I made that up and you knew it as soon as you read it, probably making it - if not the, then a very close contender for the shortest lie in the world.
By which I don't mean to suggest there's no such thing as an honest lawyer, surely there is but chances are he long ago sobered up, left the bar and took up a trade like carpentry or ....
Which would imply that he's no longer a lawyer and probably proves again the lie, but these are mere sticking points and before we paint all lawyers as thieves, criminals and sociopaths let's bow our heads for a moment and consider the carpenters.
A link: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Took+girl+cash+lawyer/4481302/story.html, Calgary Herald, similar reported in the Sun, that a convicted Pedophile and violent offender who abducted a 10 year old girl from a Calgary Shopping Mall did so, argued the lawyer, to get cash to buy drugs.
I am not making this up. Incidentally, Mr. Convicted Pedophile is also HIV positive.
Now in this opening argument every flaw in our legal system is made painfully, acutely obvious. Every single one. And the only thing I can say is that while the defendant surely deserves hanging (and worse), so does as well his lawyer, the judge who allowed the lawyer to finish that sentence, the judge who sentenced the defendant previously and allowed a sentence light enough that he one day walked free, in fact, almost everyone that's had anything to do with this case....
But such is Canadian Justice. If you ever want justice, real justice, start by killing the Judges and the Lawyers.
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And we're gearing up again for yet another federal election, with not a single candidate, howsoever hopeless, worth voting for. Yet again we're forced to vote against the least of several evils.
As part of any good election there's plenty of media coverage, trying to whip an indifferent public into showing up at the polling stations. No one I've met is all that interested. The CBC is especially amusing, with their animated discussions of the virtues and privilege of voting, touching stories, and of course implicit Liberal agenda.
And there are the phone calls, automated "robots" that start with a long pause, then kick in and with that peculiar echo common to recordings try to anonymously determine how we'll vote: "Press 1 for the Green Party......Press 2 for the..."
The results will be later quoted in newspapers to tell us who's leading the election; what they won't tell us is that only senile imbeciles, confirmed idiots and lonely masturbators will stay on the line long enough to actually "vote" and so the predictions (and later results) will be heavily skewed towards idiocy.
But it's election time, they always are.
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Fodder for more than a few lawsuits. Naturally, the Police and Bell (a data provider) are at the heart of it.
Link: CBC - You should have stayed at home, >> which rather naturally leads to >> Ottawa Police report rise in use of Force
Comment: Notice how the police prevaricate, instigate and then abuse a (by now) rather naturally hostile general public.
Link: Bell Issuing Huge Unexplained Bills >> Note how long it took the couple highlighted to get the bill adjusted. Not their fault, but their abundant time and effort required to remedy the error.
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Now this is a scam of the first order. "Sign up for paper-free billing", and you're made to feel that it's somehow more environmental, more green and eco-conscious if you do. There's a few ways to go about it. You can sign up to have your bills mailed to your email inbox - OR - you can consent to direct debit from your bank account. I'd recommend against this, as when they cock-up, (and they will cock-up) the chances of you recovering your money are slender at best, and it'd be a full time job for a year or two doing so.
But you sign up for paper-free billing nonetheless, you can check and pay your bills online, and you're feeling pretty good about yourself. That's one less tree they'll have to murder, good company, good consumer. And when you check your mail while there's no sign of any bills, they've taken the liberty of sending you fliers that advertise all the other services they provide, internet, cable TV, the same fliers that used to be sent enclosed with your bill now get their very own envelope and are mailed post-haste. Just in case you didn't read the adverts on their website, just in case you wanted to be reminded. And - in case you bought that whole spiel about paper-free billing being more environmentally friendly - your S.O.L, it was just a ploy to get you to consent to direct debit. They didn't really give a damn about the trees, they just wanted access to your bank account.
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