To quote Kurt Vonnegut, and so it goes… Education Clown Minister Abbott has fired the Cowichan School Board, for not doing something that the Provincial Liberals haven’t be able to do either…pass a balanced budget..if only we could fire them.. The worst part about this whole issue is that this
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Left Over: Clown Circus Strikes Again!
Cross-border shopping rules hit Canadian stores Although I empathize with some small independent retailers, victims of their inability to achieve the vast purchase power of the big multi-national chains, in fact it is well past time to blame gas taxes, etc, for your retail woes.. When companies charge (often
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So, the Supreme Court in the US has ruled…and Obamacare, such as it is, is ‘safe’ for now… This decision means, practically, nothing regarding a tax, since if one reads the bill, carefully, there are no penalties for not buying in…Medicaid is still in place, as is Medicare, provided, (and
Continue readingLeft Over: Enbridge Pipeline Spoof is “Revised”
Dan Murphy is a cartoonist for the Province newspaper,and here in BC, it is common practice to castigate the corporate agenda of rightwing whackjobs, sometimes in the media, whatever the East may think of the West’s support of the CRAPs.. Now that ability to laugh at, and thus negate the
Continue readingLeft Over: Bob Paulson, Emperor Steve’s New Minion
Top cop concerned with Mounties airing problems in public RCMP Commissioner says bill will help end ‘outrageous’ behaviour “1984, knocking at your door…” What is it about the CRAPs that their supporters like? Must be the fact that they are impressive sweepers…of bad news, directly under the rug, never to
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WorkSafeBC employees get controversial $1,400 bonus Labour leader defends WorkSafeBC bonus Jim Sinclair – a coronation every time he runs for office..and now advocating against those who pay his very comfortable salary? Sinclair should do some consulting with union locals other than the WCB…he would ‘discover’ that many injured workers
Continue readingLeft Over: Neil MacDonald: Try a little self-censorship on for size…
ANALYSISNeil Macdonald: Is self-censorship fueling Alice Walker’s Hebrew halt? (CBC this morning) Mr. MacDonald, with all due respect from someone who has Jewish cultural roots, you are letting your ‘fondness’ for your time in Israel cloud your usually sharp judgement.. Canada has been blindly following Israel’s lead with no perceptible
Continue readingLeft Over: The Continued Character Assassination of Kevin Page…and an Antidote
This is addressed to all those CRAP MPs who hover like wasps over rancid jam ’round the PM.. Do none of you have a backbone? Is there not a single honest and moral bone in any of your bodies, that you stand around and let this madness continue? Will none
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Are you worried about increased surveillance at airports and borders? The Canada Border Services Agency will soon monitor travellers crossing the border by land and air using high-definition cameras and microphones to listen to conversations, CBC News has learned. Considering the obvious, there is probably already
Continue readingLeft Over: Aww,isn’t that just too Cute?
http://www.northerngateway.ca/news-and-media/northern-gateway-blogs Full of lies and pastel-soft illustrations, the Enbridge ‘blog’ is now being featured as a big ol’ ad in Hufpost Canada…pretty disgusting that they would even accept the money, but not much of a surprise.. You can go and look if you are feeling particularly masochistic – so far,
Continue readingLeft Over: U.S. Conference Of Mayors Passes Pro-Choice Resolution-today in HuffPost
This is very heartening, and flies in the face of what Repug-led States are attempting with their regressive anti-women stances…I’m happy and relieved to see that the entire country hasn’t lost its mind…Will this make a blind bit of difference in the next round of elections?One can only hope that
Continue readingLeft Over: And the “I didn’t Vote” Whingers are at it Again….
As the proverbial dust settles on our raped and pillaged Canadian democracy, there are outcries everywhere about this drastic rewrite of our country’s laws and protections.. How many of the whiners out there actually voted, and if they did, voted for the Tories? Bet they won’t be too quick to
Continue readingLeft Over: Quebec Should Stop Apologising For Speaking Truth to Power…
I am really, really tired of Jewish organizations condemning everyone and everything as it relates to the ironic use of fascist salutes, arguments and rebuttals..Like it or not, the term ‘Nazi’ and the salute made so famous by Hitler’s sheeple has become part of the lexicon..and there isn’t much anyone
Continue readingLeft Over: Will Women Ever Wake Up?
Nechemya Weberman, Orthodox Counselor To Hasidic Community, On Trial In Sex Abuse Case By COLLEEN LONG 06/10/12 06:53 PM ET Here’s an informative little missive from Huffpo today that is a discussion of a woman who finally spoke out about being abused by, yes, you guessed it, her ‘religious’ advisor…not again?
Continue readingLeft Over: Ugh, Wisconsin…any Lessons Learned Here at Home?
I just read that 35% of Wisconsin union members voted for Walker; anyone who thinks that union members here in Canada wouldn’t do the same sot of thing (if they bothered to vote at all, another discussion, I know) doesn’t know union members very well…as a retired union activist who
Continue readingLeft Over: A Really CRAPpy Agenda….
Brian Stewart: Why are we eliminating the CSIS watchers? By Brian Stewart, special to CBC News Posted: May 31, 2012 6:55 PM ET http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/05/31/f-vp-stewart-csis.html Following in the ‘footsteps’ of the Con’s agenda to gut the environmental legislation we currently support, and other laws intended to keep the people’s protectors in
Continue readingLeft Over: The Little School Board that Could….
Okay, kids, gather around, and I’ll tell you a tale of courage and honesty that you will be sure to think is fiction, but, no, it really happened, once upon a time..it’s really true. In the wilds of the kingdom of Canada, in the little valley of Cowichan, far, far
Continue readingLeft Over: The Little School Board that Could….
Okay, kids, gather around, and I’ll tell you a tale of courage and honesty that you will be sure to think is fiction, but, no, it really happened, once upon a time..it’s really true. In the wilds of the kingdom of Canada, in the little valley of Cowichan, far, far
Continue readingLeft Over: Crisis? What Crisis?
What a Greek euro exit could mean for Canada CBC News Posted: May 25, 2012 1:44 PM ET This doesn’t sound like much of a Canadian crisis to me, and as for a real estate bubble..doesn’t matter what you ‘blame’ it on, much of big-city Canadian housing is horribly
Continue readingLeft Over: Feds Shipping Their Trash to BC…..
Disgraced RCMP officer transferred to B.C. Sgt. Don Ray admitted to sexual relations with subordinates and harassment CBC News Posted: May 23, 2012 5:37 PM PT Last Updated: May 23, 2012 9:33 PM PT ******************************************************************* What is it with the Feds? Are applications to join the RCMP so thin on
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