Actually, Mr. Corporation
We were kind of hoping YOU had some money. What with all the tax breaks the New Conservatives have given you. So now you want MORE money for your pension funds, eh? Gosh, good thing taxpayers keep paying up.
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October 29, 2008
October 28, 2008
Homeless Voters
So I guess unless the Republican Party's to-be-expected election fraud is successful again Obama will win this thing. Although, I'm kind of worried about how all those people who lost their homes as a result of a corrupt and illegitimate system will find addresses in time to vote.
October 25, 2008
Why, Oh Why
Why are we helping to prop up the rotten and corrupt Islamic government of Afghanistan?
Sarah Palin, Actress
Since no one else is saying it, I truly believe Sarah Palin is faking Sarah Palin. She has realized the way to elected office is all in the acting and she's probably right. I mean, why is everybody pretending that isn't just a "Madonna dates a guy from Fargo" accent? And the clothes? Straight out of Hollywood central casting. It's all about her look and her look is "Sex and the Single Girl" meets 2008. Do a before and after and you'll see what I mean.
By the way, everybody seems to be ignoring the in plain sight fact that Trig is her daughter's son, but oh well. What do facts matter anymore, eh? It's the Sarah Palin show 24/7. Good for her. It's that easy.
People Like Us
I've been looking for an expression to capture what it's like for people like us when we go on the Internet and I think I've found it: We go through the looking glass.
October 24, 2008
McCain & Palin
I dunno, but I think McCain & Palin are taking a big gamble that middle-class Americans enjoy being patronized by rich and stupid politicians. It's possible, I suppose. Canadians certainly enjoyed Stephen Harper patronizing them during OUR recent election travesty. The cloying blue sweater, the creepy forced smile, the complete unadulterated bullshit delivered as homespun homilies.
Anyway, I figure the system is so corrupt down South that McCain could remove his name from the ballot and still win. Meanwhile, there were so many Liberal operatives up here sabotaging Dion's campaign for personal gain that I wouldn't trust that Party if it was the only alternative to the New Conservatives (which...).
Still, I'd vote for it if it meant keeping those incompetent New Conservatives out of office. Liberals, at least, want to govern the country, not rip it apart into tinpot regions ripe for the picking by Corporate America.
October 22, 2008
Systemic Racism
So, police south of the border are preparing for violence on election day should Obama lose (you know, as a result of Republican fraud - since he's far enough ahead in the polls that a loss would be pretty suspicious) and blacks riot in the streets. Anyway, no word from police on what they plan to do about all the violence being threatened by racist Republicans (and I'm sure a million or so Democrats, too) should Obama win.
Amazing how systemically racist systemic racism is, eh?
October 20, 2008
I've Got a Leadership Suggestion, Liberals
Don't pick anyone who has already run and lost unless she's a woman.
Overheard on Main Street
"Colin Powell is black?"
Just kidding, just kidding. Lighten up, people.
But seriously, why the shitdamnfuck can't he support Obama just because he's black? Why is everybody pretending that's such a no-no all of a sudden? Is it... BECAUSE HE'S BLACK?! I mean, really. All sorts of women supported Hillary Clinton just because she's a woman. Good enough. Why should we need a reason beyond that and who the hell are we supposed to explain ourselves to, anyway.
EVERYBODY (and by everybody I mean all you white men who've run everything everywhere forever and ever) JUST GO GET BENT!!!!!
Buzzwords of the New World Disorder
Just to catch y'all up on American English via the Rightwing Media, "minorities" apparently means "Americans who are not greedy Wall Street traders". You're welcome.
Hey! Harper Supporters!!
Your Prime Minister is pledging $100 million in aid to "poorer" countries so they can fight something that doesn't exist! Yup, that's right - climate change! (Back off, Inuit - you're getting a pipeline for your non-existent climate change!)
Anyway, everybody else, let's keep our eyes on who that money actually goes to, 'kay? My guess is he's finally read Naomi Klein's "Disaster Capitalism" and figured out how lucrative foreign poverty can be for domestic friends, even when it's based on universally accepted science that you just paid good money to debunk.
October 19, 2008
Joe the Plumber - Double Agent
I've figured it out, everybody. Joe the Plumber is actually an actor working for the Democrats.
October 18, 2008
Uh, Joe the Plumber?
Without any infrastructure, we'd just go back to throwing our shit out the window.
Now shut up and go pay your taxes, deadbeat.
Speaking of Racism/Sexism
If R.E.A.L. Women advocated a return to slavery would Canada's New Conservative government stand jackboot to jackboot with them? If not, why not? How is R.E.A.L. Women's desire to take away the rights of women as people any different than a desire to take away the rights of any other group of people as people?
Brain Fart
I just thought of something - if you talked about each other at work the way politicians talk about each other at work - would you be fired or promoted, do you think?
Seriously, Everybody
What the hell is Sarah Palin supposed to do when so many Americans want her and John McCain to run the country? Step aside? I mean, c'mon - would you? And every time she ups the ante in terms of racism, sexism, - whatever bad "ism" she can ante up - her supporters become more entrenched.
I don't for a minute believe she believes, either. In God, I mean. That's how easily fooled the American people really are. Sarah Palin is faking religion and the Gawd-Lurvers are buzzing around her and multiplying like fruit flies on plum pie. What's chilling is that nobody is really saying at any official level that, if you can ramp up the racism and sexism enough, the Republican Party will be all over you like a cheap suit.
October 17, 2008
Not Five - Six Points!
So, the New Conservative Party/Government of Stephen Harper quickly adopted the Liberal Five Point Plan to deal with the economy and added a sixth point.
No, it's not "Do Not Invest In Ontario".
Say, that reminds me, if we had a "Most Stupid Constituents" award to give out after elections, I would give it to the voters of Jim Flaherty's riding. No reason. Oh wait, yes there is. They elected Jim Flaherty.
October 16, 2008
The American Bogeyman
Too funny, their country is a financial mess of their own capitalist making but socialism is still the big bogeyman in America. I say it's time Oprah devoted a week to addressing the national self esteem issue that has Americans convinced they aren't worth a public healthcare system, too.
October 15, 2008
Newspaper Editorial Boards
It's funny how clued out the media powers that be are concerning Stephen Harper's modus operandi. Today the Globe and Mail is full of finger-wagging advice as to the strong leadership Canada needs during this time of economic crisis and that Stephen Harper should now focus his efforts on building a strong national party to get the job done.
Dudes, he's an Alberta Separatist. He doesn't give a shit about building a strong national party. His raison d'etre is to de-stabilize the federal government by squeezing operational budgets until it can no longer function and the country collapses into regions ripe for the picking by corporate American carpetbaggers. But why do I have to point this out? I mean, c'mon. It's not like he's hiding his intentions, media people.
Oh Well, On the Other Hand
You know, a lot of people are complaining about the tax dollars wasted by the New Conservatives on a completely unnecessary election that resulted in the status quo, but if you really stop and think about it (and admit it - you're reading this idea here first so check for it in the National Post tomorrow), it's not like the New Conservatives would have done anything useful or productive with our tax dollars anyway. You might even look at it like I there's less of our money now for them to hand out to their corporate welfare bum friends later.
Yup. Just come to Sooey's for your Pollyanna Sunshine view of completely unnecessary elections.
So...
That was a stupid waste of time and money, eh? Thanks, Stephen Harper. Thanks a lot.
Anyway, the next time a politician tries to tell us we don't like minority government, please don't reward him with your votes, New Conservatives. I mean, really, your ideology is showing and it's quite... UnCanadian.
Hold the Bastards to their Promises
Okay. This time, I want everybody to hold those New Conservative bastards to their promises and when we all go to the bank to get our promised savings accounts that will shelter up to $5,000 of taxable income, cashable without penalty at any time, while they earn 5% interest - they'd better fucking well be available.
October 14, 2008
Say Goodbye...
...To Canada as we know it and welcome Corporate/Republican Gawdada.
Yes. I predict a New Conservative government and I don't believe it matters whether it's a minority or majority. Meanwhile, by way of retaliation, I plan to cancel/ignore all media that supported L*ing Br*bing Stephen Harper. To paraphrase Bill Maher on the yellow ribbon campaign to support the troops, "It's the least I can do. Literally."
October 13, 2008
Socialism Works
Capitalism doesn't. It's as simple as the facts: The United States government nationalized the financial industry and voila! the Dow jumped 950 points. All of that Socialism is the Bogeyman talk from Capitalists and just look at what saved the day. So don't listen to the snake oil salesmen who tell you to vote Conservative because their policies are good for the economy. Their policies just create the sorts of BIG MESSES that Liberal policies are Left to clean up.
So tomorrow, vote ABC, Canada - ANYTHING BUT CONSERVATIVE.
October 12, 2008
PWs
Cindy McCain is my favourite political wife ever, because she clearly doesn't give a shit about anything, but I just noticed Prisoner-of-War and Political Wife are both PWs.
So yeah, give a thought this weekend to political wives, please - partying like it's 1950 forever.
October 11, 2008
So, If the Cadman Tape Wasn't Altered...
... Doesn't that make Stephen Harper a big fat "you know what"?
And why is the Globe & Mail endorsing a big fat "you know what" for Prime Minister?
Let Us REALLY Test Free Speech Tolerance
And start a campaign to replace Christmas Day with Morgentaler Day!
C'mon - who's with me? We'll hold our first meeting the day after Halloween.
Sarah Palin Heil's Hitler
I was thinking about Sarah Palin and her race-baiting at rallies that has whipped people up into such a frenzy that they shout out "KILL HIM!!" - him being Obama. And right now, you can read American and Canadian Pundits on the Right blaming the American economic crisis that has spread across the world - on the blacks (Mark Steyn, come on down). Meanwhile, the army is ready to start patrolling main street, should the Republicans not manage to cheat and win the 2008 Presidential elections (hm... maybe that's their exit strategy from Iraq).
Who knew the next world order would be the third reich, eh? Oh yeah. All of the above did.
October 10, 2008
The Interviewer
I didn't notice it at first, but if you watch that tape again (below) you'll notice the guy asking the question to Dion isn't too sure what he's asking, either. Funny that, eh? I mean, it's his question and when he's asked to repeat it, he really can't.
Meanwhile, a heavily accented taxi driver commented to me today that he'd heard that tape over and over and over on the radio today and he just got madder every time he heard it. Not at Dion, either.
But speaking of tapes: "A tape recording at the centre of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's $3.5 million defamation suit against the Liberal party was not altered as the prime minister has claimed, a court-ordered analysis of the tape by Harper's own audio expert has found."
Gawd. Stephen Harper - blieber-at-large.
When New Conservatives Sweat
The thuggery begins - just like it does with those nasty old white thieving incompetent Republicans down south.
And nasty old white CTV shows voters its desperate and unseemly New Conservative bias and complete lack of respect for Francophones/Quebeckers and anybody else living and working in English - when it is not their mother tongue. Good one, CTV/NewConservative Operatives. We always knew you had it in you. Sadly for Stephen Harper, I just heard the rest of the sane vote raise a glass in empathy for Dion and say, "Here's to ya, little buddy - ya got my vote." See, we're suckers for a guy who actually cares.
And to think I was going to blog about Jim Flaherty, former Finance Minister, to wonder if he's included his "Don't Invest In Ontario" message in his election platform in Oshawa/Whitby. Another day, perhaps.
October 09, 2008
If The IMF Is So Smart...
...Why isn't it buying the United States? I mean, it's going cheap. And geez louise, but you'd think with a name like the International Monetary Fund, it'd be more useful in a financial crisis:
Uh...OurSpecialtyIs...OtherMessedUpCountries
But here's Jim Flaherty letting us know he didn't have time to mess up our finances completely:
"Canada's banks and financial system are sound and well capitalized and less leveraged than their international peers. Our financial system is strongly regulated and our mortgage system is sound."
Okay, Canada - that's another way of saying, "we didn't have time to unregulate it". You have your orders: ABC
October 08, 2008
Lordy, If It's Not the Jews...
...It's the "certain types of people":
AndDefinitelyNotThePeopleResponsibleForGivingOutTheMoney
What we're dealing with here is effectively an absurd situation where the United States legislators decided that credit had a racist concept, and so enough credit was not being given to certain types of people, so they encouraged lending institutions to abandon any standards and throw money at people who shouldn't have been getting into the home ownership business in the first place, or at least not at that stage in their life.
Mark Steyn, you say bore, I say boer.
Stephen Harper's Smile
Have you noticed that Stephen Harper has a hard time smiling when he's talking about Canadians? His smile always comes across as more of a grimace. Well, at first I took it personally, you know, because I'm a woman and so thought it must be my fault. But then I realized, it's not just me, it's you, too. He doesn't like any of us. And I'm pretty sure it's BECAUSE we're Canadians.
October 07, 2008
Saudi Solidarity
Western feminists are often and wrongly accused by Rightwing Lunatic Pundits of not showing enough solidarity with oppressed muslim women in other countries. Well, today I noticed an article stating that Saudi women are being told to cover one eye now, that the possibility of a wink is too sexually suggestive for Saudi society to bear. So, I think the Conservative male politicians these Rightwing Lunatic Pundits support should show the solidarity with Saudi women that western feminists can't for fear of death and conduct all their business/oil/arms trade meetings with Saudi royalty wearing burkas and eye patches.
The Whys of Crazy Platforms
Well, I guess the New Conservatives waited until the last week to release their platform because - IT'S CRAZY!!
So, either they were getting panicked that the crazy grassroots weren't going to get out and vote for their favourite fascists - OR - they were getting panicked that they might actually get a majority government and have to do something about the mess they've made of Canada.
Hamas... Hezbollah...
What comes next, kids? That's right - Hitler!
The Hamas militant group on Tuesday accused the Jewish Lobby in the United States of fomenting the global financial crisis.
HaaretzAsks:What'sTheJewishMedia-ChoppedLiver?
Hamas, partying like it's 1930...
October 06, 2008
Ken Dryden, Genocidal Maniac
Apparently, Ken Dryden, (while trolling for funds at Beth Emeth synagogue for the next leadership convention) tossed out this solution to Gaza, "Stop all aid that flows into Gaza. While that may seem a harsh measure that will hurt Palestinian civilians... it is the right thing to do at this time."
Well, that may be over-stating it, Ken. I'm sure the odd Palestinian won't starve to death. And I guess that guy will be more supportive of Israel, then, won't he. Eh?
I dunno. I'd describe Israel as aggressively defensive, myself, and leave it at that - I don't know how I'd describe its political supporters over here anymore. Crazy doesn't quite seem adequate.
Internet Follies
This is interesting because it's been doctored, obviously, by partisans - but rather than being ignored by the media, it's getting attention. Why? I mean, would a Conservative tv ad that had been doctored by partisans to show Stephen Harper in his blue sweater addressing an audience of
Sarah Palin, Race Baiter At Large
It won't work, because Americans don't take her seriously - enough, but the Republicans are hoping Sarah Palin can be used to spark a race riot. That's where they were hoping the "pallin' 'round with terrorists" line, a reference to Obama's acquaintance with William Ayers, was headed. Expect more of the same. You heard it here first on Sooey Says.
She's fearless, I'll give her that. And a flat-out-no-bar-too-low racist, but fearless.
October 05, 2008
Stephen & Me
A few years ago, a Canadian bank talked me into switching my small locked-in pension (about $10,000) from a G.I.C. to a Balanced Mutual Fund. It hasn't done much, but while the New Conservatives have been on the campaign trail in the midst of an expensive and entirely unnecessary election (which they called), telling Canadians all is well up here in Canada, not to worry, New Conservatives aren't Republicans, and we won't get a majority government anyway - my Balanced Mutual Fund has lost $2,000.
Meanwhile, 2007 was the first year of my life that I didn't get a tax refund. That's right. I made about the same amount of money, almost the exact same amount of money, as I did in 2005 and 2006 - but it turned out I owed several hundred dollars instead. Me, little miss fair to middlin', office clerk at large.
So please, someone, tell me - why are Stephen Harper and his New Conservative Party portrayed as friends to the middle-class and defenders of average Canadian pocket books? I mean, I'm not making this stuff up and I can make a pretty direct connection from my income tax payments to Stephen Harper and his New Conservative government. And I can say with some certainty that, although my retirement isn't entirely dependent on a $10,000 mutual fund (mostly because I plan to work until I die) I'm getting nervous for all those Canadians who have surely been harder hit me by this nasty economic situation brought on by the Republican administration's mismanagement of the American economy. Do people not realize that Stephen Harper and his New Conservatives have adopted as their style of government that very same model of governance?
What's going on with the truth up here in Canada, anyway? Doesn't anybody tell it anymore?
October 04, 2008
The Actual How of the New Conservative Win
Okay, I noticed nobody's asking so here's Sooey's analysis of why middle Canadians from middle Canada will vote for Stephen Harper and his New Conservative government: he offers them simple cash re-payments (with their own money, of course) in exchange for their votes.
So, why the Liberals and/or the NDP don't simply offer to double the cash re-payment each time he offers it, is beyond me. C'mon you Liberal/Left deep-t'inkers - this isn't rocket science - it's bribery - with the bribees' own money, even. From now on, every time Stephen Harper offers a cash re-payment (with their own money, of course) to middle class suburban couples with kids, in exchange for their votes - double the offer. Because no one listens to detailed plans that won't simply strip the treasury of revenue and return piddling amounts of money to individual taxpayers thereby leaving the government itself with insufficient funds to function properly.
For instance, when Stephen Harper offers couples with little kids $100 per kid until school age, double it to $200 and offer it for kids up to age 18. When Stephen Harper offers up a tax free savings account for up to $5,000, double it and throw in a free hat. When Stephen Harper offers parents a tax credit for their kids' hockey and ballet fees, double it and toss in free skates and pointe shoes to the first 500 voters.
Because that's the real why and how of winning elections in Canada these days. And there's no point in any political party pretending they're above all that - even if they are - because voters are only interested in one thing - buying into the politics of politicians who bribe them with their own money.
When The Problem Is Sold As The Solution
KinsellaOnTheWhysOfHarper'sNextWin
At a time when unsupervised twenty-four-years-olds in red suspenders (to borrow the characterization of another Everyman, Jean Chretien) have been wreaking havoc on the global economy - at a time when men with beards and living in caves have the means and the inclination to bring the civilized world to its knees - the Everyman has many attractions. It's not that he's a conservative or a liberal, necessarily: it's just that, when things are going to crap, people don't go looking for flamboyant visionaries to lead them out of the darkness. They go looking for guys with a flashlight.
The above is fascinating to me because it clearly shows how successfully the powers that be have sold the electorate a bill of goods. The 24 year olds wreaking havoc are the same people who vote for guys like Stephen Harper - who benefit because he is Prime Minister, the men in caves have hardly wrought the devastation that the men in suits have (and I refer to the response to 9/11) and things weren't going to crap until Republicans and New Conservatives came to power, but they sure as hell are going to crap now. Things are worse, not better. And the disenfranchised are just as disenfranchised as ever.
I hate to think how things will look after four more years of reactionary ideologically-driven government - which the New Conservative government of Stephen Harper most certainly is.
Indeed, thanks to the impressive job done by all those political backroom boys in concert with their corporate media hack buddies in convincing, first Americans, then Canadians, that the paragraph quoted above is in any way a representation of reality - which it isn't - the Republicans, and now the New Conservatives have all the power their "I'm alright, Jack" (except they aren't) supporters have ever craved to continue to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
The crisis was created, the fearmongering worked, and now, if you're in any way politically and socially progressive, the times are scary.
October 03, 2008
The Debate
I laughed, I cried (tears of laugher), my emotions ran the gamut - from laughing to crying tears of laugher.
Never smoke dope before watching a leaders' debate.
When Gilles Duceppe talked about his parent's owning a theatre (boo hoo arts cuts story) my mind immediately went to a MoulinRouge meets Caillou scene as little Gilles fluffs the pillows of the prostitutes behind the curtains, sweeping debris up from under the seats of Mama & Papa's Petite Maison de *%$#@!
Hey, Jack. There are zingers and then there's just being mean.
Stephane Dion got the biggest laugh from me of the evening. It started at nine and ended at eleven. And it's not like I don't take him seriously!
Elizabeth May? Well, it's easy to be right when you're right all the time. But nobody likes a know-it-all. Especially Canadians, eh? Look forward to 0 seats on elections day, Elizabeth winner-of-the-debate May!
Haha! Stephen Harper is going to get elected even though nobody likes him! Grr. Stupid Canadians. I mean, now he's splattering his hidden agenda all over debates, lying like a CNN rug, and STILL Canadians will be all like, "Oh, well. He's lying about those bad things he did because he doesn't think we'd see them as good things which we don't now that we know about them - buttttt we'll vote for Stephen Harper and the New Conservatives on October 14th."
October 02, 2008
Yeah, Yeah, I'm Just Jealous
Sorry, but I think the only word left for Julie Couillard is - asshole.
French 101
I'm trying to learn French so I watched the debate last night en francais. It was very illuminating, I must say. Stephane Dion was, by far, the easiest for me to understand of all the five leaders - which I suppose is a good thing in terms of how well I'm coming along in French. I also noticed how much I appreciated him for it. The entire time he was talking I was dancing around the room in my head (there's plenty) in grateful joy, "I understand you! I understand you!"
I can't imagine what that means politically in terms of the reverse.
Gilles Duceppe? Well, at one point, he made a quip while Dion was talking (they sat beside each other - very telling, I thought). I didn't quite catch the quip, but when he realized he'd thrown Dion off the point he was trying to make, which I didn't quite catch, either... (my French comprehension dissipates after an hour or so) he touched his arm in a gesture of "just kidding, relax".
It was really nice. Then I realized, "Hey... I like Gilles Duceppe in French..." And I can't imagine what that means, politically, either. I mean, I much preferred Stephane Dion and Gilles Duceppe in French to the other three leaders in French. So I put myself in the shoes of a Quebecois and thought, "Wow, they're much more generous about us (English Canadians) than we are about them because there's no way I'd vote for any one of our three Anglophone leaders if I were French. No way."
Harper? I dunno but I think the best description of Harper in French is - menacing. It clearly has to do with maintaining his cool so he can keep it together to debate in French, but, man - he really comes across as threatening. Those must be some scary Quebeckers who are voting for him, is all I can say.
Jack Layton seems to speak well enough, but he looks as much like Jack Layton speaking French as he does speaking English. It struck me as odd that he didn't come off any differently. And by odd, I mean - spooky.
I had to mute the tv when Elizabeth May spoke French. I'm sorry, I sound like a snob now but there's no way Quebeckers weren't leaping for the remote to save their ears every time she opened her mouth to speak. I find her tone less than sultry in English (although I like her) but in French she's like fingernails on a blackboard.
Anyway, it struck me that to have an entirely different impression of our politicial leaders when two of them are using their first language and three of them aren't, and I share the first language of the three who aren't, has pretty broad political implications for the country.
One other thing, after the show, Chantal Hebert was on a panel discussing the debate. She looked pretty. Happy and pretty. By then, I didn't know what she was saying because my capacity for understanding French had reached overload but, whatever she was saying, I agreed with her more'n I would have if she'd been saying it in English, I'm sure.
So, call me tolerant and understanding, but I came away from that debate with a new appreciation for all those Canadians whose first language is French who live and work in our English world and don't just find us offputting and annoying.
Unless... they do...
October 01, 2008
New Conservativaphobia
You know that sick feeling you get when you realize a New Conservative majority government is looming? Well, I've finally managed to put my finger on why we get it: because we're not New Conservatives and we know that New Conservative governments, even though they should represent ALL Canadians - don't. They represent New Conservatives and treat all other Canadians like enemy insurgents.
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