October 2013 Bitches

*** now accepting nominations for 

November's IDIOT OF THE MONTH*** 

submit nominations HERE

Welcome to Bitches For The month of October 2103 !!!
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Lets review the ground rules

• Lets try to keep it clean, at present, I do not moderate (preview and approve posts), and I don't want to.
• We are all here to vent, compare and add insight to your and others bitches - lets respect others
• Topics can be anything that piss you off
• ORIGINAL pictures/videos are great, and I will post anything you send - if you provide a good reason. Email them, along with a description to da_moderator@live.ca

So how do we post here?? At the bottom of this post, there is a link to click "view comments" - or the comments may already be visible (depending on your browser. If you have a new bitch to post, simply type away in the text box. If you want to comment on another's post, click reply directly below their post - and type away.

And don't forget to buy darryls-soapbox T-Shirt.. if you are in the Fredericton Area, simply email da_moderator@live.ca or if you are anywhere else in the word, get em HERE .

$29.00 each - Sizes S/M/L/XL

To enter to win one, click here and follow directions.. 
Draw - Nov 1,2013

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SOAPBOX T-SHIRT SPOTTED IN ACTION!!

Alex G. from Eastern Canada test drove his new Soap Box T-shirt.. 

and tested (apparently) if it was beer proof - which it is not.

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ANNOUNCING 

IDIOT OF THE MONTH AWARD 

awarded to....

MARGARET ATWOOD for heading the drive to make O Canada gender-neutral

Congratulations.. clearly, you are very familiar with at least LOOKING gender-neutral

Idiot
Submit Nominations for next month's Idiot of the Month
HERE

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ORIGINAL RANTS 

CALL ME, BITCHES!! (language warning in effect) 

This voice-mail came into my main line (after hours). My office 800 number was frequently misdialed and we would receive calls that should have been to a government agency in Florida. The office Administrator, Jenn C, was brilliant to take the time to record this.. and now here it is on the internet.

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SOMETHIN' TO BITCH ABOUT 

First Nations Protests and Blockades against Shale Gas Development in NB, Canada

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I WANNA DO THIS!!!

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I had a good reason to post this,

 but found something more interesting to do, so I forgot the point

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GOT TO AGREE!

Paul D -Canada : "And another freakin train crash and fire ... 

When will people realize a pipe line is not a bad thing?

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NOW THIS GUY CAN RANT!!! 

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When you have no one to bitch to.. Call 911 !!!

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FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THIS HOLY - 
ENOUGH ALREADY!!!! 

Dear Federal Government, 

Please forget this guy, or throw him in jail.. we dont care, 

JUST GET BACK TO RUNNING CANADA

Sincerely.

Canadians

OCTOBER BITCHES
(at the bottom man, follow the arrow) 

Time to wade into FRACKING (Kinda)



Birds don't like fracking??? WTF!!

 Too easy to pick a side and carry a sign on this one.. lotsa crap floating around like that.. so not going to go into a PRO or ANTI tirade on this topic..

Interesting aside on this, which I suppose only re-enforces the content below.. but not a lot of PRO ranting out there is there.. No CUPE Paid bus transport to Pro-Fracking Rallies, Not a lot of Pro-Fracking signs littering the lawns of the supporters.
Maybe a good time to take a peek at tge definition of Silent Majority; 
Ok, back to the point at hand... In trying to understand the sides of this debate... I more often end up trying to be recruited by the Anti side.. and seems the core of there beef is that "the government is not addressing our concerns.. they have not answered any of our experts questions, they are in cahoots with big business, there silence is obvious a result of them hiding something."

THIS.. is the base of this blog... why is the Government not addressing the questions and concerns of the Anti-Fracking mob...

My thoughts:
A governments role is not to "justify" every policy, decision, or action... the power to manage the province is provided by the voters.. and if they publicly negotiated every tough decision, that would make them completely ineffective. Typically the quiet majority do not picket in the streets in support of a government policy.. so if the government wavered to every protesting group (Be it abortion, EI benefits, Fiscal Restraint, Fracking, etc) - then the point of having a government would be moot.. and the province would end up being directed by the vocal minority on every policy..

If one happens to support of a movement, I am sure it is frustrating that the government does not defend their position on it.. BUT  if you shared support with the government on a policy and they flipped the policy because of a group of people carrying signs - you would be irate.. (the old can't have your fraking and eat it too story)
The government fighting back with their own propaganda would erode their strength, effectiveness, and confidence of the population The fact that they (as a representative of the public - and voted to be so) have decided to go forward with this.. it is all they need to say.. as representatives of us, they have done the investigation, studies, cost/benefit analysis and so on.. what else do they need to say.

I can only imagine a large, successful business, employing thousands.. deciding it course of business, based on a small group of their employees down in the shipping department.. I doubt that they would remain in business very long.

So.. I am pretty indifferent on the Pro/Anti thing... but I am enjoying watching yet another minority movement in a state of absolute awe, because the Government has not dropped everything to respond to their placards, yard signs, and dropped leaflets from airplanes (Ok, maybe they are not doing that yet)