Oil Drops but Does It at the Pump?
Ian @ August 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Oil declines on the market, appreciatively as well, but the price at the pump remains unchanged. Demand is down, supply is up, but the price isn’t going down, which only shows that Government has been bought off. They should be hauling the executives of the Oil Industry before Grand Juries, and charging them with price fixing, price gouging, and anything else they can think of. Of course that wont happen, because then who will fund their pension plans, who will fund their re-election bid to protect the average citizen?
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They Play Cards, He Dies
Ian @ August 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Why have we forgotten the simple golden rule, do onto others as you would have them do unto you. Nurses play cards, ignore the needs of their patients, and one dies. Yet they blame poor working conditions, being overworked, yet they had time to dance, to play cards. Seems today more and more hide behind the title, of being a so called professional, instead of standing up and doing the job they chose. People are hired to look after sick people, they weren’t hired to not feed them, to not check on their health while under their care. That is abuse, plain and simple, but instead of filing charges, they give the facility time to make up a plan to correct the issue? That is so called government oversight? I call it bullshit.
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Mutant Salads
Ian @ August 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Nuke It and hey, no more germs, no more bacteria, no more sickness from eating fresh food. Least that is what the FDA wants people to believe, as it approves the plan to radiate lettuce & spinach. Course meat, mainly hamburger, is already been radiated for years, and look at how well that is working. I mean all those millions of pounds of hamburger recalled for having ecoli, well that is nothing to fret about. Teething pains, but hey, they got it right for lettuce. And no, dont’ worry if that head of lettuce glows in the dark, least you know it won’t kill you, that all those nasty bugs are dead. Okay not all, not even really any, just that they are weakened, and shouldn’t pose a problem. Like that is nice comforting thought, isn’t it? And to think some say the FDA doesn’t care about people.
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FDA and Your Safety
Ian @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The FDA wants a stronger warning on the labels for Byetta, a diabetic drug that is widely used for Diabetes treatment. Despite several deaths, and a growing number of serious side effects being developed among users, all the FDA wants is a stronger warning issued with the drug. Like what the heck is that about? Protecting the consumer, or covering the fat asses of the Drug Companies who make the stuff? Seems the FDA is a bit more concerned about their corporate clients, than the people they serve. Why does that not surprise me, anymore?
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Safe Injection Sites
Ian @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Like his hero George Bush, the entire Harper regime knows only how to attack, not debate, not discuss. To them, a drug user is a wasted citizen, not worth their help. The attack by the Health Minister on the ethics of doctors who support safe injection sites shows the mentality of the Harper Government, in its bid to stay in power. Using fear, they attack those whose job it is to provide proper health care, irrespective of politics. These sites aren’t pretty, but they safe lives. They help contain the spread of infectious disease, by insuring needles are clean, not contaminated. They provide a laison with those who can be best served, before the infections get out of hand. It saves not only lives, but money too. Yet instead of embracing it, the Harper Government wastes taxpayer money to try and shut these sites down, because George Bush & his Republican Conservatives oppose helping anyone that isn’t part of the Fortune 500 or some fanatical religious sect. And like a good toady, Harper is quite willing to follow along.
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Old Fashioned
Ian @ August 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I wonder, what ever really happened to values, to being honest?
If you listen to the Politicians, they have all the answers, until they get elected, then they suddenly don’t have any answers. Like our Stephen Harper who promised the moon, swore up and down he’d deliver on giving Canada a Government we could be proud [...]
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Being Old Has to Suck
Ian @ August 10, 2008 # One Comment
Do we owe our parents in their later years? I wonder at times what goes on, in people’s mind when they shuffle their parents off to a retirement home, instead of taking them home with them? I know it isn’t easy, damn difficult at times too, but then they didn’t seem to mind when they were taking care of us? At 91, what do they think of, are they contemplating death, or just trying to manage with the day to day chore of lifting their feet up and taking a step?
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Terrorists 5.5 Years, Border Guards 10 Years Plus
Ian @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It boggle the mind, how a supposed terrorist gets time served, plus a few months, while two border patrol agents spend over a decade in prison for failing to report their firing on a drug smuggler. It makes no sense that any Prisoner of War gets tried for being on the other side, while people like Scooter Libby get their 30 month sentence commuted. At the same time, Bush bashes China for its abuses, while his own administration listens in on everyone’s phone calls, collects your emails, and who knows what else. Something is not kosher here, and yet no one is protesting, no one is writing letters of complaint to their loss of Justice, of Democracy. Unreal.
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George Bush & Hypocrisy
Ian @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
While George Bush seeks to expand the surveillance of American Citizens, he lectures China on its human rights violations. The hypocrisy of the man, who lectures others, while deliberately trying to limit freedoms of Americans, while insisting that torture is safe and valuable to the continued freedom of America. And while he lectures, while he continues to erode basic human rights in America, we let him. We don’t write, don’t complain, don’t protest, so is he to blame, or are we?
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George Orwell Had It Right
Ian @ August 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It really isn’t about fighting terrorism, or drug smuggling. The new policy of seizing personal items from those entering the United States by the Border Guards is about protecting Corporate Interests. It is about invading one’s privacy, and of forcing people to be afraid. This is about aiding the Corporate World in its fight to end product piracy, but under the guise of protecting the people. When rights are infringed, are ignored, that isn’t protection, that is Tyranny.
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Tip of Iceberg
Ian @ August 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I don’t just want to get used to it. I want to know what the morons called Conservatives, are going to do about Global Warming. I don’t want to hear about rebates for cars that are energy efficient, but have no source of fuel available. I don’t want to hear about tax credits for riding mass transit. I want to know what the Conservatives under Stephen Harper are planning to do, to ease the effects of Global Warming on Canada. Not some stupid attack ads, not some threats, but some substance. A reach given how Harper is like Bush, but hey, one can hope.
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Paying Taxes, Just When Convenient
Ian @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It is obvious, there are two laws for everyone. One for business, one for the workers. How can any Government accept non payment of taxes from business, yet is ever diligent in pursuing individuals for back taxes? Makes no sense, yet it is business that gets the tax cuts, not the working class, not the middle class. Seems a lot is out of kilter here, and whether the 2008 will correct it, remains to be seen yet, assuming the economy can survive till then.
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Bush’s Honest Market Appraisel
Ian @ July 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So in a private and off camera moment, President Bush may have uttered his first real honest answer regarding the United States Economy, and the absolute mess that it is in. He said that Wall Street had gotten drunk, and that he was waiting for them to sober up, to get things back on track. [...]
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Limiting Speech via the Backdoor.
Ian @ July 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Is the increase in lawsuits against bloggers, against comments made on blogs, about protecting one’s reputation, or is it really about stifling free expression, free speech? Is the mounting lawsuits really a veiled attempt to end the free wheeling dissemination of news, of opinions? Is it a veiled threat to try and stop the flow of ideas, of opinions, or is it a legitimate way to prevent slander and libel?
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Bad Lending Practices to Stop
Ian @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Seems stupid, but the Feds are toughening up the laws for lenders, though it is years behind the times, yet at the same time they are borrowing oodles of cash from China, making it nearly impossible to be repaid. Adding debt to generations unborn seems to be the solution, which begs the question as to whether these idiots care about their kids, or if it is just political rhetoric used to get votes. To bail out Freddie Mack and Fanny Maye, then say they are toughening up the rules while opposing any break for the homeowners, is just too callous for words to express. Yet that seems to not ruffle anyone’s feathers, as no one seems to care.
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