Devan

They're pure awesome.

Worlds Apart is pretty mediocre, which is a massive disappointment.

I don't know if it was your intent Bizzer, but you just made Isn't Anything sound extremely appealing to me.

I have never understood the hype over Physical Graffiti. It's got some of their best, like Kashmir, or Ten Years Gone, but In The Light and a couple other songs are just horrible.

Change that today. Go listen to Source Tags and Codes right now.

You are a Social Liberal (78% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (10% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (105, -150)

In the case of the PETA ads, they weren't done for career advancement, they came from the personal beliefs of the models. In this case, I don't believe it to be objectification, but being paid to pose nude I would. I do understand how one could see it as objectification, the fact that PETA uses the sex appeal of the ads to advocate their cause is where that would come in.

The Liberals have cut spending on nearly all social programs, and made it harder for the poorest Canadians to get medical care for things like worker's compensation claims, as now disabled people have to go through a much more stringent application process to get scaled back care, while getting smaller amounts of money. This outweighs the minor increases to healthcare spending that keep the system from collapsing while doing nothing to improve care. As for the casino license, if you had paid any actual attention to this issue, and followed it longer than the initial bad publicity (where the media were at Glen Clark's house for some reason before the police showed up, while the man in charge of the investigation was a Liberal party member who was at that time considering running as a BC Liberal MLA in the next election), you would know that this accusation went to trial, and Glen Clark was acquitted of any wrongdoing. So we've got a billion dollar corrupted sale of a public asset to an American owned corporation, directly counter to what the Liberals promised, compared with an accusation of Glen Clark having a deck built in return for a casino license, which was later proven untrue in court. If you're going to hack at the NDP for association with casinos, you might want to hack the Liberals just the same, as they've been encouraging increasing the number of casinos and gambling ventures in the province of late. Don't be a hypocrite now. The Fast Ferries issue is interesting as well. I agree that getting fast ferries was a mistake, they were ill-suited to the use they were put to. But you're criticizing it for all the wrong reasons. Firstly, it's never a bad idea to bring jobs to your province, especially unionized ones with high wages so as to put money into the local economies. How can you criticize those jobs as not being "real jobs"? Especially when the government you're defending is responsible for cutting masses of government jobs, bringing in the $6/hr training wage that's been terribly detrimental to the poorest citizens of the province, and creating nothing but call centre and Walmart jobs. In my Grade 11 year (2001-02), the government's cutbacks to the education budget resulted in every teacher in my district hired after 1995 being let go in June 2002. Jobs that pay well disappear, jobs that pay $6 an hour come in. If those are your real jobs, you've done a fabulous job of entirely discrediting yourself. As for bidding, when you are entertaining bids on a public asset, it is your duty as a public servant to get the best deal for the public possible. This was not done, and your Translink analogy fails entirely. Firstly, the company chosen was an American company. Secondly, BC Rail was running itself quite well, and turning a profit. The debt the government claimed was the motivation to sell a profit-making venture is a reality of rail companies. All rail companies have comparable debt. The profits of BC Rail were somewhere just under $100 million annually, meaning that our government sold the company for a 99 year lease for the profit it would make in 10, while failing to negotiate the best price possible, and leaving out the future coal revenue that needed to be factored in to give a realistic assessment of the worth of BC Rail. Thirdly, Translink is allowing bidding on things they cannot supply themselves. BC Rail was self-sufficient. It's also interesting that in your defense of the actions of Translink, you yourself point out that the poor choice in bidding by the Translink board has resulted in increased cost being passed on to those who require public transit, often those who are in the financial situation of being unable to afford a vehicle. So those who have no choice get screwed over just a little more. Elementary schools, regardless of how you believe curriculum should run, do not need their funding cut. Even if you want an increased focus on things like writing and other fundamentals, cutting the funding so that fewer materials are available, and class sizes are forced to increase is a detriment to the education of the students, due to decreased attention from teachers. I'm not sure where you went to school, but my school (Prince George Secondary School), as well as the rest of my district (57) were and always have been on the semester system. Justify cutting our funding in that case. Yes, money can be better utilized, but there is such a thing as cutting too much, and the manner in which the Liberals have done this (entering into signed contracts illegally and removing clauses they dislike, terminating school boards who turn in deficit budgets and replacing them with appointed councils, etc, etc, etc) is so oppositional to the people of the province that it creates a hostile environment before even considering reforms. Let's face it, if we have a $2 billion surplus in the province, those cuts weren't all necessary.

All of them are still available. Loser Anthems and Lofi aren't, but Loser Anthems is easy to find.

The NDP originally took over from the Socreds, who had run the province into the ground economically. The Socreds, incidentally, became the BC Liberals. The NDP then balanced the budget, before slipping into a deficit. The BC Liberals have enacted a 4 year long attack on everything that uses public funds to improve the lives of the public, going so far as to be cited as abusing workers rights by the UN. It's not surprising that the government has a surplus, they've drastically cut from everything, and the people of British Columbia are suffering as a result of it. I'm not sure where you're from, but if you like, I invite you to visit Prince George, or any other small community or city in the province, and see how people are doing. I hope you're not one of those fools who will be further sold on this corrupt disaster of a government (oops, documents revealing all of the bidding information in the BC Rail sale were "accidentally" faxed to the company that happened to win the bidding, even though another company bid more money!!!!!) by the pittances they're now offering in order to gain votes in the election (ooh, they've given 3.6 million to legal aid!!!!! Nevermind that they cut it by 30 million in the first place!!!!!). I'd rather have a party that fucked up, and fucked up bad the last time they were in power that has the best interests of the people of British Columbia in mind, rather than a party that's highly successful in their agenda to attack British Columbians.

Didn't he say after the Bayfest/threats about his wife thing that he was likely quitting music, and was quitting the internet again, and then he put out WLRRR? The "I quit the internet" proclamation is nothing he hasn't said before. I doubt he's about to quit making music.

I will be voting ndp provncially and nationally.