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(As an aside, be sure to read the link to the MacLean’s article above for a dripping example of Alberta envy masquerading as a story about a winning ticket.)
Update: I crossposted this to the Shotgun, where a commentor took me to task for placing a capital “L” in “Macleans”.
Thinking more about the error, I can only say that where I come from, when we hear someone mention “Macleans” we just assume it’s a reference to MacLean & MacLean* in the plural. (And that Paul Wells writes their lyrics.)
It’s nice to suck them dry for a change.
Oooh, scathing; I like it.
I don’t think its right that just because Alberta managed their affairs correctly and tightened thier belt in the past that now they should have all this good fortune. I mean, it isn’t our fault in B.C. that we went into dept just to pay big union wages etc, etc
Horny Toad
Hey “the people of Ontario” ya … you know .. working people … ordinary Joes and Janes. And to your steeped in envy elites.
Are the “working people” in Alberta any richer or less deserving of a lottery win that the socialist workers in Ontario. A worker is a worker … a Canadian is a Canadian …. no??
You in the east (McLeans who reps you well) once again explains to Westerners why we are better than you are.
Howso? We don’t espress envy and hatred toward your lotto winners.
You just can’t keep in your pants can you?
Well ad this to your hate and envy … we have more resources, better future, cleaner air, nicer people with much better values and integrity and I love that you are hurting over this win by Western working Canadians because they are the best.
Some day you in the East may be on our list of developing (more likley failed) nations who we can send a bit of foreign aid to instead of you stealing it through your socialist criminal govenment in Ottawa.
I do have one question … Why is it that you all hate the rich, yet you can’t buy enough lottery tickets to get you there too. Is is that it would be an opportunity for even more self-loathing?
I didn’t win, but I don’t envy or hate those people who did. Rather I am happy for them. But them I am not Liberal.
Tee Hee Y’all.
Thats pretty scummy even for MacLeans
Kate,
Your posts rule kiddo!
I’m actually back in Canada from the UK for a week. I’ve had a got a good chuckle out of some of the mean-spirited grumbling over Albertans scooping up the prize.
What is it about lotteries people don’t get?
It doesn’t matter whether the winner lives in Dildo, Newfoundland or Creemore, Ontario. It doesn’t matter whether the winner is rich or poor.
It’s a lottery!
“Ya buys yer ticket and ya takes yer chances.”
I’ll be at Tim Hortons if you need me.
I just read from the CTF that BC Gov. employs 10% of the population. 37 Billion in debt and climbing.
Just about every major union we have has been on strike this summer for more more more. Teachers, Health workers telephone people etc. Then they whine when someone else does well because of hard work and prudence.
Finally someone lucks out and now there howling from the Bell towers.
Go figure.
Oh and I saw on some blog last night that a bunch of people want to get into a trade war with the US. Sell the Oil to China. Man the the American excess demand has been coming to Canada for a long time. So much so that we have essentially no economy without selling something to the US.
Canada is a branch plant economy, cheap labour. Ont exsists within about 1000 miles of 100,000,000 American consumers.
And these idiots now want to make matters worse by biting the hand that feeds them.
If they actually wanted a robust economy they wouldn’t all be dependent on government largesse.
Cutting taxes the government only paying for the important stuff. Not directly or indirectly trying to buy off half the population and the other half dependent on a cheap Canadian $ and companies not having to pay the health care bill for the rest.
It’s not just about lotteries, it’s about everything.
It’s a hold over from childhood. You know how kids are when one plays with a toy, then suddenly the other kid wants it too. You are forced to hand it over so you must go get another toy, then they want that one too and on it goes.
By adult standards, that behavior is literally insane. Yet, in Canada, that is the behavior of our so-called adults. That is the behaviour of Socislists. They can’t stand to see anyone have more than they have.
Many of us outgrow that tendancy, but in the socialist world where no one wants to get their own stuff (too risky, scary, difficult) .. that is the way they get their stuff. From others!!!
(It’s easy .. steal it through taxation and entitlements .. just vote in the extortionists, kiss their asses and whine a lot).
This is why they are such an unhappy lot. If I didn’t earn a living on my own steam with a meaningful job, but rather lived on others peoples hard earned money, I would be unhappy too. That would be human nature. Something Liberals in are in deep denial over.
But I digress.
JJM: What would have been said if the winner lived in Swastika, Ontario?
http://uk.multimap.com/wi/59353.htm
From an old mail sorter,
Mark
Ottawa
Wow! Anti-Albertan rhetoric in it’s most raw and pure form.
I wish Mr. Cotter would try and explain what the hell a winning lottery ticket and the policies of Ralph Klein’s government have to do with each other.
Thanks for helping the spead of anti-east sentiment John…
The numbers racket used to be run by the Mafia- before they moved to Ottawa.
Hey Duke, that second comment is so true. We adults like to dump our emotions at times and it’s the fun kid in us.
Like those guys over in Israel and Lebanon… all emotion, all bashing, all the time and no talking dealing or bargaining.
We do that sometimes. Ever watch two cute little toddlers in a crib when one wants the other’s toy.
They are deadly man!
Adults are so funny eh? So often giving into vicious toddler behaviour. Problem is, adults use Bombs, Guns, knives. Fun loving adults, who like loud noises and real blood, I guess.
Any little thing for avoiding boredome eh?
Gawd, it’s fun being a grown up.
Remember that Air – India flight, all kinds of innocent people vanishing. The playmates who did that didn’t change the world any as I see it, yet, they must be suffering awful nightmares for nothing at all. Is that the basis for great deep Eastern religeous teaching?
I wonder if those young jerks who did 9/11 are satisfied with all the human hamberger on the walls in Iraq.
If they had not damaged those two New York monuments, Saddam and the Suni would still be ruling from golden palaces at the ends of gun muzzels.
Guess they just don’t what the hell they want. TG
~3.1M per… nice pay day.
Congrats to the lucky winners.
One’s future is too important to gamble on a lottery. It’s better to earn more than you spend, on a regular long-term basis. Unfortunately, many folks seem to have forgotten that, betting instead their hopes on the future of the welfare state. That’s a mistake. Better to move some after-tax resources off-shore.
After all, it is possible that at some time in the future State Canada will “nationalize” everyone’s personal private after-tax savings, in which case all the in-border options go down the toilet.
Not to worry people. Commie “Chucky Cheese” Adler proposed on his show today that nobody in the province of AB. be allowed to buy anymore lotto tickets. As if our fiscal responsibility and hard work has anything to do with winning a game of pure luck.
MaClean’s article – revolting, your post Kate – Delicious.
Another Easterner’s view of Albertans, I guess the Quebec separatists have more in common with Torontonians than they want to admit.
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/aislin/index.html
See the October 28th entry.
All the best to the lucky winners!
Justthinking:
I listened to Adler today. He was actually very peeved about how the media linked “already oil rich Alberta” and the Lotto winners. He very tongue in cheek mused whether if a referendum was held would the rest of Canada would be in favour of not allowing Albertans to buy Lotto tickets. You either didn’t hear the whole show or you are portaying his comment completely out of context for some reason.
One other thing no one has commented on is that there is a good chance the winners may have moved to Alberta from other parts of the country to work in the oil patch. If they were originally from the east I wonder if Mcleans and the people in the east would okay with that. Just so long as it wasn’t a “real Albertan”.
MacLLLeans is part of the conspiracy to take the “o” out of this country.
Spell it any way you want Kate.
Taking the “O” out of country was hilarious skit/country music radio parody by (coincindentally) Maclean & Maclean! Who can forget those memorable tunes like “I’ll Break Your Pretty Neck” and “Dolly Parton’s T*ts”?
It’s Friday-must be something in the air!
BTW, if I win the Super 7 tonight, I promise to purchase a Pattison billboard in every province and erect a jumbo scale “Libranos” poster just as soon as Paulie announces the election date!
Aside from this big win in Alberta, to me it always seems like the jackpot is won by a group of bus factory workers/janitors from Montreal.
Eskimo: it always seems … factory workers/janitors from Montreal
The lottery is rigged of course. The technology (lottery rays) comes from Israel via the U.S. That’s why they’re screwing us over on softwood lumber. Because they can. The Alberta win is just the U.S.’s way of reminding us of their control.
Starting the weekend early …
Cowboy55…thanks for the correction. I only heard a quick snippet and made that fatal error of “assuming”.I know Chucky Cheese is usually not to bad, when he shuts-up and lets somebody else talk for more than 5 secs. But then he’d have a real show if that happened…hehehehe
And all of those rig workers are Karl Rove’s flying monkeys/spies!
Lottery rays! LOL!
Stay tuned for Eric Margolis’ column this weekend connecting the dots between the gas company these 17 rednecks worked for Halliburton. “Bush lied, Iraqis died and Dick Cheney rigged the lotto” will be the byline for his column.
I was lucky enough to catch MacLean and MacLean in live performance three times in Fredericton. Gary MacLean died of throat cancer in Winnipeg back in 2001, I hear. I wonder what Blair’s doing these days, if anything?
Ah, memories.
$uck ya
$uck ya
$-U-C-K-Y-A
$uck ya
$uck ya
$-U-C-K-Y-A
I really hate your $ucking guts
And I’d like to kick you in the $uts
so $uck ya
$-U-C-K-Y-A
I realllllly mean it…..
$-U-C-K-YYYYYY-AAAAAA
Quebec to get special deal [From Librano$$$$$$$$$$]
Globe and Mail – 10 hours ago
By GLORIA GALLOWAY AND RH�AL S�GUIN. OTTAWA, QUEBEC
— Ottawa is preparing to sign a special child-care deal with Quebec that would give that province more autonomy over how it spends its share of the early >
… googlenews
Uhhh, If I ever doubted that Macleans is biased against Alberta, I certainly don’t now.
Goes to show that our national publications really arn’t national after all.
— Steve
Hey Eskimo .. your last post looks like a polar bear got you by the short curlies there.
What does is mean?
Duke,
It’s the “theme song” if you will, by comedians Gary and Blair “MacLean & MacLean”.