How about those Canucks eh!

Well, I received my mail in HST ballot in the mail today, filled it out, sealed it up and mailed it back, it`s real easy, tear the ballot along the perforation, mark a big X in the yes circle, place your ballot in the security envelope, put your date of birth and signature on the registration envelope, place the security envelope in the registration envelope, seal it shut, ...finally, place the registration envelope(which contains the security envelope) in the yellow envelope, postage is pre-paid, ....real easy, just make sure you sign and put your date of birth on the registration envelope...

How many of you are sick n tired of the Vancouver riot story, will it ever end, please let it end, all the back n forth and finger pointing, I could rip each and everyone of them, Chief Chewy, juice boy, Susan Blab Anton, Christy Clark, councilors and supply companies, by supply companies meaning...Like the Super Save group, one might want to check out their porta john rental and fencing divisions.....They sure love Chief Chewy and the boys in their radio ads, hmmm, I wonder who decides who gets the city contracts, hmmm, less police but more fence rentals, bigger crowds and even more fencing....Never mind, I was just musing....

As you know I didn`t jump on the riot story, the reason was simple, it was a non story, in a nutshell both the city of Vancouver and the Province rolled the dice and cheaped out on policing costs and failed to adequately secure large crowds....It really is that simple, on the bright side no one was killed, ....As for the financial costs and losses to local business, again the answer is simple, the City of Vancouver and the Province failed to properly police the gatherings, the amount of money saved by the city and the Province by not funding proper police numbers is more than enough to pay the damages...For if the City and Province had sufficient police numbers through out the Canuck playoff run they would have spent at least $5 million more dollars...Both the city and Province,especially the Province made tens of $millions on booze sales....Pony up some cash and let`s move on...

The people in charge were idiots, think about this scenario for game 7.....

Transit, buses, the city, the Province allowed drinking youths to flood the city while intoxicated game after game, ...And then when we get to the final game 7 in Vancouver, you invite everyone for a party, you shut down all the near-by liquor stores at 4:00pm....So here`s the deal, the youth did several things, they know police were dumping out 1000s of drinks...The youth know the liquor stores are shutting down at 4:00pm....So as a youth what do you do?....

Well, two things, number 1 is 1000s got plastered before they got into Vancouver.....Others brought booze, not a case of beer that you can`t hide but bottles of hard booze......The kids know the game....So now you have thousands of drunks, thousands of drunks who get their booze poured out!!!!, 1000s of drunks who had their booze poured out and now there is no liquor store to buy more!....I can`t think of anything more likely to set off a riot then by allowing 10s of 1000s of kids to show up drunk, confiscate their booze and cut off the supply....Yikes.

 It really is that simple, the city/town/province fostered a culture of boozy Canuck parties,  Vancouver city should have been an alcohol free zone, but business, the Province, the city wanted the cash receipts and booze pays, they rolled the dice, all of them, if the police screamed loud they could have got more resources, .....

Everyone gets blamed.....Brainiacs, invite 150,000 young people for a booze up, take their booze, tell them your going to take the booze, tell them the liquor stores are closed, sheesh, everyone and their dog had a bottle, what do you do with an angry half-drunk male after you dump out his half-empty jug of tequila? ....You watch him smash windows and light fires....

I found the Pamela Martin hiring as "outreach" interesting, no so much the blatant patronage appointment but how the media dealt with it....

Last Friday evening Gord MacDonald on CKNW... Gord Did a rant on Pamela Martin, it went something like this...I`m paraphrasing.... 

She`s a tele-prompter reader, $130 K for outreach, what about the hundreds of public affair employees, what about Christy Clark being honest, answer questions, stop hiding public reports, forget wasting money on another patronage appointment...

Gord MacDonald`s  rant went something like that, no big deal but....But on Monday following Bill Good did his morning editorial, ...There is a so-called code in journalism and media, you never criticize your own, CTV doesn`t slag Global, the Province newspaper doesn`t bad mouth the Vancouver Sun, and individual celebs never criticize each other, especially at the same station....Bill Good broke that rule on Monday when he ripped Gord MacDonald from end to end over his mild critique of Pamela Martin........Bill Good is so far gone, he went for long lunches with Pamela Martin several times before last week`s Gord MacDonald rant, and guess what.....

Today on the Bill Good show he did a segment on CCTV in Vancouver, how you get filmed everywhere you go, is this a good thing or bad, is getting filmed in public without your knowledge acceptable, so anyway, Billy Boy takes some calls and...


A caller says....I`m paraphrasing again....Mr. Good, these cameras film everything, even famous people getting caught doing things in private by these cameras, sometimes these films can be worth money.......


To which Bill Good responded, .."Yea, I went for lunch with Pamela Martin yesterday"snip


Don`t get me wrong, Bill Good was disturbed by the call, it also goes right to the heart of Bill Good`s deceptions, Bill Good is a Sunshine coast neighbor and friend of Gordon Campbell, his bias is plain to see, but now he`s criticizing fellow employees for their point of view about his friend Pamela Martin...Friends, Bill Good responded like a man defending his girlfriend or lover,...It`s a little rich how he promotes Pamela Martin on air, both pre-Christy Clark and post Christy Clark....If Bill Good can`t even act with a little journalistic integrity he should be removed from the air, it`s so wrong, like Sean Leslie`s wife making over $100 K per year working for Christy Clark at the BC PAB....I guess Bill Good`s wife is still overseas! 


The point I`m trying to make is priorities, in Greece teachers make less than a $1000 euros per month, they have had no raise in a decade, pensions are being slashed, youth unemployment is a staggering 40%...Their VAT tax is being raised on everything, on food it`s rising from 15% to 23%....Workers are having everything stripped away, millions in the United Kingdom are striking against the same draconian cuts, ....Do you know....The Greek national debt works out to....$44 thousand dollars for every man/woman and child....In the USA ... The American national debt works out to $46 thousand dollars in debt for every man/woman and child.....There are 11 million Greeks and over 300 million Americans...Neither will ever pay their debt but who decides whose worthless paper gets honoured and whose doesn`t!....For the sake of $44 K per person debt the Greek Government sold them out for nothing, The Greeks will still default on their debt...You can`t slash wages, take away small pensions, cut services and expect anyone will have any money to propel their economy forward...It`s a recipe for disaster.


In India, one of our trading partners is displacing millions of people from the farmlands in a state-run land acquisition scam, generations of farmers are having their land stolen for a standard $6 dollars per acre, the land is being expropriated for manufacturing and endless strip malls, the land acquisition act is being used as a hammer, similar to the USA`s "eminent Domain" act....Taking private land for the public good, in India the public good is the corporations, it`s a total unreported human tragedy that has roots right here in BC

Meanwhile three reactors in Japan are in full meltdown hot fleas have been consumed by everyone on the west coast of North America, billions of gallons of water have been turned into super heated radioactive steam ...That steam went into the west flowing jet stream and tradewinds, 1000s of square miles are dead forever, more farmland gone....There will be cascading cancers of all types in the future, this Fukushima disaster is 10 times worse than Chernobyl in Russia....But nobody is talking about it, everyone is too busy talking about the Vancouver drunkfest lame riot....

Stephen Harper and the assault against labour unions, Canada post, Air Canada, BC teachers, BC Paramedics, austerity measures, Governments of all stripes are waging war on the masses because the bankers and investors gambled away $trillions of dollars, these Government bail outs, $14 trillion dollars in bail out programs ....Your future, your children`s future has been sold out....We have a chance right now to say no the the HST.....Wages are going down, teachers, police, fire, paramedics, mailmen/woman, air flight staff, seniors care staff, all these workers and more are under attack, vilified, between right wing Governments, Jack Mintz, the Fraser institute these people have been marginalized...


Meanwhile, I`m gonna keep talking about issues that matter, corruption, taxation, human tragedy, the Vancouver riot is over...The Auditor General John Doyle has been granted documents on the Basi/Virk BC Rail sandal.....The BC Hydro review is complete, let`s here the bad news and just how big the proposed rate increases are....

The Province isn`t even going to talk too the teachers until the end of August, thus guaranteeing a strike, a Government imposed strike, the Province should be addressing class sizes, ...The Supreme court slammed the BC Liberals over what they imposed in 2002 while Christy Clark was education minister...

We are in a class war folks, we must launch the first attack, we start with the HST, then we change Government...

Tell the media, we don`t want anymore riot, no more hockey, no more families first slogans, no more stickmen ads...

Tell them we want The Straight Goods


Cheers Eyes Wide Open