(WE are the HOSEES)
Our per gallon price of gas in the City of Toronto today is: $5.82
The price in Buffalo per Imperial gallon, if you could buy gas that way in Buffalo,
is: $4.41. The fact is the Americans are paying 25% less for gasoline than we are!
And of course, in the Greater Toronto area, all the pumps owned by the majors(Shell, Esso, Petrocan, Sunoco and
Husky) show the SAME price: it’s the gasoline sellers’ salute to Toronto’s Winterlicous prix fixe restaurant event that just concluded.
And it comes to us courtesy of the Federal Competition Act, or is that Anti-Competition.
Toronto per litre price: 1.28. Buffalo per litre price: .97!!!! Imperial gallon: 4.546 litres; U.S. Gallon: 3.785 litres.
So, if we are being hosed by them–that makes us the hosees!
(Travelling and Contemplating)
Some days it feels like you’re stranded between Penury and Dire Straits with a handful of
“not a winning number” lottery stubs and dog-eared coffee lids saying “please play again” while waiting for a bus
that will come by flashing “Not in Service.” Ever? EVER!
This situation is not a good situation but it’s the ideal place from which to cogitate about life on THIS planet!
(City Hall)
Somebody call the coroner because I’m sure someone has died there.
So much hand-wringing, so many tears, such anger. Why? Because, to hear these mourners tell it, the greatest,
most wonderful and talented civil servant that ever walked God’s green earth has been cashiered.
“Did he die”, you ask. NO, he was sent home. Fired. Driven from his office by that big bully the mayor of Toronto:
Fat, but getting thinner–Robbie Ford. In fact, Ford didn’t send him home – a majority of members on the
Transit Committee, to whom this poor, humble, fired Civil Servant reported on his day to day accomplishments, did the
deed. With the ‘goodbye, nice to have known you’ note they tucked in $500,000 plus.
Usually when you tell a person to go home and not come back–that’s it. But this is a story for another time.
(Maria Augimeri loves Gary Webster)
I don’t know what her normal temperment is but yesterday she was ‘white hot’ decrying what she called “the abuse of power.”
Maria you should know is a member of the Transit Commission. She loves the work of the guy (Webster) who was fired.
She thinks he was the most hard working, dedicated and talented Chief General Manager that ever lived.
“So,” Ms. Augimeri demanded to know, “what message are you (other committee members) sending to our employees,
that professionalism gets kicked out the door and toadyism wins?”
Frankly, yes. It certainly worked when David Miller was mayor. All the toads got a place at his toadstool and the non-toads
were unceremoniously tossed. (Write for names. The list is too long for this time.)
MARIA of course has forgotten about the toadies that attended to Mayor Miller’s every wish because she was one of them.
Did she ever challenge Dapper David when he sent home dedicated, loyal, hard-working civil servants who weren’t
TOADIES, she DID NOT! She suffers from ‘politicized amnesia’ that has been exacerbated by the fact that she no longer
sits in the INNER circle.
(term limits)
Maria Augimeri has been in politics for 30 years. She’s long past her’ best before’ designation.
Maria is a poster child for the institution of term limits. She is one of the reasons politics to many is a dirty word.
Hazel McCallion, Mississauga’s 7% solution, is another prime poster child for TERM LIMITS. Eight years and out!!
Give others a chance to familiarize themselves with the political process. Everybody will benefit.
Too long at the political trough blurs the landscape and deadens the senses.
Maria has been a Toronto Councillor since 1997 and judging by her comments yesterday relative to the firing of
Gary Webster she needs to understand that there are others who can do the Councillor thing just as well as she.
They would be the ones with perspective. The ones that would avoid making goofy statements.
After eight years you really start to believe you cannot be replaced.
Unfortunately all politicians are afraid to consider term limits. But that doesn’t mean it should remain off the table.
(OXYCONTIN)
Who put that on the table?
This drug is devastating lives from coast to coast and we hear nothing from those people in Ottawa who are supposedly
in charge of our health and welfare.
The braintrust at the Food and Drug Directorate are busy banning vitamin use based on flawed research but have nothing to
say about a drug they approved that is twice as deadly as morphine. Why did it take a provincial initiative(Ontario’s) before
anybody bothered with what is already a soul destroying drug!
And even this provincial initiative is off centre. Oxycontin is not just a threat on the reservation it has invaded
thousands of households in Canada and somebody better pay attention to the thousands who are addicted to what
we frivolously call “hillbilly heroin.” Talk to the addicted. See their pain. Sympathize and then do something.
We need to find out how this destructive pill was allowed into the country? Whose hand is in whose pocket?
And when will the provincial initiative move Ottawa into doing something meaningful(nationally) besides regulating the
amount of Vitamin D3 in a single pill?
We should know how many highly placed people working in the Food and Drug Directorate have conflicting
ties with Big Pharma.
Next:
Is Santorum the man to dethrone Obama? Stay tuned.
We might as well camp here because we’ll never make Dire Straits before nightfall.
holidayatlarge 
Failure makes a comeback!!!
2012/02/23 Leave a comment
(WE are the HOSEES)
Our per gallon price of gas in the City of Toronto today is: $5.82
The price in Buffalo per Imperial gallon, if you could buy gas that way in Buffalo,
is: $4.41. The fact is the Americans are paying 25% less for gasoline than we are!
And of course, in the Greater Toronto area, all the pumps owned by the majors(Shell, Esso, Petrocan, Sunoco and
Husky) show the SAME price: it’s the gasoline sellers’ salute to Toronto’s Winterlicous prix fixe restaurant event that just concluded.
And it comes to us courtesy of the Federal Competition Act, or is that Anti-Competition.
Toronto per litre price: 1.28. Buffalo per litre price: .97!!!! Imperial gallon: 4.546 litres; U.S. Gallon: 3.785 litres.
So, if we are being hosed by them–that makes us the hosees!
(Travelling and Contemplating)
Some days it feels like you’re stranded between Penury and Dire Straits with a handful of
“not a winning number” lottery stubs and dog-eared coffee lids saying “please play again” while waiting for a bus
that will come by flashing “Not in Service.” Ever? EVER!
This situation is not a good situation but it’s the ideal place from which to cogitate about life on THIS planet!
(City Hall)
Somebody call the coroner because I’m sure someone has died there.
So much hand-wringing, so many tears, such anger. Why? Because, to hear these mourners tell it, the greatest,
most wonderful and talented civil servant that ever walked God’s green earth has been cashiered.
“Did he die”, you ask. NO, he was sent home. Fired. Driven from his office by that big bully the mayor of Toronto:
Fat, but getting thinner–Robbie Ford. In fact, Ford didn’t send him home – a majority of members on the
Transit Committee, to whom this poor, humble, fired Civil Servant reported on his day to day accomplishments, did the
deed. With the ‘goodbye, nice to have known you’ note they tucked in $500,000 plus.
Usually when you tell a person to go home and not come back–that’s it. But this is a story for another time.
(Maria Augimeri loves Gary Webster)
I don’t know what her normal temperment is but yesterday she was ‘white hot’ decrying what she called “the abuse of power.”
Maria you should know is a member of the Transit Commission. She loves the work of the guy (Webster) who was fired.
She thinks he was the most hard working, dedicated and talented Chief General Manager that ever lived.
“So,” Ms. Augimeri demanded to know, “what message are you (other committee members) sending to our employees,
that professionalism gets kicked out the door and toadyism wins?”
Frankly, yes. It certainly worked when David Miller was mayor. All the toads got a place at his toadstool and the non-toads
were unceremoniously tossed. (Write for names. The list is too long for this time.)
MARIA of course has forgotten about the toadies that attended to Mayor Miller’s every wish because she was one of them.
Did she ever challenge Dapper David when he sent home dedicated, loyal, hard-working civil servants who weren’t
TOADIES, she DID NOT! She suffers from ‘politicized amnesia’ that has been exacerbated by the fact that she no longer
sits in the INNER circle.
(term limits)
Maria Augimeri has been in politics for 30 years. She’s long past her’ best before’ designation.
Maria is a poster child for the institution of term limits. She is one of the reasons politics to many is a dirty word.
Hazel McCallion, Mississauga’s 7% solution, is another prime poster child for TERM LIMITS. Eight years and out!!
Give others a chance to familiarize themselves with the political process. Everybody will benefit.
Too long at the political trough blurs the landscape and deadens the senses.
Maria has been a Toronto Councillor since 1997 and judging by her comments yesterday relative to the firing of
Gary Webster she needs to understand that there are others who can do the Councillor thing just as well as she.
They would be the ones with perspective. The ones that would avoid making goofy statements.
After eight years you really start to believe you cannot be replaced.
Unfortunately all politicians are afraid to consider term limits. But that doesn’t mean it should remain off the table.
(OXYCONTIN)
Who put that on the table?
This drug is devastating lives from coast to coast and we hear nothing from those people in Ottawa who are supposedly
in charge of our health and welfare.
The braintrust at the Food and Drug Directorate are busy banning vitamin use based on flawed research but have nothing to
say about a drug they approved that is twice as deadly as morphine. Why did it take a provincial initiative(Ontario’s) before
anybody bothered with what is already a soul destroying drug!
And even this provincial initiative is off centre. Oxycontin is not just a threat on the reservation it has invaded
thousands of households in Canada and somebody better pay attention to the thousands who are addicted to what
we frivolously call “hillbilly heroin.” Talk to the addicted. See their pain. Sympathize and then do something.
We need to find out how this destructive pill was allowed into the country? Whose hand is in whose pocket?
And when will the provincial initiative move Ottawa into doing something meaningful(nationally) besides regulating the
amount of Vitamin D3 in a single pill?
We should know how many highly placed people working in the Food and Drug Directorate have conflicting
ties with Big Pharma.
Next:
Is Santorum the man to dethrone Obama? Stay tuned.
We might as well camp here because we’ll never make Dire Straits before nightfall.
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