Was there ever any doubt?

What happened with the polls? No one knows for sure.

But we just lost another whack of IQ points as a province.

A big ol'Fuck you to anyone who voted for the BC Lieberals, obviously you havent felt the pain so many of us have these last years. Masochism.

Ok, this one is mostly for us gurls.
The dreaded UTI hits. Some of us are used to getting them, and used to scrambling to get medical help as soon as possible. Drink that water, and make sure that you are near a loo at all times.
The pain is amazing at times, and just bloody makes it impossible to do anything.

I used to get a lot more of these but fortunately it has been a while. 6 years?

Until yesterday.....(cue the ominous dum dum dum!)

So when I was there at the doctors office, I asked for a good'ol standby, Pyridium.  Nasty stuff, but totally a lifesaver. It's an actual gawdsend when the UTI hits -until the antibiotics can kick a can'o'whoopass on the bacteria.

It has been discontinued in Canada.

You serious I said? WTF?

He wrote it on the RX just for the hell of it. 

At the Pharmacy.....

It's going to be a fabulous sunny day here!
While billions celebrate the whole religious deal, we just enjoy the turkey on sale, and the following Monday, Happy discount Chocolate day!
Of course the bunny was here, the little ones awoke verrrrrrrrrrry early to go on an Easter egg hunt, and man are they pissed that they cannot until the rest of the family gets out of bed.

Have you ever heard the real story of Jeshua Cottontail? Posting again this year. 

Ostara happened back on March the 20th. Spring is here. 
I have my sandals out already.

Either that or Enbridge....

571-441-0157
Country: USA
Location: Virginia (Alexandria, Annandale, Arlington)

The questions were about my commute to work, the reasons I oppose the pipeline, and what my opinion is of Enbridge. Environmental, First Nations objections, Risk to waterways.....etc
(Note: All of the above was not an option)

Funny that eh?
The next question was about what it would take to buy errrr secure mysupport for this environmental disaster; more oversight, JOBS!

Look to the right there at my blog badge and you can pretty much guess how I answered.

Major piss off, is they have to outsource a public opinion poll to the US. Scum of the earth, whomever is paying for this one.

 Just another slap in the face from the corporate masters. 

These last years in BC with the "Liberals" in charge have taken a toll on many of us.
Part of that cost has been the cynicism and distrust in anything any politician has to say. The BC Liberals lie to our faces.

Gordo resigned after the big HST debacle, you may remember that was where he lied and said that that tax was not even under consideration, and then rammed it down our throats anyway. Add to that the many many other shameful acts that party has committed in the name of "balancing" the budget.

Probably not, he will just hide under a rock until his "advice" is needed.
It always is. He just went too far this time, and needs to disappear for a while.

We shall be seeing Flanagan 2.0 soon enough. He will be suddenly enlightened.... or something. He will never say what he really thinks again. He sits on too many think tanks distributing his brand of politics. and they need his "brand".

Yanno, the Harper govt has a distinct pattern of not protecting children. Sure, fetuses are to be protected, kids? Flanagan has said vile and awful things before, but the Harper Govt is so full of sociopaths and horrible people, that most of his stuff passes.

It's OK to be a sexist pig. OK to be a racist, it's OK to advocate for political assassinations, but saying that child porn is a "victimless crime" stirred too many up in the Harper base. 

Pennywise, pound foolish?

A penny saved is a penny earned

Worth every penny.

Today the penny starts it's journey to being the new record/rotary phone/typewriters.

It will forever have a place in our culture, as vinyl records do in speech, and the old phones do in clipart and computer icons.

Kind of weird to think that in a few years the kids will have no idea how heavy these things were to carry around.
Even the googledoodle is commemorating this day.

I have a coffee can full of pennies on the fridge, I will just leave them there. It's a wonderful weighty thing....

But the best tribute of all, to the much maligned penny will live on in worn cliches.

Like a bad penny, they will always turn up!

In my latest health odyssey (Trip thru the medical purgatory of hospital incompetence) I have had lots of time to perseverate on my diet and other things.

I am now on a lower salt diet in an attempt to lower the ol' BP even more. I find the BP meds pretty crappy. There is a side effect for everything. It's like making a wish, there is a good and bad.
I hate big pharma more and more, daily.
I would like to stop taking this bullshit medication.

So, My own tips for navigating this new world:

Cheese is a big no no. Swiss is ok in moderation, it's the lowest in sodium.

I found low salt potato chips, not bad. I don't eat massive amounts anyway, just a handful every few days. It fills the salt/treat void.

Soy sauce is deadly for sodium, so that's off my list. Using low sodium soup stock now in place of a lot of salt stuff. I made chow mien the other day, no soy sauce.

Peanut butter and onions. Yup, that is the current breakfast food in my life. I get the all natural peanut butter. No added salt, sugar or fat. On homemade bread, toasted.

Yup. The same free market prophets that consistently bitch and whine about FREEDUM and preach hateful things about all the not white people. SUN TV.

They have applied for mandatory carriage with the CRTC.
Its because they say they are losing MILLIONS a year because no one wants to pay extra for their particular brand of pig slop.

Geeze. Why don't they advertise then? Like other multimillion dollar corporations have to do?
Because they are them. And we are us. 

I pay enough already for cable.

Plenty enough, and yanno? I don't want to pay extra so that Ezra can keep standing on his bully pulpit spewing racist, oil funded-climate change denial bullshit. I don't want to pay so that Brian Lilley can keep preaching his own brand of stoopid.

I hope Santa was good to all the good boyz and girlz.

We are sitting here in the Batcave having a quiet holiday. Its a scaled down affair.
The kidlets are happy with whatever Santa brought, which with today's consumer kids is amazing in and of itself. They got a whole lot of art supplies.
The grownups here are happy the lights are on and that there is food in the fridge. LOL

As for wishes, I am just hoping to be able to walk this coming year.

And although we are all supposed to celebrate good will and cheer and all that stuff, I sincerely hope a certain Dr gets a stocking full of reindeer shit. :)

Now, some tolerable Christmas songs! Heh.

Carol of the Bells.......Sorta. But totally awesome!

Check it out!

As Star writer Tonda MacCharles reported on Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is mulling a sweeping set of proposals from the pro-gun camp that would further water down federal controls. In future, gun owners’ licences would run for 10 years or longer without renewal, up from five now. Paperwork now required to transport weapons would be waived. And certain prohibited firearms — ranging from small, easily concealed handguns to full-bore assault weapons—would be reclassified as restricted, making them easier to sell or transfer.

That is one thing I simply do not get about the Con party supporters? Their rush to the bottom, their absolute desire to take us in a direction of proven failure and destruction.

Why? Many other countries do not have the level of violence that the US does, and that is where a sane person would want to go.

a thread on twitter, #CPCXmasCarols inspired this song. Sing along!

on the first day of austerity, Harper gave to me, a pink slip made from a tree....

On the second day of austerity, Harper gave to me, a thousand dead ducks,
and a pink slip made from a tree...

On the third day of Christmas Harper gave to me, higher income inequality, a thousand dead ducks  and a pink slip made from a tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas Harper gave to me, polluted lakes and streams,  higher income inequality, a thousand dead ducks  , and a pink slip made from a tree.

On the fifth day of christmas, Harper gave to me............. F-35s!!!

polluted lakes and streams,  higher income inequality, a thousand dead ducks  , and a pink slip made from a tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas Harper gave to me poisoned tainted beef,

F-35's!!!

I will always turn up....

I have been away a fair bit.

Couple items:

I experienced a small heart attack. No pain really, just a tightness in the chest and some arm and back pain. I was at work, and drove myself to the emerg. (not the best plan) Ya..... As Dr Prole said. OMG! That's so YOU!
anyhoo. All was fine on the EKG but they ran lots of bloodwork and six hours later the enzymes were elevated. Blah blah.

No going home for you! I was hooked up to machines that go PING!

After a few days of waiting in the hospital, making the nurses absolutely crazy and complaining about the food (Anyone who knows me can imagine how this went. It wasn't actually food, more like reconstituted kibbles'n'bits with less salt. That may be another blog post, I have pictures to share) I was shipped to another hospital for an angiogram.
Now, I don't want to frighten anyone, but that test? Holy shite.
They clamp you to the fucking bed to close the femoral artery afterwards.

Seriously. Totally fucked up.

Good news. My heart is just dandy. No sign of heart disease. YAY! ME!
Bad news, I am just a stressed out git who decided to blow. Stress thing.

Last night a huge sigh of relief could be heard across North America and many other parts of the world, the Republican party lost pretty badly.

They not only lost badly, they really hadn't seen it coming.
President Obama was re-elected by a good enough margin to nullify many complaints that the GOP will come up with in the week's ahead.

And I will add that there was one more handicap, the electoral suppression being perpetrated by that same GOP in many state legislatures.

Now, I am not one of those who ever got caught up in the fantasy that Obama is somehow some great progressive hope. He's a middle of the road moderate in many ways, with some extra weight to the right on all fiscal issues. Corporate America has actually done very well under his watch, despite all their whining and carrying on to the contrary.

But back to the GOP and their very own media outlet getting caught with their pants down, as this fascinates me to no end. This video is hilarious, it shows the FOX talking heads going from giggling assured-ness early on, to total panic late in the evening. Ya. They is Fair and balanced. YUP! See, fair and balanced? That means that one doesn't take sides. Was there a smidgeon of doubt that the loss was a crushing personal blow to those airheads last night? 

Rove spent $300 million on this election, I betcha his donors want their money back this morning. Heh. Sucks to be him today.

The twitter has been alive today with mentions of a certain community newspaper that told a freelancer she could no longer cover actual news because of the petulant whinging of MP James Bezan, and then basically cut all ties with her because as a private citizen she signed a petition letter that hurt that same HarperCon MP's wittle foo foo.

Apparently he has a history with all the local papers. I mean, we know that the Conservative party is attempting to stimulate the economy through media intervention.  Screw roads and bridges and healthcare, they would much rather sink our tax dollars into advertising. Don't you know there are starving CEO's?

This story also has an interesting side twist that the PMO may be punishing people who protest what they are doing. The petition letter was sent to the MP and the PMO.