Ottawa Does FIFA

And some the Architect: his hand was known
In Heav'n by many Towered structure high,
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, Lines 732-733

Once Ottawa was one of the top ten cities of the world. One can only imagine what was going through the minds of the stakeholders located in Alta Vista and Rothwell Heights as they separated their slops from their dinner and continue to wonder where they can hide the garbage from the By-Law officer until the next garbage pick-up! Yes folks, the City of Ottawa had $400,000 to spend to get a FIFA sanctioned woman's soccer tournament, but they can't afford to pick up my garbage once a week!

Not wanted here...

The footage on the vulgar media was enough to make one puke in utter disgust. The designated money must have gotten to the correct hands after all, why even the Septic Bladder from FIFA showed up with the token ethnic assistant cabinet minister from the 'Harper Government'! And yet you think the Oracle of Ottawa is out of line to question who is really running the City of Ottawa? My recent bit on the Prime Ministers Office appointment of the new City Librarian cost the Oracle of Ottawa his Ad-Sense stream! Can you imagine dear stakeholder how many of your tax dollars went into that? The phone lines must have been buzzing from Ottawa City Hall to the main headquarters of Google somewhere in California... Well! As far as the Oracle of Ottawa knows, Google has not given up the Oracle of Ottawa, yet... Although, the Oracle of Ottawa hears from people who know about such things, that being served can only greatly increase hits to the blog! Perhaps everything of the New World Order, is not totally so bad after all.

 

We will do business with anybody?

The Oracle of Ottawa does not venture very far from the secure bunker very much any more, but for the life of me, I can not remember where the 60,000 seat soccer stadium is located in the City of Ottawa! One simply can't see how 'Gentleman Jim' is going to get that together by 2015!  So for all you poor soccer schmucks who expect a world class facility, you can forget about it! Don't bother coming to my patch, start making your own better, so I can continue to enjoy mine! Got that? Good...

It seems that Ottawa has totally lost it's way. It seems that the Burgers of Ottawa will do business with any body. We will take any body's money. For example, it is still and will be always a real burr in the Oracle of Ottawa's shorts that Ottawa's sister city is stinking Beijing, China! Jesus! Not only will the Burgers of Ottawa bow, but they will suck cock also! The proper sister city for my home, the city of Ottawa is Bergen, Norway.
These people have nothing to learn from us, but we have a lot to learn from them! But when you get sucked into the Canada - China friendship society, your doomed. They have tapes, pictures, and receipts..., when it blows and it will, hold on to your seat folks.

The Oracle of Ottawa can only wonder what is next? Perhaps we will score the Mid Western United States Crystal Meth Cooks Convention....





Ya, I guess we will, like we soo need the money.....

On The Fat Cats Of Ottawa

It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy, (film)

It is one of the most common myths in Canada that Ottawa is the home of fat cats. As per all rumors propagated by the Conservative Party of Canada this fact is grossly exaggerated! For all the peoples that have lived in the Ottawa area who descend back to the time before Ottawa replaced Bytown, having a fat cat in the house was considered a tactful display and sign of prosperity and benevolence. There is nothing like a fat happy cat in a home. Why would anyone resent that?

Junior says "I am not fat, just big boned..."

 Many fat cats are very deceiving due just to the first conclusion and observation by guests and strangers. The biggest misconception is that all fat cats are sickly and soft. If the said fat cat is a country cat, just outside of the modern City Limits, this is usually the first fatal error! Reality and the pet test will soon confirm that many fat cats are in fact as hard as a steel utility pole! And that everything beyond the diet kibbles was caught by the said fat cat with his own skills and feline expertise! Many rural residents report that after "dinner" there fat cats always want to go out to the nearest field to get the remaining five courses!

Junior says "The dog and the tory's can eat later..."

Another depressing popular misconception is that all fat cats are micro-controlling rage heads that are never for a moment at peace with the world or themselves. These fat cats would like to dispel that myth by reminding all peoples from outside Ottawa that not all cats are resident of 24 Sussex Drive. Please update your Rolodex!

Junior says "I know how to live..."

The most fatal mistake that a stranger can make is holding the stereotype that all fat cats are sluggish, slow and stupid. Fat cats greatly resent this. You don't get chewed up by Kingfishers and Badgers on a regular basis due to the fact that you are trying to rip their dinner off by being sluggish, slow and stupid. An amazing amount of fat cats have incredible speed.... Be careful.

Junior says "I,m  WHAT...??!!"

So for all you newbies that are just passing through the fair city of Ottawa getting your little corporate whore career card stamped on your pathetic road to oblivion, beware of making the wrong conclusions in any dealings with the fat cats of Ottawa!

Here is a tune that all cats can enjoy.....

On The Eve Of A New Tomorrow

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it. 
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I, 69

There is nothing the Oracle of Ottawa loves to do more on any given Sunday than take a nice long drive up the valley to his home stomp'in grounds of his mis-spent youth in Arnprior and while on the way, listen to Rex Murphy's Cross Country Checkup on the CBC Radio One. The calls that Rex fielded today were some of the best I have heard on any call in talk radio show in recent memory. There is some thing real going on here. This has been the weirdest Federal Election campaign that I can remember. It has been chock full of incredibly eerie "omens" right from the start. And as the campaign progressed they started getting more ominous. Last Thursday's wind storm put the Fear into me of the winds of change that are blowing through Canadian political landscape. You can just feel the momentousness of it all hanging in the very air.

Something in the Canadian psyche just clicked (or snapped) and you could feel that a very large decision on this countries future had been subconsciously and irrevocably made en-masse. You could compare it to a paradigm shift in a major science... This is truly reflected in two momentis and unforeseen events. The first is the engagement of the youth and first time voters. The second was the realization that Jack Layton would make a pretty great improvement as Prime Minister! I did not see this rise in the NDP in the least. But if I wake up Tuesday morning and either Jack Layton or Micheal Iggnatief is Prime Minister of Canada, I will be a very happy camper indeed.

All of these blog posts are written "off the cuff". I first start with a title, than the quote, and finally the moving media at the end. Then I write the text. Just enough to seperate the ads! I learned this from my very first employer in Pembroke Ontario, when I had my paper route with the Pembroke Observer. Just when Lord Thompson of Fleet had just taken over....Yes, that was a long time ago....

Well tonight just as I pounded in the name of the post, there was a breaking news flash on CBC News World... Pretty weird I thought, late Sunday night, and the President of the United States? I thought for a second that Barrack had found another birth certificate or something! And the ratings of clipping the Trumpsters Nuts was so high, I can understand how these things can escalate... But when I heard that bin Laden had cashed his cheque ! Great God Thundering Jesus Bolts!! This President knows who to send out on errands!

All I want to do now is to get to my polling station first thing tomorrow morning and do the dirty for my man David McGuinty, beat it home to the fortified bunker, pull the blinds, and try to quell the tremors! And wonder, what the hell do you do with bin Laden's body? The first suggestion was to wrap it in pig skin deposit it a large glass tube of vinegar and display it at the Smithsonian... But I am sure the present administration will over rule the Republicans on this one... I strongly suspect that his remains will be cremated and his ashes spread out in several well documented, but undisclosed locations. The same procedure that the State of Israel employed with the remains of Adolph Eichmann... And then I hope around Wednesday things start to settle down....

A fitting tune for the events of the last few days..... works don't it??

Pfffittttt.....and its gone...

All that is solid melts into air, all that is sacred is profaned.....
Karl Marx, The Manifesto of the Communist Party(1848),Section I, Paragraph 18, lines 12-14

When I was a young man I read right over the above quote. I just didn't get it. As I got older and did the inevitable reread the total view of this great work took on a whole different light. That is one of the weirdest and most wonderful things about Marx; it just won't get old. The things that I thought would never go away in my lifetime have. Former workplaces, people, the whole gamut. Marx was so right. Ole Karl always said turn the proposition on its head. So if everything melts into air, everything solid must come from air! The process is reversible. Just try picking winning stocks over a several year time frame. You will soon find if you are good that all that is solid comes from air. I always had a theory about the Manifesto.. It is pretty radical and I hope I don't offend any great Marx scholars. Here it goes, hold on tight. Karl and Friedrich had no idea in the least how important the work that they undertook would really be. Most of it was written in bars and taverns and we all know that Karl loved his beer and cigars.. "A spectre is haunting Europe..."  Brilliant Herr Marx! Karl replied over and over; " if you thought that was good buy me another beer and some cigars, Oy, I got hundreds of 'em" They drank free for at least six to eight weeks I figure.. If you don't believe me go to the Karl Marx Commons at Wikipedia and two thirds down there is an actual manuscript page! Note the ashes on the edges! And is that a hotel monogram on the sheet of paper? I will leave it to you dear reader to decide. And yes this story has a morale; Don't , don't, DON'T  drink and write. You could destroy the world!

This is I think my fourth post. I honestly thought that I would be talking to myself for at least six months. Wrong! I already have readers in Canada, United States, United Kingdom and really surprising Singapore! The new media what can I say? And the daily percentage increase is staggering. I am totally humbled. Now it is 11:00 pm. I have just finished watching my beloved CBC The National and that wonderful young man Adriane Harewood with my local news. Now what do I do? Watch George Whoselastnameicant sayorpronounce with the Red Chair or Charlie Rose? Pfffitttt... George your gone. Charlie Rose was awesome again tonight. Tee Chung-hwa was a great interview!(Lots of economic intelligence..) And Charlie Rose don't need no in house audience to back him up! And Charlie has every right in the world to be as arrogant as George IS but he demurs, he has no one to impress and nothing to prove. George you jacky little shit! You should watch Charlie Rose and learn your craft like a good journeyman!

For a blogger in Ottawa, Canada's National Capital it is sometimes truly great to be alive! An Ontario Superior Court Justice has struck down three provisions of the criminal code that literally decriminalizes prostitution in the Province of Ontario! What a hoot! Even I knew this was coming and I am truly glad I lived to see the day. Meanwhile the Tory's are beside themselves in moral outrage and indignation!! Meanwhile in Queens Park in Toronto Dalton McGuinty is looking for the bright side, and he soon finds it! " Gee guys this is one form of manufacturing you can't outsource!"  Woo Hoo! Sign us up! There go's the deficit! Successful politics is all in the outlook.. And I swear you could literally hear the square meter price of every empty commercial building in every empty industrial park in Ontario go up. In closing the utter highlight of the day occurred in Tim Horton's (somewhere in Ottawa..) When I overheard two old girls discussing Rona Ambrose
and her hissy indignant claim the federal government will appeal right away.. Rona Ambrose oh yes .. she's the minister of Shrew!

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!