by cameronr November 25, 2009
CRIMESTUDENT: You are sadly misinformed about the drug issue, but you are not the only one. Alot of it comes from misinformation by the press. Cannabis is a medicine to begin with, not a drug. Drugs are processed and made by man. Cannabis was created by GOD.
Secondly, removing cannabis from the criminal code entirely would free up a lot of wasted resources,(hundreds of millions, plus manpower) plus space in jails and related costs, not to mention allow people to have money that grows on trees(so to speak).
In actual fact, it is unlawful to make criminals of people that choose to follow GOD(Genesis 1:29) instead of a corrupt government that makes it illegal under false pretenses.
While those who suffer from propoganda poisoning may disagree, their opinions are uninformed and based on lies. Perhaps a little self-education would be prudent at this juncture.
To find the right answers, you must first find the right questions.
How many of these crimes ARE YET UNSOLVED?
Where do all the guns COME FROM?
How do police prioritize the allocation of their resources?
How much of their resources are currently being wasted on non-violent cannabis related crimes VS violent crimes and interior corruption?
Are you searching for the root of the problem or just at the symtyms of the problem?
Bottom line, government and police corruption, injustice and supression create and feed the problems you are facing…fix it and find out.

Aptly named commenter, ancientclown, schools commenter crimestudent on why marijuana good and government/police bad. It would be prudent at this juncture to not let newspapers have comment sections.

Homicides in Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley in 2009 - British Columbia - CBC.ca

by vanmega November 12, 2009
An act of God destroys the businesses before an act of Gord Campbell and BC Liberals (who think they are divine) destroy the businesses and the rest of the economy with their HST tax inspired insanity and mismanagement of the finances.
Majnoun W’Hakim magically/amazingly/stupendously links the Broadway and Main fires to the HST tax. BRAVO!
by vanmega October 15, 2009
I would like to know what the weight (after it landed and deflated) and dimensions of it when fully inflated. Then we could be certain about the lifting force and if it could leave the ground with a six year old.
Trosendal demands FACTS about Balloon Boy. FACTS, dammit!
by blownspeakers October 2, 2009
I love Stella’s! And that girl in the photo is REALLY attractive! Probably the most attractive girl that works there. Don’t know her schedule, but I wish I did!
James bringing his IRL creepiness to web 2.0 via the Westender’s review of Stella’s on Cambie.
by blownspeakers October 2, 2009

Top Ten reasons Nobody trusts the Left-Wing media anymore.

10. MSNBC’s “balanced” journalism.
9. CBC’s crush on Barack Obama.
8. The left-wing bash-fest on Sarah Palin.
7. David Suzuki.
6. Obama’s fear of Conservative News Channels.
5. The New York Times Pro-Hamas, anti-semitic Israel bashing.
4. Michael Jackson and Roman Polanski.
3. The Vietnam Vet cliche’.
2. Ramming the homosexual lifestyle down everyone’s throats.
1. David Letterman, Peewee Herman, Hugh Grant, Bill Clinton, Trudeau, …

As Elbert Hubbard said, “The daily newspaper, the educator of mankind? God help us, it may be so.”

CBC Commenter AndyN1331 on some story about Letterman helping the cops nab some guy who was trying to extort him by making his affair public.
by vanmega August 28, 2009

Smerg66: “When will the CBC get an editor that understands grammar and sentence structure? He did not die at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, as that sentence suggests.”

Willys Jeep: “Not quite, Smerg. If the sentence had read ‘…Jackson, who died on June 25 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park…’ (without the comma after the date), then your comment would be correct. However, the sentence actually reads, ‘…Jackson, who died on June 25, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park…’ The comma clearly separates the clause remarking on the date of his death from the clause stating where he will be buried.”

Comment battle between: Smerg66 vs Willys Jeep

Michael Jackson cannot be burried until the Comment Grammar Nazis finish copy editing cbc.ca.

Newspapers should not have comments

by cameronr August 25, 2009

alwayscapitalize:

attentionindustry:

somethingchanged:

This amazing WSJ article that everyone’s talking about, A Manifesto for Slow Communications, has only three comments - all pretty lame ones. People are discussing it on their blogs, via Twitter, in real life. But the three comments sit there wrongly representing the success of the article, newspaper readers’ engagement, the WSJ’s “digital strategy,” and the importance of reader feedback.

If comments were turned off, journalists would be more likely to go to other blogs and Twitter and read the real conversation, infusing their follow up articles with fresh ideas and relevancy. That’s what I do with my blog.

Plus we all know newspaper commenters are completely psycho nutbags so no one would miss it. In fact turning the comments off would make reading a news site more pleasant for the rest of us.

The majority of comments re: newspaper articles that I read on blogs, or on twitter, are well thought out, often dissenting, and are open to the possibility that they’ve missed something.

The majority of comments re: newspaper articles that I read on newspaper websites fall somewhere between ignorant and offensive, normally about 1/5th treading close to being racist.

I would not miss comments, were they eliminated from the sites of every newspaper I read.  Commentary that isn’t connected to an identity is rarely insightful, as people LIKE to claim insight, and generally cling to anonymity in the face of oppression, or to be a dick.

Comments tie you into a community. In this new link-based web economy, community is the strongest way to ensure stickiness, repeat customers, and marketing. Without this community building you’re left with just texts and graphics on a HTML document. No soul, no intellectual stimulation. This is like going to a new neighborhood and instead of being civil to your neighbors you just start scrawling graffiti everywhere.

by blownspeakers August 19, 2009
I live in that neigbourhood, and while I support David Eby’s work with the homeless, I don’t like seeing homeless people on the sidewalk. They stink and make things messy. They should just go back to school and get jobs.

Stephanie Vacher commenting on today’s Morning Brew on Beyond Robson.

Okay, so technically this is a blog, but that’s just such a revolutionary thought, I had to share it. Someone call Gregor, this lady just solved the homeles crisis right in time for the Olympics.

by blownspeakers July 3, 2009
when are you going to start giving proper credit for the photo you use on your site (for free). You did at least put the photographer’s name at the end of each article. Now you are taking liberties with people who make your site worth visiting… by just using the word “image” at the end of each article…. Was it so much work for you to post a couple of names and a link that you automated the link??? Solution: Each photo you use should link to the person’s flickr site, in a new window. AND a mouse over on any photo should reveal the photographer’s name. UNTIL this is changed - I’m deleting all my photos on your flickr site

stu from July 2nd’s Morning Brew on Beyond Robson.

The response from author Sean Orr?
“Thanks for your concern, however they were my own images.”

by jordanhudson June 22, 2009

And another note…

Unmanned machines…Isn’t this how the world ended in the “Terminator” series?

Eerie!

Paperface is the first to warn us that border patrol drone planes might wage war on humanity.

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