Because they already did that. Miserable failure.
It cost Billions to warehouse people, made the crime rate go higher and was quite frankly, evil.

So a few years ago, they figured out what an abhorrent waste of money (and lives) it was, and they started doing stuff like rehab and community intervention.
And the numbers were and are startling.

But Harper and his crew will stick to the script, because that is what the single issue voters that support them want.

And the ones who are going to make a nice chunk'o'change want it too.

Private prisons are highly profitable. Taxpayer dollars pay to put people in prison for mandatory sentences, these corporations are not doing it as a community service.

Because.....It was too expensive to prosecute?
From Kos:

This is what austerity and shared sacrifice looks like in Topeka, Kansas: asking victims of violent crimes to sacrifice their right to justice because justice isn't in the budget.

Are y'all sure we are not in the twilight zone?

Well, we seem to be about the only blog that decorates for the Holidays, so why break with tradition?

In other housekeeping notes, we are going to finally upgrade this sad ol' thing to a newer version. Wheeee.
More bells and whistles and drag and drop blocks and stuff. Coming in November. (cue maniacal laughter)

Why must life constantly interfere with blogging? I ask you?

I have asked this question before. No one on the Conservative side can give an answer. Just more failed mythology and complete lies. Seriously. Not. One. Factual. Rebuttal.

Are the Canadian public really that dumb? It would appear that they are.

Recall a couple years back when Harper and his admin decided they were going to kill public funding of elections? And the outcry? And now they are doing it again?

But since almost 39% of the 60% of voters that bothered to get out there have sealed the fates for us...

What is the main message I see coming from the regular people of the US? The 99%?

Corporate money out of Government. 

There are also a lot of people who think that the US election system has to be completely overhauled to take corporate money out of the equation. Make elections publicly funded.

It looks like the #OccupyWallStreet marches have experienced some violence from the police. Batons, pepper spray....The media team for OWS sent out a short film of themselves from the back of a paddy wagon. Bruised, beaten. But still clever.

I have been on pins and needles all day and found some diversions.

This youtube channel has had me cracking up.
Very well done. And as someone who does depend on reading lips much of the time, totally plausible...

It does sound like some of her speeches....

CNN is desperately trying to fit these actions into a construct they can understand and capitalize on.

Today's suggestion is that #OWS will become a political party. A Liberal "tea party".

Their fear of the unknown is palpable.

The media keeps asking for the message? The DEMANDS. After basically ignoring it for three weeks.

Andy Cobb, has the answer! A MEDIA MAKEOVER.

"We have transformed Lewis into a grumpy, self entitled old white dude"

Some "establishment" people are getting this. 

Courtesy of the Globe and Mail.

The "report on business" reporter Michael Babad is fulfilling his purpose , deriding the #OccupyWallStreet protests happening in Vancouver, because it will be at the Art Gallery. Oh, he says he gets this whole occupy movement in other places but then he simply cannot figure out why they will be at the VAG? And he cannot just ask because, they don't do that in business reporting. It wasn't in the fax. oops.

The Art Gallery in Vancouver is housed in what used to be the Vancouver Courthouse.
It is also located right near the supreme courts, and much of the financial district in Vancouver. It is also about the only space that will hold the amount of people expected. One can get legal permits, it has a stage of sorts, and it is accessible.

Simple enough.

But then you really have to see the stoopid piling on in the comments of that piece. An example:

CTV tells tales for the bosses.

But the truth is Inconvenient. $75 Billion? Is that not big enough to qualify as a bailout?
Ah. looks like they missed it after they endorsed the Conservatives.

In contrast, in Canada, the granting of 75 billion dollars to Canada's chartered banks was implemented at the height of an election campaign, without duly informing the Canadian public. 

Canada's media and financial press bears a responsibility in this regard. The matter was barely mentioned. It passed virtually unnoticed a few days before a federal election. 

Want to know the ONE thing that separates us from our U.S. brothers and sisters? The one thing that is keeping us partly solvent and off the streets?

The ONE thing that if we lose it will dump us into the toilet personally and collectively as a country?

Healthcare.

This drum is one I have been beating for a long time. And I have a hard time understanding why it is not talked about more often.

There are still a few around who will tell you straight faced that the Harper Administration would not dare touch this sacred cow. Those are the Naive ones.

Because incrementally, piece by piece with a mahjoritay, and a rubber stamp senate? With Provinces who are getting more and more strapped for cash, and with the apathy of a sleeping public, this is an easy agenda to slide in.

I had CNN on in the kitchen today, and they decided to "cover" the #occupywallstreet story.
With a real twist.
According to the reporter (a term I use loosely, I have another description in my head)this occupation is totally unfocused. And because one of the people occupying the park is using an apple computer, somehow that negates the whole message. The woman is also wearing clothes probably made by a corporation.
I guess to be taken seriously and to have anything to say, according to corporate owned CNN, the protesters should be wearing leaves, living in Yurts, and communicating via smoke signal?

I have seen this bizarre argument before however, in the New York Times I think. A trader was totally mystified that one of the protesters was using an apple computer. I mean, he asked, do they know what that stock sells for?

#OccupyWallStreet, and the real stories of the 99%. I cannot look at this site without feeling sad and angry. Especially because this is what Stephen Harper and his cronies want for us too.

I rarely say, GO READ! Today, I will.

Go. Read. Get busy.

The corporate machine is still trying to keep the unrest that is being felt all over the world, Shhhhhhhhhhh.

But it is starting to get a little difficult to hide.  Them peons, and plebes are getting restless and angry because the hoarders of all the money in the world are just not happy. They still want more. They haven't drained every last penny from us. 

Yet.

Now that this anger is coming home to roost, they are working even harder to keep a lid on it.

I was listening to the radio during my travels today. I had News1130 on, because CBC was not clear in that area.
A bit by Blair Lekstrom (BC's minister of transportation) caught my ear.....Regarding the massively outrageous salary that our tax dollars have been paying to that other fucker David Hahn..And since 1130 just posts what they say on the radio...lookee here:

Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom says the government has already scaled back salaries for Hahn's successors. "He entered into an agreement. It is a contract that was negotiated in good faith. That stands as of today and it will stand."

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes. By all means. Hahn? He negotiated a gargantuan salary, on our dime. All's fair when the good ol'boyoz is meeting over a $500 dinner. 

But nurses and teachers and stuff...They are not in that club. Contracts entered into in good faith are torn up.

Today's version of a doorknock dinner. (working with what I had in the pantry) on the fly. It turned out awesome! Not for those watching fat and calories.

6 or so, red potatoes, sliced thinly and parboiled

1 lb of lean ground pork, browned

1/2 white onion, pureed in food processor.

1 tsp poultry seasoning

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups???? Cheddar cheese, grated

3 tbsp butter

3 tbsp flour

2 or so cups of milk. (whole, or 2%. Skim will not work as well)

6 eggs

pinch nutmeg.

3 tbsp Parmesan, grated

Prepare potatoes, parboil, let cool. Grease a lasagna pan with butter. line pan with potatoes.

Brown pork in a skillet, then turn down and add the onion, poultry seasoning and salt. saute for 2 minutes.

pour on top of potato layer.  Layer the rest of the potatoes on the meat. (Add about 1/4 of water to this, so that it doesn't dry out too much when baking)

Grated cheese on the potato layer.

Bechamel.

I had an interesting conversation at my place of work the other day.

Re: Obama's Birth Certificate.
I cannot respond to a lot of things at work, have to be all diplomatic and the like. But I am going to post about it here, and lay out the groundwork of a fake conspiracy.

I find it fascinating how internet meme's and Urban legends take off and become truth to some people.

No evidence, just a say so or headline by someone like.....Drudge. I am also using that Drudge example, because that happens to be where that particular tale of the Birth certificates came from.

1st claim: the Birth Certificate is a photoshop. Status, Not true.

Well, this legend was crafted at another right wing site. Drudge just pushed the headline, as he so often does. When it fits in with his ideology.
This particular urban legend also depended upon those who have no knowledge of how PDF's work.