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Rogers post (updated)

— 11.25.2010 03:09 PM

I just got helped out by a person named Jazzmine at the Rogers outlet at the Eaton’s Centre.

She was awesome. Don’t lose this person, Rogers.

There. First nice post about Rogers customer service ever.

UPDATE: I posted this too soon.  Get this: I needed a Blackberry to replace the old one.  Simple.  They told me I needed to put a new SIM card in it.  Simple? Not for Rogers! I deal with “customer service” about a half-dozen times – I’m listening to their Muzak as I type this – and the idiots have summarily removed service from my iPhone, the old Berry and the new one.  They’ve even reassigned my phone number somewhere.

You can’t make this up if you tried.  Oh, and I take back everything I said.  Rogers sucks.


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BC Lib leadership

— 11.24.2010 11:03 PM

I’m very excited to hear that Christy is thinking about running. If they’re going to have a shot at re-election, the BC Liberals need someone who isn’t in the current cabinet – and who is popular. Christy meets both criteria.

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Abbott to join Liberal leadership race, Falcon, Clark close to declaring (Liberal-BC-Leadership)
Source: The Canadian Press
Nov 24, 2010 19:53
By Dirk Meissner

THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA – The race to replace B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell heats up significantly Thursday with Education Minister George Abbott officially joining the contest flanked by at least a dozen members of the current Liberal caucus.

Sources close to Health Minister Kevin Falcon and former Liberal cabinet minister Christy Clark say the two political veterans are seriously close to joining Abbott and former Liberal cabinet minister Moira Stilwell…

Sources also said former Liberal cabinet minister Christy Clark, who left politics in 2005 after two terms in the Liberal government, is poised to enter the race, with an announcement expected soon.

Clark is currently working as a CKNW radio hotline host in Vancouver, where many of her daily topics deal with dissecting the mysteries of B.C. politics.


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So, wearing rubber gloves all day is a burden?

— 11.24.2010 04:27 PM

Wow.

You know, on a day when:

(a) A young girl’s violation at the hands of CATSA is front page news across Canada

(b) Everyone – left/right, Canadian/American – is pissed off, and justifiably so, at CATSA and the TSA, and

(c) It is already known that CATSA and TSA are scrambling to back away from their idiocy

…I’m not sure I’d be all jokey-jokey about it, and coming to the defence of the goons wearing rubber gloves. That doesn’t seem like the smartest strategy, to me.

I mean, the only thing worse than that would be…oh, I don’t know, flip-flopping on the war.

Oh, wait.


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Cool Kids

— 11.24.2010 08:53 AM

The daughter and I were car dancing to this classic on the weekend.  I told her it reminds me of federal politics.  She looked at me funny.

There’s a real cool club on the other side of town
Where the real cool kids go
To sit around
And talk bad about the other kids
Yeah, it’s a real cool club and you’re
Not part of it
There’s Millie, Pickles and Pattycakes too
And Cubby’s making mean jokes about you
“Ha ha ya little twit!”
Yeah, it’s a real cool club and you’re not part of it
They’re a real cool bunch of die
Fledermausketeers
And they’ll laugh at the Toughskins
Your mom got you from Sears
You dork they’ll never let you in
Cause it’s a real cool club and you’re not part of it
You’re fat and ugly and
An imbecile too
And that’s why they draw funny pictures of you
And talk bad about all the kids
Cause it’s a real cool club and you’re not a part of it
Yeah it’s a real cool club and you’ll never be a part of it
Yeah it’s a real cool club and you’ll never be a part of it


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The security madness spreads North

— 11.23.2010 11:34 PM

Here.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it with this lunacy.  If you feel as I do, Transport Minister Chuck Strahl can be reached at ottawa@chuckstrahl.com and/or riding@chuckstrahl.com.  Bombard him with messages.

The top autocrat at CATSA is Kevin McGarr; the chairman of the board is “D” Ian Glen. No emails, of course – you pay their salaries, but God help you if you want to contact them to complain about something.  In any event, their toll-free number is 1-888-294-2202; their complaint page (for all the good it’ll do) is here. Dial and dial again.

And, if you think people are overreacting, take a look at this video, posted first by GritChik. It shows a young child, age five or six, being partially stripped and searched by the TSA, who are apparently now a source of inspiration for the morons at CATSA.


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