Sunday, March 2, 2008

what get’s you down

Hey fellow Canadians perhaps you would like some cheese to add to your whine. Whining about gas tax but not about having the paved roads to drive on hich those gas tax help pay for. Complaining about then price of gas or having to pay before you pump. All while paying more for bottled water than you do for gas. Cry


Whining about the weather, boo hoo it raining a little like it would kill ya! Cry me a river! Cry me a Niagara falls of tears. B!T*Hing and moaning
about parking tickets when it was up to you to feed the metre.
Those metre maids do not have quotas to fill, so don’t blame them for doing their job.

Cash your GST cheque and still complain about charged GST when you buy something with it. Cry me a river; go ahead and cry. Notice the sea-planes before you buy that waterfront condo but still buy it; now those sea-planes are one more thing to moan and groan about.

Keep electing governments that make conflicting promises that don’t add up so you can complain when they can’t fill them all. Complain about the price
of anything in any store that can’t match walmart’s prices. Oh yes cry me a Niagara fall of tears, boo hoo boo hoo it’s wet out. Hold back the rain.
Don’t want this shelter in my backyard, don’t want these people who lost their home assisted on my dime even though it’s also on their dime.
They have to live somewhere why a flood zone when I live on a fault?

In other words I am a sore loser and redneck peeved they got aid and I 
did not.

Whiny stuck up Canadians with your noses so high in the air I can’t see your ugly face.
Nimbys, cry me a river, cry me a Niagara fallss of tears.

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Frogways or Highways

Well money talks and the heck with wildlife, old growth trees and those dedicate to be a voice for the trees and wild life.  On Southern Vancouver Island on Canada’s west coast protesters have been sitting in trees for weeks and months, to try to stop an interchange off the highway. They are protecting trees and a frog habitat below. There is no need for such an interchange from the highway to what is called goldstream ave as there is road just a couple minutes walking distance
that connects the highway and goldstream. Last week 70 heavenly armed swat officers went in to
arrest a handful or unarmed and peaceful protesters.  To call it overkill is an understatement.  Maybe the police were expecting to find the taliban on Vancouver Island, but the Canadian constitution does say citizens have the right to peace protest it does not list any
methods such as tree sitting as prohibitted.  The police and redneck supports thought the protest
was over they were wrong as the next day other supporters of old growth and frog habitat are
to take  their place.  To add insult to injury the city of Langford (a Victoria suburb) want to sue
the protesters for policing cost.  What’s they point the city is unlikely to ever collect as the
protesters don’t have the estimated $100 000 and that’s assuming the city wins.  Policing is
a direct expense that cost the city regardless of whether they’re in the donut shop, breaking up
a fight somewhere or bothering peaceful protesters.  In that light I don’t know why the mayor
of Langford thinks he has a chance.  It is plantiff in this case the city is legal obligated to mitigate
loses and police overkill is not mitigating lose.  The fact that they have to pay for police service
regardless pretty well mitigates things.  It is clearly to intimidate people form standing up for
what they believe in.  To make things worse a developer wants to sue protesters against his
mountain side condo development for a billion dollars, that’s called unjust enrichment, that’s
called beyond greed, that’s called gimme-a-break.
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