Faces of Douche

Meet Monty.
Monty is a Mountie.
More specifically, Monty is one of the Mounties who killed Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver airport last March.
Apparently he also killed a guy while driving drunk. But he's not getting charged, because he pulled some bullshit prank.
Naturally. Why? Well, because he's a cop, of course, though naturally they'll put some sort of spin on it. Which we'll all believe. Because the police always tell the truth at all times, right?

I got Nothin'. Nothin.'

Harper praises press freedom in a speech, then refuses to speak to reporters. (CTV)

Well duh...

What I can quite believe is that this guy was naive enough to actually believe any of that horseshit about Warren Buffet.

It just proves, once again, that the French have it right. Or more specifically, Honor de Balzac had it right...

"Behind every great fortune is a great crime."

Could someone please explain to me, slowly and in short words, exactly how these bailouts are anything but corporate welfare?

And since that's clearly what it seems to be... if companies get to run for the safety of the welfare state, shouldn't we all have that option.

Ethics 101

Received word the other day that a new website has been launched in Montreal to promote ethical business practices in areas like the environment, labour relations and sustainability. It relies on case studies drawn from around the world. So far, 75 or so have been compiled. The goal is to add more as other examples of businesses behaving in an ethical manner are uncovered--assuming such entities actually exist (ethipedia)