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Dr.G.
14" G4 iBook
15" MacBook Pro (July, 2009)
13" MacBooK Pro with Retina Display
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read these books." Mark Twain
It's pretty much worst case scenario as far as the weather goes. It's been really warm here, now the daffodils are 4 inches above ground.
A warm winter might also show the nice side of our climate here, which could have some other benefits down the road. That said, some people here don't want those benefits.
I'm happy because I can get out on my bike for long rides. I couldn't do that last year until March.
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There should have been an audit beforehand, but the Campbell government resisted that.
GA, a lot of the costs have been buried throughout government. I have seen it first hand and it really troubles me. The Campbell government has been more than complicit in trying to hide costs. I wonder if the Auditor General would be forced to act if enough complaints were forwarded to their office.
The NDP are really useless in opposition in BC. Joy McFAIL got more done than the current bunch together. The NDP seem silent on the HST and Olympic costs.
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"This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion."
I saw an interesting interview on the CBC with the guy who organized the Calgary '88 torch run. He was disgusted with all the corporate self-promotion that is saturating the current Olympic run. Apparently, back in '88, I was shocked to learn, no corporate logos were permitted at during the run. The clips they ran from '88 were somehow heartening in their relative sparseness. Contrast that with 2010, with the blaring Coca-Cola truck, followed by the RBC truck, and then finally the runner as something of an afterthought. It got me to thinking, that were Terry Fox alive now, and attempting his run, dollars to donuts his prosthetic limb would be a scarlet red, with that familiar copperplate script running up and down.
"It got me to thinking, that were Terry Fox alive now, and attempting his run, dollars to donuts his prosthetic limb would be a scarlet red, with that familiar copperplate script running up and down." I would hope that Terry Fox would be above this sort of commercialism. We shall never know, sadly. Paix, mon ami.
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Dr.G.
14" G4 iBook
15" MacBook Pro (July, 2009)
13" MacBooK Pro with Retina Display
Paix
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read these books." Mark Twain
I would hope that Terry Fox would be above this sort of commercialism. We shall never know, sadly. Paix, mon ami.
Undoubtedly he would be above it. He is the greatest Canadian in my estimation, sorry Tommy. However, the lure of massive infusions of corporate dollars to fight a terrible disease might have mitigated any reservations he might have had, and rightly so I suppose. Kind of a quandary actually.
Anyways, re: Olympics - this commercialism is distasteful to me.
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