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The Lady That’s Known as Lou

The streets of Hell are paved with good intentions — God helps those who help themselves.  Says Les Leyne in the Victoria Times Colonist: “One thing the campers at Victoria’s tent city have accomplished is a sharp increase in the

Constable Action

number of shelter beds made available for the homeless .. ” The Victoria Establishment do-gooded aplenty but gained nothing. The people themselves helped themselves and won places to sleep in.
Even the B.C. tory government’s Constable Action, Rich Coleman, has accomplished nothing. (Action’s dynamic career has included: Joining the RCMP as a constable and leaving as a constable; failing to make B.C. the Continue reading →

Bob Edwards

 Stalin, Mao, Roosevelt and W.A.C. Bennett loved giant hydro dams. Politicians and bureaucrats — not given to pesky details — can actually see a hydro dam — can’t see concepts like guaranteed annual income and income inequality. Though stilling surging water just doesn’t have sex appeal these days, B.C.’s petit-tory Premier Gordon Campbell loved the “Site C” Dam project along the Peace River Continue reading →

George Orwell

May 10, 2016 – Today, In an Ontario Court,  Jian Ghomeshii apologized. For what? The prosecutor said Ghomeshi hadn’t committed an offense!!! In fact, they’d both committed the offenses of  “double think” and “cover your backside“. Continue reading →

Wildfire burns Fort McMurray

THE OLD TIMER FROM PINCHER CREEK

UPDATE — A Holy-Rolling Bishop says God has brought on  the Fort Mac fires because of lax buggery laws.

May 20, 2016 — The Insurance Bureau of Canada’s Chief says: Continue reading →

Victoria’s organic sewage disposal system
In 1966, the local governments of Victoria, B.C. had hired Associated Engineering and a team ofinternational scientists and engineers to build a sewage treatment plant for $175 million. Associated finished the plant in 1982, on time and on budget. The plant functions perfectly.

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The Printer’s Devil 

THE SECRET LIFE OF PANAMA CITY
Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker

June 17, 2016 – The CBC reveals that: “Deals Canada signed to catch tax cheats allow billions in taxes to escape”

May 19, 2016 – Canada’s tax accountants lobbied high Federal tax auditors at a green eyeshade whoop-up at Ottawa’s Rideau Club some time ago. Might have been exciting but both refused to fess up with the details. Continue reading →

Set-Em-Up Joe – former bartender Hy’s

UPDATE — June 9, 2016 — Hillary claims she is over the top. Sanders says she is not. Obama endorses Hillary.

UPDATE — May 19, 2016 –NPR’s  Tamara Keith wonders why Hillary Clinton has changed so many of her positions — e.g. gays, trade, crime has it been to change with the times or to get more votes. Continue reading →

Bob Edwards

May 3, 2016 – A trendy pot-head named Ashley Abraham wants to charge

The Madame of Bong and “Big Jim” in “The Green Ceiling”

other pot-heads $5.00 an hour to bong it up in The Green Ceiling,  once a tile shop, on Victoria’s Quadra Street.  Abraham calls The Green Ceiling a “cannabis consumption lounge”. Pot is illegal under the Narcotics Control Act of Canada. Under Canada’s criminal law, Ashley is an accomplice to an illegal act. Continue reading →

SAUDI ARABIA
Wikipedia

Where does the U.S. import its oil from? 2000-2015? Canada was #1!!!

UPDATE – June 9, 2016 – A Toronto Star Editorial reports Saudis have lobbied themselves off War Crime Black List – Demands they be put back on – A Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has killed hundreds of children. So why has the UN removed it from its annual blacklist of bad actors?

UPDATE — May 12, 2016 — former U.S. Navy Secretary John Lehman, a member of the 2004 9/11 Commission, turns whistle-blower, tells The Guardian  that the Commission knew there was broad Saudi support of the 9/11 terrorists and that many Commission members wanted to blow the whistle on the Saudis but the U.S. Establishment had held them back. Continue reading →