Mood:  caffeinated

Mike versus Mike.

http://youtu.be/YOcFKB9JFfY

vs

http://youtu.be/aGxicLg0kAU

Ignoring the brains versus brawn factor , to me this would be a dream come true in terms of who I would choose to vote for as our next leader i.e. Premier here in the 'lotusland' of B.C.

On a strictly sidebar line note, to us subjectively living cud chewing news and political junkies (just kidding) a headline like this one is both a yawn and a foot stomper :

Vancouver rated most livable city

*In Vancouver, a New Effort to Sell Olympic Condos*

A yawn because its so true and yet a foot stomper because there are many BC'ers who are over their heads in debt, cannot afford a home (cannot AFFORD? Why not your slice of heaven for 300K? All 600 square feet of it on the 20th floor in tony Yaletown!) :)

 ...and also BC it self is in the most precarious position in our country economically - speaking.

 But most of the reason this would be such a great match up is it would make the choice for Premier so easy to make, so easy to make it would not even require ANY thinking or debating at all...

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:)

Ahhh-,..just kidding! As an ultra serious political blogger (you know youre good when you longer need to use *sarcasm off*):)..

I would neVer leave something so serious as electing a leader to spend our tax dollars and lead our capital 'p' province left to the whimsical chance of a mere coin toss....

....gone now to dig up my UNION MEMBERSHIP CARD....if I still have one! :)

Posted by mach1231 at 6:23 PM PST

Updated: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:03 PM PST

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Mood:  caffeinated

Just have to blog this story because I support the womans right to her "fair" share so much. Maybe it is because I believe in fairness.

Maybe it's because I personally despise the fact that a man can delineate his love for money and the things it brings from intangible items that have more value than all the money in the world: that of love and respect from children, friends and neighbors and the world,  for extolling upon it a values system that recognizes chiefly the dignity that a person should have when leaving a relationship if its become unworkable....for a tradeoff with his own selfish desires.

Beyond that, as hard as it may be to think non-subjectively, the true love and respect and devotion showed by one towards the other while one slavishly commits to enriching him self has been rectified by the courts.

Ladies, are you happy with this?  If not, I will be happy for you knowing that out of all the media items that are trotted out for us to ingest that have a reek and aura of unfairness, at least we have some things going for us.

 http://ca.news.yahoo.com/common-law-couples-deserve-fair-share-court-20110218-210956-344.html

Posted by mach1231 at 11:24 AM PST

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Mood:  quizzical

Not!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011/02/11/kairos-speaker-oda.html?ref=rss

Posted by mach1231 at 11:24 AM PST

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Mood:  caffeinated

Christiane Ouimet

the disgraced former public-sector integrity commissioner who ignored whistleblower complaints and tormented her staff was a no-show for Parliament's public accounts committee Tuesday.

She retired from the post shortly before auditor general Sheila Fraser issued a damning report on Ouimet's dismal performance.

 Read more:

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/02/08/17202206.html

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Canadian Parliament is in lock down mode, members breaths are bated, as we head for a showdown at big sky (cue tension inducing sherrif - bad guy music) ..

This is a government that got its way into town and promising the citizens openess, accountability and transparency cried the man in the white hat. "Hell-,..youv'e turned" he added gravelly.

 "The federal government is trying to keep the cost of its law-and-order agenda a secret — and its refusal to make the figures public could set Parliament up for another high-stakes battle between the Conservatives and opposition MPs over access to information"

protected by cabinet confidence, [these] policy discussions [are] to be kept private [secret] and shields them from the Access to Information Act..

Posted by mach1231 at 8:41 AM PST

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Mood:  lazy

Oh my God. Gaffe-ing

President Obama and Prime Minister Harper Press Conference

6:38

February 05, 2011 

Our Prime Minister just referred to the President of the United States on a first name basis (and not : "President Obama".)..

but yes anywaze

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama today issued a Declaration on a Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness.  The Declaration establishes a new long-term partnership that will accelerate the legitimate flows of people and goods between both countries, while strengthening security and economic competitiveness.  The two leaders also announced the creation of a U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) and received the Second Report to Leaders on the U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue (CED)

 Source:

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&id=3931&featureId=6&pageId=26

Posted by mach1231 at 2:21 PM PST

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Mood:  hug me

The 2011 State of the Union Address

Well I certainly thought this

was interesting to say the

least..

Condoleezza  Rice's book does set the record straight on aspects of her life that often flirt with myth.

The brilliant student! Not so true in her early years. The piano prodigy! She was solid and worked hard but wanted to quit many times. The aspiring Olympic ice skater! Despite countless morning training sessions, she could never get airborne on jumps.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-10-12-rice12_CV_N.htm

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First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Oprah Winfrey Show

Posted by mach1231 at 2:20 PM PST

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Mood:  irritated

America is what the former United Soviet Socialist Republic used to be.

Formerly known as the U.S.S.R,  but now known simply as the former Soviet Union or Russia, America has to realize slowly and  surely as a new day dawning as one sun sets while another rises...

The States of America are hardly united about anything.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/101103/us/politics_us_usa_elections

But meanwhile, back to more pressing domestic matters at home...

 

 http://www.thestar.com/topic/siu

http://www.thestar.com/topic/brokenpolicy

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Remember Harper in your now famous speech where you said America was 'a beacon of hope and light to the world'?

WELL DON'T GIVE UP NOW!

You're certainly right. There is something to be said on message for citizens knowing whats best for their country.

 Time for fighter jets, worry over Arctic sovereignty and blaming Michael Ignatieff for all your problems. And oh yes that Paul Martin and all his homey-homey feelings for poor Africa and worry for plight about "Canadas aboriginals".

Where are you Mr.Harper? Where are you? No press conference? No interviews? No fireside chats with "everyday Canadians"? No more singing at late evening concerts? No more Tim Hortons opening up for your to cut ribbons at? No Peter Mansbridge interview?

 Nope. Nada. How about ...take your kids to work day?

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Now kids look, learn to take the law into your own two hands. By God, thats what I did. 

If you notice a person who has previously stolen from you, then by god, feel free to gag and bind the person in the back of a van, forcibly confine them, until police arrive to take over and recommend charges.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-heeds-call-to-lessen-restrictions-on-citizens-arrests/article1782965/

When morons like Harper become so fasciantingly multifacted and talented, the definiiton of leadership in the guise of the title of Prime Minister becomes an oxymoron.

He is not shaping policy. He is letting events steer him into shaping policy. Its called running in default mode. The difference is one of objectivity. The thief thought subjectively it was his right to break the law to steal, the store owner in the name of a five dollar profit, subjected the justice system to his whimsical demands for a return on his loss through: the costs of police, the costs of court and probation, judges and sherrifs and housing and monitoring a prisoner.

Mr. Harper you are wrong for allowing your self to be included in such trivial events.

Just like joy riding car thieves just turning 15 years old are not the multi million dollar chop shop supporting auto thieves, petty crime is as much a  Parliamentary issue as much as your choice for color of slacks lost us a seat at the Security Council.

I guess as so it follows ...you would choose to magnify this microscopic issue..perhaps as salvo for your hurt pride. Or, did you not feel a damn thing for losing Canadas status as a nation which is why Mr. Ignatieff is to blame to take all your hurts for you too, as well?

Is that right, Mr. Harper ? It hurt so bad, that there just had to be somebody else to blame except for your self and Mr. Ignatieff fit the bill?

Carry on waywardly, my wayward, son.

 Mr. Harper you are one bad man and one sorry looking ykw...

Posted by mach1231 at 9:02 PM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 9:52 PM PDT

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Mood:  don't ask

Amnesty International says the defeat of legislation to tighten controls over Canadian mining companies will further undermine Canada’s image as a defender of human rights globally.

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Because. This is what Canadas pensions plans are indexed on. So if you are a senior right now (65+) or are going to be in the next 20 years, then you are supporting your self potentially and in theory at least...at the EXPENSE of human rights.

As Frank Guistra shows, there is PLENTY of MONEY to be made in calculating the NET BENEFIT to our biggest most profitable and largest single human resource (in case you just joined us, the biggest most profitable and largest single human resource is PEOPLE, with their musclces and their brains).

Think about it! Without people, life on this planet as we know it would cease to exist! Imagine a world of people uniform in color, personality and distinction with no variance in language or cultural acclimatization.

My friends as worlds and cultures and languages verge on the edge of outright extinction , I ask you here in the age of the Internet to spare a thought towards the future of not just your selves or even your own children but beyond that to your grandchildren and the world you would like to see them grow up in.

What about our soldiers overseas? Are we to let them consider their lives less valuable while we sleep comfortably and sound as babes in mangers while our futures are solidly banked with possibly disreputably and unethical mining companies?

We have never been a war seeking or war mongering country. Our reputation has been one of peace. And this has been a feeling that kept our whole country one and whole, with no barriers of trade with the almight U.S. and other human rights defending countries. It has kept Quebec as our brother, sister and friend. Our native nations, the multitude of them, within the great fold and arms of Canada as co-joiners to the great cause of human rights and peace.

 

Amnesty International decries defeat of mining bill

Posted by mach1231 at 7:20 PM PDT

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 http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/knew+about+security+breaches+government+documents/3718128/story.html

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So what are they offering?

An apology??!

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20101025/vet-privacy-101025/

Why don't you save your apology until the Official inquiry is over?!!

 Here you are catering to a few whiners in this country who refuse to be honorable enough about their citizenship rights in participating in a long form census, whining over "privacy" and "intrusion"; ostensibly changing and altering the very face of this country, one that has been held up for generations, the most vivid protracted and outspoken backlash from citizenry to expert alike we have ever seen

and here you , all the while, behind everyones back, out of sight, out of view, unbeknown to everybody but your own selves

making life absolutely miserable for somebody who has every God given right to express his rights and his views by invading, intruding and stepping all over his privacy

but what makes this really the most rotten mess you can find your selves in is that this person happens to be one of Canadas veterans.

And you can bet your last dollar this is the short and sweet version of my view which is exactly why you should be seeking to get to the bottom of this.

Bloggers are not left to do the work of Parlimentarians, since when?

Just as people who serve this country are not to do the bidding of a few well paid suits in Ottawa.

 http://youtu.be/AbQvkfgvHN0

Posted by mach1231 at 9:04 AM PDT

Updated: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:24 AM PDT

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Mood:  incredulous

Recently in a city called Nagoya, Japan

..countries with representatives from around the world gathered..

..and were meeting with each other to engage,share,talk and reach agreement through a treaty to reduce a rapid loss of plant, animal and species in the world

...

it was here that our representative delegation

..refused to sign on a declaration of a guarantee of the rights of indigenous people and local communities  here in Canada

called 'access and benefit' sharing (ABS)

the Canadian government position is that there can be no reference to the rights of indigenous people in the final ABS protocol..

There are few indigenous representatives are in attendance since Canada and many other governments do not provide financial assistance so that they can attend the conference as observers.

Canada Seeks to Drop Native Peoples from New Biodiversity Pact

Posted by mach1231 at 8:35 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, October 25, 2010 1:53 AM PDT

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