Author: RossK

AllTheHerdMediaThatFitsFallForAnythingVille

….Cry Me A River Of Codswallop.

Well, despite earlier reports of Craig James’ snoopin’ round the super-secret bunker, it looks like E-BC has decided that they won’t be able to ‘give’ us a turnout number t…

AllTheMediaManipulationThatFitsE-BCVille

…..What Codswallop This Way Comes?

So.
Out of nowhere it is announced that we will be told voter turnout numbers today.
Which is bizarre in and of itself.
But the following bit of codswallop, from Justine H…

ThereButTheGraceOfTheGoddessGoWeVille
Yesterday, I linked to a short story from CKWX 1130 by Sonia Aslam about calls from the HST Fireman’s Brigade to extend the vote.
The following comment, attached to the story, is fairly representative of the respon…

AllTheVotesThatDon’tCountCampbell-ClarkVilleWell, actually, ballots that will be sent to Victoria but not counted. The image above by Jesse Johnston of CKWX 1130 shows completed ballots that were slid under the door of a Lower Mainland E-BC office afte…

AllTheHonestAnalysisThatDoesn’tQuiteFitCentristPunditVilleDirect from the Horse’s (ie. Standard and Poor’s) Mouth….”…Compared with previous (AAA) projections, our revised base case scenario (AA+) now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 (Bush) tax cuts, …

TheProPunditWithTheMostPowerPullsHisPunches(Again)VilleIn his latest VSun piece, Vaughn Palmer explains that by pulling the plug on the HST ‘initiative’, which would have required 50% + 1 of all ELIGIBLE voters in all of British Columbia to carry the d…

DIYGoneWildNewMusicFridayVille….And Its Name is tUnE-yArDs.Seriously.______And she who is so inventive, Merrill Garbus, came up with the name after she dreamed of floating over fields filled with song that she decided to harvest. .

WeAreAllRayBradburyNowFahrenheit451Ville….Because If You Don’t Gordon Campbell’s Disco Inferno Will Burn You and Yours Forever.It’s too late for mail, but the deadline for direct drop-offs is 4:30pm, today, Friday Aug 5th, 2011.There are BC Service C…

AllTheStay(Away!)cationsThatFitConvictionlessCourageVille….With Her Well-Timed Vacation?According to Lotusland’s proMedia herd, whose stampede this time was led by Mike Smyth with The Dean bringing up the rear, it had something to do with avoiding la…

AllThePorkChopsThatFitInformationIsNotFreeVille….Directly To Kevin FalconSean Holman, once again, has the story at Public Eye. Here’s his lede:The office running the government’s pro-harmonized sales tax campaign secretly awarded around $46,000 of wo…

SayWhatYouMeanAndMeanWhatYouSayVilleIn another non-story story from CBC Vancouver (wireless division), reported by Jeff Davies, it would appear that at least one pollster has no idea what is going to happen with the HST referendum. Not because they hav…

WouldYouBuyAUsedCarFromThisGovernmentVilleIn my opinion, based on their words, deeds and actions, they are.And, in the opinion of Sean Holman, it doesn’t even matter any more one way or the other because many who oppose the corporate tax shift perceive…

….Isn’t just because they know it’s stuffed up The Tubez for easy and instant access.In addition, I think its got a lot to do with the fact that everything is searchable within most digitally archived documents.Which means you never have to actually …

ThisIsNotANewMediaThingIt’sHappenedAllBeforeVilleHow?Just call them to account for their codswallop. And then, if they insist on spouting serial codswallop over and over, just cut them off.Because a debate built on lies is not a debate at all.****In th…

IWantMyIWantMyIWantMyCBC(Back)Ville…That Brung ‘Ya If They Try To Get You Drunk And Take Advantage Of You (Or Worse) Out In The Parking Lot. Of course, I am referring to Mr. Davies appalling comments to the Cluffmaster Flash earlier today on the loca…

TheWeeBitOfNewsThatDoesn’tQuiteFitButMightActuallyMatterVille____Update: Kevin Falcon and the Snowblind Snowmen (that’s us!) latest highly partisan, not to mention highly political, HST-assisted highwire act is detailed at the bottom of the post…____…

TheStoryWithLegsCrazierThanHirschWhat,WeWorry?VilleWell, well, well…..In the first blush of Sean Holman’s blockbuster that revealed the secret HST InfoDom contracts that went to BC Liberal Party insiders, one of those insiders, Mr. Mark Andrew, told …

Pretzels?WeDon’tNeedNoStinkin’Pretzels!Anti-LogicVilleWhen Sean Holman of PublicEye Online published a story a couple of days ago about all the secret contracts for Info-Dom Ops AND ‘logistic’ assistance to the HST panel and information office, the Fin…

TheWeeBitOfNewsThatDoesn’tQuiteFitButActuallyMattersVilleIf George Bush’s two unfunded wars have cost Americans $5 trillion dollars why, as Amy Goodman asks in the Guardian, is this not part of the ridiculous, not to mention never ending, kabuki theatr…

PickingUpSteamInTheMainstreamTheThumbsHaveItVilleFollowing up on Sean Holman’s freelance blockbuster that made its way into yesterday’s Globe, The Ceeb’s Kady O’Malley dives into the belly of the PR beast and comes out, alive, with a fistful of entra…