Budget should help most vulnerable, says Ignatieff

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And who are these "most vulnerable" ? It doesn't say. He just drops the phrase in and walks away from it , like it was a dead fish or something.


Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says the Conservative budget expected at the end of next month should include help for "the most vulnerable," as well as tax breaks for entrepreneurs, to pull the country out of a recession.


But he's really quite enthusiastic about the whole GIVE BIG BUSINESS MONEY thing. He just bowls us over with it.


He also called for more investment in infrastructure, as well as new funds for affordable housing and job training. The government will unveil the federal budget near the end of January, and Conservatives have met with opposition officials to discuss the fiscal document.


And who's going to be building those roads and sewers ? Some big business.
And who's going to be building those affordable housing ? Some big business.
And who's going to be providing that job training ? Some big business.


When questioned on whether he would opt to vote down the Harper government after the budget is tabled, Ignatieff reaffirmed his earlier commitment to wait until he knows the contents of the document before making a decision


You just admitted you met with the Conservatives to discuss the document. Now you're saying you don't know whats in it. Make up your mind.


He would only say that a Liberal-NDP coalition, supported by the Bloc Quebecois, is a viable alternative for Canadians, "if the Harper government continues its record of failure on economic leadership."


Loosely translated "If they continue to do things their way and not ours". Economic Leadership my left (ahem) ! What the heck does that mean? A made up phrase to make you think the Conservatives are doing something naughty. They got an Economist for Prime Minister , for petes sake, what more do you want ?

Oh , you want to be in power. The fact that he's an economist and you're a historian doesn't matter. You think a historian can do a better job, I see that now.

(Wikipedia link for Michael Ignatieff here)

So , who do you want to lead the country during this time of economic crisis ? An Economist (Conservatives) , a Historian (Liberals) , or a career politician ..er...holder of a degree in political science (the now absent Stephen Dion aka "The Carbon Tax Man"). Or perhaps the Bloc who would like to break the country apart ?

Drop me a line and let me know.

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Hmm... pro human rights but not too far in the human rights camp he has his disagreements with them , in favor of the war in Iraq / Afghanistan but thinks the Americans got it wrong (too much corruption not enough fighting) , it's a pity he's a liberal because I think I agree with the rest of whats listed in his bio.

One Down , 11 to go

Liberals oust Ontario MP for supporting budget


Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has expelled former cabinet minister Joe Comuzzi from the party’s caucus because he plans to support the Conservative government’s budget. “He’s not anymore part of the caucus,” Dion said Wednesday after a caucus meeting. He said he had spoken with the Thunder Bay, Ont., MP who confirmed he would vote for the budget.


Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has expelled former cabinet minister Joe Comuzzi from the party’s caucus because he plans to support the Conservative government’s budget. “He’s not anymore part of the caucus,” Dion said Wednesday after a caucus meeting. He said he had spoken with the Thunder Bay, Ont., MP who confirmed he would vote for the budget.


Only 11 people need join the Conservatives and they have a majority. Well...10 now. *grins*


leaving the Liberals with 100 MPs, the Conservatives with 125, the Bloc Québécois with 50 and the New Democrats with 29

(also 2 independents 2 empty seats)

Hmm...those arn't the numbers I remember. That would indicate the Conservatives need 27 seats , not 11 . Google search time.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/partystandings/standings-E.htm

143 Conservative
77 Liberal
49 Bloc
37 NDP
02 Independant
00 Vacencies

wow...how old are those numbers from that blog ?
308 seats = 155 needed for majority. Conservatives need 12. Close enough , assuming an election occured somewhere along the line I didn't know about.

It is amusing though. Thank you Dion ! You took the Liberals from 100 seats to 77. Very impressive ! Oh , and the NDP were the second place winners , picking up 8 seats while everyone else but the conservatives lost (conservatives picked up a whopping huge 43 seats ... assuming those blog numbers are pre-election)

Please stay on Dion ! We love you ! *laughter* we love you sinking the opposition , that is ! Go Dion Go !!!

NR: City requests federal Labour minister to order ATU Local 279 vote

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Ottawa – Today, the City has written to the Minister of Labour, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, to order the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 279 to put the City’s latest contract offer to a vote of the union’s membership.

Under the Canada Labour Code, section 108.1 the Minister may call and monitor a vote by the union’s members of the City’s last offer.


This is a blow to unions everywhere. Not because of the Cities actions in forcing a vote, but because if the vote actually succeeds, then it means the Union which purports to represent it's members , in fact does not. They have failed to do their jobs, and they should hang their heads in shame and resign.

But they won't. Of course not.

INDIANA JONES 4 FIRST REVIEW

One of the more interesting things you can do on the net is to find a review of a movie you already own. What is the point of doing that , you may ask ? Well , if you think the movie was hot stuff and can't imagine anyone saying anything bad about it , but the reviewers piddle all over it , it tells you something about the reviewing process , doesn't it ? And how much you should pay attention to them.

I loved Indiana Jones 4. The reviewers hated it.

Just like I loved the first two mummies movies and now I'm finding out there's a third one out but the reviewers hate it. Well ... if this is the kind of thing they hate .. I guess I better go get myself a copy.

Enough said.

Users report 30GB Zunes seizing up

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Some users reported the problem happened at exactly midnight PST, at the very beginning of the last day of the year. That timing led some wags to call the problem Z2K after the Y2K problem that was widely feared to cripple the computing industry when computer clocks moved from 1999 to 2000.
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I just want to get up and go listen to my music. Listening to music is about the last thing I do with my Zune. I always have to reinstall, download new firmware, or wait for the slow software to catch up. Now this? I want to throw it away and never look back."


The wonderful Microsoft Zune , going to rule the world of MP3 Players.

I have a zen stone. It was under 50$ brand new, it doesn't do updates from the web, it doesn't have Digital Rights Management that shut you down if you don't pay your subscription fee, it doesn't get new software from the web to do the same old job as always.

This is my main gripe with "automatic updates". If it works , why are you updating anything ? It's just control, thats all. Some big corperation has reserved the right to shut you down if they think they can make a buck over it. And if they mess up , that shuts you down too.

Give me a generic mp3 player anytime , and forget this "automatic update" stuff. I neither need it nor want it. Not for my mp3 player, not for my windows box, and not even for my Linux box. I always turn that stuff off.

Palestinians in Canada condemn Israeli attacks in Gaza

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Palestinian-Canadians and their supporters held demonstrations in several cities Sunday in protest against Israeli air strikes aimed at security compounds in the Gaza Strip.

They rallied in downtown Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.

Carrying flags and signs reading "Save Gaza," protesters gathered outside Ottawa City Hall, calling for an end to the violence.


But not a single word against the Hamas for killing Israeli's with rocket attacks. Not a hint that they even think those rocket attacks are bad ? and this etho's the Hamas have to wipe the Israeli's out , no protest against that either ?

Send these protesters to Palistine where they belong , and revoke their Canadian Citizen ship. You wanna take sides and say "sc..w you" to one side and not the other ? Go fight that war, and leave us alone. We don't need your lopsided murderous propaganda in this country.

If you can't live in peace, then go home, Radical Islamics. Go home.

Chrome Sucks

7 Top Tips and Resources for Google Chrome


Google introduced the beta version of its open source Chrome browser nearly two months ago, and issued its third update to the beta yesterday. (The update pushes to you automatically if you're running Chrome.)


In an age where windows updates (and anti-virus updates, it's happened a few times) routinely break your computer and send you off to the repair shop for big bucks , and they don't reimburse you for this , in an age where windows updates do more to enforce their vender lock and strangle the competition than to improve their product or plug security holes (most "security holes" are infact an excuse to make some competitors package stop running on windows, duel booting linux comes to mind) ...

You have the gall to start another product with "automatic updates" on it that goes berserk and does whatever the heck it likes and the average user is simply stuck with whatever you , the big business , thinks is best for *YOUR* profit line and you don't give a rats behind about the actual user ?

And make no mistake about it , that is EXACTLY what this big business called Google is thinking.

Dump the thing in the trash can and move on.

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I know of a couple of programs that can download arbitrary code, a catch phrase meaning they download any program they like and do anything they like to your system, always to their benifit and your detriment. Most virus scanners flag these programs as hostile and neutrilize them , but they always seem to miss a few.

Specifically ....
Windows with live update on
Any anti-virus program with automatic updates turned on
Google Chrome
Any program at all with automatic updates turned on

I run my system, not your turkeys ! And it runs just fine with automatic updates turned off. I have no virii , no trojens , no slow downs, and I monitor things with netstat every now and then and there are no weird connections apearing at random.

You guys are just not trustworthy. Period.

Gaza near to collapse as Israel tightens grip, says bank

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Israel's blockade of Gaza is pushing the territory to the brink of collapse and fuelling the growth of a black money market controlled by Hamas, the World Bank warned yesterday.

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There is also a worry that Hamas, with its dominant militant and bureaucratic control of Gaza, will begin to replace the shekel with US dollars, which are more easily obtained, to smuggle through the tunnels from Egypt in the south.


A capitalistic endeavor concearned greatly with money and not much else (a bank) is worried that Gaza might slip the hook and use USA money directly and cut them out of the loop. And ...so what ?

. Since the end of the truce, daily clashes have resumed, with Israel launching air strikes on Palestinian rocket-launching teams and Palestinian fighters firing makeshift rockets and mortars at neighbouring Israeli towns.


Thank you for telling us you're a corrupt and dishonest newspaper by implying that the Gaza strip actually stopped firing at Israel during the truce. Truth is they were firing makeshift rockets the whole time. Some truce. Ok , now we know your word is mud. You may proceed.


Israel has been unable to find a lasting military solution to years of rocket fire from Gaza, and a series of reports from the World Bank suggests its policy of blockading the coastal area to break Hamas's control has not only failed but is now jeopardising the US-backed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.


The US-backed Palestinian Authority has not brought true peace to Israel. Through out it's entire reign , the rockets on Israel kept falling. This organization has squandered a lot of dough and brought nothing for it. Let it die.

There can be no lasting peace for Israel. Why ? Because the Islamics openly declare they want the whole world and they're just starting with Israel. And the whole world (or at least the west) has decided, "yeah , we'll just check mate them right here and keep the conflict contained instead of spreading it".

And so the west milks out those hostile to it's very existance before they can reach their shores. Good job people. It's working great so far.

I'm a doctor so my religion is worth more than yours

Rule aims to protect health providers' right of conscience


Christiansen, an obstetrician and gynecologist, is opposed to abortion. A medical consultant for a pregnancy resource center in Frederick, Maryland, she has never performed an abortion and has never referred a patient to an abortion clinic.

Yep yep yep. Doctor knows best. And when youre a doctor and a religious fruit cake , its OK to push your religion on people who don't believe in it and simply not give them certain options that they would happily take that you are against on religious principles.


A new federal regulation is aimed at protecting the rights of health-care providers like Christiansen who refuse to participate in a procedure such as abortion because of their moral or religious beliefs.
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"Doctors and other health-care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience," said Mike Leavitt, head of the Department of Health and Human Services.


Yes. They should be able to impose their religious beliefs on others. What a cool idea.

How about this for a rule ? Pick one. Doctor or Priest. Not both. They are opposites.

CAW says it won't budge on compensation

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TORONTO/OTTAWA — The Canadian Auto Workers is saying no to any concessions on compensation as their employers await a rescue package in lockstep with the $17.4-billion (U.S.) lifeline extended in the United States to the Detroit Three car makers.


Union workers make about 28$ an hour. I know , you heard 70$ an hour , but thats what they cost including pension , health , and a wack of other stuff. They only actually receive 28$ / hour.

Which is 28x40x52 = $58 240 / year

For unskilled labor.

In comparison most unskilled labour pays 8$ / hour , or 8x40x52 = $16 640 / year

The union has decided it's refusing to take a pay cut. It wants it's 28$ / hour. For tightening a few screws and doing a job they train you to do in a few hours or a day or two.

My job requires at least a certificate , if not a diploma , in computers , and three weeks training, and pays less than half that.

And by the way , I don't drive a car because I can't afford a years salary for a hunk of junk I'll have to replace every third year because these ass wipes feel they need to be paid double the average canadians wages for making rolling pieces of garbage that pollute the heck out of everyone , when smaller lighter electic cars that go no faster than 30 mph would do most people just fine.

But the big three has bribed everyone to insure that doesn't happen. No such car is permitted to pass the "safety standards" , and if they do , those standards are changed. They must maintain their monopoly and drown out any competition before they can even get started, it's just Good Business.

I vote we let them all go belly up.

Oh , I dont' get a vote. The big three have bribed our politicians into forking over my hard earned cash for something I don't want. I have been disenfranchised.

And I resent it.

Expert Village

Test Video : Sword Play

Expert Village. free online video's to learn ..almost anything.

I'm trying to write a novel , main charactar knows swordcraft. Would help if I knew just a little , don't you think ? Cool.

Blocking With a Broad Sword -- powered by ExpertVillage.com

Yeah , does a lot more than swords. I saw pottery tutorials and tarot cards as well. Looks like tons of them on many many catagories.

Big Business Does a Poll

Ignatieff, Harper virtually tied in poll


OTTAWA–Newly appointed Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is in a virtual tie with Prime Minister Stephen Harper as the person Canadians think would be the best to lead the country, a new poll exclusive to the Star reveals.


Yeah , we paid these pollsters to do a poll for us , we're a Big Business. And it said something we like, so we're gonna write a news article about it. But ...it's our poll .. we don't let no one else look too close at it, we only publish it if we like it , we threaten these guys never to go to them again if they don't give us a poll we like ... not that we're corrupting them or anything. But if we dont' like what we see we're never giving them a dime again, you do understand that don't you ?

And wow... this poll says the pro business liberals are saints, they're going to win win win ...

What a surprise.

Maybe not.

Too Late for Liberal Propaganda

Can we police Canadian content on the Internet?


"For us at the CRTC, the guiding principle in our approach to new media will be exactly the same one that we have followed in our approach to the traditional media: to regulate as effectively as we can to further the two primary goals of the Broadcasting Act – Canadian content and full access to the system for all Canadians," he said.


We wanna control the internet like we control TV !!!

Well , what are the major attributes of TV ?

One. It's full of commercials.

Two. It's a big business. Little guys are forced out.

Three. The Liberal Party is the pro-big business party. When every news show pillers liberals as saints and anyone else as devils, this cannot be ignored.

Four . User provided content does not exist. This is interesting because private individuals are the primary support base of the Conservatives, and they generally do not like the Liberals.

Five . Currently , the young do not watch TV. They're on the internet. This is important because the young are the primary support base of the Liberals.

Six. Older folk are the ones watching TV , and the majority of them are pro-conservative and have long memories of the pro business liberals breaking promises and lying frequently. (Trudeau and Crentian and the Little Red Book of liberal promises are still fresh in their minds)



All of this adds up to a very interesting picture. A picture where TV sends propaganda to the wrong demographic, it's lying to the people who don't believe them and have heard all of this before. But the people they do want to reach ... are on the internet.

Lets control the internet and make it like TV , make it a big business , so we can now send our propaganda to the target demographic that supports us and ram it down their throats and shut down all that conservative crud that we hate , yeah yeah , lets do that !!!

And so our toothless tiger of a CRTC that can't stop big business from doing anything (CRTC says if you ask to have internet blocked on your cell phone the provider has to comply , but when I ask bell to turn off the internet on my phone they totally and completely refuse) will now be given teeth by the Liberals to get rid of non canadian content and spam canadians with their propaganda , again. And go back to where they were in charge of the situation.

I personally think they are too late. The Winds of Change have already blown , and they are already left behind. You need to get into power to pull this stunt, but they are out and have no way to get back. Another election is very very risky , they lost seats on the last one and if they lose 11 more seats they face a conservative majority , they are SHUT DOWN .

And sooner or later, an election is inevitable.

Take the Money And Run

June 3 2008 : GM to close Oshawa plant

Canadian Feds Discuss GM Bailout

Federal government, Ontario agree on $3.3B auto bailout package





General Motors Corp. said on Tuesday it will shut down its pickup truck factory in Oshawa, Ont., and review whether to sell its Hummer brand as part of a sweeping strategic shift into cars as climbing gasoline prices kills demand for big passenger vehicles in North America.


That was june 3. They closed the plants.

Flaherty opened the newsday by announcing a $250m bailout of GM Canada. Except he didn`t call it a bailout. CBC reports the Flaherty will make money– set aside under an "environmental investment fund"– available to GM to help it pursue green technology.(june 5)


After they got a quarter BILLION dollars.

And now they're back for seven times that amount. 3.3 BILLION from Canada. Total is 3.5 billion this year only.

In exchange for which ... the plants are closed. Permanently. They're not coming back. GM itself issued a statement saying such.


But it acknowledged its overall footprint in Canada may shrink. GM said it may eventually be forced to repay some of the $435-million in financial assistance it has received from the Ontario and federal governments over the past several years if it breaches conditions on maintaining employment required by those agreements. Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario premier, said an initial reading of GM's position by his officials suggest some payback will be required. (jun 3)


ok. We'll give you some of that back , as little as we can , and we'll take 3.3 billion more.

This is what happens under a liberal government, a government that happily accepts donations from big business. Big Business rules the rooste, takes all your tax paying money , and plicks off and you never get a dime back.

Thats what the liberals are all about.

Bush announces auto rescue

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Bush announced a rescue plan for General Motors and Chrysler LLC Friday morning that will make $13.4 billion in federal loans available almost immediately.

A senior administration official briefing reporters said he expects that GM (GM, Fortune 500) and Chrysler LLC will be signing the loan papers to access the cash later Friday morning.

The money will come from the $700 billion fund set aside to bailout Wall Street firms and banks in October.



Yeah , you know that money that Congress put aside to help banks and banks only ? The one thats costing every american man woman and child 23 000$ ? Yeah , the Big Three are getting a piece of the action. And they're not banks. And thats not what Congress voted for.


The terms of the loan are similar to those set in the auto bailout legislation that was passed by the House last week but was shot down in the Senate.


In fact, Congress voted against doing this. So good old Bush decided to do it anyways , and misappropriated some money that he was in charge of. Some BILLIONS of money that he was in charge of , to do something Congress said no to.

It's the american way.

And now those canadian dorks will kick in an extra few BILLION dollars that was contingent on the Americans giving the big three money , so we're out of pocket as well as the americans.

Ok , you got your money. Check should clear in a few days, then you can close all the factories and run for the border. Be seeing you , have fun, don't spend it all in one place. And remember , Buy Canadian ....thats where a few billion of the cash came from , after all.

Shoe-thrower sorry for 'ugly act'

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An Iraqi journalist arrested after throwing his shoes at George Bush, the US president, has reportedly sent a letter to the Iraqi prime minister to apologise for the incident and seek a pardon.


Yeah , much as I think the shoe thrower is getting what he deserves , there is little doubt he got the (ahem) beaten out of him , and any letter written by him ranks right down there with a signed confession by someone covered in bruises with the caste on his arm and bandage on his head and everything. Obviously it was coerced and should be ignored.

And just as obviously any western nation would have at most picked him up on some flimsy charge for a few days until the president left and then released him , but now I'm reading in this article somethign about a possible 15 year sentence.

Gimme a break. He threw some shoes, not a grenade.

I think Iraq has a way to go yet before democracy takes hold there.

Giving a Darn

Umm , ok. Found this funny pic thought I'd share it with you. What does it have to do with ottawa , politics , or anything like that ? Not a dang thing. But I like it none the less.

582,000 Canadian jobs would be lost with collapse of Big Three: report

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Canada would lose 582,000 jobs within five years if the Big Three automakers completely shut down, according to a report prepared for the Ontario Manufacturing Council, an advisory panel of industry and labour representatives.


Half a million jobs will be lost , says the mouthpiece of the Big Three , which is paid to convince the government to GIVE THEM MONEY !!!! and is just about as biased a source of information as can possibly exist given that Pravda was finally shut down over in russia a while back.


Effects on employment would be felt right away, the report states, with Canada losing 323,000 jobs if production ceased immediately, and 281,800 in Ontario alone, the report forecasts. Those figures would climb in five years to 582,000 jobs nationally in 2014, 517,000 of those in Ontario.


And these people will be out of work forever ! According to this report it is impossible that they will find jobs elsewhere when their current employment dries up ! That is not part of the equation !

Nor is it mentioned the typical Big Three policy of taking the money and running. Meaning that these jobs are lost ANYWAYS , we just want to take you for one more ride for as much as we can before we clear out of here and dump those useless workers producing cars no one wants on you anyways !


The depreciation of the Canadian dollar, lower interest rates and lower production costs would eventually help the economy to partially recover, but the loss of the Detroit Three would leave a permanent dent in Canada's economy in terms of jobs and output, the document says.


No "dent" in any economy is permanent. People find other jobs, other places to buy cars, new factories producing cheaper, smaller stuff opens up, stuff like that. I know I know, mentioning such things is contrary to the whole GIVE US MONEY !!! philosophy of the big three, but it's true though. Trust me.


"This report says that Canada is better off providing life-support to GM and Chrysler, because the demise of auto in Canada is the economic equivalent of a nuclear freeze, with catastrophic effects that would knock us into a deep recession," said Ontario Economic Development Minister Michael Bryant.


Of course it says that. The Big Three would not have published it had it not said so, they would have kept it really , really quite, and started looking around for other reports.



And of course Michael Bryant is a liberal , one of the pro-business give them whatever they want keep the money flowing to us kind of guy. I knew that before I even googled it. (Link provided). You just had to listen to the "give big business money" attitude to know that. Google merely confirmed it.

GM slashing car, truck production

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General Motors will suspend much of its North American production in January as it cuts 250,000 vehicles from its first-quarter output.

The company's car plants in Oshawa, Ont., will close for January, plus the first week of February.

Stew Low, a GM Canada spokesman, said the company's Oshawa truck plant will be down beginning the first week of January and not go back into production until the middle of March.

A total of 20 GM plants across the continent will be shut down for all or part of January. A GM spokesperson said normal production for the quarter would be about 750,000 cars and trucks.


Now why were we going to give these guys a few billion dollars ?

Oh yeah ! So they wouldn't fire everyone and shut all that plants down , thats why !


The Big Three automakers have been seeking $6.8 billion in loans and credit lines from Ottawa and Ontario.

Ken Lewenza, the president of the CAW, called on governments in Canada to go ahead with a support package for the Canadian auto industry, conditional on a U.S. bailout getting done.


We're gonna fire all those people, and we STILL want a wack of money from you anyways !!!!

Put the money into unemployment insurance and let these guys dangle, if you want my opinion.

Mounties will not be charged in B.C. taser death

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VANCOUVER/TORONTO — Four Mounties who used a taser to subdue Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski moments before he died of undisclosed injuries at Vancouver International Airport last year will not face criminal charges for their conduct, B.C.'s criminal justice branch announced Friday.
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Mr. Lowe says experts found the taser contributed to Mr. Dziekanski's stress, but was not the cause of death. Cardiac arrest was also found to have played a role.


Everyone remember that TV show Station 51 , pulling out the electro shock machine , putting the grease and the paddles to someone , shouting "CLEAR !" and zapping him , and the heart starts , and you save his life !

Yeah. Electricity obviously affects the heart. And equilly obviously this is well known or such machines woudln't exist.

"Cardiac arrest was also found to play a role" my left ass cheek ! You zapped him and gave him a heart attack is what happened, and you know it !

But the money is rolling in , and it's easier to sue everyone in sight and keep that money coming , they even sued an independent coroner and had him change his story on how someone died because it was bad for business !

These ass wipes need to be Tasered. Bad.

Just like this polish immigrant shown below. Hopefully with the same results.

Harper to fill Senate vacancies before Christmas

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"This is quite shocking to fly in the face of the confidence motion on the table, that he would think that he could do any of these kinds of things," Ontario Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett said Thursday in Ottawa.

"He pulled the plug on his own government.… And this government has no money to spend now and yet he's going to appoint Senate seats. I mean, it's appalling. He has no moral authority to do anything."


Liberals do this all the time when they were in power.

"no Moral Authority" is the catch phrase for "I don't like what you're doing , but yes it's perfectly legal" by the way.


Harper has called for senators to be elected rather than appointed by the prime minister as is the current practice, or for the body to be abolished if changes can't be made.

"Now they say they need to have some people in the Senate, but what they're saying is that the people that they are going to appoint should support the idea of Senate reform," CBC's Margo McDiarmid reported from Ottawa.


So why is it the notion that "We're not a majority , we can't change the system , so we gotta live with the hand we're dealt" not occuring to anyone ? Because they're all big business. These TV stations, these news networks, they're all massive country spanning BIG BUSINESS, and the Liberals are the pro big business party and can do no wrong , and the Conservatives are the anti-big business party and can do no right and thats the way all these biased obviously self centered propaganda types that call themselves newsies that long ago stopped being newsies work the system.

Did you see that circus when the prime minister made his address a few days ago and Dion was an hour late with his presentation ? They spent half an hour running the prime minister into the ground and nit picking his every little action , while pillering Dion as a saint.

It was barely mentioned that it was inconvenient to them for Dion to be so late like this and waste their network time.

But they did mention some conspiracy theory that Harper was doing this on purpose because he wanted to get turfed from power because now was such a bad time with the bad economy and all , let someone else take the fall for it all ...

Neutrality and even handed reporting, checking with both sides on an issue. That gone now. It's not coming back. There's money on the table and these news corporations stand to gain or lose a metric tonne of it depending on who gets in power and who gets turfed. And so truth ... becomes disposable. And disposed of.

This is why I don't watch TV or read papers anymore.

RCMP to test some Tasers after CBC investigation

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In a series of CBC-commissioned tests on 41 stun guns, four of the units delivered significantly more current than Taser International says is possible. In some cases, the current was up to 50 per cent stronger than specified on the devices.


Thats just SHOCKING !

He he , ok ,it had to be said.

So I'm guessing that that polish immigrant in Vancouver got hit with a bad taser and it shut his heart down ?

Thats it. I'm starting a new billboard. How many Canadian Taser casualties vs how many people arrest for murder.

Sisters Visit

My sister faithfully promised (herself more than anyone else) that she'd be down to ottawa before the snow flew to visit. And yeah , that little thing in october didn't count because it would melt soon anyways.

I think she's too late.

Illinois governor backs workers, will halt business with lender

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Bank of America says the company has walked away and ignored its obligation to the workers. But union leaders say that since the bank received $25 billion in taxpayer funds as part of the U.S. Treasury's efforts to stabilize the financial markets, it should step in where the company has failed.

"These people would be out on the street three weeks before Christmas with nothing," national union representative Mark Meinster said. "But what's happened here is workers have decided to stand up and say no, enough is enough. You got that big bailout -- you can make sure we get the money we're owed and say, 'No, enough is enough.' "


They did the same thing in Oshawa just this past summer, one of the big three car plants I forgot which. Threaten to close the plant, government coughs up some dough to keep it open , cash the check , then close the plant anyways.

It's just good business.

Well , it's bad government. This is the problem with bailing out private companies. you get diddly squat for your money. They take it and they run. The banks are taking that 700 billion and then they're laying off workers anyways, and ripping them for their severence pay on top of it. The automakers are closing plants and running. It's all so predictable.

Throw that money into unemployment insurance. At least you'll be guarenteed some fat cat isn't dipping into it to the tune of a million dollars A MONTH , which some of them do.

Don't bail out anyone. Throw it all on pogey and extend benifits to outlast the recession. Maybe ease the rules a little on part time work so you can hold down a one or two day a week job while you're on pogey and extend it that way too.

Why do I care about whats going on in america with the big three car deal ?

Because they want a few billion from ottawa as well. Same deal. Same companies. Same take the money and run attitude.

Auto Bailout Deal Appears to Be Likely by End of the Day

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So. every american tax payer and voter is saying DON'T BAIL THESE GUYS OUT ! LET THEM SINK LET THE BANKS SINK DON'T TAKE TWENTY THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM EACH AND EVERY SINGLE MAN WOMAN AND CHILD AND GIVE IT TO SOME BIG CORPORATIONS WHO'S EXECUTIVES MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS A *MONTH* !!!

But they're getting it anyways. They're all getting the cash anyways.

We're you still wondering who runs america ? The voter , or big business ?

Now you know.

PM dares Dion to face voters with coalition plan

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper accused Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion of betraying Canadian voters with the proposed Liberal-NDP coalition to replace the Conservative minority government, saying Dion is "turning his back" on the results of the recent federal election.


Dion Reloaded !

Mr Tax And Spend gets ANOTHER shot at being prime minister.

Mr Tax and Spend gets ANOTHER shot at taxing Alberta's oil to death and spending the "green" money mostly on stuff that has nothing to do with polluting green house taxes and everything to do with giving companies that back the Liberal party more business.

So what do we have here ?

The Liberals , who are funded by and deeply support Big Business of all stripes.

The Do Gooder NDP'ers who actually didn't do such a bad job when they got to rule Ontario a few years back, maybe we won't pick on them too much, at least they were honest dealers.

And The Bloc Quebecois who want to break up the country and send quebec on it's way.

Umm... lots of people say breaking up the country is bad ... but how can getting rid of six million welfare bums that do nothing but suck the life out of the rest of the country be bad ? Maybe we should consider letting them go ? And locking the door behind them so they don't come back ?

Just an idea, just an idea.

Actually , this coalition isn't looking too bad.

Except for the part where such coalitions are highly unstable and we are seriously unlikely to see the 18 months the Bloc promised them. If the smallest member of the coalition , the Bloc , throws in the towel and allies itself with the conservatives .. guess what ?

Bloc or NDP rolls with the conservatives, Liberals are toast. Coalition falls apart and no one rolls with the conservatives , time for another election.

This is going to be , as the americans say , a Lame Duck of a parliment , and I seriously doubt much will get done.

So you gotta wonder ,what brought this on anyways ?

Last parlimentary session the Conservatives ran a fast one over the Liberals. They allowed funding donations by private individuals only. The conservatives get all of their funding from private individuals, and the Liberals get all of their funding from big business. So they basically gutted the Liberal funding.

This parlimentary session the Conservatives went for the throat. The government itself was giving funding to the parties based on how many seats they won. And they tried to cut that off for everyone , which would have hurt themselves too , it is true , but would have hurt their arch enemies the Liberals even more.

'Nother words, they decided to try and put a bullet through the head of the Liberals and finish them off.

Thus the current life and death struggle.

personally , I don't blame them. I work for a big business, and I know the dirty tricks that goes on inside of them. I'm not allowed to talk about the details since that will cost me my job , but hey ! Everyone's got a job right ? Everyone works for a big business somewhere , right ? Guess everyone knows already and I really don't have to say how dishonest big business is after all. Everyone already knows.