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...

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

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

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

Omar Khadr partying in Afganistan....

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evolution, Physics And the Death of Hockey

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
Karl Marx, Grundrisse, p. 31
 
It is a truly great day when a big union pension fund puts the nuts to the corporate overlords. And this indeed was the case of the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan selling or rather dumping there interest in Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment. Yes Rogers and Bell got a hell of a deal for a mere 1.32 billion dollars! At first I didn't get it either. But upon some relaxed thinking about it, it all dawned on in a flash.

Hockey-Greece 500 B.C. Not a Canadian game at all!!

You no doubt have heard in the old style vulgar media of all the hazards of playing hockey today. Concussive brain injury, causing fatal life shortening brain degeneration. The guys at OTPP are just brilliant. They quietly realized after some thinking about thinking that the game of hockey is done for. The equipment has advanced incredibly quickly, the conditioning of the players is just insane and the speed of the game and the average size of the players has increased much faster than the ability of the actual human being to catch up! Hockey has reached the end of the road. Or it will shortly. Some very smart people saw the writing on the Zamboni and pushed the sell button. Just brilliant. The same thing goes for the basketball team. The average player height is now approaching seven freaking feet tall. In another few short years the average height of the players will no doubt be hitting eight feet. What will happen to the game of basket ball then? The scores will be like 300 points a side average and the guy could shoot down to score. The slam dunk will be from the midget era! Well maybe Bell and Rogers will get a risk free rate of return from the real estate. It all won't be a total loss.

The OTPP has done a lot of very smart stuff. Why they have more money than the 'Harper Government'! And they have true "market power", that is they have killed deals and made unlikely ones more than possible. Just imagine if they teamed up with CALPERS and OMERS. Why they could do what the 'Harper Government' couldn't even begin to dream to do.... Create a virtual workers state....

That asset value is now  107.5 billion! Someone knows what they are doing.....