Dear Santa, thank you so much for all the overtime we were not supposed to get anymore because the program the city bought for millions of dollars is not in the least doing what it was supposed to do. End overtime. Thank you for all the fat cheques many of us have been getting for months and months now, you’re swell.
Thank you Santa that they didn’t listen when the union told them it would not work, and how ottawa went to court to have the same program that does not work trashed. Thank you ever so much.
It has been wonderful to double up on credit card payments and the mortgage, plus the children will have a great Christmas this year.
I’m so pleased with the way things turned out with the block picking program that has allowed me to buy myself and the family some really nice things not to mention being able to go on actual vacations out of the country.
So once again Santa thanks for the extra fat bank account and God bless you. —Overtime lover
This article appears in Dec 25-31, 2014.
THE INCOHERENT OVERTIME LOVER CONFUSES SANTA
“Dear Santa, thank you so much for all the overtime we were not supposed to get anymore because of the program the city bought for millions of dollars is not in the least doing what it was supposed to do.” Overtime lover
But if the program the city bought for millions of dollars is not doing the job it was supposed to do that means you will be getting all the overtime you used to get before the city bought the program which was supposed to eliminate that overtime. You should thank Santa and not confuse him with your sarcasm and apologize to Bitch for being incoherent.
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A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
My Hazard sense is telling me that this is actually a love! Or just someone’s way of telling us that the city is needlessly wasting this money??? I DUNNO, BUT I PICK OPTION A!!!
My guess is that OB considers himself a whistle blower. According to the OB, the city wasted its money on a time management system that doesn’t work and they were warned (by the union no less!) that it wouldn’t work.
That’s just one opinion, though.
This looks like the sort of thing the Coast’s intrepid reporters could look into. They seem to enjoy being the HRM taxpayer watchdog.
I think the consensus will be that we’d ALL like to get in in that action. What is the name if that program we need our employers to buy? Any scalped copies available?
Nah, I jest. I get a big fat cheque working regular hours; I set my own hours; and, I’m not tied to tedious Christian beliefs!
Happy New Year everyone!
Thanks Mr. M. You have a good one , as well.
I mean Hing Frogg. Don’t know why I confused you with another Bitcher.
Senior’s moment, probably.
What do we want?
Research into Alzheimers
When do we want it?
Pancakes and Matlock!
Yes, GDM/BDM seems to have me confused with someone else as well…
Just to be clear, I am Hing Frogg; our beloved Mr. Meaty was brutally murdered and even his ghost was exorcised!
But I’m certain Meaty lives on… there’s a little Meaty in all of us, non?
Now, someone mentioned peanuts and meatloaf?
Exactly – platitudes and menthols – the perfect recipe for a happy New Year.
so the LTWWB is only allowed ONE male homosexual???? I know I have the dyke slot all filled …..but I shall pass on the ‘meaty inside me’ unless its wrapped inside perogy dough
the word ‘dyke’ makes fymynyst jesus cry 🙁
COSMOPOLITANISM & EDUCATION
Since nothing is going on at the moment on Bitch I thought some might be interested in an article in the current edition of the Journal of Philosophy of Education put out by The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. Entitled “Re-envisioning the Future: Democratic Citizenship and Islamic Education” by Paul Smeyers of the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Yusef Waghid of Stellenbosch University (South Africa), their thesis is quite simple: Unless education is “cosmopolitan” in nature – i.e. it rejects patriarchy, uncritical obedience to the state, gender discrimination and blind patriotism – it cannot be said to be education at all. In the light of Islamic education which demands unquestioning obedience to the Koran in general and of jihadist groups like ISIS in particular, can the two words “cosmopolitanism” and “education” appear together coherently in the same sentence? I was particularly interested in Waghid’s resolution of the dilemma.
He points out that, “The point we are making is that Islamic education ought to involve the cultivation of cosmopolitanism otherwise its link with education would not be defensible at all.” So how does he resolve the dilemma since Islam, as presently seen on the world stage, is anything but cosmopolitan? Its very simple. Islam, it seems, comes in two flavours, a minimalist and a maximalist version. In the case of the minimalist version we see things like jihad, ISIS, the rejection and even the raping and execution of the infidel, the doctrinal “madrassas,” those Islamic schools which encourage memorizing the Koran, and so on. Clearly, the minimalist version of Islam precludes cosmopolitanism and, by logical extension, education itself. So what about the maximalist version?
Well, what the maximalist version of Islam does is – you guessed it – to cultivate cosmopolitanism. That’s right. Where cosmopolitanism demands “the capacity to deliberate as free and equal citizens in a democratic polity” so maximalist Islam does just that. Secondly and in the same way, where cosmopolitanism requires “conducting deliberations so that they are about the demands of justice for all individuals,” so maximalist Islam does that too. Thirdly, where cosmoploitanism demands that “learners should be taught not to condone the perpetuation of crimes against humanity,” so maximalist Islam does that as well.
So the take-away conclusion is that there was, after all, no contradiction between cosmopolitanism and Islamic education. I just thought you’d like to know.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Interesting post, montrealman.
Education is the key enabler of cosmopolitanism. That is why the leaders who want to maintain power try to limit education or turn it into the teaching of dogma. Misinformed and poorly educated people are easily manipulated and controlled.
Cosmopolitan education for all boys and girls around the world is the way forward. That should be the focus of the United Nations.
Our own education system is still a little lacking. A lot of people will take the word of a celebrity or some huxter selling a miracle cure over the word of experts with years of training and experience. The paranoia over the flu vaccine is one example.
RSVPS
: tbear (12:32PM)
As you say, education is the key enabler of cosmopolitanism and, where “cosmopolitanism” is to be understood as being identical with rationality, education is the key enabler of rationality itself. But what is rationality? Rationality is the habit of demanding reasons for another’s assertions as well as having reasons for one’s own. If there are no reasons supporting one’s assertions one is irrational which is the same thing as being tribal. From the perspective of cosmopolitanism, to be tribal is to be less than fully human, in fact a great deal less since rationality is co-extensive with humanity itself.
I’m not sure about your claim that cosmopolitanism “should be the focus of the United Nations.” Where cosmopolitanism and rationality are co-extensive concepts, rationality is the achievement of the individual and cannot be attained by any supra-individual agency. In other words, it is a personal transformation, not something that can be legislated from above.
: Master McCat. ESQ (12:50PM)
I would say that our own education is more than “a little lacking” if there are those who take the word of a celebrity or some huxter if either has given no reasons to agree with what they claim. It is more than “a little lacking” since, by so doing, those who take their word have surrendered theur rationality. They have surrendered their humanity. In the same way, one should not follow “experts with years of traning and experience” since there are no such “experts” in rationality, in judging the validity of competing reasons. It is case-specific. Such judgement is a personal achievement, not something received from “above.”
For the practitioner of rationality the “paranoia over the flu vaccine” was not so much a matter of being an expert in the efficacy of flu vaccines but rather attempting to assess the validity of competing claims about such efficacy. Why believe one rather than the other? What reasons were given? In the absence of special knowledge it seems the best the best thing to do would have been to “wait and see.” Or better yet, read up on the topic.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
LOL at those conspiracy fruitcakes who claim that vaccines cause autism. I got the shits once after getting the flu vaccine. The donair and salsa I ate had nothing to do with the poops though.
I agree with Master McCat that the Coast’s reporters should look into not just that, but a lot of things at transit.
That place (meaning management level) is a cesspool of hierarchical tyrants, who have soon forgotten from whence they have come, getting themselves into positions which if they tried for those jobs now at the level of education and training they had when they got these positions, they would never qualify for them now.
There would be endless possibilities for an eager reporter with a good ear and nose for a good investigative report into all that is corrupt at HAHA, HALIFAX TRANSIT.
Yours truly