Wow, I’ll bet it will be a long time before people are tempted to ‘try out’ the NDP. This toolbox goes and tells the school boards to submit an evaluation of how a certain percentage drop in funding will affect them and when they do, and tell us about it, he’s all “well we weren’t actually going to do that, it was just an exercise, they must have known that…” What kind of fuck-wad response is that? Look, I don’t want to get into the whole ‘teachers make too much money and have summers off’ bullshit, either. Save it for the other newspaper, ok? You idiots voted for a moron. Thanks a lot. —Cranky
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I hope those Orange Bastards get wiped off the face of the political map next elections. I’ve had it with these thieving, lying assholes – they want to make all these dramatic cuts yet an MLA can still get 75% of his/her fucking salary as a pension after 15 years. Self-serving bunch of twats – they’ll see the average Joe rot rather than lift their heads from the trough.
I wonder, if the NDP got in when a woman was ‘manning’ the party, would things have been different? I wonder when we will get the chance to find out.
oh, I’m not sure NDP will be chosen for a good long while after this fiasco, Kim.
I wonder which way the student vote will fall next time.
I’m just sayin’…it seems the NDP got in, because Novascotians were finally fed up enough to make a drastic change…but, when will they be fed up enough to let a woman give it a shot? The Americans, FINALLY, allowed an ethnic leader, but only when it came to down to that or allowing a woman to head the country.
Sadly Kim, neither George W. nor Hillary Rodham will get the credit they deserve for the role they played in electing America’s first black president.
yeah okay o.p., the ndp aren’t the best, but look at the rest. the libs. have been collectively ripping us off for years, ditto the cons. so, in comes ndp, to try and right all the past wrongs, and are doing some, and then, not even a month in, people start to haul down on them. i laughed my ass off quite a few times, reading the rants, from the shills the other 2 groups put in the comments of various papers.
so o.p., do this then, run for political office, if you think you can do any fucking better. or join a monk colony on some deserted island, where there is only you, and your lofty ideas of how things should be run, and see if you don’t want someone else to take over from you.
I suspect that if it came down to re-electing Dex or letting a woman in, Novascotias would suddenly think Dex wasn’t so bad. They want great change yet fear to change greatly.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results. “
i think if the guy doesn’t look like this they won’t vote http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lghr17100+old-…
It is way past itme to rid ourselves oif the over bloated BS agenciy called the schoolboards. We’ve got fucking 8 of them in Nova Scotia doing fuck all for students & sucking up over 3 million dollars in wages doing it ! Lord only knows how much extra is spent in rent, power, heat office staff etc !
Fire the whole damn bunch of them, have 1 central board…say in Truro, the hub of the Province. Its not fucking rocket science if 8 boards suck up 3mill +, divide by 8 = 375,000 for 1 board.
There you go instant savings of 2,625,000+, we pay for one useless group & they can continue to do nothing!
More – so you have found $2.6mn.
Any more bright ideas where to find another $97.4 mn ?
French immersion ?
School closures ?
Wage freeze ?
IB ?
We Canadians seem to have a tolerance for political reaming that is unbelievable. We keep taking it though, so why wouldn’t DD just become one of the bobble-heads and not honor any promises? We just bitch and bitch and bitch, but we don’t get all over our MLA’s or whatever and read them the riot act…
We could always just take PEI.
Just all just show up one day and say, “we’re taking it”.
Shut down the bridge to NB and we’ll all call it Neist Nova Scotia.
We’ll just fill it with resorts and sell inclusive packages at a premium to our very own tourist island.
We could make $97 MM that way…
and Michael Smith would be a Nova Scotian!
win win. (well, except for everyone else in PEI… but “the needs of the many…” and we outnumber them)
Maybe if NFLD ‘takes’ us, we can be a ‘have’ province for a change.
I think we have enough booze to ward off Newfoundland.
Let’s just hope they show up before 10 pm or some crazy nova scotians will undoubtedly piss and whine about how it’s too late to get their newfy friend a case.
I think I’d like to go to Marble Mountain and try snowboarding. Of course, I should likely try it first on one of the crappy, kiddy hills that is closer in proximity to Halifax…..
But I bet that would be a blast.
The newfies will think we’re backwards. Imagine not being able to pick up beer along with a quart of milk and a loaf of bread!
It’s still better than Ontario – i tells ya, the “beer store” system sucks. imagine, having to make 2 stops!