Junkies - licence to steal?

how is it, that if you or I walked into a supermarket and walked out with $300 worth of goods without paying we'd be arrested and prosecuted, however every single junkie in town is permitted to steal shopping trolleys at will and walk around with them without any fear of prosecution?

What the fuck is that smell...oh, it's Abbotsford & Chilliwack

As the weather gets warmer, so to does the stink and funk of our eastern cities of Abbotsford and Chilliwack. Was driving east towards Hope on highway 1 and had to stop for some gas and McD's. Pulled up at McDonalds in Chilliwack, stepped out of the car and BANG. The smell hit me like a fucking dead horse carcass in a shitstorm. how on earth do you people do it? live out there I mean. With the smell of manure trailing through the entire town day in and night? i guess you get used to it....

there's an open facebook discussion on the question "Do people think it smells in chilliwack?" and see also this hilarious entry in the uncyclopedia, http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Chilliwack,_British_Columbia. To quote:

"One cannot discuss Chilliwack without mentioning its stench. Chilliwack is considered to be the worst-smelling city in Canada and possibly the world. Nothing can compare. As soon as you step inside the town, the scent of dung overpowers you. It smells like shit. Everywhere. All the time. Prolonged exposure to this stench will drive you insane. It boggles the mind as to how the citizen's of Chilliwack do not notice this stench. It is the most putrid thing ever. People have visited and then killed themselves, rather that face the smell of manure for any extended amount of time. George W. Bush wants to contain this stench and use it as the ultimate weapon. But not even Dick Cheney will go near this town. If this stench spreads, god help us all. In short, Chilliwack smells really, really bad, something to note if you are ever insane enough to want to go there.
One precaution against the smell of Chilliwack is to cut off your nose, or even better have no sense of smell to begin with"

The only thing to fear....is the police themselves.

Canadian police, in particular BC police have come under fire recently for everything from killing immigrants at the airport, driving DUI and killing other motorists, beating up newspaper delivery men while drunk, and recently beating up kids on the street in plain view of everyone. they have a reputation for corruption, protecting themselves, covering their own asses and a complete lack of respect for the law. it's little wonder none of us feel safe whether it's the RCMP or the municipal officers, you really want to hope that someone has a camera handy when ever you come into contact with one of these animals.

obviously the recruiting is the major problem. if you are attracting morons, who are nothing but power monkeys who get off on authority and carrying a gun, then this is exactly what you are going to see. it's only now with the advent of cell phone cameras, youtube and the web that these idiots are being held accountable. i blogged about corporal monty benjamin, perhaps the RCMP's leading agent of death, but it seems the problem is rampant and systematic.

here's the latest:

Degenerate Gamblers celebrate!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/03/26/bc-vancouver-casino-bc-place.html

Degenerate gamblers and addicts in vancouver now have cause for even more celebration. The government has just announced it has approved a $450M casino development at the site of the Edgewater Casino. Most of you would be familiar with the edgewater, that fucking monstrosity on our water front which is surrounded by parking lots, filled with the dull glare of BC's inner city gambling drones, drawn to the lure of poker machines and endless ways to piss away your hard earned welfare check.

it stands to reason that if we are going to give people welfare, we should establish a business which caters to their particular needs and habits. what will we do with the millions of dollars we suck from the community? funnel it back into the disaffected children whose parents left them locked in the carpark while sitting for hours at a blackjack table? maybe we'll use it to provide free crack to those children who will almost certainly have chemical dependencies by time they are in highschool. perhaps we'll use it to help vancouver's fastest growing demographic, our much prized homeless population. who have yet another place to piss away money they don't have (no problem of course because the judiciary have given them permission to steal our cars, ipods and bikes for drugs - why not poker machines?).

ahhhh good news day.

Canadians getting BURNED on 3D technology

Best Buy USA Price:

Samsung 55" 3d TV: $2969.99
Samsung 3d blu-ray : $399.00
Samsung pair of 3d glasses: $349.00


Best Buy Canada Price:


Samsung 55" 3d TV: $3699.99
Samsung 3d blu-ray : $399.99
Samsung pair of 3d glasses: $449.99

Todays $USD vs $CAD : 0.98c

Bottom line, if you are looking to spend, drive to Bellingham and save yourself close to $1000.

Olympics are over morons...

We have to listen to the CTV announcers go on and on week after week now about how "their lives changed" and magical the torch relay, and the first gold medal, and the opening ceremonies. blah blah blah. seriously, we get it, it was good, it was fun but now its fucking over! move on already. we get it, you were there...you provided crappy small time commentary, and now you are going to remind us about it for the next year.

Olympic flame behind chicken wire...

If you didn't get a chance to see the olympic cauldron up close during the games - dont worry. it's one of those experiences that's better on tv.

i know the games have finished, but i finally had a chance to get down there and check out the cauldron, albeit extinguished.

disgusted, sums up the experience.

the cauldron, which is visually impressive, a magnificent sculpture. it's flanked by a apocalyptic, soviet era fence. (see pictured). it's not even a nice fence. it's the type of fence you might hastily erect around a nuclear spill. it's base is made up of large concrete pads, (capable no doubt of stopping an attack by tank). then the fence is about 12 ft high. it means any photo or view of the cauldron is obscured and marred by this shocking eyesore. apparently during the games, there was complaint, and a 3-4 ft section above the concrete was replaced with plexi glass. this is good if you are around 5.5ft or shorter, but otherwise it's horrendous. when we have to go to these lengths to protect things - we have lost the battle. this looks like a fortified warzone, and probably isn't too different from a fence you might find in the greenzone in baghdad.