Only Half Paying Attention

There’s surely enough worry and fear in Alberta today without the premier throwing an almighty scare into some of Alberta’s most vulnerable people.

Jason Kenney now says eligibility criteria for AISH will be examined because there are just too darned many people with disabilities on the program — nearly 70,000.

This cadre of Albertans has grown much faster than the province, he says.

“Initially, AISH was a program designed for the severely handicapped,” Kenney said Tuesday.

“But the population of people qualifying has been growing far, far faster than the overall population, and so they have to look at issues like that — what are the criteria, how do we define severely handicapped in this day and age?”

The “severely handicapped”, it seems, should somehow limit themselves to growth plus inflation.

We might ask how far this thinking will go.

Will the province decide to bring in new criteria for, say, knee replacements?

A lot of people are waiting in line. And, really, how do you define a knee in this day and age?

That won’t happen, of course. But it’s just as absurd — not to mention heartless — to save money by redefining people with disabilities to meet fiscal goals.

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It’s because some snake, some real bastard of a human, had the arrogant temerity to be born with rheumatoid arthritis so now they’re living the high life on a disability payment. 19200 per year, a Kings Ransom reall, just to hang out and be in excruciating and debilitating pain all day.

AISH payouts amount to abouuuut 112000000 per year, which is ballpark 1% of the 8+ billion King Kenney blew threw in the last -year- on oil industry bets and tax cuts. He knows full well that he isn’t going to “find some savings,”

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Especially after the debacle where they shipped HIV+ blood to Latin and South America knowingly.

This is just codified discrimination with no scientific basis. Fight back.

"My [26F] husband [43M] has suddenly started [doing blatantly abusive thing]. Am I in the wrong?"

"My [37F] husband [39M] and I have been together for 8 loving years. But three months ago, he learned about Chris Angel, and he's now decided he wants to spend his life performing motorcycle stunts in front of penguins. I don't want to crush his dreams but he's used up all of our life savings. Advice?"

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Star Wars cast members that Reylo's started a hate campaign against

He was aware enough of this to get off on trolling the class, though.  Whenever some force diagram in a homework assignment needed to be weightless, instead of being some generic spacecraft it would be “Mir” specifically.  And he’d always use ‘cosmonaut’ instead of ‘astronaut’, that kind of thing.

One day about halfway through the semester, he’s doing this with in-class examples on the board, and one of the students finally gets up the guts to troll back a little.  So this kid shouts from the back of the auditorium, “Hey professor, what’s the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?”

The felony criminal mischief charges are more serious because they carry a gang enhancement. Prosecutors said on Wednesday that was justified because the protesters worked together to cause thousands of dollars in damage, but watchdogs called the use of the 1990s-era law troubling, especially in the context of criminal justice reform and minority communities.

It’s used for everything from railroading protesters (see above) to punting kids into prisons when they’d otherwise get a fine or possibly a low level misdemeanor.

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