Pauline Marois Kicks Ass!

Those who think religion is about "belief" don't understand religion, and don't understand belief.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed Of Procrustes, p. 6

Pauline Marois is the present and thirtieth Premier of the Province of Quebec. Although, at the time of this writing, she is walking the knife edge of a minority government, and as of yet does not have the strength to bend the bars, she sure as hell is strong enough to rattle the cage! Much to the Oracle of Ottawa's pleasure and endless delight, Pauline Marois has had the backbone to finally draw the line in the sand. By proposing and implementing the Quebec Charter of Values. The main and visible part of this proposed act is to ban the wearing of all religious clothing by provincial public servants. And much to the Oracles delight she didn't miss anybody. She got them all including the sickening Jean Guy type with the oddly large Jesus cross. The Oracle of Ottawa finds this character as sickening as a walking tent woman in a burqa.

Premier Pauline Marois - A Great Canadian!

The Oracle of Ottawa can certainly understand the shock of his opinion of some of his Dear Readers. But allow the Oracle to explain. You see the Oracle of Ottawa is what would be called in Quebec "Pure Wool". The Oracles lineage goes all the back to the young wife of Samuel de Champlain! Helene Boulle, who married the notable Father of New France at the age of twelve years old. Although the official story goes that they consummated their marriage two years later, all the surviving members of her family that are alive today, and there are very many of us, know the real story. Helene Boulle was a real French girl, taber - nack! She was doing old Sam balls deep before the ink dried on the marriage contract! All of her descendants today, and there are very many of them, are very proud of her, colle - in! If you want it done, get a French girl from Quebec to do it! 

Jason Kenny confers with PMO staffer...

As the Oracle of Ottawa was contorted in laughter in front of his Sony X series flat screen at the breaking news it got even more hysterical as the coverage switched to Ottawa as the major federal parties in Ottawa reacted to the Great Woman's breakthrough. The first to speak of course was the ever hated and past immigration minister Jason Kenny, who was totally blindsided and in somewhat of a deep shock. You could tell that his boxers were in a very large knot, as he could barley repeat the line that his handler had drilled into him all but 90 seconds before. The handler tried to make it as easy as possible for the hapless minister, but all was lost when the minister had to admit to the spin doctor from the PMO, that he didn't know what was meant by the concept of Church and State. But it didn't matter, every one across Canada was laughing so hard it all didn't really matter any way.

Justin Trudeau ponders his future...

Next up of course was the Next One, Justin Trudeau, and he, to the Oracle of Ottawa, looked even more shocked then the preceding Conservatives, you could really tell that the young Justin's thong was starting to ride up, so to speak, as he mouthed through a statement that was very similar to the Conservatives. And the Oracle of Ottawa has to note that Justin can sweat just like all the rest of us after all. How about that?

Then, of course, came the hapless NDP leader, Tom Mulcair. He was as hot and brash as a young teenage girl that was going commando for the first time. Yes, indeed, he was letting his balls dangle in the free air of the breeze. And he was making as about as much sense as the three others that just preceded him. It was not a fine moment, especially as the polling numbers were discussed immediately after he spoke that confirmed that the majority of Canadians were very much behind Pauline Marois. Perhaps their fart catchers should take note... 

  
But seriously Dear Reader, something had to be done. Even walking around Ottawa on any given day now, you would swear you were in some medieval third world country. It has all gotten out of hand. And there is nothing more disconcerting than seeing what looks like a walking tent advance on you at the local shopping mall. Canada is an OECD country. It is a secular state. The concept of the separation of church and state has a long and hard fought history that peaked in Quebec and the rest of Canada  in the 1960's during the Quiet Revolution. This is course the first time that we had to fight the power of our own "rag heads" in the Roman Catholic Church! The Oracle of Ottawa is quite surprised that no one seems to remember that today....

'Harper Government' - Up In Smoke?

We see parts of things, we intuit whole things.
Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals, p. 1

It was a week of smoke here in Canada, in the deepest dog days of summer. Usually the hits to the blog drop off to nothing at this time of year, but not this year. The Oracle of Ottawa is somewhat miffed by the whole thing, as it is cutting into my deep baseball binges. But yet it was another week of discovery, the thinking about thinking project is totally out of control. Now facts and realities are revealing themselves to the Oracle of Ottawa with out any effort at all.

Lac-Megantic - Conservative Smoke...

This week, the reality of smoke reared its ugly head. The discovery that presented itself was that political ideologies create their own real, physical smoke! And of course, where there is smoke there is usually fire. It all got going when Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government' announced that the fall sitting of Parliament was going to be somewhat late this year. But what did you expect Dear Reader? Did you actually think that the scum of the 'Harper Government' would actually show up and take it like a man? Did you actually think that they would risk having to admit that they could have possibly have been wrong on  about a dozen or two beliefs?

Mini-Me Paradis...

That fire bombing of that small town in the Province of Quebec, Lac-Megantic was the stake through the heart of the Chicago School experiment of the 'Harper Government'.  And that it was the present seat of the "Harper Government's Minister of Industry, one Christian "Mini-Me" Paradis is serious proof to the Oracle of Ottawa that there really is a God. Talk about getting shagged by Doctor Evil! Why the invisible hand of unregulated tooth and claw capitalism burned so bright, that it was picked up by American Spy satellites! As the fire storm took up media time all around the world for days and days we all now know the smoke of Conservative Party of Canada ideology, don't we?

Liberal Smoke...

With the prorogation of Parliament will be the death of many of the 'Harper Government's most cherished and Canada killing bills that it ruthlessly forced through the House, damn Reason, full speed ahead. They will all die on the order paper, this is called the silver lining in your undergraduate textbooks of political science.  Most of the next session will be filled with votes of confidence, and with all the abandoned Conservatives crawling out from under the bus, like a herd of very pissed zombies, it is really going to be high entertainment.

Justin Trudeau - Cumming Soon...

Meanwhile out west in British Columbia the young next one, Justin Trudeau, was on summer vacation with the wife and kids. Then there was that press conference about legalizing cannabis at the first opportunity of the next Trudeau Liberal Government. When the Oracle of Ottawa saw the footage on the local vulgar old style media he could literally feel the the youngsters poll numbers rising. Back in Ottawa there was full and guarded accounting of pot smoking experiences of youth. The Prime Minister had to bullshit the media, by admitting that he tried it a few times, which the Oracle of Ottawa has on good authority is a total lie, but one cannot appear to be un-hip can one? 

All in, everything is unfolding as it should, just like old Pierre Trudeau said many years ago. The young Justin is rolling another Jamaican jumbo blunt and is preparing to make some more babies with the comely Sophie. It is very important when you are the First Lady of Canada that there are lots of attractive youngsters around. The press loves it and it is really good for business. The social whirl of a young Liberal Government and the continued construction of the Just Society will make Ottawa magic again.

At the time of this writing it is less than 18 months to the next federal election. The forces of evil are all but contained and ready to be put back in the bottle for another couple of generations. We all just have to be patient, buy our tickets, and be ready to take the big ride that is soon to come...   

Canada - The Right Bears It's Fruit

Attacks are rarely directed at true objectivity, but rather at pretenders who use it to mask their own dishonesty, or perhaps the falseness and injustice of the whole culture.
Theodore M. Porter, Trust In Numbers, p. 3

It seems like only yesterday that the Oracle of Ottawa witnessed the western idiot Preston Manning declare just after the 'Harper Government' majority that Canada is now all but gone over to the Dark Side of the political right. The Oracle of Ottawa, as a public service, to his worldwide audience has decided that it is time to let all the members of the Global Village know how this has all been working out for us here in Canada.

African Rock Python - messenger of the Right...

It was a packed church somewhere in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick today as several hundred mourners gathered for the double funeral of two young brothers aged five and seven, who were constricted to death by an African Rock Python several days ago. No matter where in the world you are as you are reading this, you have no doubt heard about this event through your local vulgar media. CNN International just loved it. It is quite true as you have probably suspected, that it is illegal in Canada to own this animal privately. And yes, we have (had?) a Federal Law that contains a huge list of scummy animals from the Third and other worlds that are not allowed in Canada, my once nice clean country, under any circumstances. Things like an Indian mongoose for example. But Dear Reader, did you know where the owner of this snake got it from? Sitting down? It was given to him by the provincial government of New Brunswick! Along with twenty six other restricted animals that the government seized! The Oracle of Ottawa can only imagine that the local governments budget has been cut so down to the bone that they could no longer afford bullets to do their mandated job. And the Right bears it's fruit.

Preston Manning - God of the Right

Recently in the Province of Quebec, a huge train of tanker cars containing "crude oil" was left out side a small town called Lac-Megantic. The unattended 73 car freight train simply rolled down the hill into the center of a small town and of course derailed and blew up, killing at last count 43 people, and creating a fire storm that resembled a little Dresden. But the upside of all this is that everybody in Canada now knows for sure that  there really is a God. The said fire bombed town was in the riding of the 'Harper Government' Minister of Industry and Development! You just can't make this stuff up! The Oracle of Ottawa remembers very well and clearly how the sock puppets of the 'Harper Government' stood up repeatedly in the House of Commons on many occasions and stated more than once that it was not the governments job to tell a capitalist pig how to run his / her  company!  And the Right bears it's fruit.

Prime Minister Harper - Lackey of the Right

Recently in the Province of Ontario, cancer patients in southern Ontario were informed that their chemo drugs have been discovered to be watered down by about 10%! The "honest mistake" was made by a private sector contractor, who's accountant must have figured that a one percent drop in concentration would result in a ten percent plus rise in profit. Who would ever know, right? And it certainly is not up to the Federal Government, or as it is now known, the 'Harper Government', to step into such situations and interfere with the divine workings of the Invisible Hand, is it? And the Right bears it's fruit.  

In the northern reaches of the Province of Alberta, raw tar sand, otherwise known as bitumen, has started to mysteriously seep from the ground, and has been proven to be impossible to stop. It is now contaminating 
the water table of a small band of Canadian Aboriginals, not to mention that lake and all its tributaries. Clean up costs are estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars. The monster large oil company in question claims it is all news to them, or rather until the intrepid members of the local vulgar media found out that it is leak from a SAGD mining of tar sand in the immediate area, that has somehow found another route up to the surface of the Earth due to an unknown number of rock fractures. Now it is taken as Gospel out in the western Canadian oil patch that it is no business of the Federal Government to impose foolish and expensive restrictions on dollar seeking oil companies.(3-D sesmic is not that expensive, but it does cost money...) The market will take care of all that, along with the Invisible Hand. It is not the governments business to tell an oil company what to do. And the Right bears it's fruit. 

Now we are out to Vancouver, British Columbia. Where upon this week it has been found that a local Chinese peasant has been running a dental practice out of a spare bedroom of his private home, in a very, well, somewhat nice street somewhere in Vancouver!! It hasn't been going on too long, only about twenty years! And the said buck-toothed peasant (irony?) didn't have too many patients, only about 1,500, well maybe a lot more than that, the police are still searching for his patient records, nothing yet. The said buck toothed Chinese peasant had very many dental tools, but from the video that the Oracle of Ottawa saw on the CBC newscast, it would probably be safer to get your dental work done at a GM dealership, at least my mechanics tools are bright and gleaming! Since there was no instrument sterilization equipment found as of yet, it has been recommended to all former patients to get tested for Hep A, Hep B, Hep C and while you are at it, get the AIDS test also. It seems that the Bucktoothed "dentist" was very popular with the high and low end downtown hookers of Vancouver Island. But certainly it is not for the Government of any level to interfere with an industrious person that just wants to make a buck for crying out loud
And the Right bears it's fruit.

City Of Ottawa - Casino Wars

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, Sec. 612

As Ottawa fries like an egg on a curb in Death Valley who would ever think that the summer of 2013 would contain so much entertainment? Usually in the bake of the summer months in Ottawa very little of note takes place, especially the clash of titans and mice. That, in the past, has always waited for the commencement of the standard social season that starts sometime after Labour Day.

The winner is: Eugene Melnyk?

It all just blew up out of nowhere didn't it? One day nothing and then Ka-Boom! Gentleman Jim the Mayor of Ottawa thought he could brush off the boorish Eugene Melnyk just as he would a poor stakeholder or long time employee that has actually taken the high ground and refuses to step down. That bit that showed up on the Oracle of Ottawas supper time news recently explained every thing. That Melnyk guy was hotter than hell, at that last City Council meeting, wasn't he? That is all quite easy to explain, if you are familiar with the recent workings at the present city of wall - mart. Gentleman Jim and his band of pathetic burg(h)ers thought they could tell old Gene one thing behind closed doors and place the knife in his back in public just like a pesky outraged small stakeholder or senior employee. 

Well as we all know, that didn't work this time. Eugene Melnyk is the real deal. He is the 75th richest person in Canada, with a present net worth of around a billion dollars. More than enough money to carry out his threats. More than enough money to hire every private dick in Canada and totally destroy the present creepy altar boy of City Hall, once and for all. Many items would no doubt be hauled out of many dark closets, why not even the Chinese could save him...

Coming soon to Kanata??

As real power would have it, old Gene won't have to spend a cent. The creepy altar boy has done everything that he was told to do save and except bending over and spreading them. And to add insult to injury, he won't be getting his name on it, or anything near or around it. That bit where he showed up on CBC Radio news recently was an absolute howler of fear and collapse.

The last municipal election proved how the people are reacting today, it was the largest flush out of a council in the history of Ottawa. At the time of this writing it appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that it really is true that sometimes one has to flush twice. The Oracle of Ottawa like many stakeholders in Ottawa can hardly wait...

What Is Thomas Mulcair On?

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon, Essays, Essay L - Of Studies

Thomas Mulcair is the second son of a huge family of ten kids! He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He rose way up in Canadian society, it is a hell of a story. From essentially the wrong side of the tracks, in all truth and honesty, he has risen to become the Leader of the NDP, which is now the Royal Opposition in the present Parliament. The whole story makes Horatio Alger look like a slacker.

Thomas Mulcair - Give yourself a shake!!

 It has been a pleasure to watch ole Tom roll on and over Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government'. As far as the Oracle of Ottawa can tell he is one of the very few that has made Harper squirm at will and with much pleasure. You know that Mulcair is getting to Harper by the unfailing thumb tell that Harper exhibits every time Mulcair starts to get a little too close to the truth. Just watch early videos from Question Period when the 'Harper Government' was young and cocky, and then compare them to recent videos of Question Period since the onset of the Senate scandal. Do you see it? Pretty wild or what? The 'Harper' thumbs are literally twisting.

Don't fuck with the Senate!!

The Oracle of Ottawa has gone on at length in earlier postings about how much he utterly despises the 'Harper Government', or anyone else for that matter, that starts to talk about the dinking or any serious changes to any of Canada's constitutional institutions. And that includes the Senate of Canada. The Senate of Canada has existed since 1867 and is enshrined in the Constitution Act, 1867. The person that was behind its creation and the expression 'House of second sober thought' was ironically a Conservative Prime Minister, the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. MacDonald! The creation of Canada is a hell of a story, it was in the end a grand compromise, and the older the Oracle of Ottawa gets he is becoming more convinced that the creation of Canada, out of all its opposing forces, could only have been Divinely inspired.

The Canadian Senate will continue, unchanged...

Senates go back in history over two thousand years. Why even the first and earliest Senate of the world, located in Rome (Curia Julia) still stands! And wherever and whenever a Senate is abolished there usually the results of dire consequences and endless troubles. Again I direct the reader to research the history of the Weimar Republic  of Germany in the time from 1919 -1933. There was another guy, Adolf whats his name, who was as hot to be rid of the Senate as Steve Harper is today in Canada. Why do you think that is? The Germany that rose out of the ashes of World War II and the division of Communism certainly included a Senate (Bundesrat) and even after re-unification Germany still has a second "upper" (appointed) house.

Is the Oracle of Ottawa the last old man in Ottawa to read that far back in history? The system we have works and has worked for as long as Canada has existed as a nation state. Yes there have been bumps on the road, and there will continue to be, that is human nature. If the powers of the day want to bring in some minor rules to protect the petty cash as times and technology changes that will be acceptable. But the Oracle of Ottawa does not want an elected Senate. The Oracle of Ottawa does not want the United States in Canada. All this has been dealt with over a century ago. It is surely shocking that the powers that be today do not know that, save and except that young Justin Trudeau. The Oracle of Ottawa totally agrees with the Justin Trudeau model of Senate Reform; If you want a good Senate start by putting good people into the Senate, just like his father did! And the Oracle of Ottawa must be honest and tell the truth. Someday he expects to get that call, and yes, for that Library of Parliament card, the Oracle of Ottawa will come out of retirement for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and serve in the House of sober second thought....

Mike Duffy - Leveraging Grade Seven

Logic must look after itself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 5.473

The mines are still going off, as the chunks of sheep meat fall from the air to detonate even more mines, it truly is like watching a herd of sheep cross a mine field. The latest round of revelations in the Mike Duffy affair went off around 4:00 p.m. today. It seems someone from possibly the Prime Ministers Office has slipped a ton of e-mails under the reporters door at the CBC. Of course it was on the airwaves in short notice.

The Puffster...

The Oracle of Ottawa is still amazed that all the power of the Conservative Party of Canada and its minions and its bottomless financial power, all painstakingly built by the best educated and predatory minds of our society is going to brought down to rack and ruin by a spud headed midget with grade seven! The Oracle of Ottawa is guessing grade seven, one more year than Jethro Bodine had from the Beverly Hillbillies. It all boggles the mind to even ponder the paradox of it all.

The Oracle of Ottawa finds it full and ironic that the whole 'Harper Government' is going to fall from the hapless screw ups of just one person from Canada's Maritime area of chronic underachievement, as old Steve Harper has put it in the past. The utter insane irony of it all. Just look at all the wreckage so far Dear Reader. Nigel Wright, the gee whiz whiz kid, the strapping shaker and mover of Bay Street, gadzillion-aire, Trinity College meets Bud The Spud, and it was no contest...

The 'Harper Government' Will Fall !?

To draw a line is the primary step in incorporating energy in form.
Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry, p. 97

The Victoria Day long weekend in Canada is usually a very quiet and unremarkable affair. It is the unofficial, official start of the Canadian gear down from winter to summer, and all the relief that it brings. But not this year Dear Reader. It all started to go all rather nuts on Friday morning just past, when the Oracle of Ottawa was awoken by the name of Toronto's mayor and the words video, crack and smoking! The Oracle of Ottawa thought this is it! The Oracle has really slipped his clutch plates for sure this time! The Oracle of Ottawa immediately rose out of bed and dragged his significant other to the radio and had her confirm that what he just heard was indeed true! This was at 9:00 A.M..

'Harper Government' - The pig is in the tunnel folks...

 The Oracle of Ottawa then proceeded to breakfast of a coffee and two cigarettes and his book that was on top of the pile; "in reading". Still reeling from the wake up call, the Oracle of Ottawa than turned on the vulgar media and selected the CTV news channel and was stunned by more revelations of the Puffster Mike Duffy, and how the axe was just hanging over the vertically challenged  Ms. Wallin! The Oracle of Ottawa at this point became somewhat dizzy, and repaired to the kitchen for more coffee and a few more bolstering smokes to calm his nerves. As the smoke took hold and the Oracle having bolstered himself against the kitchen counter, the earth began to move!! It all lasted for over thirty seconds! A gentle but powerful swaying motion, that set off a wonderful symphony of creaking and tinkling, that sounded as music from God.

This was at 9:45A.M. exactly, and the Oracle of Ottawa again turned on the vulgar media and was soon informed that there was indeed a 5.2 Richter earthquake measured in Ottawa from Shawville, Quebec all the way down to Ohio in the United States! The evil of the 'Harper Government' has so twisted the very quantum fabric that the earth itself moved to balance the evil forces! If this weirdness keeps up Dear Reader, by Tuesday morning the Oracle of Ottawa expects a pillar of salt at the intersection of Wellington Street at Bank Street!

While out of the fortified bunker on the usual Friday beer and lotto ticket run the Oracle of Ottawa noticed the vulgar media newspaper headlines. Kathleen Wynne had fired the head of the Ontario Lottery Commission! And it must have been the right move, since the whole board followed the ousted huckster out the door like rats being chased on the tundra. Could it be that there will be no Casino in downtown Ottawa after all? Upon returning home, the Oracle of Ottawa closed up and continued to be reeled by the revelations of the old style vulgar media, and enjoyed every moment.

All of Saturday the Oracle of Ottawa was in a happy state of shock, knowing full well that once the shit starts to roll down hill it will continue ever faster until something stops it. It was Sunday morning that the major axe fell, when the Oracle of Ottawa heard with shock that Nigel S. Wright was also thrown under the bus. At this point we are through the looking glass now folks, any thing could happen and probably will.

On this Sunday after noon the Oracle of Ottawa was on his way to Arnprior to visit a very important man, as per usual routine. The Oracle of Ottawa of course had CBC's Cross Country Check Up on, and was amazed that Rex Murphy had his old self back on, and was doing a hell of a job. The knuckle dragging Tory Conservatives were in total outrage! The Oracle of Ottawa could not believe his ears. Any thing could happen now! Then the Oracle of Ottawa realized that come Tuesday the very 'Harper Government' could fall in a vote of non confidence.

The Oracle of Ottawa hopes that it is Elizabeth May and / or Charlie Angus that get to do the honors! With the Prime Minister planning not to be in the House on Tuesday, due to his planned presence at some South American trade conference, with the usual retinue of sock puppet cabinet fart catchers and sock puppet back benchers, the numbers would be totally in the Oppositions favor! The wreckage is every where and piling up very fast. (And we still haven't got through the Bilderberg Group revelations yet...)At 3:00 P.M. the CBC radio complained that no one from the Conservative Party of Canada could be reached in any manner of communication. Get your voting suit ready Dear Reader, the Just Society of Justin Trudeau will indeed be coming sooner, much sooner than later. Just as the Oracle of Ottawa called it...     

Do Social Impact Bonds Add Up?

We cannot give a sign the wrong sense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 5.4732

You had to know it was coming. With the demise of the sub prime mortgage market in 2008, the corporate whore greed heads had to come up with something new. They had to figure out a way to get all the F9 monkeys back to work and out of retirement from their tax havens. The market for junior oil and gas, and the proverbial gold mine of junior mining stocks has all but dried up, due to consolidation. And even if they did exist, the sheer scale is no match of the size of sheer numbers that the sub prime mortgage market once had.

Old fashioned corporate bond

 It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that the greed heads have come come up with a potential candidate, it is called a Social Impact Bond. It is a contract with the public sector in which a commitment is made to pay for improved social outcomes that result in public sector savings.(?) In other words the greatest potential Public Private Partnership (ripoff) of all time! Trebles all around. Now the problem is that it all sounds good from the top. Just like sub prime lending, the first generation social impact bond, if you like. This helps a ton with the marketing all round. It only has to look good until the sucker signs on.

A very ancient trading company bond...

 Advocates of these performance-based investments claim that they encourage innovation and tackle challenging social issues. It is just that they forget to tell you that the innovation is for their bottom line, and they have absolutely no intention of tackling challenging social issues. If this stupidity actually worked, you wouldn't be able to sell very many more "bonds" in the future would you?  The Oracle of Ottawa will now explain all the (in)efficient cost adding measures that the corporate whores will add on to ensure failure and the sale of yet more "bonds" and the eventual construction of a fascist corporate society, with out any government at all ideally.

The Oracle of Ottawa has added a little video to explain all the advanced concepts of the social impact bond. It was the least complicated one he could find at the time of this writing. The problem is that every pitch for SIB's is different in varying degrees. The main problem that the Oracle of Ottawa see's is that there are going to be several add on layers to every government program that they will finance. First, there is the investment bank that will underwrite the so called bond issue, that really is not a bond. This will no doubt add 20% on to the cost of the said program! Second, while the investors (suckers?) money is at work in the project (train wreck?) there is another mediator, or rather and ideological policeman, after all the project cannot really be allowed to succeed can it? You certainly can't sell social impact bonds, if there are no social problems! Add on another 10%. And Thirdly at the end of the project, you have to audit it of course to insure that it was all after all, a total failure. Again this is legal ground paper for the next batch of bonds, and legal conformation for the valuation of the puts on the bonds that were sold by the investment bank to the hedge fund that bet against the project! The variations are endless! Isn't the future great?

All Justin Trudeau Has To Do...

Canada must be unified, Canada must be one, Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a Just Society...
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ottawa Civic Centre, April 06, 1968

Well Dear Reader, it is all in and all done. Justin Trudeau has become the Leader of the Liberal party of Canada. And it was all done in a mighty fashion, on the first ballot, with 80% of the cast delegate votes! If one is a real stickler for detail, his father Pierre Elliot Trudeau won on the fourth ballot with a mere 50.9%, way back in 1968. Sometimes the apple not only does not fall far from the tree, but actually grows into a larger tree.

Justin Trudeau - The second cumming...

It is only hours after the blessed event, so the Oracle of Ottawa hasn't had time for the acceptance speech to come up on You-Tube. But the Oracle of Ottawa did hear some of it on the way back from the standard trip to the upper reaches of the Ottawa Valley. He is even more lofty on the stump then his old man! That will drive the minions of the Harper Bund just nuts! But the Oracle of Ottawa was hoping to hear just one line, and he didn't. But as the Oracle said, he hasn't had time to hear it all in its entirety.  Lets give it time.

The one great asset of Justin Trudeau, all green as he is and all, is that stuff emanates out from him, while Steve Harper is the kind of guy that sucks from you, the host, using fear and loathing as his tools. There is no fixing that, is there? Also with Justin, we don't have to worry about the psychiatric effects of the missing father syndrome. This man has not an angry resentful bone in his body, the sign of good adjustment and proper up bringing, stuff that is completely lacking in most of the minions of the 'Harper Government'.

Justin Trudeau will be smart enough to surround himself with the Best and the Brightest, and not only that, he will listen to them and take their advice. There will be no psychotic micro controlling as is the standard practice in the present 'Harper Government'. As far as in the House of Commons he should start acting like the Prime Minister starting tomorrow. He should let Bob Rae lead off in Question Period! Future Prime Ministers don't ask questions do they? He would be wise to stand to his seat sparingly and let the 'Harper Government' twist in the cold wind of change. All the while looking above it all, just like his dear old Dad used to do so well.

It was all quiet shocking to see the appearance of Jimmy Moore the present minister of propaganda or as it code named at present; the Minister Of Canadian Heritage, or what is left of it at present. He is losing weight faster than an Ethiopian in a famine. But poor little Jimmy knows the future, the 'Harper Government' is in reality quite unlikely to get to the end of the celestial mandate that should end in an election in 2015. The Oracle of Ottawa predicts that the 'Harper Government' will implode way before that date. And it will be joyous to watch and behold. The remainders will be chased like rats across the tundra. No mercy will ever be given.   

The only thing that Justin has to do, in closing, is pick a good mantra and stick to it. His old Dad was great at it, and the Oracle of Ottawa highly recommends the mantra of the Just Society. It is a goal that you can put out there. It is a goal that always shines like a beacon to the people. It is a goal that always offers hope of a better tomorrow. Justin Trudeau should use it, the Oracle of Ottawa never tires of hearing it; Canada must be a Just Society...  

Margaret Thatcher - The Other Eulogy

Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Jeremiah, 12:1, NRSV

The Oracle of Ottawa first heard of Margaret Thatchers passing while still in bed this morning on the CBC Radio News. The first impression that crossed the Oracles mind was there goes the old style vulgar media's TV schedule for about the next two weeks. She had a nice long retirement didn't she? And as a Baroness, she also sat in the House of Lords. And, much to the amazement to the Oracle of Ottawa, she was on the speaking tour until quiet recently! So lets see, one government pension, one pay check from the House of Lords, and those wacking speaking fees! Talk about triple dipping! Isn't it ironic that as the warrior for unrestricted capitalism, she sure got to feed deep at the trough of the public tit. And to add insult too injury, she seems to have had the utter luxury that she didn't deserve, of dying in her sleep, no doubt with her face to the wall. 

Margaret Thatcher - Ronald Reagan

 Maggy Thatcher was born a no count shop girl. She made full use of all the socialist tools of the time to better her life. And then she spent the rest of her life making damn sure that your kids will never have the same opportunities! No doubt many a tear will be shed all over the United Kingdom tonight, after enjoying a good horse and kidney pie and over the best adulterated scotch. No doubt there will be many people at her funeral, mostly old trade unionists, that want to make sure that she really is dead. Did you hear that she passed away at suite of rooms at the Ritz Hotel in London! Where is your grandmother dying? How utterly evil and criminal is that? The ninth circle of hell is certainly going to be receiving a monster upgrade shortly.

The real legacy of Maggy Thatcher is that she was the sharp tip of the spear point of the New World Order, that we all suffer under today, and will continue to suffer under, until we finally get wise and take our world and lives back. She was instrumental in the "downfall" of the Eastern Block. Now we have gangster states, that makes the old days of grey Marxist - Leninism look some what idyllic! Is your life as a working person better now or was it your parents and grandparents that really enjoyed life more than you as you are sweating through it now? I know it is embarrassing, you don't have to give an answer.

But there was the Falklands, wasn't there? Well after thirty years it has all finally dawned on the Oracle of Ottawa that Maggy didn't really give a sheeps shit about a bunch of sheep herders far and away. It appears now to the Oracle of Ottawa that it was all about who was going to dominate the huge export weapons business. And it sure as hell was not going to be the French! A little MI-5 and a dash of MI-6 and you can make anything happen. All for the good of the GNP! And the friends that you are dancing with at the time. Mark the Oracles words folks, it will all come out about 50 to 75 years from now, the history of the future will not match the history of today, of that you can be most certain.  

 In closing, the Oracle of Ottawa has to agree wholeheartedly and with out any reservation with the statement of Gerry Adams:  "the great hurt done to the Irish and British people during her time as British prime minister. Here in Ireland her espousal of old draconian militaristic policies prolonged the war and caused great suffering." And that war in all its flavors still goes on. And it will continue until we finally rise up and end it, once and for all...

 The above represents the Oracle of Ottawas sentiments exactly...

HMCS Toronto - Taxing Kim Jong-un's Dope?

I am too wasted to eat my bread.
Psalm, 102:4, NRSV

It was with great interest and wondrous amazement that the Oracle of Ottawa greeted the news of HMCS Toronto's huge Arabian Sea drug bust of over half a ton of pure heroin! They say on the CBC that the street value is somewhere in the vicinity of 100 million dollars. But where the hell would a half a ton of heroin originate from? The CBC news story hinted that it could be from Afghanistan. And this, to the Oracle of Ottawa, just doesn't sound right. Does it sound right to you?

HMCS Toronto

Now the only thing that is going to be wilder than this feat of high seas policing is the first day back in Halifax when the Mounties try and walk the drug sniffing dogs through the lower decks! The damn critters will be going totally nuts. Try and picture it. The dog(s) will be more confused then Herring Cove on Fathers Day! 

Could you imagine a shrewd Afghanistan tribal leader putting such a huge load all in one place? The Oracle of Ottawa doesn't see it either. From the Oracles sources, the warlords move their junk in small batches over land to Iran and then on through to Turkey.  And even more interesting than where the load came from, one should ask where the blazes it was going. After some thought the Oracle of Ottawa has come up with another plan.

Could it possibly be that the HMCS Toronto has intercepted a wholesale load from North Korea Could this huge load have once been the property of one Kim Jong-un? He tried this, (or was it his Dad?), with a much larger ship to Australia, and all was going well until the Aus cops seized a mere fifty bricks of heroin and then sank the ship! 

'Harper Government' - Making The Trudeau Way Clear

The hungry eat their harvest,and they take it even out of the thorns; and the thirsty pant after their wealth.
Job, 5:5, NRSV

The Oracle of Ottawa has observed with wondrous Prophetic irony, that the day that the 'Harper Government' has announced that it is withdrawing from the United Nations Convention to Combat Dessertification , the Liberal Party Leadership ballots are being received by the Liberal Party faithful. Life is so weird, you just can't make this stuff up. The 'Harper Government' claims that Canada can no longer afford the annual cost of the astronomical sum of $323,000 to be part of this most important United nations Convention.

Fuck'em - Says the 'Harper Government'

 Yesterday, there were 194 nation states signed on as members to this convention. That is most every nation state on Earth at the present time of this writing. Today there is 193 nation states as members of this convention. Canada has decided that it is much more economical to pocket the chump change and become friends with the posh nonmember states of Iraq and Montenegro! Meanwhile there is no doubt much head scratching and utter amazement in government offices all over the world. Whatever could be the real cause of this salient behavior?

Justin Trudeau - cumming soon

Well, the Oracle of Ottawa has the answer. It seems that panic has set in at the Prime Ministers Office, as the latest poll numbers come in. The 'Harper Government' has fallen way out of majority territory, and the fall is steadily increasing. The Liberal Party Leadership Convention is on April 14, 2013. It appears that it is going to be a coronation for the young Justin Trudeau in the first ballot. But when you descend from political royalty, a coronation is only natural. The Prime Minister and cabinet of the 'Harper Government' know that it is all but in and done, over for another half century at least. The desperate panic has set in at the highest levels. 

It is also amazing to discover that many voices from the seat of Conservative power out in Western Canada, are reminding the 'Harper Government' that there is quiet a large patch of what could be called at a lot of times "desert", inside the confines of the borders of Canada. Ooops!! The 'Harper Government' is starting to act like the mortally wounded jackal that knows it is soon to finished off and put out of its misery.

This will no doubt be aided and abetted by the knuckle draggers of the 'Harper Government' back benches. They are starting to rise up, determined to legislate the banishment of abortion on demand, and the foundation of the national Canadian baby wax candle search! The turning point has been reached for sure and certain. It will really start to pick up and become very ugly after April 14, 2013....

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.

Pondering Pontius Pilate

What I have written, I have written.
Pontius Pilate, John, 19:22

The Oracle of Ottawa has always been fascinated by Pontius Pilate; as a man and a civil servant and of course, of the role he played in the death of Jesus Christ. Unknown to most people, Pontius Pilate came from a very good and noble Roman Family, The Pontii's. He was of the Equestrian Order, that is of the second highest tier of Roman society. He no doubt busted his chops in the Roman Legions. He, also, in all probability, traveled near and far in the service of his emperor and his empire.

Ecce Homo...

Now the one thing that has always made the Oracle of Ottawa wonder is what did he do to get a crap posting to the Roman Province of Judea? Was it the head stand over the head table punch bowl at some Senator's daughters wedding in Rome, while he was home on leave from his Legion? Such actions in the beginning of a career can have long and devastating consequences as we all know. Such a question, and the answer to it are lost in the mauzy fogs of history.

Now just at the time that Pontius Pilate was posted to Judea as prefect (26CE-36CE), the Roman Empire was approaching its greatest extent. Practically the whole known world was under the governance of the Roman Empire. Ponder that! No internet, no telegraph, no printing and yet the last remanent of the Roman Empire did not die until 1453CE  with the fall of Constantinople! It has to be obvious to the modern person of today that the Romans had something going on.

Pilate Stone - Pilate was a real man...

 With all this in mind, and the fact that the "thinking about thinking" project reading has lead the Oracle of Ottawa to reread the New Testament, again, it was with a startling revelation upon reading the introductory quote of this piece that the Oracle of Ottawa totally understands the role that Pilate played in the fulfillment of ancient scripture and in turn the creation of the new covenant as fulfilled by God's only Son. The Oracle of Ottawa realized that at the end of the Passion of Christ, that Pontius Pilate was converted! And he successfully fulfilled his destiny as the vessel to whom ancient prophecy called.

We know from the Gospel of Matthew that Pilates wife  dreamt of the coming troubles that Jesus Christ would bring upon her house and her husband. And it all came to unfold as intense experiences do, in a very fast blur indeed. If a person is very well versed in the history of the time and all the constraints that Pilate was operating under, he proved to be in the end, a very ethical man indeed. He was sitting on a rather explosive situation. He only had about 3,000 centurions at hand. If an insurrection had of broken out, all of Judea would have went up in a fireball! Pontius Pilate was between a rock and very hard place.

The Oracle of Ottawa has often tried to imagine what it would have been really like to be on the ground at this momentus time. For a real exercise in leadership and management procedures try to imagine what it would have been like from Pilates toga and sandals! But upon reflection he seems to have taken the advice of Jesus himself. Pontius Pilate rendered unto Caesar what was Caesar's and rendered unto God what was God's...

Pilate with his hands full. What would you have done?

'Harper Government' - Stupid Bites Back

Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man makes his train longer, he makes his wings shorter.
Sir Francis Bacon, Essay XLVIII - Of Followers And Friends

It doth wax wondrous strange to the Oracle of Ottawa, how upon the events of the passing week, that anyone can be of the opinion that Ottawa is a boring town! It all got started with the slow but persistent boil of the matter of one rather rotund newbie Conservative Senator that was having a wee bit of trouble proving that he was in actual fact a resident of a certain small Maritime province that he was recently entrusted to represent. Which was all rather awkward in the face of the fact that he diligently claimed for his residence allowance for as long as he has been sitting in the Senate of Canada.

Senatus Populsque Romanus

But the above matter paled in significance, when latter in the week, the Oracle watched in bemusement at the vulgar medias coverage of yet another newbie Conservative Senator that ran afoul of the local civil power in the matter of a routine domestic disturbance call. As the footage played out on the screen, the Oracle of Ottawa realized immediately that the matter was indeed going to much more serious, due to the fact that the Police do not tape off domestic disturbance calls, but rather, they usually as a rule, only tape off crime scenes. And sure enough, as night turns to day, as a dropped writ falls to the ground, the observational powers of the Oracle of Ottawa again proved their worth, as news leaked out that the said newbie Senator would be gracing the presence of a certain Quebec jail cell for an overnight visit, one that would certainly not incur any free frequent flyer miles.  

Of course the "State Broadcaster", the good old CBC, had a field day with all the recent "alleged" indiscreet events. Other matters were raised in the case of one ex "retired" CBC talking head from Bloated Floater, Saskatchewan, also a Conservative Senator, who it was ventured had not been home since she left the fine town to leave it all those decades ago. And of course there was the one straggling Liberal Senator from Ottawa, (Who you would think should have known better), who was appointed to represent Ottawa and the defined environs, as he tried to claim a second residence! Did the Oracle of Ottawa hear that right? He was laughing rather heartily at the time...

A Canadian Prime Minister is a lot like an American president, in that, he is invested with great powers! In theory the Prime Minister can appoint nearly anyone to a Senate seat, but in practice, no he cannot, and the events of the last week in Ottawa have surely proven that, haven't they?

The Oracle of Ottawa will allow Charlie Angus of the young and up and coming NDP to explain some of the other fine details from the safety and immunity of the House of Commons....

Wee Jimmy Blows Up

An economy is an entity consisting of groups with conflicting interests held together by rules of the game.
Joan Robinson, The Accumulation Of Capital, p. 16

It is deep into another sleepless night, and the Wee Finance Minister reaches for the warmest cold fry that is left. Under the pile of fast food wrappers he searches for some more medicine, but alas it is all gone. Talk about running out of runway! Soon he must face the rabid pack of jackals in the House of Commons. Wee Jimmy wonders what has gone wrong. Every thing is in place. There is a strong majority Conservative government from coast to coast to coast. Yet the economy lags. The numbers are nowhere near being ever met.

Atlas? Let the bastard shrug...

 All the methods of the right wing guru's are in place. The "Big Lie" propaganda ads and TV spots run 24/7 leading to feel good but dead end websites... Yet, the more these policies are implemented, the worse the economy gets. Wee Jimmy has done everything right. Yet when he speaks to the vulgar media when the Toronto stock exchange is open it starts to plummet as soon as he opens his mouth. The blarney has abandoned him completely and utterly. It is hard for a man of Wee Jimmy's age and political ideological bent to admit that everything he has believed in all his life is in reality nothing but a lie.

The Wee Jimmy cant understand it. He has fired most all of the fat cat civil servants in Ottawa, and is stunned when the Alberta contractors tell him that they will not do their old jobs for the minimum wage offered by the new (temporary) contractors! Why that is just about subversive. The grounds have been cleared of red tape, and according to the objectivist theory, wild entre - pen - whore capitalism should be breaking out all over the place by now. But, alas, the field remains empty. No one has stepped forward. John Galt can't seem to be lured out of hiding or retirement.

And then there are those three by-elections that are to held at the end of November. If these three seats are lost, the strong majority government could be in real trouble. What with the back benchers in near open revolt about all the innocent babies, anything could happen if the ratios get real close. The Wee Jimmy realizes that he is in for another sleepless night. Then the realization that the 'Harper Governments' little helpers in the United States have gotten there little micro-dicks handed to them yet again on a platter, another hit to the brilliant utterly inescapable logic of Ayn Rand. Wee Jimmy feels the walls come closer to him from all directions at once. 

 It is just about dawn now, and the Wee Jimmy realizes that he has to try and get some sleep. He closes the window and pulls out the first edition copy of Atlas Shrugged with dust jacket, that has been holding the window open and throws it to the floor into the mess of fast food wrappers. There is the sound of breaking glass...      

Stick to the speaking points - you are not smart enough to go solo on your own! It the China mans fault, they aren't buying from us. It is the Americans fault, because they aren't buying from the China men. It is the European Unions fault because they borrowed money to buy too much stuff from the China men!! Of course Canada is perfect and with out fault. And all we have to do is cut services until no one can afford to buy anything from any one!

'Harper Government' Plays With Huawei Fire

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch, The Times newspaper, July 6, 1989

Corruption is a sin of power. To be compromised is a sin of omission. To be compromised is far worse than being corrupt or to be corrupted. To be compromised is the greatest display of rot and weakness. This is the second time that the Oracle of Ottawa has been impelled to blather on about this straw telecom Huawei. Again the Americans are sounding the alarm out loud. The Oracle of Ottawa is sure that State Department feelers have already been extended down and through ordinary diplomatic standards. We all know what will happen next if the first two attempts are ignored...

The straw-man  tele-com?

Weird things can start to happen when security concerns and warnings are ignored by the Americans. And all those who toil in the innards of the old vulgar media, know exactly what the Oracle of Ottawa means. After seeing the conclusions of the American House Intelligence Committee today, the Americans are getting very antsy to say the least! Keep that slot under your office door open, and make sure there is lots of paper in the fax-machine! This sucker is going to blow wide open any time soon.

It is pretty easy to be one of the largest tele-com suppliers in the world if you are backed a state communist party. Your R & D costs will also be pretty low if another state communist telecom and massive global state security apparatus steals all the other guys plans for you! If there ever was a straw man telecom Huawei appears to be IT! No one knows how owns it exactly, the straw men have never given interviews, and appear to have no intention to. Now the House Intelligence committee can't get to vocal about it, but they are very well informed by the CIA and the even more powerful NSA.These guys aren't pissing into the wind, if you get my drift.

In Canada, down on Ogilvie Street, there are a wack of CSIS types all but pulling out what is remaining of their hair, as they try desperately to figure out a way to explain to the 'Harper Government', with Crayolas, the utter danger they are in by ignoring our biggest allies reasonable requests. Americans don't like to mess in the affairs of other nation states, especially the first world states like Canada, but they will, and it will be fatal, and certain, and in the last resort with extreme prejudice. It is all sort of like Three Days of the Condor in reverse! And you heard first from the Oracle of Ottawa.....

  

Clue yourself in dear reader. It is all pretty interesting and if you are an "85" all so clear and blatantly obvious...