'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak Gets Crushed - Good Riddance!!

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Chapter 7

It is with great relief that the Oracle of Ottawa can report to his worldwide readership that you will not be seeing OPP officers standing shotgun over chain gangs at the side of our roads, highways and controlled access freeways, if you happen to be visiting Ontario anytime into the far far future. That threat and a whole lot of others fell by the wayside on Thursday last of this week.

'Chain Gang' Tim - Campaign to oblivion...

 It was the 2014 Ontario Provincial Election that settled it all, once and for all, for most of our lifetimes. For any corporate whores that were hoping that Ontario was soon to become a Right To Work Province like some third world southern American State, you can catch the next flight to Mexico. That was a another winger dream that also died last thursday for the next couple of decades at least.

As the Christian Fundamentalists in their shiny patent black leather shoes pack to go back to the winger think tanks that they came from in the United States, they have all come to the same conclusion; the right wing revolution will never catch on in Canada. These Canadians are just too smart to buy the think tank wrecking crew bullshit. As far as the minions of the 'Harper Government' are concerned, the on loan wingers will not be returning any calls from now on.

The one great lesson that the Oracle of Ottawa learned from this election is that the right wing wingers cannot take their own bullshit at all. The well funded trade unions in Ontario went right for the conservative style attack ads full bore, and it worked perfectly. It soon appeared that 'Chain Gang' Tim couldn't take as well as he tried to give. The big union bosses easily out spent the corporate whores. Like the Liberal gas plants it was money well wasted.  
 

 
The other great lesson is that the corporate whore pollsters are so corrupt and for the right wing that they are all but useless. They actually thought that the people of Ontario were stupid enough to vote the way that the flawed polls indicated. The people of Ontario simply stopped talking to them. And when the dust settled on Thursday night last, the pollsters were more humiliated than 'Chain Gang' Tim! It was high and wonderful comedy that the Oracle of Ottawa enjoyed very much.

It was a room of less then fifty supporters that were outnumbered by the media that greeted the defeated 'Chain Gang' Tim as he came to deliver his resignation speech. The Oracle of Ottawa was wagging for hours after that. As the Oracle of Ottawa was driving down many Ontario roads the next day, that were chain gang free, he listened to the right wing talking heads writhing in winger agony on the AM radio talk shows. It is only about another year to wait and it will be the turn of the 'Harper Government'... The Oracle of Ottawa id greatly looking forward to that...  

Where Are All The Hudak Supporters?

The discovery of happiness, like the discovery of new territory, is usually oblique.
John Kay, Obliquity, p. 23 

The hands down event of the week, without a doubt, has had to be the kick-off of the 2014 Ontario provincial election. It of course gained, right from the start, saturation old style vulgar media coverage. The Oracle of Ottawa loves that. That means that he can cover the said train wreck from the comfort of his secure bunker, located somewhere in Ottawa South. This is by far the greatest venue for a rock and  roll roving reporter.

'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak - Party of One...

Right from the get - go the Oracle of Ottawa could not help but notice the actual excitement caused by the homily Kathleen Wynne. Damn! You would think she was a rock star or something. Every one of her events has scads of supporters in attendance. And they are not captive employees of some party member from the donors list. Why, one of the first places she came out to after the campaign started was Ottawa South, to the old riding office of Dalton McGuinty! The Oracle of Ottawa thought that was right bold. But you didn't hear the words "Gas plant", not even once. The ample excited crowd formed in over an hour in advance.
 

Andrea Horath - D'Ohhhh...

 And it wasn't shit luck Dear Reader, the next day she packed out another event in downtown Ottawa at that new conference center. From the adulation that was being shown, the Oracle of Ottawa can only conclude that she was once Pierre Elliot Trudeau's old girl friend from the 1970's! But no Dear Reader, she just has that something. And she can get the voters out and up for it. It was great watching the clips of her sassing the 'Harper Government'! All in, a hell of good start to her majority government.

 One of the biggest faux-pas's of the week had to go to Andrea Horwath, at the staged set up in the Tim Horton's coffee shop, somewhere in Ontario. The Oracle of Ottawa caught the gaff right away and just couldn't believe it. Your average awesome Canadian is about six feet tall, plus or minus a couple of inches. In Canada it is really really rare that you ever see a midget. It is even rarer still to see a midget from Asia, even in Ottawa!  But if you are in a Tim Horton's and there are nine Asian midgets from the Phillipines behind the counters, barely tall enough to see over the cash register, you know right away that you are in a Tim Horton's staffed completely by Temporary Foreign Workers! That looked great to the Oracle of Ottawa. That once, the party of the working man, was now pitching in a business establishment that profits from indentured labour! What is the NDP staff on?

Earlier this after noon that Oracle of Ottawa was returning from his coveted Saturday routine, only to see on CTV News Network, the never ending clip of a "poll" of 825 Ontario voters that concluded that 'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak was leading in popularity for Premiere of Ontario! And that this was correct to an accuracy of +/ - 4%!! What was no doubt mentioned by the pollster was that it was only Tim Hudaks riding that was polled! Oh, and by the way, the undecided was pulling a strong fourth at 16%. When you are down to that desperate Hail Mary move in only the first week of the Campaign you are essentially  fucked.

Right from the start the Hudak campaign faltered. The press was (rightly) all over the little man. There were no supporters in attendance. Just 'Chain Gang' Tim and his rag ass band of fart catchers. And that head fart catcher was so creepy that that the Oracle had to reach for his Ether and Nitrous Oxide mask! I had that Blue Velvet fear, all of a sudden. But the Oracle is alright know after a stern reading of a few chapters of Revelation... If all it cost to save Ontario from this moron, was a billion dollar gas plant move, the Oracle of Ottawa can only conclude that it was money very well wasted indeed.

'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak - All Lost - Already!

Tyrants are rarely 'true navigators'.
David Held, Models Of Democracy, Third Edition, p. 24

There he was on the Oracle of Ottawa's Sony big screen, dressed up like a burger flipping Temporary Foreign Worker, the Oracle of Ottawa laughed so hard he damn near hurt himself. Then there was that awkward Global Television interview, where 'Chain Gang' Tim just walked off the stage with his doomed lot of spin doctors and fart catchers, all soon to be unemployed. The Oracle of Ottawa won't say that 'Chain Gang' Tim is nervous already, but did you check out the cement bags under his eyes Dear Reader? It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that something is keeping little Tim up late into the night. What ever do you suppose that could be Dear Reader? And where are the throngs of excited supporters?

'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak - Farewell Tour...

Early into the campaign the laughs are coming a ton a minute. The next clip on the Oracles local supper time news was of Andrea Horwath, complete with the doomed deer in the head light stare. It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa  that some people just don't campaign very well at all. Perhaps her feet are still hurting from that self inflicted gunshot wound of bailing out of budget that appeared to the Oracle of Ottawa that was written by the NDP. Some people can't handle the pressure very well. And the Oracle was mortified when the lost Andrea was appearing in a empty staged event at a Tim Horton's, which appeared to the Oracle of Ottawa to be completely staffed by little TFW people from the Philippines all four feet nine inches each. That will work really good with the union vote!

Then we got to the good stuff. The Oracle of Ottawa is very impressed by the showing of Kathleen Wynne. Damn, she is a natural campaigner. She is like a pink battery bunny with a bass drum. There were no bags under her eyes or any trace of fear. She is on a mission and she even seems to be enjoying it, unlike her two opposites.A lot of people are so called change voters. But not the Oracle of Ottawa. The Oracle picks quality and sticks with it for ever. Ontario has finally got it's own Hurricane Hazel!

It has come to the Oracle of Ottawa's attention that the 2014 Ontario Election has stirred up some very, very large and powerful forces. The Oracle of Ottawa has included a video purpose made from one of the most powerful union leaders in the United States! Leo Gerard from the United Steel Workers of America! The largest all industrial union in America. Only about 860,294 members the last time they counted in 2009. He speaks about one of 'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak's promises of making Ontario a Right to Work province, just like an American right to work state. Doctor Gerard passes on some some chilling information, which you would be very wise to give a listen to...

What Was Andrea Horwath On?

Far from the state playing the role of emancipator, protective knight or umpire in the face of conflicting interests, the state is enmeshed in civil society.
David Held, Models Of Democracy, Third Edition, p. 108

It all seems so long ago already. But in reality, it was just last Wednesday when the Ontario Liberal Minority Government tabled their budget. Of course there were the required media "leaks" to trial balloon everything and all, as per standard routine. The Oracle of Ottawa was mighty impressed. It seemed clear to the Oracle of Ottawa that the NDP under the steady hand of Andrea Horwath had all but written in the major points, such as making the rich pay, in that everyone earning over $150,000 in taxable income would pay a mere $500 more.

Oracle calls a majority Wynne government...

Then there was the astounding news of the Ontario Pension Plan that the Feds of the 'Harper Government' have refused, with the Province of Ontario going it's own way. After pondering all the leaks the Oracle of Ottawa could only conclude that the NDP wrote the budget! Make the rich pay, take care of the poor, and provide money to build what the people of Ontario were capable of building. Even the honking large and powerful Union bosses that still exist in Ontario were mighty impressed and stood to and said so right out loud. The Oracle of Ottawa suspected that it was all a slam dunk.

Andrea Horwath - Fatal error?

It was just after the market close in Toronto on Wednesday that Kathleen Wynne stood to her place at let the Finance Minister off his leash, and get it off. Then the first news come out on Power and Politics that Andrea Horwath was not in the House! Somehow it was nicely explained that the Orange Andrea had some how got her thong in a knot, and did not appear in the House in the Chair as the Leader of the Third Party. The Oracle of Ottawa could not think of another example where this has ever happened before in the Ontario Legislature.

'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak - Last time out?

As the week progressed, starting at the NDP news conference on Thursday morning, the imperious Andrea stated that she was miffed about something and that she would not or maybe would not support the Wynne Government on the May eighth budget vote. Needless to say the Oracle of Ottawa became somewhat alarmed. Is this NDP thingy going to risk the introduction of chain gangs in to Ontario? Is she willing to risk Ontario becoming a "right to work" province? Cause these things would surely happen if 'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak had a lucky day at the poles.     

Then it all donned on the Oracle of Ottawa. This is the process of democracy in action. It is an ugly process. It finds weakness and exposes it naked right away. It has to be that way, there is a lot at stake (steak?). It also shows great hidden strengths of character, as it did when Kathleen Wynne just walked down the Hall and went to see the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and had the government dissolved! The election day is to be June 12, 2014. The Oracle of Ottawa strongly suspects a Liberal majority.

Kathleen Wynne - Ontario Gets A Raise

The process of accumulation, once it is begun and carried through, is to the good of all subsequent generations.
John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice, p.288 

It was Thursday last that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the raising of Ontario's minimum wage to $11.00 per hour starting June first of this year, and to add salt to little Tim Hudaks wounds, it will be based on the inflation rate from now on. For the Ontario Conservatives this will be hard to fight, especially when they have right to work legislation promised in the platform.

Kathleen Wynne

As soon as the Oracle of Ottawa heard this little bomb shell on his local supper time vulgar old time media news he knew he would be in for a ton of entertainment when all the right wing, brain dead mouth breathers would soon be flooding the call in shows to express their total opposition to this pink communist announcement. But one did not even have to wait that long. Right away there were the usual hand to mouth entre-pren-whores screaming abject poverty of beginning to have to pay a living wage. All the while knowing that out back of the burger joint, there sits a brand new S class Benz sedan, with the V-12 no less, that has a garage in another McMansion some where in Barfhaven. The Oracle of Ottawa loved it.

As far as the Oracle of Ottawa is concerned he would just love to see every American franchised burger joint in Canada close. Wouldn't bother the Oracle a bit. It would free up the land and the people that were enslaved there to have a chance at something a bit more promising in the equal feast of Canadian society. The Oracle of Ottawa helps out as much as possible by never going near the greasy joints. And if you helped the Oracle of Ottawa Dear Reader, it would not be very long before they are all gone, bankrupt, every one. Simply because they cannot exist if you stop giving them money. Capitalism - nuttin' to it! Like Kevin O'leary always says, The Market Will Decide, i.e. you Dear Reader...  

TV Ontario - The Death Of Big Ideas

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed Of Procrustes, p. 3

It has been the Saturday routine of the Oracle of Ottawa for over a decade to tune into TV Ontario at 5:00p.m. on a Saturday evening and watch Big Ideas. It was all pretty dangerous stuff, as the truly greatest minds alive in the world today discussed very dangerous social ideas and proposed radical social experiments to actually realize them. There was Chris Hedges, Northrop Frye, and Noam Chomsky to mention only a few.

Big Ideas - Dead in Ontario...

Then out of the blue sometime last winter, it was announced that the low budget format show was being cancelled due to government funding cutbacks, which would in turn allow the provincial public broadcaster to save a paltry two million dollars. The show was to end at the end of last March. But there must have been serious blow back, since the last episode ran last Saturday, not on the last Saturday of March 2013. Ah, the power of social media!

What was even more depressing was that Saturday last was also the last Saturday Night At The Movies which has been a TVO institution since back in the 1970's. But surely Big Ideas would be replaced by something of equal value? Well, not exactly, in the place of Big ideas there was another rerun of the ever sickening Battle Field Mysteries. Whereby some pathetic wanna be goes and retraces the path of Canadian Forces in the battle fields of Europe to remind us all that Canada was just sooo close to being an imperial power just like the United States is today. It made the Oracle of Ottawa want to puke. But it was right in keeping with the Prime Ministers Office directives from the internal department of the Ministry Of Truth.

TV Ontario - A Dangerous Social Experiment...

Now we all know that a show like Big Ideas was certainly not a very expensive show to fund. They were simply tapes of left leaning lectures that were already paid for by other institutions such as the University of Toronto. And the people that spoke on Big Ideas were not the kind to demand a huge price to let their ideas be heard. As a matter of fact most of the speakers spoke for travel fees and living expenses! There was no dealing with Canadian production companies that run on a profit basis such as the provider of Battle Field Mysteries. So why would TV Ontario cut it's two most popular and cheapest format shows? Has TV Ontario been lying to us when they report how successful the recent fund raising has been?


 If TV Ontario is cutting it's most popular and cheapest format shows due to the shortage of a paltry two million dollars, how is that the likes of the ever sickening, scrotum licking likes of Steve Paikin able to get a brand new elaborate set, that resembles the studios of Americas Fox News? How is it that there is money for that? How is it that the sickening likes of Allan Gregg ,  the erstwhile conservative fart catcher and father of the negative political campaign in Canada always has a set that is posher than anything that the CBC can produce? Well? How is that?

Well, let the Oracle of Ottawa explain to you Dear Reader. It all has to do with the corporate dismantling of Canada. Shows like Big Ideas do not instill the core values of the New World Order, as implemented by the Illuminati, upon the directives of the Bilderberg Group as carried out by the Prime Ministers Office. The core values of a citizen of the New World Order are: Consume, Conform, and Obey. Any radical talk or thought is and will be suppressed at all costs with extreme prejudice. Do you understand now?

It was last winter that the Oracle of Ottawa called his lawyer and had his will changed, that big bequest to TV Ontario has vanished like it was never even their. Since the writing or the lack of same is on the wall, the Oracle of Ottawa ponders why his left leaning tax dollars should have to subsidize the likes of the new TV Ontario? The Oracle has even gone to the very rare extreme of dropping the channel from his remote's favorites. The greatest thing that Kathleen Wynne could do is pull the plug on all Ontario Provincial funding to TV Ontario and let it seek funding elsewhere, like Sun News....

Another OLG Paradox Of Probability

In stochastic processes the future is not uniquely determined, but we have at least probability relations enabling us to make predictions.
William Feller, An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications, Third Edition, Vol. I, p. 420

The Oracle of Ottawa has the grand pleasure to be a resident of Ottawa, Ontario. And in the Province of Ontario we have a wonderful organization known as the Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation.  The OLG is a house of many games. One of the most interesting is a sports game known as Pools. It is just like an office sports pool that you play at work, but Pools is an office pool that has as its "subspace" the whole population of Ontario! (population, 13,505,900)

Lesson? - Probability is Spooky...

  As you can well imagine, things can get pretty exciting well into the NFL football season, where by one of the most popular bets in Ontario is the weekly series of NFL games. There can be up to 16 games, from Thursday night to Monday night. For five dollars you can take your best shot, straight up, and come Tuesday, the winner(s) are announced. If you can pick 14-16 NFL games, straight up, you could turn $5.00 into several hundred thousand dollars! And it being Canada, this will all be sweet and tax free.

HP-11C - Good tools are very important...

If the Oracle of Ottawa's old brain is working correctly, The weekly NFL Pool was the first and only Pool in the Province of Ontario. Then of course came the weekend NHL hockey Pool, then the MLB baseball Pool. With a hold back of any where from 40% - 60% the good old OLG ran with a really good thing until at the time of this writing, there are pools offered every day.  Which is proper and fitting, fair and wide open.

Most of the time, the results are to be totally expected. Such as the days when 14 baseball games are on the list, and the results are that only 2- 4 people were able to pick 12 of the 14 offered games. For this awesome feat, the reward can be several thousand dollars! This, for those that know of such things, fits the normal curve about just right. And tomorrow there will another list. Now remember, this is a pool, you do not have to get all the games right, you only have to be the punter or punters that gets the most games right, result, you get all the money, Sweet!  

William Feller - Awesome beyond words...

For example, early last week, there was a card offered of a mere 10 night MLB games. If you have tried it Dear Reader, you know that handicapping MLB baseball is all but impossible. But on this day one punter in Ontario got all 10 games, and in turn took all the pool money, which was north of $20,000 bucks Canadian, great work, if you can snag it!

On Thursday last was offered Card #99, it consisted of all the pre-season NFL games from August 15, 2013 to August 17, 2013 a small list of only 14 pre-season NFL games. If you think that major league baseball is hard to cap, you also know that regular season NFL games is an awesome feat of capping prowess. But who in heavens name would be crazy enough to even try to cap 14 pre-season NFL games? Surely a total impossibility?


Then the little fridge light came on in the Oracles brain, give it a random guess, by a very possible stroke of luck, the Oracle could possibly pick say 12 out of 14 games and share the prize with say at least six other randomizers. Well it was this fine Sunday morning when the Oracle checked his ticket and discovered that he only could guess 7 out of 14. Pure text book expectation. But the Oracle of Ottawa was shocked to discover that 66 punters in Ontario were able to predict 14 out of 14 pre-season NFL games!! The odds of performing such a feat of picking 14 of 14 games are 1: 16,384! That means that about 1,081,344 tickets at five bucks each would have to be sold, more or less. For a gross pot of $5,406,720 +/-. before withholding percentage of the house take, assuming 40%, would leave a prize pool about 3,244,032, which would have meant 66 prizes of $49,152! The actual prize that was awarded to these awesome subset of punters was a mere $555.30 each!! Hmmm...

This of course means, and makes very much sense, that only a very very small subset of the population of the Province of Ontario actually played. But excuse me! Sixty six people of this small subset were able to pick all 14 of 14 winners!???  While the greatest capper in America alive today Kenneth Massey, could only manage a paltry prediction of 10 out of 14!? If one was really cynical one would blurt out that the only way this could possibly happen is if you were somehow able to buy your tickets after all the games were actually played! But the Oracle of Ottawa wouldn't think of doing a nasty thing like that....

Kathleen 'Hurricane' Wynne Shames The 'Harper Government'

Force, not opinion, is queen of the world.
Blaise Pascal, Pensees, No. 421

Could it be? Could it really be true? Could the Province of Ontario actually have their own 'Hurricane Hazel' in Kathleen Wynne? The Oracle of Ottawa was hoping for the best, and so far the Oracle has been mightily impressed. Politically, Kathleen Wynne, is as slippery as a Calgary wildcatter soaked under his own gusher.

Kathleen 'Hurricane' Wynne

There have been a lot of days since the commencement of the 'Harper Government' train wreck, that the Oracle of Ottawa was so depressed with the direction that Canada was being taken that he simply couldn't write this blog or do much of anything else. But as the Oracle of Ottawa  has related recently, the 'Harper Government' has reached and passed the critical 'puke point' with the Canadian public. That is the point where all the standard hateful right wing shit would start to back up. The point where the 'Harper Government' would rudely discover, that after all, many Canadians do care.

For the 'Harper Government' it is all downhill from here on in. Just like that other wack ball conservative from back in the 1950's. Conservatives chasing political power is like a dog chasing a hub cap. The only way to break them of their insane habit is to stop the car. The dog is then infinitely confused. Just like the Conservatives in power. But the Oracle of Ottawa digresses...

The awesome good news of the day was heard on the CBC radio in the car this afternoon. It seems that the critical and world famous Experimental Lakes Area research station is going to be saved after all. It was slated for closure by the idiots of the 'Harper Government' to save a paltry two million dollars! The international condemnation has and will reduce the Canadian GNP by a more than a couple of beeps. Which if we had a finance minister that could understand it, is going to cost way more than two million dollars.

It seems that the Ontario Premier has rounded up some friends of the same mind, and has pulled the rug out from under the 'Harper Government'. The 'Harper Government' never suspected that any one would step up  for a stupid science lab way the hell out in the middle of nowhere. You could see the shock of Tony 'Two Tier' Clement in the media scrums. But the word on the Hill is that he is quiet glad it is all over, now his evenings are free again to catch up on the complete Flintstones cartoons that he recently acquired in DVD. For poor Tony, the Flintstones are the kind of scientific documentaries that he can really get his head around!

Of course, just as Kathleen Wynne was making the announcement, Tim 'Chain Gang' Hudak was on the media with how terrible an idea it is, to embarrass the 'Harper Government'. And really, where is Ontario going to get all of a crummy two million dollars!? It is great that poor Tim has a job now. He seems to make Kathleen Wynne look good at every turn, unfortunately for him though, the process seems to be totally one of the the reversible kind! But he will of course survive, conservatives love looking like idiots...

Of course there is a rumor going around Ottawa how the Ontario Premier is going to raise this chump change and a mountain more. It goes like this: So, you want to become a Private, Public Partner of the Ontario people,.....      

Rob Ford - Rehab, No, No, No?

I am not so old and cowardly as not to be young in reason on behalf of piety.
4 Maccabees, 5:31, NRSV

Well dear reader, I am sure you have seen tonight's video of his eminence Rob Ford on the CBC National News, yet again. Today's outburst concerned the density challenged mayor of Toronto's reaction to a rather not too flattering story in today's Toronto Star newspaper. A rather scurrilous article that reported that one said mayor was asked to leave a certain military social function. Due to the apparent condition that the said mayor allegedly appeared to be in at the time.

Rob Ford - Time running out?

 It struck the Oracle of Ottawa that the mayor was sweating rather more profusely than usual, which is a whole lot, if you check out the video carefully. Now any one with even the most basic analytical skills, can guesstimate the present mayors weight at over 300lbs, easy. Now any other chemical effort combined with breathing is and would be most dangerous for a person in the shape that the eminent  mayor now appears to be in. And did you see the pictures in the said article? Oy!

Now the Oracle of Ottawa will tell you from experience that alcoholism is very easy to hide, if you have the smallest amount of discipline. But other stuff can be damn near impossible to hide once it gets a hold on you. And from the look of the pictures that the that terrible article printed and the ones you can see on Google Images, well dear reader, you can come to your own conclusions. Now the only question is; will the rotund asset of the Conservative revolution just survive to the next election, let alone win it?

It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that someone had better intervene here and soon. Seriously, if all my favorite Conservatives start dropping, the Oracle of Ottawa is going to be severely challenged for future copy after the funerals. Now Rob Ford should attack this problem in a cold rational Conservative fashion. He should find out if he can get a discount if he brings a certain federal finance minister with him at the same time...

The Awe And Wonder Of Hazel McCallion

How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!
James, 3:5, NRSV

At the time of this writing, 'Hurricane' Hazel McCallion is 92 years old, and is still in elected political office as the Mayor of Mississauga, Ontario. The Oracle of Ottawa is a big fan of 'Hurricane' Hazel and has been a reverent admirer for many years. 'Hurricane' Hazel is the Oracle of Ottawa's living proof that the art of government is not rocket science, but rather a well applied algorithm, that when properly applied and strictly followed, with out deviance to the left or to the right, is in reality all pretty easy and truth be told, pretty boring after a while.

Her Worship 'Hurricane' Hazel McCallion

The Oracle of Ottawa has been meaning to do this positive tribute piece for the longest while. But the final impetuous to do it came late in the night sometime last week when the Oracle of Ottawa was aimlessly surfing his 999 cable TV channels only to discover that there was still nothing on, when he stumbled upon the Ontario Legislature channel and observed Her Worship 'Hurricane' Hazel giving very animated  hearing testimony at a hearing that seemed to be investigating municipal governance.

The Oracle of Ottawa perked up, upped the volume and paid attention. Surely the fine woman is not as smooth as in her past? Well the Oracle of Ottawa discovered that she isn't, but rather, now, it seems, she has got even better! The Oracle of Ottawa marveled at the woman's mental speed and total lucidity that made the fat arsed committee guys less than half her age appear to be suffering from early onset dementia! But perhaps, the Oracle of Ottawa conceded, they were probably Conservatives, and Christian Mercy must always be shown to persons less gifted then our awesome Liberal Leftie selves.
    

That clip of her talking about municipal government, and its importance, that it should be enacted by law as an official tier of over government, should be posted to You-Tube! It was total magic to watch. The Oracle of Ottawa found himself hanging upon every word, and truly and deeply agreeing with her every word. And as she was talking, she would pick up up the ring of her unused three ring binder notes and at just the right time for emphasis she would let it drop just the right distance, and it sounded like a 220 lb. man banging his fist on the table! The Oracle of Ottawa realized that he truly was not worthy to be witness to such an awesome display of oration. 

The Oracle of Ottawa continued to be riveted, and again wondered how much the present Mayor of Ottawa would gain be sitting at her feet. Perhaps she could put some steel in his rubber spin doctored spine, maybe even, she could get him to have his own opinion! But the Oracle of Ottawa soon caught himself, not even the Mayor of Mississauga could do that.

Can Ontario Win With Wynne?

We are through the looking glass now folks! Fuck me!
Malcolm Tucker, The Thick Of It

The first tangible benefit of Kathleen Wynne being Premier of Ontario is that Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, will now have someone of the opposite sex to march with at Gay Pride this summer! Also the people of Ontario will have the comfort of knowing that the Premier designate will not have the usual personal pressure of worrying about someone cutting their grass as far as the "significant other" goes.

Kathleen Wynne...Oy vey!

 It goes without saying that Kathleen Wynne is not the prettiest bulb in the box, but as far as her "partner" goes, no one is going to make a move on that anytime soon. Holy shit! That poor bitch is the homliest thing in the history of Ontario. They may have to change the license plates in Ontario. The Oracle of Ottawa has just found some thing he would rather not discover...

The Oracle of Ottawa was very upset that that nice Gerard Kennedy lad folded like a deck chair on the Titanic! As the Oracle of Ottawa sees it, Gerard knows the writing is on the wall for the present Liberal government, and he decided that he would let the fiasco pass, and score the prize the next time out. All for several points of  future interest of course, like a cabinet post etc.

Now the question is, how long will the gay Premier last? Will she be smart enough to kick the corporate over-whores from the temple? Will she be astute enough to make a pass at Andrea Horwath  and reset some of the terrible Labour Law practices that have seeped into the Liberal house? If the meeting is productive, will she allow the clip to be posted to You Tube? Yes the Oracle of Ottawa thinks Andrea is super hot and pretty. Pretty enough, just like Dalton, to be Premier for a very long time...

Meanwhile Tim "Chain Gang" Hudak is all rather perplexed at the whole thing. Kathleen Wynne doesn't look very happy to him, let alone "gay". Ole Tim is still trying to figure out how any body that is Premier of Ontario could have such an ugly sister? The handlers, spin doctors, and fart catchers assorted have been engaged are presently working on the problem.....  

Meanwhile - back at Tory Headquarters....

The Gutting of TV Ontario

Whatever is the cause of taxes to a nation, becomes also the means of revenue to a government.
Thomas Paine, Rights Of Man,  p. 165

It was with great shock that the Oracle of Ottawa learned from his CBC supper hour news that the gutting of TV Ontario has commenced. The Oracle of Ottawa finds it riddling strange that the three most popular programs are to axed! The three shows are: Saturday Night At The Movies, Big Ideas, and Allan Gregg In Conversation! Why those are the only shows that the Oracle of Ottawa never misses! What the hell is going on here?

Save TV Ontario!!

The brass at TVO are out to save a crummy two million bucks. Didn't they raise more than that on last years membership drives? Haven't they just shut down 114 old analog transmitters? Why the scrap value there is worth over two million dollars. And do you think that TV Ontario was renting the land for all these transmitters? Hell no! So there is another twenty million at least! And how much was received in bequests and wills in the last ten years? Hmmm, do you dear reader smell a rat? Let the Oracle of Ottawa explain....

It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that all the cut shows are the favorites of those of left political leanings. What is at work here? Have the corporate over-whores forced their hand through the marketing department or was it through the Prime Ministers Office? Yes sir, it certainly sounds and looks like the F9 monkeys in beanie hats and short pants are at it again.

The greatest brand that TV Ontario has is the interview archive that was assembled by Elwy Yost over his lifetime career at TVO! One hundred years from now people will still be watching those interviews! How much budget does it cost to run stuff you already own? Not much. Not even Hollywood has anything to match it! Yes Saturday Night at The Movies has to go! Cinema is the opiate of the political left, isn't it?
And that show called Big Ideas certainly has to go! We can't have people like Northrop Frye , Noam Chomsky, and Chris Hedges telling the masses the utter and absolute truth can we? It really clashes with the talking points, propaganda and Agenda of a certain middle eastern ethnic group that at present has an insane hold on the Prime Ministers Office. Is The Oracle of Ottawa right or is he right? And heh! Right after Big Ideas the Oracle of Ottawa always gives Allan Gregg his eyeballs most every Saturday night. These three shows are the Saturday nights of countless Ontarians! And have been for decades....

Fire and cut this piece of ____!!!

But the Oracle of Ottawa will not just bitch into the cloud. The Oracle of Ottawa is constructive and has thought of a much better solution of cuts totaling three shows presently on TV Ontario. First cut Mere Cat Manor. Then cut that sickening Time Team, that phony reality show crap trying to be connected to the science and art of archeology! God! The Oracle of Ottawa hates that limey low life bastard that hosts that show... Now for the real money saver! Why just cutting this one show will no doubt save TV Ontario more than two million dollars. Her goes.. Fire that piece of shit, closet neo-con, conservative Steve Paikin! And cancel his bullshit posing show called the Agenda!  Public television is no place for "flagship" current affairs, that is the job of the mainline media outlets such as the "state broadcaster", the good old CBC!

So, with the absence of the Agenda, the blogs, the pretentious set and the bullshit guests, that somehow strangely seem to be mostly from one small micro-state in the middle east, TVO should have saved more than two million dollars a year. Then to fill in the time bring me something with real class and substance like Charlie Rose or the old style couch and interview show that we all enjoyed before the Agenda! Now the Oracle of Ottawa is not a vindictive blogger. Steve Paikin should receive a generous severance package and a presentation shot gun set, with matching shower stall, he will know what to do with it, won't he?

    
Cut this piece of ____ propagandist and his right wing entourage and save TV Ontario!!!

Dalton McGuinty Done In By PPP

It is true that space is only in my head; but empirically my head is in space.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World As Will And Idea, Volume II, p. 184

Not even the Oracle of Ottawa got a sniff of this one coming. But there you go. But it is obvious to the Oracle of Ottawa that it was the Private Public Partnerships that did him in. The corporate whores can under no circumstances ever be allowed into the hen-house of government as pals. And the events of the very recent past are total proof of this. Andrea Horvath, for crying out loud, take note! 

Dalton McGuinty - done in by PPP

The Oracle of Ottawa stated his sneak'in suspicions around the time of the onset of the electric smart meters. Something that was not needed and will never pay for them selves. But before that and now it was a hell of  run for the mighty Dalton. He ended up being the sixth longest serving premier in Ontario history. Tim Hudak will never touch that, not even in his wildest dreams! But Andrea Horvath could beat that, if she acts like a cross between Hurricane Hazel and Joseph Stalin! And that is the way you have to conduct government. The corporate whores are never to be trusted. You must have them and keep them on there knees begging, or else you will be another Dalton.

Now the Oracle is free of the ties of the past. He can now vote for the NDP and like it. I figure that Andrea Horvath is the Hurricane Hazel of Ontario, and damn it that is what we really really need. If an old women of 91 years can get elected 12 times in a row and make politics look easy, it must be then as easy as that. The Oracle of Ottawa can only hope that some one has learned a lesson from this sad debacle....

Meanwhile in the corporate bunker - somewhere in downtown Toronto, the corporate over whores are not taking the news very well....

Andrea Horwath To Make The Rich Pay

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chapter II, Article I, p. 911

Andrea Horwath is not wasting any time being the king-maker, as the leader of the Third Party in a minority government in the Province of Ontario. It is a very close minority, so close that if Andrea does not like what the Premier, Dalton McGiunty, proposes, she can bring the whole government down! And she is going to make sure that she gets her polite NDP fingerprints on the McGuinty administration. Good on her, as far as the Oracle of Ottawa is concerned.

Andrea Horwath wears the pants!!

What she is proposing is a modest two percent increase on all incomes in Ontario over $500,000. At first hearing the Oracle of Ottawa was totally un-phased. But the Oracle of Ottawa had no idea how many people in the Province of Ontario make over 500 large! It is truly a staggering number. Why a mere two percent increase would net hundreds of millions of dollars, per year!

Of course Dalton made the usual noises. We can't increase taxes etc... But any one in the know, will tell you that the Premier was elated at the NDP idea. The whole scenario is just too perfect. Dalton could pay off the Ontario deficit in no time at all! And it would look like it was all the fault of the NDP! Why the next election would be majority again and for a very long time! And, the Liberal brain trust realized very quickly that anyone who makes over 500 large a year probably didn't vote Liberal any way, well it was all a Godsend! And most of all, it was a chance to cripple the "Harper Government" by giving some of their own back times ten.

So therefore, the first two percent will just be for nothing. Punishment, for not voting Liberal, and saying all those nasty things during the campaign.....

The second two percent is for all that expense that Ontario will no doubt incur due to the 'Harper Government' omnibus crime bill.

The third two percent will cover the expense of the social programs that will increase due to the 'Harper Government' raising the retirement age from 65 to 67!

The fourth two percent will be for even more lavish health care and education! Ontario must lead the way, it is our destiny. We are still the power in Canada, and power has shifted not at all....

The fifth two per cent is for the same reason as the first two percent. But the daily interest could support a program to give any whiners a ride to the airport of their choice should they decide to seek residence somewhere posher; like Alberta. And good fucking riddance.... The Oracle of Ottawa eagerly awaits Tim "Chain Gang" Hudak's response to the great social bill.....

You go girl! Make the rich pay and pay and pay some more!!

Alison Redford - A Monster Wrench In The Harper Gearbox!!

The idea, then, of causation must be deriv'd from some relation among objects; and that relation we must now endeavour to discover.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, p. 75

The sweat stains started to grow exponentially on the party dresses  from the Sun News TV skank locker and wardrobe, starting Friday morning last. As the Supreme Court of Canada decision on the legality of the Vancouver safe injection site was handed down. It was a total fail for the Conservative Party of Canada. The decision was unanimous; 9-0! Even the conservative justices stood to, and defended the Canadian Constitution! Pat Boland was really grossed out, not at the decision, but rather at that gross, quickly expanding sweat stain on his co-host, but with his usual grace and professional aplomb he marched through. Total class.

The Tory gear box....

Meanwhile in the House last week, the Conservatives omnibus crime bill was made to look pretty stupid. The bullshit  was overwhelmed by the facts as provided by the Opposition and mostly Joe Comartin. The recent release of Steven Pinkers latest book entitled; "The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes" is going to be pretty embarrassing to the Conservatives when those uppity young NDP types start quoting from it to Rob "The Knob" Nicholson...Not to mention the fact that Mr. Pinker is a fine lad that hails from Montreal... This could all get really embarrassing!
 
Then it was Sunday morning and I was tuning into the Sun News for the ever pleasant Brian Dunstan when I saw the tape at the bottom of the screen tell me that Alison Redford won the job for the head of the provincial Alberta Conservative Party!! Why she will be the Premier of Alberta! How did this happen? Well the Oracle of Ottawa will tell you... While the PMO was meddling and the old farts were playing "bigger dick", it seems that Alison scooped the unattended sack of nuts and scurried to the finish line in a doddle! I have provided a link to all her achievements, since they are too numerous to include in this post. Check it out, it is a most excellent CV!! Red Tory is an understatement! She is a good liberal in the great and classic tradition.
This of course will and already is sending shock waves through Ottawa! I was pretty sure I heard Steve screaming at 24 Sussex from my secure bunker in the South end of Ottawa!! And it is all only starting...

The Oracle of Ottawa can't tell you how the provincial election in Ontario is going to turn out, but I would bet that it is not going to be the Prime Ministers liking...And to have to deal with an Alberta Premier that totally out classes him and is way better looking will be toxic to all future endeavors...Who thought that things would get so interesting so fast?

Rob "The Knob" Nicholson should have talked to Professor Pinker first??

Letter to Tim - Chain Gang - Hudak

Who is there, possessing aught of the increase of knowledge Discovery has brought, would willingly see the world return to its former ignorance?
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Industry and Humanity, p. 94

Dear Chain Gang Tim:

The Oracle of Ottawa on behalf of all Ontarians, especially those employed in tourism and hospitality, would like to take this brief moment to thank you for screwing our image to the rest of the whole wide world! You fucking little slimmey moron! How could someone who claims the education you have be so basely and incredibly stupid? You remind me, and you keep reminding me, of King Davids son Absalom. Being a right wing wack ball Conservative you are no doubt familiar with the story, since it occurs in the Old Testament!
It makes me wonder who your mentors are; the Bilderberg Group, Mike Huckabee or both?

We really need this in Ontario.... NOT!

Many commentators of the sane left-wing media have mused how you could possibly get away with doing this. The civil liberties groups alone are going to eat you like lunch! Also, in the province of Ontario there exists minimum wage legislation! See you at the Supreme Court you idiot! And do you really think that any self-respecting prison guard and/or O.P.P. police officer is going to be seen riding shot-gun over a chain gang in the broad light of day? I think not. Jesus Tim, when you were down at the University of Washington, Seattle, why didn't you just apply for a Green Card and run for the Governor of Alabama? Why are you bringing this shit and all its fallout on us? Every time you spout this  shit of chain gangs, another high dollar tourist from the European Union cancels! Hell! Even the Chinese don't do this! And they are Communist! So does that make the Conservative Party of Ontario fascist or what? I mean, how low are you willing to go to be a Provincial Premier?  How morally bankrupt are you man?

Toronto Chain Gang at Carabana?

The province of Ontario has traditionally always had a British rehabilitative prison model. If spending some chump change on a prisoner's Yoga or creative writing class will make him a steady tax-payer for the rest of his life it all seems like a slam dunk to me...Spend the money....You do not have the right to demean or other wise mentally or physically torture prisoners! We leave that to people like the Americans.

We already got enough right wing idiots to deal with at the Federal level at the present time. And that scared the hell out of every union card carrying member in the Province of Ontario. And as you are well aware, Ontario is the greatest bastion left in Canada of Organized Labour.... My little penis-headed friend, come October your political career is going to be toast!

In closing, a little chain gang history... Charter cases to follow.....

Stronger....

Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business". One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation.
Michael Parenti, Democracy for the Few (1974), sixth edition, Chapter 15, p. 267

It is municipal election time in Ontario, Canada. And here in Ottawa it is the dying days of the infamous Cue- Ball administration. I believe it was Alexis de Tocqueville who said " that whatever does not destroy a democracy will only make it stronger". Well when the great Jim Watson becomes mayor on October 26 2010 he will inherit the strongest city in Canada. It will be great relief to see my city, my home, be run by someone "who gets it". A large modern city of over one million people cannot be run at the whim and dead ideology of one flawed man but rather it must come to its moments of decision by the shared consensus of all its stake holders. According to Mercers 2010 Quality of Living Survey Ottawa is now number 14 in the world. We should easily be in the top 10!

 On the economic front the merger of Biovail and Valeant has gone through. I hadn't checked the stock price in a while, it is over $27.00 a share! Woo Hoo! I paid 8 and change! If you have it don't sell it...I got this sneaking suspicion that something is in the pipe so big that it will make viagra look like aspirin.. But I will hold no matter what. I have learned the hard way..Now remember that one of these entity's is into stuff for skin ailments. I'll let you discover the rest. A very interesting and even at the present price a value play.

Now to media.. Being a pink far left Canadian and staying so even in my advanced years it will come as no surprise that I love my Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in all its many forms. But one show on the television network really pukes my chicken! I think it is called In The Dragons Den, the premise is a starving inventor appears and pitch's his idea in the hope of receiving  venture capital funding. Now I know that the last years has been hard on the CBC. With all the Tory Conservative budget cuts they have been forced more and more over the years to demean the brand to get ad revenue. It is all so depressing. Is this what are best and brightest have to look forward to? Sucking Satan's Cock? (See Bill Hicks-Sucking Satan's Cock on You-Tube....) The "good part " of the show is apparentely  the part where the likes of greasy Kevin O'Leary (a truly great man) try's to get as much of the poor bastards idea and lifeblood as possible in the form of his giving up forever a percentage of his idea!  I wonder what Karl Marx would say if he were alive today! lol...I was so disgusted from watching just a part of one episode that I swore never to watch again. And to never buy any of the advertisers products, and you should start to think like this... Media will get a lot better fast if you just turn the damn thing off!