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!
In the sinister human world one individual pole is the tyrant-leader, inscrutable, ruthless, melancholy, and with an insatiable will, who commands loyalty only if he is egocentric enough to represent the collective ego of his followers. The other pole is represented by thepharmakos or sacrificed victim, who has to be killed to strengthen the others. Northrop Frye, Anatomy Of Criticism, p. 148
If you think that people all around the world are shocked by the recent events in Canada, it is but nothing, compared to the shock of the majority of people that are presently living in Canada. We are stuck with an obese, alcoholic, crack smoking mayor of Toronto, our largest city, who seems to be able to do anything he desires, without any fear of being removed from office. Meanwhile in Ottawa, three Senators were destroyed with out the usual due process that once was the right of any and all Canadians.
The Scapegoat
The irony was that these Senators were destroyed, banished, without pay for a period of two years for the so called crime of "false" expense claims, which all in did not even add up to a crummy million dollars! And which the 'Harper Government' accepted, and paid for at the time they were submitted. These three Senators were 'Harper government' appointments. These three Senators raised millions of dollars for the Conservative party Of Canada, with the full approval of Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government'! What is the real meaning of all this?
It is all about the fact that Canada is living under the administration of a budding tyrant. It is all about "under the bus". It is all about the fears of intelligent Canadians being realized. The present Prime Minister of Canada is simply stark raving nuts. Many of us raised the alarms years ago about the dangers of this actor and the coming hidden agenda that he has been working for the last decade.Many prominent people such as Rex Murphy stated in the media that we were under tinfoil hats and that there was nothing to worry about. One can only wonder what will be the ultimate price this actor will pay.
It has been normal practice in Canada to always attempt to salvage wayward individuals. For example, if a Liberal Minister screwed up big time, he was transferred to the back benches, the kinks were hammered out, the ship righted, and then returned to his/her formal position of dignity, or a reasonable facsimile there of. But upon the advent of the 'Harper Government' right wing revolution, every thing started to take a much more darker and sinister aspect. Failure of any degree was no longer redeemable. It was under the bus. Total destruction, with no chance of any redemption, which is totally out of character for a Judeau- Christian democratic Country.
At first these "under the bus" virtual executions were few and far between. Then they started to happen in single cases, but now, much closer together and frequently. Of course there is a grave price for these one off executions. Soon there are so many bodies under the ideological bus that the wheels of said bus will no longer touch the ground, even though it is full, someone is at the wheel steering and the wheels are spinning with the pedal to the floor. How pathological is this? And what is the future to hold? The Oracle of Ottawa will now look out ahead and tell you Dear Reader.
The present 'Harper Government' is very much like a seriously dangerous serial criminal, that is never satisfied for long at the demise of its latest victim. The thrill must be reenacted at ever closer intervals, and at some point one victim at a time will no longer be enough. We are presently at the time of this writing past that point. The next executions will consist of an even larger group of Senators and members of the House that spoke out against the earlier "criminal acts". This will continue until it is stopped....
Some systems have no equilibrium states, while others have many. These matters depend upon the nature of the system. John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice, p. 457
Unfortunately though, it appears that it is all going to be Rob Ford's blood! Some days you just can't prepare yourself for the events that are fated to unfold. It was all just breaking on the old vulgar media of television around lunchtime. The Oracle of Ottawa was needless to say, totally floored. The Oracle of Ottawa was sure that the powerful friends of Rob Ford had made that embarrassing tape vanish forever. To find a deleted file on a hard drive is somewhat akin to finding a needle in a haystack, especially if you know anything about file allocation tables and such like. Someone must have really wanted the mayors hide very badly.
Rob Ford - Starting to feel the heat?
The timing of the announcement proves that there is a God, and he has a very long and pointy finger, attached to a very long arm. The irony of the timing of the event is just too much for the Oracle of Ottawa to enjoy at all once. What with the Senate expense scandal here in Ottawa and the start of the Conservative Party convention out in Calgary today, it was just too much irony for the Oracle to absorb all at once. And the real strangeness is that all the events are connected in many more ways than one, if you ponder it all in the big picture.
It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that the conservative trifecta will never be achieved. It will be very fortunate indeed if the present conservative forces in power at the time of this writing make it to their next election dates. It was only two years ago that they all but seemed invincible to gods and mere men...brace yourself Dear Reader, this is just the beginning, there is so much more to come.
The greatest evil has already come about, when there are poor men to be defended, and rich men to be restrained. Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse On Political Economy
And so it goes... Question Period was an utter riot again today, as the Prime Minister, Steve Harper of the hapless 'Harper Government' got plowed like a donkey on a slave galley by Thomas Mulcair. It was a hoot, as the ole Steve Harper, was actually seen to be reeling and tottering in his place. Meanwhile down the hall on the Hill, in the Senate Chamber, Senator Mike Duffy had them all hanging on every word, and the possibility of all the other words to come. The Senator is like a nuclear ballistic missile submarine, with many missiles to launch, and all of them with multiple independent reentry vehicles.
Mike Duffy-A Great Canadian!!
Mike Duffy has been a journalist for a hell of a long time. The Oracle cannot find out which high school the vertically challenged Senator graduated from. And he does not have a degree from Gate Keeper U (i.e. Queens University). It has been a hell of a run on just grade nine! There is a joke in Ottawa going around about him being the last journalist to leave Vietnam at the fall of Saigon in 1975. The story goes that the CBC hoped that they had luckily lost him, but accepted him back when the Vietnamese made a huge cash offer to take him back! The Vietnamese Diplomat stated that the Vietnamese had already survived the French, the Americans, and even the communists would be a piece of cake, but there was no way that Vietnam could survive Mike Duffy! Take the money and him PLEASE!
Now the Oracle of Ottawa does not agree with the Senators politics and who he hangs out with. But the Oracle of Ottawa is really pissed that some young punk in short pants at the Prime Ministers Office took him for a rube that could be easily screwed over. All the expenses that the Senator claimed were accepted and paid, and pre cleared by the Senator himself with the ethics commissioner! It is quite clear to the Oracle of Ottawa that Senator Mike Duffy had been set up to create a phony constitutional crisis that would assist the 'Harper Government' getting rid of the pesky Senate by end running the Canadian Constitution! It has certainly been shown in recent days that the Canadian Senate seems to work very well, no matter who you seem to put in it. It sure is weird how Canada can just happen to you, isn't it?
There hasn't been a spectacle like this in Ottawa in my living memory. CBC political coverage ratings are going through the roof. The public galleries in the House of Commons are full for Question Period and have been for days! Even the public gallery in the Senate has been standing room only for the last couple of days, with a long line being turned away! Even the most seasoned old media print journalists have never seen that before! Senator Mike Duffy has done what no one in recent Canadian history has been able to do, and that is to get the public engaged and interested on what is actually going on in this Great and Impossible Country. When the history books are written in the future this will be seen as Mike Duffy's greatest gift...
The economy of a society is in equilibrium if and only if all the persons participating in the economy are in equilibrium. Edmund S. Phelps, Political Economy - An Introductory Text, p. 65
It really all started early this morning in Toronto, Ontario. Hundreds of cops in swat and riot gear rose up before sunrise to serve warrants not just on individuals, but rather whole apartment buildings! And the haul was huge! Why, on the vulgar old style media CBC TV evening news it was mentioned that the drug haul alone was worth over three million bucks! And it was mentioned that several fair weather friends of the present mayor of Toronto were also caught up in the drag net.
Canadian Senate - Still with us...
Later the chief of police of the fine city of Toronto would not confirm or deny that a certain video was found on a certain cell phone that has at the time of this writing has a $200,000 bounty on it from a social media website in the USA. But the Oracle of Ottawa could tell that the flat footed chief was all but bursting with gotcha and good. The Oracle of Ottawa will venture a very educated guess that a certain in office mayor is in some very deep shit. And of course the good old CBC had footage of the very shaken and reeling Mayor Ford. The Oracle of Ottawa can not help but think there is in Ottawa one very nervous Finance Minister at the time of this writing.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Europe, Steve Harper, of the 'Harper Government' was getting a very rough ride indeed. The questions of the Senate scandal back home kept coming up like an uncooked burger on a really bad BBQ circuit stop somewhere in Alberta. Even his "good friend" hosts were taking shots at him, no doubt for the photo op and North American exposure it would surely bring. When the doomed man landed in Paris it all seemed to take a very large step.
Arthur Porter IV - Taking a Canadian summer trip...
Senator Wallin then showed up on the CBC evening news and spilled her guts. She confirmed the Oracle of Ottawa's earlier guess that she is one of the Senators set up by the Prime Ministers Office to create a diversion to help the 'Harper Government' gain critical mass of the public opinion to abolish the Senate of Canada, but alas, it seems that the old hands are very strong, seasoned and wiry street fighters. During Question Period earlier today, you could see that the "Harper Government' is in total diss-array, confusion and panic. The channel knob has completely fallen off of the TV of the Canadian public, and there isn't any conservative smart enough to fix it on his own.
Then there was that short blip from the CBC social desk, announcing that Mr. and Mrs. Porter IV have agreed to accept an all expense paid summer vacation in Canada, that could last for many years indeed, pending the outcome of the money laundering and other charges. My goodness when the hole starts to cave in and another bigger shovel just seems to make no difference, you know it all but over.
The NDP is really getting close to another big scandal concerning that nasty NSA program called PRISM that seems to be hooked up to Canada (!) somehow or another. The Defense Minister is standing by his claim that there is no spying on Canadian citizens by Canadians. The Opposition knows there is something wrong here and they are right. It is all quite simple, when the Americans want to wire tap an American citizen they certainly do stick to the letter of the law and do not listen in, in the United States. They simply flip a switch and the call is instantly routed to Canada! Where it is now a foreigner talking on the telephone! When Canada wants to drop in on your calls here in Canada the process works in reverse! No laws are broken and the respective governments are free to run rough shod over your civil rights and liberties. Pretty smooth or what?
Well Dear Reader, it was a hell of week in old Ottawa, once known as Bytown, when it was run and owned by the timber barons. The illusion, or rather the delusion, that government at any level can be run as a public relations exercise by spin doctors and fart catchers has all but crashed and burned and the fire of the wreckage still burns.
It all started during the dinner hour earlier in the week when the Oracle of Ottawa's old style vulgar media supper news broke to "breaking news" and announced that Gentleman Jim Watson had folded and thrown in the towel on the insane, but much treasured idea, of a downtown casino in Ottawa! We were all duly informed that the head Burg(h)er of the City of Ottawa had sent off his letter to the Ontario Gaming Commission to announce that the new casino will only be allowed at the present site of the Rideau Carleton Race Track, where the Oracle of Ottawa reasoned many months ago was the only logical choice. No doubt one of the Mayors unpaid contractor interns probably read the Oracle of Ottawa's blog and realized that any other plan was indeed hopeless. The trial balloon to get the site beside the Canadian War Museum did not fly very well at all with the knuckle dragging Conservatives from the Prime Ministers Office. The dream died.
The Senate, that Harper wanted to abolish,
is going to abolish Harper!!
Meanwhile the encampment of the outta town Conservatives down on Wellington Street suffered many rattling death blows, so much so that many movers have been called and reserved for sometime in the near future. The "state broadcaster" the great Mother ship of the CBC is pulling out only one or two stops in the fight for its life. The stories are breaking daily and the slip of secret revenge dumps in thick envelopes are turning into a flood at all the media outlets in Ottawa. It seems to the Oracle of Ottawa that all the people from under the bus have risen up. The Oracle of Ottawa will admit freely that he is enjoying every moment of the slow motion train wreck. The spin is clashing and the talking points are causing more trouble than the effort to write them, that at present, goes on late into the night, to no avail.
Brent Rathgeber a back bench sock puppet of the 'Harper Government' has finally sickened of the little jackie bastards in short pants from the Prime Ministers Office and has resigned from the Conservative Party of Canada! The Oracle of Ottawa strongly suspects that the trickle will soon turn into a flood. Soon the so called majority will be under numerical threat as the Oracle of Ottawa predicted the day after the last election. It is not long now Dear Reader, when the social swirl of Ottawa will return to its grandeur that is only known when the leftist elites of the Liberal Party of Canada are strongly in control, which is their destiny. Why the Oracle of Ottawa has booked his fitting for his formals that will be greatly in use and demand again after this period of Canada's darkest age....
Meanwhile it is another day at Ottawa City Hall of the dying administration of Gentleman Jim and his Burg(h)ers... Someone E-mail the media! LOL!!
I know that the entire design was such, that it would be almost impossible, unless if you got a coalition of forty or fifty people to work together, from two or three different agencies, to be able to swing a process like that. Arthur Porter IV, Bahamas, NB12 News Interview, March - 04 - 2013
The good doctor at the time of this interview for the local Bahamian audience of innocent rubes was no doubt very confident that they did not know of the ongoing Charbonneau Commission in the province of Quebec. Where by at the time of this interview it was becoming very clear that there was and is indeed a coalition of more than forty or fifty people from more than two or three agencies that could swing corruption of most any magnitude! You just can't make this stuff up.
Steve Vader - Hanging by a thread?
Now at the time of this writing the good doctor is adjusting to somewhat new accommodations in a Panama prison. When his name was again mentioned in the House today in Question Period, the Minister for Public Safety left the distinct impression with the Oracle of Ottawa that it would be very handy indeed if the good doctor could possibly expire from his ailments in a timely manner. Yes indeed Dear Reader, there seems to something that the 'Harper Government' worries about much more than a couple of numerically challenged old fart Senators dipping into the petty cash jar.
The Oracle of Ottawa has every confidence that the road ahead for the erstwhile doctor will be much smoother and infinitely more comfortable in a nice low security cell in Quebec. And no doubt time off for his full cooperation will soon start to make very clear sense. Imagine the songs that will be sung and the tales that will be told! What names will come up? What new earth tremors will rattle through Quebec? When this happens it will no doubt be curtains and the veritable stake through the heart of the 'Harper Government'.
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...
Perhaps we may not wish to harm men, but shall not want to have any more to do with them than we can help. Immanuel Kant, Theory And Practice, Chapter III
It was anything but shit and giggles in the House of Commons today Dear Reader. The usual little Chinese cheerleader that sits directly behind Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government' did not have her happy peasant face on as per routine. Pierre "Little Polly" Poilievre at the ripe old age of 33 years is starting to turn grey, and it is already even visible through his hair cum. The Oracle of Ottawa figures that soon his hair will be as white as the party whips, who at the time of this writing, is over eighty years old.
Steve Vader - Circles the bowl...
Poor Little Polly knows that his bullshit yapping during the last few weeks in the defense of the recently jettisoned Nigel S. Wright and the erstwhile Senators were in reality the making of the leading attack ads that the Liberals will be getting a ton of mileage out of in the next general election. The Oracle of Ottawa is certain that the young Ryan Keon has been recently in his garage cleaning off his campaign signs. The Oracle of Ottawa knows that the little Straussian is slipping his mental clutch plates when he refers to Democracy Watch as a partisan organization!
Meanwhile, members of the local vulgar TV media are making pieces whereby they are chasing the psychotic Nigel through the streets of the Glebe at 4:00 a.m.! It is all so bizarre! It must be dawning on him about now that his meteoric trip to the top is all but in, over and done. Soon, no doubt, he will have to report to his other masters. The Oracle of Ottawa suggests that Nigel just ponder what Jesus would have felt, sans the nails of course. But of course there is the upside, at least he won't have to wait eight weeks for his first unemployment check.
Now the Oracle of Ottawa must relate that the Prime Minister did not get man handled in the House today as per the stories of the vulgar media, it was a lot worse. He was stomped and bitch slapped like a crack head whore that was a quarter short for her last rock. It was all quite a spectacle that the Oracle of Ottawa quite enjoyed. And the gayest pink tie that the Oracle has ever seen in recent memory didn't help one bit.
Surely it was the water? After scurrying across the tundra like a rat to South America at the first breaking of his downfall scandal, his most grey eminence of the 'Harper Government' has not yet fully recovered to face the music in the House. Could it be jet lag, or the realization that there is actually no defense? And what is that disinformation in the vulgar media that states the Prime Minister never makes Question periods on Monday? He always makes Question Period on Monday's! It is the Fridays that he never shows up. The Oracle of Ottawa knows this because he watches them all.
Steve Vader readies for the high jump...
Why it seems like only yesterday that the right wing revolution was set to take over all of Canada for all time, well, according to Preston Manning anyway. Then there was the cocky picnic video at Ford Fest in Toronto, where by the Conservative hat trick was boasted to be soon accomplished. And then from there it all started to gradually go down hill, slowly at first, but then with a great and sickening increase in speed, that was hardly measurable.
The underhanded dirty tricks squad out of the Prime Ministers Office could seem to lay anyone to waste, who provided any question or even the hint of opposition. But unforeseen, people in central Canada get wise to this very quickly, a very strong and potent backlash literally created itself. Soon things started to go wrong.
The highly detailed Senate destruction plan was all so carefully planned. The right and certain people were appointed with the full knowledge and assistance that would make certain their screw ups. But some how the pesky low life has proven to be a very nasty opponent at the end of the day. It is all pretty humiliating at the height of your power, to realize that a spud headed skidmark is going to bring you to total destruction.
And then things get even worse, you find out that your good friends in Toronto are in reality nothing but a bunch of drug dealing crack smoking thugs, that have left a long paper and video trail. And then when you think it can't get any more worse, an old screw up that you thought for sure had buried out of the way is picked up in Panama, doing some laundry at the local banks. For a man with terminal lung cancer, Mr. Porter is sure looking pretty good...
What ever could the bond underwriters and credit raters think of Canada and Toronto now? Can we really think that we will get that same AAA credit rating after the events of these days in May? Would you loan money to a city run by a crackhead? Would you buy a bond issue of a nation state that is run by a cabinet that contains grade school drop-outs and takes it's orders from agents of secret societies?
'Harper Government' - Just about...
Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government' thought it would all be such an easy walk through the garden. After all, Canadians don't really care about such things. Why the leftist elites couldn't care less. Well Dear Reader, if you saw the zoo that was called Question period today, the 'Harper Government' can disavow themselves of such delusions in the future. The diehard talking heads pandering for the 'Harper Government' just can't seem to talk this one down. The harder they pedal, the worse the said and assorted scandals get. Like the Oracle of Ottawa has observed in previous postings, it is all like watching a herd of sheep crossing a mine field. And the world looks on with a horrid fascination, that they cannot wrench their gaze from.
The Oracle of Ottawa wonders what Preston Manning thinks of his Canadian right wing revolution now? The lights at the Preston Manning Center For Democracy must be burning late into the evening, with the feverish running of focus groups ordered by the high priests of conservative purity out of Duck's Ass, Alberta. The operating theater has been shut down that provided the new conservative candidates with their lobotomies, until further notice. It all started out with such promise. The strong conservative majority was stolen, nothing lay in the way to converting Canada into a right wing police state, the Bilderberg Group goal of goals. What could go wrong?
It has been said by many writers more awesome than the Oracle of Ottawa that all revolutions eat their own. In Canada we are only just past the entre, and the knuckle draggers are all starting to check out their neighbours. Guys like Jason Kenny, John Baird, and James Moore must be starting to get nervous. In their present bulky nervous states, they would look great on a platter with garnish and an apple in their mouths.
But at the end of the day you can always blame the party whip, The Oracle of Ottawa gives him thirty days max.
He has the instincts of a dung beetle. No living politician can match his talent for soiling himself in public. Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p. 228
You know when Steve Harper is lying. His hands appear above his waist. Although the Oracle of Ottawa is not a spin doctor or fart catcher, he does know enough about the communication skills to know that what the erstwhile Prime Minister said today in his low rent South American news conference was the worst possible course to take. At the rate he is going there will shortly be no more candidates to put under the bus. And of course there will be no more exploitable candidates coming forward in this lifetime.
Relax - The Senate will always be here...
Meanwhile back in Ottawa during Question Period today, John Baird was crushed and humiliated by the young Justin Trudeau, when he provided and tabled to the Conservative government, documents that they claimed they did not know existed! And the sad thing is they were not lying on this one. The piss and vinegar of the so called pit bull John Baird is just about at the breaking point. He is finally realizing that he is the fall guy. The Prime Minister took all his western buddies on the plane and left the easterners to spin in the dark. The voice of the bum boy minister is falling to the lowest register, the Liberals will be in for the final kill every day from now on.
John Baird - hapless fall boy....
The media has been spurned and dissed one too many times by the knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, social darwinist skid marks. That old Troskyite Terry Milewski is just putting the nuts to the 'Harper Government' and the Oracle of Ottawa is certainly enjoying seeing his tax dollars at work. And to see them twist in the light, is totally beyond words of description. Yes, today the 'Harper Government' was fed to the wolves, and the wolves puked...
It also appears today that one Senator Mike "The Puffster" Duffy has regrouped, and you can see his counter attack forming between the words. The little spud head knows that the box containing his Order of Canada is nailed and double welded shut for ever. The Oracle of Ottawa wonders late into the night what dirty goods he possibly has on the 'Harper Government' that he can get it to contort on command. The Oracle of Ottawa is sure that it is enough to bring down the 'Harper Government' dead.
How is that the Senate of Canada has existed since 1867, with barley a blip in over a century and as soon as the hick 'Harper Government' gets its sticky hands on the levers of power, the whole place explodes in scandal? But what can you expect when you appoint a high school drop out, sad victim as the Leader of The Government in The Senate? As the Oracle of Ottawa has stated many times in this blog, the best way to improve the Senate is to appoint the best people you can possibly find to it!
But to all Canadians that care about such things,they know that when the young Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister, the proper high property values will again return to the Chamber of Sober Second Thought.
Tonight Ottawa is a stinking roiling mess of shocked silence. You know it is worse than bad when in today's Question Period, John Baird, the bum boy of Foreign Affairs, was asking what time it was near the end of Question Period! Yes indeed, the sweat of the erstwhile Straussian, was dripping through the fat of his worthless body. Much to the Oracle of Ottawas surprise, Steve Harper did not stick around to hear the music play. He and his closet cronies scrambled to the jet that would remove them to somewhere in South America like a pack of rats scurrying across the tundra.
The very quantum fabric is rent..
Although the talking heads of the old vulgar media are playing this as a crisis, you ain't heard nothing yet Dear Reader. At some point the connection of the Prime Ministers Office to the Bilderberg Group is going to come out. When that finally drops, it will be a royal scandal. When all the red meat, grass roots, conservatives find out that the 'Harper Government' is just a mere puppet for a secret society, that will be a scandal. Many old hands in Ottawa tonight are wondering about the present forward motion of Preston Manning's right wing revolution. It seems that the remainder of the Laurentian consensus has more life than the right wing wacko politico's thought.
But the saddest and yet most enjoyable events of the day were watching the shocked reactions of the green as grass conservatives, that thought Steve was better than all that, react. Some of them are just about sick to death. Wait for it. They are now discovering that their whole lives and political careers are nothing but a joke and a lie. The Oracle of Ottawa loves watching hicks hit the wall at a hundred miles an hour, and noting the splatter pattern.
In the near future you will soon see that some faces will be absent, and will not return. The names will shock you Dear Reader. The friends will desert, no one will come. Who could have imagined that the whole thing would be brought down by a spud headed skidmark from Prince Edward Island? Soon Marjory LeBreton will again be a high school drop out housewife in Barfhaven, free to spend less and live better at the local Wal-Mart, were she and John Baird will have coffee, with Little Polly Poilievre, Well at least on the days when they don't have certain appearances to make....
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...
Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility or softness; which taketh an honest mind prisoner. Sir Francis Bacon, Essays, Essay XIII, Of Goodness, And Goodness Of Nature.
The one good thing about blogging is that you can't run out of paper! The Oracle of Ottawa first heard the news just before lunchtime his time. The Oracle, was to say the least, totally agog. The Oracle of Ottawa did not not have to refer to Wikipedia or any other reference source to know that Mark Carney would be the first foreigner in the Bank of England's history. Now, the Oracle of Ottawa had no idea how bad things must be in England, that they had to recruit an obscure colonial from the deepest back woods of Canada, ten times more remote than Duck's Ass, Alberta! But all those rumors of the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminatti and/or the New World Order are and have been surely incorrect? Haven't they?
Mark Carney - Relax! It ain't gonna' happen...
Now the Oracle of Ottawa will not be unhappy in the least to see the back of Mark Carney receding away from the presence of the Oracle of Ottawa and Canada. What ever he is, he is not a Central Banker. Central Bankers are seldom seen and never, never, heard. Yes he is smart and he is pretty. He is the idiot savant of noughts and ciphers. The ethics thing I am afraid to report, is still a work in progress, so to speak. For those that know of such things, Mark Carney climbed very high, very fast, in the employ of Goldman Sachs the monster predator bank of the world. Why it was once rumored and reported that he was one of the last to make "partner" in the bank just before the Initial Public Offering, when the bank reverted from the old partnership ownership structure, to its present corporate structure. Mark Carney must be worth g'zillions!
Yet when he was appointed as Governor of The Bank of Canada, there was no report that the Oracle of Ottawa could find about how much those shares and options were cashed out for. And the reason that there was no report was that the shares and ownership in said bank are still being retained and in fact the said individual is ipso-facto, still an owner and employee(?) of afore mentioned bank. This to the Oracle of Ottawa was and is and will always be totally unacceptable! And the taxpayers of the United Kingdom certainly, under no circumstances, should accept it either.
Lord Black - Totally knows the ropes...
This was all bad enough, but a ways in to his term as Bank of Canada Governor, he just decides to accept another job as head of the International Financial Stability Board! The Oracle of Ottawa strongly made many noises that this move was in direct contravention of the Bank of Canada Act! And the other fact that the Oracle of Ottawa's tax dollars are to pay for his central banker, not to have his central banker taking care of all the other central banks (for Goldman Sachs?). The Oracle of Ottawa is more than glad to see the back of this so called "rock star". Mark Carney is certainly no John Maynard Keynes!
The greatest tragedy and irony of this situation is the facts. England was the birth place of capitalism and economics as we know it. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx(!), William Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and John Maynard Keynes were all from or life time residents of England! How is that that the birthplace of capitalism and economics can not today have one candidate for the position of the Central Banker of the Bank of England! How bad are things in England really? How poor is the present right wing wacko government, and how bankrupt is it that they cannot find an Englishman to run their own Central Bank, the second oldest one in the world, and the eighth oldest bank in existence today? And the Oracle of Ottawa thought Canada had problems, but nothing in the league of the present British distress apparently.
Now the Oracle of Ottawa will not just bitch and whine. The Oracle of Ottawa will provide the old home country with a candidate perfect for the seamy greasy world of today. And yes he is a British citizen, and as luck would just so have it, a present member of the House of Lords! Now this suggestion is in the long tradition of putting a fox in charge of the hen house so to speak. There are great examples from the past. Joe Kennedy, and Timothy Geitner to name but a few. And my candidate knows how it all works, the dirty seamy underside, and has even been abandoned by these nefarious elements of once such good friends. My candidate? Why none other than the The Lord Black of Crossharbour...He is quite free at the present time, someone should ring him.
The Oracle of Ottawa can certainly feel for this gentleman. He has it all figured out and the rest of the United Kingdom should sit back and think it out, and you will at some point come to the same conclusion! Again how can the land that gave birth to capitalism as we know it and the art and science of economics not find a suitable candidate of and in the fair green Isles?
Not even the Oracle of Ottawa got a sniff of this one coming. But there you go. But it is obvious to the Oracle of Ottawa that it was the Private Public Partnerships that did him in. The corporate whores can under no circumstances ever be allowed into the hen-house of government as pals. And the events of the very recent past are total proof of this. Andrea Horvath, for crying out loud, take note!
Dalton McGuinty - done in by PPP
The Oracle of Ottawa stated his sneak'in suspicions around the time of the onset of the electric smart meters. Something that was not needed and will never pay for them selves. But before that and now it was a hell of run for the mighty Dalton. He ended up being the sixth longest serving premier in Ontario history. Tim Hudak will never touch that, not even in his wildest dreams! But Andrea Horvath could beat that, if she acts like a cross between Hurricane Hazel and Joseph Stalin! And that is the way you have to conduct government. The corporate whores are never to be trusted. You must have them and keep them on there knees begging, or else you will be another Dalton.
Now the Oracle is free of the ties of the past. He can now vote for the NDP and like it. I figure that Andrea Horvath is the Hurricane Hazel of Ontario, and damn it that is what we really really need. If an old women of 91 years can get elected 12 times in a row and make politics look easy, it must be then as easy as that. The Oracle of Ottawa can only hope that some one has learned a lesson from this sad debacle....
Meanwhile in the corporate bunker - somewhere in downtown Toronto, the corporate over whores are not taking the news very well....
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place. Peter Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 640
Well it was another day that the Oracle of Ottawa was gratefully thanking his Maker that he was retired! There will be no two and a half hour commute for the Oracle of Ottawa, for endless weeks on end. Hasn't amalgamation been wonderful? Why look at the money you are saving! How could something like this even happen? Well, we will get into that...
Mohr's Circle - Too much information?
First of all let us clear up one large detail. What actually happened when that car drove into that large hole in the middle of Highway 174 was not a sinkhole! What actually happened was a structural failure. Big difference. The Oracle of Ottawa has provided a reference so that you can make an intelligent decision. Old school civil engineers would also remind you that a structural failure is also known as a "whole lot of law suites"!! But not to worry, the City of Ottawa doesn't have any of those pesky old school engineers left. They have all since been dismissed since amalgamation. Although they were always right, no one "liked them".
And who was that pathetic "pepsi" that was calling himself director of infrastructure? Was Jean-Guy a real engineer? I mean one that is presently in good standing with the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario? Did his story sound true to you dear tax payer? No? Sure sounded thin and made up off the cuff at the last moment to the Oracle of Ottawa. Why don't you, dear taxpayer, call 311 and find out for yourself? Maybe the Mayors office could tell you all the required information...or not. And what about that pathetic Counsellor Bob "Low Rent" Monette? I am sure at the next municipal election those murderous feelings of frustration that you experienced today will come back very clearly...vote accordingly.
Well in the days of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa - Carleton something like this would have never happened. Back in the olden days before amalgamation the lads from RMOC actually checked over all and every one of these structures more than once a year! Do you think that is being done today? Are you sure? Why don't you call 311 and ask... And especially this huge storm drain culvert that opened up on Highway 174... You could actually walk upright in this mother! You know it is huge when the car has actually, at the time of this writing, not yet been found! That is one Mother of a culvert!! Do ya think??
The top of the culvert was 2.5 metres under the roadway. If you look at the video below you will see that there is no bedding at all. They just literally paved over the dirt in 1975. But back in 1975 Orleans was all but and still a rural community. The Ottawa Citizen has all the details, just Google it and read carefully, all very interesting. Now in 2012, it is a major part of Ottawa. The traffic on this roadway has increased exponentially since 1975, and you don't need the Oracle of Ottawa to describe the heavy truck traffic do you? Didn't think so...
For all of you stakeholders, that actually have the required professional qualifications for your job, you know what a Mohr Circle is. And you of course will have no problem visualizing all those heavy truck tires as a bunch of rolling Mohr Circles... transmitting very high jolts of load that just hammered the top of that, all but unprotected, culvert. Along with all those years of steady but sure salt seepage, the sucker finally packed in and failed. When you think about it, it is amazing it lasted this long... What!? Too much information?
If you thought today was bad dear stakeholder, you ain't seen nothing yet! You will be living in your crawling car for many weeks to come. And since you are nothing but a part of the New World Orders obedient and frightened workforce you will bitch but you won't dare make a peep that anyone else will hear, will you? You wouldn't dare start and or join a class action law suite would you? Didn't think so. God's Speed skid....
This will be awesome for tourism, wont it? Look at all the money the City saved....
As predicted in earlier posts the Oracle of Ottawa has got it right and early again. Robo-gate continues to unfold. It is the 'Harper Government' version of Nixon's Watergate! Unlike Nixon who just attempted to break into one isolated place, the 'Harper Government' or the minions thereof went very many degrees better than that. Through the alleged use of massive robot phone dialers, big, ugly, right wing government imposed themselves as officials of Elections Canada. Sending the gullible to polling stations hither and yawn that of course did not even exist. Many narrow races were decided in the 'Harper Government' favor.
Wanted: Pierre Poutine - off white complexion
and very greasy
One character has already reached for the top of the bucket of swill and will not go away. The name Pierre Poutine just keeps being mentioned. Watergate had Deep Throat and Robo-gate has Pierre Poutine! The lineup is already starting to gel. At least Richard Nixon had guys like E. Howard Hunt and John Dean. The 'Harper Government' has? Yeah... They are so fucked, aren't they?
There's is no kill switch on awesome. Dilbert, Daily Strip, February 11, 2012
The Oracle of Ottawa watch's Question Period everyday. And on a Friday you don't expect the Opposition to lob a "live one" on to the government just before the week end. Why, that is simply not sporting at all, is it? It seems to the Oracle of Ottawa that the NDP is finally getting the knack. It was all totally unexpected. Don Davies stood to his seat and asked a question of the Lackey of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the person of one Deepak Obhrai, the sanest South East Asian of the Tory Bund, about the presently leaking truth, tearing around Ottawa about the real story of the great Canadian navy spy caper. You know, that matter of the forty year old navy subby, that has been recently arrested for something, concerning something secret.
'Harper Government' - State Security
The Oracle of Ottawa told you his dear readers, that the whole case just didn't smell right at all. And it turns out that the Oracle of Ottawa has hit it out of the park again! The whole case just didn't have the Russian finger prints on it at all! Again, ask yourself, why would the Russians risk an international incident for such low level fry? It just didn't add up, and it was confirmed on Friday last.
The truth of the seedy matter is that the Russians had nothing at all to do with it. It seems that in the panic, someone in someones office knew that the Russians were swapping out four members to be home in time for Russian Orthodox Christmas. Someone went to the Russian Ambassador to Canada and ask him to play along! With all the aplomb and protocol of very seasoned diplomatic hands, what could the Russian Ambassador do? But as time progressed and no real solution came up, the 'Harper Government' started to write the Russians off as a bunch of chumps! Big, stupid mistake! The Russian Ambassador, feeling his honor somewhat imposed upon is now discreetly allowing the truth of the matter out to the local vulgar media.
You know that is was all true with the answer that the 'Harper Government' supplied through old Deepak; "This matter relates to national security, I have no further comment, thank you..." ! That is the same as saying "Mr. Speaker, I have been totally exposed, and I am fuck'in dead in the water (D.I.W.), thank you Mr. Speaker..". So if it isn't the Russians, who the hell is it? Well, the Oracle of Ottawa has his coin on the Peoples Republic of China. What? Did I guess too good?
Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances. Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead, p. 115
If Peter MacKay had as much dick in his pants as he has stuck in the center of his face he really would be the cosmopolitan jet setting Liberal that he always dreamed he should be. You know, just like that avant garde stud about town, just like his hero of his heart of hearts, Pierre Elliot Trudeau! But alas, the good minister comes from a Conservative political family dynasty, who at the merger with the dark force of the new Conservative Party of Canada , sold out all his future dreams of studdom! If he had been true to himself, why, he would still be doing "Belinda" or the love of his life "Condi"! Ah..Condi! But the good minister hails from Nova Scotia, and believe the Oracle of Ottawa, there are still severe"limits" in Nova Scotia.
Fuck it all Peter - It's never too late...
The only crime that Peter 'The Helo' really is guilty of is looking better than his boss Steve! And as the Oracle of Ottawa predicted just after the election, don't worry about a mere 11 seat majority! Why the holiday season has not even started yet and Peter Goldring has made the the great majority smaller by one. So now the majority is 10. With Peter MacKays resignation from caucus to sit as in independent, the majority will be down to 9! And the first session of the 41st Parliament is not nearly done yet! Well...
But the nut of the whole story is; who gave up Peter 'The Helo' MacKay? The Oracle of Ottawa has the answer. And you dear reader can check it out. Just go to CPAC and find the first Question Period video stream of when this said "scandal" broke. Look who is sitting to the right of Peter as the first bombshell question blew the whole thing open. Did you catch that power hard on smirk? Jesus, it makes the Oracle of Ottawa's skin crawl just to think of it, let alone watch it again... Who was that guy? Why it was old "Steve"! Goddamn it, the Afganistan mission is over and I don't need this pretty jerk off showing me up any more!!
[[Classified: Your Eyes Only!! cockpit transcription, Somewhere in deepest Newfoundland.]]
Pilot: Sweet thunder'in Jesus which shack is he in? Goddamn it, there at least five camps that I can see from here! Co-Pilot: Why don't we turn on the FLIR (Forward Looking Infra Red) and home in on that cock on his face that he calls a nose? (laughter...) Pilot: Fuck it! It's worth a try. Sar Tech! Flash up the FLIR! (more laughter...) Sar Tech: Hot contact Sir! Five degrees to Port. About a mile and a half... (uncontrolled laughter...) Pilot: Son of bitch! There he is! Co-Pilot: Sar Tech! Prepare the gimp basket! And you are going down with it! Sar Tech: Gee whiz Sir! Can't he ride the rope like a man? Pilot: Stop your killing me... Make sure you tuck him in proper...(hysterical laughter...unintelligible...)
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