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btw Seeler, ty muchly for trying to mention the problems w/minimum wage to us Liberals :3 tis goodly to mention; it helps find the contours of what is faith and what is 'outside one's self' :3
 
Mostly I find most money beyond my reach ... unless I rob a bank. Is that creative? way to get around industrious powers that are robbing the marketplace blind?

Imagine someone getting $300-500K per night at Los Vegas for performing and then crying poormouth! Somehow I have this internal urge to dance a jig at such nonsense ... but this is how they believe success should be ... indecent income!
 
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Mostly I find most money beyond my reach ... unless I rob a bank. Is that creative? way to get around industrious powers that are robbing the marketplace blind?

Imagine someone getting $300-500K per night at Los Vegas for performing and then crying poormouth! Somehow I have this internal urge to dance a jig at such nonsense ... but this is how they believe success should be ... indecent income!
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that's the thing aboot 'normal' = your particular culture's normal. we human beings, of many different normals (our human rights protecting us from the state) have to figure out how to live together without needless warring & violence because our norms have been violated; now that we're living in the singularity, norm creation & clashing happens much quicker
you live in a world created by this wealth--with a thought, you can bring light into a dark room, communicate with someone across your city, see something that's happening on another continent (yes we are an amusing species)
 
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And extremely subversive ... if you can see this from an abnormal position ... outside perspective?

Defines the myth of psyche ... mostly out of reach of normally politically based powers ... extreme hunger for power?

In Citizen Irving ... KC himself admitted it being his primary desire ... thus he possesses NB from across that magical line .. and todays politicians can't do a damn thing about past established miss takes ... it is just the way it is ...

The only way out is through expansion of grey manna until it is a wash of feint hue ... whiteout? Is that like irascible or sure erasure? Where do such thoughts go when displaced? Tis a blac kohl myth ...
 
Could this crack emotions into ath aught ... or would that be a severe turn around ... abstract reflections?

Shhhhhh ... don't tell the paradigm will believe me crazy!

Oh yah ... they already do ... they must be out ahead ... leaders in the league?
 
I'm a bit disappointed with today's cabinet. I was expecting the health minister to be a doctor.
 
ChemGal said:
I'm a bit disappointed with today's cabinet. I was expecting the health minister to be a doctor.
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Were the last health ministers doctors?

That would make too much sense. ;)

Out here the cabinet ministers don't necessarily have background in the area of their cabinet, I noticed. They get shuffled around every so often anyway. Seems to be that people most often get appointed to the biggest ministries depending on political experience. I was disappointed to learn that, too.
 
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I think we had a chiropractor once, but maybe that was federal?
Quite a few people were expecting the MLA who is a doctor who beat out Stephen Mandel who was mayor of Edmonton for quite a few years and was the last health minister to be name.
I'm a bit disappointed, I think having someone who was in certain roles within conventional medicine would be a big asset.
 
By the looks of it, to me, she's done a great job overall, appointing her cabinet. She didn't appoint any kids in the candy store like Pontifex was worried about.

The Health Minister was a school board trustee - also an essential public service - with public policy experience - probably just as important because she's not actually going to be making medical decisions, but policy reform decisions, looking at needs and gaps in numbers on paper mostly.
 
Kimmio said:
By the looks of it, to me, she's done a great job overall, appointing her cabinet. She didn't appoint any kids in the candy store like Pontifex was worried about.

The Health Minister was a school board trustee - also an essential public service - with public policy experience - probably just as important because she's not actually going to be making medical decisions, but policy reform decisions, looking at needs and gaps in numbers on paper mostly.
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I just would have liked to see someone from within the system who has a pretty good understanding of those needs. Many people don't realize how bad the system is until they either need something or they work within it. I'm tired of everything catering to the LCD.

I'm not really disappointed by Hoffman being appointed, moreso that Bob Turner wasn't.
 
Hopefully as a person who's had to deal with it herself as a patient/ citizen, she'll understand and won't be biased by unfair professional or industry demands or favouritism (possible upside?). She'll be looking at wait times and administrative problems and costs - might not be a bad thing.
 
their minister of Human Services is pretty hot

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shaken, not stirred double-double
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Kimmio said:
She'll be looking at wait times and administrative problems and costs - might not be a bad thing.
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That doesn't sound like change, that sounds like what's been going on for a long time.
The system needs some pretty big changes.
 
Sometimes coming from within the system can be a hindrance as much as a help. Fresh eyes are often called for and more effective. After all, isn't that one reason the NDP actually formed a government in the first place? "Kick the insiders out."
 
The most important thing is to be a trusted listener to the people in the system. When my mother was getting some palliative treatments at the hospital last summer, the person doing the work talked about how impressed she was that the interim person in charge of AHS was seeking input from front-line staff. She also talked about how money gets wasted. My mother was having fluid drained from her abdomen -- the jar being used was single use, smaller, and much more expensive than the ones they used to use without any recognizable benefit to anyone other than the company which sold the more expensive jars. While I was impressed by Bob Turner, I also wondered how his role would bias his priorities and responses to new ideas.
 
Well, I'm not an optimist.
1. I think the NDP has moved so far to the centre that it will do nothing very useful.
2. It has won votes. But, as Chem Gal suggests, it has not really communicated much sense of how bad our situation is. So it really will have no mandate to do what is necessary. It's no longer a matter of waving a magic wand and introducing a few social programmes.
 
there's also a severe communications problem. Across North America and most of Europe, most of the news media are now propaganda agencies owned by people hostile even to the very modest reforms now suggested by the NDP.
 
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