Stephen Harper is Delusional

Go on doing what you are doing. Why are Americans less interested in politics than people elsewhere? It's a longtime failing. Hard to explain but the size and power of the country might be reasons, or we're just intellectual lightweights, numbed by TV idiocy and pop culture.

I'm glad you're taking that advice, and I agree it's good advice. It was what I did after Sept. 11, 2001, and writing about the Middle East is something that interests me. I lack your tonic appetite for day-to-day local and national politics in America, though. I do not understand it well and I feel a little hopeless about it. I'm typical of Americans in that perhaps. We, they, think the only way Washington can go is further downhill. The next step is for the Republicans to gain control of the Senate. That, people think, will be the end of what shred of "Democracy" this country has, and the full turnover of control to the richest of the rich, now well under way, will move forward at full speed.

One can write when one's angry and disappointed, or one can fall silent. It can go either way. Since the Arab Spring went wrong in Egypt, my enthusiasm for writing about events there has dried up. But the protests have not stopped. There's a lot to be angry about. It's just not thrilling and happy anymore over there.

If you think Americans don't pay enough attention to politics in their own country, that's nothing comepared to their ignorance and indifference about events elsewhere. They only rise to the bait when they think America's global dominance is threatened, as in recent events in Ukraine.

I've learned that if you do not keep tabs on what those in government are doing then you really are without a compass and can't see changes happening until it's way too late. I hate being in the dark on things. I hate not being informed.

The situation in the USA is very disturbing. I see Gigantic problems on the horizon, and the shit WILL hit the fan.
In fact, it already has in many ways. When Congress shut down the government not so long ago, up here in Canada we were stunned.
We have no Congress. We only have political parties. Americans are hog-tied by their beyond-help system. I feel for you. The task is more than Huge to make sure you have a sound Democracy. And with Jeb Bush in the news as the one to replace Obama....nothing will change. Nobody has the will in the USA. Nobody is marching on Washington and demanding heads on platters. "WE THE PEOPLE" means zilch it seems.


Clearly the Harper government has styled itself on the U.S. Republican party (and George W. Bush) and we are headed exactly where the US is now: Nowhere with a Bullet. And the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. The dice are loaded, the Good Guys Lost.
That's how it goes. Everybody Knows.

A third Bush as US President would really make it all look dynastic.

Things indeed don't look good, I can't argue with that.

It's simply incredible that Republicans are wheeling out Jeb. Oscar Wilde was right: History first repeats itself as tragedy, then as farce.

I don't know what to tell you about the States. The politics is so fractured and berzerk and complicated I can't get my head around it.
In Canada I can grasp it. That's how I can level ICBM's at Tories.

I can't get my head around US politics either. I suppose it's more complicated than Canada's because there are so many more people, and it's all so much crazier, as a rule.

Stephen Harper suffers from depression.
His former advisor Tom Flanagan has just went public with the fact that Harper is severely moody and gets depressed easily.
Here's his quote:

"He can be suspicious, secretive, vindictive, prone to sudden eruptions of white-hot rage over meaningless trivia.
At other times he falls into week-long depressions in which he is incapable of making decisions".


Sounds about right to me. It has the ring of truth.
He should be depressed. He's the biggest goof idiot clown asshole in Canada.

The RCMP is no longer investigating Nigel Wright I learned today. He apparently was found to be clear of wrongdoing.
"Legally" he may be, but morally....to me he's fucking guilty as sin.
And I also learned today that the hammer is gonna come down hard on Mike Duffy.
It sounds like he will be criminally charged soon, and Nigel Wright will be called to testify at the trial.
I can't wait to get Nigel wright on the record in a court of law. I want to know what exactly happened with this expense scandal.
I know the basics. Duffy was the Hugest Fleecer in the Tory party, and he's going down. Big Time.

Any bets Duffy dies before Justice is served?
I'll give you 1:2 Odds!

I don't have any use for Tom Flanagan- I've listened to him on the news networks for years and he's an oblivious turd.
But he's right about Harper. He said yesterday: "Stephen is a Predator".
Dead-Bang On, Tom. Dead-Bang On.

Mac Harb and Patrick Brazeau are in court next week to face their crimes in the Senate expense scandal.
Brazeau is a complete moron. He was arrested last week on assault and battery charges (AGAIN?!?) and was also nailed with drug posession- he had bricks of cocaine at his house when Cops responded to a call of domestic violence.
Brazeau said he had to take the job at the strip club because he "has 4 kids to feed".

What now, BRAZ? What now? Life is as it should be for a Harper appointee like you...

I'd never even heard of bricks of cocaine. That's heavy duty. Those apparently are used for shipping it by dealers. A kilo, worth forty to fifty thousand bucks.

BRAZ, (that's his nickname- no joke) also had big bags of marijuana. The guy is fucked.
Never heard of bricks of coke? didn't you see Scorsese's THE DEPARTED?

This guy is a Canadian SENATOR.
Appointed by Stephen Harper.

Yes, I saw THE DEPARTED, but I didn't memorize it.

Why not? It's worth memorizing.


"Do you want him to chop me up and feed me to the poor?! Is that what you want??"

"What're ya drinkin'?"
Cranberry juice.
"What is it, your period?"

"Do you like Little Miss Thing suckin' on your cock?"
Yes. Yes I do.

Not worth it for me. I don't see much charm in those lines. Since THE WOLF OF WALL STREET the vulgarity and crudity of Scorsese have begun to disgust me, and I don't think he's made a truly great movie in a long, long time. Even THE DEPARTED was a remake of a Chinese film that was better.

How's your Mother?
She's on her way out.
We all are. Act accordingly.



You know John Lennon? He said "I'm an Artist. Give me a Tuba and I'll get you something out of it".
Well you know Mr. Costello, I'd really like to squeeze some fucking money out of it.


What was his name? The departed?
Miles Kennefick.Got the job with a forged U Mass transcript. U Mass Boston, which happens to be...
South Boston?
Oh, You're a Fucking Genius. Who forged your transcript Dickhead?