Climate Change the Military can believe in

If even the most reactionary, non-democratic force in the dying empire south of our border is starting to make plans for dealing with the instability caused by climate change, then even the most socially authoritarian RepubliCon is going to have to start believing in it much sooner than later. Of course, the smart ones already know it's happening that's why they and their friends are buying up so much land that will still be arable and contain drinking water in that dismal future, they don't want everyone believing in change's inevitability yet, at least not until it's too late and they own all the food and water resources on the planet. Which their military can then protect for them. Won't that be fun for the have nots who warned and warned and warned but the sheep were too self-satisfied to listen.

Bill Davis turned 80

Somebody say amen.

Lyin' Brian's Party

Lyin Brian Mulroney gets a party for the majority he won twice before the Canadian people shredded the PC Party to pieces in revenge for everything about him and his politics, while his arms dealer buddy and payola supplier Schrieber goes back to Germany and jail. Mulroney, who should be stuffed into prison here for his sins, was a PM who told more untruths than any PM before him, but has since been bested by Stephen Harper, a man couldn't discern truth if his life depended on it. Love him or hate him the last honest Conservative was Joe Clark, and Joe now laments that he has no party, at least not since the the Reformatories and the Lack of Common Sense Reactionaries took over the Right in the wake of Mulroney's hated government. My favourite Mulroney moment was the outrage that exploded across Canada when the President of the first Bush League tried to foist Lyin Brian on the world as head of the UN. Never was I more proud of Canadians than when we roared down that revisionist revival. Alas Alack however, poor creature Mack, the Con game goes on without men of integrity to pull the oil guzzling junkie party out of the ditch into which it's driving the nation.
Stephen Harper - too small for Canada.

Liberalism and Ethics

Thomas Axworthy makes a good case for a restoration of the liberalism that was the Gladstonian counterpart to Disraeli's conservative democracy (ie letting the servants vote because they'll always vote for what their masters want.)

Wafergate

The CBC coverage of the event is here, scroll down a few blog postings and you'll find it, if you haven't seen it, and think this story is some kind of liberal conspiracy, just look at the tape, the PM takes the host in his hand and walks away with it, he does not consume it. That's all, no conspiracy, no reason for Irving to fire the editor and publisher of the Telegraph Journal so Irving Inc. could please Harper and get the shipbuilding contract as a reward for helping Stephen with his vengeance just because that paper allegedly "broke the story", the story was captured on camera, no one broke it. Harper lied, again, he was being malicious, again. Stephen Harper, too small for Canada.

Wrong Again Stephen

Harper says Canadians don't want a fall election, and yet, in that poll last week that noted that the cons are the first choice of about 20% of Canadians, the poll also noted that they were the last choice - behind the Greens - of everyone else but 12%. Canadians don't like Harper, we don't trust him, and we seriously don't like his brand of conservatism. We want to get rid of him and his con game so badly we're happy to dump him out of the lifeboat in mid ocean. He's a creepy little man motivated largely by self-obsession and malice. Stephen Harper - too small for Canada.

Harper and Right Wing Protestantism

Nothing says contempt quite like Christian Conservativism.

Crime Wave PM

Despite Harper's blaming the opposition for his inability to fight crime the way he would like (my but Cons love police states as long as they're right wing) the fact is crime in Canada is at it's lowest rate in 30 years and has been falling for years. Hey, it's a repeat of last years scare the old voters tactic.

Some 'Star'

A Star was born said Ian MacDonald, except then Raitt turned into dying star, and O what will MacDonald say tomorrow ? Con apologists in the media watch the Pillsbury Dough-head PM deconstruct himself, tapes, tapes and more tapes eh Stephen ?

Mad Dog Baird

It would be perfect for Mad Dog Baird to be the one who torpedoed Harper for good with this little bit of throwing his thick-skulled weight around.

Minister Moore's bullshit

and then some.

more Seal Heart

It's all about the Arctic, Inuit voters and control of oil reserves. 13% of what's left on the planet.

Dion and CTV decision

CTV - Conservative Television in action - guilty as charged. No integrity, no ethics, and they cost Dion the momentum he had going into the last weekend, thus leaving us with Harper, Captain weasel, who couldn't define the nature of Canadian democracy if his life depended on it. And we got Mike Duffy as a Senator, Harper's way of thanking CTV.

Seal Heart Politics

The Governor General asked to eat - and then ate - raw seal heart at an Inuit celebration: a) because eating it - if offered - was the right pan-Canadian cultural thing to do because that would have been the essence of her protocol, b) she asked to eat it however - before it was actually offered - perhaps because she likes to eat fresh kill raw or c) because GG Jean became Stephen Harpers's tool when she prorogued parliament despite his lies about the nature of Westminster democracy and therefor asked because d) Harper - via the GG Council - told her to win the Inuit to the conservative cause because e) there will be an election sooner than later and Harper wants to win the north so that he can turn it into a corporatist enclave because f) Canada needs to unify the north against Russian claims to the Arctic and because g) Harper is the servant of the Canadian oilgarchy and it is for their future privateering benefit that he wants to secure the Arctic oil resources and because h) oil lease/tax revenues are the basis of his economic theory and the Inuit can be bought off with Tory largesse and i) because Harper hates Europeans for being a bunch of socialists (and therefor the GG eating seal meat would piss off the anti-seal hunt European Union - all the nations of which having already forced one another to give up all their own 'iffy' historical food pleasures and habits because they believe the biological future of humanity is serious in danger, so therefor, everyone else should be on the same self-sacrificing diet as they are and finally, because j) Harper denies climate change (and the human causation of same) not because he doesn't believe in it, but because as long as he denies it, Stephen's oil bosses stand a better chance of controlling the available land in our globally flooded future, and some of that higher land lies in the barely ice-covered rock outcroppings of the far north - the future temperate zone of the stricken planet.

Ridiculous Harper

Harper's new socialist-separatiste coalition is beginning to take form.
If anyone out there still thinks this PM is a man of principles, better look again, there is only one principle in Stephen's world, Stephen first, Stephen second, Stephen last, Stephen all the time. My guess is conservatism will not rear it's small-minded ugly little head in Canada again for another generation when this master hypocrite finally waddles off the national stage.

Mulroney should Not be lauded

Lyin' Brian was a big business tool who sold out Canada, a man who created a constitutional crisis in Quebec because he thought he could out think Trudeau but lacked the brains or imagination. He was an egotistical reactionary, no matter what Peter MacKay - the man whose word is worthless - thinks. Mulroney's corruption into a bagman for an arms dealer is the proof of his own pudding.

Somali Pirates and Canada Law

When a Canadian warship stops a boat used by Somali pirates but no arrests can be made because no Canadian Law was broken, surely the UN needs to become involved. We need an international code of the sea that allows national navies to intercept pirates, and turn them over to an international piracy tribunal or some equivalent.

MacKay loses Nato bid

Peter MacKay, the man whose word is worthless, has lost out in his manoeuvrings to become head of NATO, thank god. One less Tory embarrassment on the world stage: MacKay can now sink into the stink of his own choosing: like his father, he's just one more politician without integrity, whatever his feudal subjects in Nova Scotia think. Peter MacKay, the man who brought us the small-minded, mean-spirited, hard-hearted corportatist leadership of Stephen Harper, may they rot in history together.

Hudak for Ontario ?

If this is the man that uber-right wing Mike Harris wants in order to recreate his little fascist regime in Ontario then everybody who was pillaged and abused by Harris in the 1990's, everyone who was marginalized and made to feel like a second class citizen by the reactionary middle class who supported the kind of economic rapists who just brought down the world economy, should take note. Harris, the demagogue with the worst attendance record at the legislature in the history of Ontario premiers, who obsessed about law and order while ordering the murder of Dudley George, Harris fast tracked an agenda designed to create a conservative police state (it wasn't the fact that communist countries were police states that Cold War-era Conservatives opposed, it was the fact that the Warsaw Pact nations weren't corporatist police states. Pre-Hitler war alliance Mussolini was their model, him and Generalissimo Franco. George w. Bush made that clear. Harris divided the province into haves and have nots and then proceeded to kick the shit out of the have nots, leaving the province a much worse off, embittered place than it was before he took office. The key to the sociopathy that is Harrisite Conservativism was his parting shot: if he had to do over again, "I would consult less." More like Mugabe I would expect, just tell the people what to do, and then kill anyone who disagrees with you. That's where Mike Harris would have gone, if he could have.

Three years for protesting war crimes

The man who threw his shoes at George W Bush got three years for protesting against the most protected war criminal on the planet.