"None" <noway@no-spam> wrote in message
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> "Karen Gordon" <ar231@no-spam> wrote in message
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> > "Maximus Bushwhacker" (qweqwe@no-spam writes:
> > > I bet the Alberta beefers are wishing for the days when all they had
to
> > > worry about was K.D. Lang!
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------
> > >
> > > "Still, last week marked the second time in a decade that mad cow
> disease
> > > had shown up in Canada. The first case, in 1993, involved a single cow
> in a
> > > herd near Red Deer, Alta. It turned out that animal had been shipped
> from
> > > Britain. The infected cow and its herdmates were destroyed and the
> disease
> > > contained."
> > >
> > > Where's the Beef?
> > > June 2, 2003 Maclean's by Brian Bergman
> > > http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/radical6203.cfm
> >
> > (K): This is an interesting segment from a previous posting:
> >
> > It is certainly not a day too soon to blame the Klein government in
> > Alberta. Before it was tested, the head of the cow with BSE sat in a
> > private lab four months after the animal was slaughtered. The testing
> > backlog in Alberta was due to the decision of the provincial government
> > to close three of the four animal pathology-testing labs as part of its
> > cutbacks program.
> > __________
> >
> > If the above is correct, this is at least the second time that a right-
> > wing government, in its rush to cut costs on public services, has
> > endangered the very people who elected that government to provide
services
> > to protect them. Walkerton was the other. I would say that the
> priorities
> > of such rightwing governments as Klein's in Alberta and Mike
Harris'/Ernie
> > Eves' in Ontario are downright dangerous.
>
> It's not, it's a distortion of what really happened. It's a good example
of
> why Klien remains so popular. He knows how to handle bad news. He simply
> had everyone tell the truth from the get go, it's always the coverups that
> bring governments down, not the screwups!(although there's no evidence of
a
> screwup even!) The Alberta government looked calm and rational while the
> feds were running around like chickens with their heads chopped off! The
> feds seemed at first to be more interested in covering their butts than
> solving the problem.
Then you can stop whining for a bailout from the feds and get your beloved
Ralph to pay for the $$$ your beef industry lost because of his fuckup.
I'm sure he'll gladly pay up... :')