20Jan 2010 by R&O 2 Comments

Olympic Piggies

Olympics, Rants
So you pitched your digital tent and waited patiently online to purchase the best Winter Olympics tickets you could find and afford. You're happy with your nosebleed seats for which you paid dearly but you must ask yourself Who got all the premium tickets?. You'll be happy to know that's it's your own government that scooped most of them and they did it with your money. Happy now? Public sectors that have purchased the very best tickets available include the federal government ($447,000), B.C. Hydro ($616,000), ICBC ($405,000), B.C. Lotteries ($396,000), The City Of Vancouver ($340,000), The City of Richmond ($200,000), and the City of Whistler ($37,000). But the big spender is our very own Campbell government which has dropped a total of $940,680 on 3,244 tickets for top-quality seats…
Read More
23Dec 2009 by R&O No Comments

The VSB Porn Workshop

Internet, People, Rants
Shocking! Horrifying!! 15 employees at the Vancouver School Board maintenance facility on Clark Drive have been caught looking at naughty pictures on the Internet. Quick...close all of the schools and protect our innocent children!!! Please dear God..protect the children!!! Yes, it's true. A number of lascivious, perpetually stimulated employees have been suspended with pay and the children are safe. Parents be advised that our school board is on guard against all naughty bits on the Internet. Phew...that was close! So these employees were looking at porn rather than doing their jobs. OK, but you would think, based on the reactions of a number of government and union representatives, that they had smuggled ricin into each and every classroom rather than viewed a number of airbrushed breasts on a computer screen.…
Read More
22Dec 2009 by R&O 1 Comment

Theft By Tribunal

People, Rants
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has awarded an Enderby woman more than $12,000 after deciding she was discriminated against by a new employer based on her physical disability. The story behind this award is almost laughable. Read on... Carolyn Hurn injured her back in a car accident in 1989 and hadn't worked until securing employment with Salmon Arm's Healthquest Natural Health and Medical Supplies. She lasted a total of three shifts after complaining she had to alternate between sitting and standing. Fair enough but her employers, Hank and Margilla Berkenpas, hired her to do a job and she was obviously unable to do it and shouldn't have applied for the position in the first place. Mr. and Mrs. Berkenpas terminated her employment after the third shift but Ms. Hurn decided…
Read More
21Dec 2009 by R&O No Comments

A KGB Christmas

Of Interest, Politics, Rants
So Vancouver's own ex-KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov has found himself on the front page of today's Province newspaper. Nice work Mikey. Perhaps our hapless bureaucrats will finally give in and let you stay even though you were once a member of The Soviet Union's Commitee for State Security, the same fun-loving guys that were responsible for the torture and deaths of countless perceived Soviet 'dissidents'. Yeah, that's the guy I want living next door or working in my office. I mentioned the story of Mikhail Lennikov back in June and it looks like his people are ramping up the coverage just in time for Christmas. The people that make decisions about people like Mr. Lennikov are more likely to decide in his favour if it's Christmas, right? Unfortunately, that may…
Read More