(updated,Sept/22nd/12:32 pm) Revenge of the Turncoats and Alone in the Wilderness

You know friends its almost like I have access to the BC Liberal playbook(maybe I do)....

Let`s go back to what I wrote earlier this week in this post...


http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2012/09/i-dont-think-theres-enough-toilet-paper.html

"I don`t think there`s enough toilet paper in British Columbia to wipe the ass of all the flunky foul(fowl) smelling pundits, those being Bill the shill Good, Sean the bowl swirler Leslie, Michael the sky is falling Smyth or even lost in space El Bloatto....

Can`t you see it, feel it, the coordinated efforts of cknw, Vancouver sun, the Province, here they come, Hocstein, Ian Black, the liars have returned for the fall season, no legislative session but we will have a rip-roaring laxative session, starring the usual bought suspects,all plotting, all organized to disparage Adrian Dix and the NDP...And guess who just crawled out from his rock????"

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(UPDATED HERE....The Bloatted El SEWERMAN strikes out again, John Cummins will remain leader, as predicted here at the Straight Goods)

Before we get started, I told you there was organized plotting by all the media to dump on the NDP, ...Here is a little example, this week on CKNW, Ian Black twice, Bill Bennett, Phil Hocstein, John Winters, head of the small business council, all NDP fear mongering...

Several months ago Norman Farrell wrote about how Bill Good SEEMED to have changed his BC Liberal bias and was playing square, I too contemplated writing a similar article, but something told me to wait, I didn`t trust Bill Good, and my instincts were spot on, again...

Bill Good on Tuesday stated on air.."I won`t be in tomorrow(Wednesday) as I have personal business to attend to" snip...

I was curious as to what this personal business was, and as it turns out, Bill Good was in Kelowna, with Vaughn Palmer, Keith Baldrey...And I found out later through sources that Christy Clark was also in Kelowna, interesting no?...Personal business, no, it was a coordinated planning and plotting session between Billy Good and the BC Liberal party, how to turn the BC Liberal trainwreck around, how to bring down Adrian Dix, ....

Bill Good`s editorial at 8:30 this morning, Bill stated that Adrian Dix wants to redistribute wealth, ...News flash Bill Good, all Governments redistribute wealth, tax money, royalty money, resources revenue gets distributed to ministries, or in the case of the BC Liberals, corporate tax cuts, need more Billy Boy Good, the HST, that was Christy Clark and Gordon Campbell redistributing $1.9 billion in taxes, making consumers pay $1.9 billion MORE in sales taxes and giving it to corporations who already had the lowest corporate tax rate in North America, ...

Yes indeed, Billy Good is plotting and scheming with the BC Liberal party and personally with Christy Clark to bring down Adrian Dix, and Michael Campbell all week has been stating on air, and I quote..

"Government can raise money three ways, Corporate tax, income tax and sales tax, raising corporate tax 1 dollar costs the economy $11 dollars, raising income tax results in less revenue to Government, the best tax to raise for Government is sales tax"

Well well well, if that`s true Michael Campbell if Governments removed all corporate tax and income tax we would all be rich, in other Michael Campbell is still trying to save the HST, along with con man John Kesselman, and by the way, Michael Campbell`s Money Talk show tomorrow is being broadcast via London, that`s right, Michael Campbell is partying with his brother Gordon the thief Campbell, sheesh...

Back to Billy Good, it`s been attack the NDP all week, ATTACK Gregor Robertson all week, in fact he started the week defending Christy Clark for canceling the fall session, claiming people were more interested in hockey, really Billy, did you get any calls on Hockey today on the cutting ledge?...And now Billy Good has added a new word to his vocabulary and jumped on the word.."Redistribution"..As in Romney versus Obama.. Also on CKNW, Michael Smyth, the fill-in guy has come out swinging against Adrian Dix, as for Simi Sara, it`s so sad, a good person, a good radio voice and now CKNW has clipped Simi Sara`s wings and ordered her to back off on being critical of the BC Liberals, infact all her shows this week have been carbon copies of the Bill Good show, anything for a paycheque...Simi`s balls have been cut,

Need More..

 http://www.vancouversun.com/mobile/news/vancouver/Uncle+livid+after+event+bumps+party/7273819/story.html

That story was/is yellow journalism, Jinny Sims didn`t bump anyone`s birthday party, someone from the parks board in Delta asked the family to move to another section of the park, Jinny Simms knew nothing of it, she had a constituency party, everyone was in Delta was welcome, free dogs and pop, 700 people from Delta attended and the Vancouver Sun and Province put this story on their web edition front page and totally misrepresented it, sad journalism for sure, sad and pathetic...The coordinated NDP attack continues..

Back to Billy Good`s editorial this morning, asking for all of Dix`s election platform, not once did Bill Good mention CLBC, BC Rail, HST, child poverty, no, instead he was trying to paint the NDP as economy killers, the economi8c killer theme continues...

And kudos to both Keith Baldrey and Vaughn Palmer today on the cutting edge of the ledge, because both of them stated on air, and I quote..

"No other opposition party has released this much of their election platform 8 months before an election than Adrian Dix has" snip...

Bill Good went silent and stayed silent, it blew his 8:30 am editorial out of the water...Look folks, I`m no fan of Keith Baldrey or Vaughn Palmer but both of them are realistic, Billy Good not so much, Billy Good got his CKNW marching orders and has returned to his BC Liberal bias, Billy Good has returned to his own lying on air and allowing BC Liberal MLAs to blatantly lie on air! ....You think I`m kidding..

Bill Good had Colin Hansen on just before the cutting edge of the ledge and Billy just sat there and allowed Colin Hansen to lie, blatant lies...

Here is what Colin Hansen said, the big lie...And I quote..

"Adrian Dix said he would raise small business taxes" snip 

That is a bold-faced lie, Adrian Dix, on Thursday, at the Vancouver board of trade said, in his speech....If elected he will raise Corporate taxes to the 2008 level under the BC Liberals, Adrian also said he was returning the minimum bank tax...And, the BC Liberals have also stated that they too will raise corporate taxes to the 2008 levels, no where has Adrian Dix ever said he was raising small business taxes, yet there was Colin Hansen blathering out a blatant lie and Billy Good remained mute....Sad, Billy boy, very sad that an old man like you with tons of money would allow pure fabrication and lies to spew from Colin Hansen, you allowed Bill Bennett to lie on air, Phil Hocstein to lie and spin, Ian Black to twist and contort, no, Ian Black too lied his face off, ....Your station really needs to be taken to the CBSC(Canadian broadcast standards council)...

I`m glad that I held off posting anything positive about Bill Good`s 1 week of honest radio journalism, it`s absolutely amazing how quickly Billy Good`s corporate masters got him straightened around to the corporate dark-side.

Now, the big breaking news, the BC Liberal coup...HA, now that is funny, John Martin who ran for the BC Conservative party just a few short months ago has jumped ship and ran to the BC Liberals, are you kidding me???...This is a coup, worthy of a press conference, a man who finished a distant third place in the Chiliwak riding, a man who called Christy Clark names, a man who stated while campaigning that Christy Clark was a

"graft Opportunist...BC rail scandal alone is enough to send them to the penalty box...BC Liberals don`t deserve a 4th mandate"

John Martin said many more negative things against Christy Clark and the BC Liberals, I figure myself to be politically savvy, are the BC liberals that desperate that they call a major presser about a third place loser who only a few months ago called both Christy Clark and the BC Liberals every name in the book, are you kidding me!!!...

John Martin is a loser, a turncoat, the BC Conservatives paid for his election run last spring, what if he had won?...Not only has John Martin lost all his own credibility and respect, he has also demonstrated that he is a very low form of the human species, he wants a job, a paycheque, he will do and say anything for that money, he has no morals, no ethics, no honour, he didn`t even have the balls to inform the BC Conservative party that he was defecting, he wanted to do a "gotcha"..All he gotched was his own respect, he has none now, he not only flip-flopped but changed ridings too, he now intends to occupy the seat the land fraud artist John Les held....

Are the BC Liberals that stupid, and this isn`t partisan, had Laurie Throeness won the Chilliwak by-election and Gwen O`mahoney lost, finished third and John Martin joined the NDP in this fashion I would be screaming through the phone line at both Adrian Dix and or John Horgan calling them idiots, this will hurt....How can any party be so stupid...eer, never-mind, Christy Clark is still in search of a brain, you think not, when Christy Clark was asked about the harsh insults John Martin threw her way during the by-election, she answered thusly, and I quote..

"When politicians are running for office they will say anything to win".. Christy Clark(September 21st/2012)

In other words Christy Clark put both feet back in her mouth...

And lastly, poor old John Von Dongen, he has snubbed John Cummins who graciously accepted his floor crossing, now the BC Conservatives are in flux, stalled, he`s burned his position with the BC Conservatives, he can`t go back to the BC Liberals, he`s lost in the wilderness alone, because...

The BC Liberal infestestion of rats into the BC Conservative party come up snake eyes.

The BC Liberal presser and pre-AGM ploy designed to oust John Cummins, back-fired.

John Cummins will retain his leadership by a wide margin tomorrow...

John Von Dongen, the man without party.

John Martin, the man with no moral fiber.

Christy Clark, the unelected leader of the BC Liberals, no brains, both feet firmly stuck in her mouth, hated by woman, stunned...

BC Liberals addition of a turncoat, an historic blunder for it demonstrates how utterly desperate they are.. Time for new backroom advisors, again!

Adrian Dix, Premier of British Columbia.

The Straight Goods

Cheers Eyes Wide Open

 

The Search for Christy Clark`s Brain

Well, Jim Shepard definitely has a monumental challenge on his hands....


In a first for Canadian politics, a unique election strategy emerges, in a Sarah Palinesque move that can only be described as desperate, Jim Shepard for the price of a Tim Horton`s coffee($1 dollar per year}is starting a citizen`s front group backed by Corporate pigs looking for handouts, a citizens group that will traverse the province in a brazen attempt to prove that Christy Clark is indeed competent ...

Jim Shepard, a BC Liberal corporate backer has set out on the toughest challenge of his life, and no, he is not attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a rowboat, no he is not attempting to climb mount Everest in his underwear the task Jim Sheppard has chosen is far more daunting....

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Jim Shepard, a senior policy advisory in the Christy Clark government, is leaving the premier’s office to form a citizens group dedicated to electing Clark in 2013.
Shepard, a former CEO at Canfor and Finning, said the purpose of the Concerned Citizens for B.C. group will be to promote Clark’s credentials as a qualified and competent leader for B.C.

“She has not been identified as a competent premier,” Shepard told reporters Tuesday night at the 2012 Premier’s Dinner in Vancouver. “Christy has not been given a fair shake . . . I want B.C. to see what I [see in Clark].”

It was at last year’s Premier’s Dinner that Clark announced that Shepard, 73, would be joining her office as an adviser. His remuneration was set at $1 per year.

It is not the first time Shepard has publicly taken steps to get a premier elected. In 2001, he took out full page ads listing reasons why British Columbians should elect former Premier Gordon Campbell to office.

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Citizens+group+aims+convince+voters+Christy+Clark+competent+premier/6735887/story.html#ixzz1x1KEQJTQ

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Well well well Mr. Shepard, look how well your endorsed candidate Gordon Campbell did...He bankrupted BC Hydro, sold our ferry system, sold our railway, betrayed every British Columbian, lied about debts, deficits and screwed us over on taxation, he lied, cheated on his wife and had an ongoing adulterous affair with Lara Dauphinee, he disrespected democracy, Gordon Campbell assaulted seniors, students, workers, injured workers, he ran up $75 billion in debt, Campbell buried debt under every provincial cushion, he was infact the worst, and the most incompetent premier British Columbia ever had....

And now you want to campaign on the platform.....

{Christy Clark has a Brain}..Err, I mean...

“She has not been identified as a competent premier,”

Well Good luck to you Mr. Shepard, you are sure going to need it!....Perhaps Captain James T Kirk can give you some advice, after all, he too went searching for a brain..

The Straight Goods

Cheers Eyes Wide Open

Christy Clark Runs in Fear from Vancouver Island BC Liberal Eating Zombies

Well, the cat is out of the bag, Christy Clark has once again shoved both feet firmly into her mouth, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Christy Clark....

Before we get down to the Straight Goods, jealousy rages across the bloggosphere, quality musing versus pigbreath, when will the stench stop rising from the sewer, could it be that those who embarrass themselves over and over again, those Wildrose victory predictors, those who flopped by calling Conservative victories in Chilliwak, the same hacks who declared a Mitt Romney victory, those who vowed to crush the BC NDP, all the while producing nothing but old facts and tired rightwing dogma....

Walk the walk, talk the talk, credit due where credit is due, the man without party or evidence has nothing but bile words and insults, and couldn`t pick a winner in a one horse race...
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  This latest release from a National post interview with Christy the parrot Clark last May, AFTER the legislature was shuttered with invoked closure by non-elected Christy Clark..

Mike De Jong stated just last week that there will be no fall session because...And I quote..

"We have many new ministers coming up to speed, our MLA`s will all be working on a budget blueprint" snip

Well, that`s an outright lie, Christy Clark stated last spring after the legislature closed..And I quote..


"When the House rises at the end of [May], you're never going to find me in Victoria," she said. "I'm going to be travelling the province for the next year.

"I try never to go over there. Because it's sick. It's a sick culture. All they can think about is government and there are no real people in Victoria, and you get captured by this insidethebeltway debate, and it's really unhealthy."

So, as of last May Christy Clark had already decided to avoid the legislature for a year, maybe forever, after all, Christy Clark stated Vancouver island is unhealthy, Victoria is sick, a culture of the scary, don`t go out after dark, civil servants and Victoria politicos turn into zombies, premier eating BC Liberal hating zombies, after 12 years adopting Gordon the thief Campbell practices, after years of Bill Barisoff running the legislature with bias and spin, after the BC Liberals hired their friends throughout Government all of a sudden Christy Clark is frightened, Mz photo-op, the queen of oyster bars and master of hate speech has decided Victoria is too rough and tough for non-elected queen butterfly..

What you say Mike De Jong, budget blueprint or attack of Vancouver island zombies...

And what about what Christy the parrot Clark said in 2005, and I quote..


When Clark was resigning as an MLA in 2005, during her first stint in office, she also professed love for the job in her last speech in the chamber.

"I have a deep, deep love of politics. I love question period. I love debate. I love the people I've met. I even love the protesters. I love politics." Christy Clark


Read the full unadulterated story here..

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Premier+Christy+Clark+shows+disdain+sick+culture+Victoria/7266468/story.html

What has changed Christy since 2005 besides your waist size and botox regimen..

Maybe Christy Clark like Mitt the loser Romney will say anything to anybody to garner votes...Maybe that was old Christy Clark, not the one who ran for and won(?) the BC Liberal leadership, for certainly Christy Clark wouldn`t flip and flop like El Bloattos chin, or would she...From Christy Clark`s leadership run, and I quote..



Clark's apparent disdain for the legislature contrasts with comments she made while running for the B.C. Liberal party leadership in 2011.

Then, she told reporters she loved the daily cutandthrust of question period. After she won the party leadership, she expressed a desire to run in a byelection as quickly as possible to get her seat in the house. 

"As you know, I love question period and I hate to miss it," she told reporters.

Isn`t that special, Christy Clark, were you lying in 2005 when you fled from the police raided BC Legislature, or were you lying when you were running for BC Liberal leadership in 2011...Or perhaps the lying is a brand new trait?

Anyway, what about you Mike De Jong, when did you know there would be no fall sitting, did you really think you could have held a fall session without your fearless leader, eer, I mean sort-of fearless, there are those Vancouver island civil servants who after dark start eating raw flesh, and only BC Liberal raw flesh, yikes, oh the humanity..

Personally speaking I like Vancouver island, I also like the colour orange, I do though, out of a sense of self preservation carry a wooden stake and extra garlic, it keeps the zombies(BC Liberal appointees) at bay.

Oh, and on another note, let`s talk platform, Christy Clark copied Adrian Dix`s call for raising corporate taxes to 2008 levels and today she has announced more spaces for skills training students and skills training facilities, Adrian Dix announced reinstating the minimum bank tax for exactly that purpose, he announced that over a year ago and again at yesterday`s Board of trade appearance, so Christy Clark has once again parroted someone else`s idea, this is why YOU DON`T ANNOUNCE YOUR ENTIRE PLATFORM 8 MONTHS BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION..

Because to Christy parrot Clark Liberals are an empty shell, devoid of direction, of purpose, of reason, there is nothing left but hatred spewing racists like MLA Bill Bennett and human wasted skin stains like Phil Hocstein, the party of hate, the party of angry white men, the party of the 90`s, and indeed Christy Clark hasn`t grown since the 90`s, ..


http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2010/12/christy-clark-woman-of-90s.html


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It`s unfortunate that rightwing parties invoke hatred, divide and conquer, use homo-phobic cards, abortion cards, commie under the bed cards, but the time`s are a changin, internet, blogs, you can`t speak out of one side of your mouth then speak out your asshole without being called on it..

And that is indeed why Mitt Romney, BC Liberals and Stephen Treason Harper are but distant memories and foot-notes in the halls of shame..


The Straight Goods

Cheers Eyes Wide Open

British Columbia`s lazy, Stunned, Bought and Squirming Pundits, Exposed!

I don`t think there`s enough toilet paper in British Columbia to wipe the ass of all the flunky foul(fowl) smelling pundits, those being Bill the shill Good, Sean the bowl swirler Leslie, Michael the sky is falling Smyth or even lost in space El Bloatto....

Can`t you see it, feel it, the coordinated efforts of cknw, Vancouver sun, the Province, here they come, Hocstein, Ian Black, the liars have returned for the fall season, no legislative session but we will have a rip-roaring laxative session, starring the usual bought suspects, all plotting, all organized to disparage Adrian Dix and the NDP...And guess who just crawled out from his rock????

John I love the HST Kesselman.....Now this guy is off his rocker, but that didn`t stop Billy Shilly Good from promoting this stooge..Kesselman had the Vancouver sun(at the request of the BC Liberals) print his latest garbage..

For those who tend to forget the losers, let me refresh, Kesselman wrote a fake, phony, garbage, mis-informing thesis on the HST back before we voted out the dreaded tax grab, Kesselman wrote how we are all better off with the HST, prices from corporations would fall, employment would surge, low income earners getting rebates would be rolling in the aisles with glee over their new found wealth..

Well Mr Shill, Mr. Kesselman, history and facts proved you wrong, prices went up, not down, corporations lowered nothing but their moral high-ground, employment remained flat and consumers got raped for money, yes Mr. Kesselman the HST is still here...Fast forward to today, John Kesselman stated today, on radio, because of massive Government deficits that new taxation will be required by the Adrian Dix Government in waiting, and what taxes might Shilly Kesselman be talking about, first off Kesselman claimed that with the HST going away this spring that $1.9 billion in taxation is going back to the corporate sector and prices will rise as corporations pass on the cost to consumers...News flash Shilly, corporations didn`t lower even one price, they stuffed the money in their pockets...Kesselman also said some very profound things, Kesselman stated and I quote..

"If you tax the rich they will find loopholes to avoid paying any tax increases"

"If you tax corporations they will leave the province"

So what taxation might John the Shilly Kesselman be talking about, well, this is really special, Kesselman said and I quote again...

"Government can put a tax on houses, a house tax" snip...

Mr. Kesselman, my mother pays Translink $400 dollars a year on her property tax, she doesn`t use Translink, the Province makes $1 billion plus on property taxes per year, and Kesselman also said,...

For people who are house rich and cash poor can "defer" the new house tax until the property is sold or when the cash poor house owner dies...

Well you silly BC Liberal goose, what part of property tax don`t you understand, there is a tax, you want double taxation, maybe there should be a car tax too eh Kesselman?...Oh yea, used cars that poor people buy are taxed over and over again, everytime their sold again and didn`t Gordo the thief Campbell remove the luxury tax on expensive cars, oh yes he did, but that`s not good enough for the biggest liar club member John Kesselman, ..

Let`s go back to what John Kesselman said on cknw today on taxation, Rich people find loopholes and avoid taxes, Corporations will leave if taxes are raised, yet where will those corporations go?..Where will the coal to China exporters go, where will the raw logs for China exporters go...Well Mr. Shilly Kesselman?...Where will they go indeed, and if you believe liar extraordinaire Kesselman, taxes for the rich and corporations should be removed completely since they don`t pay or pass it on to consumers...

Give it up Kesselman, your taxation wedge issue ploy has failed, wedge issue, isn`t that interesting, surprising and stunning, does the media really think people are that stupid, what am I talking about, I`m talking about the sudden, unexpected massive deficit in the budget, let`s be clear, this was planned to create the "wedge issue"...What wedge issue?..

Taxation and public sector wage increases, ...Michael national inquirer Smyth talks like this...Come clean Adrian Dix about the "Massive wage increases" you are giving teachers...Come clean about the "Massive tax increases you`re planning"...Well well well, and of course the mindless lemmings start chirping, the El Bloatto`s, the Bill Goods, all losers all the time...

These mindless flakes, first off Natural gas prices didn`t fall, they in-fact didn`t rise up where the BC Liberals predicted, they never had that natural gas money to begin with, nothing was lost, you can`t lose what you never possessed..Put 2 and 2 together...

The BC Lying Liberals were hoping to legislate the teachers back to work, their ploy failed when the teachers agreed to a 1 year deal of nothing, now the BCGEU, how better to create a wedge issue than to cry "the sky is falling" by declaring a new $1.4 billion dollar fiscal hole, that money was never there, that`s why the Liberal Government gave nothing to anybody(except their friends)..Delay, Deny, Defend, announce a huge deficit and let the paid idiot lemmings state..."What would Adrian Do"

What a bunch of losers and braindead egotistical pricks you are..Michael Smyth is a stupid man, all he wants is a close political battle so he can write articles and sell papers, hey MIKEY.Why don`t you try journalism rather than gossip!

And today the self appointed king, El Bloatto falls into his usual stupor, actually, he never left his fantasy stupor..

What would Adrian do,what would Adrian do....

Well, ......For you memory short people, let`s return to this post written by the Straight Goods..on February 20/2012
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Season of the Which, Sandwich that is

Pacing back n forth, cold dead sweat runs from brows of over-seasoned politicos in dark smoky war rooms, what to do, nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, swap a deputy secretary here and replace a press spinner there, listen to old tired friends or embrace the school of Hail Mary, welcome to the season of witch...

Yes indeed, Bob Plecas fearing the worst scenario, fearing an end to public service dollars being funneled to his corporate elite, fearing an end to chronic under-funding of schools, of justice of seniors care, fearing an end of corporate largesse handouts has come out swinging, come out advising, a tired oldman has crawled out from his rock to advise Christy Clark to be deceptive, to dictate, to confuse, to act as a single solo all encompassing power broker and run rough shot over anyone and everything that gets in way of the BC Corporate Liberals self perceived right to rule British Columbia, in other words Bob Plecas wants Christy Clark to act like Gordon Campbell and Stephen Harper but with a more Hitler-esque flair...Let`s have a look at Bob Plecas`s advice to Christy Clark....

"Today, Premier Christy Clark faces three problems.

1. The Campbell legacy will not go away. While it was the perceived deceit over the harmonized sales tax that brought him down, he was rap-idly losing conservative support by moving the party to the left, supporting the carbon tax and first nations settlements. The tax fiasco proved the last straw for conservative anti-tax voters."

Let`s tear this tired old conman apart, first off Mr.Plecas, it wasn`t "Perceived deceit" it was downright deliberate deception, Campbell lied about the HST, he lied about a $4billion dollar deficit, he cooked the books and as for Gordon Campbell`s phony carbon tax, all that scam tax did was reward corporations for polluting and strip dollars from schools, students, hospitals and the like, that carbon tax didn`t take 1 gram of carbon out of the air....And as for "supporting First Nation settlements".....That comment is so racist if you were in front of me I would slap your saggy face, the word settlement implies that we were here first, if anyone has settlements in British Columbia it`s white man, not First Nations, as as for Campbell accommodating First Nations no such thing happened, his reconciliation act died a swift death in the legislature from complaints from corporate racists like you..

3." Clark's biggest challenge does not lie on the left, it lies on her right.
She is a well-known federal Liberal, and the federal Conservatives are wary of her. There is great suspicion in Ottawa about her loyalties, and also among Conservatives in B.C."

Yes indeed Bob, let`s paint a little black moustache under Christy Clark`s nose and pretend she`s a Federal Conservative hell bent on scorched earth policies, let`s have Christy Clark hire two prominent Stephen Harper top staffers to fill staff positions in Christy Clark`s inner circle....Hmmmm, infact let`s try to confuse the voters....

"Can Clark rebuild the centre-right coalition?

The answer is yes. There are three reasons.

1. She is a great communicator. 2. The spotlight has not shone on Cummins, and some of his views, on homosexuality and first nations, appear under close scrutiny to be too extreme right-wing."

So Mr Plecas, John Cummins is a long-time Federal Conservative, with Conservative beliefs, and according to you....You want Christy Clark to use all her radio talk show host honed communication skills to call John Cummins an Indian hater and a man who hates Gay, Lesbian and transgender people....Isn`t that a Conservative trait Bob? On one hand you want Christy Clark to lose her Federal Liberal roots and embrace Conservatism and on the other hand you want her to attack a long-time elected Federal Conservative, seems to me Bob Plecas that you want to create a name-calling labeling hatefest with mud flinging every direction and see what sticks...Classy dude you are, welcome to the 21st century, how did that cryogenic freezing work out for you...

"3. Dix has past issues and strong ideologies that are also not representative of the majority of British Columbians, and these also have not been widely discussed"

Really Bob, you mean memo-gate, you mean the fact that Adrian has been elected 3 times by a large majority of his constituents in that riding, you mean you missed the fact that every contender against Dix raised memo-gate as an issue, and let me guess, you missed all those risky Dix ads ran by the Federal Liberal/Federal Conservative/BC Christy party, you must remember, they ran every hour on cknw, on Global news, on Spike TV, in the newspaper, ads attempting to portray Adrian Dix as ...Risky, not to be trusted, ads reminding people that Adrian as young man back-dated a memo but according to the BC Christy party Adrian Dix wasn`t a staffer but he was secretly premier of BC in the 90`s, the best kept secret in BC History...Yes indeed, obviously Bob Plecas you were still in a state of cryogenic freezing when those ads were running....

"What are Clark's options? 1. Continue down the path she is on. That is a sure path to opposition.

2. Go to Cummins and form a coalition. With the egos involved, that is unlikely."

Well Bobby Plecas, you want Christy Clark to change course, you admit that she can`t join John Cummins because after all, John is a homosexual hating, indian village burning dyed in the wool Federal Conservative, so what is your secondary plan?....Let`s have a look...




"1. The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Demand Alberta share the revenue from the pipeline between the oilsands and Kitimat as a condition for B.C.'s support. As proposed, Alberta would gain all the benefits, while B.C. takes all the risk"

Well Bobby Plecas, I`m glad you ADMITTED that BC takes all the risk and receives ZERO benefit....... That strategy probably isn`t too smart....Considering the entire town including city council of Terrace has signed up against Enbridge and Alberta, as have Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlotte regional district...That`3 ridings gone Bobby Plecas, care for another 82?

"2. Legislate a two-year tax freeze on the province and municipalities. The NDP can announce targeted tax increases all it wants.


3. Legislate to end the teachers' dispute. Stand on the side of students and parents, let the NDP stand with the teachers' union.


4. Legislate the end to the current public sector pension plan for MLAs and staff, and create a new plan, based on a private-sector model, for new hires and newly elected.


5. Terminate all bonuses for senior executives in the entire public sector. This analysis points a clear direction for Clark to remain in power. Move to the right; provide voters with a choice, through aggressive, controversial policy and legislative action - basically, attracting Conservatives back to the centre-right." 

Well Bobby Plecas, you seem to like the Campbell/Harper approach..

Legislate, legislate, legislate and terminate, gee that really does sound rather Hitler-esque to me..

Yet I notice when it comes to your suggestion about legislating a new modest pension plan for MLA`s and staff you threw in  little self preservation detail..."For new hires"....Meaning how dare anyone touch your bloated public trough pension....And as for bonuses for the heads of crown corporations and deputy ministers, how did you think the BC Liberals managed to keep the whistleblowers from talking...

"Bob Plecas is a former deputy minister in several previous B.C. governments and ministries"

Read Bobby Plecas`s whole screed here..... 


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In a nut-shell Bobby Plecas, your advice to Christy Clark is...Use your communication skills to throw Federal Conservative John Cummins under the bus and call him an Indian hating, gay bashing dinosaur to attract more Conservatives to the BC Christy party, and to call Adrian Dix names and remind BCers of his radical agenda of helping seniors, students and a long suffering over-taxed middleclass British Columbians, and the most amusing part of your advice is you want to short shrift new MLAs and new hires while leaving the old guard including yourself with their public trough largesse..

Well Bobby, I have a novel idea, how about running on their record, how about running on facts, you want mud, lies, name-calling, you don`t want good Governance you want power for the sake of power......I have a news flash for you Bobby Plecas, Christy Clark has heeded your advice and for Adrian Dix and the NEW Democratic party of British Columbia..

It`s advice worthy of a NDP super majority!

Time for the NDP to eat your lunch!

 http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2012/02/season-of-which-sandwich-that-is.html
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Now, back to reality, Mike the liar De Jong hasn`t named one cut, he did announce that the Government MUST find $1.4 billion in cuts, but no details, nearly $300 million in cuts THIS FISCAL YEAR, which is over half-way through, no details on $300 million in cuts, what can they cut, healthcare, education, or perhaps they should raise taxes, yet there is no Michael Smyth writing about the glaring obvious, no El Bloatto connecting common dots, no, the poor loser pundits can`t believe the future is coming, that future being a NDP provincial majority, and a looming Federal NDP Government, which makes them squirm for there is nothing they can do to stop it..

My post, The season of the witch, sandwich that it...

Bob BC Liberal Plecas suggested mandating teachers to work, the teachers foiled that ploy, Plecas suggested creating wedge issues with public sectors, what better way to do that than creating a phony unexpected $1.4 billion dollar deficit, now no fall session has been announced, that means no legislation in regard to returning to the PST..That means no questions as to where these cuts might be targetted, Mike De Jong stated there will be no new hires or manager increases and curtailing Government travel, where is Christy Clark been, hiding in Asian oyster bars racking up her taxpayer paid for credit card, yet there was $millions for pro-hst advertising, money to kill the basi n virk trial, money for untendered contracts for BC Liberal friendlies, money for 7 Government lawyers fighting auditor General John Doyle, money for severance pay for BC Liberal hacks and money for rotating staff in Christy`s office..

Yes indeed, but let`s go after Adrian Dix for not revealing his entire election platform, Adrian Dix stated that he was raising corporate tax rates to the 2008 levels under the BC Liberals, he has stated that BC needs to do their own environmental reviews on big contentious projects rather than let Harper scorch and burn the earth in a phony process, Adrian has come out 100% against Enbridge and he`s stated that he will bargain in good faith with public servants, he also said all Run of river IPP contracts will be reviewed, that`s more than the non-Governing Liberals have revealed, all Christy Clark clucks about is jobs and China, China, China, China, and more China..

What about the $600 million plus in extra consumer tax from the HST, where did that money go, what about the goddamn BC books, how can anyone state what they will do once in power when the real books are hidden, BC`s debt is nearly $60 billion, over $100 billion counting contractual obligations, what about BC Hydro deferral accounts, BC Ferry debt, where is the scrutiny on the BC Liberals..

The NDP only once in the 90`s invoked legislative closure, that was when Mike De Jong and Gordon the thief Campbell filibustered the Nishga treaty for days on end, somehow that one-time event has been transformed into the NDP using closure always, same same same old bullshit from Billy Good and cknw, same crap from the worst journalist in the province, next to Black press`s Tom Fletcher...

Yes indeed, the BC Liberals made up this latest fiscal hole out of whole cloth, this is following the advice of Bob Plecas and Phil Hocstein...

And as for policy and direction...Gordon the Liar Campbell in 2001, and I quote..

"I won`t sell BC Rail, I won`t tear up contracts"

Or Gordon Campbell in 2009, "HST is not on our radar, $495 million dollar deficit maximum"

And what did we get, our railway is gone, contracts torn up, still paying the HST nearly 2 years after voting it gone, that deficit was $4 billion dollars plus...

Is that what you want you two-bit hack pundits, you want Adrian to lie, make up fiscal numbers, renege on promises, you want Adrian to play like the BC Liberals...

Well, Well. what is it...Why don`t you pundits ask Mike De Jong about these cuts, is it education, healthcare, senior services, what cuts, ..

Get used to it, no finite decisions can be made until the "real fiscal books" are opened up..

For anyone who can`t figure out that big media has moved into save the corporate Liberals mode, it won`t work, BC Liberals lie and Christy Clark is stunned, corporations and banks robbed the world, ....And if you lazy media get bored, perhaps you can ask oil rich Alberta why it`s running a $3billion dollar deficit this year...All that oil, all that development, all those oil companies writing off taxes and hiding money...

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 Alberta's is running a deficit, again, this year. $3 billion or more. With all that oil and gas flowing out of the ground, where is all the money going. When the Tar, I mean Oil, sands were about to be developed about 20 years ago, BigOil indicated that it would take an oil price of $20 a barrel for them to turn a profit. It's about 5 times that now. I think they're making a profit....

But does the province of Alberta charge any royalties for this non renewable resource, or do they send the oil, gas, and the profits down to head office in Houston? And who, or what, will pay off this accumulating debt in Canada's richest province?


 http://forums.castanet.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=43875#p1325317
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For shame media, for shame..

Better luck next time Michael Smyth..

The Straight Goods

Cheers Eyes Wide Open

China Skates Around US Sanctions Against Iran, Canada and USA Played Like a Fiddle

 

Dollar no longer primary oil currency as China begins to sell oil using Yuan

Lindsey Williams: "The most significant day in the history of the American dollar, since its inception, happened on Thursday, Sept. 6. On that day, something took place that is going to affect your life, your family, your dinner table more than you can possibly imagine."
"On Thursday, Sept. 6... just a few days ago, China made the official announcement. China said on that day, our banking system is ready, all of our communication systems are ready, all of the transfer systems are ready, and as of that day, Thursday, Sept. 6, any nation in the world that wishes from this point on, to buy, sell, or trade crude oil, can do using the Chinese currency, not the American dollar. 

 Since China is not a natural oil producing nation, the question most people will ask is how will the Asian economic power get enough oil to affect dollar hegemony? That question was also answered by Lindsey Williams when he pointed out a new trade agreement that was signed on Sept. 7 between China and Russia, in which the Russian Federation agreed to sell oil to China in any and all amounts they desired.

 

Lindsey Williams: "This has never happened in the history of crude oil. Since crude oil became the motivating force behind our (U.S.) entire economy, and everything in our lives revolves around crude oil. And since crude oil became the motivating factor behind our economy... never, ever has crude oil been sold, bought, traded, in any country in the world, without using the American dollar."
"Crude oil is the standard currency of the world. Not the Yen, not the Pound, not the Dollar. More money is transferred around the world in crude oil than in any other product."
"On Friday, Sept. 7, Russia announced, that as of today, we will supply China with all of the crude oil that they need, no matter how much they want... there is no limit. And Russia will not sell or trade this crude oil to China using the American dollar." 


These duo actions by the two most powerful adversaries of the U.S. economy and empire, have now joined in to make a move to attack the primary economic stronghold that keeps America as the most powerful economic superpower. Once the majority of the world begins to bypass the dollar, and purchase oil in other currencies, then the full weight of our debt and diminished manufacturing structure will come crashing down on the American people.
This new agreement between Russia and China also has serious ramifications in regards to Iran, and the rest of the Middle East. No longer will U.S. sanctions against Iran have a measurable affect, as the rogue nation can simply choose to sell its oil to China, and receive Yuan in return, and use that currency to trade for the necessary resources it needs to sustain its economy and nuclear programs.
The world changed last week, and there was nary a word spoken by Wall Street or by politicians who reveled in their own magnificence as this event took place during the party conventions. A major blow was done on Sept. 6 to the American empire, and to the power of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. And China, along with Russia, are now aiming to become the controllers of energy, and thus, controllers of a new petro-currency.


 http://www.examiner.com/article/dollar-no-longer-primary-oil-currency-as-china-begins-to-sell-oil-using-yuan


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Well well well, China, Harper`s newest best friend (BFF) has found a really cool way to avoid all sanctions against Harper`s other BFF..IRAN....

As written here, China possesses its very own oil patch operations, China also controls a majority ownership in the proposed Enbridge pipeline, and rumours are abuzz, China will buy 100% of the Enbridge pipeline once it is in operation(if it ever happens, over my and 1000`s of other dead bodies)....

With Harper privately pushing the nexen takeover by the Chinese Government, with China owning vast tracts of the Alberta oil patch, with China possessing almost the entire world fleet of super-tankers, the only thing missing is a pipeline and a tax-free Canadian trading zone...

British Columbia, the BC Liberal party under Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark are prepared to grant China that free trade, no tax zone...And I wonder why no one has asked the National energy board(NEB)...Why all the questions of Enbridge(?) when soon after completion the Enbridge pipeline will be a wholly owned Chinese pipeline, run by the Chinese Government...

China already owns 49% of the Gateway Enbridge pipeline, it`s the worst kept secret, a Canadian company with a brutal record of destroying environment after environment is fighting to build a pipeline for a company from China with even a worse record...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/07/23/20120723-nexen.html

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China begins expanding its supertanker fleet

By David Lague

SHANGHAI — China has begun an ambitious effort to build a fleet of more than 90 supertankers to improve its control over oil imports which are vital to sustaining a booming economy, shipping industry experts say.
Government strategic planners in Beijing have set a target that half of the oil imports should be carried on Chinese-owned tankers. No deadline has been set to meet this goal, but Chinese shipping companies are expected to order as many as 65 supertankers, worth an estimated $7.1 billion, by 2012, according to transport analysts.

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So now China will own a huge chunk of the tar-sands, most of the world`s supertanker fleet and their own pipeline in Canada that`s designated a free trade and tax zone, all the big boys have been bought off.....The only thing standing in the way of this massive Canadian fraud is us, British Columbia.....Harper is pushing through the Nexen deal, the Gateway pipeline and British Columbia will provide the free trade zone to China, Christy Clark is well aware of the details, so is Harper....

The consequences of this is obvious, besides buying lumber and everything else from China...British Columbia will soon be buying oil itself from China....

Communist Russia and China along with the backing of Stephen Treason Harper will soon have all the tools(and oil) to thwart Harper` s fake concern over harmless Iran...

Everyone in Canada is being played the fool, including $3 billion dollar deficit this year Alberta.....

Has anyone asked the NEB about Enbridge selling the pipeline to the Chinese, how do we collect from Communist China?....How do we stop this from happening...

There is but one answer, remove Stephen Harper from power and charge him with treasonous acts against Canada...

We need a truly National oil strategy that doesn`t include polluting BC`s coast and shipping our jobs to China....

Lastly. hey Christy Clucking Clark, after walking around Richmond, Burnaby, Vancouver, Coquitlam, it appears that China, including investors, bankers and money launderers know exactly where British Columbia is, stop wasting taxpayers money and hiding in Asia...

Call the election..

The Straight Goods

Cheers Eyes Wide Open

The One That Got Away

It`s what draws my spirit to the west west coast.....

Giant humpback whales were fishing alongside us most days, these enormous sea beasts would slap their massive flute(tail) on the surface scaring feedfish into a tight-ball, then with a dive below with their giant mouth open they would vacuum up mass quantities of baitfish, the daily show was awe-inspiring...

Yes indeed, that is my almost 80 year old mom steering the boat, she`s always on the wheel, she loves to steer and monitor the depth sounder, mom calls out fish depths, she also isn`t baggage, she requests different spoons and hoochies be put on the line, coyote spoons, green and blue hoochies, watermelon, wonderbread, peapod, oilslick, yes we have names for all the lures, .......

A fishing trip for the ages, well, that`s not quite true, it was more than fishing, tradition and carrying on, it`s what dad wanted, we sprinkled ashes from Port Alberni to Bamfield clear out to Cape Beale and the Pacific ocean....

You perhaps noticed the name of the boat, Stolen Time, that name had a lot of meaning to dad, from my earliest years dad always told me of take advantage of it, do it, time is fleeting, in a blink it`s gone, memories, smiles and tears, that`s all life is, don`t put off anything until tomorrow, that day may never come....

Stolen Time, meaning any time out fishing with friends and family was stolen from elsewhere, there is never enough, time that is....

This was my way of thanking Mom, thanking her for everything, all responsibility was on me, my job, run the boat, maintain the engines, fix everything that breaks, solves all obstacles and shoo them away, go without sleep and provide the muscle and strongback, why is it always low-tide when I`m packing fish and coolers off the boat...

My good friend Lane Baker joined us, an expert on everything, including shying away from the camera, a cabinet make, environmentalist and most notably, a minimalist, he lives by the motto, a person only needs enough, hence he has given away all his worldly possessions to others less fortunate, Lane needs only to experience things and not own them, but he too has ghosts haunting him...

Welcome to OUR PLACE

 Jim and I live in Napanee, Ontario.  We have five sons, two live in Ontario, two in British Columbia, and one in Nova Scotia, and we have thirteen grandchildren!

I was diagnosed in December of 2005 with early onset alzheimers.  In September of 2006 the diagnosis was changed to the language presentation of frontal temporal dementia (FTD).

I write in my Journal several times a month and I'm hoping my experiences and observations can help others on this journey.

Please feel free to sign our guestbook.


 Front page - www.jim-mary.com
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That`s Lane`s mom, she was diagnosed with early onset alzheimers in 2006, rather than run, hide or ignore she chose to write about her journey down this hideous road, she has a journal, a blog and support web site, she an invited speaker and expert who speaks about the disease everywhere and to everyone who will listen... She has 5 sons, and I know Lane doesn`t like his picture taken but ...

His mom has a picture of all the boys including Lane on her site....And I just happened to stumble by that picture..(sorry Lane)







It`s a very old picture, Lane is at the bottom...

My dad too worried about demons taking his mind, unfortunately the grim reaper and an assist by BC Liberal practices(non cleaning of hospitals) took dad away before the memory thieves arrived, maybe that is in a way, a small blessing, Lane expects this cruel affliction to rob him too, rob him of a lifetime, for without our memories what are we, the permanent stranger, lost with no direction home, for without a warm fuzzy recollection of familiarity, without conscious, without knowing turns quickly to...Without family, Dementia and alzheimers, perhaps that disease(s) is the most hideous of all, it tears family apart and strikes fear in those who for no reason, genetics and lottery, who shall become cattlized next, it runs in family, 2 of the 5 boys have a 80% chance of contracting this mind theft demon...

It was Lane, Neil and Mavis and my dad who inspired my favorite post, Storm of tears(in your eyes)...

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The Storm of Tears, (In Your Eyes)

Having immersed myself in the dark void of soulless data I find myself becoming increasingly bitter and callous......

If only you could see the world through my eyes, maybe you can, that is my ultimate goal, enlightenment, perhaps that is part of the media`s problem, do journalists see what we see, I can`t sleep anymore, the nightmares don`t stop...

I woke up to tears again this morning, how many of you wake up every other day with salty drops running down your cheeks, have the reporters and journalists stopped seeing, reporting, feeling so they can sleep, I have not that answer but I,..........But I need the tears, it reminds that I still care, my dad has been fishing without me all month, how he does it is beyond me he is over 80, he drags my mom up in the morning and prods her to the boat,a difficult task 20 years ago but now that my mom`s legs don`t work is amazing, a recent colon cancer survivor, lumps, bumps and breakdowns of body will not stop him, not only is he fighting the clock but also the demons.....

A fear of losing his mind has shaped his routine, no one wins that battle with time, at best you can hold the swinging pendulum at bay but for a moment, recently I was in a special section of the Maple Ridge hospital, the woman I was visiting is fighting for freedom, a girl too young to be looking for freedom, society stole her sanity and left her to fend for herself.......

Will her mind return is unknown, the vast majority of patients, victims, fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers in this unit are lost, the visitors to this place are me, sons, daughters, lovers and as I observe, watch, document, sons talking to fathers, daughters to mothers and I see blank stares and fear, blank stares from these loved ones whose minds are gone, memories purged, emotions ripped from their souls only to be replaced with pills and water......And fear in the eyes of blood related visitors........

Fear of ending up in the same place, crossword puzzles and Sudoko have been standard fare for my dad for years, I know what his fear is, not the clock but the blank stare, he has no worries as he still betters me when watching/playing Jeopardy, I am looking forward to spending labour day weekend with my parents, fishing with mom and dad has always been a temporary tear stopper for me, China Creek and Bamfield will provide the backdrop......

Recently mom told me dad said to her that despite his fits of anger towards me at times that he thinks I`m brilliant, I have been waiting a lifetime to hear that, not that I am brilliant or special but who doesn`t need the occasional compliment, with my dad emotions have always been hard for him, where as my mom it`s the complete opposite, passion and anger bubbles through......

Someone blessed me with a mix of both, cold calculated analytical with uncontrollable emotions, I was raised with warnings about being cannon fodder, taught to think and decide, to examine all sides and be vocal, yet that price is tears when I sleep and thoughts that can`t be stopped, happiness is fleeting and eludes me and I can`t help but think of the blank stares of fathers and mothers whose minds have been purged and the children who live in fear of ending up in the same state.......

Why? Those empty minds sleep without tears and peace seems to be in their grasp, I have not any answers only more questions, I`ll be gone fishing next week and I will have arguments with my dad and lose every one of them and he won`t call me brilliant, he`ll call me something and when I sleep I will wake up to tears and any happiness will be but a facade, my earliest memories are of fishing with dad and mom wiping my tears away, I was never promised happiness, all I look forward to now is completion, you know what our goal is and damn it, even if it kills me we will continue......

And I wouldn`t want it any other way.

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Maybe it was Dad`s ashes, the sun shone everyday, wind was absent and giant chinook salmon terrorized our rods, the boat never ran better and every lesson dad yelled into my mind over my lifetime was as clear as day, My friend Lane Baker, the minimalist, perhaps that`s why he enjoys my company, I offer nothing but lore and wisdom handed to me from others, stories, tales of yore and a lens, a lens into my world, a world where man and beast co-exist in harmony....

A vocal curious lens, and of course the story, that`s my dad, he taught me how to deliver a story, told right the simplest of tales can excite...

We saw such varieties of species, Coho, Chinook, Humpback whales, porpoises, dozens of bird species, eagles, black bears, deer and elk, owls, 2 weeks soaking up mother nature only the westcoast can deliver, it makes resolve my pledge to fight Enbridge to the death, recharged my batteries, made clear what`s really important in life, China Creek, Bamfield, memories and tomorrow....

Everything went well, until.....

Until we got home...

As you know I spent a couple of months renewing Mom`s Burnaby house earlier this summer, while listening to late night AM radio..(Hello George Norry)...On 2 occasions in Burnaby(Capital Hill), late at night while listening and recharging my physical battery down our dead end street out came a massive black bear, 300lbs plus, a big healthy plump male in Burnaby, both times I rolled the window down and said..."Hello Mr. Bear"...The magnificent beast just gave me a penetrating stare and carried on, carried on right through mom`s yard, I, we never called any authorities, it was late at night and his home is in the greenbelt by the Burnaby refinery, .....

To my dismay, we just got back and on the news was a giant black bear sighting near willingdon and hastings, people by the hundreds according to BC`s conservation office called in fear, here I was, listening to the radio and watching a helicopter for hours hovering over and scaring this friendly black beast....

To my horror they finally tranquilized him, every report I heard on this particular bear he was described as "non aggressive".."no aggression to man"..

I was hoping that they would leave the bear alone until night(darkness) where he would make his way back to the greenbelt....

After he was tranquilized I called the BC conservation office and spoke to a charming young lady about our bear, perhaps when I mentioned the Burnaby bear she was expecting an irate caller....I told her the bear was from the North Burnaby greenbelt, also I said he`s a friendly bear, and suggested returning him home, she responded with frustration with society, she told me of hundreds of parents who were adamant the bear be shot, removed, eliminated, she also lambasted the media, any bear in a city media, helicopters hover, terrorize and wait for a story, the media whips up the dumb masses into a frenzy, she and her fellow officers wanted to leave the friendly bear alone, but with a helicopter hovering, with radio reports every few minutes the only destiny for this bear was a shot and relocation, he`s going to Harrison Hot springs....

1 north Burnaby bear and 200,000 human residents, no wonder the people were scared, scared stupid that is...

I`ll miss our friendly black bear....The one that didn`t get away

Perhaps Stolen Time has multiple meanings....




The Straight Goods


Cheers Eyes Wide Open

Mike De Jong, BC LIBERAL LIAR, What else is new?

 



Well I`m back, so many stories, tolls, trolls and ghouls...

Our good friend Brian asked Mary Polak a few questions today(September 13) on the Bill Good show at about 9:19 am...Audio vault here

Question 1...How come the Golden Ears bridge users were`nt offered a 50% off deal like the port mann bridge opening?...Answer(my answer)..There was no approaching election..

Question 2...Is it true that only 8 lanes of the new 10 lane bridge are opening in December, the other 2 lanes won`t be open for another year..Answer(Mary Polak) Yes...

Question 3..Would the honourable minister answer this question with a yes or no...Is it not true that there was a secret deal signed with the builders of the sea to sky highway and the Government that pays the builder shadow tolls? ...Answer?(Mary Polak)...I`m new to the portfolio, I don`t know, get the caller`s name off air and we`ll get back to him...

Well well well...We just got the answer, there are indeed shadow tolls on the sea to sky highway, where has Mary Polak been?...

Anyway, today Mike De Jong made the claim that the Province got $1.2 billion dollars less than expected in natural gas revenues....Well isn`t that interesting, because if you look at the above chart......

Last January, the beginning of the year natural gas prices was....

$2.86 .......

And today, September 13, 2012......$3.01......So where did the price collapse?.....

What we also had was this....David Shreck, Will McMartin and others including myself wrote how the BC Government was hoping..Praying..desperately begging natural gas prices to rise..They didn`t, they won`t, there`s a glut, Bruce Raulston the NDP finance critic also warned of the BC Liberals using overly optimistic forecasting on natural gas prices to produce deficit numbers..

 This is no shock, prices for natural gas are higher today then what they were January 1st/2012....Here is De Jong`s bullshit statement..

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De Jong blamed the drop mostly on a dramatic drop in natural gas prices.

"The bulk of the hit is captured by the reduced revenues we are seeing due to dramatically lower natural gas prices," he said, adding expected revenues from natural gas are down by $1.4 billion over three years.

Meanwhile, de Jong said Thursday his government will not hold a fall sitting of the BC Legislature, unless extraordinary issues arise. He said the government will instead focus on dealing with the province's fiscal challenges."

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/government+freezes+hiring+management+salaries+natural+revenue+falls/7237291/story.html#ixzz26NQD1ZXL

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The fact of the matter, the truth, The Straight Goods...


BC Liberals are bold-faced liars and that will never change....

Also, you notice how he slipped out the news that the BC effing liar Liberals have canceled ANOTHER FALL SESSION ..Same old same old band of thieves, Christy Clark, unelected, no mandate, and now she pulls a Gordon Campbell and cancels the legislature to avoid any questions from the opposition, or the public..For shame Liberals, for shame!

And on a final note....Amazing irony don`t you think, Christy Clucking Clark and her band of fiscal thieves and losers who are now threatening $hundreds of millions in additional cuts because of lower natural gas prices, are also touting natural gas and LNG as British Columbia`s fiscal saviour....Now that`s funny...

Qatar, New Zealand, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, USA...Everyone is racing to get to China with LNG in hand, all chasing higher natural gas prices, Russia will have a pipeline directly into China, those other places are all closer and 5 years ahead of B.C, oh, one more pertinent item.......Drum roll please...China has the largest natural gas reserves in the world, as soon as all these LNG plants come on line, China merely looks at domestic production and prices will crash....And even the gas drillers of BC have admitted that even if they get a higher price for LNG to Asia the royalties won`t change to British Columbia, the Province will receive the same amount, any higher prices for LNG in Asia, the cost of infrastructure and trans-pacific crossing will eat up any extra money...

For more on The BC Liberal`s LNG pipedream read this....

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Chinese Tigers Playing with Canadian Sheep.

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 Check out today`s cknw audio vault(June 1st 2012..9:30 am to 10:00 am)..It appears even Marc Jaccard gets his information from The Straight Goods..(originally posted on February 8/2012)


 http://www.cknw.com/news/audiovault/index.aspx



The curse of Asia, LNG prosperity fantasy, it amazes me that so-called educated people are so stupid, sure enough many people aren`t blessed with critical thought processes but one doesn`t have to be smart to remember the not so-recent past.

At one-time North America was the electronic manufacturing capital of the world then Japan entered the market and things changed, bit by bit Corporations left the US of A and moved to cheaper labour markets, first Mexico, then Korea now China with their labour laws and zero environmental standards took over almost all electronic manufacturing, now they produce everything from flashlights to Starbucks coffee cups, everything is made in China, this domination has led a race to the bottom, electronic goods built so cheaply that even small repair businesses in the west have had to close shop, TV repairs obsolete, video repair obsolete, parts for repair are+ almost as expensive as a brand new replacement, in other words, throw away technology when it fails...
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Vaughn Palmer has written another article on the need to rush into the ++building of  LNG terminals, his third in short order, Vaughn is stressing the importance of rushing in before the window of opportunity closes....Sorry Vaughn, the window was never even opened, the Chinese merely fogged up the glass with hot air dreams.

Vaughn talks about how Australia is way ahead of us in LNG exporting, they too are expanding operations to satiate the Asian market, Russia too, and Vaughn Palmer is correct when he talks about a north American glut of natural gas, with new hydro-fracking shale gas is available in quantity everywhere, thus the North American price has plummeted to prices not seen in a decade, current prices EnCana gas and other producers in Canada make zero money on extracting it, the Province too, $3:00 per unit is the rock-bottom price for making money on this finite resource....right now the price is $2;40

I have studied the LNG market, I also studied the Chinese technique of tip-toeing into a market and in a few short years they dominate it, right now Super tanking business is in the tank, vessels are losing money, the Chinese have bought up most of the super tankers and are buying 80 more new vessels, they are single handedly taking over the shipping game, phony subsidies from the regime in Bejiing create the illusion of profit when none exists....Even Sinopec and Petro-China are losing $billions subsidizing their domestic driver`s gasoline and diesel, nothing is as it +seems in China.
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"China’s plan for 80 super tankers worries owners

++Beijing’s goal to transport half its oil imports on its own ships brings huge problems for foreign fleets

Keith Wallis in Boao, Hainan Island
07 November 2011

Plans by mainland ship owners to order up to 80 super tankers would be disastrous for foreign ship owners who would likely see charter rates plunge and vessels left idle, a senior shipping industry figure warned.

Torben Skaanild, secretary general of the Baltic and International Maritime Council (Bimco), said if all 80 ships were ordered “it would kill the tanker market for years - it would be a catastrophe”.

Skaanild was speaking on the sidelines of the World Shipping (China) summit at Boao on Hainan Island on Friday about renewed speculation that China Ocean Shipping (Cosco) and China Shipping Development as well as other mainland owners intended to embark on an ordering frenzy for new tankers. This was to ensure mainland ship owners met Beijing’s target that 50 per cent of China’s oil imports should be carried on its own ships by 2015.

Figures from China’s customs bureau show the mainland imported 130 +million tonnes of crude oil in the first half of this year, equivalent to 434 super tanker shipments, and up 7 per cent year on year.

Moves to acquire a further 80 very large crude carriers (VLCCs) would ++more than double the existing combined fleet of China’s four largest ship owners, who together control 56 super tankers each of about 300,000 deadweight tonnes.

Based on existing orders, China Shipping Development plans to add a further three VLCCs to its fleet by 2013 and Nanjing Tanker Corporation, part of Sinotrans and the China Shipping Company, will take delivery of a further 10 large tankers by the end of next year. They are among 30 super tankers on order to Chinese ship owners.

Captain Wei Jiafu, Cosco chairman, confirmed that mainland ship owners would acquire a further 80 VLCCs over the next four years.

Explaining Cosco’s strategy, he said it was likely to form shipping joint ventures with mainland oil companies such as China National Petroleum (PetroChina), China Petrochemical (Sinopec) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). These joint ventures were likely to order new tonnage.

Skaanild said some independent owners were worried about the impact on the crude oil tanker market if China went through with its tanker-owning target. Bimco, which had 900 owners as members who controlled 66 per cent of global merchant ship tonnage, believed in free competition, he said, +“but we have to express our concern”.

With ship owners facing the worst crisis for years as too many vessels chase fewer cargoes, Skaanild said some owners would not survive, so there ++would be plenty of ships to buy. Bimco’s position was that owners should not be building new ships.

Peter Sand, Bimco’s shipping analyst, said the VLCC market was in dire straits. “Last year, a modern VLCC earned US$37,929 per day, while year-to-date 2011 earnings are down 55 per cent at US$17,157 per day,” he said - an amount that barely covered operating costs. 
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I can`t help but laugh, the British Columbia government is drinking the Asian bubble tea, BC Liberals have sold Vaughn Palmer the juice too, BC Liberals are spouting the line that they will receive 4 to 5 times the North American price from Asian buyers....Now that`s funny, really it is.

Vaughn Palmer in his latest article also talks about the massive reserves of shale gas China itself has, it`s reported that China possess the largest supplies in the world, 5 times as much shale gas as North America, and it`s true...

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"According to the US Energy Information Administration, China holds the largest reserves of shale gas in the world, enough to supply China for more than 300 years. There’s no current commercial production of shale gas in +China, but several companies have exploratory projects underway, including Sinopec, PetroChina, Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Chevron.
An official from CNPC commented that the compant has found shale gas in around 20 locations, with each able to produce over 10,000 cubic meters ++of gas per day. Reuters reported that Shell has found shale gas in China, a development that could cap imports in a market natural gas producers are hoping will drive demand. Shell has observes good primary production from its two vertical well. Chevron, which experienced a dry well in its first well has now found encouraging results in its second well.

China is poised to become the world’s largest producer of shale gas,"
 Huge Potential for Shale Gas in China | Derrick Petroleum Services
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So here`s the deal or should I say, here`s the Chinese game, Australia is ramping up LNG export production, Qatar is Ramping up LNG export facilities, Russia is in the game too and let`s don`t forget the USA, everybody ramping up in a big rush to service Asia`s growing needs....

So what happens?...Everybody is chasing these enormous future profits and big LNG price from China, really, think about it, China has more gas than anyone else in the world, enough for 300 years yet these north American idiots think China is going to open up their wallets and pay a giant premium from us,  now that`s even funnier...

China has everyone right where they want em, chasing a fantasy, once LNG ramps up around the world China will be in a position to set the price, peg one country against another, in other words with that much +LNG available domestically China merely has to look at their own reserves and the price will crash!...LNG exporters will be selling it at a loss, all that fracking pollution for peanuts...Where have we seen this play before.
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And there is more, much more, let`s talk dirty tar sand oil...Currently the Tar sands use enough natural gas each day to heat 10 million homes, just imagine if the price of this gas was...

4 to 5 times the North American price, this LNG fantasy price the BC Government is drooling over...Well, what would that do to the price of extracting dirty tar sand oil from Alberta?...It would drive the price through the roof, right now the only reason the tar sands can be mined cheap is the low price of natural gas and free water and free land for 1000`s of miles of poison lakes.

China will have all the exporters cutting each others throat for the business, the price will go low and stay low, for China doesn`t need LNG from anyone, they have more than anyone, they need oil, cheap oil and that means cheap natural gas...

Only fools and their money think they can out fox the Chinese, they have done this to almost every industry and the BC Liberal Government and Canada is falling for it hook, line and sinker, those fools and their money will soon part.

There is one more issue with China not extracting their shale gas at this +time, fracking requires billions and billions of gallons of water, China has over 300 million people now without fresh clean drinking water, they are also having severe droughts and most of their rivers have been poisoned, mind you the Chinese don`t care about poisoning their people but China is +m+oving slow on fracking, from what I have read China will be dedicating some of its new nuclear facilities to power desalination plants from which China can turn vast amounts of salt water into fracking water...

CHINA The Government: drinking water for 32 million farmers, but ten times more are left without - Asia News

 CHINA For the Chinese, pollution and the environment top list of problems - Asia News

You can read Vaughn Palmer`s latest splash here, not much in it but hyperbole and Palmer`s subtle messaging, too bad Vaughn doesn`t know what he`s talking about.

The bottom line is this, with China holding the largest shale gas reserves in the world any thought of BC having China over a barrel and reliant on our natural gas is a joke....

Lastly, BC...if we had 3 LNG terminals humming away BC would deplete all our gas in 3 decades, China has 300 years worth of gas, China`s population is 50 times that of Canada, yet they have enough gas to supply their population for 300 years, how silly and sad that BC wants to exhaust our finite supplies for a short fantasy sugar rush.
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China and Asia have taken over the electronics manufacturing, we can`t compete with their slave labour, same thing with shoes, clothes, h+ousewares, food products, China also leads the world in intellectual +property theft, human rights abuses, environmental crimes, counterfeit goods, cyber attacks, China is not investing in Canada they are buying it, whole operations, free trade zones, their own coal mine, their own workers, their own Chinese standards in Canada, a foreign country operating in Canada as if they own us, maybe they do...

My advice to the Province is build 1 LNG terminal and proceed slowly after that, I also suggest that CSIS maintain their diligence and watch the Federal Conservatives very closely.

And if Christy Clark or any Canadian politician thinks they can outsmart or wall China in well....

Whatever their smoking must be some good shit, perhaps that might be a better fiscal investment than playing reindeer games with Bejiing..

The Straight Goods

posted by Grant G