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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Media Fueling The Media And Government Embarrassing Itself

by Sean Orr‘Embarrassment to government’ considered security threat at Toronto G20 summit: documents. In that case, arrest the government. They do it everyday.

I think you answered your own question: Is the media fueling Magnotta’s ego? Asks News1130 who, yet again, publish a photo of Luka Magnotta, thereby fueling his ego. And you just know Hollywood scum are drooling all over the movie rights. Also, the next time someone makes a bath salts joke I’m going to vomit.

Meanwhile, The Province calls beheadings special horror. Yeah, I don’t know if you’ve ever read the bible or anything but it’s full of that sort of thing. I suppose it’s not nearly as bad as the British tabloids: Are Canadians the Most Evil Race on Earth? Oh my god. Are we?

Speaking of special horrors: ‘Frankenfish’ caught after weeks-long search of B.C. pond. I don’t know. I saw a couple in my back alley last night smashing expired fluorescent light bulbs over each other (a known snakehead ritual).

“One of the first things he noticed was a blood-splattered tablecloth”. What’s a restaurant owner to do after a shooting? “‘If it was me, I would have thrown it out,’ Mr. Deane said of the tablecloth, adding he also discovered what he believed to be a bullet hole in a wall.” Wait, so what happened to the tablecloth? You didn’t throw it out? Where is it?

Child labour and Protestant puritanism alive and well in B.C.: Underage liquor agents seen by store owners as entrapment. Have fun at high school, narcs! Meanwhile, in Quebec: “Before I wanted to be a cop, now I want to be educated”.

B.C. shipbuilding contracts not a done deal yet, as federal budget cuts sink in. So that would make the federal government Indian givers? Oh the irony.

Vancouver’s Dirty History: A Tour Guide’s Plea. It’s gotten so bad for her that she’s actually taken me up on one of my ‘tours‘.

Bonus: Absurd Vancouver Property of the Week (June 7, 2012).

There are 3 comments

  1. I threw out the the blood stained tablecloth when I found it. I would have thought the previous owners would have thrown it out considering they briefly to re-opened after the shooting and I found it in the dining room.

  2. I would be interested in one of your tours. how does one get in touch with you for this?

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