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Posted in General on Nov 19th, 2010
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous,” wrote Macaulay some 175 years ago, “as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality” … Let’s change that to substitute “captive columnists” for “British public” and now take a look at the recent writings of Mike Smyth of The Province and Vaughn Palmer of the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 17th, 2010
The Liberal leadership convention next February 26th is shaping up as an Old Boys and Girls rally. As outsiders, Carole Taylor and Diane Watts have counted themselves out. As with all leadership contests, especially those where the winner instantly becomes premier or prime minister, this one will have a lot of media coverage. That won’t [...]
Posted in General on Nov 15th, 2010
It’s about time we reformed our legal system . hell, it’s been around for 1000 years or so and we still have lots of crime, don’t we? The bottom line of our system has been the presumption of innocence ignoring the reality that if you get arrested, you must be guilty. Policemen are well trained, [...]
Posted in General on Nov 13th, 2010
I’m off to Dave Barrett’s party celebrating his 80th birthday and have been mildly concerned as to how to answer the question, what the hell’s an old Socred doing at a party for Dave Barrett? My answer is simple – I saw Barrett, up close and as a partisan saw nothing good; I now see [...]
Posted in General on Nov 6th, 2010
I have no intention of being “Mr. Nice Guy” to Gordon Campbell because he’s leaving office to wait for his massive pension to kick in and for lush directorships from the Energy companies to be offered. I’m an environmental activist trying to save our salmon, our rivers, and our farm land, Why should I get [...]
Posted in General on Nov 4th, 2010
There is a new, to me at any rate, columnist in the Vancouver Province named Ethan Baron whom I enjoy. I was, however, amused and nonplussed by today’s article where he lists the errors of Gordon Campbell quite in contrast to The Vancouver Sun‘s editorial this morning praising the premier to the heavens. That the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 3rd, 2010
This Campbell government is supposed to be business oriented. In fact, they are worse than any government I can remember. The litany of bad monetary decisions, overruns and waste would take a book to cover but suffice it to say that just an ordinary, everyday government fiscal fuck up makes the NDP look like prudent [...]
Posted in General on Nov 1st, 2010
My colleague on The Political Panel, CBC1 Mondays at 7:40, Moe Sihota, says that the NDP have no serious leadership problems. The fact that he’s the president of the NDP may be what’s casting the dust of stupidity in his eyes. The NDP have long made the error of putting philosophy ahead of electability. I [...]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2010
It’s been brought to my attention that the Vancouver Sun recently ran a story called “Women of Influence” and notable by her absence was Alexandra Morton, the tireless fighter against fish farms and for the protection of our wild salmon. I’m not going to replay all of Alex’s achievements because even with the biases of [...]
Posted in General on Oct 21st, 2010
When I opened the Vancouver Province this morning and turned to the editorial page I thought Wendy had thrown some strange potion into my cereal, as I read: “And what sort of a government do we have in BC when our top justice official, Attorney-General, Mike DeJong, can agree to pay the crooked officials’ million [...]
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