Morning Brew: March 20th

  • Posted by Sean
  • Filed in News
  • March 20, 2008
032008_mb.jpgBC's Worst Drug Hotel Is About to Empty Out. I'm a little confused. Worst? Don't you mean best? No but in all seriousness dude is actually underplaying how scary that place is. You know that scene in Seven, well multiply that by that scene in Requiem for a Dream to the power of Hostel.

B.C.'s tourism sector looks for new markets. Lichtenstein? Macao? Anybody? Please! We've got ski runs and stuff. And cute little natives running around with orcas and spirit bears.

Funding cut shocks universities. "The B.C. government has delivered a nasty surprise to the province's universities. Their funding for the coming year will be millions of dollars short of what they were told to expect". No bigs, just raise the tuition fees. This job is fucking easy. I'm going on break.

BC Ferries hikes rates. Oh right, because of the cost of oil and whatnot. Yeah, nobody saw that coming except for everybody who saw that coming.

Terasen hikes rates. OK, I know we're on the West Coast and everything, but can we chill out on the hiking?

All of a sudden Ferguson cares about the environment, well, not really. He just hates unions: It's time to pull the plug on foes of cleaner, greener hydro power. Yes, that is it. The unions, the environmentalists, and the rest of the socialist ideologues are against cleaner and greener hydro power. Way to flip the paradigm Fergie. You should stick to singing awesome songs like, "If you ain't got no money take you're broke ass home".

DeGenova has lofty aims if elected. Apparently he's going to solve the homeless issue. Wow, does this guy have Obama's campaign strategist or what?

Reports of shots fired at golf course. Its about time they made that game more exciting. Brings new meaning to the term hole in one.

Just in case Morning Brew didn't make it graphic enough for you, The Only spell it out for you: Courier Gets Circumcised.

And the readers are pissed too.

In response to a reader, this is why Morning Brew differs from LOL News: "Some Abbotsford locals are opposed to a possible manure-powered plant proposed for their community by B.C. Agriculture Minister Pat Bell. They ought to be used to stuff like that by now - that's a long-standing energy source for the provincial government". Poo! Get it? Whereas I would have said something way cooler like, 'at least now them Abbotsford yokels have an excuse for their shit eating grins. See the difference? I'm way more mature.

One of our vital freedoms is at stake in court ruling. Yeah, why can all those pro-life ads be on the bus, but the kids can't say "rock the vote"? Are you afraid they're going to rock the vote?

VPD trying to trace mysterious new bakery hack, the scourge of Big Baking.

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I guess this is what they mean by eco density?
We can probably absorb more hard core gang criminals on our block. Why not create "Soddom and Gommorah", the latest Rennie development. All inclusive, with a range of incomes,including none. OY VEY! Shoot it up Smack Jack!

Posted by: Let's make it legit!! at March 20, 2008 8:36 AM | Quote Comment

The Obama comment is weak. You have a better option? Or wait... you could always vote Nader. He'll totally become president and heal the land. Oops, I think my eyes just up and rolled across the floor.

Posted by: Meg at March 20, 2008 9:37 AM | Quote Comment

Not a dis to Obama so much as a dis to the blind platitudes of countless mayors and mayoral hopefuls about 'having a secret source of cash to solve the homeless problem'. It just seems so simple, like all you need to say is "hope" and "change" and everything will be all right. Don't get me wrong, Obama has actual policy straegies, but in America you just need to repeat these hollow cliches to the hoi polloi as though they were Pavlov's dogs.

Posted by: Sean Orr at March 20, 2008 3:23 PM | Quote Comment

But Sean, it IS a dis to Obama. I'm so tired of the fixation with two words and a lack of attention to experience, platform, and solid arguments. He backs it up. And you either mock it like a trained cynic, or you get behind it. I know what I choose. And even if I can't vote, I can get to people who can. I have a voice. It actually works.


And for the record, delusion exists everywhere, too. Not just in America. If you believe anything else is the case, then you're the blind one.

Posted by: Meg at March 20, 2008 11:32 PM | Quote Comment

Someone just had a Barack Attack.

Posted by: Sean Orr at March 20, 2008 11:47 PM | Quote Comment

I have seen more of Obama's touch in Gregor's campaign but I guess it's a "new trend" in politics so it's not surprising. We will see more of it. Not original but as long as there is a good honest message in there why not.

Posted by: Sara Blyth at March 23, 2008 1:00 PM | Quote Comment

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