Morning Booo: January 24th

It's casual racism day. No cheeky comeback here Jeffrey. I'm too busy licking my wounds. Ouch. Thanks to those, especially Tim, who stood by me. I'm no Bruce Allen, I promise.

Protesters greet Jean. But then they realized that she was just the Governor General and that she can't really do anything anyways so they went home.

Owner says no plans to open boutique hotel. No no, you got it all wrong! Its condos, not a silly boutique hotel! That shit is for pussies.

City staff is recommending a proposed homeless shelter at the former Storyeum building in Gastown be rejected in favour of a fitness centre. Or to put it another way, a harm reduction centre for the rich so they don't feed themselves to death. It's getting really bad out there, and its costing our health care system millions of dollars.

Taxpayers left holding the can. "Politicians and bureaucrats dithered as the garbage mounted and now it's a big mess". Um, hello? Its called the Ocean. Its that big blue thing out there that is super deep that nobody cares about. Duh.

Pickton brother fails to get tax refund on farm property. I'm pretty sure that's what is called by the kids today, pushing your luck.

While this is a little example of what you might call covering your ass: VPD has a realistic plan to deal with the complex issues involving crime.

Welcome to the world of simplified taxation, care of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Or welcome to the world of corporate media where we'll basically print out your press release if you're from either a) The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, b) The Fraser Institute, or in the case noted above, the Vancouver Police Department.

And then there's the mandatory anti-environmental rant: People love cars because they give them the freedom they treasure. "This is excellent news, proving we refuse to be bullied by finger-wagging eco-tyrants into abandoning a way of life". By "finger-wagging eco-tyrants" do you mean economists? And by "abandoning a way of life" do you mean the same life you'll have to abandon regardless because of the irreversible economic disaster that will happen if we don't address climate change?

Highways Minister says Interurban revival will be studied. You guys should get my mom to help you with that.

photo by the best photographer in Vancouver other than myself, Otto O'Brien in the Beyond Robson Flickr photo pool.