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Red Fleece and Greasy Sweatshirts September 14, 2000
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Red Fleece and Greasy Sweatshirts
September 14, 2000
Rockland, Maine
By Douglas Bernon
Today we're bobbing in the harbor at Rockland, Maine, seeing our friends Charlie and Kate, topping off the fuel tank, and running a few errands while we await a predicted high-pressure system that should swing the winds from the south more to the north and give us a smoother ride 160 miles down to the Cape Cod Canal and on to Newport. Replacing the sounds of songbirds of Down East is traffic noise. Replacing the comforting sounds of foghorns are jackhammers and the backup beepers of trucks. These days are marking the last days of our Maine voyage–the closing of a major chapter for Bernadette and me–and though there are great things ahead, it's an ending, and I feel sad, which probably accounts for the curmudgeonly thoughts that follow.
The always nautical-looking Charlie Doane and I in the dinghy
The always nautical-looking Charlie Doane and I in the dinghy
Regarding my red fleece pullover, despite being in my sixth decade–nearly a grown-up–Bernadette maintains that this is my color and dresses me accordingly, whenever she can. Also, I'm fond of this pullover, which came to me after more than a decade of chow-like service as a member of the board of directors of a Washington, D.C., consulting firm. The chairman and CEO willy-nilly tossed me over the side in favor of more distinguished names, whose wisdom he claimed would be useful, but whose international renown and Rolodexes I suspect he hoped would cause coins to fall out of clouds. My take-a-hike compensation package consisted of a chintzy little Swiss-army-wanna-be pocketknife with the logo of the company, and the aforementioned red fleece jersey, which I wear when I'm not wearing my oil/paint/grease-stained, gray sweatshirt. The latter I've had on a lot this week, as much of the time I've had my head and hands in the engine compartment and bilge. In part, this is because I was changing the oil and transmission fluid, a theoretically routine event, about which, sadly, there is more to report, but also because I've been on a mission.
The Grail for which we've searched this week has been the heretofore never-seen underground creeks that trickle into our bilge. Bernadette has been much vexed about this for some time, while I pooh-poohed its significance. My worry-list has been too long to lodge any new items that my mate is willing to put on hers, but as we settle into a cruising life, the leaks and drips are becoming my obsessions too. (Mi Leak, Su Leak). When photographer Jason Stern told us he stored a year's supply of film in his bilge during his circumnavigation, my wife shot me an I-told-you-so look, and I cringed from the sudden onslaught of Very Dry Bilge Envy. Ever since, I've been on my back or upside down, searching.
Douglas with arm stuck under engine
Douglas in his most flattering position
So far we've found three sources. One was a rusted-loose hose clamp on the output end of the engine's saltwater pump, a good thing to find for lots of reasons, but a connection which can be reached only by lying on one's back and extending a too-thick arm into an opening only large enough to fit the kind of serious, garlic-and-dill pickle that Uncle Oscar Cahodas used to make when I was a kid. After you get your grown-up-size arm in there and twist it all about, blindly and one-handedly disconnecting, taping and reconnecting stuff, limb-extraction stands as a worthy goal.
In my case, egress was easier because blood is such a good lubricator. This simple task, which I figured would take maybe 30 minutes, devoured most of a day. Maybe this will change in time, but I kind of doubt it. One reality of cruising seems to be that you stop in one beautiful place after another so you can fix stuff.
Two other mystery creeks (now parched dry, thank you) were the inspection plate on the starboard water tank, which is now re-bedded, and the dripless stern gland, which was weeping rivers of tears. None of these situations revealed themselves quickly, and these few discoveries represent two reasonably bright people spending about a week of their finite lives conducting second-grade science experiments. For example, to check if the shower sump was also a contributing felon, Bernadette employed a seasonally discounted Easter-egg dying kit to trace the water. This was the test that exonerated that suspect, and now we can dye eggs.
Steve D'Antonio, who manages Zimmerman Marine, and who can fix anything that floats or flies or rolls or molecularly rematerializes somehow, writes on technical matters for Cruising World and tolerates my questions. Not long ago he suggested to me in his oh-so-Zen-like way (okay, I'm paraphrasing here) that it's crucial we develop a personal relationship with our engine, that a diesel has an independent consciousness and, like dogs, can sense fear in their handlers, thus gaining the upper hand. He's right, of course. I think of it as Inner Diesel.
If this inanimate precocity is also true of engine-oil-removing handpumps, ours, a sadistic little bastard, knew my terror. About the size of a large ear of corn, with a handle coming out the top, a suck-it-in tube at the bottom, and a pass-it-on tube on the side, I was pumping away, watching the dirty oil flowing out and into a bottle, when in a blink I saw–albeit a tad tardily–the tube slipping out of the pump. In that graceless moment I knew a Vesuvian future. Warm, dirty oil spewed all over me and everything else. There was oil on the floorboards, on the settee cushions, all over the galley, throughout the engine, in the tool box, on the bulkheads, on our lunch and groceries, the throw rugs, and, to my horror, all over My Personal Commodore, who began to scream as she took in the scene. For really good reasons there are no photos of this, but you can take my word, it did not improve the day for either of us.
Bernadette at Winter Harbor, Maine–not covered with oil
Steve Callahan and Kathy Massimini
Such events can leave me feeling profoundly ill-suited for cruising, so I latch greedily to the similar misfortunes of others. Steve Callahan, with whom we spent a wonderful day catching up and seeing his life here in Maine, consoled me that in using the very same pump he made a similar mess and never used it again. And Dan Spurr, who knows more about boats and boat repairs than most people in the cosmos, tells the story of wiping his hair back from his eyes while engaged in an epoxy project, only to find 45 minutes later that it had all hardened into a point on the top of his head. I'm grateful to both of them.
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The Rise of the Canadian Surveillance State
I've been trying to put my thoughts about the Ottawa shootings down, and then I happened upon Russell Brand's energetic assessment, not only of the situation, but how it is being spun. Yes, it is terrible that a soldier died. And that another soldier died in a completely unrelated incident earlier. But there is no question in my mind that the murders of these two men is being "spun."
Canadian Civil Rights
The personal privacy of Canadians is supposed to be protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Maybe it was true once, but it doesn't seem very true now. And yet we value our Charter highly.
"The consultation also asked which of Canada's accomplishments of the last 150 years "make you most proud to be a Canadian?"
Medicare topped that list, followed by peacekeeping, then the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms at No. 3."
— Harper government poll for Canada's 150th birthday cites Liberal, NDP icons
Security professional Byron Sonne was arrested before the G20 Summit, an event on which the Canadian government lavished a great deal of money on security. Byron was concerned about the implications of the introduction of an influx of a host of new CCTV cameras in downtown Toronto, so he took a look at the security being provided by his tax dollars (and yours). Apparently citizens were supposed to keep their eyes closed. Police violated Byron's Charter rights; he was arrested and punitively denied bail for almost a year. When he was finally released into his parents' custody for almost another year, the draconian bail conditions obliged his parents to waive their own Charter privacy rights.
Byron lost his home, his business and his wife; and yet he was finally exonerated because, as hard as the authorities looked, there was no credible evidence. At one of the court proceedings I attended, a law enforcement expert witness explained that their inability to break the encryption on one of Byron's computers meant that even if acquitted, Byron would always be considered a person of interest.
Apparently these days, Canadians are guilty until proven innocent.
And the G20 Summit? Well, that event was marked by a great deal of violence… but not violence perpetrated by peaceful protesters, this was violence perpetrated by the "security forces" against citizens, as citizen journalists posted masses of video of such incidents to YouTube. There were so many unlawful arrests and Charter violations that a great many voices called for a proper inquiry… which never actually happened. The government didn't want to be bothered investigating abuses it was responsible for. Funny that.
(I kind of think Byron was held for so long because they needed a "bad guy" in jail to justify the ridiculous amount of tax dollars spent, and hopefully distract from the civil rights abuses…)
Canadian tax dollars paid for a whole year of an undercover officer's infiltration of poverty activist Julian Ichim's life.
Even after they were unable to prove any wrong doing against him, (Julian is, after all, an activist, not a criminal), absent evidence the undercover agent tried to convict Mr. Ichim with character assassination and innuendo. No matter what you think about Mr. Ichim and his methods, there is no question he is sincere. And yet, law enforcement agencies continue to harass and try to intimidate the young man.
In well over a decade of activism, working in the trenches to fight poverty and injustice in constructive ways, it seems the only "violent" act Mr. Ichim has ever performed was the act of throwing milk at politician Stockwell Day in his student days. And yet law enforcement considers him a threat.
You should really listen to this CBC radio interview (including the bits that come after Mr. Ichim) to gain some insight into The ethics of police infiltration
Omar Khadr's rights are still being denied. As a child put in harm's way by a parent, maybe he was a child soldier, or maybe he was an innocent bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time; but either way he was a victim who should have been treated better. This 15 year old child certainly should not have been abandoned by the Canadian authorities after being dug out of the rubble nearly dead; nor should he have been delivered to the infamous Bagram then tortured and left to languish at Guantanamo Bay for years where he was convicted in what can only be described as a travesty of "justice." Even back in Canada this young man is still being victimized. What happened to his Charter rights?
The Canadian Government, our government, has been chipping away at our civil rights since 9-11. Since we are now apparently all guilty until proven innocent, our "security services" are investigating all of us all of the time… okay, our Charter Rights aren't being chipped away, they are being steam rollered and dismantled.
The awesome powers of the state are being deployed, not against terrorists, but against activists trying to make Canada a better place, which often means disagreeing with government policy. But peaceful protest and dissent are considered to be crucial elements of democracy, which is why these activities are enshrined in the Charter.
"Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms forms the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982. Here are some protections that the Charter guarantees:
- freedom of religion, of thought, of expression, of the press and of peaceful assembly
- the right to participate in political activities and the right to a democratic government
- the freedom to move around and live within Canada, and to leave Canada
- legal rights such as the right to life, liberty and security
- equality rights
- language rights"
— Our Country, Our Parliament (government publication)
How many of our Charter Rights have been violated in my examples? I am not a civil rights lawyer, I'm a suburban mom who writes novels– how do I know about these things? The Internet has made "citizen journalism" possible, so we are no longer limited to knowing what the mainstream "news media" decides we should know. And the mainstream media has been so quiet about these issues that I'm inclined to agree with Glenn Greenwald's assertion that our "news media" mostly functions as the propaganda arm of our government.
The examples I have cited do not exist in a vacuum; they are the result of government policy.
What it boils down to is that the government tells us they need to take away our rights, to limit them in the name of security. To fight terrorism. There is credible evidence to suggest law enforcement has been engaging in mass surveillance.
And yet this has done nothing to stop terrorism.
Civil Rights exist to protect citizens. Removing or suppressing them doesn't make us safe, it makes us unsafe.
It used to be that agents of law enforcement agents were not given permission to wiretap citizens, or to search people's homes, or seize their goods without a warrant. A judge had to be convinced of a reasonable probability — "probable cause" — that there was credible evidence to suggest the subject of the warrant was engaged in criminal activity. There had to be good reason to invade anyone's privacy.
Certainly, there would be some judges more inclined to sympathize with law enforcement agents than others, but even they wouldn't sign warrants that could be ruled unconstitutional by higher courts. This system wasn't perfect, but it struck a reasonable balance between the needs of the state to be secure and the needs of the citizens to not be harassed. Because such laws were in place to protect citizens, when an abuse did happen, the citizen had legal grounds for redress against state harassment (or worse).
Lawful Access quashes our civil rights
Since 9-11 the Canadian Government has been trying to pass "Lawful Access" legislation. This would allow the government to spy on Canadian citizens all the time for no reason, with no judicial oversight.
This would be a huge blow to our Charter Rights that protect citizens from abuse by the power of the state.
Initially Canadians were protected from such legislation by a string of minority governments, which is about as close to democracy as we can get under our unfair electoral system. In a minority, no party can unilaterally impose laws; laws can be passed without achieving enough consensus. Back then I think the alarm was raised by lawyers who understood what was being proposed. The unease spread through the tech communities, because people who understood how computers and the Internet worked could better understand how this technology could be made to work against personal freedom. By the time Vic Toews tried to sell the idea that government spying was a good thing, enough ordinary citizens had twigged to the problem to mount the #tellviceverything Twitter campaign. There was too much bad publicity; the Minister, and indeed the government looked ridiculous. So they backed down.
But they didn't stop trying, because the legal authority to spy on all the citizens all the time is very powerful indeed. The most recent attempt has been Bill C-13, in which lawful access (aka unfettered spying on citizens) was dressed up as an anti-bullying measure inspired by the Amanda Todd tragedy.
Elizabeth May spoke eloquently against C13, as did Amanda Todd's mother, Carol Todd, who said:
"We should not have to choose between our privacy and our safety. We should not have to sacrifice our children's privacy rights to make them safe from cyberbullying, 'sextortion' and revenge pornography."
— Carol Todd, Amanda Todd's mother raises concerns about cyberbullying bill
And, of course, Bill C-13 does in no way limit its invasion of privacy to children, or cyber bullies. In the light of the Snowden revelations, the pressure on the Harper Government to get this law passed (to make all the illegal spying on citizens that CSIS and CSEC seem to engage in, alone and/or in conjunction with Five Eyes partner agencies) must have been enormous.
Something no one ever seems to consider is that, even in the unlikely event that our government would not abuse such powers, how do we know that faceless government agents with lawful access to the recordings they make of so many aspects of our intimate personal lives— how do we know that agents with the right to spy on us and our children are not themselves voyeurs, pornographers and pedophiles?
The University of Ottawa's Michael Geist discussed inadequacies in Bill C13 before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, concluding that:
"This kind of privacy harm can victimize anyone. We know that information from at least 750,000 Canadian user accounts are voluntarily disclosed every year. It is why we need to ensure that the law has appropriate safeguards against misuse of our personal information and why C-13 should be amended. I'll stop there and welcome your questions."
— Michael Geist, The Trouble With Bill C-13: My Appearance before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights
But now, under cover of the alleged "terrorist acts" of the last few days, Mr. Harper's government seems to have quietly passed this most controversial of laws, which shreds much of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that Canadians depend on. According to the government website it may still need one more Senate vote before getting the Assent that will make it the law of the land.
Will this make Canadians more safe?
Without consulting with Canadians, our government squandered vast sums of money to build and equip the most expensive Canadian building in history to spy on us all the time. In spite of this, our security forces were caught flat footed by the Ottawa shooting.
In the old days, when Canadian civil rights ensured law enforcement agents had to provide reasonable grounds before a court would issue a warrant to violate anyone's rights– they did a better job of providing national security. Instead of catching terrorists, the Harper Government is busy watching the birdwatchers who dare speak against current environmental policy. This doesn't make Canada safe.
Nor will misidentifying disturbed individuals who "go postal" as "terrorists" keep Canadians safe. Addressing the root causes– making the appropriate medical help available to disturbed individuals, for instance, would do much much more to keep Canadians safe.
SWAT teams shouldn't break into the homes of law abiding families enjoying Sunday dinner. It was acceptable and legal in Nazi Germany, but should it really be legal in Canada?
Spying on citizens was legal and accepted in Russia when the Tsar's security forces did it. Oddly enough, it didn't keep the Tsar and his family safe.
Later, it was still legal in the Soviet Union when the KGB did it. Material collected by such surveillance could lead to an ominous knock on the door in the middle of the night. People who dared express concern or disagreement with State policy were often dragged from their beds and whisked away to the Gulag for "preventative detention." Not because they had done anything illegal, but because somebody decided that they might. Citizens were guilty until proven innocent, rather like medieval laws that put accused witches on trial by being tied to a chair and dropped in the lake– if she floated, she was a witch (who could then be burned at the stake) but if she sank and drowned she was proven innocent. Do we really want laws like this? In Canada?
And, of course, as Glen Greenwald has pointed out:
"It is always stunning when a country that has brought violence and military force to numerous countries acts shocked and bewildered when someone brings a tiny fraction of that violence back to that country. Regardless of one's views on the justifiability of Canada's lengthy military actions, it's not the slightest bit surprising or difficult to understand why people who identify with those on the other end of Canadian bombs and bullets would decide to attack the military responsible for that violence."
— Glenn Greenwald, CANADA, AT WAR FOR 13 YEARS, SHOCKED THAT 'A TERRORIST' ATTACKED ITS SOLDIERS
And now that the Lawful Access bill has been passed by the House of Commons, the Conservative dominated Senate is the only thing standing in its way. Will it legitimize the government's ability to spy on us all, all the time? .
And you know how the story goes, if you give a mouse a cookie… Apparently it works the same way for governments. Lawful Access is the foundation, but even that is not enough.
Mr. Harper envisions curtailing our rights even more. He is considering laws of 'preventative detention' in wake of Ottawa attack.
Thursday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the Commons that laws and police powers would "need to be strengthened in the area of surveillance, detention and arrest." He pledged to bring forward legislation in an expedited fashion."
Huffington Post: Tories Reject Call For All-Party National Security Oversight Committee
My maternal grandparents escaped from Russia before the Iron Curtain slammed down. I'd always been grateful for their foresight in relocating to a better place. Movies like Gorky Park, or The Lives of Others have made me appreciate how important this was. And now it seems it was all for nought.
Isn't the purpose of terrorism is to spread terror? Although there seems to be international disagreement on what terrorism actually is, the United nations seems to agree with me:
"Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them."
— United Nations Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism annex to UN General Assembly resolution 49/60,"Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism", December 9, 1994
Of course, when governments engage in criminal acts, all they need to do is change the laws to make it legal.
The news media is whipping up fear because it supports the status quo. And it certainly seems as though our "watchdog press" has risen from the dead to become the propaganda arm of our government.
If the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize a population, oddly enough, our government and news media seem to be doing this far more successfully than anyone committing criminal acts.
But they are doing it because it is to their advantage to do it.
Not to keep us safe.
The text of Elizabeth May's C-13 comments in Parliament can be found here.
The Intercept: CANADA, AT WAR FOR 13 YEARS, SHOCKED THAT 'A TERRORIST' ATTACKED ITS SOLDIERS
Free The Press Canada: Government Passes Anti-Constitutional Surveillance Law During Ottawa Shooting
The Huffington Post: Glenn Greenwald Predicts Security Crackdown, More Canadian Secrecy
If I ran the zoo…: Advertising II
Part II: Party Advertising
When an election is called and the candidates are running for office, their platform is of interest to viewers and readers.
The news media will report what they say.
That's called "news".
Political parties don't need to buy advertising. Or at least they shouldn't have to.
Why do the political parties expend so much energy fund raising to purchase advertising when they can get news coverage for free?
What's the difference between media news coverage and advertising?
News coverage
is supposed to present the facts. News coverage might cover a press conference and select key statements made by a politician to put in the broadcast, or perhaps make a documentary about an issue, candidate, party or a campaign. They might include a panel discussion, a public consultation, or a political debate.
What is covered and the focus is decided by the news media editorial department, not the political party.
Realistically, the news media is at least partially entertainment, and like anything else carries bias. The bias may be an official policy of the news outlet, or it might be handed down from on high, or it may have developed based on the bias of the people in editorial department, or even informed by the readership. When there is bias, and there is always bias (it's only human) how the politician or issue is presented will be influenced by that bias to a degree. If the media takes a shine to a politician, they will be careful to present them in a good light, but if they dislike someone, they have the power to show only unflattering angles and emphasize verbal stumbling or contradictions.
The news media will report what they say. Good and bad.
Thus the politicians and/or the political party can not dictate the "spin".
Advertising Coverage
To sell a product: in this case, the politician or the party, nothing works like advertising.
Facts are not necessary, the only goal is to make the politicians or the party look good.
Political Party advertising doesn't have to actually say anything. In fact it is probably better if it doesn't.
You want your candidate to look their best, and because you can take as long as you need to get it right, your candidate WILL look their best. Photo Ops are good… baby kissing, cuddling pets, whatever works.
Then there are attack ads designed to make the opposing candidate or party look bad. I think the assumption is that if the other guy looks bad, our guy looks good. Unfortunately, these ads don't come across as "whistle blowing", they look much more like bullying. I guess that might work for the bullies of the world, but I think this kind of advertising makes the party paying for it look bad.
I don't need you to tell me what the other party has done wrong, I need to know what you will do right.
Advertising must be paid for. So yes, the parties need to find the money– this is what they are fund raising for.
Because they pay for the ads, they are the client. Thus the politicians and/or the political party have control over the "spin". Advertisements only tell us what the party wants us to know. So advertising is good for the party, but not necessarily good for the voter.
Is this really how we want to select our government? Based on how good their advertising campaign is?
money and money
There are two different ways advertising money needs to be spent. The obvious part is the money that is spent on the creation of the advertising materials… the writers, producers, actors, camera men…
We don't often think of the other place advertising money goes… to the media outlets. Space has to be purchased from magazines and newspapers to run print ads, while time slots must be bought from radio and television in order to broadcast commercials.
Political advertising represents an enormous revenue stream for media outlets. The income generated is what pays for the news media. Do you think maybe a TV network that receives a great deal of advertising revenue from a particular political party might be influenced in what news coverage that party receives? Is it unreasonable to think that large advertising budgets may lead to more favorable news coverage for the political parties?
Those are scary enough prospects to begin with, but the one that bothers me the most was the article I read in yesterday's The Hill Times:
Right now the party is working on solidifying its policy positions, and boosting revenues from fundraising. The Liberals raised $9.6-million in 2009, which is vastly improved from 2008 when they brought in only $5.6-million. But while the Tories' fundraising haul declined from $21-million in 2008, they were still light years ahead of the other parties, bringing in $18-million last year.
When Mr. Apps became president of the party last year he pledged to match the Conservatives in fundraising by June 30, 2011, and he said the party is on track to meeting that goal.
"In one year we've cut the gap in half. If I can cut it in half again this year, so the gap instead of being under $8-million it becomes $4-million, I think it's very achievable to meet that goal in 2011," he said.
But the Liberals are not there yet, and after four years in opposition, they have learned to fear the Conservative machine, said one insider.
—The Hill Times: Liberals not ready to defeat Tories in spring
The upshot certainly seems to be that The Liberal party is afraid to challenge the Conservative party and possibly trigger an election.
Not because they don't think they are in the right. But for one reason only: they don't believe they have enough money for advertising, and therefore believe that they cannot win.
Is it really true that our Canadian democracy boils down to the party with the biggest advertising budget will win?
More than anything that is a sign that political advertising needs to be stopped.
If I ran the Zoo er Country…
the only advertising I would allow political parties to engage in would be lawn signs. If the party wanted to appear in the media the candidates would have to do something newsworthy.
Maybe if we got beyond sound bites we could find out what the different parties actually stand for. Instead of throwing all their creative juices into fooling us into voting for them, maybe they could really find out about the issues, and maybe even engage in public consultations and come out with workable platforms.
That's what I would do if I ran the zoo country.
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If I ran the zoo…: Advertising I
I was shocked when I first learned that the biggest Canadian advertising clients were our government and political parties.
Why is that, I wonder.
How much time, energy and money do our political parties and governments spend on advertising?
A lot.
Why do they do it?
Because it works.
Because a commercial advertisement is short fast and compelling. Its why corporations advertise. The more money spent on advertising, the more product you can sell. In this case, the greater the chance of being re-elected, or the more votes your party gets.
Part I: The Government and Advertising
Public Works and Government Services Canada handles advertising at the Federal level. Government advertising as a means of public notification is one thing. Advertising as a means of "selling" something to the electorate is something else again.
It offends me that my tax dollars are used by my government to "sell" their policies and ideas to me.
Governments should not HAVE to buy advertising… if any level of government has something to say, the media will cover it. That's called "news".
If it is a good and useful policy presented it in a reasonable way through the news media or on government websites or through mailings should be sufficient.
I don't want my tax dollars squandered on glitzy commercials with sound bites or pretty print ads designed to gull me into thinking what they want me to think.
There are far better uses for this money.
Health Care for instance.
Think about it. If the Canadian government wasn't squandering all those tax dollars trying to sell Canadians things we don't want, they would save a ridiculous amount of money. They wouldn't need PST/GST "Harmonization" to generate the extra income they are about to start wringing out of taxpayers, instead of adding yet more tax to beleaguered taxpayers during a recession the unspent advertising dollars could be used instead.
Using advertising to sell us policies we don't want is bad enough (a practice often called "propaganda") but the absolute worst is that that our government is using our tax dollars to sell us political parties.
The first egregious example of this I saw was the Ontario road construction signs during the Mike Harris government of the 1990's. All the construction signs did double duty by advertising Mike Harris and the Conservative government. Adding his name to those signs turned information dissemination into partisan advertising – paid for by taxpayers.
That is down right wrong. Of course, Premier Mike Harris had a majority government af the time so there was no stopping it.
[One more reason I dislike majority government.]
Instead of censuring this bad policy, it seems that succeeding politicians have emulated and even "improved" on the model.
Just last year Prime Minister Stephen Harper had the Conservative Party Logo imprinted on Government of Canada grant disbursement cheques. Is this simply a case of misrepresentation? A Conservative party attempt to make the recipients think the finds disbursed were given thanks to Conservative Party largess? If so this is certainly False Advertising. The only legitimate way for the Conservative party logo to be on a cheque would be if the cheque was drawn from a Conservative Party bank account.
Or perhaps Prime Minister Stephen Harper is unable to distinguish between Conservative Party funds and Government of Canada funds. If the latter perhaps the RCMP ought to be considering investigating Conservative Party finances to ensure Canadian government funds have not been spent inappropriately.
It's bad enough crediting a political party with government works, but it is even slimier to affix their partisan info to public works projects that predate their authority. They are not only advertising, but FALSE advertising — with our tax dollars! I discovered this example in the Hill Times: Sheila Copps: Optics of Conservative cheque scheme dodgy.
Conservative blogger Stephen Taylor counters by harking back to similar Liberal Party shenanigans perpetrated by the Liberal Party under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Taylor is only one of many to defend the policy by pointing out the Liberals did this as well. I link to Stephen Taylor's blog since he includes the National Post story no longer online.
I am horrified that none of these very smart people seem to get the point.
The point here is NOT that since the Liberals did it when they were in power it makes it OK for the Conservatives to do it when they form the government.
The real point is that it was never OK.
It doesn't matter who does it.
It is ALWAYS wrong.
[An anti-party person like myself might point out this is just another example of Liberal and Conservative party similarity. They truly are interchangeable.]
The thing is, the government should not be selling Canadians political parties.
Tax dollars are non-partisan. Using them for partisan aggrandizement is at best a misuse of public funds.
If I ran the Zoo er Country…
I would slash the advertising budget. Because the only advertising our tax dollars should pay for is advertising to inform Canadians, not to "sell" us.
That's what I would do if I ran the zoo country.
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|Jun 21 2011, 04:24 AM Post #1
It's the final four -- "Law & Order" edition.
"Law & Order: SVU" fans were shocked when it was announced Chris Meloni, who plays the fan favorite Detective Elliot Stabler -- would be exiting the show after 12 seasons. TVLine is reporting that Dick Wolf and NBC have narrowed their search for a replacement down to four actors. The common factor? They're all younger than Meloni.
The contenders are "Cold Case's" Danny Pino, "True Blood" and "Southland's" Kevin Alejandro, "True Blood" and "Terriers"' Michael Raymond-James amd "Ghost Whisperer's" David Conrad
The four actors are reportedly flying to New Yotk tomorrow where they will test opposite Mariska Hargitay.
Who we're betting on? The extremely talented and underrated Michael Raymond-James. What about you, Zappers? Who do you think should replace Meloni?
|Jun 21 2011, 09:19 AM Post #2
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I don't mind the first 2 and last one.. 3rd one meh.
I had a crush on Kevin when he was on Ugly Betty.
Thanks Ricky!
|Jun 21 2011, 09:35 PM Post #3
|i wouldnt mind kevin
|Jun 22 2011, 01:50 AM Post #4
The Royal Dork
David Conrad would be a good fit.
I wonder how the search for Mariska's "semi-replacement" is going....
|Jun 22 2011, 03:21 AM Post #5
I thougt it was confirmed that she and NBC came to a deal and whe would appear in all 22 episodes?
|Jun 22 2011, 06:22 PM Post #6
I think it's time to cancel the show. The stories have become convoluted and nonsensical just for the sake of throwing in a twist.
Since that won't happen though, Danny Pino would be a nice addition.
|Jun 24 2011, 03:25 PM Post #7
Always the Panic Spreader
It did...Mariska will be in all 22 next season, from what I heard.
|Jun 24 2011, 06:10 PM Post #8
|i seriouslly wish that chris could have came for a final season.
|Jun 25 2011, 03:05 AM Post #9
The Royal Dork
I will never understand why NBC keeps shows on the air until the last possible season. They did it with the original Law & Order. They did it with E.R. And now, they're doing with SVU.
I think Meloni had enough sense to know the show had run its course. I won't be surprised if this is the final season.
|Jun 27 2011, 05:26 PM Post #10
Always the Panic Spreader
Pino, who starred in "Cold Case," will essentially replace Christopher Meloni.
Danny Pino and Kelli Giddish will join Law & Order: Special Victims Unit next season, NBC announced Monday. Both will play detectives.
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Chris Meloni Exiting 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'
Pino, who starred in CBS' Cold Case, will essentially replace Christopher Meloni, who turned down an $8 million annual payday to stay with the show, say sources. Giddish recently starred in NBC�s Jerry Bruckheimer drama Chase, which was not picked up for a second season.
STORY: Chris Meloni Exiting 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'
"Kelli and Danny are two great actors who will join a proven cast headed by Mariska Hargitay as this exceptional series heads into a very promising 13th season," NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement.
With Law & Order: Los Angeles getting the axe, SVU will be the sole Law & Order franchise on NBC next season.
�I�m very pleased that we have two amazing actors joining the cast," added executive producer/creator Dick Wolf. "I know this combination will give us the opportunity to explore the world of SVU with new eyes.�
With Hargitay requesting that her workload be scaled back next season, producers had been casting about for a replacement and were in discussions with several actresses -- including Jennifer Love Hewitt. SVU will also get a new showrunner with Warren Leight (Lights Out, In Treatment) replacing longtime executive producer Neal Baer, who left the show for an overall deal at CBS.
Earlier this year, Hargitay and her husband Peter Hermann adopted a baby girl.
For his part, Meloni is in final negotiations for a part in Zack Snyder�s Man of Steel.
|Jun 27 2011, 05:40 PM Post #11
|i wish kevin would have won the role oh well danny is hot too
|Jun 29 2011, 03:20 AM Post #12
The Royal Dork
I really don't think that happened. All the news releases I read, before the Pino/Giddish announcement said they were still looking for an actress to take the reins from Marishka once her character Olivia was promoted, and essentially (sort of)- phased out.
And now, with the announcement of Giddish's casting, all the news releases are saying that she will eventually take over for Marishka.
I'm sure MH will still be an integral part of the cast this season, but I think they're still going ahead with plans to NOT include her in all episodes. And I'm sure MH will probably announce her departure from the show before, or shortly after, this season is done airing.
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Microsoft announced the winners of the second annual Xbox LIVE Awards last night. The big winner was Castle Crashers. The almost criminally addicting downloadable side-scroller won Game of the Year, Best Original Game, and best Co-op. For the more financial-minded among you, the game also "won" the undeclared prize of best selling LIVE Arcade game in 2008.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix tied Castle Crashers for the highest number of awards won. The re-mixed fighter earned accolades for Best Versus Mode, Best Remake, and Best Graphics.
As far as exactly who decides what wins, it works like this: A panel of industry experts nominated the top Xbox LIVE Arcade games in nine separate categories, then 185,000 members of the community voted for the winners. Truly a People's Choice award!
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Game of the Year:
Castle Crashers
Best Versus Mode:
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Best Single Player Game:
Portal: Still Alive
Best Remake:
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Best Original Game:
Castle Crashers
Best Innovation:
Best Graphics:
Super Street Fight II Turbo HD Remix
Best Family Game:
A Kingdom for Keflings
Best Co-op Mode:
Castle Crashers
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Latest update: March 21st, 2013
Consider that in 2008, Obama pulled in 20 million from the health care industry. (McCain only 7 million). Afterward, he conspired to pass a law which mandated that every American be forced to buy health insurance from the industry. There is no definite figure for how much money the industry will make from this, but it will be a whole lot more than the mere 20 million they invested in him. During the days of the robber barons, the government never mandated that everyone must buy a product from them. Private companies might have contrived such control over the marketplace, but the IRS was never enlisted to collect their bills for them.
Every New York Times columnist who summons up the ghost of T.R. to mewl about the "concentration of wealth" should hang his head in shame. If Theodore Roosevelt were to come to life and behold such a connivance between the government and the industries it created, at the expense of the people, whether it is HMO's or the mortgage market, is there any real doubt that he would seize his big stick and bust some trusts.
How much money has flowed from the Obama Administration to its friends in the private sector in just the last year alone? And how much of that money was used to secure jobs for its allied unions, money which is then kicked back to liberal politicians running for office? Entire states are going bankrupt because of political trusts formed by politicians and public sector unions which pass money back and forth to each other in the plain sight of God and the American taxpayer.
This is not the mere concentration of wealth, but the ruthless concentration of power. The real money isn't coming from that top one percent, it's coming from unions, lobbies and companies which use political power to extract public money. And that money goes to the party which is so determined to keep on extracting that money no matter what it takes.
The big government left keeps playing the class warfare card, but for all their murmuring, it is not the top one percent that robs the middle-class blind and then sends them the bill. Even the worst company in the world isn't as larcenously extortionate as the politicians who spend and kick back, and then cry poverty and raise taxes. They shout that we need to raise taxes on the rich, and supposing that we do, where will that money go? Even if we strip that one percent of all their wealth and dress them up in barrels, is there anyone who does not believe that those in power will still contrive to spend it all and run up huge deficits anyway?
And still some of the most greediest and most abusive companies, were invariably either created by the government or operate in close partnership with it. HMO's were created by the government. Banks fed off Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's subsidized mortgages like vultures. Do we really need to discuss insurance companies, defense contractors or Sallie Mae. AT&T is considered one of the worst companies in America, and it's also one of the biggest political donors. Is there a connection there? Only that companies close to the government don't need to worry as much about what the public thinks of them. Hate the airlines? They've both been over regulated and subsidized into incompetence. Airlines have been bailed out and protected from competition too many ways to count, because of the unions riding on their coattails. And those unions are destroying airline after airline, while the non-union airlines prosper.
It's easy enough to go down the list, but why bother. Suffice it to say that American business is looking a lot like Soviet business did, full of companies with contempt for their customers, and an unctuous smile for the government. They know where the money is coming from. And in an era of cut throat price competition, and high labor and regulation costs, it's just easier for them to extract the public's money by going over their heads to the politicians. It's no longer a free market in which individuals make economic choices, but a collective economy with governments fixing prices and then turning around and taking more of your money to pay back the companies.Daniel Greenfield
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Living Independently Through Fitness and Exercise (L.I.F.E.) is a program specially designed for individuals sixty-five years of age or older. Research indicates that inactive older adults, by becoming active, can offset 50% or more of the physical loss during those years. The program places emphasis on resistance exercise, flexibility training, and functional activities. With improved strength and flexibility, activities of daily living are more easily accomplished, thus allowing each participant to remain independent for as long as possible. Since its' inception, L.I.F.E. has been named as a "Successful Active Aging Program" by the American College of Sports Medicine and has been featured in numerous articles.
L.I.F.E. sessions are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and members have the option of choosing from sessions that begin at 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., or 9:00 a.m. Sessions are lead by enthusiastic fitness professionals that create diverse and interactive fitness routines that are sure to be fun. L.I.F.E. members also received a bi-monthly "L.I.F.E. News" newsletter that provides them with heath and wellness information, recipes, quotes, jokes and more.
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Nintendo has announced that the Wii U will be launching in Japan on December 8, with a price also confirmed for the platform.
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The premium model is a 32GB Black Wii U that comes with a Wii U GamePad, a Wii U GamePad stylus, a Wii U GamePad charging stand, a Wii U GamePad playing stand, a Wii U stand, an HDMI cable, as well as AC adapters for the system and controller.
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Obsidian Entertainment has released a new patch for the PlayStation 3 version of its post-apocalyptic shooter, and source of much glitch-based ire, Fallout: New Vegas. The patch is expected to be available for the Xbox 360 and PC versions sometime next week.
Hit the jump to see the full list of patch fixes.
According to Bethesda's official blog, here's what players can expect from the new patch:
Top fixes:
- Companions now show up as waypoints on the map
- Companions will always fast travel with you, unless told to wait or sent away
- Fix: DLC error/save corruption
- Fix: Entering the strip after Debt Collector causes crash and autosave corruption
- Fix: Using Mojave Express dropbox can cause DLC warnings
- Crafting menu now filters valid (bright) recipes to the top of the list
- Weathered pistol no longer glitches when applying mods
In addition, this patch addresses issues with the following areas:
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- Pre-Order DLC Items
- Reputation System
- Radio Stations
- Companion fixes
- Companion Quests
- Repair Menu
- Caravan
- Weapons and Weapon Mods
- Hardcore Mode
- Perks
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- Crafting Recipes
- Crafting Menu
- Mojave Express
- Chems/Addiction
- Doctors
- Vendors
And fixes for the following quests:
- Ain't That a Kick in the Head
- By a Campfire on The Trail
- They Went That-a-Way
- My Kind of Town
- Boulder City Showdown
- Ring a Ding Ding!
- King's Gambit
- For The Republic, Part 2
- Render Unto Caesar
- Et Tumor, Brute?
- The House Always Wins
- Wild Card
- Beyond the Beef
- GI Blues
- How Little We Know
- Oh My Papa
- Still In The Dark
- You'll Know It When It Happens
- Arizona Killer
- Eureka!
- Veni, Vidi, Vici
- All or Nothing
- No Gods, No Masters
- Birds of a Feather
- I Put A Spell On you
- Come Fly With Me
- That Lucky Old Sun
- Don't Make a Beggar of Me
- The White Wash
- Ghost Town Gunfight
- Restoring Hope
- Bleed Me Dry
- Aba Daba Honeymoon
- Tend To Your Business
- Wang Dang Atomic Tango
- Flags of Our Foul-Ups
- Debt Collector
- Talent Pool
- Left My Heart
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Hard Luck Blues
Source: Bethesda Blog
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Today we took the car back - boo hoo! We loved that car! We have done 2190 kms since we picked it up - that is a long way and we still have so far to go! We spent some time over on the other side of the bridge in Vancouver which was nice, then we headed back to the dock ad watched a huge cruise liner leave for Alaska. It felt like watching the Titanic, with everyone waving from the deck! After that we went to the IMAX cinema to watch a couple of short 3D films, as it is the International Film Festival here. The first one was called "Identity" and was about the psychology of the brain - you'd have liked that one Dave, Hannah and Robbie!!! The second one was called "The Buffalo" and was about animals living in the wild. Tonight we did boring stuff like washing, packing etc ready to leave tomorrow and head back to USA.


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The mid-term auction kicked my ass.
The gushers of money, the belly-up Dems, the betadyned Reps, the gloating media, my bummin' friends.
At first I tried to be cheery, but the jowly seditious Mitch McConnell, Sarah Palin's Alaska, Michele Bachman's pretzel logs of thought, the face of W on his book tour, and the fact that people are buying it kicked me to the curb.
As if things weren't bad enough, I read that NY's jolly old rabid anti-choice, anti-gay marriage Bishop Dolan got chosen to head the US Conference of Bishops.
My inner Pollyanna was having a really hard time.
And I remembered that my Dad would have been 99 years old this week.
My Dad lived through the Depression and World War II. Because of bad eyesight and extended family obligations, he received a military deferment. His friends all served and he took care of the young wives and families they left behind.
He lived through the revelation of the Holocaust, McCarthyism, the 1960s, Nixon, Watergate, Reagan. He worried about the Reagan deficits and never trusted the Clinton surplus. His dementia prevented him from understanding the Bush stolen election or 9/11, and he died before our reckless entry into two wars.
He was a humble, Golden Rule, just-do-it kind of guy who would have been embarrassed by all the Greatest Generation talk.
He died seven years ago.
I still reach for the phone to call him, though toward the end of his life we mostly talked about the weather.
I miss him.
There's a front coming, and I need to talk.
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Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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