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It's Saturday August the 19 around 11:08AM and

We have issues, well at least the Yanks think we do

24 hours yesterday had an email posted from an Oakland California resident telling us we more or less suck. Apparently we are cranky and rude and our Skytrain etiquette is less than thrilling. This skytrain bit is true. My biggest issue with the train is that this is the start of my employees morning.
- You get a seat with your newspaper or book and no one touching you = good start to the day.
- You get crammed up into the corners where you can't even breathe without having intercourse = crappy day
The later seems to happen 95% of the time.

Now onto the Sun this morning where a Washington, D.C. based company changed their plans to put up a convention in Victoria. This is what they had to say about the land of tea, crumpets and panhandling youths: "It was not relaxing and enjoyable but rather quite uncomfortable. It reminded me of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver rather than a world-class city." So the DTES is the benchmark for a shitty city. Even as a new found protester and advocate for Insite I wonder why on the users way out, in their sweet new high, they aren't handed a sponge and bucket or a broom and garbage bag and sent out cleaning up where they live. It appears they have no pride left in the city they only take from. Giving back just once, even if you don't think you have anything left to give, will put you on the path to righteousness.

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