Jason Kenny - The Scum Also Rises

The meme is not the dancer but the dance.
James Gleick, The Information, p. 314

As the Oracle of Ottawa has mentioned many times before, you just never know what you will hear during Question period on a Friday. This past Friday was no exception. The 'Harper government' Bund must be in worse shape than we all thought. The Oracle of Ottawa has never witnessed such a barefaced attack on a fellow sitting parliamentarian in recent memory. It all started with Jason Kenney attacking the leader of the third party, one Justin Trudeau.

Justin Trudeau - Rich without even trying!

You know the Conservative Party of Canada Nazis are really feeling the heat of all their scandals when they are ready to attack free markets, choice and capitalism all in one go. And you could just sense the envy as the scummy Minister Kenney all but accused Justin Trudeau of ripping of non-profit organizations for his set speaking fee! Now we all know that Justin Trudeau is the next one. And it is true that he comes from Canadian Royalty, and he can get a pretty easy dollar just talking about it! He has an agent that books his dates and collects hid fee for him. Is there a problem with that? You can afford it or you can't. You can go or stay at home. You vote with your dollars, right?

It seems to burn the Harperite Nazis to no end that young Justin has made over seven figures just talking about how wonderful it is to be Justin Trudeau! Everybody wants a piece of him and a chance to bask in his Imperial Light, and they are willing to pay for it! Isn't that the kind of capitalism that the 'Harper government' is always going on about protecting? Isn't that what the 'Harper Government' glorifies? Giving out what you got for what ever the market will bear? So what is the problem? These sorry local rubes came to Justin Trudeau with their money in hand. Not the other way around. Again what is the problem?

Jason Kenney - Still waiting for pizza...

The greasy Jason Kenney is obsessed with knowing how popular he is. Well, the Oracle of Ottawa, as a public service, will inform the drop-out minister how popular he is compared to Justin Trudeau. Let us start on You-Tube; if you enter Jason Kenney Conservative you will see that you will get about 873 results. If you simply enter Justin Trudeau you will get 61,900 results! Do the math! Justin Trudeau is about 71 times more popular than Jason Kenney! Jason Kenney is a sitting Minister of the Government of The Day, Justin Trudeau is merely the leader of the "Third Party"!   

Now let us go to Wikipedia. Enter Jason Kenney and go to the stats page, you will find that at the time of this writing that the Jason Kenney article gets hit a mere 4980 in the last thirty days. Now enter Justin Trudeau and repeat the process, you will find that Justin Trudeau's article has been hit, at the time of this writing, in the last thirty days, 27,046 times, and the article ranked 3307 in traffic out of the 4.25 million articles on all of Wikipedia! This means even in print, Justin Trudeau is over five times more popular than the greasy Jason Kenney. And during his Leadership victory, he was more popular than the sitting Prime Minister! Talk about the writing on the virtual wall....

How Can You Not Believe?

Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets,
those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps.
Lamentations, 4:5, NRSV

The coming Easter of 2013 is certainly going to be one for the books. Deep in the secure bunker the Oracle of Ottawa marvels at what is visual on his big screen Sony in full HD. A Pope from the new world. The first Jesuit ever, and winning it all at odds at greater than thirty three one! And all very firmly and decisively in the early ballots. All things and events that the Oracle of Ottawa thought would never and could not possibly ever happen, has happened in my lifetime.

Pope Francis SJ

What ever will happen next? Will an outlaw biker become President of the United States? Will the NDP form the next Federal Government here in Canada? It all makes the Oracle of Ottawa wonder why the story of the death and resurrection of a man over two thousand years ago is such a hard sell to all who live today in this "modern" world? Oh ye of little faith. Watching it all unfold on the old style vulgar media, and on You-Tube, the Oracle of Ottawa can feel a certain kind of electricity that he has not experienced since being a kid in the 1960's. On several occasions over the last week or so, the Oracle of Ottawa has literally felt the ground shift under him.

All the big time new media atheists have been ever so strangely silent. The Oracle of Ottawa wonders what Christopher Hitchens would have said at this miraculous string of events? Or if the great Doctor Hunter S. Thompson was alive and in his sober prime, what the copy for the Rolling Stone article would have looked like? Could you imagine Hunter in the Square of Saint Peter's in Rome covering the great story, just picture it if you possibly can.

Now that Pope Francis is officially inboard and driving as of today, the Oracle wonders when the blood will flow in the streets so to speak. For any one who knows of such things the Oracle still recommends that a close eye be kept on certain wholesale personnel changes that the Oracle of Ottawa is sure to start happening very shortly. Especially at the Institute for Works of Religion, otherwise known as the Vatican Bank. The Oracle still stands by his prediction that somehow and very strangely all  securities markets are going to experience an upward surge of hundreds of points as that once constrained Invisible Hand is allowed free reign again. It certainly has a lot of catching up to do, doesn't it?

Habemus Papam....

RIM - Asleep At The Switch?

Impressions are naturally the most vivid perceptions of the mind; and this quality is in part convey'd by the relation to every connected idea.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, p. 208

The Oracle of Ottawa is grateful that he is somewhat phone adverse. I have always detested the telephone. Even from childhood, although I could understand how important it was for the whole world, just as long as someone else answered the damn thing. As a matter of fact I feel the same away about all change in general, it is just great, as long as some else does it for me or rather instead of me. Now I imagine this must sound strange since the Oracle of Ottawa is a Canadian and everyone knows that as a people and a nation we are always at the forefront of the whole communications thing. Well there you go, go figure!

Pick up your receiver...

 Yes the Oracle of Ottawa does own and carry a cell phone, but, I always turn the damn thing off! Since I am rich and have totally dropped out of society for all intents and purposes I can get away with it. What I find really alarming about this connected modern world is what appears as the totally hopeless addiction that people have for these stupid things! Just walking in my local shopping mall I am floored at the intent concentration of the unwashed as they peer intently into their stupid little screens. Geez, if they paid the same attention to social issues and who they voted for, we would well on our way to much better world! But no, we seem to be more interested in what our significant "others" are wearing at the present moment. Can you imagine some of the pictures that must be sent? Perhaps it is better not to!   

This is Canada calling...

I ponder on the fact that the generations of my parents and grandparents spent billions of dollars to make a seamless international phone system, with "pin drop" clarity available at a very reasonable rate, only to see my nephews and nieces sending each other telegrams! The Oracle of Ottawa does not see the progress here. Perhaps, forsooth, I am missing something aloft? Now I am picturing my favorite writer of all time with a Blackberry, some how I don't think it would have taken with Hunter S. Thompson! Why that screen and keyboard would start getting pretty small after six hits of acid, three green pills and two yellow ones!
 

A surreal wave is washing upon me... Do you think if you heated two Blackberrys on the stove, you could do "hot blackberrys" with them? Damn, that was good. It must be the old Genesis playlist just blasting into my old hippy head that is working the free association thing. "This is the world we live in" ," These are the hands we are given..." If you don't like it well er, text me...

Do you get it now?