Paris, France
48° 52' North; 2° 19' East
Wanna beat the Shrub like a gong at his own game?
All you've gotta do is make like a currency speculator and start shorting the US dollar, hard.
Duncan Cameron tells us how:
"Drop in at a branch of one of our local currency monopolies, and borrow as many U.S. dollars as they will let you have. Then sell the same dollars. Buy bonds denominated in Euros. Get a rate of return that covers the interest charges on the U.S. dollar loan. Watch the value of the U.S. dollar drop. Celebrate the impending collapse of the U.S. currency on George's watch; be pleased you are helping make it happen."
And don't cry for thee Alabama, or Argentina for that matter because debtor nations will do just fine, thank-you, in the switch to Euros, not to mention Venezuala.
And besides, you don't think the boys from the Carlyle group aren't already protecting their asse(t)s hand-over-BofA'-fist do you?
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Phone Jamming
Manchester, New Hampshire
42° 59' North; 71° 24' West
From the 'We are Not the Ukraine' Dept.....
"A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted James Tobin, President Bush’s former New England campaign chairman, on four counts related to the jamming of get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002."
It's a technique called 'phone jamming' in which Republicans hire telemarketers to call Democratic groups, en masse, to tie up voter information/get out the vote hotlines.
Mr Tobin, no small figure in the "Re-Thug Election-Suppression" machine, was working for Cheney/Rove 2004 until two weeks before this year's federal election, despite the fact that one of his closest associates was indicted months ago.
"In the summer, Chuck McGee, the former executive director of the state GOP, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a conspiracy charge and admitted paying $15,600 to a Virginia telemarketing company that hired another business to make the calls. GOP consultant Allen Raymond, former president of GOP Marketplace in Alexandria, Va., also pleaded guilty."
Can only wonder.... Did Gordo got a chance to ask Mr. Bush to 'Please Pass the Jam' during the dessert portion of last night's 'Where's the Beef' state dinner?
_____
If you want the full, and historical, story on the Jam (not the Paul Weller version) go to Josh Marshall and follow the links.
42° 59' North; 71° 24' West
From the 'We are Not the Ukraine' Dept.....
"A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted James Tobin, President Bush’s former New England campaign chairman, on four counts related to the jamming of get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002."
It's a technique called 'phone jamming' in which Republicans hire telemarketers to call Democratic groups, en masse, to tie up voter information/get out the vote hotlines.
Mr Tobin, no small figure in the "Re-Thug Election-Suppression" machine, was working for Cheney/Rove 2004 until two weeks before this year's federal election, despite the fact that one of his closest associates was indicted months ago.
"In the summer, Chuck McGee, the former executive director of the state GOP, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a conspiracy charge and admitted paying $15,600 to a Virginia telemarketing company that hired another business to make the calls. GOP consultant Allen Raymond, former president of GOP Marketplace in Alexandria, Va., also pleaded guilty."
Can only wonder.... Did Gordo got a chance to ask Mr. Bush to 'Please Pass the Jam' during the dessert portion of last night's 'Where's the Beef' state dinner?
_____
If you want the full, and historical, story on the Jam (not the Paul Weller version) go to Josh Marshall and follow the links.
Just What Kind of People Are We Dealing With Anyway?
Victoria, B.C.
48° 39' West; 123° 26' West
Regarding our last bit on personal experience of the malfeasance at the Ministry of Child and Family Development, as usual David Schreck has the bigger picture story on the fiscal/social policy hypocrisy of the SS Gordon Campbell:
"Shortly after Black Thursday, January 17, 2002, Collins said that he was committed to restructuring government. In other words, regardless of the financial details, the Campbell government wanted to shift the tax burden to lower income earners and to cut government services. They went beyond that by not only shifting taxes and cutting services but also by privatizing crown corporations and core government services."
Now, if you happen to be a Kool-Aid gulper this is where you tuck your well-read copy of today's National Post under your left arm while you simultaneously pound your right fist on the keyboard and exclaim "but don't these commies get it...slashing and burning bloated social programs is the ONLY way we can dig our province out of the hole. Haven't they heard of trickle-down, greed-is-good economics!"
But what if the cuts just kept coming after privatization, rising commodities prices, and a federal equalization swindle had already filled the public purse with our own money?
Again from Schreck:
"What kind of government does it take to cut $70 million more from Children and Family Development while sitting on a $2 billion surplus?"
New Era indeed.
Just don't get sick. And whatever you do, don't get poor.
Because if you do you won't be one of the few thousand who are lucky enough to be among the newly-minted nouveau riche.
Instead, you will be one of the millions who will be once again and always be screwed.
Unless, of course, we start fighting, right now, to get our Province back.
48° 39' West; 123° 26' West
Regarding our last bit on personal experience of the malfeasance at the Ministry of Child and Family Development, as usual David Schreck has the bigger picture story on the fiscal/social policy hypocrisy of the SS Gordon Campbell:
"Shortly after Black Thursday, January 17, 2002, Collins said that he was committed to restructuring government. In other words, regardless of the financial details, the Campbell government wanted to shift the tax burden to lower income earners and to cut government services. They went beyond that by not only shifting taxes and cutting services but also by privatizing crown corporations and core government services."
Now, if you happen to be a Kool-Aid gulper this is where you tuck your well-read copy of today's National Post under your left arm while you simultaneously pound your right fist on the keyboard and exclaim "but don't these commies get it...slashing and burning bloated social programs is the ONLY way we can dig our province out of the hole. Haven't they heard of trickle-down, greed-is-good economics!"
But what if the cuts just kept coming after privatization, rising commodities prices, and a federal equalization swindle had already filled the public purse with our own money?
Again from Schreck:
"What kind of government does it take to cut $70 million more from Children and Family Development while sitting on a $2 billion surplus?"
New Era indeed.
Just don't get sick. And whatever you do, don't get poor.
Because if you do you won't be one of the few thousand who are lucky enough to be among the newly-minted nouveau riche.
Instead, you will be one of the millions who will be once again and always be screwed.
Unless, of course, we start fighting, right now, to get our Province back.
Friday, November 26, 2004
Families Can't Eat Fireworks
Vancouver, British Columbia
49°15' North; 123°08' West
The apparently no-longer-feral Mr. Gary Collins has good news for all British Columbians.
We are now running $2Billion surplus.
Now, never mind the massive short-term bulge in commodity exports that produced the flashpowder for this surplus.
And whatever you do, don't consider the one time Federal Gov't windfall that is the fuse that has been inserted into this surplus
And most of all, do not even think about the fact that it has been the sales of hard assets that we will have to rent back until after we're all dead that gave Mr. Collins the matches to light a fire under this surplus.
Because it's Mr. Collins job to make us forget all those things while he uses them to orchestrate the blindingly bright, but very short-lived, fireworks show exploding high above the SS Gordon Campbell.
It is a spectacle that is being taped even as write this so that it can be re-played over and over and over again during the Ad-Blitz that will run non-stop from now until election day.
Why does this no substance flash across our horizon bug me so much?
Because I have seen, up close and personal, just how mean-spirited and bullying Mr. Campbell's regime has been in simultaneously carrying out its dubious social agenda.
Specifically, I volunteer with a small time non-profit agency that families get by when they need help.
Well, actually that is 'used to' help poor families.
Why the past tense?
Because last fall, just as it was being revealed that the Ministry of Child and Family Services had cut/slashed/wasted tens of millions of dollars, we, like hundreds of other similar small non-profit social service agencies, had our funding cut off completely.
And how much did Mr. Campbell get to steal for his fireworks show to kill us off and deprive hundreds of families of needed services that we supported?
A grand total of a lousy $28,000 dollars per year.
That goes into two billion about 71, 429 times.
Which works out to a whole lot of families, and old people, and disabled people, and hungry people, and sick people, and just plain people that have been robbed of goods and services for no good reason at all.
So, please excuse me if I refuse to watch the show.
49°15' North; 123°08' West
The apparently no-longer-feral Mr. Gary Collins has good news for all British Columbians.
We are now running $2Billion surplus.
Now, never mind the massive short-term bulge in commodity exports that produced the flashpowder for this surplus.
And whatever you do, don't consider the one time Federal Gov't windfall that is the fuse that has been inserted into this surplus
And most of all, do not even think about the fact that it has been the sales of hard assets that we will have to rent back until after we're all dead that gave Mr. Collins the matches to light a fire under this surplus.
Because it's Mr. Collins job to make us forget all those things while he uses them to orchestrate the blindingly bright, but very short-lived, fireworks show exploding high above the SS Gordon Campbell.
It is a spectacle that is being taped even as write this so that it can be re-played over and over and over again during the Ad-Blitz that will run non-stop from now until election day.
****
Why does this no substance flash across our horizon bug me so much?
Because I have seen, up close and personal, just how mean-spirited and bullying Mr. Campbell's regime has been in simultaneously carrying out its dubious social agenda.
Specifically, I volunteer with a small time non-profit agency that families get by when they need help.
Well, actually that is 'used to' help poor families.
Why the past tense?
Because last fall, just as it was being revealed that the Ministry of Child and Family Services had cut/slashed/wasted tens of millions of dollars, we, like hundreds of other similar small non-profit social service agencies, had our funding cut off completely.
And how much did Mr. Campbell get to steal for his fireworks show to kill us off and deprive hundreds of families of needed services that we supported?
A grand total of a lousy $28,000 dollars per year.
That goes into two billion about 71, 429 times.
Which works out to a whole lot of families, and old people, and disabled people, and hungry people, and sick people, and just plain people that have been robbed of goods and services for no good reason at all.
So, please excuse me if I refuse to watch the show.
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
SkimmingTheSurface
Vancouver, British Columbia
49°15' North; 123°08' West
Random thoughts from a time-challenged map watcher.....
The Santa Day Parade in downtown Vancouver last weekend was a good idea but it came too early in the season and it runs too long. Our kids liked it anyway.....
The Ukrainian election, which has been severely criticized by international observers, in part because of the discrepancy between exit polls and the '0fficial' result, was won by the incumbent's hand-picked successor by about 3%...... Coincidence?........
Does anybody actually think that Carolyn Parrish now has less power as a free voting independent who can hold a sword over the neck of the government on a close vote compared to when she was a forced to cowtow as a Liberal backbencher?.....
We are being forced to go to Ottawa next week which is bad enough, in and of itself, given the time of the year. However, there is another delegation arriving in the Nation's capital one of our travelling days..... Will be be trapped forever at Ottawa International?..... Will be stuck in a traffic jam and miss a plane because all the roads are blocked for a passing Humvee-assisted motorcade?...... Will we get a chance to turn our back on a visiting potentate with a smirk?..... Stay tuned......
49°15' North; 123°08' West
Random thoughts from a time-challenged map watcher.....
The Santa Day Parade in downtown Vancouver last weekend was a good idea but it came too early in the season and it runs too long. Our kids liked it anyway.....
The Ukrainian election, which has been severely criticized by international observers, in part because of the discrepancy between exit polls and the '0fficial' result, was won by the incumbent's hand-picked successor by about 3%...... Coincidence?........
Does anybody actually think that Carolyn Parrish now has less power as a free voting independent who can hold a sword over the neck of the government on a close vote compared to when she was a forced to cowtow as a Liberal backbencher?.....
We are being forced to go to Ottawa next week which is bad enough, in and of itself, given the time of the year. However, there is another delegation arriving in the Nation's capital one of our travelling days..... Will be be trapped forever at Ottawa International?..... Will be stuck in a traffic jam and miss a plane because all the roads are blocked for a passing Humvee-assisted motorcade?...... Will we get a chance to turn our back on a visiting potentate with a smirk?..... Stay tuned......
Saturday, November 20, 2004
Underfoot, Undermind
Santiago, Chile
33° 23' South; 70° 47' West
So, Paul Martin met Mr. Bush today in Santiago to talk beef-flowing borders and soft-wood lumbertrucks.
Which is all well and good, we guess.
But what we're really wondering is, did any of the smart young alecks from the PMO discreetly pick the following up on their PDA's while the the Boss was confabbing.
To know for sure look for the smirking one, not Shrub, standing behind Our Paul in the post-meet scrum on the uncut footage from Newsworld.
* uttered by the Content Factory on CBC Radio One's round up of all things parliamentary, 'The House" this am just as the Soft Wood Heads of State were entering the boardroom. Don't forget Santiago is right under T.O. (79°, 24' West) in the same time zone, so it coulda happened.
33° 23' South; 70° 47' West
So, Paul Martin met Mr. Bush today in Santiago to talk beef-flowing borders and soft-wood lumbertrucks.
Which is all well and good, we guess.
But what we're really wondering is, did any of the smart young alecks from the PMO discreetly pick the following up on their PDA's while the the Boss was confabbing.
"Bring 'em on.....I'll crush him underfoot like a George Bush Doll."*
To know for sure look for the smirking one, not Shrub, standing behind Our Paul in the post-meet scrum on the uncut footage from Newsworld.
* uttered by the Content Factory on CBC Radio One's round up of all things parliamentary, 'The House" this am just as the Soft Wood Heads of State were entering the boardroom. Don't forget Santiago is right under T.O. (79°, 24' West) in the same time zone, so it coulda happened.
Smart State, Dumb State?
Hartford Connecticut
41° 44' North; 72° 44' West
A lot of ink has been spilled trying to explain how Cheney/Rove '04 managed to conquer all those Red States.
One theory that is starting to gain some traction is the IQ factor.
Which is just as dumb, but not dumber, than any of the other high-falutin', values-laden explanations.
41° 44' North; 72° 44' West
A lot of ink has been spilled trying to explain how Cheney/Rove '04 managed to conquer all those Red States.
One theory that is starting to gain some traction is the IQ factor.
Which is just as dumb, but not dumber, than any of the other high-falutin', values-laden explanations.
And it just might explain why Lincoln was right about being able to fool some of the people all of the time....
Friday, November 19, 2004
But Do They Have a Stockwell Day?
Pensacola, Florida
30°28' North; 87° 12' West
Or, put another way, do they have a day just for Stockwell?
At a park called Dinosaur Adventure Land, run by creationists near Pensacola, Florida, visitors are informed that man coexisted with dinosaurs. This fantasy accommodates the creationists’ view that the Earth is only 6,000 years old and that Darwin’s theory of evolution is false. Among the park exhibits is one that illustrates another creationist article of faith. It consists of a long trough filled with sand and fitted at one end with a water spigot. Above the trough is a sign reading “That River Didn’t Make That Canyon.” When visitors open the spigot, the water quickly cuts a gully through the sand, supposedly demonstrating how the Grand Canyon was created, practically overnight, by Noah’s flood. That’s nonsense, of course, but what else would you expect at a creationist park?
And wetsuits?
Well, perhaps they were being worn by the folks that sea-dooed across the flood plain to check out that big-bang thing that happened 6001 years ago.
30°28' North; 87° 12' West
Or, put another way, do they have a day just for Stockwell?
At a park called Dinosaur Adventure Land, run by creationists near Pensacola, Florida, visitors are informed that man coexisted with dinosaurs. This fantasy accommodates the creationists’ view that the Earth is only 6,000 years old and that Darwin’s theory of evolution is false. Among the park exhibits is one that illustrates another creationist article of faith. It consists of a long trough filled with sand and fitted at one end with a water spigot. Above the trough is a sign reading “That River Didn’t Make That Canyon.” When visitors open the spigot, the water quickly cuts a gully through the sand, supposedly demonstrating how the Grand Canyon was created, practically overnight, by Noah’s flood. That’s nonsense, of course, but what else would you expect at a creationist park?
And wetsuits?
Well, perhaps they were being worn by the folks that sea-dooed across the flood plain to check out that big-bang thing that happened 6001 years ago.
Don't Judge a Book By Its Jersey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
39° 52' North; 75° 14' West
Rabid American NFL football fans are all knuckle-dragging, whacked-out mouthbreathers, right?
Wrong.
39° 52' North; 75° 14' West
Rabid American NFL football fans are all knuckle-dragging, whacked-out mouthbreathers, right?
Wrong.
Twins Ahoy
New York, New York
40° 44' North; 73° 44' West
Sorry, couldn't resist this bit of silly gossip:
'Freemans, tuesday night the 16th of nov.....
....the bush twins along with 2 massive secret service men tried to have dinner they were told by the maitre 'd that they were full and would be for the next 4 years upon hearing the entire restaurant cheered and did a round of shots it was amazing!!! [Ed: We're hearing that this is actually true.]'
40° 44' North; 73° 44' West
Sorry, couldn't resist this bit of silly gossip:
'Freemans, tuesday night the 16th of nov.....
....the bush twins along with 2 massive secret service men tried to have dinner they were told by the maitre 'd that they were full and would be for the next 4 years upon hearing the entire restaurant cheered and did a round of shots it was amazing!!! [Ed: We're hearing that this is actually true.]'
Most Peculiar Momma
An Undisclosed Location
Nowhereville USA
Has the US vote count dike started to crack?
"Professor Steven Freeman, a statistician at the University of Pennsylvania, offers a disturbing answer. Looking at the exit polls and announced results in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, he concludes that the odds against such an accidental discrepancy in all three states together was 250 million to one"
And then there is the business with the Florida 'polling-tapes':
A "poll tape" is the phrase used to describe a printout from an optical scan voting machine made the evening of an election, after the machine has read all the ballots and crunched the numbers on its internal computer.......
"We caught the whole thing on videotape," she (Kathleen Wynne, a www.blackboxvoting.org investigator) said. "I don't think you'll ever see anything like this - Bev Harris having a tug of war with an election worker over a bag of garbage, and he held onto it and she pulled on it, and it split right open, spilling out those poll tapes. They were throwing away our democracy, and Bev wasn't going to let them do it."
Which just might explain the analysis from UC Berkeley that concludes that electronic voting machines gave Mr. Bush at least 100,000 extra votes.
Of course there are other academic opinions that counter the folks from Penn and Berkeley, opinions that led the NY Times to trash the notion of peculiarity out of hand (funny that they never used alternative sources to discredit Ahmed Chalabi, but that's another story I guess).
But, if there really is nothing to the Voter story, why are the Freepers and the Wingnuts going hard after Keith Olbermann, the only American talking head who has dared to even, well, talk about the 'I'* word?
*I = irregularity
Nowhereville USA
Has the US vote count dike started to crack?
"Professor Steven Freeman, a statistician at the University of Pennsylvania, offers a disturbing answer. Looking at the exit polls and announced results in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, he concludes that the odds against such an accidental discrepancy in all three states together was 250 million to one"
And then there is the business with the Florida 'polling-tapes':
A "poll tape" is the phrase used to describe a printout from an optical scan voting machine made the evening of an election, after the machine has read all the ballots and crunched the numbers on its internal computer.......
"We caught the whole thing on videotape," she (Kathleen Wynne, a www.blackboxvoting.org investigator) said. "I don't think you'll ever see anything like this - Bev Harris having a tug of war with an election worker over a bag of garbage, and he held onto it and she pulled on it, and it split right open, spilling out those poll tapes. They were throwing away our democracy, and Bev wasn't going to let them do it."
Which just might explain the analysis from UC Berkeley that concludes that electronic voting machines gave Mr. Bush at least 100,000 extra votes.
Of course there are other academic opinions that counter the folks from Penn and Berkeley, opinions that led the NY Times to trash the notion of peculiarity out of hand (funny that they never used alternative sources to discredit Ahmed Chalabi, but that's another story I guess).
But, if there really is nothing to the Voter story, why are the Freepers and the Wingnuts going hard after Keith Olbermann, the only American talking head who has dared to even, well, talk about the 'I'* word?
*I = irregularity
Thursday, November 18, 2004
The Minors Come Through
Vancouver, British Columbia
49°15' North; 123°08' West
My wife's favorite minor league baseball player of all time, Steve Springer, once said that it's not the spectacular that separates the minors from the majors, but rather the consistency.
And Mr. Springer knows of what he speaks, seeing as how spent 11 years and more than 1000 games at AAA and less than 10 in the big leagues.
It's the same for the newspaper business.
Sort of.
The difference is that 'round here consistency in the major dailies is of the crap variety.
Witness the Vancouver Sun, if you must.
Every once in a while though, one of the CanWest Juniors comes through in the clutch.
Case in point, yesterday's Nov. 17th Vancouver Courier Op/Ed pages. You can find it all here, but if you live in Vancouver dig it out of the bottom of the birdcage and have a look at the full spread; it's better that way.
First, an interesting piece from Allen Garr who describes how one of his Langara College journalism students was roughed up by a couple of Vancouver's finest while interviewing squeegee kids. Garr then makes a convincing case that no amount of high priced spin control can hide the fact that things have gone downhill on Chief Jamie Graham's watch.
Next, is a great take from Barry Link on how we have nothing to fear from the emergence of China as an economic superpower and it's influence on our ever changing city. It's a story of hope and, maybe, future glory.
Even the letters are great. All are well informed, well reasoned, interesting and deal with a wide range of topics that include: how STV could really work for the better; how Arts coverage can be improved; what the Canadian Club does; why we should bite the bullet and wean ourselves from U.S. dependence; and, my favorite, a treatise on coffee geeks and what it means to be 'cupped' in bean-freak parlance.
In short, it's a cosmopolitan smorgasboard that feeds the mind.
Good stuff, indeed.
49°15' North; 123°08' West
My wife's favorite minor league baseball player of all time, Steve Springer, once said that it's not the spectacular that separates the minors from the majors, but rather the consistency.
And Mr. Springer knows of what he speaks, seeing as how spent 11 years and more than 1000 games at AAA and less than 10 in the big leagues.
It's the same for the newspaper business.
Sort of.
The difference is that 'round here consistency in the major dailies is of the crap variety.
Witness the Vancouver Sun, if you must.
Every once in a while though, one of the CanWest Juniors comes through in the clutch.
Case in point, yesterday's Nov. 17th Vancouver Courier Op/Ed pages. You can find it all here, but if you live in Vancouver dig it out of the bottom of the birdcage and have a look at the full spread; it's better that way.
First, an interesting piece from Allen Garr who describes how one of his Langara College journalism students was roughed up by a couple of Vancouver's finest while interviewing squeegee kids. Garr then makes a convincing case that no amount of high priced spin control can hide the fact that things have gone downhill on Chief Jamie Graham's watch.
Next, is a great take from Barry Link on how we have nothing to fear from the emergence of China as an economic superpower and it's influence on our ever changing city. It's a story of hope and, maybe, future glory.
Even the letters are great. All are well informed, well reasoned, interesting and deal with a wide range of topics that include: how STV could really work for the better; how Arts coverage can be improved; what the Canadian Club does; why we should bite the bullet and wean ourselves from U.S. dependence; and, my favorite, a treatise on coffee geeks and what it means to be 'cupped' in bean-freak parlance.
In short, it's a cosmopolitan smorgasboard that feeds the mind.
Good stuff, indeed.
What's Not To Like?
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Playing the Canadian Card
Washington, District of Columbia
38° 53' North; 77° 02' West
Intrepid White House correspondent Russell Mokhiber once again nails Bu$hCo mouthpiece little Scottie McLellan, this time by playing the Canadian 'indictment' card:
38° 53' North; 77° 02' West
Intrepid White House correspondent Russell Mokhiber once again nails Bu$hCo mouthpiece little Scottie McLellan, this time by playing the Canadian 'indictment' card:
Mokhiber: Kofi Annan in September said that the Iraq war is an illegal war. If it is an illegal war, then the 100,000 who have died there – according to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health – are victims of war crimes. Now, the President is going to Canada later this year. And the largest circulation newspaper in Canada (the Toronto Star) printed a column yesterday titled “Should Canada Indict Bush?” – raising the question of a war crimes prosecution. They have a war crimes law in Canada. And I’m wondering –
Scott McLellan: Do you have a question or is it just a statement of opinion?
Mokhiber: No, this is the question. Has the White House counsel looked at the President’s legal exposure to a war crimes prosecution?
Scott McLellan: It is a ridiculous question that you bring up. You were out on the Nader campaign at the time that this issue came up. It was addressed at that time. And I’m not going to go through it again.
Paging Dick Morris
Kitimat, British Columbia
54° 01' North; 128° 42' West
In our last post we suggested that the Cruise Line Operators with the deep pockets will soon be bringing in hired guns with media blow torches from down south to patch up the gaping holes in the rusting hull of the SS Gordon Campbell.
Of course, before that can happen the Money Men have to put their own lackeys in place to provide local cover.
Well, it looks like chief fixer, but never lobbyist, Patrick Kinsella and organ grinder Gary Collins have already started the ball rolling by hiring on homegrown 'advisors' Jess Ketchum and Greg Lyle.
Sean Holman has the whole story.
Suffice it to say, Ketchum truly is a full-fledged longtime local flack who most recently has not been aversely affected by CN's privatization of BC Rail routes. Mr. Lyle on the other hand is in the demonology business given that he has studied wide-eyed on bended knee at the foot of the bi-national Axis of Evil man himself, David Frum.
And these days neandercon demons come in all shapes and sizes, just ask 'Big Labour'.
____
From the Big Book of Neandercon Definitions....
Morris, Dick (n.): mercenary, hired gun; willing to say anything/ do anything to continue spouting ever shifting opinions of utter expediency on FOX News.
54° 01' North; 128° 42' West
In our last post we suggested that the Cruise Line Operators with the deep pockets will soon be bringing in hired guns with media blow torches from down south to patch up the gaping holes in the rusting hull of the SS Gordon Campbell.
Of course, before that can happen the Money Men have to put their own lackeys in place to provide local cover.
Well, it looks like chief fixer, but never lobbyist, Patrick Kinsella and organ grinder Gary Collins have already started the ball rolling by hiring on homegrown 'advisors' Jess Ketchum and Greg Lyle.
Sean Holman has the whole story.
Suffice it to say, Ketchum truly is a full-fledged longtime local flack who most recently has not been aversely affected by CN's privatization of BC Rail routes. Mr. Lyle on the other hand is in the demonology business given that he has studied wide-eyed on bended knee at the foot of the bi-national Axis of Evil man himself, David Frum.
And these days neandercon demons come in all shapes and sizes, just ask 'Big Labour'.
____
From the Big Book of Neandercon Definitions....
Morris, Dick (n.): mercenary, hired gun; willing to say anything/ do anything to continue spouting ever shifting opinions of utter expediency on FOX News.
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