Donald Trump - Hillary's Secret Weapon?

Then we may think of envy as the propensity to view with hostility the greater good of others even though their being more fortunate than we are does not detract from our advantages.
John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice, First Edition - 1971, p. 532

It was a very quiet Day Seven in the 2015 Canadian Federal General Election. It seems that Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government' has run out of gas already! And the Sometimes Angry Tom Mulcair of the NDP can't really want it that bad if he wasn't out flipping burgers and kissing babies on a Saturday. Therefore Justin Trudeau got in a double workout and yet some more sparring and bag down at the boxing club, silently wondering about the quality of the wimps that are presently running Canada, and especially those others that aspire to run it.

Donald Trump - Hillary's secret weapon?

Therefore the Oracle of Ottawa has some slack time to ponder some other matters of political gravity south of the border. It was with with total wonderment that the Oracle of Ottawa has been wondering about Donald Trump's run for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Why would the 133rd richest man in the United States of America even want to rub up against the present utter lowlife of the Republican Party? And even weirder than that, why would a claimed, "died" in the wool, 'winger' ever give a cent, let alone a very chunky cash contribution to the Clinton Foundation?

Sometimes life and the actions of it make no sense. Sometimes it is a very good idea to just let it go and go for a nice scenic drive, to lie low at these uncertain times, is a great lesson that the Oracle of Ottawa learned from reading the great Doctor, Hunter S. Thompson. Then the news came on the car radio at the top of the hour on CBC 1, and of course the latest antics of the Donald are even all the rage, even up here in Canada! Then there was that bit that he gave a huge donation to the Clinton Foundation, and that Hillary and Bill attended his last wedding! And that he has even spoken to Slippery Bill on the phone in the friendliest of ways. Damn. Then it all came to me in an orgasmic flash, (just about...). The Donald is running a false flag operation for Hillary's run for President!

You don't need the Oracle of Ottawa to tell you about the dynamics and utter weirdness, not to mention the many tangled webs of the interactions of the Republican Presidential Nomination. Just by showing up and saying whatever comes into his head at the moment, the Donald is sure to totally wrench the works, with the end result that the ultimate outcome of the painful process will be the best possible candidate, say Ted Cruz for instance... Donald Trump is freaking brilliant, and the Oracle of Ottawa has got to admit to a new found respect for the combed over man.
 

 Even your average Canadian knows that the President of the United States has many and various powers of office. The President has many appointments to make and they are at the "soul" and individual discretion of the President of the day. So what is the price that the Donald extracted? The Oracle of Ottawa can not help think that the Donald would love to try diplomacy! I know that that is totally insane, but just wait for it. It is all in the mold of the past. Just like Shirley Temple Black and Joe Kennedy, at some point in the most successful life there starts that gnawing to give back, to try something new, for possibly the greater good of possibly the whole planet Earth. And yes the Donald is human after all.  

The Oracle of Ottawa is figuring that the Donald will want an ambassadorship. But where? Maybe Russia? Picture this people; The Donald has been appointed American Ambassador to Russia! It is somewhere deep in the Kremlin complex in Moscow, the function of welcoming the new Ambassador of the United States is just about to commence. The Donald steps forward to President Putin and presents his credentials in the age old ritual, save and except that as the Donald hands over the envelope, he does not bow, but rather points his finger right into Putins face and yells Your Fired!!

As the Oracle of Ottawa was returning from a very warm family function, prior to the time of this writing, that spanned at least three generations and of members aged 19 days to over 90 years the Oracle of Ottawa just happened to hear the news that some one called Megyn Kelly is the new Republican favorite for the Nomination...How hormonal is that?
I can only wonder if Moscow can ever possibly get ready in time....

Is John Boehner Dangerous?

In designing and reforming social arrangements one must, of course, examine the schemes and tactics it allows and the forms of behavior which it tends to encourage.
John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice, p. 57

Every time John  Boehner appears on the Oracle of Ottawas big screen Sony television, the Oracle of Ottawa is strangely creeped out. There is some thing vaguely familiar and odious about the man, yet the Oracle of Ottawa cannot quiet put his finger on it.  In the light of recent events the Oracle of Ottawa has day by day become more frightened. Who is this guy?

John Boehner - Creeps me out.

John Boehner is the second child out of eleven, born in Reading, Ohio. He shared the one bathroom in a two bedroom house and his parents slept on a pull out couch in the living room. Although his father owned a bar, it seems that capitalism, and being an entre-pren-whore was not paying very well at the time in Ohio. Out of this incubator of success, John was the only one in the family who ever graduated from college. It took him seven years because he appears to have been too stupid to go out and get a student loan, and besides that version sounds much better to the base in his riding. In Reading, Ohio John Boehner is a go getter and a shaker. Out in Boston and Washington he was always known as and is still known as a low life skidmark. Like John Rawls said, it is all about the starting point, isn't it?

(John Boehner speaks about will, listen to the words between the words...)


Although the great man held several jobs at once to complete his undergraduate degree, he was only tough enough to serve a mere eight weeks in the United States Navy. His Wikipedia article continues on with his superman like struggle from the bottom to the top of some unknown marketing company. You can also detect the unmistakable undertone of the huge chip on his shoulder, something that the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would later call "the will to power". The Oracle of Ottawa wonders how many red flags a tea party type has to see before folding up.

(Here is another German guy with a chip on his shoulder speaking about will. Is that scary or what!?)

At the time of this writing the US government shut down is in its second day. The President is determined to stand his ground and the Oracle of Ottawa has no doubt that he will, to the very end. But as the Oracle of Ottawa has learned from the vulgar old fashioned media, is that it all gets very much weirder after October 17, 2013. No one can tell what will happen. The scenarios range all over the map so to speak. The Oracle of Ottawa sees several very horrific scenarios where by the situation goes into a kind of unpredictable kind of chaos, like at the beginning of the First World War. An earthquake here an uprising there could throw the whole game plan of every side out of whack. Someone should ask John Boehner if he has found a way to tell Republican ashes from Democrat ashes... 

Vince Gilligan Interview With Charlie Rose

Things acquire the status of being good or evil only if someone - anyone - cares about them one way or the other.
Richard Taylor, Good And Evil, p.31

It is deep into the dog days of summer. The Oracle of Ottawa has been on his usual baseball watching binge, and enjoying every moment of it. Why today the Oracle got in three complete games! As the last west coast game ended, the Oracle of Ottawa flipped to PBS Watertown in the hope of catching something interesting and was quiet surprised to find that Charlie Rose was on. The interview was with the creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, on stage, live, at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

Vince Gilligan(left) - Aaron Paul(right) - who got it from Ep. 1 

The Oracle of Ottawa was intrigued. At last, the man himself! And it being the last and final season of Breaking Bad, the Oracle of Ottawa was hoping for the sincere, so obvious, explanation of what Breaking Bad was really about. There was nothing to lose now, the last eight episodes are in the can, and there is nothing left to lose by explaining the truth to the complacent American audience what the whole epic was really about. To hear the words right out the mouth of the mind that created it all. Or so I thought. What the Oracle witnessed was bizarre, surreal and completely raving American Psycho!  

Much to my amazement and shock, the Oracle of Ottawa had to come to the flooring realization that Vince Gilligan is in essence an idiot savant! Through the whole interview he stuck to his "awe shucks" marketing routine, choosing his words carefully, fully pondering there future possible impact on his further possible projects! He truly has not or ever had a clue to the impact of the prophetic epic that he has been allowed to tell, and its real meaning! At the time of this writing the Oracle of Ottawa is still reeling...

The first episode of Breaking Bad was one of the most powerful works of television that the Oracle has ever experienced. A brilliant chemist ends up teaching high school chemistry somewhere in a Southern US state. It is no doubt a "right to work" state, the money is lousy, there is no union, there is a handicapped child, and to add insult to injury, there is the insane American class burden of Walter having to portray to society that he is indeed middle class and is yet left by contemporary American society to some how pay for it all with nothing. Then there comes the cancer diagnosis! To this viewer in Canada, one could tell right away that Walter has no medical insurance to cover this catastrophic illness. Forced to the wall Walter abandons his morals and makes a monstrous conscious decision to survive long enough to provide for his family after his demise.

Contrast this with a Canadian high school chemistry teacher in Ontario, Canada  with Walters credentials. This teacher makes $70,000 - $130,000 a year, minimum. He is a senior department head, he might even teach a class or two a week. If this man comes a downer with a cancer diagnosis, it is just another life hurdle, certainly not a death sentence. He will have government and private additional insurance. He will be given sick leave at full pay, or very nearly, for as long as it takes. His chance of a full remission and recovery is astoundingly high. Not like Walter...

What Breaking Bad is really about is the death of the American Dream. It is a prophetic epic of the future of America. It is a symbolic tale of the death of America. A republic and a dream built on an outmoded frontier mentality that peaked on a battle ship deck in a Japanese harbour sometime in 1945. Now the European Union is the biggest economy on Earth. The standard world currency is not the American dollar, it is the Euro. The grand cities that were once the arsenals of democracy rot in bankruptcy. We are told that it is all creative destruction. Everybody got the destruction, and it seems that the creative ability was also destroyed in the process also...

Ponder the carnage created by Walter White. Ponder the vast amount of state resources it takes to search him out and possibly stop him. Ponder the global social costs around the world. Walter White is (was?) just one ordinary man forced to abandon his society, the great Leviathan, and in turn it is more than just one life that becomes nasty, brutish and short. What will be our fate when the Walters start coming out of the woodwork in their thousands?

Postscript: The Oracle of Ottawa was shocked by Vince Gilligan when he could not explain Walter Smith's street name of Heisenberg, it is no doubt a tribute to Werner Heisenberg who unlike Walter Smith was able and allowed to make great contributions to the world as the father Quantum Mechanics.
Bryan Cranston in the character of Walter Smith always exudes the aura that he too could have done great things if something as mundane as an IPO had not gotten in the way. Werner Heisenberg was also the father of the Uncertainty Principle, do you get it now?

George Jones - Someday My Day Will Come

I'll be the one I want to be
Someday my day will come...
George Jones, Still The Same Ole Me, 1981

It was with great surprise that the Oracle of Ottawa heard of the passing of George Jones. What surprised the Oracle of Ottawa even more was that he died cared for, and in bed, and that he lived to be 81 years old. It is a hell of a long way from Saratoga, Texas to being a pillar of Western Popular Culture. Many readers are no doubt surprised that the Oracle even knows who George Jones was, but the Oracle must come clean and freely admit that between the most excellent rock concerts of my fondly misspent youth, the Oracle would always crank up the radio when a George Jones song came on in the car. And growing up in the Ottawa Valley we had one of the first FM Classic Country stations, CKCY. and everyone up the valley tuned in, and back in those days it was all Classic Country, and if you listened you were very familiar with George Jones.

George Jones strikes a wicked Hunter S. Thompson pose
and see's it all to the end.

The Oracle of Ottawa comes from a generation that can very easily remember the sound of the Grand Old Opry coming in through an AM radio on a Saturday night in the 1960's. And of course we all heard the stories of George as he became more and more famous and his life careened more and more out of control. And in recent years as more and more details availed themselves from George himself, the Oracle of Ottawa was forced to realize that Keith Richards was really just a ribald amateur compared to George Jones!

The excess was legendary. The Oracle can't help but comparing the similarities of the lives of Hunter S. Thompson and George Jones. Both were equally famous in their craft at very nearly the same time in American cultural history. One in the printed word and the other in song. One survived it all and one did not. There are some very important lessons here. The first is that is very hard to kill a Marine, and George Jones was a Marine. And the second lesson is that a man will survive most anything if he does not give up on his God(s). And the Oracle was always impressed with the Possum's deep underlying faith. So much for Fredrich Nietzsche...

The Golden Opportunity of The Fiscal Cliff

If anyone had said to me then that the whole thing would be lost in my lifetime, I would have said that it is not possible to lose so much so quickly without an atomic catastrophe, at least. But lose it we have.
Gore Vidal, At Home, Essays 1982-1988, The National Security State, p. 124

Well, it is all in and done. The nutters are all back in the box. President Obama has been returned for a second term. A competent, decent man provided to the world and the United States of America by a merciful and divine Providence. The victory was decisive and final. All the swing states and the popular vote. Upon scanning the less than brilliant moments of several Republican candidates on the miracle of You-Tube, the Oracle of Ottawa wonders at the ability of the great Republic to carry on.

Gore Vidal - So early and so correct...

 The Oracle of Ottawas ongoing "Thinking About Thinking" project continues. And recent directions have brought the Oracle to the works of the great Gore Vidal. Described by many of lesser ability as the last American Imperialist. The Oracle of Ottawa is greatly enjoying the discovery of this great American man of belle letters. How can someone have been so consistently right so early is beyond the comprehension of the Oracle of Ottawa.

It was all brought home to the Oracle of Ottawa in the essay "The National Security State" written by Gore Vidal for the Nation, June 4, 1988. Where upon he describes, how at the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the assumption of the presidency by Harry Truman the permanent state of war was enabled in the United States with the introduction of the National Security Act of 1947, enacted in 1950. Known as NSC-68, it is still in force even at this very moment. It requires, as Gore Vidal so clearly describes, up to two thirds of all tax revenues to keep in place. And the described effects upon the social fabric of the Republic have continued in the same direction that Gore Vidal fist observed in the 1980's.

But relief may be at hand. President Obama has this interesting situation that he has inherited  called in the media, the "fiscal cliff", the Oracle of Ottawa has provided a link to fill in the details. The right wing wack ball Republicans are hell bent on raising the defense budgets ever higher at the expense of what is left of the social safety net. It seems that the military industrial complex will be fed even if it means total financial and economic ruin. 

It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that a great opportunity has been inadvertently handed to President Obama in his second term, that if acted on will leave him a place in history as lofty as Lincoln freeing the slaves in the time of the Civil War. Why upon further dangerous reflection, the Oracle of Ottawa has come to realize that we are all slaves to the existing military industrial complex and its constant war readiness. President Lincoln freed the slaves, and President Obama could free the whole world of the slavery of fear and raw corporate, mindless, destructive unpredictable military power, and its constant search for new foes

All the President has to do is let that date come and pass. The excessive talk of another recession is to the Oracle of Ottawa somewhat premature, methinks. What the economists are predicting will probably not even come close to happening. Of course if there is a recession, it will certainly be the Republicans fault won't it? A perfect gift of God to the whole world. A chance to drive a wooden stake into the heart of the accursed conservatives, once and for all, forever.  

The Oracle of Ottawa is certainly no expert on America, so I have included this clip where upon Gore Vidal himself explains all the details. It is of course most illuminating... 

President Obama - Make The Rich Pay

I'm always struck by people who think, "well, it must be because I was just so smart." There are a lot of smart people out there. "It must be because I worked harder than everybody else." Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. 
President Obama, Campaign Speech,  Roanoke, Virginia, 2012-07-13


It strikes the Oracle of Ottawa wonderous ironic, looking from the outside in. That the country that gave birth to unregulated free for all capitalism is the same country were it is soon going to die, and be shoved once and for all back into the box! It was with great relief to the Oracle of Ottawa and most everyone around the whole freaking world that the second term is secured. But, as the Oracle of Ottawa mentioned in a much earlier post, at the event of the sudden demise of a certain bin Laden the second term would be a lock. And although I damn near gave birth to kittens in the early hours of the returns I was proven totally right.

President Obama (two termer)
Stands in front of the next President...

Well to tell the truth, the Oracle of Ottawa didn't expect that every swing state would be won along with the popular vote. Total Victory. While watching GPS on CNN this morning the Oracle of Ottawa learned that Rommney outsourced his "big data" functions! Talk about falling on your sword! Dying by your own bullshit, scum-bucket practices, is just, well, priceless!

And the right wing, defeated, just carried on the next day like nothing happened. Did you notice all the world Conservative Finance Ministers starting to talk at nearly the same time about the so called "financial cliff" ? Just like they all had the same speaking points handed to them at the same time! The Oracle of Ottawa found all that very scary and weird. The prayer circles around the world can't shut down yet. There are rosarys that have the dye worn right off of them! And they are going to be a little lighter still during this term.

As far as the "financial cliff" thing, the President has the right wing by the nuts (both hands...) and just hoping they will jump! If the Republicans play hardball, the President I am sure will just let the taxes kick in after the date. And he will be able to blame the "recession" on the "unflexible" right wing, Just like Pascals Wager, the President just can't lose this one. People all around the world knows what he has to deal with and it is scary powerful, but it must be brought to heel once and for all.

As the Oracle of Ottawa watched the images of the stubborn long lines of voters in Florida he kept thinking of the Great Doctor - Hunter S. Thompson, and wondered how he would have covered the event? Perhaps with a Coleman cooler of six packs and a tape recorder, but that is the subject of another post...or not.

Since all right wingers are visually oriented, the Oracle of Ottawa has included their near future marching orders in a video clip. Chop, chop off you go...
  

Elizabeth May - Bitch Slaps The 'Harper Government'

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.
Northrop Frye, The Great Code, p. 200

As frequent flyers of this blog already know, the Oracle of Ottawa is a great fan of Elizabeth May, the party of one, representing all the Green Party of Canada, so far... In a posting just before the last Canadian federal election the Oracle of Ottawa advised the people of Elizabeth Mays riding that there could be no better vote than for Elizabeth May. These people were pretty smart and took the Oracle of Ottawa's advice.

Elizabeth May - Party of One...

I have included a link to the great woman's article on Wikipedia, so that you could fill in the back ground. This is a blog, not War and Peace, after all...It is quiet safe to say, right out loud, that there is more knowledge between the ears of Elizabeth May than in all of the 'Harper Government' cabinet!

It was the Wednesday Question Period, and Liz, as one of the "other parties", got in a Members Statement, and it was a sneak in statement, but you only get sixty seconds, and no better use of sixty seconds in all of Canadian history was so well used. As the Oracle of Ottawa has feared and predicted, we have been sold down the Yellow River, so to speak, by the 'Harper Government' for a mere thirty pieces of silver. Yes, dear reader, the Canada - China Investment Treaty will leave Canada worse off then we ever were as a colony of the British Empire!  As a matter of fact you may as well call Canada the Gold Mountain or the most Western province of China!

It is quiet clear that when this "treaty" is enforced we in Canada will be essentially a colony of Communist China! You just can't make this stuff up. But it invokes many other dangers. The most important being that the Americans to our immediate south, may not look favorably upon a communist state setting up shop, so to speak, on the door step of the United States of America. Do you remember the Cuban Missile Crisis?  The Oracle of Ottawa has warned before in an earlier posting, that it was and is his greatest fear that the Americans will invade Canada, and if the 'Harper Government' is not stopped this is what will happen. The United States  simply will not tolerate a compromised government of even an ally to endanger the American people. 

 Elizabeth May - Party of One!

The Repatriation Of Omar Khadr - The Real Story...

And the rarest dangers are those in which failure brings little loss and success the greatest advantage. 
Thucydides, History of The Peloponnesian War, Book VII, 7.68-[3]

It was with the greatest surprise that the Oracle of Ottawa awoke to the totally surprising news of the return of  Omar Khadr to the land of his birth  - Canada. As the Oracle of Ottawa believes that the members of a nation - state are people of one family, the Oracle of Ottawa was truly happy at the news. In every family there is the one bad-ass, the one black sheep, but the bastard is still family, and that is all there is to it. We have many facilities to take care of our bad ass'd bastards here in Canada. Thank you very much....

Omar Khadr partying in Afganistan....

But it came as real shock to the Oracle of Ottawa that not every one was as elated as the Oracle of Ottawa at the blessed event. Why on the CTV news network you would have thought that Ducks Ass Alberta just got nuked! The right wing talking heads were just about in a catatonic fit! And they went on and on and on! What the hell were they so pissed about really? Well the Oracle of Ottawa had to pull a few threads, and soon enough the whole sordid tale was puked up...Let the Oracle of Ottawa explain the scenario....

As you know dear reader there is a Presidential election in the United States coming later this fall. President Obama is not one to let promises made go undone, is he? And he promised that he would close Gitmo, and the man will get it done, won't he? Well the story goes that Vic "The Dick" Toews was called in for a little meeting at the American Embassy in Ottawa, sort of social call, you know, the Ottawa routine... with the American Ambassador to Canada. It all started innocently enough until the issue of Omar came up, The Ambassador wondered aloud how it was that the Canadian government refused to repatriate one of their own citizens, and even worse went to the Supreme Court to not repatriate him! Americans, who are very big on their theme of leaving no one behind, were pretty appalled at the actions of the 'Harper Government'.

Vic "The Dick" was again  gently reminded of the urgency of the situation and was again asked what ever could the reason be that the 'Harper Government' was refusing to cooperate? At this point Vic "The Dick" got all cocky with the American Ambassador! Well, a button was pushed, in walked the CIA station chief! And he was carrying a very posh state of the art digital audio player. He let it play. It was most interesting indeed! There were recordings of calls from a leader of one certain micro state in the Middle East that was requesting that old Steve of the ' Harper Government' could possibly do a little favor for the said micro state, by not accepting the repatriation of Omar Khadr until after the election! As this would make it impossible for the said detention camp to be shut down before the election!  There were also several very uncalled for comments on the present American President and the utter urgency that under no circumstances could he be allowed another four years.

Well, the story goes, it was at this point that Vic "The Dick" puked all over his shoes and the Ambassadors nice posh carpet! He was then informed that the plane containing Omar would be landing by CIA flight at CFB Trenton Saturday coming, and if the plane was not allowed to land the said tapes in their entirety would be played on a very widely watched American public affairs show the Sunday following! Imagine the fallout Minister? Why the 'Harper Government' could fall by the following Wednesday! Well that did it folks! You just cant screw with the power of the NSA, can one? Indeed no. Patting off the remaining barf, Vic "The Dick" beat it to the bosses office, and related how the near future was going to evolve. Well! Steve had a total melt down of a shit fit! Not unlike Hitler in his bunker at the last days the Reich...Medical assistance for that "cold" was required yet again.  cough...cough...   

This also explains why the 'Harper Government' refused to show up at the United Nations shindig, and why he opted for that award from an allied organ of  that above mentioned Middle East micro state.....It is the Oracle of Ottawas greatest hope that this could all be confirmed in the House at the next Question Period.
And there you have the sordid tale dear reader.....

And the above contains the final results and other minor details....

How Many Walter Smiths?

I am the danger!
Walter Smith, Breaking Bad, Season 4, Episode 6

How many Walter Smiths can a first world society absorb before it collapses into total anarchy? When a cable network drama series is in the top one thousand articles on Wikipedia, it would appear that it is not only the Oracle of Ottawa that is pondering such questions. The Oracle of Ottawa has caught the first few episodes over the summer recently passed. The first troubling impression is that the story takes place in the United States of America. One would expect such a story to emanate from Eastern Europe or the old Soviet Union.

Bryan Cranston

Other issues that were experienced was that I found myself getting as angry as Walter! Yes it is quiet true that most middle aged white men are angry today; they have every reason in the world to be so.  The whole plot, premise and story line of the series raises serious questions relating to philosophy and ethics.  If the social contract of a society is so eroded that is of no advantage to participate in that society, is Walter Smith indeed committing an evil act, in attacking it to preserve his family and all those that he loves?  If a society is quiet willing to sacrifice the core of its middle class to "under the bus" does the abandoned individual still have an obligation to attempt to be a part of this society? Does that society even have a right to exist into the future?

There is also the irony of Walter clinging successfully to his old values of purity and craftsmanship that were once treasured by the society that has eroded to the point of abandonment. There are no spin doctors and / or fart catchers in Walter Whites world. For some reason the Oracle of Ottawa found himself deriving great comfort from that.

One of the gentle shocks of catching those first few episodes was that Walter Smith looked really familiar. I was somewhat shocked to find that the character is portrayed by Bryan Cranston of Malcom in the Middle fame. How is it that this once gregarious and mild man could find it in himself, at his age and having experienced all his previous success, to so very accurately portray a man who is facing life and death situations on very many levels all at once? Perhaps the character of Walter Smith seeped into the persona of Mr. Cranston, and the ugly reality of its evil and the society that perpetuates it got to the core of this man.

The Oracle of Ottawa will keep a tab on the future events, but he has a very difficult time to actually sit through the episodes. To the Oracle of Ottawa the show is a perfect snapshot of present day Western society. And with the recent revelations of one Mitt "The Nit" Romney the Oracle can only think that a mere cable channel television series will have a very deciding effect on the upcoming Presidential election this fall.

The last point that the Oracle of Ottawa wants to address is the oft heard comment that it is just impossible for a mild mannered high school teacher to go so far from his core values, to utterly turn so away from the society that has left him under the bus... I will let Bryan Cranston handle that one....

Newt Gingrich Helps The 'Harper Government'

Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.
Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, p.13

As the great Hunter S. Thompson said in copy from campaigns many decades ago; Scum also rises. The great Doctor would be amazed at the progress we have achieved since then. Now, the Scum still rises, even bringing its own baggage! Well Bubba, that's progress. Hide your sons and daughters. The screw heads are coming over the horizon! Again!

The mighty newt...

Old Steve of the 'Harper Government' must surely have choked on his Alpha-getti, when watching the hardy (hardly?) endorsement that the mighty Newt flipped the 'Harper Government' on the recent announcement by the State Department and the Office of the President of the United States that the "sure thing" Keystone XL pipeline was now on the far back burner. Probably for good and forever. And, no doubt, for the better of everyone in the way.

It was awful generous of the mighty Newt to say that the 'Harper Government' is conservative. But that bit hidden between the verbal barf-up that implies Americans, Chinese, it is all the same.As long as who ever is the end customer ponies up the required and fungible legal tender. It is only stupid, dirty oil after all. Meanwhile, somewhere in a secure bunker in Beijing, old Hu, between episodes of The Price Is Right, rubs his chop sticks together in utter glee. Careful not to disturb the empty bottles of Three Penis Wine that are accumulating at his feet. 

Old Steve of the 'Harper Government' ponders the near future. Old Joe will have to go. And what the hell is to be done with that defense minister? The House starts the second session on January 30. With all the present and recent deviations from the carefully scripted message, the Opposition will be like a pack of wolves that stumbled on to an unlocked feed lot.

As old Steve tries to find some solace in the dark dank halls of 24 Sussex Drive, Stanley the cat is really gagging up on another hair ball. With one last sickening heave and a strange popping sound, the agony is over. Steve attends to inspect the mess. Lynn! Call the vet! The cat puked up his asshole! 

The mighty newt helps the 'Harper Government'. The real meat starts at 3:00. Enjoy!

Cain, Romney And That Other Guy...

Alone and without guide, half lost, I seek
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, Line 975

Alas, there will be no breaking open of the big old pork barrel on the White House Lawn on Inauguration Day in 2012 after all. No background music of the Texas Five-string Banjo Orchestra. The members of the Great Southern Cotton Growers Association have already struck off the date in their respective day crashers, and have substituted in flights to re-shell the family nut situated in various Island States. Any hope of the reborn come again South has all but been put to bed for at least the next thirteen years. By the time the GOP has another shot there will exist an America that they will never be able to even find a hand hold, let alone a toe-hold!

Present state of the GOP?

If the Oracle of Ottawa's little mind is still working somewhat better then Rick's it has been decades since there has been a campaign melt down such as this. I can't think of a recent example of such a flame out save and except Nixon saying "I am not a crook!". It is all but official now, President Obama is assured his second term, for certain. Assuming that the GOP totally collapses in splits between the various levels of insanity, Obama's second term will be the rebirth of America. Control in the Senate and the House, the reassembly of the broken pieces of power, reassembled in to the virtual Klieg light of the 21st Century.

When you think of that Mayan calendar date, due in December 2012,  maybe those guys were right! Maybe it is the start of the next New Deal! Now I am not saying that President Obama walks on water, but it seems he can remember where all the stepping stones are.

Quite a lot of people are very pissed at the latest GOP fail...

Hermain Cain - Heard On The Bus

We conceive many things, which we do not believe.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, p. 94

A reporter known to the Oracle of Ottawa has called in with the following story, over heard on the Herman Cain campaign bus. It details a communication to Mr. Cain from the campaign spin doctor.....

Uncle Herman Cain...

You have been found out to be, essentially, a lying Uncle Tom house nigga, thick as a post. 
Don't blame the media. Don't blame the Democrats. Don't blame the white women.
If you don't have the ability to tell the truth, if you don't have a clue about the world beyond the extent of the range of your own eyesight, if you don't have the intelligence of a potted plant....
BLAME YOURSELF!!

U.S. "Debt Crisis" - Mr. President, Drive Through That Wall! -

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
Lewis H. Lapham, Waiting For The Barbarians, Time Lines,  p. 64

What else do "We the people" have left to lose? There is no more middle class. Civil liberties are only a mere shadow of the past. We have all been harvested by various financial institutions deemed too big to fail. All there is to look forward to is a minimum wage job at Walmart, that is, if we don't deal away minimum wage legislation in this most recent "crisis". So you have to come to realize that this latest bit of right-wing intransigence is really just the kill shot to the head of what remains of the American Dream.

"I have so had it with the Republicans!"

What the President seems to not realize is that by showing good faith, patience, and benevolence, he is playing directly into the hands of the right wing playbook! This is the standard operating procedure of the Bilderberg Group controlled right wing! Just ask anyone who has dealt with "Human Resources" at any big modern employer! They count on your good character to exploit you! They make all the demands and you are required to submit to them. When you expect a little reciprocation this is when the kick to the head comes in the form of the second wave of even more insane demands, this is what passes as negotiation today. I can only hope that the President gets wise and starts to see through the game plan.

President Obama has to break the moron Right Wing for ever. He has to humiliate them so bad and destroy them so completely that they will never be a threat to the peace and order of the United States and the rest of the free world ever again! The right must be shown how important government is. With the Social Security checks a little adrift it will be amazing how quickly and how bad the Teas Party numbers will drop! Bubba has to learn who is the boss. Just like Donald Trump learned that Hawaii is a State! 

The President has to handle the Republican Party like Osama bin Laden! You have to get them where they live! Ask your self dear citizen, who has the most to lose after August 2nd, if America "defaults" and loses a knick or two off the old credit rating? Is it going to be Main Street or Wall Street? That's right! It will be the money grubbing, next dollar at any cost, bottom feeding, soul destroying, pocket raping, pin stripped clad, knee crawling cock-sucker! 

Hard ball at home would be very welcome in Canada!

For all the ordinary people of the United States and all the ordinary people of the civilized world the inconvenience will be minor and short lived. Why, hell, my portfolio was down over 40% in 2008! And I got it all back and way more, thank you Valeant! But the effect on the American ruling class elite will be fatal and forever! And at the end of the day it will be all to the Greater Good!

What the President should do is create a set of full and complete demands. Borrow every page from the play book of Abraham Lincoln through to FDR! For desert, throw in all the demands of Hunter S. Thompson for good and reliable measure! And then add all the requirements that he knows he will need for the new America. The America that our fathers dreamed of and tell the Republicans to come back in agreement on August 14, 2011.


The old, tired, cowboy crap is over. There is no more unexploited frontier. You will not be allowed to be a robber baron. That is yesterday and it is over forever! Adjust.
What America has to do now is realize that it has one inexhaustible resource that will carry it through all the future that it can conceive of, harvestable forever. The unrealized potential of all its citizens!!

You never have to chase a Republican! They will screw up perfectly by themselves every time!

President Obama Caps bin Laden ...and the Bilderberg Group?

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by the principles of moderation.
Baron De Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Volume I, Book XXII, Section 22,  p. 402 

RE: Memo From The Craps Table

Right from the beginning of this literary experiment the Oracle of Ottawa had made a point of not commenting on American matters. But while I was tapping my little fingers down to the second set of knuckles during the recent Canadian Federal election I was much chagrined and very flattered that more Americans read my humble blog than my fellow Canadians! Perhaps these people like real writing! Who am I to deny them? The good Lord sends mysterious messengers on his errands. Having learned everything that I know, so far, from the greatest Doctor of Journalism of my life time, the ghostly hand of the doctor has squeezed my shoulder and informed me to go for the Big Time...

Hillary Clinton stares into the pit...with both eyes open.

Barack Obama is a very intelligent man. I figure he has an I.Q. of anywhere from 150-165 minimum. You would think that all of America would get behind him. From the outside looking in, he is one of the greatest Presidents of all time. I couldn't believe that the Republicans didn't know that Hawaii was an American State! The birth certificate garbage would have been discovered before the first primary, no doubt by a Republican, and if true, we would have never heard of Mr. Obama, let alone see him become President. As I watched it all unfold up in Canada I couldn't comprehend the pathological insanity of it all.
This right wing insanity was threatening the President's whole Administration.  

I will readily admit that I was totally blown away last Sunday night when I first heard the news. And then after a few minutes I shuddered at how bad this all could have gone. And then after a few days it dawned on me what the real game plan was. Osama bin Laden was the false flag! Mere gravy at best. The real treasure for the Obama Administration was the multiple laptops, hard drives, and memory sticks.. BOO YA! The Mother Lode....The far right secret societies damn near brought this Administration down. The inter-connectedness of the worlds elites.. it was all starting to build, and if left unchecked would have been, sooner than later, completely successful. The trails and data on those drives and devices is totally devastating! I can tell you with great confidence that many CIA chiefs of station all over the developed free world are rocking and rolling... May I even be so bold to predict a warming wave of reconciliation with the hard right and a warming glow of future cooperation?  May I also be the first to predict heavy duty evidence of treason and treachery, the likes you haven't seen since Benedict Arnold? Yes, I think plainly, that we can draw the conclusion that there will be many additions to your wife's retinal face cream....

There will be silence among the California redwoods this summer, and for years to come. Tap Day on all American campus's will be met with unanswered doors and the fleeing of plebes. The Bilderberg Groups next annual meeting will be very short in attendance. As will those of the future, again,  for many years to come... President Obama will sail in and through his second term. Hillary Clinton will also have a very smooth ride to her two terms also. Peace will rule over all the lands.....

And the second term is a lock...

Prime Minister Layton... President Obama Line 1....

It is the sign of a great spirit to be moderate in prosperity.
Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae, ch. 1, sect. 3; translation from Michael Winterbottom

RE: Sometime in the near future....

Prime Minister Layton:  Good morning Mr President.....

President Obama: I want to be the first to congratulate you on your stunning electoral victory... Goodness man, they all thought I was a long shot! Your the long shot champion now dawg!

Prime Minister Layton: Well Mr. President, it is all still a bit of blur. Olivia and I are just getting settled into 24 Sussex Drive. It is taking forever to get all that Wal-Mart junk out of the place....

President Obama: I feel ya bro! When the misses and I moved into the White House we were still finding bags of pork rinds and pretzels for months...

Prime Minister Layton: To be perfectly frank Mr. President, I had no idea at the start of the campaign that this would happen! The whole country is still in a state of shock. Geez, even Sun News TV went off the air...

President Obama:  Don't let the bastards get you down now. And talking about shock... my  Joint Chiefs are damn near ready to have kittens! They all think that you are related to Vladimir Lenin! Any truth to that Prime Minister, hate to ask, but I just got to know....

Prime Minister Layton: No Mr. President, it is just a coincidence of fate and appearance. Every one has been bugging me about that as long as I can remember...

President Obama: Well that is a real relief! Your damn lucky I am President right now... My Joint Chiefs are calling for an invasion of Canada,  Strike before the "Evil Empire" rebirths itself. If Dubbya was still President, you would be in real deep water partner... But relax. I accepted a few resignations this morning, your win sorta really helped me and my administration with some pretty tough problems...

Prime Minister Layton: (Gulp!...) Well...always happy to be of assistance Mr. President...

President Obama: I have to warn you Mr. Prime Minister that there are forces down here that even I can't get control of. What with the Tea Party and the fragmentation of the Republicans, not to forget the Bilderberg Group... and boy are they PISSED! Well the best way I can put it is: No open cars....

Prime Minister Layton:  Mother of Hell Busting Voting God!

President Obama: Say again Mr. Prime Minister?

Prime Minister Layton: Oh, ah,... I can see that this is all going to be quite a slog.....

President Obama:  You have no idea Mr. Prime Minister... You better have a real good doctor or some cases of Geritol stashed away.... (hearty laugh...)

Prime Minister Layton:  One more thing Mr. President... I heard on the campaign trail that your guys might have one of our Avro-Arrows in perfect mint condition stored in some place called Area - 51, apparently it is parked in an underground hanger right beside that Roswell flying saucer....Any chance we could cut a deal to get it back?

President Obama:  (voices in background...) Are you kidding me Mr. Prime Minister? I am having a hell of a time to get any info on that. And damn! I want to know about this stuff as much as you do... But all they do is send me those weird guys in suits and dark glasses with the weird grey skin. Creeps the hell out of me!

Prime Minister Layton:  I see....

President Obama:  Tell you what! If as and or when I finally get this out of them I will  stuff that heirloom in a Star - Lifter and ship it F.O.B. to your Aviation Museum up there in Ottawa forthwith. Deal?

Prime Minister Layton:  Thank you very much Mr. President....

President Obama:  Well, gotta skip, you have my number Mr. Prime Minister....

Prime Minister Layton:  Until next time Mr. President...(Click....)

Vladimir Jack can handle damn near anything...

Letter to Warren Buffett

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. 
Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway, Letter to William J. Kennedy, October 29, 1959, p. 192

Dear Mr. Buffettt;

First, I would like to congratulate on your recent vestment with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I caught it on the BBC, and the only question in my mind was, what took so long? I figure you  should have won it during the Clinton administration! I have been meaning to write for the longest time just to say thanks for being so free with your methods and being so candid with your investment experiences both good and bad. Your methods work pretty good....

Warren Buffett (left) confers with President Obama

I am hoping that this letter will be brought to your attention somehow in a lag to your busy schedule. Maybe you will be at home while the " Indefensible " is in for it's 10,000 hour overhaul. I am sure you have heard about the Borders Group Chapter 11 filing. Since you made a lot of money reading and sitting over the years, which is really good advice, I am hoping you see a profitable "workout" here. We are figuring if you could breathe life into those New York banks, Borders would be a walk in the park!

The brand factor alone here is awesome. It is a boring business and should be. From what little I know it just appears a few bad but recoverable mistakes have been made. Also I can't help but think that there are hidden real estate assets all over the place. Another reason I am bringing this up is that there is no competition to Amazon in Canada and the United States.

Borders Flagship Store...

Also, if you decide to beat this dog into shape, there is a whole country north of you that is just thirsting for some more choice. We have only one major book retailer in Canada; Chapters. As far as I can tell it is a total monopoly. If any one has the power to deal with the red tape of Heritage Canada you are it. And the requirements that they would ask are not very onerous. Stock Canadian magazines and some defined space to Canadian publishers, the usual  stuff. Aside from that you could literally transplant an American Borders to Canada and I am pretty sure it would fly. Also there would be a ton of tax write-offs in the United States and Canada.  ( Woo-Hoo!!)

But I must be realistic, a work-out of only $1.2 billion is hardly worth your attention. Its just that you have had so much success with print and media in the past I just had to try and get this by you. In closing I hope you, Astrid and the kids are fine.
                                                                                                     All The Best;
                                                                                                   Oracleofottawa

 It is never wasted time to listen, when this man is talking.....