A view into the mind of Jason

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Saturday, November 23 2024 @ 03:50 MST

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Site back up

General NewsFor those of you who tried to check the site yesterday, it was down. Shaw changed the IP while I was at work and I didn't get the chance to change it on the server till I got home. Things are back to normal now, or at least as normal as it gets.
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YAM (Yet another meme)

MemesSince a couple of people (garething and wendy_licious) have tagged me for this:
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Hypocrisy thy name is Conservative

Canadian PoliticsSo Stephen Harper and his merry band of Tories are beginning to show their true colours. A party that railed against patronage and cronyism when in opposition is now heading right down that road now that they're in government.
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Weekend From Hell

Crünchy ToastWhat a long weekend. My cadet unit was scheduled to go into the field this past weekend and what an arduous weekend it was. Things just kept going horribly wrong.
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Rich==ethically challenged?

Canadian PoliticsI'm beginning to believe that the rich feel that not only can money buy anything, that it should be able to buy anything. This story I heard on CBC this morning about Overseas Medical Services is a case in point. This company's rather dubious services are to allow those that can afford it to go overseas for medical treatment. OK, so the rich can go overseas for medical treatment, what's the big deal, they've always been able to do that. The difference here is that, for the right price, OMS will allow you to purchase an organ from some poor person in a developing country.
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Flag flap and media attendance – controversy or diversion?

Canadian PoliticsI may just be getting more cynical as I get older, but it seems to me that the whole tempest in a teapot that is the flap over lowering the flag to half mast as well as the media attending the arrival of soldiers' bodies may be a ploy by the Tories to divert attention away from something else, the up coming budget for instance.
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Tories attack poor.

Canadian PoliticsSo not only is Stephen Harper canceling a low and middle income tax cut but it would appear that the only people who will truly benefit from his $1200 a year child care grant are the rich. It would appear that upon closer inspection the rich won't see the full amount and the poor will see even less.
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King Harper?

Canadian PoliticsFound this shot on the CBC website:
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Interesting positioning of the crown above his head.
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Albertans Whine Again

Alberta PoliticsPractically every time I turn on the radio I hear about how hard done by Albertans seem to think they are. This time it's a poll done by the CBC about what Albertans think. Apparently 60% of Albertans in this poll think that we don't get the respect we deserve.
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Crumbling Schools

Alberta PoliticsIt's been a while since I've written, since life has been so busy for me, but now a few moments have happened and I can put finger to keyboard once again. On my way to work today I was listening to the radio (CBC1010) I heard a representative from a company that loans money to schools for maintenance based on savings they'd find in facilities operations.