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The big rally in Chicago against the war-mongering alliance of NATO meeting there,with a long line of decorated veterans of the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan throwing away their medals and giving impassioned declarations of why and who they're dedicating their action to, found on Democracy Now yesterday, is very moving. You will find it here: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/2...ar_us_veterans
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I saw it Live on CBC. I was very proud of those former troops.
If I was sent into that permanent war zone and came back (and I could have), I'd toss that Afghan medal too.
(It's an ugly one anyway- for an ugly unwinnable war).
That country is TRIBAL. There will never be any "democracy" there, and if there was, I would hate for it to be like the joke ones we live in here in the West. I know 5 guys who died over there personally. I served with them in 1PPCLI. I can imagine what they would say. And it wouldn't be good. It would be something like:
"I DIED FOR NOTHING. I DIED FOR STEPHEN HARPER'S LIES. AND HE DIDN'T EVEN SHED A SINGLE TEAR FOR ME OR MY SACRIFICE".
Harper just announced that there will be no more boots on the ground in Afghanistan by 2014.
Right.
We've heard that one before. In 2006. Then in 2009. Then in 2011. And this year, he says "no more" with finality.
Right.
This "war" has been going on longer than both World Wars combined. And we achieved nothing, despite what the bigwigs say. We achieved a lot of death and destruction and we threw a shitload of money down the toilet. And Canadians had the appallling gall to ship a whole Tim Hortons restaurant to Afghanistan to "comfort" our homesick troops. To serve them a double-double on the base. It made me sick to my stomach. I know they want to feel Like home, but Jesus Christ is that arrogant.
That would be like Afghani troops fighting on our soil and then they send over "Akmeemee's Heroin and Chip Truck" to make those guys feel at home.
The arrogance of it far outweighs the goodness of making troops feel homey.
I think the NATO protests have made all Leaders think twice about what the fuck they are doing.
When you have soldiers who fought there throwing their service medals at your feet, then you need to check your fucking headgear.
You didn't fight in that "war". You just sent in the Best to do the Worst and still have no fucking plan.
You are incompetent.
All around that fucking table.
Until you strap on a flak vest and lock and load, don't play politics with something so serious.
Pull out just like you pulled out of Vietnam. And make definite note of how much you duplicated History, you fucking idiots.
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More scandals raining down:
Defence Minister Peter MacKay deliberately lied to Canadians last year when he told us on National TV that the Libya mission that Canada took part in would not cost any more than $50 million.
Well we just got the final bill for that "excursion" and guess how much we taxpayers are on the hook for?
$357 MILLION.
A top DND General held a press conference and said that MacKay knew full well that the mission would cost "over $100 Million. He would have had that cost estimate before the mission was approved".
This cocksucking goof must go.
And as soon as fucking possible.
He is misleading us at every turn.
I want to know what it takes to be fired from Harper's front bench. What crime does a man have to commit before he gets removed?
What is the exact nature of MacKay's relationship with Harper?
Does MacKay know something about Harper that could destroy the Conservative party and he's blackmailing Steve to keep his post?
I SURE DO WONDER, BOY.
And I saw Peter Mansbridge's ridiculous interview with MacKay's trophy Iranian wife last week- what a spin job!
She defended her hubby to the teeth! Did Mackay order her to do damage control on his behalf?
I think so, because MacKay needs all the fucking help he can get to keep that job he is so woefully underqualified for.
His smart yet profoundly stupid wife laughed and joked during the whole interview, which creeped me out, because she was there to talk about her book that she wrote on Iranian human rights abuses.
I hate to say it sweetie, but you aren't doing a damn thing to help your people.
You married a scam-artist silver-spoon fed Canuck and you both live high on the hog.
Listening to you carp about Iranian human rights abuses was like watching Satan weep for the homeless.
(Harper weeping for the homeless, if that clears things up).
I found out from the Toronto Star that MacKay was born into wealth too.
He was born self-satisfied and self-entitled. That explained it all to me.
He has very refined tastes, and he likes to make taxpayers pay for those refined tastes.
I am one man who will never let you off the hook, Pete.
In fact, you can't calculate how much I want you dead.
Like Henry Rollins said once:
I stabbed him so many times in my mind, that when I finally left the scene, I SLIPPED IN HIS BLOOD.
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So you served in the 1 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry? I had to look up 1PPCLI -- I never heard of it. That's too Canadian for us Yanks to know about. I served in the US Army but got only good out of it, not counting the wasted time. Evidently it's part of the whole program that we don't get to see body bags or coffins draped with flags since Bush II and there's not much talk about all the wasted lives and broken men and women except on programs like Democacy Now!, not in the mainstream media.
For the general picture I'd refer people to Chamblers Johnson's Blowback trilogy and Gore Vidal's book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated. He saw it back in 2002. That was when the became completely clear, and the scale of it.
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Yes, I was a Patricia in the 90's. I got out in July 1996. My Regimental coin number is 6650, for anyone in now.
I was in Charlie company in the First Battalion in Calgary- Currie Barracks.
I don't talk about it much because I'm not particularly proud of it. Those days are ancient history.
I wasn't a model soldier, but I got an Honorable release. I knew I didn't belong in that Army.
A soldier isn't supposed to think too much about what he's doing. I thought too much and I realized it was not for me.
Once upon a time I was gung-ho. Now I'm pretty lazy. LOL
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13,000 Canadian websites have blacked themselves out in protest over Bill C-38, the GIGANTIC "ominous" budget bill that lying thieving Tories have tried to slip past us Canadians.
Employment Insurance changes are in fact illegal. It is the property/money of those who paid into it.
The government is not allowed to change E.I. legislation, to get Canadians back to work or otherwise.
Yet that is exactly what the Tories have done.
They have also passed back-to-work legislation for the SIXTH TIME, ending a legal strike by CP Rail workers after only 6 days.
Minister of Labour (Whatta JOKE!) Lisa Raitt said ONCE AGAIN that this work stoppage harms the economy.
Right.
Your batshit insane government is doing far more harm to the economy and the environment than any labour union.
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, Lisa. Go back to Dairy Queen, where you used to work before you were an MP, Bitch.
You're much better suited to serving soft serve than heavy-handed back-to-work legislation.
All those rail workers wanted was their pensions protected. A sword of damocles is hanging over their pensions, and the government sided with the company.
KILL 'EM ALL.
Scandal # 4227:
The government has ended the inquiry into the F-35 boondoggle. Committees are not allowed to investigate further.
You draw the conclusions on that one. Hiding something? Try hiding an ELEPHANT.
This budget bill is the most serious affront to democracy this country has ever seen.
It rips our Nation up into pieces. It cuts it into ribbons, and all with one fell swoop.
How long will it take for Canadians to realize that this government has done irreparable damage to our very way of life and continues to go full-steam ahead on ignorant and extremely ill-advised legislation that only makes money for their rich friends?
It takes me a nanosecond to do that.
A friend of mine said something great: "Don't get too worked up about it. Sometimes the country needs to experience a traumatic series of mistakes in order to wake up on the government. If they are forcibly removed in the next election, IT WILL ALL BE WORTH IT. Right?"
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I wish I had all the time in the world to post items and link to stuff related to this criminal government, because I have actually left out all kinds of scandals, all kinds of reprehensible Tory behavior.
The Conservative HQ had a severed human foot delivered to it's doors 2 days ago. Harper's big aide opened the package and was (understandably) horrified by the grisly find and the whole Tory headquarters was overwhelmed by the stench of rotting flesh from the box.
I don't know how much this murder is politically motivated, but the Liberal party was due to receive a human hand in the mail, we were told by police. To me, it's a definite reflection of how much the government is despised at the moment.
There is a manhunt on right now for a man from Montreal.
Minister of Human Resources (an absolute oxymoron title in her case) DIANE FINLEY has been standing up and lying in the House of Commons for months and months about how the Cons have created 700,000 jobs in 6 years. The Opposition hammered them in QP yesterday, asking the Tories if they ever did the math on how many of those jobs still actually exist. (!)
Because they never factor in the 3 million jobs LOST OR CUT by proxy by the government.
Do they think Canadians are stupid?
Yes.
The short answer is YES.
They think no one is paying any attention to their fuck-ups.
I Am, Tories.
I am and you don't even know I exist, do you?
I am a figment of your imagination, aren't I?
KEEP IGNORING ME. You make me a legend. LOL
Conservative MP David Wilks (a Tory backbencher) was filmed in his home riding, talking to concerned constituents in his riding about the Huge Budget Bill that the Government is trying to sneak by us all.
He told them point-blank: "One MP isn't going to make a difference in opposing this bill- we need 12-20 Tory MP's opposing it in order to instigate changes to it. We are told what to do and we are expected to do what we're told "For The Party".
So there you go. One of their own has told the whole country what it's like to be a Tory MP under Harper, and if you disagree with a policy, too fuckin' bad- you vote how you're told Bitch, or you'll get the same treatment as Helena Guergis! And don't try to sue me over it either- I'll get my own Johnnie Cochrane to fuck your ass up! And I'll bill the taxpayers for my legal bills, because I'm the biggest fuckhead in the history of Canada!
Now go get me a $16 glass of orange juice. And send for my limo. I got chests to shit on.
I am Harper, HEAR ME ROAR.
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Scandal number 7721:
Bev Oda is fleecing us taxpayers again.
And she still has a job. Who knew?
It was revealed yesterday in the House of Commons that Oda's webpage as an MP CHANGED THE FINAL COST NUMBERS for all of her offical business trips for last year. Did she think no one would notice?
Charlie Angus noticed, and he read the riot act to Tories yesterday in Question Period.
He called out Harper himself, asking what happened to his promise of accountability in government?
Harper just ignored My Man Charlie and let Peter van Fat Fuck Loan read off a one-sentence reply about Oda's reasons for changing her expense claim numbers on her website. It was a bright-red flag rocketing up that flagpole again...."CORRUPTION" thru and thru...
How much are they fleecing us?
We don't even know.
But you can bet your $16 glass of OJ that it's a lot of dinero, muchacho.
When Tom Mulcair becomes Prime Minister, he will restore Honor and Integrity to Government, which has been missing in action for 40+ years.
He just visited the tar sands in Alberta, and he told us yesterday that the scale of the size of the tar sands is incredible.
A handful of NDP MP's took a helicopter tour of the tar sands, and they only saw the NORTHERN TIP OF IT!!!!!!!
It is MASSIVE!
No fucking wonder they want pipelines to rip up the earth and environmental regulations GUTTED!!!!
Look at the size of it!
We don't have to ever pay for oil here in Canada, and Harper is making himself and his cabinet a SHITLOAD OF MONEY ON THIS PROJECT.
The tar sands are artificially inflating the Canadian dollar, and it hurts our own manufacturing sectors in other provinces.
Harper does not care because he's for Alberta all the way, despite being from Toronto.
Amazing how much he sucks his wife Skeletor's dick in the name of a buck...
Harper is perpetuating Dutch Disease.
That's our PM- son of an Imperial Oil accountant.
I don't care if you agree with me or not. What I'm saying is the absolute truth.
We have Capitalists in Government, because they have deep pockets.
Kevin O'Leary said yesterday that Canada will never elect an NDP government.
Oh yes they will Kevin.
Don't ever second guess a disgruntled Canadian voter- especially seniors and front-line workers who are getting the shaft long and hard from the Tories.
Mitt Romney won't win, Kevvy. And Harper will never win another election in his life.
Your two best pals for Capitalism are GONZO.
Hell will be a crowded place, won't it?
All those greedheads....All those psychopathic capitalists...it's bound to be hostile.
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Scandal # 11182:
While in Davos Switzerland for a fancy conference last year, three Tory Ministers (Tony Clement, Peter van fat fuck Loan and Jim "THE FLEECER" Flaherty) hired Lexus cars to drive them around the tiny town, a town so tiny and small they could have walked.
The bill was $23,000.
We just found out yesterday in the House of Commons.
My Man Charlie Angus said we got ZERO, absolutely no bang for our buck with that expense.
23 GRAND!?!??!
For three days to shuttle criminals around a tiny foreign town???
You assholes are paid a shitload of money!
You can't open your own wallets and pay for it???
You just HAVE TO bill the taxpayers????
Were you shuttling between Swiss banks to and fro? You rich goofs?
When will it end Lord?
The shitstorm just keeps on blowing hard....
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And that Robo-Call noose is tightening like a motherfucker on Tories.
Elections Canada just confirmed that they will be spending in excess of $285,000 to investigate this fraud scheme.
They have already spend over $100,000 on it, and they will spend almost $300,000 to get to the bottom of it.
I cannot WAIT to see how this unfolds, because I know that the bastards are guilty as fucking SIN.
I want Harper in jail.
I want all of his fuckhead minions to pay the hard way for this absolute affront to Democracy and Reason.
They knew their backs were against the wall during the last election, and they had to resort to dirty tricks to win.
Lord knows that Harper is so dishonest that he wouldn't hesitate to perpetuate voter fraud to win at all costs.
I saw his short interview with Peter Mansbridge yesterday in London England.
He said he never reads the Canadian papers or sees Canadian news, because he "would go crazy" if he saw them.
He said he only reads American news and that his staff prepare news briefs for him.
THIS MAN IS FUCKED BEYOND BELIEF.
He knows nothing. He admitted it.
He ONLY follows USA media.
He admitted it to us on Live National televison.
What more do you need? He's an idiot through and through.
And anyone who voted for him is an idiot through and through.
WATCH THIS POLITICAL IMPLOSION WITH ZEAL. I AM. AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL.
HOW LONG, O LORD? HOW LONG UNTIL THE BOTTOM FALLS OUT?
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BEAUTIFUL NEWS:
Dean del HYPOCRITE Mastro is an even bigger hypocrite than previously thought. He may be the biggest hypocrite of the Tory bunch, but that title is hotly contested by so many douchebags...
Dean is under investigation himself by Elections Canada for election fraud.
You heard me right: the guy who stands up as the WHITER THAN WHITE attack dog against opposition questions on election fraud is being investigated himself for that very thing.
What did Dean-O do to be under investigation you ask?
Well, he wrote a check for $21,000 to a research company (the now defunct HOLINSHED) for his private campaign in Peterborough in 2008 and did not report it to a SOUL.
The check was actually written from del Mastro's PERSONAL bank account, a violation of the law.
Elections Canada hadn't even notified him yet, and he flew like Superman to the set of CBC's Power and Politics to defend the allegations. (POORLY).
He rushed onto the Power and Politics set lightning fast to explain himself, but he did a terrible job- later on The National showed a replay of his response and everyone was scratching their heads. He dug himself a much deeper hole.
I told you this man would be the biggest jackass ever in the House of Commons. No one believed me.
Today in Question Period (which I just watched Live) there were 5 different opposition MP's asking why del Mastro isn't removed from his position as Parliamentary Secretary to the PM until the investigation is complete. del Mastro wasn't allowed to speak on his own behalf- Pierre Poilivere spoke for him, but he actually didn't- all he did was say that the NDP were found to have taken illegal donations from unions in the last election campaign.
Wonderful mud-slinging, eh? What a beautiful House we have....
I'd love to have a minute alone with Pierre Polivere, give him the beating his daddy should have given him.
Maybe then he wouldn't be so smug and slimy and utterly repulsive.
He's just a total slimeball to me, an arrogant one too- like most Tory MP's.
I wouldn't even want a CONVERSATION with a Tory MP.
I'd lose it and smack the shit out of them in 30 seconds. I'm not a violent guy, but I'm not lying when I say I want ignorant people to suffer.
No one in Harper's cabinet will be fired. EVER.
They say there will be a cabinet shuffle in the summer. Bev Oda is rumoured to be turfed, but so was Peter Mackay, and he still sits on the front bench for the most dismal Defence Minister performance in the history of the cosmos.
Harper is meeting with the brand-new French President today, giving him lectures on economics, which is priceless.
This Prime Minister never fails to meet with foreign Leaders but has NEVER met with Provincial Premiers in his own country to give them a heads-up on ANYTHING HE DOES. They hear about his plans after the fact, after the devastation of bad policies and bad decision making.
They find out long after the fact how much the Feds downloaded onto them, fiscally and emotionally.
I wish we could just teleport all Conservatives to another dimension and leave them there. Leave them there wondering how they will form a new batshit insane government without any oil resources and people to suck on like the parasites they are.
This government wants to be fired. They are asking for it LOUD AND CLEAR.
Let's do it.
Let's give them what they are begging for.
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Defence Minister Peter MacKay's photo-op at Lockheed Martin for the F-35 procurement 2 years ago cost taxpayers
$47,000 we learned yesterday.
47 Grand blown to kingdom come just to have this dipshit sit in the cockpit of an F-35 and have his mug splayed all over Canadian media as a "Defence Minister with Moxie"
Liberal MP and former Canadian Astronaut Marc Garneau blasted MacKay yesterday in Question Period, asking:
We all know the Defence Minister likes to have his picture taken on big photo-ops for bogus things. I can arrange for him to go to Houston Texas and climb aboard a space shuttle. I can even have him LAND the thing- for free. I'll even throw in a trip to Space Camp. All the Minister has to do is NEVER AGAIN charge the taxpayers $47,000 for nothing.
MacKay's reply was priceless: "I know that the Liberal member is soooooo bright and sooooo intelligent, but his joke falls flat".
No it didn't Pete. I howled so hard at that brilliant rebuke. He brought you down to reality, asshole.
Sorry you didn't like it.
Garneau replied by standing up and asking MacKay the exact same thing, only this time in French.
(He's even throwing in a trip to Space Camp! Free! Sign up Pete! IMAGINE the photo-ops you could do!)
Pete just muttered that the joke is just as funny in french as it was in english.
Damn right Pete.
You're a Winner.
The National had a SCATHING and INCENDIARY program on the Department of National Defence last night, and how they run Ottawa- lobbyists lobbied for the F-35 and we don"t know how much the Conservatives pocketed to push hard for that fucked up jet.
Former General Rick Hillier was profiled as well as his connections with well-heeled lobbyists and how procurement contracts were awarded in a process that was not fair and open. And STILL AREN'T. Due to the lobbyists who have Tory MP's by the nutsacks.
Any Tory supporters want to join our forums and debate me?
No you don't.
Because I got Big Guns and Big Truth on my side.
This criminal government is just marking time until they are turfed.
Every step they make is a step in the wrong direction, and they are being called on it every nanosecond by the opposition.
Watch it and weep.
Tories are the Living Dead.
Maybe I should write a script- a Canadian Politicians Zombie movie...just change the names...John Baird would be the Attack Hound zombie, Tony Clement would be the shifty, thief-like zombie, Peter van Loan would never stop eating brains, James Moore would never stop eating brains, Dean del Mastro would never stop eating brains (they are all VERY PLUMP, you see...LOL), Jim Flaherty would be the zombie who never stops trying on new shoes and mutters "Economic Rape Plan...jobs...growth...rape taxpayers..grrr...Economic Rape Plan..."
You get the idea.
It would be a graveyard smash!
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Well, at least I think the Canadian Parliament is wittier than the US Congress. They're actually up to some sarcasm and irony. It's a hangover from the Brits. Congressional sessions tend to be humorless and verbose.
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The British Parliament is something to behold. And not in a good way.
Every now and then CPAC shows a re-broadcast of the U.K. Question Period here in Canada, and your head will explode watching that.
The Prime Minister (David Cameron, who just left his young daughter at a pub yesterday- what a fucking WINNER) leans on anything he can lean on to stand up and reply to a question. I saw Cameron insult a Member by calling him a Muttering Idiot in the House, which is clearly unparliamentary, and the Speaker of the House said so, told the Prime Minister to retract his remarks- but the PM just ignored the Speaker. I found that insane, but after what I just saw today in the Canadian House, I know why.
The Speaker of the House has no real power, I learned today.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May (a former lawyer and long-time public servant) put forward a point of order on this ominous budget bill, stating that it has no main theme, that it has items in it that do not belong in an ominous bill. The Speaker (Andrew Scheer) ruled today that the bill is in order, and that past rulings on omnimbus bills state that the Speaker should step aside and let the House decide whether or not the bill is appropriate.
With a Majority government, guess how the House decides?
We are fucked.
To CANADA: Remember what is happening here. Never forget it.
This government KNEW how the Speaker would rule- that's how deviant they are.
Never underestimate how political Harper is.
Never underestimate his capacity for raping democracy.
He is gonna tie up the robo-call fraud in the courts as long as he can too.
Have your ballot ready to cast in 2015 FOLKS....