tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post5773580192409193899..comments2024-03-28T00:54:34.206-04:00Comments on BigCityLib Strikes Back: More From Ernie Slump, B.C. Chair For Western Business and Taxpayers Associationbigcitylibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05081538803991095825noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-45153574008221526612008-12-18T16:14:00.000-05:002008-12-18T16:14:00.000-05:00This letter is in response to the recent comments ...This letter is in response to the recent comments circulating regarding Ernie Slump. The Western Businesses and Taxpayers Association do not support any offensive remarks and or actions, particularly regarding ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation. David Crutcher and our Counsel have contacted Ernie to provide him with a forum to explain his comments. <BR/><BR/>Our policy is one of inclusion and we deeply apologize to anyone this may have offended. I will keep you up to date of any new developments.<BR/><BR/>We greatly appreciate you bringing this to our attention and I look forward to any comments or questions you may have. <BR/><BR/>Warmest Regards<BR/>Dan Doherty <BR/>Vice President <BR/>Western Businesses & Taxpayers Association.<BR/>Email: vp@itstimetogo.caDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13420381640961795203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-58482608085741267052008-12-18T15:55:00.000-05:002008-12-18T15:55:00.000-05:00He's gone from the council-page. But then, so is ...<A HREF="http://bouquetsofgray.blogspot.com/2008/12/slump-dumped-night-of-long-knives.html" REL="nofollow">He's gone from the council-page. But then, so is almost everyone else.</A>bucketshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14335699928912269666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-34682051738224202112008-12-18T10:24:00.000-05:002008-12-18T10:24:00.000-05:00Wow... Just... Just... Wow.Wow... Just... Just... Wow.Pearcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18352082171720055212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-36289292805584135592008-12-18T09:06:00.000-05:002008-12-18T09:06:00.000-05:00I love the wingnut concept of democracy. Kick them...I love the wingnut concept of democracy. Kick them out if they disagree or better yet hire a sniper. As a Vancouverite I'd like nothing more than to see their third world low tax society become the backwater it deserves to be. <BR/><BR/>Hey they started it!Gene Rayburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12438068218145410142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-46358631235863859392008-12-17T16:21:00.000-05:002008-12-17T16:21:00.000-05:00"Yeah, but considering that Banff and Jasper's pop..."Yeah, but considering that Banff and Jasper's populations are pretty much half Quebecois, could there be a separation within a separation? Separatist against separatist? As Dwight Schrute would say: "Paradox."<BR/><BR/>Kevin,<BR/><BR/>If we accept the basic principle of the legitimacy of secession as the great liberal economist Ludwig von Mises expressed it that "no people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want" than what we have if Banff, Jasper, Greater Vancouver, or whatever wish to secede from an independent Western Canada is philosophical consistency, not paradox.Kalim Kassamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00366464572139539557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-13989309522859448282008-12-17T15:45:00.000-05:002008-12-17T15:45:00.000-05:00Gayle. In other words, western Canada separatists...Gayle. <I>In other words, western Canada separatists are crazy.</I> Some more so than others, apparently.bucketshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14335699928912269666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-63625383324809262392008-12-17T14:12:00.000-05:002008-12-17T14:12:00.000-05:00Yeah, but considering that Banff and Jasper's popu...Yeah, but considering that Banff and Jasper's populations are pretty much half Quebecois, could there be a separation within a separation? Separatist against separatist? As Dwight Schrute would say: "Paradox."Kevin T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10587620194837886918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-26162484391878823402008-12-17T13:50:00.000-05:002008-12-17T13:50:00.000-05:00I think hes trying to gerrymander the boundary of ...I think hes trying to gerrymander the boundary of his new country to ensure only whites are within the new fascist state of Albortia.<BR/><BR/>I'd actually like to see that third world state form. All those white high school drop outs and uneducated country bumpkins, living in a one resource economy thats about to fail. Actually, Canada might be better off, we'd get all the intelligent labour that moved there who'd scram on first word of this happening.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17404234601709022496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-72591287835489751082008-12-17T13:37:00.000-05:002008-12-17T13:37:00.000-05:00Western separatists should think again: In the US,...Western separatists should think again: In the US, the Feds regularly usurp state control over natural resources. That's right: NEP-like projects are normal down there.<BR/><BR/>But these wingnuts aren't ones to let facts get in the way of the truth.Mark Richard Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16331995640397477486noreply@blogger.com