Every nation gets the government it deserves. Joseph de Maistre, Letter 76, on the topic of Russia's new constitutional laws (27 August 1811); published in ''Lettres et Opuscules
How far gone is a society that will elect a single unwed mother that allows herself to stand in a Canadian Federal Election while presently employed as a serving wench at a University pub in Ottawa, that lives in the Province of Quebec? (And can't even speak French....) And even worse, does not even show her face in the riding she signed up to run in? And even worse, goes to skanky Las Vegas for a holiday during the campaign? And even worse, actually freak'in wins the seat!! Well check out Ruth Ellen "Vegas" Brosseau....
First we take Ottawa...
Do we even deserve to be a sovereign nation? Do you realize the the Americans could take over this "country" in less than 90 minutes? It would only require three operations carried out at the same time... An Airborne drop on the City of Ottawa, 101st Airborne Division natch...with a Seal Team 6 pop out from the United States Embassy to secure the head(s) on Sussex Drive and various locations in Rockliffe Park... (i.e. the central bank governor....) A heavy armor attack across the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, with another Airborne drop at the Tar Sands Up-graders somewhere around Edmonton Alberta. All over, all gone, forever. We will be like Peurto-Rico. Who would stop them? Who would blame them? We have demonstrated we are not up for it....
What sort of political party would allow such a fiasco to happen? What sort of people are so brainless and dick-less to fall for a scam such as this? I have it down to the screwed-up social safety net. With universal health-care every one can get all the pills they want. Especially the welfare skidmarks and the rag ass whining seniors that can no longer afford to eat properly, so they eat pills and stay high 24/7! Oxyconton, prozac, and Kraft Dinner! This in no way will affect your judgement!!
Jack Layton should do the right thing and damn quick! Within twenty four hours he should appear on the CBC with a statement that he has accepted the resignation of Ms. Vegas effective yesterday! There will be a by-election in the riding of Berthier-Maskinonge as soon as possible as per the regulations of Elections Canada. And an apology to the Canadian people would be a touch of class and gravely in order. (MORON!!)
This is the commercial that got the NDP 103 seats... How low do you have to go?
If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living. Plato, Apology, Section 38
The Canadian House of Commons contains 308 seats, to rule by majority requires 155 seats. On Monday May 02, 2011 the Conservatives won a "majority " by winning 167 seats. That is only a 12 seat "majority". Steve Harper is no John G. Deifenbaker ! And hardly a Laurier, or a Pierre Elliot Trudeau, or a Jean Chreitin! The next Canadian Federal Election is October 19, 2015. How many seats over 155 do you think the great majority will be then?
Plato; Back to the basics...
The most green and novice student of contemporary Canadian politics knows how hard the great Conservative party can be on selected members of its own family. Why some of the finest Liberals have walked across the floor of the house to escape the blue fog. Homework question; since Steve Harper has been the Fuhrer how many people have bailed from the Conservative party to sit as Liberals or Independents? How many? Ya that is a lot. My favorite was Chuck Cadman!
Conservatus-Neanderthalus (Back Bench)
Over the years this amateur politco has noticed a very troubling, or if your a Liberal, a very positive pattern and constant trend. It is always the Conservative beautiful people that get hounded out of the Tory Bund! It seems that all the members with fine features and with no problem attracting money and other attention are soon out of favor, soon to be exiled from the Bund to find great second and long lived careers as Liberals! Very strange that... I have no doubt the Liberals are at this very moment casting up the next parliaments list of most likely for welcome. And of course the Conservatives will not disappoint, will they?
This leaves us to come to some very interesting conclusions...What are the qualities of the true long lived Conservative? Well, firstly they are as a rule lard arsed fat. Which complements their unusually heavy bone structure...The facial features are coarse, with hardened large lips, a product of the years of mouth breathing. Their favorite haberdasher is Wal-Mart. Post high school education consists of all the second and third tier foreign and western Canadian schools. The backs of their hands are are very thick skinned, this is due to the years of dragging their knuckles on the ground. Note; only the cabinet members finish high school as a rule. Anything more than that is considered with great suspicion....
Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men--carrion for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done. Homer, The Iliad, Book I, Quarrel, Oath, and Promise, Lines 1-6, Robert Fitzgerald Translation
Dear David:
Having survived this last fiasco, with all your usual aplomb and grace, Dawg, you can be my Prime Minister! How about this for a campaign Tag line? David McGuinty; Mackenzie King without the weirdness! We gotta do something! I can't let Canada and Ottawa South turn into freakin' Texas! It's all settled here. The wife is on board. We are going to order up are Liberal Party cards forthwith! If the leadership convention is in Ottawa we will be there! And why do I figure you will take it all in the first ballot? I got a few bushes to beat and I think I can get a few more people on board, no problem. With you at the helm Dave I see a four termer with no theatrics. I hate this change crap. I want a dynasty!!I want the Conservatives so far in the wilderness that they start herding sheep in Alberta! I want Steve Harpers nickname in the history books to be "Dief."
Prime Minister Mackenzie King
I just want the Canada that I remember so fondly as a child. The toleration, the boundless and unlimited future, a member of a nation of a people above... (you can use that in your acceptance speech...) I just want the Canada I have always known. And when you are at that next caucus meeting, get on about that stupid Party interference! The party structure should ensure the process of allowing the members and the voters to select their own candidates and riding members! If some riding picks a candidate with two heads and seven supernumerary nipples, that riding has a candidate with two heads and seven nipples! Dona and done! The last remanent's of the feudal system died out in the early 20th century. Not that long ago. Your job Dave is to eradicate the last remaining bits in the Liberal Party structure. No more drop in candidates.. No more it is his time... That will be decided by the party delegates.
Prime Minister David McGuinty?
The mighty Liberal Party has been in this situation before. I looked it up! It was the stomping of 1958. When you figure in that there were then only three parties and not five, and there was less than 300 seats up for grabs, not 308 as per today.. The situation of today is roughly proportional to the situation of 1958. And out of that wreckage we got some of the finest Prime Ministers in all of Canadian history. History has come full circle. It is our time, our greatness, our creation!
Some light briefing notes...All in, a hell of an act to follow... But your up for it Dave.....
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by the principles of moderation. Baron De Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Volume I, Book XXII, Section 22, p. 402
RE: Memo From The Craps Table
Right from the beginning of this literary experiment the Oracle of Ottawa had made a point of not commenting on American matters. But while I was tapping my little fingers down to the second set of knuckles during the recent Canadian Federal election I was much chagrined and very flattered that more Americans read my humble blog than my fellow Canadians! Perhaps these people like real writing! Who am I to deny them? The good Lord sends mysterious messengers on his errands. Having learned everything that I know, so far, from the greatest Doctor of Journalism of my life time, the ghostly hand of the doctor has squeezed my shoulder and informed me to go for the Big Time...
Hillary Clinton stares into the pit...with both eyes open.
Barack Obama is a very intelligent man. I figure he has an I.Q. of anywhere from 150-165 minimum. You would think that all of America would get behind him. From the outside looking in, he is one of the greatest Presidents of all time. I couldn't believe that the Republicans didn't know that Hawaii was an American State! The birth certificate garbage would have been discovered before the first primary, no doubt by a Republican, and if true, we would have never heard of Mr. Obama, let alone see him become President. As I watched it all unfold up in Canada I couldn't comprehend the pathological insanity of it all.
This right wing insanity was threatening the President's whole Administration.
I will readily admit that I was totally blown away last Sunday night when I first heard the news. And then after a few minutes I shuddered at how bad this all could have gone. And then after a few days it dawned on me what the real game plan was. Osama bin Laden was the false flag! Mere gravy at best. The real treasure for the Obama Administration was the multiple laptops, hard drives, and memory sticks.. BOO YA! The Mother Lode....The far right secret societies damn near brought this Administration down. The inter-connectedness of the worlds elites.. it was all starting to build, and if left unchecked would have been, sooner than later, completely successful. The trails and data on those drives and devices is totally devastating! I can tell you with great confidence that many CIA chiefs of station all over the developed free world are rocking and rolling... May I even be so bold to predict a warming wave of reconciliation with the hard right and a warming glow of future cooperation? May I also be the first to predict heavy duty evidence of treason and treachery, the likes you haven't seen since Benedict Arnold? Yes, I think plainly, that we can draw the conclusion that there will be many additions to your wife's retinal face cream....
There will be silence among the California redwoods this summer, and for years to come. Tap Day on all American campus's will be met with unanswered doors and the fleeing of plebes. The Bilderberg Groups next annual meeting will be very short in attendance. As will those of the future, again, for many years to come... President Obama will sail in and through his second term. Hillary Clinton will also have a very smooth ride to her two terms also. Peace will rule over all the lands.....
The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' " Genesis, 3:2, New International Version, Study Bible, p. 10
Usually, in Canadian media, when the lead anchor of a show is not present, a reason is given right away. Such as; "Pat Bolland is on assignment..." or "Pat Bolland is under the weather, and we expect him back shortly..."
But as you may have noticed, Pat Bolland of Sun News TV has been missing in action for two days now (in a row) with no explanation whatsoever! Could it be that not only Bell Media has given Sun News TV the dump? Could it be that the highly respected (until lately) Mr. Bolland has had that recurring nightmare of Moses selling his soul on E-Bay? And has wisely bailed from the great Sun News TV? With his soul still intact. Apparently the ratings are a disaster. In last place behind CNN! And have you watched CNN lately? A silent test pattern could get higher ratings than CNN today, well, except Sun News TV...
Sitting in for Pat Bolland this morning was none other than Michael Coren! My he is moving up the right wing food chain at an amazing rate! Alex Pierson was not amused. I did not, until this morning, think it was possible to see some ones skin crawl on television. But I saw it this morning. She was sitting with her legs crossed, and at the maximum distance away from Mr Coren as possible. "On with the show, this is it!" said the Rabbit....
Sun News TV Training Camp....
Wait for it... I was amazed at the overnight transformation of the appearance of Jacqui Delaney! This is usually a sign of the war within reaching its last stages... Deep inside, the make over is a defense of an internal struggle, if I look different, no one will associate this dreadful mistake of a train wreck with the old once valuable me....Poor thing, I hope she can hang on long enough for Unemployment Insurance.
Meanwhile the The Sun Brain Trust is in a panic. We need an "event"! There was even talk of hooking Krista up with Ezra, and even footing the complete bill for an arranged marriage! But, alas, the blood test was a double fail....the human resources manual (Lord of the Flies) was again consulted... Study continues....
Every now and then you run up on one of those days when everything's in vain... a stone bummer from start to finish; and if you know whats good for you, on days like these you sort of hunker down in a safe corner and watch. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Chapter 13, End of the road..., p. 199
Do you remember the Canada you have always known and loved? Good, because that all died yesterday. The Canada that you and I have always known is gone forever. And we will never get it back. If you want more information on what the hulk of Canada is going to turn into, read Susan Musgrave's "The Charcoal Burners", especially all you young women, this is now the Great Canadian Novel. This is the future you have to look forward to. You will deeply regret not voting, when you are dying in a flop house motel, because you can't afford to go to a "for profit" American owned hospital. Then in your last dying breaths you will remember the country you let slide away... as you worked on your Facebook page and text messaged all your good friends instead of getting off your ass to vote...
Here are few good things that are going to happen very shortly:
An Elected Senate; Thisof course will be easy since Vladamir Jack Layton totally agrees with the Tory's on this one. But of course this will entail the 24 month U.S. political cycle. You know, attack adds all the time...
Repeal of the Long Gun Registry; This I am sure will be done as soon as possible. The "opposition" will huff and puff and in the end the whole thing will get screwed up and the process will be left with a ton of loop holes that neither side intended. Get ready for the gun cabinet and racks of guns for sale at Giant Tiger thru to Canadian Tire.. and that includes in large Canadian cities.....If you are a Peace Officer over fifty years old with the mortgage paid off- RETIRE NOW!!
Repeal of Canadian Health Care Act; The large American health insurers and hospital providers are at this very moment on route to Canada to register as lobbyists. The selling point will be lower taxes and rugged frontier independence.....You know the drill....
Practice reaching out to this first Mr. Layton.....
Schedule I Bank Mergers; The big five Canadian banks will be allowed to merge. Wee Jimmy will stand by this as "letting the market work". The fact that it will not work very well for you and me is totally unimportant....
Further Repeal of Canadian Labour Law; The process, that has been going on for the last couple of years, will continue, until being in a Trade union presents no difference from working for a Cadillac employer such as Wal-Mart and McDonalds..... Can't you just feel the NEW OPPORTUNITY?
Two Party Republican Style Political System; The Liberal Party of Canada is dead. It is the Arthur Andersen of political parties. It is bloated, floating, August, brain dead, and morally bankrupt...(Thank-You Paul Martin...) That is the cold hard truth...Join up with NDP. Cut a deal... Call the combined party The Canadian Democratic Party... The CDP.....or just the Democrats... we will be the fifty first state soon any way....
Repeal of all Multi-Cultural Legislation; This will and has died with the Liberal Party. The attitude will be "Fuck Off Frog!" It will be strongly suggested that you learn Mandarin, Hindii, and / or whatever language people from the Phillipines speak.....
The First ADMAX Prisons; The "Cheryl Gallant Super Max" will be built outside Pembroke, Ontario. It will be built over the old AECL sites. This will be a security feature that will ensure all the prisoners "glow in the dark"....This one will be a pilot model, with room for only 2,500 prisoners....
Cheryl Gallant Super Max, Pembroke Ontario...
Immigration Flood: Again to adjust to the "new Canada" learn Mandarin, Hindii or any other tribal patriarchial language...... Thank You Very Much......
Raising Retirement Age To 72; and change the pension and estate law that ensures all your uncollected pension benefits goes to Canada Revenue Agency at the time of your miserable death.....
Repeal The Unemployment Insurance Act; Scrap this to save money and put the unemployed worker on the welfare rolls. Down load to the Municipality's. Fuckin' brilliant or what? Will be very popular in Drum-scummer Alberta.....
Repeal The National Broadcast Act; The CBC reporting the truth will no longer be allowed to interfere with the spinning of the Big Lies... This will come in the early days. If you want news watch PBS or TV Ontario....
Third Strike Law; This will be introduced to help fill the new Super Max prisons that will be built all over Canada in deserving Conservative ridings... The Tory's have lots of useless brother in laws also!!!
Repeal of The Election Funding Act(s); The Canadian people are not smart enough to make a rational democratic decision, the 2011 election was more than enough proof of this, no? Will be done to save money... Will probably cause the first riots in the streets and various ethnic pogroms.. Only large Corporations will be allowed to contribute, no Trade Union contributions will be allowed...but by this time there will be no Trade Unions left any way....
We once lived in Eden and we totally blew it.....and we will never get it back.... NEVER!
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I, 69
There is nothing the Oracle of Ottawa loves to do more on any given Sunday than take a nice long drive up the valley to his home stomp'in grounds of his mis-spent youth in Arnprior and while on the way, listen to Rex Murphy's Cross Country Checkup on the CBC Radio One. The calls that Rex fielded today were some of the best I have heard on any call in talk radio show in recent memory. There is some thing real going on here. This has been the weirdest Federal Election campaign that I can remember. It has been chock full of incredibly eerie "omens" right from the start. And as the campaign progressed they started getting more ominous. Last Thursday's wind storm put the Fear into me of the winds of change that are blowing through Canadian political landscape. You can just feel the momentousness of it all hanging in the very air.
Something in the Canadian psyche just clicked (or snapped) and you could feel that a very large decision on this countries future had been subconsciously and irrevocably made en-masse. You could compare it to a paradigm shift in a major science... This is truly reflected in two momentis and unforeseen events. The first is the engagement of the youth and first time voters. The second was the realization that Jack Layton would make a pretty great improvement as Prime Minister! I did not see this rise in the NDP in the least. But if I wake up Tuesday morning and either Jack Layton or Micheal Iggnatief is Prime Minister of Canada, I will be a very happy camper indeed.
All of these blog posts are written "off the cuff". I first start with a title, than the quote, and finally the moving media at the end. Then I write the text. Just enough to seperate the ads! I learned this from my very first employer in Pembroke Ontario, when I had my paper route with the Pembroke Observer. Just when Lord Thompson of Fleet had just taken over....Yes, that was a long time ago....
Well tonight just as I pounded in the name of the post, there was a breaking news flash on CBC News World... Pretty weird I thought, late Sunday night, and the President of the United States? I thought for a second that Barrack had found another birth certificate or something! And the ratings of clipping the Trumpsters Nuts was so high, I can understand how these things can escalate... But when I heard that bin Laden had cashed his cheque ! Great God Thundering Jesus Bolts!! This President knows who to send out on errands!
All I want to do now is to get to my polling station first thing tomorrow morning and do the dirty for my man David McGuinty, beat it home to the fortified bunker, pull the blinds, and try to quell the tremors! And wonder, what the hell do you do with bin Laden's body? The first suggestion was to wrap it in pig skin deposit it a large glass tube of vinegar and display it at the Smithsonian... But I am sure the present administration will over rule the Republicans on this one... I strongly suspect that his remains will be cremated and his ashes spread out in several well documented, but undisclosed locations. The same procedure that the State of Israel employed with the remains of Adolph Eichmann... And then I hope around Wednesday things start to settle down....
A fitting tune for the events of the last few days..... works don't it??
