Look at these bums I photographed today. Sitting right on Portage and Donald passing the sherry bottle back and forth. They were starting to catcall the ladies walking by. Can't these clowns find a more discreet place to get loaded and obnoxious? No, they like it in the action, they like getting drunk in the middle of the big city.
The media's political correctness on this Lorrie Steeves comments about drunken native guys is pathetic. It's not their fault, they were tortured and abused in the residential schools. A CBC guy even asked one of them, "were you abused in the residential school?" Can't these people handle any responsibility for there disgusting behavior?
Look at these bums I photographed today. Sitting right on Portage and Donald passing the sherry bottle back and forth. They were starting to catcall the ladies walking by. Can't these clowns find a more discreet place to get loaded and obnoxious? No, they like it in the action, they like getting drunk in the middle of the big city.
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This week many pundits have all but declared Gord Steeves’ campaign dead in the water. As we all know by now, Gord’s wife wrote a Facebook post out of frustration, four years ago, about constantly being harassed and feeling threatened in downtown Winnipeg. Her mistake? Aside from the obvious (having a Facebook profile), she generalized all vagrants and panhandlers as being native. Of course, not all vagrants are of aboriginal decent. She forgot to qualify by writing “often,” etc. Perhaps she was just trolling! Either way, I get the sense that this whole issue may actually boost support for Gord’s campaign. Downtown Winnipeg can be a dangerous place. Run of the mill random assaults and muggings don’t even make the news anymore, they are so common. Yours Truly was once jumped and assaulted by a pack of four young ‘aboriginal in appearance’ thugs on a downtown sidewalk in daylight. Punched, kicked, choked, spat upon… but as I didn’t have any money on me at the time to be stolen, it was not classified as a ‘non-commercial robbery’ and as such, didn’t even get an icon on the city’s CrimeStat website. Other members of this blog also had the misfortune of being mugged and/or assaulted downtown over the years as well. Winnipeg’s delusional civic cheerleaders make claims and fallacies such as “I’ve never had a problem downtown, so obviously there has never ever been problems downtown.” However, most Winnipeggers do not wear blinders or have an agenda to make the city seem safer than it actually is. They remember the many news stories out of downtown such as that very public stabbing/murder on Canada Day Eve at Main & Broadway this year witnessed by Happy Suburbanite Families on the way to Canada Day Fireworks, or “Homeless Hero” Faron Hall assaulting a female doctor in front of her young children. Such awful stories particularly form a person’s opinion of downtown safety and are not forgotten such as the guy who was assaulted for simply wearing the wrong colour, the teenagers randomly attacking multiple innocent people with a hatchet, or a group of ten men mugging someone and then slashing the victim afterwards just for good measure. And these are just a small sample of downtown crime stories. Yikes! While not an accurate poll, try sorting comments on news sites or Reddit by popularity/agreement on stories about the whole Lorrie Steeves Facebook flap. Those comments that are most popular are usually in support of what she posted and Gord wanting to ‘clean up downtown.’ And what effect is there in Gordon Sinclair and Dan Lett having orgasms over the whole Facebook post and wasting barrels of ink over it? Well, those guys are so out of touch with your average Winnipegger that when people read such op-eds, they are likely to think ‘wow, if Sinc/Lett believes this, the opposite must actually be true.’ Remember when former Alberta premier Ralph Klein made a drunken visit to a homeless shelter, tossed money on the ground and yelled at them to get jobs? That didn’t hurt his popularity one bit, it gave him a boost. Why? Because many (if not most) Albertans were in agreement, even though it wasn’t politically correct. If a Winnipegger has not experienced violence or felt threatened downtown personally, they more than likely know of someone close to them who had such troubles downtown. My guess is that most Winnipeggers can empathize with the frustration that Lorrie Steeves felt, even if they were not a victim themselves, and they’re not going to hold it against Gord. People can also be understanding, as who hasn’t written something in the heat of the moment that they could have worded better? As regular readers may recall, I have been critical of Gord Steeves before and am in no way a supporter of his campaign. I’m just providing analysis as I see it, and my instinct is telling me that this may not have been a bad week for Gord’s campaign, in fact, I wouldn’t at all be surprised if he gets a boost of support from it. The Midtown Troll For related reading here at the DSC, check out “Please… Don’t Give the Bum Anything!” by Angry Downtownite. As always, the DSC has uncovered the news behind the scenes, the lies within the hushed silences, and the complete ridiculousness of living in prison cell boxes that scum lords pass off as "apartments". When the ticking of your tock is washed away by the sounds of your downtown neighbours visceral digestions and ejaculations, when you look for answers to the strangeness that is downtown Winnipeg, the DSC will be there to provide the news that matters. As reported earlier, there was an afternoon occurrence at 87 Smith Street that had coppers, paramedics and old ladies living across the hall, collectively shaking their heads. The DSC very early on collected some important details about the event, namely, the involvement of a human head, a cat, and a freezer. These three components seem to be the players in the Smith Street fiasco. It has been uncovered that a hapless Downtownite decided to save 20 cents and get his pet cat cheaper food. Big mistake...according to police. Constable O' Penbottom stated, " The cat was apparently very picky about what food it would ingest. As the days went by and the cat rejected the food, the feline turned hunger into anger." The crazed, famished cat had taken enough of its "owner's" selfishness and attacked his face. The dumb struck 30 something year old Winnipegger attempted to console and remove the cat from his head but was unable to do so. He eventually thought it would be a good idea to stick his head, with cat, into the freezer to try and relax the feisty feline. Constable O'Penbottom continued,
" As the man waited for the cat to be affected by the cold of the freezer, his profusely bleeding head froze to the inside of the freezer. When we arrived on the scene, we saw the tenant standing completely limp, held up by the head in the freezer with an ice ball mixture of blood, drool, and the cat." Paramedics managed to crack the ice off the mans head and the tenant was rushed to hospital where he is recovering from multiple face lacerations and frost bitten ears, nose and gums. The frozen, starved, barely living cat was sold to one of the many food trucks parked on Broadway. DSC News Bulletin Services As emergency crews work to prevent further situations, it would seem a bit of a mishap occurred at 87 Smith Street Apartment Block at around 2 pm today. While details are scant, we here at the DSC News Bulletin Services will work diligently to present you with the fallicies of facts that will undoubtedly be uncovered. Early word states there may be a human head, a freezer and a hungry cat involved. Stay Tuned! (Continued HERE)
Eccentric Harvey referred to himself as an "old resilient bastard" on the radio the other day. The 78 year old is ready for another run for city council. He was elected to the Winnipeg City Council in 1980 for the division of Sargent Park, retaining his seat until 1986.
In the provincial election of 1986, Smith was elected in the Winnipeg riding of Ellice, defeating Progressive Conservative Seech Gajadharsingh by over 2,000 votes. He was not appointed to the cabinet of Howard Pawley, and lost to Liberal Avis Gray by 724 votes in the 1988 election. In 1998, Smith came out of political retirement to run for the Winnipeg City Council again, representing the Daniel McIntyre Ward on city council. In 2002, he was re-elected over Maureen Pendergast by almost 3000 votes. Despite being the incumbent candidate, Smith lost the endorsement of the NDP going into the 2010 civic election in favour of Pat Martin's constituency assistant Keith Bellamy. Smith decided to contest this decision and ran as an independent in the 2010 Winnipeg civic election.On October 27, 2010, Smith won a narrow victory over four other candidates and retained his seat as councillor for the Daniel McIntyre ward. In 2004, he filled out the NDP nomination forms for a provincial by-election in the riding of Minto, but soon withdrew from the race. Harvey had a secret... CBC April, 2007: The apartment of a Winnipeg city councillor has been deemed insanitary by the city's environmental health services department. Harvey Smith, who represents the Daniel McIntyre ward in Winnipeg, has moved out of his suite in the Marie Apartments on Alverstone Street in the West End neighbourhood he represents. Building caretaker Normand McKay says earlier media reports that Smith was evicted are incorrect. "He wasn't evicted, and if he would have cleaned up, he'd still be living here," McKay said. "If you don't abide by the health rules, by the health department and stuff — like, they even told him to clean up because it was unsafe for anybody to live in.The way it was, I wouldn't even let my dog live here." McKay says he found mouse droppings and year-old food in Smith's apartment. "I filled out three bins of his garbage and I'm still cleaning up the apartment, the way he left it," McKay said. The closing order for Smith's suite indicates inspectors found a "large accumulation of household garbage, debris, filth and hoarding of items throughout the suite," according to a report in the Winnipeg Free Press. For his part, Smith says he's not surprised his apartment was ruled unfit for human habitation. "I mean, I agree with it. It's the walls. It's the physical condition of the apartment," he says. "When the roof leaked, they repaired the roof but they didn't bother repairing the wallpaper where the water had come down." Smith admits he had a lot of belongings, including thousands of books, records and old furniture, such as an old radio from the 1930s. "But it was all neat and clean." Smith believes he was forced out of his apartment by the landlord after he stood up for another tenant. "I made the landlord angry… because I went to bat for the tenant across the way," he says. "They tried to evict him and the Rentalsman's decision quoted me as saying the tenant was quiet and responsible." I wonder if Harvey has strange odours? Zen Yetimoto (previous Cyberspace Artifact HERE)
I should have taken Cheryl shopping more often: she was always unfulfilled. I should have beaten that customer to death rather than pretending I cared. Fuck all those customers. Their time is coming. Come, taste death, assholes. I am glad I managed to clean the bathroom each week. My toilet was always crystalline perfection. Who’s going to clean it now? Tomatoes are on sale for 1.59 per lb this week. One should never miss deals like this. We find the heroic in the everyday. Yes! I closed the McKellar deal and managed that account! So deeply satisfied. Death is easier now. Wasted time waiting for cabs, busses, flights and rides. Did I make use of the time? Consciousness became time. I waited, only waited. Waiting to die, now. I wish I had spent more time with the upkeep of the house. That seems so important now. Not sure what was more pleasant: terminal cancer or those fucking romcoms Cheryl insisted I watch. Yeah, let’s watch Knocked Up again. Sounds fun. The Queen is not dead. Makes no difference. She has a replacement. Wake up Canada! Dump her. Build your own heritage and future. If coughing makes me shit, is that bad? Religion offers no comfort. The morphine drip does. Death rarely comes at the right time but at least I'm high. How much alcohol did I drink? Certainly three bottles a week for nearly four decades. 6240 bottles not including the good stuff. Good time for a drink. Glad to have spent most Sunday dinners with Cheryl’s distasteful family. 22 years of unspoken bitterness. More indigestible than her mother’s food. Dying with Mr. Harper at the helm is gratifying. Strong governance, fiscally conservative and socially progressive. Canadians are blessed. The DSC. Their words and images I shall always remember. Well, at least until I am dead, which apparently won’t be long now. To blog is to live. How much time did I spend waiting for Cheryl? Was it years? Late for every event. Always fucking late. Dying early, that’s my revenge. I’ll miss the opening of the CMHR. The history of the oppression of the world’s people presented in Friendly Manitoba. ‘Welcome to MB, would you like to see some pictures of genocide?’ Herr Doktor Good afternoon and thank-you for your kind thoughts during this precarious recovery period. Due to the pending cases I will not be fielding questions. I am very weak. I have been advised to say the following: An altercation took place. I was injured. Those facts may or may not be related. I was attacked by a person that appeared to be angered by my provocations. Again, that has yet to be confirmed or denied in the courts. The injuries sustained by me were the result of my assailant using a spoon; something I haven’t used or seen since. The assailant was a man and he hurt me. The courts will determine whether he hurt me or not. The Crown agrees with my version of what now is a “story”. We know where the event occurred and that there were 17 witnesses. Some of these witnesses may or may not be discredited. Justice is lofty. I am not interested in justice. That’s the Court’s issue, not mine. You think I was angry before? Well, the bar has been raised. When I return to work I intend to unleash my blind rage on all meat eaters, the meat and automobile industries, global warming deniers, Mr. Harper’s Government, and any local restaurant that fails to satisfy my dietary expectations. This horrific event has provided a sharper focus for my vitriol. Few outside my inner circle will escape my wrath-laden words. I want your money, not your sympathy. My besotted friend, Herr Doctor, is accepting donations on my behalf so please speak to him at the close of this statement. This has been a difficult time for all involved and my gratitude to those of you who showed concern as my gut sac spilled gently onto the floor. Special thanks go to the guy with the shop vac and plastic bags. I appreciate the gesture. No, really. Thank-you and Good Day AV Your salary is based on 2080 hours. You are expected, of course, to work more than that without pay. A few extra hours worked on weeknights and the weekends are well spent. Work/life balance means spending more time at work and less time with your personal life. The balance is always in favour of your employer.
Each year middle management is expected to deliver more: more hours, more positive results, more success, more revenue... but you will receive the same pay. Salary caps allow the Board of Directors to further line their pockets with gold. This is your duty: make them wealthier. That is a demonstration of strong corporate citizenship. ‘Professionalism’ is a word used to suppress difference and dissent. It is similar to ‘dignified’ and ‘auspicious’. It entails adhering to the values and norms of the moneyed classes (white and protestant), especially if you do not belong to them. Corporations believe perception is reality. They are philosophically illiterate and have never seen David Blaine. Corporate dress code: If a customer service rep wears a necktie, his job performance will improve. Profits go down when ties come off. Cuss only when the door to your office is closed, otherwise people will hear you and would be offended if not threatened. The ruling classes do not swear. That is the language of the less than privileged classes. Drinking at a corporate event is unacceptable. A glass of wine at dinner is enough. At all times you are to demonstrate leadership qualities. Behave as if you are attending a church (an austere one). Merit increases are related to performance reviews. Ensure that your best performer (that is the person who always delivers your results) only gets a small increase; a point or so above the rest of the team. Glowing reviews do not lead to improved performance. Profits would flat line otherwise. Micromanage. Get waist deep in your team’s performance. Question everything about their work. Keep them unsettled. Drive your results. This is your career; don’t let them ruin it. Don’t give them breathing room. Create the illusion that they have independence. Manipulate. Employees must give up their values for those of the corporation. To respect people in and of themselves is not the goal. Respect them because if you do not you will lose productive hours in HR meetings and disgruntled employees. That is not money well spent. Higher morale is good for profitability. Be grateful that you are working for the corporation. However, the corporation is not grateful you are working for them. You are a disposable resource. Productive or not, if profitability can be increased by eliminating your job, it will be done. (continued HERE) Herr Doktor And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God had created and made. Book of Genesis Chapter 2:1-2 -Standard King James Version How would God bless and sanctify this day? On day seven, religious bureaucracies, officers, and clergy were nonexistent. No one was authorized to witness, accurately record, interpret, and administer these holy acts. Adam and Eve (as images created in the likeness of God) are about a day old. Right now they know shit; especially as they have not yet eaten from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Similarly, the Word has not yet been created. Communication must have been tenuous if not impossible. These were acts that must have carried no meaning for them. They were still reeling from the events of the past few hours, unaware of thought; existing without self-awareness and only receiving perceptual stimulus. I suspect that Adam and Eve missed the events of day seven but, if they were present, they would have had no context by which they could comprehend what God enacted. On day seven, God’s energy expenditure would be more casual, less forceful; an afterthought or add-on at the end of a busy week. The sort of energy required to bless and sanctify must require less effort than bringing physical reality into being. As God needs rest, he cannot be omnipotent. There may have been gaps in the plan. One can’t predict every contingency; any introductory course in project management and implementation would clearly demonstrate this. Blessing and sanctification are more traditional religious events that appear at the end of God’s project. Here, the spiritual follows the physical. Adam and Eve may have been created in the image and likeness of God but they had yet to receive a proper religious education. There is no mention of prayer, fasting, service or whether the first couple was interested in ‘spiritual’ pursuits. The practical acts of blessing and making holy must have been met with bewilderment or indifference. I suspect that God’s labour on day seven may not have taken all day. What was a full day’s work in those early moments in Judeo-Christian history? My grandparents worked much longer hours than I ever did and that was only several decades ago. Day seven’s efforts did not require twenty-four hours, did they? That’s not rest. If God needed to rest, he set the precedent for active rest as he was engaged in some activities. Once completed, what did he do? How much time did he have left before the beginning of his next work week? What does a less than omnipotent spiritual being do to rest? As rest is recovery from energy expenditure, I wonder what kind of energy God utilized. Consider the forces required to create the earth and heavens and all therein. That’s got to be exhausting. He laboured for six days and, given the scope of the project, he didn’t give himself much time for recovery. How was his energy replenished? That is, what is restorative for a god of his status? Maybe he was engaged in quiet prideful reflection on the events of the past week. Though, I don’t see how thinking about work on a day off is restful. We learn later that God is proud and vengeful so he is subject to more flaws than a basic lack of power would suggest. Active rest is important so maybe he also took a walk in the garden, went flying or spent time at the beach and ate mangoes. As he was near omnipotent he could do just about anything he wanted. Unfortunately there is no record of his time out of the office. Maybe he just sat on a deck, beer in hand, and watched the world go by. That is time well spent, indeed. Herr Doktor As the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is nearing its opening, we’ve been getting bombarded with puff pieces and tweets about an urban and economic renaissance that is said to surely follow in Winnipeg. This is simply out of touch with Winnipeg’s reality and character. Winnipeg is not now, nor will it ever be, the next great metrosexual paradise, and the CMHR will not change this fact one bit. Winnipeg is best represented by Salisbury House, not Trendy Hipster Coffee Parlour. And that’s okay. Our city’s character is clear to most Winnipeggers, so it is laughable how out of touch some so-called urbanists and CMHR proponents are with the city. A new building will not go up on every surface parking lot because of the CMHR, nor will people choose to move to Winnipeg and buy million dollar condos because of it. All the propaganda about such an upcoming renaissance is designed to make taxpayers feel they will be getting value for the $300+ million of public money going into the CMHR. For example, Brent Bellamy, the “On Architecture” columnist at the Winnipeg Free Press has at least twice (1,2) posited that Winnipeg will experience the ‘Bilbao Effect.’ In short, the idea is that Winnipeg will see the increase in tourism and become an urbanist mecca like what happened in Bilbao, Spain, following the opening of their Guggenheim Museum in 1997. Of course, Winnipeg is no Bilbao. Fortunately, two excellent and rational Winnipeg bloggers have previously responded to this claim and detailed key differences between Winnipeg and Bilbao (see these posts at Anybody Want a Peanut and The View from Seven). I’ll hammer home the point that when people choose vacation destinations, they usually choose fun and/or relaxation, not somber experiences. An exception to this is if actual notable history happened at the site, such as visiting Auschwitz. ‘Interactive video screens’ with minimal actual artifacts are unlikely to be a big draw. It is doubtful that multiple and justified controversies will be a positive way bring out the tourists (e.g. ‘come to this taxpayer-funded shrine to political correctness, and human hypocrisy and ego’). Tourists may visit such a museum if they already happen to be a tourist in a city. However, Winnipeg does not have any substantial attractions to lure tourists to it from outside of this region (sorry, The Forks is just not all that special or unique, and the only out of town visitors coming to IKEA or Jets/Bombers are likely from rural Manitoba). For its first year, sure, many people from Manitoba will visit the CMHR out of curiosity. Yours Truly is even going to see the darned thing (with reviews to follow here at the DSC). After Year 1, I predict most visitors will be students on forced fieldtrips and some Canadian armed forces personnel as part of their training. The CMHR has tried to put one over the public previously by sneakily including online visitors in their projections of “visitors to this museum.” No doubt they’ll feel the need to manipulate the visitor stats again; this is something that seeing it once is enough, it’s not the sort of attraction people would normally make a yearly visit to so the real visitor counts will quickly decline. How is it then that many of the so-called ‘urbanists’ who sing the Gospel of Jane Jacobs and spend much time thinking/tweeting about Winnipeg urban issues do not recognize these truisms, parrot the CMHR propaganda, and believe that a single and dubious government mega-project will rejuvenate the city? Because for them, support for the CMHR is entirely about adding a tall glass spire to Winnipeg’s skyline – at any cost. The Midtown Troll For other related DSC reading, see "The Museum of Human Hypocrisy (or The Shrine to Ego" by Angry Downtownite. The DSC-NBS always has its ears to the curb and eyes to the street, and it just so happens that while looking on the street we discovered a top secret government memo. It is our duty and privilege to share this revealing document to you, the DSC Readers. While unsurprising, it would seem apathy and corruption continue to haunt the public sector. This particular memo "reminds" employees of the public sectors core values, which include fear and intimidation and self sabatoge. We at the DSC do have empathy for the current environment confronting federal employees, but the reality is, the whole public service industry has systemic issues that need to get worked out, one way or another. Remember, when your put on hold for 45 minutes while a government worker looks up your file, there is a specific reason for it...and you heard it here first, at the DSC!
The DSC News Bulletin Services Note: Due to the ongoing legal issues and, in order to ensure the safety of the victim, the Court has recently lifted a legally imposed publishing ban. Some details are now available.
The DSC’s own Angry Vegan, the most recent addition to the DSC Blog Team, has been convalescing at a local ashram after multiple reconstructive surgeries and a lengthy stay in hospital. The medical team is pleased with his progress and has released him under medical supervision. Locals said he was savagely beaten by a meat eating, women-hating, limp-dicked, sclerosis-ridden workingman. Local police described the carnage as the kill floor at your favourite abattoir. Witnesses also describe watching what appeared to be a butcher gutting a calf. When Police and Rescue arrived at the scene the Angry Vegan was a trembling, quivering sack of dislodged meat. The perpetrator of this heinous act had overheard the Angry Vegan make a disparaging comment about grain fed beef. Witnesses state that he also claimed that certain American beers, made under license in Canada, were flavoured and made, in part, with corn. The Angry Vegan appeared to enjoy provoking Burt Geddoe, 35, of Tungsten Grange but things went south quickly after Mr. Vegan proclaimed that Ford, GM and Chrysler were foreign cars in Canada just as a Toyota was. The Angry Vegan is well known to the residents of the area; many of whom were deeply shocked that their loveable curmudgeon was subjected to such cruelty. However, some did say that though they were fond of AV (as he is known); something was bound to happen eventually given the provocative and confrontational nature of his personality. Though Police have yet to release full details (it is uncertain if they will ever be permitted by the Court), Geddoe has been charged with aggravated assault, unnecessary use of force and improper use of a spoon. He faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison. Lobby groups from the federal and provincial meat industries, and the American car manufacturing sector are providing Geddoes with legal and financial support. The Angry Vegan is using a Legal Aid lawyer for the pending civil cases launched against him. We expect a public statement from the Angry Vegan once lawyers manage to set clearly defined parameters for trial and police report press releases. It’s possible that even given the horrendous violence to which he was subjected, Mr. Vegan could face millions of dollars worth of legal costs and owed settlements to the interested parties. The civil cases are being built as the criminal trial proceeds. The criminal trial is expected to last six weeks. The DSC News Bulletin Services and Herr Doktor |
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