tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5444809501498768453..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Dippers - Sorry to Kick Your Crutch Out From Underneath You, But...The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6665715955324296432017-05-12T21:15:32.889-07:002017-05-12T21:15:32.889-07:00I haven't forgotten DR.(!) James Lunney, and y...I haven't forgotten DR.(!) James Lunney, and you and I had the pleasure of sharing his company, though you could probably count his appearances this side of the Hump on the digits of a double amputee. I recall having a conversation with my stepson wherein I compared him to Major Major Major Major of Catch-22. Lunney was an evangelist, but he surely didn't read the same Bible my very religious wife reads. I haven't met a single person who regrets his departure, a truly nasty bit of business.<br />Danneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129916194006552602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-49386857120281855402017-05-12T08:36:26.390-07:002017-05-12T08:36:26.390-07:00The imported ancient Albertans have become a sore ...The imported ancient Albertans have become a sore on Vancouver Island.<br />Their golf communities are quite bizarre and creepy.<br />Unreasonable people leading unnatural lives.<br />The First Nations must have felt the same way when the white man first settled here.<br /><br />TB <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-31937927935823785612017-05-12T08:01:09.786-07:002017-05-12T08:01:09.786-07:00That's a disheartening account, Danneau.
My r...That's a disheartening account, Danneau.<br /><br />My riding remained safely in Liberal hands, the only riding on Vancouver Island they took. I attribute that to the average age of our citizens. It's a retirement community. Many are newcomers from other regions and provinces. I think that voter profile tends to be drawn to establishment parties. We had a federal Tory here, an evangelical chiropractor, who kept getting re-elected although he did nothing - nothing at all - for our riding. He logged his pensionable time and retired.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-25980099178705225512017-05-12T07:01:58.577-07:002017-05-12T07:01:58.577-07:00One of the strongest impelling factors in the Libe...One of the strongest impelling factors in the Liberal showing is the core of people who have attached their economic wagons to the Liberal train and have stuffed beans in their ears so they won't have to look at the seamier side of the shenanigans of Clark & Co. In mid-April, I had a conversation with a relative of a very dear and reasonable friend who was over from North Vancouver for a birthday celebration of said friend and who, it turns out, would never vote anything but BC Liberal or whatever successor party that promised to behave the same way, despite corruption, environmental degradation, the pillage and destruction of the commons and the enormous social deficit accumulated by the Campbell and Clark régimes. This because they are the party that represents a continuation of a privileged status quo for her and her co-religionists (Cult of Croesus) and nothing should be allowed to upset her well-appointed and fully stocked apple cart. While it was a polite enough exchange, the stubbornness and opacity of the discourse was enormously frustrating, and the resulting sense of devastation through inflexibility and short-sightedness is a most daunting prospect.Danneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129916194006552602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80020675519228963612017-05-11T11:27:17.726-07:002017-05-11T11:27:17.726-07:00Anyong...No doubt there will be interesting times ...Anyong...No doubt there will be interesting times ahead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com