kelownabomberfan

OK so I will ask - what the hell is an "X" receiver? Wolvervine?

"Retiring" and then being called back in mid Sept when the OL injuries start kicking in.

I just don't see Neufeld making it through a whole season un-injured. Morley will still be around.

That was Kristers Gudlevskis. He's with their AHL franchise right now. Vasilevskiy came from Russia and was in the World Juniors a couple years ago. Highly touted if I recall. oh ok thanks

I was trying to remember - was that TB goalie the one that stood on his head for Latvia against Canada at the Olympics?

Apology accepted. Difference is that "revenue neutral" seems to always equate to "poor people get screwed". The end result is the government gets the same amount of money, but more of it comes out of the pockets of people who can't afford it. And as I write this I am amazing myself as believe me, I am not a socialist. In fact, I believe that socialism hurts the poor more than it helps them, in a lot of the policies they enact. The Carbon Tax is one of those policies.

1. Mark - if you are calling Iso and I whiners just because we are questioning the validity and intelligence of various methods of taxation enacted by our elected officials, without even waiting for us to explain our reasoning, then I invite you cordially to kiss my large hairy behind. But you wouldn't do that, now would you?? Naw... 2. Someone at the Globe and Mail should actually do some fact-checking, as Alberta has a lower overall personal tax rate (flat) and Ontario's personal rate is actually lower than BC for income below $41K. BC also just raised their corporate tax rate and we are now higher than Alberta for corporations as well. And then of course there is that 7% PST we have that Alberta doesn't, that should have just been a 12% flow-through HST, but well...that's another story. But that's not the whole story. In addition to the Stuuuuupid carbon tax the BC government has introduced a ton of user fees, and jacked existing user fees on various government services. For instance, now in BC a family of three has to pay $144 a month in monthly medical premiums (BC I believe now is the only province that has this fee as Alberta phased theirs out a few years ago). There's a break for lower income people, but every year they have jacked this premium. What I don't like about the carbon tax is this: - the provincial government calls the Carbon tax "revenue neutral" but in reality its just a transfer. They used that revenue to lower personal income taxes. When people complained about the carbon tax Gordon Campbell told people to just take the train or the bus. That's kind of hard to do in Castlegar or Quesnel. The single mom with three kids has to get her kids to school somehow, and she needs gas to do it. So while she might not have been paying much in income taxes, thanks to our progressive tax system, which I agree with, now she's got to fork out extra dough for gas. All to subsidize some hose-head in the lower mainland getting a tax break on his already giant income. I'm no socialist, not at all, but I hate hate hate it when the government tries to social engineer societal behavior via taxation. Raising taxes on gas doesn't stop people from using gas, it just makes their lives more difficult and expensive, and that's not right. The government just cut 2% off the taxes of people in BC making over $150,000 a year (while raising MSP rates 4%). Whoopee!! I get it, they promised that they would cut the 2% off the high end last election and they followed through on the promise. I just would much rather have seen that cut in taxes go to cutting the STOOOOPID carbon tax, and seeing that single mom get the benefit, instead of some dude making over $150K a year. Everytime I see that stupid carbon tax on my natural gas bill, my blood just boils. Anyway - sorry if I'm "whining" and am so "hard done by" - but if you want to seriously discuss this topic, then Mark and Dee, how about we seriously talk about it. Preferably over wine and cheese.

Yes I totally agree. I also think that if he were alive today, Tommy Douglas would burst into tears if he saw what his NDP has become.

Shea Emry is a slightly more talented Ejiro Kuale, with the right passport. He'll make a half decent play once in awhile, but totally blow it by then taking a 15 yard roughing penalty.

yeah there were TV's - which just made you think - Why did I pay to get in here if I have to watch half the game on TV anyway? The problem with the old arena was that it was never built to be a double-decker, and yet the Jets needed a minimum sized arena to get into the NHL, so adding the second tier was just a solution that solved nothing. My first concert there was Def Leppard in 1988 - but at least we were on the lower level so got to see the entire show. They even incorporated the picture of the Queen (made sense as they are a British band) into their laser show so that was cool. Interestingly enough, it was during their song "Photograph".

Speak for yourself! Our carbon tax is the dumbest tax I've ever seen - just soooo stupid.

Pinawa? Has he stopped glowing yet?

This is what they are doing in Wisconsin, allowing union members to opt out of paying dues in jobs where being in a union used to be mandatory. The unions of course freaked out and have been fighting like crazy to get Walker out as governor, but to no avail. Something had to give.

Yup I have an aunt who is deaf and is now suffering early on-set dementia from all of the beatings and head traumas she suffered at a residential school. When I hear her stories I can't even imagine stuff like that happened in this country. Just heart-breaking.

Ever sit in the $5 McDonald's section in the old arena? I would watch Dale Hawerchuk go across the blue line on a breakaway but would have to wait for the roar of the crowd to know if he scored, as you couldn't see the visitor end of the ice from up there.

The unions in BC circulated blatant propaganda pumping the BC NDP here last election. I just couldn't believe they were blowing member dues on radio ads, print media and even TV ads, all to try and convince the electorate to put in a government that would just bend over on behalf of taxpayers and give the unions everything they want. Like how dumb did they think we voters were? I am not saying I favour an anti-union government either, but it should be illegal for unions to spend member dues on crap like this. It just basically says "we want the NDP in power as they give us everything we want, and who cares about the taxpayers". That's just not right. I heard a story from the Pawley era that the unions were so entrenched during Pawley's government that they even had representatives in the offices of cabinet ministers at the Legislature, and nothing could be authorized as a proposal without the union's consent. That really made me angry. Talk about having a lot of power without being elected! I don't know if that story is true, but it wouldn't surprise me, given how truly awful that NDP government was. Just the worst.

Is there anyone out there that he doesn't want to poke?

Let me guess they are all union honchos...

It's KBF, not Dee. I don't mention it because you sure don't see it. Old people may bring a lot of cash but they sure don't spend it. Other than walking in and buying houses for $600K cash. I am lucky I bought my house 15 years ago, I don't know how people here buy houses with the piddly Okanagan salaries that are paid. And Vancouver prices for houses are even worse, though at least there they pay half decent salaries to professionals. Anyway that being said ISO, come on out - it would be great to have someone else other just Tacklewasher to watch Bomber games with.

No thanks. You want Christy Clark?

LOL - I know you are an NDP supporter so that's why you are only mentioning Conservatives but no premier can hold a candle in terms of being downright the worst ever than Howard "the Coward" Pawley. His ultra-shitty NDP government in the 1980's - man they were some kind of suck. They are one of the main reasons I just can't stand the NDP, as I truly saw the hideous side of their tax and spend union first ideology in action with that government. They were just the worst. All governments are like diapers, they need to be changed or they start to smell. I wish here in BC we had someone else to vote for, but as bad as our provincial government is, no one wants the NDP back in power.

BC needs high taxes. We get all of the Prairie people moving here in their sixties and sucking down our health care. They earn all their money and pay all of their taxes in Alberta their whole lives and then come here and suck down our health care. I don't blame people for wanting to live here, but we could use some health care equalization payments. Or do what Quebec does and charge a tax when you move here. We were really smart here in BC too - we had converted to an HST so that everyone from Alberta was finally paying sales tax here, and then the boneheads voted it out and opted to go back to a PST, which Albertans are exempt from paying. Brilliant. So now every summer we get 1 million Albertans/Saskers/Manitobans flooding into BC for holidays and not one of them is paying a dime of sales tax. Just brilliant, the boneheads who live in this province.

Naheed's an old school chum so I don't want to put him down, but I hope he can walk the walk as good as he talks the talk here. He claims to be a big Stamps fan. It's not just about being a Stamps fan, it's about supporting your local sports teams for the good of the entire community. The Stamps could use a new stadium, so it's time for the politicians to step up and get it done. I hope he does the right thing here, and instead of playing politics, just gets these facilities built.

I don't think I'll ever say that one party knows what to do while others don't. It's not that black and white. Right now I think people choose their parties not because what their party is doing is totally right, but because their party isn't going to screw everything up as badly as the other guys. The NDP definitely knows how to screw everything up, and it can take a long time to undo a lot of their stupid ****. We still here in BC are trying to fix education, after the NDP bent over for the teachers' union and just handed over control of class sizes to the BCTF. SOoooo stupid. And a total conflict of interest. What a bunch of imbeciles the NDP are. LOL - yeah you are right, you aren't an apologist for the NDP...LOL With darn good reason. I really don't like how the NDP bends over for the unions, though I understand it, as they are funded by the unions, just as the Conservatives are funded by business, and so it's not really cool how the Conservatives sometimes give too many breaks to business. It's a product of our system, that special interests control the game. And when the NDP and the unions control the game, bad things happen to the economy.

I rented a house in Edgemont (area in Calgary) for a year back in 1993-94. That house had been slapped together by some construction guys in the late 1970's boom time and it was such a piece of ****. Crap was falling off the walls and the insulation was totally substandard, heating bills even in 1994 were a joke, can't even imagine what they would be now. And Edgemont at that time anyway was considered an upscale neighbourhood. That's one of the pitfalls of living in a boom and bust economy.