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Vaccine for Ohmigod Variant Can Turn You Into Quivering Blob of Jelly 9 yr old Billy Jones after receiving 3rd dose

The FBI plants bombs and kidnaps people? Do you even want to be sane?

And to add - don't blame the logging companies. They buy the rights to the trees, not the land. That's the whole reason for the Softwood Lumber Duties the USA wants us to sell them the land outright, so they can speculate on that too. Our system of making them replant and give back access to the forests is too 'socialist' for their liking. So if you want to make everything rotten apply to the boonies too - support their position.

Oh FFS the tired old whine about 'socialists' being the problem. 3% Property transfer tax on realty - imposed by Social Credit 7% GST on NEW houses - imposed by Conservatives $30K-$40K regulatory permitting thru local gov't few of which can be considered 'socialist' and mainly to ensure modern safe standards in construction. Just like how you can no longer buy new cars w/o daytime lights, disc brakes, radial tires, seat belts, etc. No one buys a car w/o an auto tranny or radio & power windows anymore, nor a home without finished basements - so they don't even make them these days. Main cities constrained by geography not gov't buying up the land or logging companies. Lower Mainland is also hampered by the Agricultural Land Reserve, since the 1970s and no one wants to get rid of else everything would need to be imported. Speculation - which is a basic cornerstone of free enterprise, so much so developers and sellers even whine about being taxed on profits. If someone offers you $1M for the home you bought for $50K, you're insane not to take it. Foreign buyers - yes that's a concern but there's even push-back against taxing ones not used to reside in or not rented out. AFAIK BC's the only place there's an Empty Homes Tax. And of course a bit of utter stupidity on the part of gov't - like the HomeOwner and Seniors HomeOwner grants here. You're supposed to refile year after year and now online. Like I deal with seniors, most aren't capable of doing email let alone navigate through these piss poor gov't sites. And in my own case - there's years of past filings in the gov't records. What happened? Did maybe I mysteriously get younger so I don't qualify anymore? So it's pretty ignorant to blame 'socialists' for everything you don't like. Like did political correctness disappear under Bush, Harper, Trump? No, it kept getting bigger and more common. The damn 'small homes' and social housing sites are now running at costs of over $500K per unit in the big cities. This is a much bigger and more complex problem than most people think. Add on that Vancouver and the Lower Mainland is the only place that's not like the rest of Canada, it rarely drops below 0 in the winter, so the homelerss tend to congregate there. I will maintain my position that the only way to progress for this country is to spread out.

There's a complete ignorance towards technology involved as well. Dr gives a prescription of something you need to take every day for the rest of your life. Two weeks worth! Then you call in fort an appt and are told the Dr isn't available for 6 weeks. Now I know the Dr wants that $35 to renew your prescription but unless they actually need to see you why in hell can't the Dr click a button on his laptop, get $25 instead and free some time up to see a patient that actually needs to be seen? Everything online here in BC. Why when you go to the lab do they need to "fax" the form to your Dr at the clinic? That requires someone to print it, someone to fax it, someone to get the fax and bring it to the Dr's desk. Every step of which wastes time. Here it's just a bloody excuse... we didn't get the fax etc. etc. etc. A $5 an hour developer in India can rewrite the MRI machine's code so they can do the scan in Prince George, click a button and it and your file goes instantly to the specialist in Vancouver and your Dr's computer in Fraser Lake FFS. Give nurses and ambulance crews a decent raise, incentives to work where they're needed and speed up foreign qualified staff certification if they guarantee to work 5 years where they're needed, not just where they want. There's tons of $$ to be saved by modernizing and streamlining redundant and obsolete policies and procedures to cover that.

If you're one of those who've decided that this country is finished building itself you should go outside more often. Don't forget the strip mall settlement was done by giving the land alongside the railway to a bunch of investors and that's been the problem ever since. And BTW it worked out very well. We have lights and phones in the boonies and you in the city have tons of power and buckets of money. The stupid thing was privatizing everything once all the expensive building of it was complete instead of earning something. Like BC Rail for example.

You spouted the usual Trumpoid bullshit, You want proofs? Open your eyes, read a newspaper, turn on a TV and shut off FOX and avoid the conspiracy websites. You want to keep faith in a barely literate con man, that's your problem. Freedom of speech and all that. But freedom of speech doesn't cover rotten tomatoes tossed at you.

Gift, The Ford dealer it was bought from offered such an insulting trade in they told him to eff off, gave my kid the Escape and bought a Toyota. I miss the Fords I owned, they kept you busy. Something would fall off almost every day, door handle, rearview mirror, radio knob, back window, fuel gauges that died, 2 pickup boxes rusted clean through in 8 years... Wondering how the Big 3 will shittify EVs and justify charging 10K extra for electric motors when they reach the same production numbers as ICE. The local dealers wont even stock any EVs as they can't hose you $200 to change oil under warranty twice a year.... *under the entire production run of the Chevy Volt, I never saw so much as one advertised by a local dealer or on the showroom floor. I know of ONE in the area and the guy went down to Vancouver and bought it.

So you know damn well I'm not trying to describe an accent per se but the choice of words, meanings and mannerisms. Like "Swamp Men" & "Hog Hunters" where they use subtitles so even fellow Americans can understand them. I'm talking out distinguishing an American from an African from a Jamaican within a few sentences rather than the skin colour as what distinguishes them from me. Ditch the pettiness and move on. Or make the case that race really does define you. Whatever...

That is why free enterprise gov'ts nationalized ferries, phones, hydro, roads, rail lines in the '50s to 70's so people would live there and extract the resources. For the benefit of those who'd rather drive 2 hours in gridlock than move.

It's 2022 and 1963 era filters simply blocking words that are now vernacular is a bit silly. Invision & PhpBB devs need to modernize the built in filters with AI that determines what the words are being used for. I don't filter talk like that, nor you in normal conversation. We all use those words for emphasis as there's no spoken exclamation mark. They no longer even have shock value. Starring them out and reposting seems childish.

What the hell do Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, Trudeau, SNC and Quebec and Alberta workers have to do with Trump's behaviours and actions? Rolling on the floor kicking and screaming like a 4 yr old's temper tantrum is how you answer an opinion. The Grand Asshead was a crook, a traitor to democracy and f***ed over Canada every chance he could get, living proof that America was so unwilling to accept a woman President they elected and actual c**t instead,

Sorry but it's nowhere near Third World. It's not nearly good enough but still better than what most have. WE have to quickly accredit and approve foreign trained doctors and nurse for the short term and start fixing the little things that make more people enter those professions, where they are needed, right f***ing now! I'm not happy that when I brought the wife there was no doctor available, no nurse qualified to drain her lung and an ambulance sitting in the entrance with no one to take her to the big city until morning, no. Not the least but happy. But such supposedly occasional things are becoming too frequent. How will the new hospital be better if they can't staff this smaller one?

It's definitely not University's fault there's a shortage, they're all graduating nurses. UNBC predicted shortages and began the program over a decade ago. But as usual the powers that be studied and yapped, talked made $1 million reports and did dick shit until this 'boomer retirement boom' and Covid turned it into an absolute crisis. Now the big cities are starting to see what's been happening in the ROC for decades. I laugh when I see TV reports that the hospital in Clearwater has closed it's Emergency for X number of days. That's been happening so much for so long in all the smaller places they came up with a new word. The Emergency's not "closed", it's "on Diversion"... which means the same damn thing! Damn it I lived here for over a decade before I even heard of anyone local that survived a heart attack.

The way white Texas cowboys speak is an act too. Just like the Scots who've lived in Vancouver for 60 years. It's an act they put on to self-affirm and self-identify their difference from 'other' people. It's like that old movie about the Commies conquering China: everybody now same same. We just like to pretend we're different. Time to get over it.

Time that Tesla got what Apple did, I agree. My daughter took her hybrid Escape into the dealer as it wouldn't start. They told her the main battery was gone and quoted $5000 - $6000 to replace it. 2 points to make - it's a hybrid. Why the hell would Ford make it to require the hybrid battery to work to start a gas engine. Second, there's a reset switch under the dash, you press it then hold for 8 seconds and it will start again. The dealer that sells them clearly knew that. Obviously tried to scam her. I sent her a YouTube link, she towed it home and her boyfriend reset it. She's been driving it the last 3 weeks. Plus I found a kid down the street bought one the same year at an auction that was totalled. Paid $500. Damn sure he'd sell the hybrid battery for a hell of a lot less than $5000

See I don't need to project shit. You're the one promoting obscure conspiracies and the lie the Orange Oaf was in it for anything other than himself. That completely unsubstantiated opinion snippet can be Exhibit A.

What does “acting black” mean? Sorry, that does sound terribly racist. I meant in the way of what they used to say "putting on airs" like an Englishman acting haughty-taughty or over faking a Cockney accent. Like my Scot ex relatives and their incessant expressions that probably went out of fashion in Scotland by 1966.... a Congolese buddy was kind of put off when one approached him in Jasper to "axe" directions and he took a minute and replied in precise English. Which seemed to put off the American guy. IOW they're Americans. Just like I'm Canadian. *funny thing here in the North there are way more black people who are 1st generation Canadians from Africa than from the USA. I find their accents delightful and their English is often more precise and a hell of a lot less salty than mine.

Spare your money. It's been part of my ShawDirect for years. Maybe one new movie a month aired on the 1st during NewsHour then never again. The same B movies play on one of their 4 channels at different times literally for years. I've got access to the streaming service thru my satellite subscription and haven't even looked at it ever. Only + thing is you get access to HBO, but that ain't much of a + anymore.

No shit, locally trying to hire 9 full time nurses for almost a year. The new hospital is under construction and the ones here are leaving faster than they can be replaced. Housing, signing bonuses, full expense paid moves... nothing seems to work. Part of the problem is most of the new ones graduating are from places like this. The LAST thing they want is to come back. Young and want to experience the world so the much touted UNBC nursing program's kind of backfired.

Says the one who can't see what's in front of his eyes and denies 5 years of evidence.... tack on the total belief in imagined conspiracies over physical evidence... why that's textbook indicators of a psychological disorder. Which means I should refrain from calling any remaining Trump supporters stupid, I should pity them for being mentally ill. Should they ever come up with a cure, i'd suppose you'd want me to respect your freedumb to remain insane as well...

It wasn't America. Don't you know that Reagan won the Cold War single handed? The Russian people had no involvement whatsoever! </s>

Then you obviously support the ayatollah’s fatwa on Salmon Rushdie, as well as the $3M bounty. Enjoy your “freedom of religion”. The sane know a death cult when we see one. They already own you. That's about the most narrow minded, butt stubborn, undemocratic and ignorant response anyone could reply to what MH posted.

Not being American I don't "support" anyone down there. But I can be totally objective and spot a complete lying idiot when I've observed how one's acted over several years. Made Bush look like Einstein and Nixon look like Jesus.

Being accused of not being able to provide a specific reason, he posts the vaguest subjective opinion as such.......