Gimbol's diatribe and screed

Todays screed - July 21 2010

1. Nobody outside Hollywood gives a damn about Lindsey Lohan, so can we please let this story die.
2. Conrad Black is getting bail, which isn't as significant as the not so discussed reasons he was targeted in the first place, and the vindictive individuals that had it in for him.
3. The liberal leadership race is all but official. The wheels had come off Iggy's bus (figuratively) the day he left Harvard, now its happened literally.
4. Lizzy May's days as Green party leader are numbered, the writer predicts inside of three months.
5. As much as I disrespect the ideology of the NDP, I pray that Jack Layton beats his cancer infection.
6. Christopher Hitchen's, same thing, same prayer.
7. The civil unions are saying they will not take a wage freeze as long as corporations are getting a tax cut. Perhaps the best response to them is, if they go work for those corporations then perhaps they have a legit argument. None of those corporations I'm betting, has a civic union representing their workers.
8. The ECO fee was a tax grab, plain and simple. But what inquiring minds want to know is, who is working at Stewartship Ontario and what do they do with the money.
9. London city council is having a hard time with figuring out what their mandate is. Here's a suggestion. When somebody complains about students and how they drive over their neighbours lawns, the solution isn't to create another parking bylaw. The problem is absentee landlords renting out rooms at extortionate rates in buildings that where neither designed or designated as apartments. You want to nip this problem try this. Get the building inspector and the fire marshal to do a neighbourhood inspection in and around the trouble spots (neighbourhoods around UWO and Fanshawe). I'm sure they will find ample violations of the fire code, unlicensed reno's, and building code violations. Find a violation like that and you make it harder for the slumlords to take over a neighbourhood.
10. The mayor and her apparent rival Joe Fontana, are seemingly in a battle to prove they are the most business friendly. Why then when a fiscal issue gives rise, like deciding whether to increase water rates for business (and then reduce rates for homeowners) they both say no way, rather than holding city staff's feet to the fire and ask why these rates are what they are now...as in taking the position of "what do you spend that money on now?".
11. Finally. Why is CBC still being funded by the tax payer when they compete against the private broadcasters?

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posted by gimbol @ 3:41 AM