Morning Brew: Budget Day

Opportunities Missed. So poverty doesn't get one mention, but I still get my hundred dollars? "Wing ding diddley ding ding doo! I'm gonna buy me a hammock". Or a 2 zone bus pass for one month. With a buck left over for a slice of pizza. Thanks Mr. Campbell!!!

B.C. budget hikes fuel costs with new carbon tax. So it will make 1.8 Billion dollars in three years but they're spending 370 million on transit for up to 2020? And they're expecting that 2.4 cents will get people out of their cars when its gone up almost 40 cents in 6 years with nary a dent in vehicular traffic? For once I agree with Michael Smyth.

Holy shit I seriously thought this was a joke: A total of $787 million in new money is going toward reducing homelessness, helping at-risk youth and building more jail cells. Because as everybody already knows, ALL homeless people are criminal. Wow.

Police dogs already training for 2010 Olympics. The dogs were given handkerchiefs soaked in patchouli and hemp oil while electrodes were placed on their nuts. Suffice to say, Commercial drive is going to get a whole lot more exciting in the next couple of years.

Pete McMartin is against density because his friend lost a rhododendron.

Morning meteor flash lights up Lower Mainland skies Province reporters' eyes. Were you prepared?

How about for a Deadly fungus!!!!!!!

Rove: "I'm a myth. I'm Grendel in Beowulf. Nobody has really seen me". I think we all saw you slinking off to the hotel next door after the VAG said no thanks. Oooh, you're so mysterious. Grendel has more grace and charm then you'll ever have you fat fuck.

Enablers of our addiction to wasting. In his sales pitch for the Plasco gasification plant, Vancouver Sun columnist Harvey Enchin dismissed recycling programs as "schemes of social engineering. Oh don't worry Zero Waste Blog, you'll find that's going to happen a lot.

Like this twat: Green gimmicks rife in restaurants are enough to put me off my food. "I, for one, have no interest in intellectualizing the ingredients that show up on my plate". That's becuase you have not the wherewithal nor the sophistication. You are a redneck who somehow managed to get a degree, namely because you got it at a joke of a college (University of the Fraser Valley?), and you've taken to dressing up Jeff Foxworthy jokes as legitimate political punditry. "What's this organic shit? Gimme a fuckin double cheeseburger anyday man. Whoooo Whee!"

Vancouver Tournament of Blog: nominations still open. How many of these do we need?

The Urban Diner Restaurant Awards 2008 Results. Yay Aurora! Yay So.cial Custom Butcher Shop & Deli! (I work at both)

photo by Dirty D in the Beyond Robson flickr photo group.