This lickspittle's name is David Walmsley and a couple of days ago I noticed he was going to be made available on the website to answer questions from the public, please submit your questions in advance. Just like a true Harperian.
Well, I thought...
So I typed in a question.
I asked him whether his answers were going to have to be vetted by the asshole Phillip Crawley.
No answer yet.
And no evidence that the web Q&A actually took place either.
Brave new world that has such quaking cowards in it.
A tail dragging romp through the swamps of the world
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Canada Day 2015
Not very much to celebrate is there?
We still have a Supreme Court...that's pretty good.
National Medical Care Insurance isn't completely decimated yet. There's something to celebrate somewhere in that.
Harper hasn't fully stacked all of the courts in the land with 'originalists', bigots and homophobes but he's made it clear that he plans to-somewhere in there is a moment of something other than despair, although I hesitate to call it celebratory.
The political alignments and alliances that created the nation formerly known as the best country in the world have decayed and disintegrated and show no signs of resuscitation. Nor does there appear to be any political will to attempt to revive them. No celebration there.
The RCMP have not yet begun to spirit the opponents of the Harper junta off the streets. So far and as far as the captive media are willing to inform us. That's worth a quiet, careful, secret smile at least.
I suppose I might permit myself a circumscribed note of celebration in as much as several of Harper's cabinet members and more of his caucus are abandoning his ship in favour of the pensions so many of them once disparaged as the work of satan.
And yet I still see no determination to rid ourselves of the fatal plague that is this man named Harper.
There are just factions fighting amongst themselves, like snotty nosed, red cheeked children in a noisy schoolyard, slapping the other while claiming themselves to be the brightest, the strongest, the most worthy successors. Soon they will be exhausted from scrapping with one another. They won't have the energy or jam to stand up to the bully that is their real enemy. And then they will find that through scorn, ridicule and outright abuse they have alienated any possible allies.
So...Canada Day 2015...
Nothing to celebrate as far as I'm concerned.
We still have a Supreme Court...that's pretty good.
National Medical Care Insurance isn't completely decimated yet. There's something to celebrate somewhere in that.
Harper hasn't fully stacked all of the courts in the land with 'originalists', bigots and homophobes but he's made it clear that he plans to-somewhere in there is a moment of something other than despair, although I hesitate to call it celebratory.
The political alignments and alliances that created the nation formerly known as the best country in the world have decayed and disintegrated and show no signs of resuscitation. Nor does there appear to be any political will to attempt to revive them. No celebration there.
The RCMP have not yet begun to spirit the opponents of the Harper junta off the streets. So far and as far as the captive media are willing to inform us. That's worth a quiet, careful, secret smile at least.
I suppose I might permit myself a circumscribed note of celebration in as much as several of Harper's cabinet members and more of his caucus are abandoning his ship in favour of the pensions so many of them once disparaged as the work of satan.
And yet I still see no determination to rid ourselves of the fatal plague that is this man named Harper.
There are just factions fighting amongst themselves, like snotty nosed, red cheeked children in a noisy schoolyard, slapping the other while claiming themselves to be the brightest, the strongest, the most worthy successors. Soon they will be exhausted from scrapping with one another. They won't have the energy or jam to stand up to the bully that is their real enemy. And then they will find that through scorn, ridicule and outright abuse they have alienated any possible allies.
So...Canada Day 2015...
Nothing to celebrate as far as I'm concerned.
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Columnists Working to Rule.
According to this asshat at the Toronto Star columnists are going to work to rule.
Hallelujah is all I can say though I'm surprised to hear there's some sort of rule regarding columnists.
The only constant I've ever been aware regarding columnists in Canada of is that Margaret Wente will always know something particularly damning about anyone who ever occupies the publisher's office at the G&M.
I'm pretty sure this pair of spectacles at The Star only means himself but one less mysteriously entitled shouty bugger on someone else's media soapbox is still something to celebrate.
If he could get them all to shut up that would be fantastic but I'm pretty sure that's not on.
Maybe it would be if there were any way of ensuring that what we read on the journalistic side of the broadsheets/tabloids/shitrags was in any way reliable/trustworthy/true but, hey, wanna buy some river front land in Arizona - I can get you a great deal.
Ta Da...rivers all dried up.
Don't blame me.
You shoulda asked.
Hallelujah is all I can say though I'm surprised to hear there's some sort of rule regarding columnists.
The only constant I've ever been aware regarding columnists in Canada of is that Margaret Wente will always know something particularly damning about anyone who ever occupies the publisher's office at the G&M.
I'm pretty sure this pair of spectacles at The Star only means himself but one less mysteriously entitled shouty bugger on someone else's media soapbox is still something to celebrate.
If he could get them all to shut up that would be fantastic but I'm pretty sure that's not on.
Maybe it would be if there were any way of ensuring that what we read on the journalistic side of the broadsheets/tabloids/shitrags was in any way reliable/trustworthy/true but, hey, wanna buy some river front land in Arizona - I can get you a great deal.
Ta Da...rivers all dried up.
Don't blame me.
You shoulda asked.
Friday, June 12, 2015
Kelly McParland is a Fascist Asshole
This asshole appears to think that the Constitution of Canada is just a piece of paper that should have no legal meaning or force. That the Harperium should be able to pass any old law they like about anything at all and the Supreme Court should not be able to do a damn thing about it. That the Supreme Court has an agenda other than simply upholding the Constitution and Charter.
Thus the title of the post.
The prick works for the Notional Pout so I suppose I oughtn't be surprised.
Go look for why I say this if you want. I'm not linking to the shit rag or to anything with the fascist prick's byline.
Thus the title of the post.
The prick works for the Notional Pout so I suppose I oughtn't be surprised.
Go look for why I say this if you want. I'm not linking to the shit rag or to anything with the fascist prick's byline.
Friday, June 05, 2015
Future Planning
At what point do we begin to consider whether there is anything in the history of human civilization worth preserving for some future species that may either evolve here or arrive from elsewhere?
What would be worth preserving? How? Where? When should the planning and fund raising begin? Who should lead the effort?
Should we include a narrative of global history of some kind? Should we tell the truth about who we were or should we prevaricate? Are we capable of telling the truth about the collapse of our civilization?
Did we, among our various cultures and throughout our history on this planet, produce anything that would be worthy of long term preservation and that would be of interest to or informative for future species?
Or did we not? Perhaps we didn't when it comes right down to it and there's nothing to be done but wait and enjoy what can be enjoyed.
It's an interesting question.
Of course, we'll probably do no such thing. We'll just accelerate the destruction of the bio-sphere and count ourselves lucky to be so rich.
What would be worth preserving? How? Where? When should the planning and fund raising begin? Who should lead the effort?
Should we include a narrative of global history of some kind? Should we tell the truth about who we were or should we prevaricate? Are we capable of telling the truth about the collapse of our civilization?
Did we, among our various cultures and throughout our history on this planet, produce anything that would be worthy of long term preservation and that would be of interest to or informative for future species?
Or did we not? Perhaps we didn't when it comes right down to it and there's nothing to be done but wait and enjoy what can be enjoyed.
It's an interesting question.
Of course, we'll probably do no such thing. We'll just accelerate the destruction of the bio-sphere and count ourselves lucky to be so rich.