Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

I was in a Montana sporting goods store today and it was nuts. You could buy ANYTHING down there....my kids (10 and 11) were absolutely stunned and mesmerized that you could buy what looked like a machine gun, a giant knife and a handgun the size of a cannon....off the shelf. My youngest daughter pointed at what looked like an AR and asked if we could buy it and take it home. Thank #### we cannot. My 11 yr old starting talking about school shootings being the reason you can't, which made me proud and at the same time a little bit terrified that she knew about them.

Why anyone would actually WANT that (or even think it's normal that it's possible) is really, really weird to me. Sure, I think the feds are a little too harsh on gun laws here, but WTAF do you need a .50 cal Desert Eagle for? Cobra badgers?

Get lost with that nonsense.

Oh pshaw! Look at the 'pearl clutcher' over here!

The children didnt even go to the beer cooler next to the ARs? That could have had a wonderous family bonding event and look at you!

You just wouldn't even consider it!

Think about it! You and your children drink all the beers, then you set up the cans and shoot at them! It'd be like Christmas!

Get some hoagies! What more do you want? Maybe a transient or two? Hunt the 'Most Dangerous Game?' Go to the railroad tracks! Thats where you normally find them...the transients, not the hoagies. Dont eat railroad hoagies.

Seriously though, no, you are correct. America has a serious gun problem that we do not want to import. Teaching your kids about that is very important.

Also how to hunt Hobos, but thats for another discussion.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Dunny went off the deep end, safe to ignore.


https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...65#post9125065
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=264
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...38#post9006138
and the ultimate piece of evidence:
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...95#post8900295

dummyberg.... lol

[MoneyGuy]

Wrong thread

[Locke]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Caroline Giuliani condemns Trump and her dad’s support.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1840829385735082307

They're Italians though, they switch sides at a moment's notice.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Locke

They're Italians though, they switch sides at a moment's notice.

I get the joke but neither Caroline nor Rudy will switch sides.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Why is that in the Alberta thread?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Why is that in the Alberta thread?

We are the new US.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Why is that in the Alberta thread?

Sorry, wrong thread. Thought I was in US politics.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

How the #### can you look at the Mighty USofA and WANT no restrictions on guns, after seeing the results there? Are you eating paste? WTF. Goddamit my fellow citizens are a giant bunch of stupid mother####ers.

The problem isn't that they have too many guns, it's that they don't have enough. More guns for the good people will protect them from all the bad people with guns.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by D as in David

The problem isn't that they have too many guns, it's that they don't have enough. More guns for the good people will protect them from all the bad people with guns.

Indeed.

First day of school.

"Here are your binders, here are your pencils, here are your books and this here is your Glock. Slap, load and #### at all times. If an intruder comes in we let the 1st graders go in first, they're smallest, harder to hit and we can shoot over top of them in formation and then we advance! 2nd graders go in next with the teachers at the back providing suppressing fire.

And then its Recess!"

[Fuzz]

“The best I have been able to do,” Ms. Smith began her response, “is to talk to the woman who is responsible for controlling the airspace, and she says no one is allowed to go up and spray, anything, in the air.”

This on its face is troubling, since it suggests that Alberta’s premier has already been asking people with serious jobs questions about something that is taken seriously only in the most deranged corners of the Internet. (Take note, regular readers, we will likely be hearing from some of those people in the comments section of this blog. Probably at length.)

“We have a…,” Ms. Smith continued as some groans and gumbles begin to be heard from the audience. According to Ms. Teeling, some members of the crowd even booed. “…Nope,” the premier resumed, “she told me!”

Ms. Smith then goes on in this short clip posted by @disorderedyyc, an unidentified self-described purveyor video clips who is worth following if you follow Alberta politics.

“The other person told me that if anyone is doing it, it’s the U.S. Department of Defense,” she said, apparently completely serious. “And, you know, like, I, I, I have some limitations in what I can do in my job. I don’t know that I would have much power if that is the case, if the U.S. Department of Defense is spraying us.”...

...“So, I will do what I can to investigate,” the premier promised, “but, I, everywhere I have gone, I have found no evidence that there’s any private sector company involved, my environment department’s not involved, my airports tell me that they have a record of every single plane that goes up, so … (she shrugs) … “I’m kinda dead-ended here.”

“If you have some special lead that you wanna give me afterwards,” she concluded, “please let me know and I’ll track it down.”

https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/10/c...rvative-party/

It's 2024, and our premier is seriously fielding questions, and wasting time asking people about fickin' chemtrails. I'd laugh, if it wasn't so goddamned predictable and pathetic.

[SebC]

Do we not do aerial crop spraying, aerial fire control, airshow smoke, and have we stopped the hail suppression program? I think Smith's response to BS is itself BS.

[chedder]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/10/c...rvative-party/

It's 2024, and our premier is seriously fielding questions, and wasting time asking people about fickin' chemtrails. I'd laugh, if it wasn't so goddamned predictable and pathetic.

My environment, my airports, my, my, my. This woman is truly deranged. She calls everything my. She refers to ministers as my minister of education etc. Complete narcissist.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by SebC

Do we not do aerial crop spraying, aerial fire control, airshow smoke, and have we stopped the hail suppression program? I think Smith's response to BS is itself BS.

Please don't give her any further avenues to investigate.

[FlameOn]

One thing that hasn't been highlighted enough is the Bill of Rights changes allow an opt-out of vaccination requirements. It would be a de-facto ban of ALL vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.
https://canadahealthwatch.ca/newslet...health-workers

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

One thing that hasn't been highlighted enough is the Bill of Rights changes allow an opt-out of vaccination requirements. It would be a de-facto ban of ALL vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.
https://canadahealthwatch.ca/newslet...health-workers

Are flu vaccines mandated for Alberta health care workers now? There was a big push by AHS a few years before Covid to increase uptake of the annual flu shots, which stalled at below 65 per cent.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...licy-1.3274107

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Are flu vaccines mandated for Alberta health care workers now? There was a big push by AHS a few years before Covid to increase uptake of the annual flu shots, which stalled at below 65 per cent.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...licy-1.3274107

I don't believe there are any mandates at AHS. There was the COVID mandate but that was dropped. Every other vaccine seems to only be "recommended" and not mandatory for the workplace.

[Fuzz]

Maybe I've been to hasty on dumping on multiple hospital organizations. Perhaps we could have one system for all the stupid people who don't believe in science, and another one for rational people who follow best practices.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Maybe I've been to hasty on dumping on multiple hospital organizations. Perhaps we could have one system for all the stupid people who don't believe in science, and another one for rational people who follow best practices.

Honestly, this would be a fun test. Let all the non-vaxx people use/work at that hospital, and let all the pro-vaxx (pro-science) people use/work at another hospital. Then do a data analysis a year later and see what the capacity rates are (amongst other data sets) versus the two.

Easy $100 that the anti-vaxx peeps would start to lie and come to the pro-vaxx location once they find out it's a healthier environment to get care at for themselves and their families.

[Ozy_Flame]

Please also let the homeopathy and naturopath quacks work at the Covidiot Hospital. Get that alternative medicine as one of their main features, and don't forget the chakras and gemstones.