kelownabomberfan

I don't know how much stock to put in polls, but if the election were held right now, some pollsters are saying we'd have a minority NDP government. That would be favorable to a majority NDP government, I guess.... http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poll-tracker-ndp-lead-widens-slightly-over-conservatives-1.3178079

The subsidized child care program has been a complete bust in Quebec. First, all of the daycares unionized, and implemented rigid working hours, meaning that they weren't even open during periods when less financially advantaged people had to work, like shift labour, so only people with day jobs could take advantage, which tended to be the more wealthy. And then of course, the costs were far greater than even the most conservative estimates. Mulcair says that his plan will cost $5 billion per annum. Better double that, just as a start. $10 billion a year - that's a huge pill to swallow. There can only be one reason that Mulcair is pushing for subsidized daycare and that's because he's been told by the HEU and big labour to do it, because it will create thousands of new unionized jobs. It's not about the greater good for all, it's about the greater good for the unions, and that's why (one of the reasons) I can't stand the NDP.

I just get the sense that the game has moved on and Taman is in way over his head. Thank goodness we have the Walters (yes I am calling him that now). I hope he sticks around until he's 70.

https://stats.cfldb.ca/league/cfl/schedule/1984/06/21/bc-at-wpg/ Was this the game?

Why do you say that? Before he was drafted, he said it was his lifelong dream to play for the Bombers.You think the Riders 0-6 start to the season has made him fall in love with Regina? Yeah there's so much else that makes you fall in love with that town... Toothless girls are good at some things. Gross. Not if you close your eyes tightly. Kind of like walking a tight-rope. Don't look down.

Why do you say that? Before he was drafted, he said it was his lifelong dream to play for the Bombers. You think the Riders 0-6 start to the season has made him fall in love with Regina? Yeah there's so much else that makes you fall in love with that town... Toothless girls are good at some things. OK - don't type toothless girls into Google, just as a heads up...

I know Nixon didn't win. All of those ballot boxes thrown into Lake Michigan by the mayor of Chicago made sure Nixon didn't win.

I've always wondered why Trudeau or Mulcair aren't ever seen at any sporting events. Seems like pretty cheap publicity. Even Pierre took in almost every Grey Cup game, even if he didn't know a football from a meatball...

Its bigger because of all of those dentists.

a friend of mine was in Honolulu during Christmas break. The Secret Service shut down an entire city block just so that Obama could go out for dinner. There were gunboats in the harbor and helicopter gunships circling over-head. Meanwhile, at the same time, I was watching our Prime Minister high-fiving people in the crowd at the gold-medal junior hockey game at Air Canada center in Toronto. I like our ways better.

The mafia put him in power. Richard Nixon won the 1960 election. But the mafia insured that the Kennedys won. And then the Kennedys turn on the mafia. Not too smart.

Sorry but you have to address needs, and we needed Sukh Chungh, who is going to be a stud.

Why do you say that? Before he was drafted, he said it was his lifelong dream to play for the Bombers. You think the Riders 0-6 start to the season has made him fall in love with Regina? Yeah there's so much else that makes you fall in love with that town...

I was definitely at a game in the early 1980's between Winnipeg and BC where it rained and play was suspended. I think it was 1982. Vic Rapp was coaching the Lions. I remember we always called him Vic Crapp because of course, we hated the Lions. I loved those BC Sucks chants. So true in so many ways. The Bombers won the game, just checked - it was August 8th, 1982. The moral of the story is, don't play on August 8th in Winnipeg if you don't want to be rained on.

Or like a lot of people I know who post on FB, she is trying to appear hip and cool to the other moms in her social circle. It's always easy to say "get rid of Harper" when you don't care about how bad the alternatives are, just like its easy to say "we should be spending more on (insert basically anything here) but those Conservatives are such jerks" without worrying about the costs and how they will be paid for. Of course, if you do ask anybody how things will be paid for, it's simply "raise corporate taxes". Yup. It's sooooooo easy.

I was just on the phone with a guy who played linebacker for the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1985, and he was telling me about a game in Winnipeg in 1985, August 8th to be exact, that he was playing in. The Bombers won it 58-15. He said the Roughies just got crushed, and the Bomber defence just destroyed them. During the game, he said to the Ottawa defence in the huddle "hey at least it isn't raining" at which point the skies opened and lightning hit one of the goalposts, and the game had to be suspended, like the Argo-Hamilton game yesterday. Does anyone remember this game? I don't, because for some reason I am pretty sure I wasn't there, even though it would have been in the days when we had season tickets. Anyway, pretty funny to hear first-hand what it was like playing against the Bombers in those days, and getting destroyed in our barn. He said every team feared playing Winnipeg at home in those days.

Or he mouthed off to Chamblin. Orders from Taman - he thinks they can find someone older and more expensive. Currently leaving frantic messages on Allen Pitt's voicemail. Geroy - paging Geroy...Milt looks in fine shape as well...nothing is off the table right now.

I wonder if Richardson was called in and released or this morning he just found a mustard-stained Subway napkin in his locker with "you are released - BT" scrawled on it.

The same concept should go for government unions that require workers to join unions as part of their job. People should have the freedom to "opt out" of their union and keep their union dues in their pockets. It shouldn't be mandatory membership. Of course, if this actually happened, most government unions would collapse almost over night.

LOL - what he meant was "the Company will tell you what was really said and done, as opposed to the massive pile of bullshit we feed you". Yeah unions as they stand now really have past their best before date. I get that they are still needed to some extent but on the other hand, they really seem to only serve to perpetuate the union bureaucracy rather than protect and serve members. The expenditure of millions of member dues on political campaigns in support of the NDP really is sickening and shouldn't be allowed. No special interest group should be able to spend money that it receives in this way, in support of any party. It's just morally wrong. Just like watching the BCTF here in BC spend millions of dollars supporting the BC NDP, all because they know the BC NDP will bend over and give them whatever they want, at the expense of taxpayers, students and parents. Barf.

Still more interested in what happened. Did he and Chamblin have a blow-up?

what the hell happened there? Is he worth a look? Especially if Nic Moore is hurt long-term?

I still don't get why unions get to spend so much money they take from members' cheques on political ads. Wouldn't the members be better served by lower union dues, rather than political statements being made on their behalf that they may not even agree with? I don't get how the system allows this. I also don't get how the NDP thought it was totally cool to house union members who weren't even working for the NDP in their office in Toronto, rent free. That office is paid for with donations, that taxpayers give credits out for, and here's union members just sitting and working in NDP offices. That was a FACT, and it should piss everyone off.

And you know as well as I do that just listing negative stuff that you are fed by the NDP propaganda machine isn't enough to make people vote for Mulcair. The NDP always wants to take the easy road, and point fingers rather than say what they would do better. And that's a recipe for failure.

You are doing a fine job of that yourself. I love it when leftists use the word "facts", and then go ahead and start spouting a bunch of manufactured garbage instead. And even if there is a kernel of truth to what you are saying, you still aren't telling me why the other guys are better. And if you can't, then people 99 times out of 100 will pick the devil they know.