Friday already…

Is it just me, or does anyone else find the media attention and over reaction to the little bump on the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver somewhat ridiculous?

Happy weekend all, may your travels be smooth as glass!

Must be quite a bump if its slowing down traffic and causing bus schedules to be changed. Maybe they could use a few more like that down there.
I see the city redid the bump on the little bridge on Foothills. Three times lucky, I guess.
Three times, to repair what started out as small cracks and holes!

“News 1130 is reporting that “The BC Civil Liberties Association says it has been barred from saying anything about testimony at a secret hearing in Vancouver looking into whether or not Canadians were illegally spied upon by CSIS. It filed a complaint with the Security Intelligence Review Committee, claiming CSIS agents unlawfully gathered information on community groups opposed to the Northern Gateway Project.” We’re not allowed to talk about CSIS warrantless spying on civilians for their political affiliation. The Charter of Rights takes yet another hit in our Brave New World without civil liberty.”

The mendacity of the man….

At some point PM Harper must realize that he is in full denial, as is obvious to just about everyone, and that his further denial and pushing others under the bus only further discredits his position and undermines his moral authority to lead this country.

Some of his supporters will foam at the mouth that this is just about an expense scandal. And if only that’s all it was… but more and more any thinking person must ask then why do the people around Harper go to such great lengths to first try to sweep this scandal under the carpet, and then when that fails get involved at the highest levels of the PMO office to orchestrate a cover up?

It begs the question… why would the highest levels of the PMO office go to such great lengths to cover up a senators expense improprieties… why would the Prime Minister out and out lie to the country to try and maintain distance, and have some plausible deniability for any involvement if it is just about the expenses of a senator?

Consider the bizarre spectacle of several of the Prime Ministers closest advisers, including his chief of staff, his principal secretary, and his legal counsel, together with his Senate house leader, the chairman of the Conservative party fundraising arm and the party lawyer, conspired over a period of several months to pay Duffy for his improperly claimed living expenses, then to pretend to the public that he had repaid them out of his own pocket, then to attempt to block, shut down, or rewrite a confidential audit, then finally to rewrite a Senate committee report so as to absolve Duffy of any fault.

Consider the string of lies that had to be floated over the months to try and keep up the notion that Prime Minister Harper had no knowledge of any of this.

Then it comes out late this week that the PM’s own legal counsel Ben Perrin was witness to the PMO chief of staff past and present having meetings how to make the Duffy scandal go away. It turns out everyone in the office was on this file and yet we are expected to believe that PM Harper had no knowledge of what was going on in his office to buy off the Duffy liability.

Consider that from day one of Harper on the political scene he made his name calling for a Tripple EEE Senate. Harper never missed an opportunity to call for a Senate that had real power, independence, was a symbol of provincial autonomy, accountable, and above all not a manipulated tool of the Prime Ministers Office.

So imagine the hypocrisy if it ever got out there that once in the position of Prime Minister, Harper broke all those rules and then some.

He made a mockery of the provincial residency rules, so as to have an available spot to appoint a partisan to the Senate that he could use for a tax payer paid fund raiser and campaign organizer. Manipulating the privilege of appointing senators to fulfill a partisan personal agenda influencing elections… and then to get out’ed over an expense scandal investigation.

The character of Harper since has been to deny, deny, and then throw under the bus anyone that could be traced back to Harper. Rather than admit to his Triple EEE Senate hypocrisy, he now says he will have no part in reforming the senate and that it is up to the provinces to lead on this issue. As if to admit he was caught, but won’t do it again because he will not do his constitutional duty and appoint anymore senators (at least until after the election).

The mendacity of the man is off the scales on just this one issue. Does Canada really want to have as our leader a man that will lie about his involvement, and sacrifice even his closest advisers to try and sustain an illusion that he is just the victim of circumstances?

If Harper will lie and conspire on an issue of a tax payer paid fund raiser via Senate appointments, then how far will he go to keep from the Canadian public from his full involvement in the Ukraine Madien uprising, or the ongoing training of ‘non governmental security forces’ in Ukraine, or what exactly his motives are in support of Israel, or what his Black Sea agenda is with all the fascists there, or why it is he hates the UN so much? Would Canadians be willing to go to war for a Prime Minister that has a known and proven tendency to lie and evade the truth on lesser issues… for a hidden agenda that only one man knows.

With everyone in the room now admitting to their involvement will the Prime Minister now please step up, if for no other reason than the dignity of the office.

Found a massive red flag on the ‘global terror’ front this week.

The book is called ‘Visas for AlQaeda’ written by J Michael Springmann a career US diplomat that served in the State Departmetn Bureau of Intelligence Research division operating out of Jeddeh Saudi Arabia.

He writes as a whistle blower of a covert CIA operation that was run out of the Jeddah consulate that was working with terrorist factions in the middle east and granting members illegal visas for travel abroad to America. These CIA operators used diplomatic status to run all sorts of CIA operations throughout the middle east.

Guys like Sheikh Rahman (the blind Sheikh) mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing received his first visa from a CIA case officer undercover as a counselor officer at the US Embassy in Khartoum Sudan. He went on to receive 6 CIA-approved US visa’s between 1986-1990 even though he was on a State Department terrorist watch list the whole time.

He goes on to tell how it was this CIA operation in the Jeddah consulate that approved the travel visa’s for 13 of the 15 eventual 9/11 hijackers.

Think about that for a minute.

If the CIA used its special powers to approve of 13 of 15 of the 9/11 hijackers, all approved by the same undercover CIA operative, knowing full well they were terrorists… then surely the CIA knew the intent of the mission these men were on… patsies as they were for plausible deniability.

He goes on to discuss how the Jeddah consulate continues to operate as a control center for middle east terrorism operations, as it was the control center for isis back at a time when the Obama administration thought they could support the group in their plans to remove the Assad regime in Syria at all costs… before all hell broke loose and isis became enemy number one.

How convenient now that our great ally Turkey is entering the war with American approval, but not to fight isis, rather they are in it to fight the Kurds who are the only force on the ground fighting isis.

With allies and friends like that, what is Canada doing spending billions participating in this farce? Where is the moral leadership this world so desperately needs at this time?

For the Love of GOD Eagleone, go get your own blog/website or PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, edit your thoughts. Your “manifesto’s” are ridiculous

Keep Right Except To Pass!

I went to hit the ‘like’ button for Vikingnuck’s comment–It won’t go past 100%?!!!

Personally I don’t mind Eagleone’s posts, whether I agree with them or not. At least there’s some grey matter functioning, and he can come up with a different point of discussion other than “keep right except to pass” every effing Friday. Eagleone’s posts are no different than Peter Ewerts’s long winded diatribes.

If you don’t want to read Eagleone’s posts, keep scrolling. It’s that simple.

Somehow the intent of the Friday free for all has been lost on some people. Please re-read the purpose of the Friday free for all before you attempt to tear down anothers thoughts.If what they have to say bothers you in some way shape or form then just skip the post and move on.

In the spring the city released their paving schedule for this year. It included 4th avenue from Winnipeg to Queensway. I just checked the city website and now it says 4th avenue from Victoria to Queensway. What happened? That road is bad all the way.

Eagleone has written a great deal on this site. His diatribe above speaks greatly to what most of the centrists and left leaning citizens of this country believe about Harper. Thus where Harper polls currently. I would love a champion of the right to refute his allegations in a rational, verifiable manner. Any logical, rational person would realize that Harper is in it pretty thick.

To quote Steven Harper “At worst, he personally ordered it done and chose the people who executed the plan. At the very least, he fostered an attitude within the party…, chose the managers of the people who committed these crimes and completely and utterly failed to exercise any oversight, supervision or leadership.

“In the end, it doesn’t really matter where [his] actions or lack of them fall on that scale. He is the leader and a leader is responsible for the actions of the people he leads.

“If he had a right or honourable bone in his body, he’d admit that and resign immediately.”

But he doesn’t.

I’m glad that 250news changed the way the thumbs up / thumbs down affected the order of the posts. Chronological order is a much nicer way to follow the discussions.

as for the new thumbs up and thumbs down…
I have been on here for a long time and though I can’t say I like or dislike them I don’t see that they add a lot but if they make others feel like they have made a statement …leave them…better than the personal shots for no reason…they get to click a button….so click away

Have a great and safe weekend all.

Add me to the list of Eagleone supporters, though I admit I don’t always read his lengthy articles. They are always thoughtful and very well written, whether or not you agree with his positions.
Meanwhile, greeting to all of PG from sunny Comox, my new residence. Sadly, there are no fora down here similar to Opinion 250 to join in with.

I had to go to Vanderhoof yesterday and it is amazing that nobody gets killed more often on that highway. I did the posted speed limit all the way there and back and I had the same 5 vehicles pass me no less than 4 times a piece on my trip out there. They were doing excessive speeds and at least 2 passed illegally on double solid lines and the funny thing was I saw all 5 in Vanderhoof at the first set of lights going into the town.

Guess all that speeding to get there faster really paid off as we basically all got to town at the same time.

Gotta love this summer weather. Been camping tons, have meet some great people from all over. One couple had travelled from Australia in a very cool camping rig. They reminded me of how beatugul our area is.

Be safe out there people.

Add me as well to those who do not mind Eagle1’s posts! They are often thought provoking and interesting! He questions everything and everybody – a recommendable attitude in today’s society where far too many people have become too disenchanted to give a hoot!

The thing about the posts here are you don’t have to read them… :-)

Why is it that Canada Post drives a delivery van to my house (in town with door-to-door service) and leaves a large parcel on my doorstep at 8 am for the entire neighborhood and hooligans to see all day while I am at work? This is now the second time this has happened – what happened to leaving a slip in the mailbox and then I can pick up the parcel at the post office – when did that change and why?

Click me once shame on you, Click me twice shame on me. :)

In the you got to laugh category . Three days ago unbc in. Pg deploys old mothballed solar cells . At the very same time the fourth largest airport by passenger volume in India flipped the switch and ended their addiction to diesel generators . They’ve gone 100 percent solar . Poor Canada . It doesn’t matter what canada does or doesn’t do . The world will be off fossils regardless of what we do . This sort of thing is happening all over the world and its excellerating exponentially .

Eagleone really, please… for the sake of everyone, get a blog.

Evolution the coverage of this silly bump was the main story at the noon news today.. Just shows how narrow minded and self centred the BC news is… It’s all about Vancouver.

It’s Christmas in August for all the Divorce Lawyers, who are lining up clients after the massive Ashley Madison data breach. Some dumb-asses actually used their Canadian Gov’t and Military emails and credit cards.

The DOW closed -530 today, after a gut-check Thursday when it tanked -355.

Time for me to buy more mutual funds, Warren Buffet style.

:D

Brother, don’t catch the falling knife. Your at bottom when NOBODY wants to buy. By your comments, were not there yet.

Hey Ataloss, How was your portfolio this week? Knowing you, I’m sure you sold at the top.

Couple of days ago a chip truck blew by as I waited to turn west on Ness Lake Rd, so I decided to break the law and match his speed. He was doing 95 km/h past the shrine to the kid that got killed in the head on collision. Never slowed till he caught up to another car.

Though we haven’t been given the details – very likely it’s the kid’s fault. But you gotta wonder, does it affect your survivability if the truck you hit is doing 120% of the speed limit. Trailer #T38 in case anyone from Excel is reading this, I don’t bother calling, because they just argue with you, or ask why you were going so fast. But keep in mind people, next Thursday and Friday thousands of people will be sharing that road on the way to Wooffest. If RCMP read this, any chance you could tear a car loose to maybe patrol the road a bit? Seems someone has to get killed before you come to visit us. :(

Ataloss you have never given any details on your solar powered house. So when its cloudy or night time where does the airport get its power from, pixie dust. Notice how much land those panels cover in crowded India. Did anyone loose their homes.

here is some coal use information for ya in India and elsewhere. You got coal in your stocks?

In sum, using coal is a stepping stone to prosperity. So much for it being a satanic energy source.
Hardly a day passes without evidence that coal is making a major comeback:
• Some 1,200 coal plants are planned across 59 countries, with about three-quarters in China and India, according to the World Resources Institute.
• Coal use around the world has grown about four times faster than renewables, according to the global energy monitoring publication BP Review of World Energy 2015.
• German coal “will remain a major, and probably the largest, fuel source for power generation for another decade and perhaps longer,” the Financial Times concludes.
• “The U.S. is dropping coal plants at an unprecedented rate, but still nowhere near as quickly as India is adding them,” Bloomberg Business reckons.
“By the end of this year, some 7.5% of the U.S. coal fleet will have disappeared … . But by 2020 India may have built about 2.5 times as much capacity as the U.S. is about to lose.”
Then, of course, there’s the world’s biggest coal addict by far — the People’s Republic of China. According to a 2014 report from Eric Lawson of Princeton University, a leading climate change apocalyptic on the left:
“The reality is that fossil fuels dominate China’s energy landscape, as they do in virtually every other country. And the focus on renewables also hides the fact that China’s reliance upon coal is predicted to keep growing.”
Lawson’s calculations of how coal use is growing in China are jaw-dropping. “From 2010 through 2013, (China) added half the coal generation of the entire U.S. At the peak, from 2005 through 2011, China added roughly two 600-megawatt coal plants a week for seven straight years.
“And according to U.S. government projections, China will add yet another U.S. worth of coal plants over the next 10 years, or the equivalent of a new 600-megawatt plant every 10 days for 10 years.”

Don’t worry all Big Trucks have Superior Drivers, Brakes and Tires and are Build to stop on a Dime! Some Days I Wonder where the Brains are!

PG about firm power, biomass generation only amounts to 1.5 % of generation so hardly qualifies as firm power in the operation of the grid. Those other pie in the sky sources of generation you mention have been bandied about for decades and nothing has become of them because of cost and practicality. Maybe some in the future but what about today.

Watchdog yes solar and all its auxiliary equipment is used for those unable to connect to the grid but as you have shown it is expensive and one has to deal with the continuing maintenance. Myself I would just as soon have the simplicity of just flicking a switch on the wall when wanting power without the complications.

Yes solar panels are getting cheaper but is the required auxiliary equipment getting cheaper. I have know people in remote regions in the Caribou turf their own generation as soon as it was financially viable to connect to the grid. If getting off one of the cheapest utilities in the world for electricity is for you go for and keep me posted. You cannot generate your own power for what you can buy it for off the grid in BC but the 65 billion in contracts to IPP’s is not helping.

Pval,
What would the Vancouverites do with our potholes and snow and ice ridges? If they had a few more, BCTV wouldn’t have room for any other news the way they’re sensationalizing this little bump. 4.5 cm?. I’m still laughing. I’ve driven over Lions Gate years ago with those construction plates, ain’t no big thang!

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s election campaign took another hit on Friday when an opinion poll showed most people do not believe he was unaware of an ethics scandal involving several close confidants.

Gloomy poll on scandal raises election pressure on Canadian PM

http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCAKCN0QQ1SW20150821

Just curious how long the residents on Latrobe, Malaspina and Domano and the cops are going to put up with the extremely loud piped motorcycle coming from Latrobe? The rider is using our neighbourhood as his personal race track and has destroyed the peace and quite we are all entitled to where we all live and try to sleep? How long until this danger to others crashes and kills or hurts someone? He has been reported to the cops by at least two different people in the area including his licence plate number and home address. Yet this moron just keeps on ticking. Are the residents in the area going to have to take things into their own hands to get done what needs to get done? Time for others to step up and report this tool!

“Posted on Friday, August 21, 2015 @ 9:26 AM by Dearth with a score of 26
I had to go to Vanderhoof yesterday and it is amazing that nobody gets killed more often on that highway. I did the posted speed limit all the way there and back and I had the same 5 vehicles pass me no less than 4 times a piece on my trip out there. They were doing excessive speeds and at least 2 passed illegally on double solid lines and the funny thing was I saw all 5 in Vanderhoof at the first set of lights going into the town.
Guess all that speeding to get there faster really paid off as we basically all got to town at the same time.”
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You should try driving it after midnight.

“Posted on Friday, August 21, 2015 @ 11:22 AM by raven11 with a score of 10
Why is it that Canada Post drives a delivery van to my house (in town with door-to-door service) and leaves a large parcel on my doorstep at 8 am for the entire neighborhood and hooligans to see all day while I am at work? This is now the second time this has happened – what happened to leaving a slip in the mailbox and then I can pick up the parcel at the post office – when did that change and why?”
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I had another delivery service leave a thousand dollars worth of ammunition in a cardboard box out in the rain on my porch a couple years ago. My calls to them were never returned.

Dumbfounded, driving the posted speed limit will only frustrate other drivers as the flow of traffic is normally 10k over, and that’s normal all over the province. Unless you’re driving a chip truck that is. Well, most drivers with Lomak and Excel do anyway.

Sorry, my previous post was directed at Dearth, not Dumfounded.
Dumfounded, call and ask for the watch commander, it will get results.

Seamutt , you do know that the Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones , right ? And you do know that fossil fuel is more akin to a battery than a source of fuel ,right ? The sun and life created oil/gas/coal . And the earth as we know it is completely solar powered . The reason India’s fourth largest airport went solar had nothing to do with ecology or being green . It happened because it’s cheaper than burning something . And geez . What a stretch for you . You don’t lose the land under solar panels . It’s still there .

“Posted on Friday, August 21, 2015 @ 2:31 PM by Outwest with a score of 0
Don’t worry all Big Trucks have Superior Drivers, Brakes and Tires and are Build to stop on a Dime! Some Days I Wonder where the Brains are!”
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So why is it then that so many 4 wheelers drive like idiots around large trucks?

Anyone on here members of the Royal Canadian Legion? Anyone on here have loved ones who have been in the Military/ or are in the Military? Legions having a hard time right now to stay afloat, folks aren’t going there for meals or beers, pool, darts etc. If you want to support the folks who put their lives on the line for us, it’s a great outfit to join, lot of real enjoyable people to chat with good atmosphere. Bruce Gabriel, John Scott, good honest people who did their service, trying to keep our veterans office open. Just remember to take your hat off when you enter, and enjoy the atmosphere.

Geez Ataloss if fossil fuels are akin to a battery then what’s the issue?

“And the earth as we know it is completely solar powered” Well not completely,

“An international team of researchers has completed the most precise measurement of the Earth’s radioactivity to date. By analyzing subatomic particles streaming out of the interior of the planet, the geologists and physicists discovered that the radioactive decay of several elements generates roughly half of the Earth’s total heat output. Their results were published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience”.

Also don’t forget the sun is a nuclear furnace.

It was cheaper than burning something well I can’t seem to find any information on that with out heavy subsidies, maybe you can help me out there. Burning something, is that coal, gas, wood, oil or maybe dung?
Where those panels and all the auxiliary equipment made out of pixie dust or did you forget the mining, processing, manufacturing which I hope was green. Lots of energy expelled there, where did it come from, the energy? here is a hint, information you seem to have missed,

Hardly a day passes without evidence that coal is making a major comeback:
• Some 1,200 coal plants are planned across 59 countries, with about three-quarters in China and India, according to the World Resources Institute.
• Coal use around the world has grown about four times faster than renewable’s

As for the land under the panels are you ignoring the fauna that was removed, disturbed before the panels. Hey the land under site c will still be there.

Oh that airport is still connected to the grid, the sun don’t shine at night.

Well are you off the evil grid yet? You never seem to provide any information on your solar system, do you even have one?

UNBC paid $53,000 for their solar system, wow, someone saw them coming. For that they will only get 5000kwh a year, that is if someone keeps the snow and grim off. That is a little more than half of what I use yearly costing me about $600. So not counting maintenance and panel degradation 88 years for payback if a homeowner paid for that system. But hey its for research, dam the cost full speed ahead its free money from the taxpayer.

Wonder if anyone from UNBC is going on an all expense paid trip to the Paris climate party? Will that be business class and a five star hotel?

I believe it’s the Citizen that ran a poll on whether or not respondents supported political signs – the answer was an overwhelming no. I wish the politicians would listen to that sentiment before littering our fair city.

And I do believe that not-a-hair-out-of-place Harper is finally going down. Fingers crossed!