Just A Lucky Coincidence

37 Replies to “Just A Lucky Coincidence”

1. What a coincidence.
   Wonder how much highway could have been repaired with those millions?
   Or how much highway could be repaired with the wages paid to an extra 10,000 snivel servants?
   These dippers are way, way, past their due date.
   *stink*

2. Protecting the taxpayer? Where do they think this largesse is from–the sky? More evidence that our governments are deluded beyond treatment–they should all be put into the mental hospital

3. Sure is easier to get elected when you can buy votes with someone else’s money, eh? I wonder how people in other regions of Saskatchewan feel about the preening of these tax-and-spend big-business wannabes when they have the nerve to laud the electoral beneficiary of their own party’s largesse — i.e. their own candidate — for “(bringing) the two sides together.” As in:
   Mickleborough: “We’re trying to stay in power. Want a freebie?”
   Mayor: “Kayp”.
   Mickleborough: “I think we’ve hammered out a deal then.”
   Sterling work. And how about that $4.5 million thrown in to the gift bag just in case the building might need to be demolished? That’s like, say, topping up the announcement of a new waterpark with a few million dollars extra for the purpose of converting it into a zoo if the nozzles get clogged. On the eve of a by-election.
   Talk about piling it extra high and gladhanding through the stink. Anyone at the Star Phoenix getting on top of this one?

4. This is a simple case or the mentally ill helping the mentally ill.

5. Well, I hope they tear the place down. The night I saw “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” I went back to my apartment and could see the silhouette of that creepy old building through my kitchen window. Sure, there were no mental patients in it by that time, but it was huge and somebody might have hid in the basement….or maybe a bunch of people…emerging at night…
   (Please accept advance apology for any stereotypes relating to mental illness.)

6. This is a simple case or the mentally ill helping the mentally ill.

7. Come on, Brilliant NDP plan demonstrated by the Federal Liberals in the last election. Spend money just before the election to help get/buy votes and win… Opps wait, that maybe didn’t work…
   what was that federal number, 4 billion here, 3 billion there…

8. What part of being bought with your own money don’t you understand. Standard dipper methodology!
   After 10 years of the useless twits here, we’re all familiar with that process.

9. Bold prediction: He’ll lose anyway.
   Surely the voters can see through the transparent jigging of an election.
   Sounds like they took a page out of Scott Reid’s playbook. You haven’t seen that little bugger running around Weyburn have you:
   Buying elections;
   Liberal style NDP politicking;
   In Weyburn, with the Mayor helping out too!
   Kate’s not making this up!

10. Must be a close fight in Weyburn. Some people will actually be influenced by this, hopefully more against than for. To think Nova Scotia was close to taking on these guys. They gotta go.

11. In regards to blue’s post a couple back…
    blues said: “Sure, there were no mental patients in it by that time, but it was huge and somebody might have hid in the basement….or maybe a bunch of people…emerging at night…”
    Well, blue….you were right…the ones hiding in the basement only to emerge at night were Lorne Calvert and his sorry assed cabinet. In addition to Rev. “Lorne” Lovejoy and his cabinet, the only other creatures that I can think of that come out under the cover of darkness are cockroaches.
    If the people of Weyburn-Big Muddy elect an NDP MLA I will be forever convinced I live not in the Land of Living Skies but living in the land of complete f*****ing imbecils who cannot see when they’re being taken on a ride of epic proportions.
    One vote for the NDP is one too many.
    Send ’em all to the glue factory is what I say.

12. How much highway could have been repaired with those millions, Mad Mike? Not enough for you right- whiners to stop your bitching for even a nanosecond.

13. maryjane,
    ‘ve found that a little over the top ad-hominem crap always civilizes the debate!

14. re; maryjane post I assume from your comment that you condone this type of politicking?

15. IN SEARCH OF THE REAL TOMMY DOUGLAS
    Farmers in the Estevan area talk about the Ukrainian immigrants who were put in the Weyburn Mental Institution. They used to run away and the farmers would keep them. They seemed perfectly harmless except they kept wanting to talk about what the Soviets did to the Ukrainians. The farmers said: “ Tommy Douglas didn’t want the people to know what was happening to the Ukrainians in the Soviet Union so he locked up those who knew enough English to tell their story.”
    Rather fitting that the NDP are still involved with the institution in which Tommy research his thesis on eugenics.
    A little piece of the Douglas legacy that the CCF/NDP/CBC don’t want you to know. There is a lot more.

16. Which farmers said that, Trent? When did this happen? Who are these Ukrainians who were victimized by Tommy Douglas? Do you have any evidence to substantiate your nasty story or are you part of some socialist plot to make conservatives look completely ridiculous?

17. So who woke up the troll?

18. I think if one delved deep enough into Saskatchewan political history, we would find this type of election time “politicking” rampant in almost every party (I’m not condoing it, either).
    Bias is as bias does, Forr-est.
    Leto

19. Oh you lucky flatlanders…………….so tell me will the constituents in Weyburn reward the grifters?

20. Start doing some research marijuana. Look into some of the old newspapers from the 1940’s and 50’s, but the best place to start is by reading every single biography you can find on Tommy Douglas. “Douglas in Saskatchewan” is a real good one, it was written right after T.C. left provincial politics in 1962. The best biographies however, are the ones that speak favorably about old Tommy. In everyone you will find little gems like the aforementioned and also you will hear of people like Daniel C. Grant, Tommy’s close political adviser and open member of bother the CCF and the KKK. You can find that in “The Life and Political Times of Tommy Douglas” by Walter Stewart. Stewart makes a lame excuse for the Tommy – Klan affiliation, but anyone can see through it.
    Here is a quick link to get you going. http://www.katewerk.com/tommy/
    have fun!!

21. So, Trent, Tommy was a klansman AND a commie, having the power to lock up Ukrainian immigrants in the 30’s to keep the lid on Stalinist genocide. Man, you’re full of it and you know it.

22. Am I now? Start reading…

23. Culvert was reading the Redbook again; he has both the Liberano and the Lenin versions. I don’t know how anyone could vote for Culvert and the Dippers but …make sure you do go to vote for The Right Guy, Sask. People. Culvert is like an absessed tooth, painful and poisoned with pus; capable of driving a sane man/woman ‘around the bend’. Once a person gets rid of rotton tooth , things imediatly start to look a lot better. The only thing you wonder about, after the ‘pain’ of extraction is over, is why you ever let it stay for as long as you did. The black days of insane suffering dim and you forget how ghastly it was – Culvert and his Dippers probably know they are booked for extraction; they are buying a ‘place’ for themselves so they can ‘re- root’. Sask don’t let those rotton roots fester, the roots are as bad as the tooth. Uproot, don’t allow them to re-root.

24. Weyburn Voters should vote for the SaskParty candidate – then watch the NDP squirm when they ask for their $4.5 million.

25. After reading about what went on at the Weyburn Funny Farm, I’d reccommend a couple of 500 pound bombs. Frikkin’ scary what they did to those patients there. Average stay there was 20 – 30 years. LSD, shock treatments and lobotomies, I can see why the dippers have a soft spot in their hearts for the place. Shades of Dr. Mengele.

26. texas canuck,
    It is frightening. My great uncle sent his first wife there because she was depressed a lot. She died there. The jack-ass didn’t even give her a decent burial. My grandfather was pissed at him to say the least.

27. Great dental analogy Jema54.
    Yes Maryjane. There is a socialist plot in Saskatchewan. Ask any Albertan who was ever a Saskatchewanian who doesn’t care anymore.
    Meanwhile Calvert is on his bus tour(farewell tour… but not like Cher)..dreaming up the secret formula to winning the next election…
    Wear balloon animal hat to become unrecognizable.
    Blame all of Saskatchewan’s failures since 1905 on Tories and Liberals.
    Promise to play 1/2 of all Rider pre-season games at Gordon Howe Field.
    Promise to built glass dome over Saskatoon.
    Hire Gainer the Gopher to play side-kick in campaign commercials for cheap-laffs.
    Use “Pride” and “Shine” and in a slogan.
    That oughta do it don’t ya think?.
    Needless to say. The re-election of the NDP would be an international embarassment.
    From green teeth to Green Day. So give me Novacaine.

28. Wonder how much highway could have been repaired with those millions?
    Probably not all that much, really.
    The government of Saskatchewan recently announced that about $100 million will be invested this year alone in improving Saskatchewan’s roads, including about $50 million on twinning parts of Highways 1 and 16 (63km); over $11 million on bringing a further 61km of provincial highway up to a higher paving standard; and almost $40 million to resurface nearly 300km of principal and regional highway networks.
    Further millions have been allocated towards work on Highways 956, 955, 155, 11, 106, 918 and other transport corridors, including repairs to bridges and highways in Northern Saskatchewan.
    Depending on the task to which it was put, then, $4-5 million might have purchased a few more kilometers of roadwork, but this answer, of course, presumes the original question was asked in good faith, and not as a cheap rhetorical trick.

29. Stephen, are you actually proud of these Dippers in Saskatchewan?

30. Have a look at the pictures as well, it seems the local candidate has no wish to give out his party affiliation. Thats always a good sign.

31. Trent, are you actually proud of the Conservative record in SK?

32. yep

33. You would be.

34. Trent,
    The appeal to pride is easy to make.
    Socialist that I am, however, I prefer the appeal to reason.
    By any reasonable standard, the NDP is the best of the available political options here in Saskatchewan.
    Are they perfect? Nope.
    Could they do better? Yep.
    Do either Karwacki’s Liberals or Wall’s SPers offer anything like a practical, progressive alternative that will benefit Saskatchewan’s people?
    Not on your life.
    So yeah, Trent, I’m sticking with the NDP.
    How about you?

35. Stephen:
    Like Trent, I am anti-dipper and pro-con. You know where my loyalties are. The NDP are old, tired and worn out. They are bereft of any ideas, their philosophies are out-dated and their bench-strength is akin to the Kansas City Royals or the Blue Bombers.
    Our continued lethargy in the country’s economy is no coincidence with who we have leading our province. Yes, we’re creating jobs, what…1,700 last year while Alberta created close to 100,000? Numbers don’t lie. And, if you want to buy into the NDP’s belief that sure and steady wins the race, look no further than our football team. They must all read from the same playbook. Run the same two plays over and over and maybe we’ll fool ’em!
    If…Rev. Lovejoy manages to swindle the oldsters, indians and unionists into another majority gov’t in ’07, I think the NDP will finally get their way and the rest of us conservatives will leave the province, head next door and join the party going on there.
    In a few years time, Saskatchewan NDPers will bask in their “utopia” of obscenely high taxes, an inflated bureaucracy and celebrate the closing of the province’s last remaining Wal-Mart. There will be parades down Albert Street with seniors travelling from far and wide down the province’s last remaining paved road (#11 between PA and Regina). Lorne will be enshrined as the Little Guy From Moose Jaw who beat the big bad Tories. The parades will be held each day except for Sunday and Wednesday to allow for people to shop during days stores are open. The province will go back to closing up shop those days at the behest of labour who will demand a mandatory mid-week day off.
    Of course, a lot of you would likely use up your statutory six weeks minimum paid vacation sitting at home instead of travelling. Kind of hard to put fuel in the tank of your car when the NDP crank up fuel taxes to 50 cents/L to pay for a mushrooming health care budget. No worries, I guess. People can shoehorn into provincially-run buses to carry them to their destinations. STC will be popular once again!
    Ahhhh, yes, and let’s not forget about every red-blooded man’s dream of sitting by the campfire with his cold beer and a raging blaze in the ol’ firepit. Beer will only be sold Mondays between 2 and 3 p.m. to acccommodate the staff development days (Tues – Thurs, every second Fri off) at the liquor store. Firewood permits will not be available to anyone with a box of matches or some other fire starting apparatus and campsites will only be rented to those who have completed the mandatory 3-day “eco-environmental outdoors course” in which the following topics will be covered:
    1) peeing in the bush is a sin punishable by 5 years of SaskParty membership (shivvvvers)
    2) spitting sunflower seeds is environmentally unfriendly and Smokey the Bear WILL kick your ass
    3) proper weed trimming techniques will be taught to ensure your campsite is kept neat and tidy so the maintenance staff can be treated fairly and given desk jobs in the office – remember…No One Gets Left Behind under LORNE’S watch.
    Finally, Google will pull the plug on Saskatchewan and all we’ll be able to see from satellites where the province once stood is a big, black hole.
    Now before all the socialists go out of their minds thinking I’m serious, I’M NOT. I’m dreaming this up as I go along. I’m pretending like I know what’s going to happen. I’m fooling myself into thinking this might actually take place.
    In other words, I’m thinking like a dipper here.
    That’s why we gotta get rid of them….soon!

36. There are many things past and present that the medical profession can and should to be ashamed of; but as a student in pre-medicine I worked at the Weyburn mental hospital the summer of 1957 and witnessed no arocities and considerable good. There was research being done on LSD at the time to try to study the phenomenon of hallucinations in mental disorders. All subjects were volunteers that I am aware(nursing students, etc.)
    I supervised a ground crew of eleven patients who had various brain damage conditions, tertiary syphilis, etc. Many of them lived at the institution and considered it their “home”. They would be waiting for me at the tool shed in the morning when I arrived. Some would be sitting in the sun smoking their pipe, and even occasionally interacting. They seemed to enjoy their work, and I certainly enjoyed my time working with them.
    A few years later someone decided it was “inhumane” to have these people live in an institution and to “have to work” (the main reason was likely COST). Many of these people were “discharged” (kicked out)and subsequently became street people or inmates of our nursing homes. Two such ladies wondered by my folks house on a hot July day with no clothes on. Some went shopping and had no concept of money or that they needed to pay for their groceries. Relatives that initially agreed to look after them later unceremoniously changed the locks on their doors.
    When I worked there the grounds and gardens were beautiful and I enjoyed my interactions with the patients more than the staff, and the patients I knew were happy. I wonder how happy they were as “street people” living in cardboard boxes?. Beware of great gestures of “humanity”—–there usually is a money motive. The stories of attrocities could be fabricated to justify the closing.

37. My mom who is an RN in a nursing home likes to tell the story of who votes NDP in Saskatchewan. On one of her shifts an elderly lady (92yrs and quite senile) asked her if there was an election coming up (this was the last provincial election). The election was 2 days away and she told mom that she had to vote NDP. “my husband and I always vote NDP” she said. She had no clue who was running, what the issues were or anything. She barely knew there was an election just 2 days away. And yet… she had to make sure the NDP got her vote.
    This kinda explains why I moved out of Saskatchewan for Alberta some time ago, along with my brother, and my sister and their families as well. And my mom can hardly wait to make the move out here as well.
    Peace out MJ.