A poll with the dream question of all polling dream questions….
Which reminds me – Dan Cook’s cartoon appears incomplete to me.
There, that’s better.
A poll with the dream question of all polling dream questions….
Which reminds me – Dan Cook’s cartoon appears incomplete to me.
There, that’s better.
“Only 8% (about as many people who watch or listen to the CBC) think the CBC should get more money.”
The CBC needs to get a PayPal account. It’d be so much easier for that 8% to pony up. Oh wait, they want they rest of us to cough up – never mind.
Saw Politics with Don Newman last night where the CBC funding issue led off the program (notice the CBC always deems the matter as an issue of not enough funding as opposed to looking for ways to streamline expenses). There to defend the CBC, saying that it provides quality news for all Canadians was (incredibly) Pablo Rodriguez. Too bad there wasn’t a fill in for Newman like Bonner sometimes does. They could of had Krista Erickson to complete the circle of irony.
St. Harper.
I like that. If Harper scrapes the CBC and the gun registry, SDA needs to start a petition to the Vatican for the sainthood of our Honorable Steven Harper.
Imagine globally all the little pseudo Christian Harper cults that would eventually spring up. Little “say NO to CBC” fire breathing displays in Guatemala and images of Harper on toast in Italy.
Caricatures of a little Stephan Dion cowering under the might of the St. Harper gaze in the newly refurbished Sistine Chapel.
Hell I’ll subscribe.
ET, you’re right.
Here’s a cross post I did at another SDA thread @ 4:38:
“Our objective throughout this very difficult exercise has been to protect … our most valuable resource, the CBC employees who provide [the CEEB’s services],” a CBC hack said.
“That being said, we recognize that the reality is that we will provide less to Canadians.”
‘Difficult to provide less when you don’t provide much that Canadians want in the first place.
The Canadian Bloviating Corporation is cutting back the number of episodes of “Little House on the Prairie.” GIVE ME A BREAK. That appallingly, stupefyingly dreadful show should be cut off altogether.
The clue as to why there are over 9,000 employees at the CBC?
The CEEB’s workers are its “most valuable resource.” Who would have known? It exists, by the sounds of it, to give almost 10,000 friends, family members, and leftard hangers-on employment not, as the CBC mandate alleges, to give balanced coverage of issues of importance to all Canadians.
IT’S. GOTTA. GO.
Oh damn. Sorry, I double posted … because I thought I was on another thread.
Apologies.
Just wait till the Government drops the 40% Canadian content laws. Heap big fireworks expolding all over.
CBC the Socialista Al Jezaera of Canada will wither, until a real buisness can take over. I Can hardly wait.
Peter Mansbridge can air a personel story. Homeless in Toronto.
Agent Smith:
The hell hag was a good choice (O:}
Just heard a rumour that Moscow’s North York sign plant has received an order for 800 “Please help. Will tell or write lies about Conservatives for food.” placards. Supposed to be part of some severance and placement assistance package.
Two even more interesting things on the CNews page :
“…….the woman was talking on her cellphone at the time and walked into the side of the truck. She fell to the ground and the rear wheels of the truck ran over her.”
And Gregg Weston thinks the economy is not going to recover.
Time to sell ALL your crap and by stocks boys…. Weston is wrong about everything he ever says.
LOL, mecheng at March 26, 2009 12:05 PM
f) Oh, look! A distraction!
I’m curious to know what Mansbridge gets paid? Does anyone know? I’d think they could get rid of him and save a lot of those jobs…perhaps the jobs of people much more capable and a little less one sided?
I won’t be sad to see CBC news go, if it should ever happen. I refuse to watch it now, though my husband insists as it comes on before CTV…I leave the room!
What I will miss is Being Erica…if they decide to cut that I’ll be terribly upset! I hope another station will pick it up!
PhilM, for sure. I feel badly for CBC employees who are losing their jobs. That’s tough.
However, they belong to an organization that’s been sucking far too heavily at the public teat, which has cost the rest of us Canadians way too many of our tax dollars.
The CBC has NO BUSINESS employing 10,000 people, especially when they’re pulling on public monies. The employees losing their jobs might have taken a barometre reading for just how much longer the CBC could expect to keep their bloated workforce afloat at the inflated salaries and benefits they were receiving.
CBC employees at the low end of the salary scale, and the public which is critical of the CPC government, might want to question how come so many of the senior execs and news personnel have hung around for so long, drawing HUGE salaries and benefit packages rather than blaming the Harper Government for simply being fiscally responsible.
Why have the CBC head honchos been fiscally irresponsible? They relied on a Liberal Government Sugar Daddy for a long, long time. Thank G*d Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government have thrown water on the Sugar Daddy: He’s melting, he’s melting … 😉
PhilM, for sure. I feel badly for CBC employees who are losing their jobs. That’s tough.
However, they belong to an organization that’s been sucking far too heavily at the public teat, which has cost the rest of us Canadians way too
many of our tax dollars.
The CBC has NO BUSINESS employing 10,000 people, especially when they’re pulling on public monies. The employees losing their jobs might have taken a barometre reading for just how much longer the CBC could expect to keep their bloated workforce afloat at the inflated salaries and benefits they were receiving.
CBC employees at the low end of the salary scale, and the public which is critical of the CPC government, might want to question how come so many of the senior execs and news personnel have hung around for so long, drawing HUGE salaries and benefit packages rather than blaming the Harper Government for simply being fiscally responsible.
Why have the CBC head honchos been fiscally irresponsible for such a long time? They relied on a Liberal Government Sugar Daddy for a long, long time. Thank G*d Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government threw water on the Sugar Daddy. He’s melting, he’s melting … 😉
What’s with the comments that simply don’t post and then mysteriously show up a few minutes or a few hours later?
Sorry for the double post, but the first one didn’t show up — and then did.