One of the most universal cravings of our time is a hunger for compelling and creative leadership. James MacGregor Burns, Leadership, p.1, (opening line...)
Who would have thought that it would be all over before Labour Day? The Oracle of Ottawa recently predicted that it would all get even much worse for the 'Harper Government', the Senator Duffy trial was just going to be the warm up. When the picture of that three year old toddler started circulating at light speed around the planet Earth, the shit storm began to form over Harper Land.
Harper Land washes ashore...
It just so happens that the youngster head relatives in Canada that have been trying desperately to sponsor their family members. The woman even had her local MP carry a personal letter to the Minister of Immigration, one Chris Alexander which was totally ignored. When that got into the Canadian news cycle the Katrina like shit storm unleashed. And it has been one hell of a spectacle.
Canadian Minister of Immigration...
You just can't make this stuff up Dear Reader. This is the biggest most severe sign of the finger of God that the Oracle of Ottawa has ever seen delivered onto any political party in the history of Canada. And once a campaign goes south or 'Hudak', you just can't get it back. And we are we past the point of no return. And yes it will all get even much worse in the days ahead.
But Chris Alexander, Minister of Immigration, seemed to quickly decide that it would be stupid to put a tragedy to waste, and on national television in Canada quickly tried to lie his way out as per the 'Harper Government' playbook. It didn't go off too well at all. I have included the video as proof above.
But we should not despair. Time is on our side. The incompetence of late twentieth century capitalism works for us. C. B. Macpherson, The Rise And Fall Of Economic Justice And Other Essays, p. 54
It is only Day Seventeen of the 2015 Canadian Federal Election. And what happened today, the Oracle of Ottawa did not expect to start happening until after Labour Day at the earliest. But you just cant make this stuff up. The Oracle of Ottawa first saw the insane clip of a Tory supporter going mental this morning, just as it happened, on CTV Newsworld, and the Oracle of Ottawa could only conclude that the Harper Campaign has gone Hudak. It is official folks...
Stephen Harper with more captive supporters...
The Tory War Room claims that all guests at Harper Events and photo ops are vetted. But it continues to appear to the Oracle of Ottawa that they are either prisoners or poor hapless captive employees of some rich Conservative donor. The optics are as terrible as they are actually truthful. One more term of Harper in power and we will all be slaves of the corporate whores.
Meanwhile at the Elgin Street Court House in Ottawa there are more explosions of revelation going off at the Senator Mike Duffy trial than explosions in a mine field being crossed by a herd of sheep. The media news cycle can hardly keep up with it all. And more and more names just keep coming up over and over. It is rumored that the Conservative War Room had to order another hundred square yards of black curtains to hide all the soon to guilty as charged while they attend the Bosses events!
The day got even more fun and enjoyable when CBC's Power And Politics came on at 5:00 p.m. You know that the Conservatives have all but thrown in the towel when all they can send is Rick 'The Mummy' Anderson to represent the 'Harper Government'. And he was mocked and laughed at such that the Oracle of Ottawa has never before witnessed. Michelle Rempel also made an appearance - sort of - she appeared so "tranqed" that she was barely recognizable. All this and we have only just started. Oy!
That which cannot be conceived through anything else must be conceived through itself. Spinoza, Ethics, Part I, Axiom II.
One thing that the Oracle of Ottawa has learned over his many seasoned years of existence is that you should under no circumstances play ugly power games with people that you think are much less powerful then yourself. Sooner or later you are sure to run into someone with a bit more depth and reserve than you could have ever possibly conceived.
A bubbly Stephen Harper with enthused supporters...
We all remember very well that very nasty set up of Minister Peter what his name, when one of Harper's minions forced him to catch a commandeered Canadian Forces search and rescue helicopter to be a at a certain government event on time, and then reported it secretly to the press to watch the Minister twist in the wind. No doubt from and under the orders of the 'Boss'.
A Nigel Wright check...
Then along came Nigel S. Wright. Ray and the 'Boss' thought that the Senator Mike Duffy appointment/ set up, would surely smear up the young boy wonder Nigel... Talk about a fatal error! Everyone knew that Nigel was loaded. No old lady, and going to church a lot, is very conducive to a very high income retention rate. He just cut the check out of pocket, mere chump change used to silence the chumps, but at the same time it was all very much like planting a claymore mine as you retreat, to have it go off by remote control long after you are gone. Again the Oracle of Ottawa marvels at the cold calculating steel cleverness of the Nigel. Damn that was good and it looks intentional.
Meanwhile on Day Fifteen of the 2015 Canadian Federal Election Campaign the Oracle of Ottawa can help but notice how the 'Harper Government' campaign is truly starting to resemble the last and very last Tim Hudak campaign. The Oracle has included a picture of the 'Boss' and all his enthused prisoners, or rather supporters. The press questions are also getting pretty awkward also, especially the one that asks the 'Boss' why he did not fire Ray? What a hoot! Did J. Edgar ever fire Clyde Tolson? Maybe they should ask Mrs. Harper what she thinks?
Old Steve Harper, of the circling the bowl 'Harper Government', must sure be confident of his future as he departs to the Northern vote rich environs of Walrus Arse Inlet. You would think Dear Reader, that if he was telling the truth he would surely be available in Ottawa after the testimony of Nigel S. Wright to state that; "there you are, just like I said, nothing to look at here sheeple, move along now".
Senator Mike Duffy - Captain Canada?
But here we are into Day Ten of the 2015 Canadian Federal Election Campaign, and the sitting Prime Minister of the day has evacuated to the endless frozen wastes of the Canadian tundra! The last that the Oracle of Ottawa has heard it is really not a very vote rich environment. Perhaps the Great Man has gone up North to confer with Franklin's ghost. Perhaps to avoid Kathleen Wynne, it is for the historians to decide deep into the future.
One can only wonder what Senator Mike Duffy has in store. As far as the Oracle of Ottawa can tell he has all but single handedly brought down the 'Harper Government'. Tomorrow and the next few days are just the coup de grace, so to speak, the final kill shot. The Oracle certainly hopes that Mike's lawyer will question deeply of all those close connections to the Bilderberg Group. It will be then a mere romp for the young Justin Trudeau to 24 Sussex Drive.
It is Day Nine of the Canadian Federal Election of 2015. Game on. The Oracle of Ottawa was hoping to post everyday, but yesterday the news of the 'Harper Government' proposed travel restriction law, which the Oracle of Ottawa first heard on the 6:00p.m. news on CBC1 sent him into a bit of serious depression. The first person that the Oracle of Ottawa thought of was his barber in Orleans, Ontario that goes home to the Middle East every year to visit his Blessed Mother who is of very advanced years. You can see right away how insane political babbling for media share can be to a modern political campaign.
Premier Kathleen Wynne - Chasing Harper across the tundra...
The minions of the 'Harper Government' still have not defined the sweep of this lead zepplin at the time of this writing. Will it cover all the world? Or only the Middle East? Will it cover the homeland of Steve Harper's favorite buddies, which I dare not name? And what about the Charter implications?
Late last night the Oracle of Ottawa had a great realization that lifted his spirits greatly. And that is that the 2015 Federal General Election is starting to look a lot like the last Ontario Provincial Election! You remember that don't you? Tim Hudak was going to complete the Conservative trifecta, it was all going to be a slam dunk. The NDP under Andrea Horvath had the possibility of power in the palm of her hand. And in true NDP fashion she made sure that she promptly shot herself in both feet.
And we all remember how Chain Gang Tim Hudaks events flopped one after the other. From first to last, proving that he was not built to last. It was the biggest tidal wave swamping of the Conservatives in the history of Ontario, wasn't it? The Oracle of Ottawa can not but help to notice the matching of likeness of the events.
Then there is that big bad Duffy trial that is on again on Wednesday of this week! Will the Nigel spill his guts? Did he cut a deal? Will the words Bilderberg Group come up? And if so in what capacity? The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 could all but be over by next weekend! And wouldn't it be fetching if Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government' had to testify in a criminal trial, while in office? Even better, when in office, in the middle of an election campaign! That would be history indeed, and pretty well explains why Justin Trudeau does not look very worried.
We all knew in Ottawa that the next election was going to very awkward, to say the least, for ole Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government'. The whole front row has long since bailed and unlike the past, there were no more willing people to step up. Well actually, there are so many bodies under the ideological bus that the rubber is no longer physically able to touch the road. And yes, it smells pretty bad too.
No caption required....
But all these first campaign stops are really weird, they are all in industrial settings, with the nearly great man getting his hands on, as best as his ten thumbs will allow. The warm bodies in the background look as if they have been unwillingly rounded up, and you can see it on their faces quiet easily, they are not amused. The whole thing has the atmosphere of a wake of some distant relative that you never really knew very well, but lunch might be served....It seems that the Prime Minister is using these last days to scope out future job opportunities, and making announcements that will make his transition to civilian life somewhat easier.
I did not believe at first when I heard it, but the rumor in Ottawa is that Mrs. Harper has already rented the largest U-Haul van she could get and by Sunday morning last, she had it all hand loaded and ready to go back to Calgary. It is hidden away behind 24 Sussex Drive, not to upset the neighbors...
Now contrast this to the first Justin Trudeau stops. Damn! They are packed. You can actually tell that the people really want to be there, to be part of history. Some young females seem to be having "overheating" issues standing so close to the comely Next One. (See video below..at 1:39) And the Oracle of Ottawa must admit, that when he see's the young Justin Trudeau in full flight, it makes the Oracle of Ottawa feel so many years younger, and brings back very many memories of the first Just Society that was sired by his father.
Although it is only day three of the 2015 campaign you can already see who the winner is going to be. Not even the Oracle of Ottawa thought it would jell up so quickly. And the NDP, what the hell are they on? Where are the supporters? Where is the excitement? And so it goes.
Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time with out annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, p. 3
Well Dear Reader, it has been nearly ten years since the start of the right wing revolution in Canada. And it has been utter proof that you can not run a G7 economy on right wing platitudes of fifty words or less. The works of Strauss, Friedman, Hayek, and Ann Rand have been proven in actual daily use to be only the ingredients of a train wreck, worse than Leninist-Marxist communism.
Justin Trudeau - Young sexy and viral doesn't need money...
At the time of this writing, Dutch disease has settled upon the land of Canada. The oil patch is in total melt down mode, and there will be no relief in the far future, let alone the near future. The NDP actually won an astounding landslide majority in Alberta only a few weeks ago. So it was with wonderment that the Oracle of Ottawa woke up to the news that old frail Steve Harper was visiting the GG to dissolve Parliament and set the nation of Canada into the longest political campaign since 1872. Steve Harper might have the money, but he certainly does not have the jam to last out a 78 day campaign.
For someone so confident in their prospects, it is all very curious indeed. And the first question fielded by that Trotskyite - Terry Milewski of the CBC; wondered why the 'Harper Government' had felt impulsed to hit up the Canadian taxpayer for a sum that may hit 400-500 million! Now all Canadians know why the 'Harper Government' destroyed the "per vote subsidy"! There was no way the Conservative Party of Canada could steal from it!
Yes Dear Reader, it is indeed the twilight of less. And most intelligent Canadians are finally starting to realize it. Canada's place in the world over the last ten years is much less. We have less privacy. We have less security of personal liberty. We have less wealth. We have less job security. We have much less social security net. We have less retirement to look forward to. We have much less optimism of and in the future.
The Oracle of Ottawa can't tell you how it is all going to turn out. But he will call one event for absolute sure. The political landscape of Canada on the morning of October 20th 2015 will be very much different then it was on October 19th 2015, and all the money in the world will not have prevented it from happening.
First, right off the bat, Jian Ghomeshi is no Peter Gzowski, and Q certainly is not Morningside. But the Oracle of Ottawa has certainly to give the young Jian an A++ for even have the guts and balls to even try to follow in such large footsteps. Imagine the Oracles amazement at the first sound of the news on Friday morning, thereabouts, that the young Jian was taking "time off for personal issues"! In about one nano-second the Oracle of Ottawa's bullshit alarm went off, in warning mode. Perhaps the youngster was a little shell shocked from all the events in Canada in the last week, in preparation of the 'Harper Government' self-coup, which will be started in earnest in the week coming.
Jian Ghomeshi (right)
It was while the Oracle of Ottawa was Sunday driving up to the Ottawa Valley from Ottawa that he heard on the 4:00 p.m. CBC Radio 1 news, just before Cross Country Checkup, that Jian was no longer with the CBC. That the CBC had come into "certain information" whereby they could no longer have Jian about the premises of the CBC. Sound familiar? It seems that the Prime Ministers Office is firing CBC on-air personalities just like certain female 'Harper Government' cabinet Ministers!
Now of course the Oracle of Ottawa's bull shit alarm was sounding full blast in lock-on mode! Upon return from the Oracles appointed Sunday rounds, he was determined to get to the real cause of this cultural genocide, and to share the truth with his worldwide audience of Dear Readers, as a social service of course. A search here, a search there, it will not be an impossible task.
Well Dear Readers the Oracle of Ottawa is happy to report that he is virtually certain that he has located the smoking gun, so to speak, that sealed the young Jian's fate. It did not take very long at all. And it had nothing to do with the introductory essay on the events of the Ottawa Shootings of Wednesday past, which was aired on Thursday last, although the Oracle of Ottawa could certainly detect the certain left of center bias in the young Jians words.
No Dear Readers, it was another segment of the show that aired the same day. It was in interview with the young Justin Trudeau, Canada's next Prime Minister, that must have ignited a very large mushroom cloud in the Prime Ministers Office. The Oracle of Ottawa has secured a copy and it is included above this humble paragraph. The major offense occurs at 2:15 of the interview whereby Jian mentions that the CBC is the worst funded public broadcaster in the world! Case solved! There are other bits where Justin and Jian take turns trashing Jimmy Moore. You would probably enjoy watching the whole clip at least twice. The Oracle did.
On the 6:00 p.m. CBC Radio 1 news, it has been revealed that Jian has filed suit for a small amount of money not un-adjacent to the amount of fifty million dollars!! And of course, being a union member, has also filed a labour law grievance, in full knowledge that as a union member, he is entitled to his entitlements. The Oracle of Ottawa can find no fault.
For my world wide Dear Readers, the Oracle of Ottawa has also included a video of Jian in another life before he became a cultural pillar of Canada. Yes, he was the handsome, sexy, although vertically challenged, front man of the pop group Moxy Fruvous! Now as you listen carefully to the lyrics, you will quickly realize that the message is not conducive to Conservative Party of Canada's code of Family Values and Conservative Purity as dictated by the Duck's Ass, Alberta Base Commission.
In closing the Oracle of Ottawa must advise his Dear Readers not to pine nor fret for the young Jian. While he was a Canadian pop star, he only sold about 500,000 albums in Canada and the United States. The royalty checks will certainly more than cover the paltry cost of a year long sabbatical, plus meals and guitar strings. Next year at this time, at the latest, Jian will be reinstated by Prime Minister Trudeau. As to the fate of Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy, all the Oracle can say is: Book your mover now...
You would have to be living under a rock if you were in Ottawa, at the time of this writing, not to know that the 'Harper Government' and the Canadian right wing revolution are like two pieces of excrement circling ever closer to the center of the bowl at ever increasing speed. As the latest poll numbers come in, confirming the young Justin Trudeau as the 'Next One', the excremental centripetal forces are nearing the point of catastrophic failure.
Ask yourself: Who really created ISIS?
The 'Harper Government' is at the point where it is now forced to reap what it has sown over the last decade. The punks in short pants at the PMO and the Conservative war room have been having fits and many late nights as of late. Nothing seems to work anymore. The poll numbers show that the Canadian Public has tuned out completely, waiting for the writ to drop, or October 2015, which ever comes first.
The panic really set in when the Franklin false flag campaign totally failed when the overall Canadian response was; Prove it! That was when all the announcement videos on You Tube started to vanish. (See earlier posts...) The latest round of attack ads only caused another spike up in the Liberal Parties numbers. It seems that whatever action is taken, it is like going out and actually campaigning for the young Justin Trudeau! This is the worst nightmare to a spin doctor/fart catcher, as it signifies that the point of no return has long ago been passed and exceeded.
Something really desperate was required. And like magic and in perfect tune with the news cycle it appeared. The poor quality ISIS "audio tape" threatening Canada. Now the Oracle of Ottawa was not fooled for a moment with this one. ISIS is not a low budget operation, if that audio was real, ISIS would have made it into a video, and it would have been in full HD to boot! Complete with soundtrack and score, not a half assed production by the Young Conservatives of Ducks Ass, Alberta! Ho HO!! As they say in baseball; " Got Heeeeemmmm".
Although the Canadian public caught on at once to the rickety ploy, the Conservatives just kept running with it. Just stick to the speaking points and stay on message. Without the approval of Parliament the desperate 'Harper Government' puked up Canadian boots on the ground, without even the Americans asking! And while granting full media access to the Wall Street Journal (i.e. Fox News) hosted by Goldman Sachs, the chromed dome grise of the 'Harper Government' ran off at the mouth at the rate of over ten thousand words! And actually admitted that he lied to his own legislative body, when in the interview boasted (2:00) that Canada had the second largest force on the ground next to the United States! Which the Oracle of Ottawa was quick to notice would have be many more people than the lie of 39 persons that was sold to the Canadian media and the Canadian House of Commons!!
The best way to handle this rag assed ISIS uprising is to send in the drones 24/7. Put a phone number media campaign in the local television and radio media, that if you see black banners, call 1-800-PEST-Removal. The phone banks would be manned at CIA headquarters at Langley, and the targets listed and sent to Holloman Air Force Base. Where most if not all the drones are controlled from! Today there is simply no need for boots on the ground, you just set up a Face Book page! Too easy.
A right hand glove could be put on the left hand, if it could be turned round in four - dimensional space. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus, Sec. 6.361111
Justin Trudeau at the time of this writing must certainly be at least 25 full percentage points in the lead of the last polls as favorite for Canada's next Prime Minister! It is the only explanation that the Oracle of Ottawa can come to explain the insane Franklin wheel spinning of the propaganda machine out of the Prime Ministers Office. In the last wasted decade of the 'Harper Government', the Oracle of Ottawa has never seen such desperation to date.
Howard Carter proved what he claimed to find...
The propaganda has shifted from Canada's old war exploits to the tragic and doomed Franklin Expedition. This is no doubt due to the bridge burning that has recently occurred with all of Canada's veterans, while out of one side of the Prime Ministers mouth he extolls the past victories and out of the other side he has cut just about every service that they have ever had!
The ultimate insanity continued today on CBC radio, as nervous rex Murphy introduced today's topic of Cross Canada Check Up. What do you think of the incredible discovery of Franklins lost ship? That wasn't so bad, as the intro piece that no doubt the PMO wrote for him, that compared the discovery of this unknown and unidentified wreck as the greatest achievement since Howard Carter's discovery of King Tut's Tomb! The Oracle of Ottawa couldn't believe his ears!
Sir John Franklin - Note the resemblance...
The 'Harper Government' found an, as yet, unidentified wreck of a vessel that was of the same kind that was used by Franklin in his last expedition. There is no proof at the time of this writing that is actually one of the two lost Franklin ships. Although it is in only eleven meters of water and a Canadian warship was in the area, the 'Harper Government' for some strange reason did not see fit to drop a clearance diver over the side for a closer look, some pictures, and some canon serial numbers which would be definitive proof had they matched the records! Can you explain that Dear Reader?
And for the riffraff of the likes of nervous rex Murphy, Peter Mansbridge, and the ultimate scum of the 'Harper Government' to deface and smear a great man of the ilk of Howard Carter to further their pathetic propaganda ends makes the Oracle of Ottawa want to puke. Howard Carter claimed what he found. And unlike the scum of the 'Harper Government' he was able to prove it at once to the world!
Unlike nervous rex Murphy, Peter Mansbridge, and most of the 'Harper Government' the Oracle of Ottawa actually graduated from an Ontario high school, and unlike the previous named, the Oracle of Ottawa even went to college and graduated from that also! The Oracle of Ottawa has learned a few things. The most important being that it is very dangerous to make bogus and or unproven claims in science, words, or law. No one in their right mind would even think of doing that. Why is the 'Harper Government' persisting in this unproven claim without any factual confirmation?
One thing is certain from the outcome of recent events. There are two contracts at the CBC that will no doubt not be renewed when the Trudeau Government comes to office.
Some, like most bankers, are so unfit for success that they look like dwarves dressed in giants clothes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed Of Procrustes, p. 29
Well, my fellow Canadians, if you thought Peter Kent was a hoot at being the 'Harper Government's minister of environmental affairs, you ain't seen nothing yet! It seems that the lads, the punks in short pants, at the Prime Ministers Office has been saving the best for the last. How thoughtful of them! Somehow Joe Oliver has been named the Minister of Finance after the wee banty Jimmy Flaherty pulled the plug yesterday to get even with Jason Kenney for all those nasty true things he said about Rob Ford.
Joe Oliver - Functional?
It all seemed like a good idea at the time when the Rob Ford scandal(s) broke wide open, for Jason Kenney and other Conservative leader hopefuls to get a free bump at the free cost of one of their fellow conservatives upon hard times. Yes Sir! If your not cheating, your not trying. It seems that the wee banty finance minister took fatal and catastrophic umbrage with his fellow conservatives. The wee Jimmy knew that if he pulled the plug out from the wall quickly it would cause a chain reaction very similar to the internal workings of a nuclear weapon upon its fatal mission. The wee minister was very astute.
Ed Holders vision of High Technology...
There are so many people under the Conservative ideological bus that the wheels can longer touch the ground to get any traction what so ever. The buzz in Ottawa is that the only reason that Joe Oliver got the nod for the finace ministers job was that he just happened to be in Ottawa at the time of the disaster. He was supposed to be out West for a bunch of gigs when he forgot who we was again. To save any embarrassment to the Boss he was sent back to Ottawa faster than a lost set of car keys with a War Amps tag. Fate is such a bitch mistress, isn't she? The fatal and terminal chain reaction was started.
Joe Oliver was duly named to the post of finance minister. But solving one problem just causes another one. Joe Oliver was the minister of natural resources, or as is widely acknowledged in Ottawa, the Minister of Tar Sands. Someone had to be pressed into Joe's old job. But who? The problem was solved by Greg Rickford, a nurse with a law degree (?), would be a perfect patch into the Ministry of Tar Sands from his present post as Minister of State for Science and Technology!? Got that? Even my conservative readers, I am sure, can see the uncontrolled runaway reaction setting in now.
Now of course someone has to be Minister of State for Science and Technology! But there is no one left. As the baby fat candles burned late into the night at the Prime Ministers Office, by dawn today a solution had been cobbled together. A back bencher by the handle of Ed Holder, an economic refugee to Ontario from Cape Breton with a degree in philosophy from Western, according to his web site, will be the new Minister of State for Science and Technology. Every fat, frustrated conservative in Canada from coast to coast to coast with a pen that writes in four colors will be overjoyed.
It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver. Adam Smith, The Wealth Of Nations, Book III, Chapter IV
The greatest thing about the resignation of Wee Jimmy Flaherty is that the Oracle of Ottawa will never again have to look up the spelling of the word leprechaun! Canada did not survive the present turbulent past because of the Wee Jimmy, it survived despite him. And as long as the wee banty "want to be" lives, the history books will never allow him to forget it.
Wee Jimmy bails - Good Riddance!!
The Oracle of Ottawa knew we were in trouble way back around 2008, when the Minister proudly admitted during a press scrum that he never owned a stock in his life! He didn't fool around with stupid, dodgy, risky things such as that. Yes Dear Reader, lining up to buy your piece of Canada is for losers as far as the Wee Jimmy was concerned. The Oracle of Ottawa has always held the contrary view. And unlike the Wee ambulance chaser, he was able to retire at the age of 53. The Oracle of Ottawa has always believed in Canada, and has put his money where his mouth is at every opportunity. While some people with an excellent Ivy League education have to whore them selves out constantly to secure their place at the public trough.
The news of the momentus climb down came just after the stock markets closed at 4: 00 p.m. (E.S.T.) It has been reported by the 'State Broadcaster' the beloved CBC, that the wee banty minister phoned around to all the people that he thought would give a shit about his bailing after the close of the market yesterday. Well, it seems that the market has decided, it closed up over 137 points, increasing in value nearly by one whole percentage point! Yes Sir, Mr. Market is certainly sad to see the we banty minister off.
The actual reality is that Jim Flaherty was one of the, if not the worst, finance ministers in the history of Canada. Canada, again, survived, not because of Jim Flaherty and the 'Harper Government', it survived despite the 'Harper Government' and solely because of other greater men that have come before, and put in place a system so strong that not even idiots of the likes of Harper and Flaherty could do no lasting damage to it. There has been no Canadian politician that has such an ability to soil himself and our nest in public at every opportunity.
You keep hearing about that skin disease, the causes of which the Oracle of Ottawa are convinced are not physiological but rather pathological. The wee banty minister, was right from the start, in way over his head. He did not have a clue how the world really worked. All his right wing platitudes that he lived by all his life were proven in his time in office to be completely and utterly wrong and without foundation. That kind of reality check is not taken too well by fragile right wingers that confuse a bull market with their brilliance.
The Oracle of Ottawa suspects that it all came to a head over the Christmas break last. Pondering the plummeting poll numbers and having the significant other call him Justin at a rather inopportune moment made up the wee ministers mind. There was certainly no way he was going to be in the House of Commons when the next Liberal government finds all the running fetid shit that has been swept under the carpet while he was running the watch...
I easily recognized him as a god by the trail he left when he went away. For it is easy to know a god. Homer, The Iliad, Book 13.70-71, Barry B. Powell Translation
Fresh off the world vagrants tour, the Suitors of the 'Harper Government' return to the House and the Nations business, in our ice bound Ithaca. There to meet the 'Harper Government' will be the NDP's Telemachus, in the form of one Thomas Mulcair. The hot headed ideological son of of the great Odysseus, which all the people of the ice bound Ithaca await the return of, one fine day soon, any time now. The great Odysseus has taken the form of, according to all ice bound Ithacans who know about such things, the handsome and comely shape of a young ice bound Ithacan by the name of Justin Trudeau. Beguiling in appearance and matter, but very famous for his brilliance, guile, and overall polytropos. He is making his entrance as a beggar, only to some day soon rear the head of his Magus heritage to slay all the Suitors in an utter and devastating blood bath at the next called assembly of the people of ice bound Ithaca, which will happen no later then 2015, but probably sooner. The gods, as is well known, take on many shapes.
Suitors - the ultimate end...
Meanwhile in the camp of the Suitors there is much unease, as the concept of the meaning of declining polling numbers bring to them the shadow of their ultimate fate and the eventual embrace of Hades dark and permanent gloom. There is much nervous talk of the far reaching implications of the missed million dollar shots at the whaling walls of lands far far away. The best thing to do is to put off the sure to come day as long is possible by the careful use of spin doctors and allied fart catchers, and to rapidly increase the consumption and wasteful wanton destruction of the wealth and heritage of the fine people of the ice bound Ithaca, while the going is still good.
As the Suitors writhe and twist in their beds and awake in cold nightmarish sweat realizing that the Suitor to their left and to their right could possibly eclipse there chances and cherished dreams of becoming the head Suitor all are beginning to realize the price that they are all soon going to have to pay....Cerberus howls in utter delight.
The norms applying to persons who are players in a game depend upon the rules of the game. John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice, p. 349
It is pretty hard to sit down and write to the blog when you are witnessing the collapse of the Right Wing Revolution in Canada. The spectacle of it all is just breathtaking. Preston Manning is no where to be found. The latest RCMP revelations of the goings on at the Prime Ministers Office are proving that the Prime Minister is either a hay seed rube or the twin brother of Richard Nixon, much talk continues, but either way the chromed domed majesty of ole Steve Harper is all but in and done.
Justin Trudeau - About any time now...
A whole government is going to fall shortly due to some chump change of few Senators, that the Prime Ministers Office had no business meddling in. But the temptation to control just one more thing at the molecular level was just to strong for ole Steve Harper to resist. It is all sort of like a Greek Tragedy with a laugh track. The back benchers days are filled with booking movers and haggling over the cost of the soon to required lawn signs. But the Oracle of Ottawa has heard that many are not even going to bother on the next go round, are just hoping to escape Ottawa with out going to jail.
It is finally starting to sink in to the rubes out West that the Harper Government law and order agenda sort of stops just outside Toronto city limits. And as the Health Minister has stopped the supply of morphine and heroin to the terminally ill, it seems that the supply to the Mayor of Toronto gets hand delivered, every day. This is causing much grumbling in the cock-us.
Changing the channel, the favorite ploy of the 'Harper Government' fart catchers and spin mavens, is no longer working. The reintroduction of the new Bullying Legislation is garnering nothing but laughs from the seasoned media, everyone knows that it is all just another run at the bloggers, the CBC, and that satanic internet. But it is suspected that when the RCMP raids the PMO at all its locations all at once, there won't be much getting done on the legislative agenda. And of course, those pesky by-elections are taking place shortly, and the Oracle of Ottawa has it on good authority that it is all a train wreck in the making. This means that the "majority" could possibly be in real and total trouble. Now that folks will be real entertainment!
Then we 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, p. 532
Well, Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government' finally got his constitutional crisis, but not exactly the one he was looking for. It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that no one in the 'Harper Government' or the Conservative Party Purity Committee out in Duck's Ass, Alberta, has ever heard of the Curse of D'Arcy McGee! It all is about the dangers of anyone trying to change Canada into something else, Alter it you may not...The Founding Fathers of Canada were not fucking around when they created this impossible country.
Canadian Senate - Value??...Priceless!!
You knew it was all going to hell very quickly when polling indicated that eight times more people believed Senator Mike Duffy then the Prime Minister of Canada! But it was Friday afternoon that you could state for sure that the wheels of the Conservative bus were starting to death wobble, when the news and the tape got out of the Prime Minister of Canada, Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government', calling into an AM radio talk show like an unemployed Liberal skidmark that loved the sound of his own voice. That is the moment the history books will take as the start of the bitter end death spiral.
No matter what happens now or in the days to come, it is a lose lose for the 'Harper Government'. If the Senators are suspended with pay it will be Armageddon for the 'Harper Government'. If the Senators slide off and get a proper hearing, it will again be Armageddon for the 'Harper Government! PMO staffers should start booking the movers now and get ahead of the rush.
Next week is the big Conservative Party Convention in soggy Calgary. The Oracle of Ottawa sure as hell is glad he is not Steve Harper! This event promises to be more of a wake than a party. And just wait when all the mouth breathing faithful find out that the pork and beef that they raise with the latest Big Agra methods of antibiotics, steroids, hormones and GMO silage will not even be able to get into the European Union as pet food, there could quiet possibly be a riot, or two.
It was a historic week in Ottawa. Canada as a country is at a very important turning point. Being here was like living in a history book. With all the attention that the Canadian Senate got this week, and all the critical issues that it raised how could even a Conservative put a dollar value on it all? It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that the Canadian Senate works just great, just like the Founding Fathers of Canada intended it work.
Perhaps the most obvious feature of the use of symbols to represent things, events, or processes is the economy of representation. Marx W. Wartofsky, Conceptual Foundations Of Scientific Thought, p.37
You know it is a terrible idea when the beached whales (i.e. James Moore) of the dying 'Harper Government' are dumping their latest right wing Bilderberg Group ordered directive in the deepest dog days of summer on hapless Canadians. Now the brainwave is that the way to get cheaper cellphone rates in Canada is to invite Verizon, the Wall-Mart of communication companies, into Canada and in turn destroy the whole industry. I guess the punks in short pants at the Prime Ministers Office thought this this would be a great idea.
'Harper Government' gets the call...
But the Oracle of Ottawa has to admit it is just music to his ears to hear the scum at Rogers, Bell and Telus complain for a change! Recently when the Oracle of Ottawa called Rogers to bitch about the lack of Major League Baseball, he was told that he couldn't complain! Oh the Oracle got to complain all right, and it is a terrible thing to make a temporary foreign worker cry.
Of course if Verizon is allowed into Canada there will be thousands of lost Canadian jobs. As a matter of fact the Oracle of Ottawa is quite surprised that no one has figured out the real reason that wee Jimmy Moore is rolling out the Red and White carpet to Verizon. The Oracle of Ottawa has it on good authority that it is really about the creation of that new labour union that is going to called UNIFOR, which is going to take place on this coming Labour Day. The Oracle of Ottawa is really going to enjoy it when the NDP start pumping this rude fact out to the Canadian public during the fall sitting of the House.
And it is all really just another sign of the failed ideology of the 'Harper Government'. By failing to do their job and stepping in to protect the Canadian consumer as it is the job of a real government to do, they are now in desperation, going to contract out their responsibilities to Verizon, with hopefully a cell phone price war just in time for the next Federal Election.
Could it be? Could it really be true? Could the Province of Ontario actually have their own 'Hurricane Hazel' in Kathleen Wynne? The Oracle of Ottawa was hoping for the best, and so far the Oracle has been mightily impressed. Politically, Kathleen Wynne, is as slippery as a Calgary wildcatter soaked under his own gusher.
Kathleen 'Hurricane' Wynne
There have been a lot of days since the commencement of the 'Harper Government' train wreck, that the Oracle of Ottawa was so depressed with the direction that Canada was being taken that he simply couldn't write this blog or do much of anything else. But as the Oracle of Ottawa has related recently, the 'Harper Government' has reached and passed the critical 'puke point' with the Canadian public. That is the point where all the standard hateful right wing shit would start to back up. The point where the 'Harper Government' would rudely discover, that after all, many Canadians do care.
For the 'Harper Government' it is all downhill from here on in. Just like that other wack ball conservative from back in the 1950's. Conservatives chasing political power is like a dog chasing a hub cap. The only way to break them of their insane habit is to stop the car. The dog is then infinitely confused. Just like the Conservatives in power. But the Oracle of Ottawa digresses...
The awesome good news of the day was heard on the CBC radio in the car this afternoon. It seems that the critical and world famous Experimental Lakes Area research station is going to be saved after all. It was slated for closure by the idiots of the 'Harper Government' to save a paltry two million dollars! The international condemnation has and will reduce the Canadian GNP by a more than a couple of beeps. Which if we had a finance minister that could understand it, is going to cost way more than two million dollars.
It seems that the Ontario Premier has rounded up some friends of the same mind, and has pulled the rug out from under the 'Harper Government'. The 'Harper Government' never suspected that any one would step up for a stupid science lab way the hell out in the middle of nowhere. You could see the shock of Tony 'Two Tier' Clement in the media scrums. But the word on the Hill is that he is quiet glad it is all over, now his evenings are free again to catch up on the complete Flintstones cartoons that he recently acquired in DVD. For poor Tony, the Flintstones are the kind of scientific documentaries that he can really get his head around!
Of course, just as Kathleen Wynne was making the announcement, Tim 'Chain Gang' Hudak was on the media with how terrible an idea it is, to embarrass the 'Harper Government'. And really, where is Ontario going to get all of a crummy two million dollars!? It is great that poor Tim has a job now. He seems to make Kathleen Wynne look good at every turn, unfortunately for him though, the process seems to be totally one of the the reversible kind! But he will of course survive, conservatives love looking like idiots...
Of course there is a rumor going around Ottawa how the Ontario Premier is going to raise this chump change and a mountain more. It goes like this: So, you want to become a Private, Public Partner of the Ontario people,.....
The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air,and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying "It is done!" Revelation, 16:17, NRSV
Well! Here it is Easter Sunday night, and North Korea has totally fallen out of the vulgar old style television news rotation. No detected launches, no screaming hordes of hermits from the Hermit Kingdom pouring over the border, hurrying to the main objective of the first video arcade that could be captured in South Korea. Why it is so quiet that the Oracle of Ottawa suspects that all the lads and ladies aboard the on station Ohio class submarine more than likely got in the full standard sit down Easter dinner after all.
Ohio Class - Your tax dollars at work...
All the recent events really had the Oracle of Ottawa going for a while. But alas, the appearance, or lack there of, on radar, of that huge flight of B-2 bombers no doubt had the desired effect. Not to mention the many very weird reports from the countryside, so far unconfirmed, of those huge low flying whirring insects that have never been seen before. Perhaps the youngster Kim Jong-un has finally realized that the guys at the United Nations were really serious this time, and the X-Box upgrades will surely be a long time in coming.
It was the footage of Kim Jong-un that was on one of the old style vulgar media news castes that really made the Oracle of Ottawa nervous earlier in the week. From reading the face and the expressions, not to mention the body language of Kim Jon-un, it appeared to the Oracle of Ottawa that the little man was doing what he was told. He didn't look to the Oracle as if he was really in charge. It all rather appeared to the Oracle, from where he was observing, that the old hardliners had totally taken control of their young charge.
But all in, you have to give the hermits of the Hermit Kingdom an E for effort. It takes a lot of balls or really good and hi grade drugs to start threatening the United States of America with a nuclear missile strike! Now getting past that, these people know that there is an American boomer SSBN nuclear powered submarine out there somewhere that could take out every city in North Korea, not just once, but at least twice, depending which boat is on station. Perhaps the hermits of the Hermit Kingdom, were hoping to get into the parking lot business? The glowing green glass type.
Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, strong or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Exodus, 4:11, NSRV
In case all of the "red meat" conservatives from Ducks Ass Alberta to Pembroke Ontario are wondering what is keeping the lord and master of the present Conservative Party Bund up at night, they certainly got their answer today in Question Period. It appears that the Lord has spoken through his soon to be unemployed servant Steve Harper of the tar sands in a most prophetic way, like the Spirit descended upon him.
Justin Trudeau - The next one...
It was all very weird and comedic to the extreme. It all started with the appearance in the House by one Justin Trudeau, dropping in off of the leadership campaign trail to keep up his media profile, by asking a few pointed questions to the chrome domed eminence in person. It all concerned the great conservative party claw back of employment training money to try and save the ever fattening face of the wee banty finance minister, who's wee little dick is presently caught in the electric pencil sharpener of the public glare.
It seems that the Prime Minister referred to the young Justin as the Minister! The House of course went nuts! If that wasn't bad enough, he repeated the mis speak about five seconds later. Now we have all heard of the Freudian slip, but the back to back ones are God himself speaking through a soon to be out of favor vessel. The Oracle of Ottawa has never seen anything like it in all his years of following along.
You can't make this stuff up... Also, did you catch the third Freudian slip at the end, where Harper just about says "I am shorter then him"? LOL!! In what respect are you referring to steve??
No more can governments rely on the passivity of subjects; they must face the activity of the citizens.
Leslie Lipson, The Great Issues Of Politics, (Seventh Edition), p. 179
You certainly know when the micro-dicks of the 'Harper Government' are in the pencil sharpener, don't we dear reader? When it all goes really bad, and the very foundations shudder, don't expect to be able to see that edition of Question Period on CPAC, or even to see it on the usual rerun time at 11:00 pm. on the day of that edition of Question Period! Hell no, the corporate whores that own CPAC for a "public service" are only willing to let you see Question Period on the same day if it just happens to make the MORONS of the 'Harper Government' look good on that particular day. The spin doctors and fart catchers from the Prime Ministers Office are threatening everyone and everything overtime on days like this, and today is not the first time, is it?
Gerry "The Ditz" Ritz, BFL (see below...)
The Oracle of Ottawa warned early and often that the train wreck(s) would be just down the line and approaching at full throttle. Well, here we are! The Oracle of Ottawa warned that when he could not find which high school the Gerry "The Ditz" Ritz , the present short lived Agricultural Minister, attended, it could only mean serious trouble down the road. Still looking for that information. If any member of the House can get him to tell the truth about the XL Foods train wreck, the Oracle of Ottawa would really still like to know which high school and which University Gerry "The Ditz" Ritz graduated from!
It is rapidly becoming apparent to the Oracle of Ottawa thatPathogenic E. coli is a Conservative disease! Every time you get a right wing wack-ball conservative government in power you will see this disease as sure as sunrise! It brought down the Conservative Harris government in the Province of Ontario, with the horrendous E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario that left several people dead and scores of others weakened for the rest of their shortened lives! And guess where the spew of this provincial government ended up? You bet'cha, they all seemed to get a seat and most of the cabinet posts in the 'Harper Government'! This is not bullshit, the Oracle of Ottawa has provided links to cited and very detailed references, take your time, and enjoy.
E.coli at 10,000x
The reason the Oracle of Ottawa is hot about this issue is that from late August and early September past, the Oracle of Ottawa suffered from the worst multiple case of exploding shit that he has ever experienced! God Damn! You fucking western hick monkey Ritz!! As we now know that this latest E.coli Conservative debacle has affected 41 US States. The Oracle of Ottawa was enjoying his usual brand of most excellent velvety Chili from a small cannery somewhere in the North East US, when upon passing the obligatory chili fart, felt a bubbling and then a gurgle, shit, you could literally hear it! Then Holy fuck up Ritz! You better be near a shitter, because you are just going to have a monster explosive sludge "Ritz shit".... You had that to dear reader? It wasn't the "heat" of August after all, was it now? Well that is the effect of cow shit in red meat, hope all you western hick monkeys out west got something to feed all those cows you aren't going to be able to sell, except for dog food to China! Your good friends....
The only thing that will recompense the pain and suffering experienced this summer by the Oracle of Ottawa is that Gerry "The Ditz" Ritz is awarded the degree of BFL, (Backbencher For Life)!! And the Oracle of Ottawa is waiting and expecting the Opposition to continue to root these unqualified and uneducated western hicks from cabinet and if possible from Parliament itself. It isn't "bullying" if it will save some innocent persons life. And while you are that little task, lets get Gerry "The Ditz" Ritz started on his high school diploma....
How ironic that the people that are going to suffer the most are the poor suckers that actually for voted for low life shit such as this! Reap the whirlwind you sowed.....
