4149...Poor Gilles Duceppe

First he loses his cushy job in Ottawa.

Secondly the Habs suck badly.

Now this.

This being a story that was broken late last week, to wit: As J-Source’s French-language counterpart, ProjetJ, reports, La Presse broke the story on Saturday that the former Bloc Québécois leader had used money from his parliamentary budget to pay employees. They asserted that this apparent use of public money to pay those participating in partisan activity was a breach of House of Commons regulations."

This of course is some serious bullsh*t coz they all use their offices and their resources to further their political careers. That includes you Joe Comartin, NDP House Leader.

Mountains made out of non-mountains.

And, if one is to believe La Presse, he did not even break any rules.

Time wasters.

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4148...Part Two Re Our Native People

Somebody, Albert Einstein, Dr. Phil, somebody said that if you keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result you are a fool.

Bear that in mind svp.

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4147...This Indian Thing

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am not supposed to call them that. So I will call them whatever they want to be called and I will also stand alone and say that they are not getting screwed so much by the Canadian government and that they historically are getting screwed by their free loading, soft pillow loving, expense account charging leaders.

I don't know if there were any winners in the forming of Confederation but there was one group of losers: Indigenous peoples.

So sad, too bad, a century and more ago. They got screwed. But in the 136 years since the biggest bad guys have always been helped by the leaders of the Aboriginal communities.

Let's try and get your sh*t together for n o w 2012 Chief Shawn Atelo et. al. and instead of whining about days of yore look forward and help your folks. I read in the Toronto Star this morning that "Across this country there are native children who can’t go to school because their community doesn’t have one. Tap water, assuming their home even has running water, is too dangerous to drink. And they’ve never seen their parents go to work because there are no jobs where they live."

The last sentence is most telling "And they’ve never seen their parents go to work because there are no jobs where they live."

Here is a crazy idea but, perhaps your people, Chief Atelo, could do what, for example, everyone else on the planet does: Move to where there are jobs.

That is a starter.

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4146...Robbie Burns Day: Live It Like A Scotsman!

Do some heroin and stab somebody while robbing them.

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4145...This Is What I Live For

Jim Robinson passes this along from failepicfail.com.

So this couple wants a family, fair dinkum. But buddy cannot get one past the goalie so they go to a doctor in their burg of Stuttgart who tells Dimetrious Soupolos, a mere 29 year old lad he is, that he is sterile.

Mr. Soupolos comes up with a plan. He will pay his next door neighbour, Frank Maus, 34, 2500 dollars to be with his wife, Mrs. Traute Soupolos,three times a week for six months and get Mrs. S pregnant. Should work, coz Mr. Maus has two kids already, eh?

Doesn't work.

Mr. Maus goes to a doctor who tells him he is also sterile.

Turns out Mrs. Maus has a guy on the side who has been getting her pregnant.

This beautiful story has turned into a sad civil case with every one suing every one.

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4144...Devil Is In The Details

That is the message that emerges from the Liberal confab last weekend.

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4143...Kieran Green Is In The Tower And Is Armed

The thoughtful former progressive Liberal [Team Red has lost a lot of those this decade] posted a self proclaimed politically cranky list on Facebook today.

I offer it to you here:

Kieran Green

I'm feeling particularly politically cranky today, so here's my own...

What we Canadians have to be proud of?

1. We are the last country in the world preventing the UN from listing asbestos as a hazardous substance... because we want to keep selling it to third world nations.
2. Our country is one of the biggest obstacles to global progress on addressing climate change.
3. We are the home of the world's most environmentally-destructive oil source, but we call it "ethical oil".
4. We let Chinese companies buy out our environmentally destructive oil source, and then accuse environmental groups of being "foreign influences".
5. Our government labels non-radical environmental groups as "Enemies of the government"
6. We give rich oil companies $50 million for PR to promote the oil sands, while using "fiscal restraint" as an excuse to fire all the government scientists researching climate change.
7. We spend $750,000 to put fancy new ice shacks on the Rideau Canal, while aboriginal children freeze in houses and schools that look like something from the most impoverished nations in Africa.
8. We boast about training female police officers in Afghanistan, while an increasing number of female RCMP officers are forced to sue our national police force because of unendurable sexual harassment and indifference from their superiors.
9. We boast of helping end police state oppression in Libya, while still refusing to conduct a serious investigation of human and civil rights abuses by Canadian police at the 2010 Toronto G8/G20 Summit.
10. The governing party has violated Canadian laws on multiple occasions, and Canadian voters rewarded them with a majority government.
11. Canada continues to reduce aid to the poorest countries in Africa, shifting aid dollars to much better-off South American countries because we have trade interests there.
12. We are about the only country in WTO negotiations actively trying to eliminate national systems that benefit our own farmers.
13. We register cars, marriages and dogs, but think that registering guns is a horrible infringement on our freedom.
14. In a country that claims to be peaceful and polite, one of our most popular current cultural icons is a loud-mouthed, bile and hate-spewing hockey goon.
15. In a country that claims to be peaceful and polite, in our last election: the use of vitriolic attacks ads increased, homes and cars were vandalized because their owners visibly supported a particular party, and a candidate who was canvassing door-to-door had a man threaten to throw garbage at her... WHILE SHE WAS CARRYING HER 2-MONTH-OLD BABY.
16. Our national police force has played an active partisan role to influence at least two of the past three national elections.
17. The home of Lester B. Pearson is now so irrelevant in global politics that we were turned down for a seat on the UN Security Council.
18. We have all but abandoned our role as one of the cornerstones of global blue-helmet peacekeeping, while engaging in an increasing number of American-style 'spread democracy through force' combat missions.
19. Everywhere you see "Support our troops" stickers, whose owners will practically spit on you if you dare question the latest mission. Those same owners don't seem to care how our "Support our troops" government continues to reduce its support for Canadian veterans suffering mental and physical injuries from those missions. (Oh, and if one of those soldiers tries to make a public fuss, the government publicly releases their private medical information to discredit them).
20. The majority of Canadians don't give a rats ass about any of these things, and will crap over anyone like me who dares suggest that Canada is less than perfect. Because we have become empty, navel-gazing "my country right or wrong" patriotic idiots, just like Americans.

Astute, controversial and well done.

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