I’m sorry to hear she had an accident and is hurt. My sympathy for her plight, however, should not be justification to stop me saying she is a Trotskyite-style centralizer who is helping to damage our beautiful city.

Perhaps you don’t follow analogy too well. I said “Trotskyite-like” meaning that she believes all power should be concentrated in her own hands — just like a Trotskyite Vanguard cell.

@ Jak King: I use analogy quite a bit myself, and as such am thoroughly familiar with how they work. Yours is stupid and risibly anachronistic.

Just sayin’.

You have to admire a woman (regardless of her political choices) that gets banged up so much and still makes it to work on time. She could have sat on disability (and OUR tax dollars) for weeks but NOOOOOO she’s up, she’s at ’em…..she’s WONDER WOMAN! She probably has two kids and a dog to take care of as well. If she has one of those husband thingys he must be proud.

Doctor Penny Ballem, as with many doctors, tend to self-treat themselves, sometimes with bad results,
She has seen her own x-rays, knows the pain drugs of choice and prospects for healing.

I’ll bet she now sits in a good long-back chair and has body bracing under her cloak of darkness.

@Teririch #8
I’m sure you missed my point….I said it’s great that she isn’t collecting disability at our expense. Hey, she makes that much? Geeze, I’m in the wrong company!

@Raingurl #11:

As a ‘municipal government employee’ Ballem and co. collect from us whether she is on disability or at work. or on holiday. The taxpayers, pay her salary, benefits etc.

She makes more than Harper and almost as much as President Zero.She also doesn’t create wealth and has no shareholders to answer to,I would hope that a person who took this job on would be doing it because they care about the city and not for the money.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/top-10-highest-paid-government-162807359.html

@Threadkiller #14:

I don’t know, what does the Premier or Prime Minister make cuz she is making more than either of them and holds a small portion of the responsibilities by comparison.

Joe Just Joe#18
That was hilarious,lets just say Alex was a little….animated.
As far as Rogers is concerned in the rush to get Ballem in it cost us an extra $572000.
From her wiki page ” Ballem was selected without the government conducting a candidate search.[8] Rogers received $572,000 severance in the transition.[10]”

And lets not forget this tid bit.

eHealth Ontario Scandal

Ballem was paid $30,000 for 78 hours of consulting work for eHealth Ontario,[18] over the objections of an eHealth Ontario employee who claimed there was no signed contract.[19][20][21] Ballem stated she was unaware an eHealth Ontario staff member had questioned her invoice,[19] and that she was hired directly by the CEO of eHealth Ontario without a contract.[22] RPO Management Consultants, which Ballem served as a senior advisor, received an untendered $600,000 contract from eHealth Ontario.[23] Sarah Kramer, former CEO of eHealth Ontario, was fired on June 7, 2009 over a scandal involving failing to open more than $5.5 million worth of contracts to competitive bids.[23][24]

Witless must have been bullied in school I guess,so I think we should feel sorry for him.

Waltyss 22,
Yeah, guess what, one day she’ll be gone too.
Who knows she’ll even have visitors like yourself to keep her company. Two makes a party! Lots of fun.
Just out of curiosity, you knowing all these things related to how well ballem should be compensated for ruining the city of Vancouver, tell us, how many tenths of millions of dollars is the City of Vancouver in debt after four years of her tenure? Olympic Village… Robertson’s Riot … Separated bike lanes … etc, etc, etc…
Now they need the monies from the community centers? LOL!
gman… 19
Judy Rogers is not the only one gifted a 6/49 “severance package”.
Ark Tsisserev… Brent Toderian… Jody Andrews… etc, etc, etc… money, money, lots and lots of money… for what, for implementing Vision’s cleansing agenda and then hiring their own hacks on golden contracts… Sadhu Johnston is the first one who comes to mind.
Bummer city.

@Higgins 22
Well, yes, I agree with you: separated bike lanes are the ruin of this city. Since they put them in, no-0ne, and I mean no-one, wants to live here or move here anymore. I look out my window and there are no cars or people around. If you ask where anyone is, they will tell you. They left because of Vision council putting in those separated bike lanes.
Higgins, are there no windows in the rock beneath which you, gman and your fellow neanderthals live. I know the light will burn but you should consider it.
But wait for it, Higgins, wait for it. A teachable moment is coming. You see we live in a democracy and the majority gets to choose their leaders. The leaders run on a platform that sets out what they intend to do and how they intend to do it. If a majority don’t like the platform, they don’t vote them in. Very simple, really.
Now you and your fellow anry old white fart sub rock dwellers didn’t and don’t like their platform. We get that. And you are more than free to hate their platform. But Vision set out what they are going to do and, by golly, they are doing it. In another 22 months, the voters of Vancouver will get to pass judgment again. Did they do what they said they would? Is their promise for what they intend to do appealing? Are the other guys better? The one thing, at least based on Vision’s record to date, that you will not be able to say is that they didn’t do what they said they were going to do.
22 months from now if the current crew is voted out, then if the new bunch decides that they do not have confidence in Dr. Ballem to carry out their vision, she will be fired and will receive a handsome severance package. That’s the way it works. And I am confident (tongue firmply planted in cheek) that you will object to the new government firing a competent civil servant and paying her out a generous severance package.

@gman, I know that this exceeds the capacity of your sub rock dwelling brain to comprehend. I didn’t dispute your facts; I disputed your interpretation, as well as the relevance, of them.

Strictly speaking, waltyss, facts don’t require “interpretation”. They speak for themselves. “interpretation” usually amounts to an attempt to shift the focus onto opinion. Needless to say regular readers of bulablog know in advance what your opinions are likely to be. But go ahead: “Express yourself” as the advertising industry suggests. No-one has to read the things you say over and over and over and over.

GR,

And everybody else got less. What does that tell you.

Ah, glissy, I see you can get your calculator to do the math of losers. Well, at least it keeps you away to the hash and listening to old hit parade tunes from your teen years.
Personally, if someone can’t get their sorry ass down to the polls every three years to cast their vote on stuff that goes on around them, then in my view, their views are worth shit. Nada. Nothing.
Your little “analysis” if one can call it that, is the math that losers pull out every time. Well, they didn’t get a majority of registered voters. Who cares? As boohoo points out, they got more than your guys and in a democracy that is all that matters. So glissy, back to the hash, old hit parade records and incontinentia.

Actually waltyss, in a democracy winning isn’t all that matters… The best leaders in history didn’t lead by only representing those very few people who voted for them. Real leaders understand that their supporters got behind them because they were the best leaders for their Country, Province, City, what-have-you.

As long as Vision Vancouver continues to cater to a select few fanatics, they will continue to lead the city down the wrong path. Mayor Gregor and his merry band (including the unsinkable Penny Ballem) will go down in history as the worst leaders of this city ever.

Paul T. my posts were not suggesting that democracy is or should be winner take all. It was and is short patience with those who like to haul out numbers to show the winners did not win a majority because a lot of people (even a majority) were too lazy to get off their asses to vote.
Should a majority take into consideration the views of their opponents? Yes. Does Vision as much as they should? No. Are they worse than the NPA was in its time? Hell, no!. Are they worse than the provincial Liberals or federal Conservatives? Not by a long shot!
Worse leaders of this city ever? While I for one do not believe Gregor Robertson is in any danger of soon being declared one of Vancouver’s great mayors, one only has to mention the words “Tom Campbell” or “Sam Sullivan” (to name only two)to know he is not at the bottom of the list.
Vision flies too much by the seat of its pants for my liking. The Waldorf is an example. On the other hand most of what they do is what they openly campaigned on doing. Even if you disagree, you cannot deny that they have a mandate to do those things.
As for Dr. Ballem, she is often accused of being a dictatorial leader. What I hear is that many people employed at the city admire that and others hate it? I certainly don’t put much stock in anonymous posts from disgruntled city employees to judge her effectiveness or qualities as a leader.