Tastes Like Justice!
Not only did I have a Happy Valentine's Day - BUT - I came away from it with a great line which I will share with you all here on SooeySays. I made brownies with fair trade organic cocoa purchased at Bridgehead and served one up to my Valentine who exclaimed delightedly:
"Tastes like justice!"
Now, I'm not a REAL marketing genius, but - if I was out to foil the Chocolate Cartel with my fair trade organic cocoa products, I'd have on the label of all my biodegradable packaging:
"Tastes Like Justice!"
Brilliant! I know, I know - "Sooey! Why, oh why are you giving it away for free?!"
Well, it's not really my line to sell...
But speaking of justice reminds me of Stephen Harper and the New Conservative Government of Canada. He recently made a significant change to the Canadian justice system that will ensure it has a partisan Conservative bent now as opposed to a legally qualified one:
Literally. He removed a chair for a legal representative on the qualified side of the table and replaced it with a government chair on the partisan side of the table. He stacked the Judging Panel for "Canada's Next Top Judge Search".
Now, I'm not surprised Stephen Harper would do this because I believe he's a Reformer. He's an Alberta Separatist Reformer. The Firewall letter I've blogged about previously isn't fiction. It's fact. And he's a signatory to it.
In any case, plenty of Canadians voted for him, ostensibly because they wanted the Liberals out of power. Well, okay. Liberals out of power is sometimes a good thing. Unless they are being replaced by Conservatives IN power.
Conservatives in power is never a good thing. It just isn't. Ever. They don't even really want power. Because they know they'll just use it to reduce the Canadian federation to a bunch of tinpot provinces. Oh yeah. And territories. Gawd forbid we should forget the territories. And that third coast.
Territories R Us. And three coasts.
But I've always railed against Stephen Harper. I don't like him, I don't trust him, I think he's a threat to my rights as a Canadian citizen. And I'd say this latest little bit of... well... "gerrymandering" is the word that comes to mind - makes my suspicions more right, than wrong.
So yeah. This latest bit of manipulation (ah... perhaps a better word - "manipulation") is a done deal and pretty well everybody from hither and yon is saying it's not a good deal for Canadian justice, either. They're saying it's a bad deal. That it's dangerously partisan. That it's political interference. That it's wrong. And I notice none of them are claiming to be shocked out of their gourds by it. Secret agenda? Hm. I knew he'd do it - manipulate the Canadian justice system to better reflect his own Reformist (as in, Socially Conservative) views. That's why I didn't vote for him.
But you know how rightwingers always rail against the Islamic Menace and how it is such a threat to our freedoms and even worse that moderate Muslims aren't doing enough to... like... stop it? Beyond not helping it along in taking over our freedoms, I mean? Er, and theirs, too, I guess... (And, like you, I don't really know who the "moderate" Muslims are supposed to be, either, since the only Muslims we ever hear from are Imams... I dunno... Everybody else who's Muslim but not an Imam?)
Well, I figure Stephen Harper is a much bigger threat to our freedoms (like, right now, and... here in Canada) and I was just wondering when the moderate Conservatives are going to join me in protesting this latest threat to the Canadian justice system. I mean, I know you're out there, you moderate Conservatives. You used to have a whole big Party called the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. I know, I know. You "joined" the Alberta Separatist Reformers to become the New Conservative Party of Canada. But, well - Newsflash - The Alberta Separatist Reformers tricked you. They're the strongmen. They've completely out-muscled you.
So time to get out there and protest against those hard right tyrants, you moderate Conservatives, you. Show the moderate Muslims how it's done.
"Tastes Like Justice!"
I love that line.
