Disgraced RCMP officer transferred to B.C.

Sgt. Don Ray admitted to sexual relations with subordinates and harassment

CBC News

Posted: May 23, 2012 5:37 PM PT

Last Updated: May 23, 2012 9:33 PM PT

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What is it with the Feds? Are applications to join the RCMP so thin on the ground that they have to keep ‘reconditioning’ those found to be miscreants and just shuffle them off to the West Coast?
Fire him! He’s a part of the reason that the RCMP (Randy Canadian Mounting Police?) are gaining such a hideous reputation..
Thanks, but here in BC we have our own set of Federally-sanctioned creeps doing their level best to destroy whatever good will the Mounties had left…we don’t need any more riff raff from Alberta, the ones in Ottawa are more than sufficient to destroy our lives…

I’m guessing (but it’s an educated guess) that the transfer is a way of slapping us in the face for being such West Coast granola-slurping back- to- the- Earth pipeline-protesting  non-CRAP voters…after all, where better to dump the Alberta refuse than here on the Coast, where the CRAP constituency is shrinking by the minute…

As for this joker no longer  dealing with the ‘public,’ it wasn’t the public he was sexually harassing, it was his sister officers…who will still be exposed to his nefarious habits…being a creep means never having to say you are re-habilitated….

Maybe he should join a seminary..he’d be welcomed with open arms…

Plenty of Jobs in Alberta (Alberta!!!) says Emperor Steve’s Puppet, Flaherty

Here’s good ol’ boy Flaherty warning Canadians that EI will be  changed to reflect Alberta and Saskatchewan’s need for labour…as if the government was financing EI in the first place..

They aren’t – it’s financed by employers and labour…not that this has stopped any government from tinkering with the program to bolster their philosophy…

“That means we are going to have to encourage more persons with disabilities to work, more seniors to work, more aboriginal people to work, including young people. We need to get rid of disincentives in the employment insurance system to people joining the workforce.” Flaherty

And…wait for it…legalized serfdom just around the corner…. This is the kind of bullshit spouted by someone in thrall to corporate interests, who want the largest number of acquiescent employees for the least wages…and Emperor Steve’s minions are more than prepared to throw Canadian job seekers under the unemployment bus to make sure that these Corps are accommodated… And, once again, thanks to all you morons who voted these creeps in….

It’s not just the job, Flaherty, it’s that no one, and I mean no one, wants to up stakes and move to Alberta, that glistering beacon of right wing whackjob ideology..you know, walk East from BC till you smell it, then go South until you step in it…Saskatchewan?  Hmmm…..

Amazing the way he throws the disabled, seniors and aboriginals under the same bus…

It’s as if all that chuff re changing the Social Insurance pension  down the line may as well happen now…after all, if you keep forcing seniors to work (especially at these implied labour jobs) they probably won’t last long enough to collect…a win-win!!

As for the disabled, well, they aren’t exactly slacking off now- every indication is that they want to work, but cannot find suitable employment for their skill set….but instead of funding training programs for  the disabled or seniors, it’s much easier to threaten them or vilify their very existence by grouping them together as somehow criminally responsible for their own age or condition…

Aboriginals, from everything I’ve read,  aren’t exactly  being eagerly sought by employers, either, but  I cannot see how lumping them in with the disabled and seniors is anything but offensive and insulting, something that the CARPs are always willing to throw out there and then act surprised when there is pushback…

It never occurs to CARPs to ask themselves why it is that in an era of high unemplyment (relatively speaking, in Canada) these jobs go begging…

Could it be that there are a finite number of (at the risk of sounding  discriminatory) healthy young people who can up stakes and move to  East Nowhere, Sask. or Half Horse, Alberta?  Are they going to try and force those who are unfortunate enough to be currently without a job to relocate to an undesirable and unaffordable place, just to accommodate their corporate donors?  Looks like that is exactly what they are going to try to do….

Old Farts Unite! You have nothing to lose but your teeth or vital organs!

Today on the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp, to the center of PBS or Knowledge Network) posted an article about the fact that although promised, there is still no Senior`s Advocate position  set up, nor has anyone even been considered, much less appointed..Okay, nothing to see here, folks, just the Lieberals being themselves (the slimy dog-licking snakeholes that they are)  and the article comes with what has become the requisite ranting and whining of the (mostly ) young re  their horrible lives, with everything ruined by the old folks, leaving them in the lurch…sound familiar?

Sure..but, to be expected..the younger ones seem to enjoy whining about the ‘legacy’ left to them by earlier generations..but they rarely vote themselves, just bitch about it after the fact…
Yes we do need an advocate..as a non-rich or rapacious boomer, although I always voted and did my bit when any political or social adversarial position was warranted, now I’m expected to take on the burden of the rightwing whackjobs who are destroying this country? Sorry, I’ll do what the generation did before me, pass the torch and hope that this generation of non-voters comes up with still another miracle…because we’ve run out.
We’ll never see an advocate until after the election, and then only if the NDP win…which, hopefully, my lousy generation will make sure happens..since we can’t rely on the young for anything but whingeing about their rough deal in the world…suck it up boys and girls, use it or lose it……

On Irony….

It is more than just a little ironic that the first black president in US history is hesitant about giving support to the  concept of legalizing, or legitimizing, the right to universal  marriage .

I hate the term ‘gay’ used as some sort of blanket coverage for LGBT issues, as if  such a light-hearted term could begin to cover what this community has been put through over the decades, and, in fact, continues to suffer at the hands of its fellow citizens.

I have spent more than a little time reading about Abraham Lincoln, watching good but inadequate media ‘specials’ on him, etc, and it’s beyond ironic that the man who had, shall we say, a very personal dis-affinity for black people, was the man who finally signed the Emancipation Proclamation.  One cannot help but compare this with the first black presidents’ obvious discomfort with the wholehearted support of  marriage for all people…why?  Are there ‘personal’ reasons?  Religious arguments (let’s hope not, the separation of church and State is enshrined in the US Constitution)?

Whatever it is, whatever the reason, Barrack Obama’s hesitancy is duly noted  and found wanting by those who support him for a second term…what is his problem?

Perhaps someone should point out to him that he is not in office to let his personal feelings guide these decisions..but to represent all the people..

I never have seen the point of state-or church-sanctioned marriage, and never will.  Coming from a family where each of my biological parents married and divorced at such a rapid rate (each, multiple times, before I was 18,)  that I was thoroughly cynical about the ‘institution’ of marriage at an early age…I still feel the same way.  But I would fight for anyone’s right to destroy their personal lives by virtue of their inalienable right to do so…no matter what their race, religion, or sexual orientation…no matter what their gender…

Hopefully Obama, like Lincoln, will finally come around  to the same conclusion..

UPDATE: Good, he finally did it…now that didn’t hurt much, did it?

Let’s “Just Do It”

There has been a call from several mayors of municipalities  here in British Columbia, Canada to legalize marijuana…the arguments for it are essentially that they are tired of fighting against a mega-tide of grow-ops and drug dealers who are far richer in resources and weapons to push back than the cities can afford to be, and they are right…

Never mind the stupid morality arguments and the dubious health ‘risks’ that don’t even begin to be as ‘risky’ as smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol, or eating too much salt or sugar…

Looking at the economic arguments alone, even the CRAPs* should be able to discern a valid rationale…they keep offloading the costs of everything onto the Provinces*, which, in turn, merrily offload them onto the municipalities – which have a finite number of choices for raising taxes, such as fuel surcharges and business or property taxes…
For example, policing takes a huge chunk of Vancouver’s municipal budget, and the city, and others, should have the right to use their hard-won tax dollars to improve the lives of taxpayers, not simply try (and fail) to fend off the encroaching drug overlords who are getting wealthier by the minute, due to this pointless ‘war on drugs’….witness Mexico..can it be much longer before it turns into competing “interests” hiring mercenaries here, and in the States (already happening there, in border towns) to shoot it out in the streets? What will the Feds do then? Of course, that’s just a fantasy, right?
…Right?

Canadian Glossary

*CRAP- our pet name for the ruling Conservatives…stands for Conservative Reform Alliance Party…what they are composed of (a coalition of rightwing whackjobs from different ‘groups’ called Conservative, Reform, Alliance (Party), etc. ad nauseam….

*Province – just think of it as a very large State, a la the US

The Home Ahead….

I have long been attracted to the small house movement…it seems so perfectly revisionist, as in re-envisioning the necessary and the portable..to devolve from what we are programmed to think we need.  I really feel as if this is my distant or perhaps not-too distant future..finding a bit of land to temporarily rent to park my little house/caravan/trailer whatever on and never have to worry again about a landlord telling me not to paint or  cleaning vast rooms full of dust and little else of value..

Someone in the comments section of HuffPo, where I found info about this wonderful documentary, called it “viewing house porn;” yes, okay, but I think this gypsy-driven fantasy of mine re freedom and the open road makes me think I would like to do this…When I am wiling to give up all my stuff…
That day seems to be coming sooner, rather than later..interesting that so many involved in this are either very young, or very old..those starting on their journey, who haven’t acquired much, or seem not to need to..
And, finally, like me, those who are in the last third of their lives, who know that sloughing off that which does not seem necessary is the best way to en-lighten yourself.

Apologies for the link..if you like go to U and  link up with Kirsten Dirksen

We’ve Only Just Begun…

Emperor Steve and his nightmare circus clowns have deemed it the ‘cost of doing business’ to redress the pushback that his Enbridge  dirty deal has caused..necessary and desirable to offer up to profit mongering the possible destruction  of  the West Coast’s environment..and we are, happily, prepared to take him on. His reduction of environmental review bodies fools no one; we all know that he wants to fast-track his rich friends’ interest, and could care less about those of Canadian citizens who absolutely and resolutely have told him no..native groups, academics, even those from his own side of the fence..not to mention US State governments, who also want no part of the fallout from spillage to feed China’s need for sludge….
The petro-dollars will have a rocky road to traverse before they ooze into BC, if they ever do..but once here, the real fight begins…and the CRAPs will be dead in the water, come the next election….

As someone who is retired and has little to lose in the way of personal responsibility to an employer as such, and who can, if necessary, fight with my body (thrown in front of a grader, say, or march on a line) as well as my mind.  I think that I speak for many ‘grey panthers’ when I say that the voting base that Harpo considers that he owns will surprise him with their pushback.  His economic arguments , just like  the right-wing whackjobs south of the 49th, hold absolutely no  water…and we want to keep our water, both salt and fresh, as clean as possible…

The CRAPs may have pushed Suzuki out of the organization  that carries his name, and they may ignore all the treaties or non-treaty land agreements in place or disputed territories, but here’s my forecast for the years to come,  you corporate whores: stormy weather, as stormy as anything you could have forecast – and a political ploy that will bite you in the behind now and in the future…to paraphrase the  famous John Paul Jones quote, we have not yet begun to fight.