and the proof is out there, the proof is staring BC`s stooge media in their face, the proof is staring at the BC Liberals, the proof is.....

Early on in the BC Rail corruption trial both Dave Basi and Bobby Virk handed over the deeds to their proprty, the BC Government was holding the properties, so very early on the policy was explained to Bobby Virk and David Basi and the BC Government grabbed a hold of the deeds to their property, if Basi and Virk were proven guilty they would lose everything, if they were innocent they would lose nothing......

So how is it the BC Government who had gained legal possession of Basi`s and Virk`s properties decided to let it go for a surprise guilty plea?

Whitmarsh and Loukedalis were ordered to make the decision of forgiving every legal bill and to release the properties of Basi and Virk which the BC Government already had, they had signed papers, the properties were gone, if the BC Government wanted the properties they had them, the newly appointed deputies in the ministry of the Attorney General Whitmarsh and Loukedalis did the dirty deed of returning the properties to Basi and Virk and forgiving all legal fees for a guilty plea and stay at home card...

The BC Liberals, the ministry of the Attorney General is lying, they say it would have cost too much money to chase down Basi and Virk assets, that is a bold-faced lie, the BC Liberal Government had those properties in their possession for years.....So to do any kind of a review into the legal fee indemnity policy is a joke, the policy is fine, to do a review without examining the one`s that went wrong is a farce..

If the three stooges and BC Media can`t see how pathetic it is to do a review without examining any of the past cases and decisions is an insult to anyone with even half a brain!

The Straight Goods

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