On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Gotta Love Ralph, not
In the same speech where he stressed the need to help the vulnerable, Klein said he was at a recent sod-turning where two women were “yipping about AISH payments.”
“They didn’t look severely handicapped to me, I tell you that for sure,” the premier said to a titter of laughter. “They both had cigarettes dangling from their mouth and cowboy hats.”
...but he did get a positive reaction from the crowd.
Not to get all huffy over this stuff—I rarely do, but I can tell you that there are a lot of people out there that don’t “look disabled” that frankly are fairly severely disabled.
Trouble is that despite putting out a bunch of apologia, that sort of line plays well with the I’m-all-right-Jack crowd that forms that basis of Klein’s support. Oh, to be a conservative politician in one-party Alberta.
Or some simple-minded drivel like that that plays well with the angry self-reliant crowd, perennial victims of malicious moochers and deranged deadbeats at every turn.
: 7:53 PM(Even the Klein Fan Club at the Calgary Horrid editorial board gingerluy criticised him on it. What doesn that say?)
As for livability: just wait until you see what sprawl is going to do to Calgary in the next 30 years...
(Even the Klein Fan Club at the Calgary Horrid editorial board gingerluy criticised him on it. What doesn that say?)
As for livability: just wait until you see what sprawl is going to do to Calgary in the next 30 years...
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