05Feb 2010 by R&O 1 Comment

Burger Bullies

Observations, Olympics, Rants
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that McDonald's Restaurants is the official purveyor of fine food and a major sponsor of the 2010 winter Olympics. Who says loads of money can't buy anything, huh? Can you imagine how many Olympic athletes adhere to a healthy diet of delicious McGrease burgers and fat fries? But these artery clogging saturated fat pushers are the official restaurant sponser of the sports spectacle we call the 2010 winter games. It's like Clifford Olson hosting the Variety Show Of Hearts Telethon. So you would think that a big mega-corporation like McDonald's would be on its best corporate behaviour during the upcoming games. Well, you're wrong. They're busy bullying local chefs at the Four Host First Nations pavilion. It seems that professional…
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26Jan 2010 by R&O 1 Comment

Where the money should go

Olympics, Politics, Rants
When undergoing an MRI scan, you're asked to change into a prerequisite hospital smock before the procedure. A sign in the change room asks you to bring your valuables with you to protect them from theft. But it really doesn't do much good if you're trying to protect your money from VANOC because they always have access to your wallet. That's why it took many, many months to have your MRI scan in the first place. As reported previously on this blog, various public sectors have spent over $3 million for top-quality Olympic tickets, the city of Vancouver recently spent close to a million bucks on dorky banners and over a billion bucks on the Olympic village. We're all aware of the ongoing waste, the inconvenience, the upheaval, the non-refundable…
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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…
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11Dec 2009 by R&O No Comments

The ecstatic bozos

Of Interest, Olympics, People
Imagine you've built your drug business from the ground up, securing the manufacturing and distribution systems and building a firm customer base from scratch. You and your two partners are living in a home from which the drugs are distributed, a drug warehouse for your prosperous business that has an inventory of 107,000 ecstasy pills (valued at a cool $1 million) and 170 grams of cocaine. Life is good. But one morning at 7:20 am, after a full evening of dedicated alcohol consumption you return home to your residential drug warehouse in the 4300 block of Nanaimo Street in Vancouver and discover you've lost your house keys. The question at this point is "What to do next" keeping in mind that your house is chock full of highly illegal drugs.…
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