I hope you are prepared to appear before the Canadian Human Rights Commission. You are in serious trouble, lady. You hurt somebody's feelings. Be glad there's no death penalty in Canada.

You're probably pretty worried Kate. Soon they will be on CBC radio discussing this. Watch out!! Maybe these guys should do some real work for once in their sorry-ass lives.

This from a party whose youth wing openly supports Hugo Chavez.

I suspect there some hundreds of thousands of supporters of the premier that voted in majority decision for that particular party.

Now as per the socialists’ definition, the premier should apologize for anything that anyone of those that voted for him and his party has said and the socialists did not like.

Is this some kind of moronic or what?

Of course the premier should ignore the control freaks.

Radical,hurtful(is that a word),Kate you have really crossed the line now!!! Please write about baskets of kittens and rainbows to redeem yourself. Kumbaya my lord,kumbaya.

They really do fear Kate, and rightly so. They better get used of it. Kate has opened the door of the dissenters. The door no one dared opened. Kate booted the politically correct conformity door right off its fucking hinges. We walk out in the light, ready to fight for our freedom to think, speak, and take back what is ours.

I think Mister Limbaugh called them 'phony soldiers' twice in that transcript...

Don't forget the rest of the story:

Reporter: What do you say today about the small dead animal blog...?
Brad Wall: Those are intolerant and unacceptable remarks and I had known for some time in Opposition we had an endorsement on our website referencing myself and I think that's been removed, and if it hasn't it will be shortly.

Reporter 1: Why?
Brad Wall: Because those comments are just simply unacceptable, and I'm not sure what direct relationship there is between an endorsement and those comments except that that individual and the website, if those words are reflective of their view, I would like not to be on our caucus website.

Reporter 2: In the past, members of your caucus in Opposition have cited that website, have mentioned her, spoken approvingly I would say generally of her judging by the tone of it, will you ask them not to do things like that?
Brad Wall: Well, on certain issues, on that website and others, there's, you know, when it comes to economic cases to be made, issues, those have been agreed with by members of our caucus, by myself. This is beyond the pale in terms of what is acceptable, and so, the website's been changed as of right now, and I don't expect to hear anytime soon Saskatchewan Party members in the House referencing the site.

Reporter: Is this person involved in your party at all, does she help you and would she be welcome to do so?
Brad Wall: She's been pretty clear, although, well, I think she's been clear, I guess I'm not sure of this, but I don't think she's been or has any intention of being a member of the party. We would want to have members of the Saskatchewan Party who don't take such a view with respect to people who live in core neighborhoods in the province.

Reporter: So to your knowledge she's never been a member of the Saskatchewan Party?
Brad Wall: To my knowledge, I'm not sure, we have a lot of members.

it is the socialists in Canada - and there are many - who go out of their way to denigrate and inflame the sensibilities of those who do not embrace their macabre and obscene values...

the political climate in Canada is more than I can tolerate....

now I understand why people flee their homelands to escape oppressive and totalitarian regimes - Canadian liberals and socialists (they are the same) have fu&*ed this country beyond repair....

From the NDP site sidebar: "Brad Wall’s first Throne Speech is a sign of things to come; watered down promises, diminished expectations and a hidden agenda."

Hidden agenda. Now where have I heard that before?

Keep digging that hole, dippers.

The Saskatchewan NDP. Now irrelevant.

From the NDP site sidebar: "Brad Wall’s first Throne Speech is a sign of things to come; watered down promises, diminished expectations and a hidden agenda."

Well, Johnson, if Sean S. is indeed correct, then Premier Wall's craven comments do seem to suggest that he is man of "watered down promises" and "diminished expectations". As for a "hidden agenda" it seems rather that if he has any agenda other than the mealy-mouthed one embraced by almost every government in the country, he has hidden it so deeply that he unlikely ever to find it.

Sorry, Johann. The eyes are going at this late hour in the mystic East.

I guess this changes everything in Saskatchewan.

Bloggers, left or right will now be brought up in the legislature if they write what are deemed to be inappropriate comments.

The party for which the blogger seems to side with will become persona non grata with that organization, after being exposed by the opposing benches.

Some on the left are celebrating this ridiculous turn. Not so fast, I say..

The blog police are now officially out in Saskatchewan.

Oh great, the Bill O'Reilly defence. I'm not a member of any party I just cheer really loudly for one party, never hold their feet to the fire, and spend all my time attacking their opponents. You might not be a member of the Sask Party Kate, but you are their biggest supporter. Too bad they want nothing to do with you know.

I've long come to this website to see what people say, but Kate, your post was vile. It is one thing to not understand poverty, it is another to literally hate poor people which you seem too.

Peter:

Would that be too ... as in also?

BTW. I grew up on welfare and now have a pretty decent net worth.

Every day we have choices to make ... the biggest choice for me was understanding I'm responsible for my own decisions and I'm nobody's victim.

I used my God-given free will to make the decisions that allowed me to step out of the darkness and into the light.

It's not easy for anybody who feels sorry for themselves as they languish in the dark. Every day you have another opportunity to take charge of your own life and step into the light.

Your choice. Oppression is a self-imposed condition.

What about Labradoodles? I must have missed that post.

I listen to Limbaugh every morning on streaming Internet radio. Here is the link.

http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=531472

He is on between nine and noon Pacific time. That would be noon to three central.

The Sask NDP are eating sour grapes here and blaming SDA. Kate, all that's missing is the cigar.

Keep burning those socialist stomachs and we will keep helping you do it.

Peter, put a sock in it. Do you hear the socialist screaming about the poor any longer? Of course not. The left are on this global warming stint to save the earth. Saving the earth, according to the green freaks, includes the need for a large human cull. Abortion isn't cutting it, with only a couple of million a year. That means the poor have to go. The socialist fill their gastanks up with corn now, driving the price up, and starving people out. Poor people Peter, I am talking eating dirt sandwiches poor. If it is a toss up between your wheels, and the poor, the freaking poor are going to be your speed bumps on the way to the bio fuel station. You socialist all know that. I haven't met too many socialist who haven't traded their poor people pets in for a pack of curly light bulbs from the Canadian Tire.

I guess the good news is that the NDP come here to visit. So to all you NDP'ers lurking, here's a few questions:
If the 20th street mall was so important and needed so desperately, why did you wait until it was most advantageous to the NDP to announce it?
When did you identify the need for it?
How many years ago was that?
Why didn't you build it then?
Why did you put the interests of the NDP ahead of the interests of these poor people you claim to care about?
If Lying Lorne had chosen to wait longer to call an election, would the people who apparently desperately needed this mall have had to wait as well?
Have you figured out yet why you got your asses kicked in the election?
Does this fake outrage just mean you're playing politics again with the people you claim to care about?
'Cause it's pretty obvious where your real priorities lie.

Hey Edgar, take it to the 'Coast to Coast' overnight.

Honey Pot:

I think you're onto something.

National Socialists were the perpetrators of the master race theory and the culling of populations through direction of natural selections.

Fabian Socialists brought the wonders of eugenics to cull the inferiors from the population.

And, Marxists like the NDP are just plain a**holes.

This is overblown outrage on the part of the politicians. There actually is a link to making bad choices and ending up in poverty. Things like not completing high school, teen pregnancy, single parenthood and drug addiction. I understand that the post was not PC but there is an underlying truth in it.

This initiative was nothing more than the usual practice of doing something visible instead of something meaningful. What the proponents of Station 20 are advocating is the right to convenience access to businesses at the expense of all Saskatchewan taxpayers. Saskatoon has lots of grocery stores and dental services. Getting to them is a personal initiative. Surely people in this area can use some problem solving skills - the bus, car pool, taxi pool, ask older children to help carry groceries, enlist help of a charity or church for weekly transportation services. Are people in this area really so unresourceful that they need the taxpayer to create and fund a program for every basic life skill?

Oh I thought this was Coast to Coast. Where am I, what day is it?

Abducted to another non-issue.

Good article Kate, really good article in fact.

It really is true that the Nuts are running the asylum.

Pat

They spelled your first name wrong! If I were you I'd demand a correction, just for kicks. :)

And this from the party who idolizes Tommy Douglas ...we all know all about Tommy D. here...Thanks to Kate.

Good post honey pot. Those thoughts are also mine.

Just wait...when you and Kathy and the Church Lady are appointed head honchos to the HRC, Kate...those Dippers are going to wish they would have suffered in silence!

Looking at that NDP site, one notices three written pieces of nasty *hurtful* opinion in the *left* column.

Well, OK, your blog site and your views I guess. Freedom of speech?

But the NDP children who run the site complain about critical opinion here on SDA?

I say children, because any adult would understand the shocking broken logic of that silly argument. = TG

Hold on a minute - is that the NDP saying that being called a 'drug addict' is "Offensive" and "Hurtful"? I thought drug addicts were victims who needed our sympathy.

I wonder what their supporters think of that characterization?

You want to put yourself in the same league as
Limbaugh? But, you always were there to begin with dearie.

Lynn: "There actually is a link to making bad choices and ending up in poverty. Things like not completing high school, teen pregnancy, single parenthood and drug addiction."

Well, Lady Lynn, I'm quite certain that not only do those particular credential lead to poverty, they are also the result of it. Your link has less to do with 'choice' than you think.

[quote]The posting compares potential Station 20 users in downtown Saskatoon with drug addicts and petty criminals [/quote]

NDP web site,
The 20th street area has always been a rough side of Saskatoon. I am familiar with the 'toon from the 1970's and would guess Kate is near right. What has the City been doing with its development perks?

The NDP have not learned the lessons of past PROJECTS that became uncontrollable ghettoes, it is simply wrong to herd “poor people” into, soon to be forgotten, government Slums. The mantra of efficiency is not the most desired goal when dealing with people

The Saskatchewan small towns that the NDP deliberately neglected, by closing essential services, are in need of people & industry. The local housing market was forced down (lost wealth) and retired people had to move to the cities, buying up available housing with their savings. It would be advantageous to move welfare & native PPL out of the cities into the towns. The rural schools are superior & small towns teach an excellent work ethic.

The medical system needs all it's money for Primary care & Emergency. Its time to get the pigs out of the money trough

Taylor,

You don't happen to be employed in the lucrative poverty industry do you?

Sooooo, yer a radical now Kate?

Remember the good old days when it was the socailists that were the radicals?

Any woman that can put a smile on my face at this hour of the morning has my support. Besides, you're a heck of a lot cuter than Rush.

Somewhere along the line I missed your original NP post but I must say that after reading it I am amazed that PETA and PETAL (People against the Ethical Treatment of American Labradoodles) are not protesting naked in front of your home. Oh right, this is April in Canader. They are too busy clubbing those seal hunters.

What? It's bad to hate poor people now??!! Sheesh.

Kate your post about the 20 West project is full of generalizations. As someone who lives a few blocks away from the Station 20 West project I would like to add some of my comments to the discussion.

1) Just because I live in the inner city does not make me a drug user or dealer. And yes I do have a full time job.

2) I have no children and do use birth control.

3) I am not a criminal and I can gladly provide you with a police background check.

4) I have been asked for change all over Saskatoon not just in the inner city.

I know many, many hardworking decent people who live in the inner city. If you would like to meet them I would be glad to introduce you to them.

Also I wish we could have met at the last Saskblogs meet at Jerry's food Emporium. Looking forward to speaking with you at the next one.

kate was 'hurtful' to me once simply because i used the F word.....IMO in context it wasn't that egregiously offensive....
well....i moped around a bit..sucked on the corner of my hanky for a bit.....contemplated being 'hurtful' to my dog or my wife or the nearest kid.....wrote a kinda self justifying 'hurtful' post back at kate......was ignored then which i felt was more 'hurtful' than the first 'hurtful'....

oh boy was i ever hurtin big time...

then i decided to suck em up...remember i'm a triple C conservative and by golly i can take it mister....and anyhow it's her sandbox.

and now i'm okedoke again !...so actually i think kate made me a better person .....

and thank you all for listening....believe me it's helped.

Well, we now that this can't be a real serious NDP concern.

God knows they've got bigger fish to fry with all that under-age driving going on in the prairies!!!

Well done Kate, because as Oscar Wilde said: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

Well, I guess it's just because I'm A Mean Old White Guy from The Deep South, but I read your article, and I'll be hornswaggled if I see what the fuss is about. It looks like phony outrage, to me.

My Dad was born in 1890, and had one dozen siblings.
Half survived to adulthood. Today, we laugh- or don't even know about-- the things that killed them. It was a hard old world. But it grew better men and women.

Poor people should all get AIDS and die!

Backhoe your right there wasn't much in the way of social programs around not that long ago really, the problems of today stem from government tinkering where they shouldn't have been in the first place, they worry more about the truth being voiced instead of taking responsibility for the messes they create.

I wonder who John Vest is ?

^

Looks like someone has come here trolling with a, er, "Vest"ed interest. If so, that is a sad attempt at a setup. Don't you leftard sockpuppets have anything better to do?

Kate if it were me I'd be honoured just to be nominated for the "Hurtful" award. The freakish socialist can't even have meaningful dialog without using the words,hurtful, hatred, racist or bigot. I can't imagine how they get through the day with all that knee dipping and hand wringing and sobbing. The NDP should rename it's self to the "Snot and Bawlers Party".

Hold your head high Kate, when they start publicly complaining it means you have them on the run and you hit the nail on the head. For the dippers stop using tissues and use bounty, with the amount of snot you guys produce it would be better for the environment. Think of the trees leftards, think of the trees.

Darren, what leads you to believe that I don't know anyone who lives or works in Saskatoon's inner city? Do you not think it possible to view the same problem and come to a different conclusion than you?

And of course my comments were "full of generalizations". It's called "demographics", and demographics drive local economies. Where crime rates and antisocial behaviors increase, retail services leave for greener pastures. You might not like that I said that out loud, but it doesn't change the truth of the matter.

But if you prefer the status quo, then, by all means - a government project plunked down where private retail refuses to do business is the way to go.

So long as public policy is targeted at servicing, centralizing, and enabling dysfunction, the majority will follow the path of least resistance. That's human nature. Just don't expect their problems - or yours - to go away. As I said in the original thread, it's like solving a stray cat problem with feeding stations.

And of course it's not "fair" that honest, hard working people have to live with the consequences of their neighbor's problems - just as it's not "fair" that thousands of other people in the province live with the consequences of declining rural populations.

But it's a little rich to tell low income seniors and working families in towns without basic government services like schools and hospitals, that they're expected to subsidize grocery shopping for people who whine that it's too much trouble to get from 20th to Confed.

Blog loses Wall backing over comments

James Wood
The StarPhoenix

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

REGINA -- Premier Brad Wall distanced the Saskatchewan Party from a popular right-wing blog Tuesday over controversial comments posted about inner city Saskatoon.

Wall told reporters that the Saskatchewan Party would remove from its own website an endorsement of Wall from Saskatchewan-based Kate McMillan of smalldeadanimals.com.

Saskatchewan Party MLAs have referenced the website approvingly in the legislature in the past but Wall said that would likely not occur in the future.

Following the government's cancellation of $8 million in funding for the Station 20 West project in Saskatoon's core, McMillan posted on her blog suggesting "economic stimuli" for the area to get a private sector grocery store.

These included "put the cap back on the used needle . . . failing that, share it with your friends. It's a quicker solution to your problem anyway."

She also suggested "cross your legs" and "put down the spray can." McMillan later posted "try not vandalizing every business still standing in your neighbourhood, try not selling your ass up and down the street in front of the doors. Try parenting your sticky-fingered brats."

Wall said the comments were "beyond the pale."

"Those are intolerant and unacceptable remarks," he told reporters, adding that the government has a firm commitment to the province's core urban neighbourhoods despite its reservations about the Station 20 West project.

The comments -- and the Sask. Party's relationship to the blog -- was raised in a member's statement by the Opposition NDP Tuesday.

Saskatoon Massey Place MLA Cam Broten praised Wall for his actions.

"The comments were quite hurtful, quite ugly," he told reporters. "We recognize that people have a right to free speech but comments like that don't need to be given more credibility by having an association with the premier of the province."

McMillan, who is not a member of the Saskatchewan Party, said her comments were "hyperbolic" but she stood by them and believes many provincial residents share her opinions.

She said Wall's condemnation of her comments on Tuesday were "predictable" given "today's politically correct atmosphere."

It would have no impact on her blog, she said.

"I would have been more disappointed if they had gone ahead and built the project, seriously. I'm a private citizen, I don't expect them to endorse what I say or answer for what I say and I don't need them to flog my website," McMillan said in a telephone interview from her home in Delisle.

The Station 20 West facility was intended to centralize public services for poor residents by including a dental clinic, a relocated West Side Community Clinic and a co-op grocery store.

jwood@sp.canwest.com

© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2008

Hmm. Stephen Harper won't touch you guys, and now your local boy hero, Brad Wall, has packed up your belongings and left 'em on the curb.

Ouch.

On the plus side, I foresee some very positive posts on the Green Party here at SDA in the coming weeks...

Hey look!  Someone from one of our esteemed Human Rights Commissions has come here to seed a "hate" remark against an identifiable group.  Let's all join in on their attempts to perpetuate their employment and "relevance."

Ready now?  Sing along with me, folks: "Short people got no reason..."  C'mon, "John Vest," you can work your pipes better than that...

Kate, all the right people hate you. That's the best advertising there is, when they start fulminating about what you said on their own dime.

I love this part the most: "The posting compares potential Station 20 users in downtown Saskatoon with drug addicts and petty criminals." Well, isn't that mostly who lives there?

They just hate it when people tell the truth about their projects.

All you Dippers, now pay attention kids. The CHRC is as of right now proposing to make what I just said ILLEGAL. So ok, you're a poverty advocate (!) you think I should go to jail for that.

Ok, this is the part where you have to use your noodle. Today, the CHRC is being run by Liberal appointees who agree with you that I should go to jail. Tomorrow the CHRC can be stuffed with guys like -me- by the party NOW in power. See if you can imagine what I would do to you for the crap you spew on your web sites.

Think I might start with a thousand dollar fine for using swear words, two thousand for using the word "progressive" in a non-mocking way. But only on Lefty sites. Complaints about Conservative sites would all be "two sided" faxes.

Are we getting this yet, morons?

Darren,
If you live in that area of Saskatoon then you know the real reason private companies closed and won't open a grocery store there. It's not the hard working people with jobs that make it impossible to keep anything on the shelf. So I don't think Kate was talking about you.

'Hurtful' - that's quite the denunciation. Trust the pantywaists at the NDP to inject the ethics of kindergarten into politics. If hurt feelings now define the boundaries of political speech we may as well just stop speaking altogether and communicate through a series of back rubs and eskimo kisses.

Kate, you're becoming less relevant.

Between shooting your mouth off, being unable to make witicisms, and recycling the same post titles like an envirofreak recycles toilet paper... your blog is becoming more and more useless.

Maybe take a break for a while and reflect. Come back with some fresh writing. You used to sound smart and witty and make good points. Go back to that.

Just what I thought -- Kate you are a bad, hurtful person! Shame on you. To the corner with you for 5 minutes -- just think about what you have done. After that you can have your milk and cookies :(

I love it when a private citizen is not afraid to speak freely, even in Canada. I have zero knowledge of the area or project in question.

What I do know is, they must be awfully scared of Kate's influence, if they are trying to discredit her at every turn.

Here in Calgary, a few years ago they built a fancy drop-in centre for the homeless, right on the riverbank downtown. It's capable of housing up to a thousand people. While it was done with the best of intentions, what has happened is that the area has become an open air drug emporium and crime has skyrocketed. The homeless population downtown and in the surrounding area has exploded. Businesses in the area have shut down. Nobody in their right mind uses the once-popular nearby riverside pathways at night. A family friend who was an occasional drug user moved to the area and was murdered in a drug deal gone wrong.

Sad to say, but by centralizing shelters and social services all that was accomplished was to provide a ready market for drug pushers in one easy to access location. The building overflows at night now, so other shelters have been set up in the area and around town. Believe it or not, the residents of outlying shelters are actually bussed back downtown for the day. I guess this is so they can have access to "services". What used to be a relatively minor problem in Calgary has become a huge headache.

NUKE THE POOR!!! There, I said it. (just kidding)

Certainly adds perspective to your post from yestertday:
"What it means is this..."

Brad Wall is getting politically corrected,eh?

Do you notice that none of the people throwing outraged hissy-fits can point out anything that was factually wrong with anything Kate said? Not one of the Dippers or media leftards said that anything wasn't true.

All they say is "hurtful," "mean" and the like. Well leftards: The truth hurts. Deal with it.

If Kate said anything that was not factually based, I'm sure she'd update the post. Until then, F.O.A.D.

Well Lore Weaver, I take the exact opposite view.

The best thing that has happened in Canada in a half century is the emergence of the internet into media communications and Saskatchewan native Kate McMillan is involved by blogging.

I am an aging Canadian sick and tired of having to listen and pay for (CBC) and other Canadian incestuous monopoly media leftist bullshit.

Finally there emerges in Canada a voice loud and clear that cuts to the bone of what Canada has become.

I have yet to hear ANY Canadian on air ( or newspaper) personality declare in clearer words what Kate has said about self sufficiency.

And while she does not have access to the airwaves or TV she is making a difference and if ever we get a MSM in Canada with the balls to put her on air she could damned well debate any crypto - communist from Jack Layton to Bob Rae to Stephane Dion to Maude Barlow into the sludge pit of socialism.

Go Kate , why not get John Gormley to have you on his program and go at at Brad Wall for starters.

I am sure it would be listened to on the internet across Canada with ratings Gormley never knew existed.

So to you from Ontario I say, Lore Weaver get your head out of your @** because as Bob Dylan's song says "Times They are a'Changin'."

And Kate McMillan in Canada , like Rush Limbaugh in the US, is in the forefront of that change.

Thanks Kate!!

Um, free advice: if you're trying to convince the non-regular visitors to your 8-million-visitors-and-counting site that you're just a normal, private citizen under attack from the NDP and the MSM, maybe DON'T link to your National Post column.

See, most people don't write for a national newspaper. And it kinda makes you look a little more influential than you probably want to at this point.

Ringo,

Kate isn't hiding. Wall is.

And maybe you can refute any factually based errors in Kate's original post. Or is Truth now to be an offence?

Point out what she said that wasn't true. Else, what's the problem here? Don't like the truth? Then let the grown-ups handle the world's issues.

johnnyRingo...
The day your name is mentioned in the Legisltive assembly or HoC because you have stirred up some insightful thinking and one of the so-called 'representatives' is feeling threatened, is the day Kate should take advice from you.

I actually agree with Brad Wall. Kate is free to say what she wishes, but Brad Wall shouldn't endorse it. Kicking people when they are down should be above a politician.

I shudder to think of the effect "Dr.Laura" might have on some of you.

You weren't on the local news last night. Just curious Kate, why didn't you go on the air to stick up for your comments or didn't they offer you airtime?

Kate,

In Canada, Richard the Worm would take Dr.Laura to a human rights tribunal for not being sufficiently loose with the truth.

Telling it like it is hurts the feelings of people who need a kick in the a$$. They don't like to be told to "get with the program" regardless of how many steps there are. It's their right not to have to hear the truth. We are required by big brother to engage in official polite fictions (to paraphrase Steyn) so as not to be "insensitive" to the losers, deadbeats and crack-whores who all vote NDP.

What isn't being said about station 20 west is:
There are already two dental clinics at P and 20th. The westside community clinic already exists, it was to be moved (about 5 blocks).
An election promise not kept by the new government? Wow, that's gotta be a first.
These may be good things to have at St. 20W, but not with $8 million of health budget money.

I gave three phone interviews yesterday, Todd and stood by my comments in all of them. Question though - did any of them bring up my reminder that the Saskatoon Fire Dep't has picked up (using a full crew and truck in each case) over 3,000 needles in the city this year?

Or is that too insensitive to mention in this context?

"Kicking people when they are down should be above a politician."

The hell you say. I was down and out thanks to booze, drug addictions, and mental illness. Friends who wouldn't accept my excuses and who kicked my ass relentlessly got me out of that funk and I'm grateful to them for it. I'm a firm believer that the best thing you can do for most poor people is give them a good swift kick in the ass. I know. I've been there.

I'm now a successful business owner, husband, father to a wonderful little girl, and an active member of my community. This all started with an ass kicking. So, yes, we need more of this from everyone, including Brad Wall.

And pardon me while I link whore:

http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/?p=44

"... it's like solving a stray cat problem with feeding stations."

Actually, Kate, they are addressing that problem in many urban centres exactly like that. Since trapping and putting down feral cats would not cure the problem (as other cats would move into the territory), they are trapping, immunizing and (you will like this part) spaying and neutering the critters before returning them to the hood. The result is the same number of cats, no kittens and no rodents.

Now if we could only spay and neuter the other indigenous denizen... Tommy can you hear me.

No, they didn't. I think you have some good points but it's just the nature of the language that blows them out of the water for most people. I'm just surprised that the news couldn't bother the time to send a van out to Delisle for a video interview.

Since when has being reviled by the NDP ever been considered a liability?

COMING SOON: KATHERINE MCMILLAN COLLEGIATE!

Considering that the CCF/KKK/NDP demigod, Tommy Douglas, got a school named after him when he attacked the poor and referred to unwed mothers as 'common prostitutes', you should have a school named after you too, Kate. Although, your comments were nowhere near as offensive as T.C.'s.
And what happened to Jean Cretien after the welfare and beer comments? Maybe the school isn't going far enough...Prime Minister Katherine McMillan!

This is really funny. I miss Saskatchewan a lot.

Gormley is going to be talking about you, and this issue, maybe you knew that.. I think just after 9:30.

www.newstalk650.com

Fear and censorship of the truth. That's the mark of a nation 'progressing' into the abyss.

In Toronto, the vast majority of gun crimes are commited by black kids. Whether this statement is repositioned by the left as hurtful and insensitive does not make it any less true. However, by not acknowledging this fact, is the culture and its government contributing, in fact, an accessory to the next murder commited by a black kid?

We can go on with the "not all, blah, blah, blah" argument as well. Which is true. But, so what? What does that solve? It's irrelevant.

The same can be said for all groups - "Not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslim," for example. Yet the disturbing negative repositioning of this obvious fact has put all citizens in jeopardy and unbelievable inconvenience. White Grannies being strip searched at the airport comes to mind.

In other words, utter collective madness, in order to keep the lie intact.

Truth must be stated and acknowledged in order to create real and lasting solutions. The finger pointing leftists do not solve problems. They create and perpetuate problems. It's in their best interest, otherwise they will not have a political party.

Of course Brad Wall has to distance himself, even if he agreed with Kate. If he did not do so, he would pay politically for it, spearheaded by the political parties that create and perpetuate problems. And the lie.

Johnny Pinko and Daly's posts are a testament to this fact. These people are not simply useless - never contributing solutions - they are dangerous to a healthy, functioning society.

Quote censorship on a blog. Don't use the word God even if it is a quote. This is interesting.

Irwin,

Wall could have just told the media that he didn't feel the need to comment on the writings of a private citizen with no ties the government, party of person.

He also should have asked the leftard Media if they thought it reasonable to demand that the Premier yay or nay every opinion from every member of the public. He could have further asked the leftard media if they considered their performance in keeping with their duty to the public.

But that would have taken a pair and politicians go without.

Edgar - it's expected that commentors will remain on topic. Your posts weren't, so there were deleted.

Warwick,

True. However, doesn't his response show how deeply the lie is ingrained in society?

Because of this, it's likely little will be done to clean up the neighbourhood, once again. A lot of hand wringing with the hands firmly tied behind the back.

Same goes for gun crime in Toronto. Because of the perpetuation of the lie, more people will die.

The truth, however inconvenient, must be dealt with. Half the solution is knowing and acknowledging the actual problem.

Given their AGW claim, even leftards should get this.

“Ms. McMillan's statements were petty, hurtful, and offensive..."

I guess it wasn't worth considering whether Kate's comments were "true" or "false." Anybody who gets in the way of the establishing-heaven-on-earth-where-everyone-is-happy political philosophy must be dealt with.

My American-patriot wife and I grew more than a little tired during her years of B.C. residency of that sneakily veiled "American-style" pejorative thrown about amongst other comments by B.C. NDP politicians.

She found it "petty," and might have even found it "hurtful" and "offensive." But then, those on the Left can never offend. They just Speak Truth to Power, don't they?

Hypocrites...

yup.

But to the left, being seen to be "doing something" is more important than actually doing it.

Sending the "right message" is better than doing the right thing.

Being inclusive if better than being honest.

The media enforce this on the politicians who are too cowardly to speak out against it.

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Regarding the gathering of the drug addled and the diseased at 'feeding stations'.

IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME

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Free stuff always gets a line up. Completely objectionable miscreants will only be around as long as they are tolerated.

We have seen what intolerance has done to smokers. They are few now and shrinking fast. How was this done? they took away the smoker's habitat It works.

Once the scummers of society are no longer allowed to piss on the street they will start looking for a urinal. It's that simple. Kate's feeding station analogy was perfect.

I come for a poor family and a poor neighborhood. In fact when I was a kid most people were poor by today's standards. We weren't thieves or druggies. our neighborhoods were perfectly safe. We weren't angry at the so called rich. We did not have the unrealistic expectations that unrestricted use credit has brought to today's poor. Our attitude was that, 'if you can't afford to go the ball then go to the barn dance'.

We were a little more humble in those days. We didn't have fragile feelings because we were taught to 'buck up' toughen up, get busy and make something of yourself!

That is all gone now and we are as Pierre Trudeau once put it on one of CTV's Xmas interviews with him "We will be a society of less" He meant in material terms, but it turned out just the opposite. We have more stuff than anyone can imagine, but we are a nation with shrunken spirit. Thanks to the political correctness and nanny state that tells us we have a freaking right to everything including undamaged "feelings".

I am glad I won't be around to see Canada's society reach full bloom. It will be like nothing any sane person would want to live in.

Darren,

I can understand where you are coming from, but I don't entirely agree. I used to live just off Dewdney Avenue in Regina, our equivalent to 20th in Toon town (in fact I still own my house there). Yes there are plenty of decent people living in that neighbourhood, but there are also a lot of problems, all of which Kate identified most pithily in her post. Drug abuse and alchohol abused? Check. Feral Children? Check. Theft? Check (hell they stole the radiator out of my truck in order to get sell the copper). High unemployment? Check. Broken families? Check. Violence? Check.

We used to have a Real Canadian Superstore a few blocks from my house on Albert Street. It has been closed for years, allegedly because the shoplifting rates were too much. There's no proper grocery store in the neighbourhood. I've thought of sponsoring some of my wife's Vietnamese relatives over to start a grocery store as the it the neighbourhood could definitely use one, but I can envisage it being more trouble than it's worth.

The answer isn't to have the government run a grocery store in such a neighbourhood, its to persuade the residents in the neighbourhood to begin behaving in a civilized fashion so that businesses will be prepared to locate there. As usual Kate is spot on. As usual our politicians plug their ears and scream hum loudly when the obvious is pointed out.

On this "If you build it they will come" subject, it is always interesting to see the number of "homeless" in Phoenix decrease as summer approaches. Then in the fall they all come back, as if by magic.

This by the way is one of the most conservative states in the USA, with America's Meanest Sheriff running the show in Phoenix. At least they beg in a more decorous fashion than the street goblins in NYC or LA.

Of course that may also have something to do with the "shall-issue" concealed carry permits.

Response to the speed bump comment that was posted. Maybe to deep.

Why was my comments different from this again. Oh God was in it.
Peter:

Would that be too ... as in also?

BTW. I grew up on welfare and now have a pretty decent net worth.

Every day we have choices to make ... the biggest choice for me was understanding I'm responsible for my own decisions and I'm nobody's victim.

I used my God-given free will to make the decisions that allowed me to step out of the darkness and into the light.

It's not easy for anybody who feels sorry for themselves as they languish in the dark. Every day you have another opportunity to take charge of your own life and step into the light.

Your choice. Oppression is a self-imposed condition.

Sean said:
The hell you say. I was down and out thanks to booze, drug addictions, and mental illness. Friends who wouldn't accept my excuses and who kicked my ass relentlessly got me out of that funk and I'm grateful to them for it. I'm a firm believer that the best thing you can do for most poor people is give them a good swift kick in the ass

Now there is the TRUTH, crystallized. This is why state welfare can't work: it lacks the power of moral suasion which only friends and family can provide. In today's morally-challenged world, people can no longer feel shame taking money from government, where it grew on trees.

An earlier thread went dead before I got to say this BUT: Shame is good. Shame is a constructive human emotion which triggers shame-avoidance, to wit, self improvement.

Shame on government for banning shame!

Way to go, Kate!

Me No Dhimmi

Further to that point, the social workers/shrinks et al all say that you should employ tough-love to your friends and family. You need to let them hit rock-bottom before they'll change. So you have to stop being an "enabler" of your loved-one's bad behaviour. Being the enabler to a drunk or druggie is bad.

The next thing that these SAME PEOPLE say (as there isn't a conservative social worker in existence) is that the government needs to be the Enabler to millions. Yet they fail to comprehend the contradiction.

Enable one junkie as a private individual: Bad.
Enable millions as the government: Great! Let's have a double helping of stupid!

These "social" programs (although a better term would be "Anti-Social" programs) make the government the enabler that allows the bad behaviour to continue indefinitely.

It seems to a leftard, faux-compassion is more morally-pure than effective intervention. Thus, the leftard's habit of symbolism over substance continues ad nauseum.

And yes, we have lost the value of shame - mostly because people stopped feeling it. That happens when charity is moved from private giving to government entitlement. When charity is considered a "right" then you don't have to feel shame for taking it - especially when you have a middle-man facilitating the transfer.

Life At the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Bottom-Worldview-Makes-Underclass/dp/1566635055

"Theodore Dalrymple is a physician and psychiatrist who practices in England. He writes a column for the London Spectator, contributes frequently to the Daily Telegraph, and is a contributing editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. His other books include Mass Listeria and So Little Done. He lives in Birmingham, England."

What it’s like and why they stay there

"Here is a searing account—probably the best yet published—of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in Engalnd, has seemingly seen it all. Yet in listening to and in observing his patients, he is continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own considerable experience. Dalrymple’s key insight in Life at the Bottom is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no responsibility for their actions and are not the molders of their own lives. Drawn from the pages of the cutting-edge political and cultural quarterly City Journal, Dalrymple’s book draws upon scores of eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing—sometimes all at once. And Dalrymple writes in prose that transcends journalism and achieves the quality of literature."

Migawd Warwick, this probably means I'm gonna die soon, but I can actually remember when having a mortgage was not something you talked about [my parents' generation]. It was vaguely shameful.

Yeah, that's the thing: faux-compassion and faux-rage for people who don't exhibit that faux-compassion. Aw what the hell, and fauxtographs to document it.

In fact, "kicking people when they're down" is what government "enablement" does eh?

Was it Reagan who said, scariest words in the English language: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help". Goldwater?
To say nothing about how big government actually destroys strong family bonds by making it less urgent that they be maintained.

Hi Kate,

I've been following your story with great interest. First off, don't worry about politicians, they'll eat their own babies for a few extra votes. Losing an endorsement from Mr. Wall is unfortunate, but in his conscience he knows that he got much of his boost from you and other people getting out the news.

I've also noticed that it is the general actions of the left to assassinate character when they can't assassinate logic or reason. You are right on this issue. Feeding stray cats only gets you more cats. Encouraging people into behaviours that must be supported by the state is akin to theft from the taxpayers.

One only has to visit our recycling depot, safe injection sites and crack dealerships in East Vancouver to see that generations of "helping the homeless" has actually encouraged more people into this life of squalor. What those in the homeless industry don't realise is that the short term gains from giving things to the homeless has the long term consequence of producing children addicted to substances under the poverty line.

Good stuff Sean. I had a sibling in your former siuation.(on the streets in Toronto)We tried to help, but in the tough love worked for him...he's doing well now.
It is about choice, it is possible to get out of the gutter. The nanny state only makes it harder to get out.

Had a roommate that drank a lot, tried help him and understand him, he just drank more. Kicked him out and he damn near froze to death on the street, three years later he has a home and a job, says hitting bottom was the only thing that saved him,said he saw the truth. The majority of politicians do not speak the truth, they only say what they think the people want to hear, and to be politically correct is to be a liar. Lying helps no one. I believe a lot more 'suffering' people will rise from their bed of needles because you told the truth Kate.

Hullo, Mugs!
( Apologies for slow response- this darn blog software does not notify me, like forums do-- I'm not rude, I just didn't "hear" you... )

Regarding this?

Backhoe you're right there wasn't much in the way of social programs around not that long ago really, the problems of today stem from government tinkering where they shouldn't have been in the first place, they worry more about the truth being voiced instead of taking responsibility for the messes they create.

I wonder who John Vest is ?
Posted by: Mugs at April 2, 2008 8:16 AM

I suspect that fella's a Troll-- you know you are getting over the target when you start drawing flak, and when SDA is "speaking Truth to Power" ( as our stateside leftists like to intone ) they come out of the woodwork.

It's a simple fact of human behavior that when you subsidize something, you get more of it. Like "free" needles attract the doper population to an area.

It isn't nuclear physics or quantum mechanics-- you GrandDad- or mine-- would look at this stuff and mutter "damn fools- what did they expect would happen?"

station 20 west should never have even been considered i lived in the inner city for most of my life ...finally got out.....the organization who was putting it up are crooks...Quint and Chep...they have taken low income families and placed them in houses that should be condemmed and then tell them they are home owners and the government..aka Mr.Calvert just keeps giving them money for all these projects...and when they fail who pays?....we do tax payers...ya its not nice to say drug addicts, hookers ,junkies...but drive down 20th you will see it for yourself i am so sick of dillusional ppl...the hood is what it is ..S20w would have been destroyed within the year

Couldn't help myself from reading the opinions and reaction to this on this blog. Pretty balanced set of views, which is nice to see, except for the whack jobs that take it to the level of eating the poor. Disappointed in Wall for being a bit of a coward. Guess he had to do it with the Ahenakew fiasco this week.

OHMIGAWD! What is this world coming to when regular common folk like Kate and I are not allowed to have an opinion?!

Oh, Brad distanced himself. Brad, don't be such a pussy!

Opps, I said the P word. Guess the rest of the world will be gunning for me!

Http://www.nodemocraticprocess.com

I must agree with you Warwick re: Mr. Wall. It is common for some Conservative politicians to 'distance' themselves from the people who backed them and did the trench mud, blood and guts work to help them become successful - after they gain office!!

It would be wise of Mr. Wall and his MP 's to consider this old saying: "You cannot please everyone; if you try you end up pleasing no one." Consider the path of such failures as Joe Who(?) Clark, Getty (Premier in Alta - I forget his first name), Ralph Cline (when he got PC), Ernie Eves (Ont.), John Tory, Eddie Stelmack...there are some great Federal Sask. MP's who would never be this weak - Gerry Ritz, Gary Breitkreutz, David Anderson, to name three.

As to depriving smokers of a place to smoke, thereby eliminating smokers, John West - this is not about any principle, unlike Kate's idea; marginalizing tobacco smokers is about CONTROL. Like Global Warming, the science for this hate mongering is based on fear and hate; not facts. There is room in Canada for tobacco smokers and non smokers; the fanatics preach hate trying to ensure that all tobacco smokers will be marginalized by their tobacco habit.

Rational people do not cherry pick the individual rights that they choose to defend. I do not like the smell of curry...should I start forcing curry eaters outside and should it be my right to ban that smell in ALL eateries and public places?

"Further to that point, the social workers/shrinks et al all say that you should employ tough-love to your friends and family."

Begging your pardon, but I never had a single social worker do anything that would have actually helped get me back into the workforce during the entire time I was incapacitated by my schizophrenia. Not a single damned one of them. Which figures, given that my being able to support myself would have removed the justification for them employment.

"their" not "them". Yeesh. I can type. Honest.

Sean S...President of SWNDP... The slum could have been revitalized under the last 16 years of NDP power. People in glass houses should not throw stones. Sore loser!!!!

Kate has only stated in public what everyone else thinks. 20th Street is a slum and a hole. And, when residents themselves call it "the slum" you know it is bad. They don't need a mall, these people need to get their butts kiked and a job!

This area of Saskatoon is the "playground" for this provinces NDP party for years. But, there would be no need for the NDP unless they keep this area impoverished. Calvert's Riversdale riding is part of this slum and he has been the sitting MLA for 16 years. Why is this suddenly and issue after all this time?

Sean wrote; Begging your pardon, but I never had a single social worker do anything that would have actually helped get me back into the workforce during the entire time I was incapacitated by my schizophrenia. Not a single damned one of them. Which figures, given that my being able to support myself would have removed the justification for them employment.

Posted by: Sean at April 2, 2008 5:08 PM

Smack on target Sean, social workers need people to be poor, mentally ill and unwelfare. If people weren't down and out and poor who'd these leftards work for? Welfare is a growing industry, completly controlled by socialists with an agenda to keep the poor and down trodden that way for a life time. Sweden realised this and cut back on their generous welfare programs and as a result people are getting jobs for the first time in generations. Poor people aren't victims, we all have a choice on the path we walk. The liberals and NDP need to keep people poor to justify their social programs and their blatant attempts at engineering global crisis to further their socialist agenda.

Congrats on taking the path of prosperity, it's much easier than sitting on the sofa and blaming society for what ails one isn't it?

"..as there isn't a conservative social worker in existence.." - Warwick

That's not because they don't get some conservatives entering the profession; it's because they don't stay once they've seen how things work. Believe it or not, there are social workers who support tough love; they're just not allowed to make it happen. There is a conservative social worker very near and dear to me..but she's doing something else with her life now. And saying what she wants to say, too!

Well, you made the CBC, Kate...:)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2008/04/02/blog-wall.html

Sask. premier distances himself from political blog
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | 10:45 AM
CBC News

A website that suggests addicts in Saskatoon should share dirty needles as a "quicker solution" to their problems is being condemned by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.

Wall said Tuesday he will also remove an endorsement from Kate McMillan, author of the Small Dead Animals blog, from his own party's website.

That pledge came after questions were raised in the legislature Tuesday by New Democrat Cam Broten, the MLA for Saskatoon Massey Place, who called the blogger a "right-wing extremist" and a friend of the Saskatchewan Party.

Broten said people are entitled to their opinions "no matter how cold, angry, offensive, hurtful or hateful they may be," but the blogger crossed the line in a recent post concerning Saskatoon's Station 20 West project.

In the blog post, McMillan defended the government's decision to scrap the project in Saskatoon's inner city.

She wrote that people there would have better luck attracting businesses to the inner city area if they put down the spray cans, crossed their legs and put the caps back on their needles.

"Failing that, share it with your friends. It's a quicker solution to your problem anyway," the post said.

In an interview, McMillan explained she is not a fan of safe-injection sites.

"To me it's just as obscene that our governments would be subsidizing this behaviour as it is for me to say, 'What the hell, share your needles, you're killing yourselves anyway,'" she said.
Selective outrage, Opposition suggests

Talking to reporters after question period Tuesday, Wall said he wants to make it clear that intolerance is not helpful to the future of Saskatchewan.

The Opposition tied its concerns over the website to the recent controversy about David Ahenakew being reinstated to the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations senate.

Ahenakew is set to go on trial in the fall over anti-Semitic comments he made at a Saskatoon conference in 2002. Broten wondered why Wall wasn't showing "rightful indignation" about the blog comments the same way he did over the Ahenakew reappointment.

Wall continued to call on chiefs who belong to the FSIN to reverse their decision to reinstate Ahenakew.

"If any political party had a member who said that First Nations people were a 'disease' — because that's what the exact term was with respect to Jews ... when would it be acceptable for them to be allowed back into the party?" Wall said.

Wall also said comments in the Small Dead Animals blog are unacceptable and not ones he wants to be associated with.

Proof that he doesn't share those ideas is in his recent budget, which increases money for food banks and addictions treatment in the inner cities, Wall said.

I actually thought the CBC take was pretty fair.

And speaking of socialist social workers I listened to a program on CKNW in Vancouver the other day discussing children who were found living in grow-ops and how dangerous it was for them. They wanted the government(who else?) to toughen up on that. When the announcer suggested that kids found living in grow-ops should be seized by social services and put in foster homes the "lefty" didn't want to get THAT serious about it. Kinda reminds me of the cops and politicians going on about drinking and driving but when it is suggested they sit outside ther pub at closing time -well, they don't want to get THAT serious about it.

Its pretty simple really. If you don't want to loose your kids then don't operate a grow-op. Am I missing sonmething here-I mean being a conservative and all.

Horny Toad

Dont disagree with you Kate, except in two instancethe fact that Wall makes you sound like the cousin nobody want to take to a wedding, and the WK slur from the Ndipper "right wing extremist". Note they didn't call the 1N anti-semite the "indian Jew-hater". The leftist MSM has been practising what I've highlighted here, the "juxtapositional slur", for quite some time. I didn't begin to really notice it until fairly recently, and now I see them very frequently in liberal media especially. From Sandy Rinaldo and the assorted talking twits, to many columnists and editorialists. The technique is basically highbrow innuendo: label an individual by associating a socially negative tag to them in an oblique manner. Its the essence of the sound bite - and pure Madison Ave. I'm not sure that some of them even know they're doing it, its become so entrenched in media style. The quoted slur above is the print version of the sneered pejorative in a newscast.

You'll also notice the juxtaposition of the last 3 paragraphs, especially the second and third from the bottom, linking your viewpoint to the criminally discredited viewpoint of Ahenakew by physical, if not logical, association. Just another drive-by slur. You can't tell if Wall associated your viewpoint with Ahenakew's as directly, or whether the reporter just butted them up because that was "his" analysis.

In this case, Skip, the debate in the Leg began, I believe, with questions about the government's statements about Akenakew's reinstatement, The NDP decided to drag me in at this point (???). So, the juxtaposition is in the context of what went on at the Leg.

But what nobody seems to care about is that Lorne Calvert was government just a few months ago.

Is this the tactic he's been using against Saskatchewan citizens who criticize his government - to use the weight of government to smear them and enter it into the record of Hansard?

The NDP didn't check to see if I had party affiliations. That would have been easy to verify.

As far as Brad Wall goes, I was introduced at an event a couple of years ago, shook his hand and moved on. I had never spoken to him before or since. So much for the conspiracy theories, eh?

excellent read in here ('cept for the trolls)

Kate, you hit the nail on the head, and that's why the "reaction"

so keep it up, time some one open "their" eyes for them

and as far as Wall's reaction, kinda reminds me of some of Harper's nonsense, but I keep on hoping for the "better"

AHAHAHHA! You stupid redeck! Finally you got your bigot *ss handed to you on a platter. It was like muthaf*cking xmas to hear you being denounced by your hero. AHAHAHAHHAHAHH! AWESOME!!!! YESSS!

"You stupid redeck!"

Unless "redeck" is a word (and a noun), that sentence backfired quite well.

Kate, If I were you, I would launch a formal complaint with the speaker of the legislature about Broten's comments about you in the legislature, especially the defamatory "right-wing extremist". Have a chat with your lawyer friend about the sanctity of the legislature as protection for MPPs when they slander non-parliamentarians. Broten's comments are unacceptable for a sitting member, (and Wall's are not much better), and at a minimum, he should be compelled to apologize in the legislature for defaming you.

jhuck:

Wasn't redecking something former BC NDP premier Glenn Clark had done and the issue that ran him out of office?

Kate - how dare you point out the obvious. Witch!!!!

"Wasn't redecking something former BC NDP premier Glenn Clark had done and the issue that ran him out of office?"

ZING! That's officially the high point of this thread. Nothing can top that so we all might as well move along to the next discussion.

[bows to set you free]

Sean,

Criticism. You have some great pics. Make it easy for viewers to look at them ... it's not real intuitive for "casual" users to view your artistry from your page (or rather, the link from your post).

Hmmmm, interesting.

I guess Small dead animals DOESN'T speak for the people of Saskatchewan, after all. ;)

"You have some great pics. Make it easy for viewers to look at them"

Clicking on an image takes you to the previous image. If you prefer something swankier, download and install the free browser plugin at:

http://www.piclens.com/

Once you have it installed you'll notice a small play button popping up at the bottom left corner of the images on my site. Clicking this button brings up the PicLens "wall" interface. It's a wonderful way to move through a large number of images on a site.

Hope this helps.

[quote]As to depriving smokers of a place to smoke, thereby eliminating smokers, John West - this is not about any principle, unlike Kate's idea; marginalizing tobacco smokers is about CONTROL. Like Global Warming, the science for this hate mongering is based on fear and hate; not facts. There is room in Canada for tobacco smokers and non smokers; the fanatics preach hate trying to ensure that all tobacco smokers will be marginalized by their tobacco habit. [/quote]

Jema54,
Not to mention that TALENT & smoking seem to be co-mingled.

The No-smoking proponents must embrace never ending failure! They get up every morning, look in the mirror, and say "I must fail today", or their job ends & the blood taxation disappears.

In fact every civil servant (including CBC) have the same problem as they are programmed not to produce results.

The NDP Social workers are not stupid. They know exactly how to produce failure, and that each failure will result in more jobs for the unworthy sapsuckers.

It's a hard Job to be on a losing team, but somebody has to take the blame & promotion.

Something for Honey Pot to keep in mind.
Would not bloggers fit the definition of the cull. 24/7 on a computer chatting, consuming air, food, and water producing sewage and nothing else useful. Thus to be culled.
Soon for censorship.

What did Edgar say is a good handle. WTF was that?

Free country, wdes. You are free to be the loser you've always dreamed of being. You can be the biggest, fattest, drunkest, most drug addicted half crippled mother/father of ten illegitimate losers in the entire world. You can be so immobile that you literally grow to the couch. So long as you pay for it yourself.

You want to do it with my money, then we have a problem.

This is what Kate believes meets her censorship criterion as off topic. She may be an open Edgar Cayce hater for someone that spent his entire life helping people. He pushed people forward as they are not fulfilling their given purpose.
CayceTV may give her some stress relief, show #2.

And indeed, there is…according to the Edgar Cayce philosophy, each person living in the earth is here for a specific soul purpose; a purpose that no one else can fulfill. While for some people, their purpose might be directly related to a profession or vocation, for others it could simply be a particular way of living day by day. Finding and then understanding and living your soul’s purpose is actually a life-long process. As your knowledge grows and deepens, you will find greater and greater opportunities for fulfilling your life’s mission.

To discover clues to your own life’s purpose, ask yourself these questions: What makes my heart sing? When in my life do I feel a sense of wonder? In what ways do I feel called to be of service to others? When do I feel closest to God? The Cayce readings suggest that we are closest to living our soul’s purpose when we feel joyful, when we are in awe of the wonder of life around us, when we are being of service to others, and when we are deeply aware of our connection God.

No really Kate. What did you say about Labradoodles? A link?