Sister Sage's Musings

Yeah, we’re stickin’ with the ‘what’s old is new again’ them to cap off a Saturday.

I’m goin’ to send this out to St-Stevie, Jason Kenney,  Helena Guergis, Rahim Jaffer, Jim Flaherty, Vic Toews, Reverend Stock; oh hell! All the Harpercons, cause if they do gets their majority, I think many of us will need to ‘get out of town’ indeedy.

A classic out of Woodstock and obscure too.

Below is Merle Haggard’s version of Woody Guthrie’s “Jesus Christ”. This version was one of the songs at the closing credit roll on Michael Moore’s latest movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story”, which was just released on DVD, by the by. I highly recommend it! Great movie.

Listen to the lyrics; Woody Guthrie’s original was released in 1940. Amazing foresight he had about today’ s morality of greed and self-centeredness, not to mention, that pathological unexplainable fear of soshalism; and that unfortunately, anything pertaining to helping your fellow man is soshalism. According to him and yes, the bible stories from where this songs inspiration more than likely came from, Jesus was a soshalist,  if we were to use that loose meaning in today’s North American culture of fear, greed and ignorance. Most American  neo-cons even know this, otherwise, why would the likes of Andy Schlafly et al be rewriting the bible? Funny how these neo-cons from the Evangelical Christian far right would probably crucify Jesus themselves once the truth finally smacked them silly.

Happy Saturday Nite All!

Oh brother! Here we go again! Once again that useless old shrew hacks again.  This time, it’s about her little friend Rahim Jaffer. Apparently she writes that we’re simply pissed off with him getting away  with nothing more than a slap on the wrists simply because he’s a ReformaTory: that backroom deals like this go on everyday.  Yes, they do, dear, but even with all the charges Jaffer had originally, there still would have been manditory jail time. And he would more than likely have had some jail time had he not been a politician or a member of the  rich and infamous. No, it’s not just because he’s a reformaTory.  I was just as pissed off every time I heard about Anne-Marie Peladeau getting away quite lightly with such charges like drunk driving and resisting arrest simply because her last name is Peladeau. Same way I get pissed off at celebrities who are acquitted by star-struck juries who’s love for all things shiny outweighs the actual evidence in front of them.

A new image composite for Clucking Chickenhawk Christie will have to wait til when I have more time and my computer works a bit better. In the meantime, because, what’s old can be new again, feast your eyes on this oldie!  This is a timeless classic after all.

Ya may wanna try that one again, Blathering Blatchford?

Oh Ricky P and for that matter, the powers that be at CJAD and/or even higher up at Astral Talk Radio, you’re already on shaky ground when it comes to anything decent; when are you going to get rid of that clucking chickenhawk?  C’mon Ricky P, you often speak of us being too lenient on drunk drivers…you always talk that neo-con ‘tough on crime’ game on your show. Will this drivel she wrote finally convince you to cut her loose? After all, she just spoke in favor of leniency for drunk drivers when they’re members of her favourite political party.

Oh shit! I just forgot, Ricky P is one of those star struck folkies who actually thought that Michael Jackson was completely innocent of inappropriate acts with children.  Oh never mind, As you were, Ricky!  Apparently, in Ricky P’s tough on crime talk only applies to mere mortals like myself; likely not applicable to rich,infamous and probably Reformatory.

For that matter, Grope and Fail, wanna know why I call you that? It’s because of that clucking chicken hawk and other fools. The only service she provides is that she makes Norman Spector look slightly talented. I’m sure you can find a place for her…say the obituaries?

Well, my only advice  (and this time, I won’t even swear! We will be using a new euphamism for shit, courtesy of Lindsay Stewart of over at CC HQ) left to CJAD and Grope and Fail is, Careful don’t step in the ‘blatch’ now!

I did muse over at CC HQ’s comment board, that I would perhaps create a photoshop image of  Blathering Blatchford blubbering and a weeping on her typewriter, but, I’m too tired right now, and my computer just isn’t cooperating with me as usual right now. It will have to keep for another time. In the meantime, because what’s old can sometimes be new again, and since this is a timeless classic in my opinion, enjoy this older creation for the time being.

Sorry, but for those who thought this posting was going to be my cents into the whole Stevie answering questions on Youtube, well, you’ve just been punked as ol’ Ashton Kutcher would say…at least in part.

I will say this though, I’m still trying to submit a question and for whatever reasons, my questions keep getting rejected on that site. It figures, St-Stevie doesn’t like press conferences, because he can’t control the agenda, and as well all know, Steve only thrives when he controls the agenda, so, when Dmitri Soudas and St-Stevie’s other flunkies of their techno-geek flunkies go over the questions, don’t count on the most voted for to be selected, count on only easy questions, so that would mean the wanker set pushing Steve to Americanize what’s left of our universal health care system or to restrict abortion or to adapt life sentences for marijuana posession will probably be disappointed as he won’t touch upon them as long as he is in election campaign mode. However, do go to the site and vote up or down the questions over there, and if you wish to try, post a question of your own. Dylan over at Right of Center Ice and Alison over at The Galloping Beaver posed some of the bigger doozies for questions and of course the winning theme amongst the Youtube crowd, Legalizing marijuana!

There, my two cents…

Now, on to Stevie Youtubed…  How’s about some Saturday afternoon cartoons? They’re somewhat dated, but, as you all know, sometimes what’s old is new again.  One of them even stars Ashton Kutcher, actually.

Here’s to “chest cold removers”

Holy Water–the new truth serum

I wonder if anyone can give St-Stevie some of that “holy water” at Question Period, Press Conferences, C-Pac, etc..?

The Two above videos courtesy of Tbonepearson

Lesson of the day for Stevie? He needs more fibre! Brown Toast!

Hey, that’s one catchy tune! I wonder if we can find some equally catchy lyrics, that this could be our new national anthem?

This last video courtesy of Gatsonratz

Happy Saturday All!

Ever since Kathy Shiddle of Five Feet of Feces wrote that idiotic post about Canada being more oppressed than the former Soviet Union, I had pretty much stopped visiting her page as she only seems to bash Muslims, run the Geert Wilders campaign for the next Dutch elections or of course, flogging her excuses for books that she passes off as literature.

This morning, I caught her latest misadventures over at Big City Lib’s.  Who’d a thunk it?  The Canadian Israel Congress , an organization dealing with Canada-Israel relations,  in their infinite wisdom hand-picked Kathy Shiddle and a motley group of her hubby, Mr Arnie Shiddle of the blog, Blazing Cat Fur and of course, none other than KKKate (rhymes with hate; funny how these things work out; that nick name, courtesy of Ti-Guy) of Small Dead Animals (has the Humane Society been in touch with these sickos due to their sick blog names? After all, a kid under 18 who would have photos of road kill on their blogs and references to animal cruelty would be subject to a psychiatric eval. Just sayin’) to go off to Israel to …well…I don’t think anyone knows, really. I wonder why the CIC didn’t select, well, actual Jews for this trip?? Because they refused?  Then again, if someone like Dr Dawg was invited to such a shindig and refused the invite…one has to wonder exactly what kind of group the CIC really is?

Well, it appears that Mr Shiddle has gone all ga ga over Geert, KKKate is bitching about Muslims and Shiddle, herself was, well, just being her usual hateful self, I gather.

Now, all humor aside. In the middle of that circus, I do have a serious question. I wonder how an organization like the CIC selected these sick, hateful  people to go to Israel? I guess they never caught wind of KKKate’s extremely offensive stunt awhile back regarding the Holocaust and her bigotted mentor coming to her defense.   This stunt was all over the Blogosphere, kind of hard to miss, really, if one wanted to do any checking on anyone. That so-called joke and the act of defending it is certainly the work  one would see of neo-nazi white supremacist skinheads.  Again, why did CIC select these people?  Perhaps the fact that they’re heavily Islamophobic is all that matters to the CIC.  Why does Israel allow them in? Again, Ezzy, some of us are still waiting for you and your disciples to explain to us ‘lefty anti-Semites’ why anti-semitic acts and speech is ok for  Ultra white neo-cons but not ok for anyone else? And we’re anti-Semitic? How does that work?

After reading Harpercon media, looked at the polling numbers, listening to folks talk and of course, we can’t forget the Romper Roomies,   I’m seriously wondering if Stevie can do anything wrong in their eyes?  I really am!

Lessee,  Stevie prorogues parliament twice in 13 months in order to run away from the evul opposition, he is not only praised and they jump to his defense, but the opposition parties, namely the Liberals get blamed for being, well, oppositional.

When St-Stevie breaks his own law regarding ony calling elections every four years, to engineer his own defeat simply so he could get his totalitarian regime oops! Majority, no problem. In fact, I seem to recall many thinking that this was a necessary excercise. On the other hand, when Iggy drops the gauntlet like he did last fall, he gets lambasted.  In fact, everytime he does something oppositional, he gets lambasted. Lesson here? For an election call to be valid and acceptable, it has to be done by Stevie and not the opposition.  I think from there most can see democracy eroding.

For three years, they deflect and avoid questions of torture rather than try to correct the situation or to just face up to them.  Like these Afghan detainees or not, they are entitled to the same rights any prisoner of war would be entitled to under the Geneva Convention, but who cares, because it’s Stevie, he’s my hero and he can do anything he likes because whatever he does is best for me is what the Harpercon pundits and other cheerleaders like the Blogging Tories.

Get tough on crime? Glad ya brought it up!! We got so many bills to fill those prisons right up! Hell, we’re going to start locking up kiddies too because, they’re just going to grow up into bigger criminals anyway.  However, if you’re a Harpercon or a Harpercon’s relative, you can get off scott free or with a little slap on the wrist, yes, even for hard drugs like cocaine. Didn’t Stevie or Nicholson or another Harpercon talk about manditory jail sentencing for drug posession?? Not if you’re the hubby of the bombastic Ice-Queen Harpercon MP.  Oh yeah! And while we’re on the subject: temper tantrums or any hint at frustration at an airport can put you on a terror watch / no flight list or worse, if you’re Dziekanski, get you tasered.  Not if your that same afore mentioned bombastic ice-queen MP.

Religious extremism will not be tolerated in St-Stevie’s Canada…unless, of course, you’re one of them fundamental Christians from a polygamist  sect like oh, say, Bountiful who can’t seem to get convicted for things like polygamy and child molestation.

Harpercons campaigned on accountability;  they’ve been everything but…that’s ok, because….he’s Super Stevie and he’s my hero.

When idiotic commenters like Mary T express a wish for all opposition parties to be decimated and shrieking  shrews like Hunter want to get rid of veteran reporters who ask tough questions to Harpercons (as well as others, but, yanno, they don’t matter, because they’re insignificant leftie parties, right Hunter?).

Not only do Steve and the Harpercons (as well as their family members) seem to get away with murder (Actually, I would love to see how the corporate media and Romper Roomie Blogging Tories react if Stevie or any of the Harpercons committed something heinous like murder; would they still stand up for as staunchly as they do today?)

I do share Thwap’s disillusionment with not only Stevie and the Harpercons, but with Canadians in general.

The best way I can describe this would be…St-stevie and the Harpercons would be the vice: the alcohol, the heroine, the gambling addiction. The Harpercon corporate media, blogging tories and other neo-con pundits and other staunch supporters would be the co-dependants; and the rest of Canada (yes, talking about them apathetic voters for the most part, I am) are  the enablers.

Or, it never seems to stop. This time, it appears that the CBC is now afflicted with LDS. It is now helping the Harpercons do that whole “blame the Libruls” thang  back in order to deflect and distract. Yikes!

OK, once again, whatever part the Liberals played in this whole torturegate debacle doesn’t really appear to concern them a whole lot, given that they voted along with the N.D.P. in favor of an investigation dating back to 2001.

It would seem that the most the Liberals are guilty of was, along with Gen. Rick Hillier, signing on to a very flawed agreement with the Afghan Gov’t regarding detainee transfers in 2005; right smack before a federal election campaign which led to a Harpercon minority.

Even if the Liberals didn’t vote along with the N.D.P. in favor of a full investigation into torturegate; and even if they did so much more than sign a flawed agreement with the Afghan Gov’t if international laws were broken, it is incumbent upon the current government to try to correct the situation. Especially Steve, as he campaigned on Government accountability. Accountability is not blaming the previous guardians of the castle so to speak; it is most certainly not deliberately continuing the bad acts and making a bad situation worse and looking away.  An accountable gov’t is also a transparent gov’t; it’s not a government that runs, hides and contorts themselves worse than a circus performer to avoid facing the music. Canadians deserve to know if their government knowingly broke international laws in breaching the Geneva Conventions in their name.

If it were an honest mistake on either the part of the Liberals or Harpercons or both, to err is human, most folks can get that. Even St-Stevie should get that. Or is willing to risk the whole enchilada in order to drown in his own arrogance?  No, I’m not inclined to believe it was a simple mistake for obvious reasons.

Yes, the Liberally deranged can say the Liberals were involved with torture until they turn purple, but at the end of the day, it is the Harpercons and Stevie that refuse an investigation and refuse to be accountable. Pity that his cheerleaders of the Corporate media (and yes, I’m starting to count the CBC in with this motley gang) and the Blogging Tory disciples of the Stevie fan club seem to care more about keeping Stevie in power and allowing the torture of detainees to go on (after all, ya can’t fight a good war without torturing da enemy: Right Blathering Blatchford??) rather than true accountable government.

I caught this over at Calgary Grit this morning.  Yes, Baird the ever faithful pitbull to Master Stevie comes to the rescue yet again when Thomas Mulcair from the big bad opposition, well brings up the obvious about Flaherty travelling on a private jet for a photo op at Timmy’s while he presents a budget basically telling the majority working class to tighten up and get used to no services.

“This time, he (Flaherty) used a chartered plane for a photo-op at Tim Hortons to ‹ wait for it ‹ teach us a lesson about the importance of controlling government spending.”

Many Canadians, myself included don’t care; we just don’t understand the urgency to head off for a photo op, basically giving Timmy’s free advertising it doesn’t need.  Ottawa to London can be done by train or even bus.  Set an example and use cheaper ground transport, or is it unCanadian to ask her finance minister to set an example of financial restraint?

Silly us, it would seem that it’s not very patriotic when we express concern over hiddent torturegate documents while the Harpercons, themselves, ever so patriotically throw the troops under the bus. Hell, I bet they immediately even accused the family of the late young Jonathan Couturier of being radical Quebec Separatists  when they spoke to the media regarding young Jonathan’s last words expressing his views of how useless that Afghan war is before deploying.

We’re unpatriotic for boycotting the Vancouver Olympics, root for the underdog protesters and hope for the Canadian Team NHL not win the gold medal at the Olympic finals.

Some like Chuckles Adler would say that talking against the Alberta tar sands is very disloyal to Canada. Wanting to talk climate change it would seem is also a no no as it’s a dark spot.

Now, the latest from Stevie’s pitbull to Mulcair would seem to be that he’s unCanadian:

“against Tim Hortons,” which is a position Baird said is “un-Canadian.”

Yep, well, put me up there too, because I always thought Timmy’s coffee SUCKS!! However, that is beside the point. Baird like a good pitbull played Stevie’s game of deflect and distract, although it failed miserably.

And now, with a little help from an old post at  Buckdog, I will  remind  readers how  very ‘Canadian’ ol’ master Stevie is:

“Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United States.”
- Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.

“Your country [the USA], and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.”
-Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.

“Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status, led by a second-world strongman appropriately suited for the task.”
- Stephen Harper in his article “It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada,” December 12th, 2000.

“In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don’t feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don’t feel bad about it themselves, as long as they’re receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”
-Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.

“What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].”
- Stephen Harper, then President of the NCC, 2001.

“We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system.”
- Stephen Harper, Toronto Star, October 2002.

Also read some more from Buckdog, showing just how Stevie is ‘Canadian’. Many more details of Stevie’s all-Canadiana  here. Other reminders of why St-Stevie should never ever get that totalitarian regime he oh so desires.

Frankly, Baird, you’re going to have to come up with better material.

Hmmmm, Rahim Jaffer, a drunk driver and a cokehead and his princess wife who has a penchant for temper tantrums. Must a been the wedding of hell for ‘em. They are also the poster couple for  typical Harpercon instability.

Now ain’t they the cutest couple evuh!

Fern Hill’s post regarding taxation on sterilization particularly grabbed my attention this morning. She found this idiotic idea from yet another one of those unstable blogging neo-tards where she expresses idiotic ideas like hitting childless couples with heavy tax penalties and taxing contraception (500%) to the point of turning it into illegal contraband like cocaine and machine guns. Like most of those Romper roomies, those ideas didn’t just hit her. She was reading more convoluted causes of of the recession being caused by anything but the real cause which is, of course,  unregulated corporate greed, Bush’s deregulation of the banking system and everyday folks going bankrupt because they bought into those western ideals that measure a person’s value by how big their houses and cars are and how many material posessions they don’t use they can get their hands on simply for the sake of bragging rights to ooo-ing and aw-ing neighbours.

This time, this blogging neo-tard can get all relieved and even cum in their pants  now because the Vatican Economist is stating that the recession is not the fault of the banks, but rather, the fault of lower birth rates.

This of course, brings me back to a time when Lucien Bouchard enraged many folks when he stated in October of 1995:

“We’re one of the white races that has the fewest children.”

All Bouchard did was make a whole lot folks pissed.  Socon or bust honestly thinks that beating childless couples over the head with excessive “sterilization” taxes will turn these women into instant baby factories.  What about couples who are infertile who do want children but can’t afford fertility treatments? You want to tax them to death due to being baron, but you also stress that you don’t want our health care system to cover fertility treatments? How does that work?

A future workforce, after all, is essential to the growth and continued existence of the State.

Again, a problem with that;  even though many are retiring these days, most of their jobs are not being refilled either in the public or private sectors.  My current job is an example of that. Due to the retirement of the receptionist at the point of service where I work, my position and her’s merged. In addtion to doing my duties, I’ve also had this retired receptionist’s work load added. I don’t mind, I’m always up for to a challenge and it keeps me employed at a place I really enjoy working at.  I am merely providing an example of the current work trends.

 It’s been a long time since either Canada or the U.S.  has produced more than we consume. We keep outsourcing manufacturing and call-center jobs to China, India, Thailand and other Asian countries.

In a few years, due to either this recession or a raise in the retirement age, the flow of workers retiring will come to an eventual halt, thus not much new job growth, nor much opportunity to grow in any industry.

Also, as technology evolves, there is less of a need for manpower. In other words, even if we all get barefoot and pregnant, we would probably have a bunch more unemployed adults who would need to use government resources, much like the aging baby boomers.

Do I really have to touch on the utter stupidity on taxing contraception 500%??  That will really curb the spread of AIDS and other STDs.

Yes, yes,  While Bouchard, Socan or Bust, other neo-cons and theocrats and the Vatican Economist all twist themselves over no one in the western world is having babies to condemn them to indentured servitude, they seem to forget that there are many,  many babies born in the developping world.  Their own economies don’t help these families to help themselves or any economy of the future for that matter. This whole we’re not having enough babies thing kind of flies flat doesn’t it?

 I’m surprised they haven’t gone for the most offensive and insist that childless westerners adopt third world babies a la Madonna and Brangelina, thus having more future tax-payers, but then, that would bring us to our current “problem” here in Canada, according to many Canadians bigots: too many immigrants. This, of course, is no surprise, check out that CBC comments page today. Many of their comments go in so far as to really come off as white supremacists. 

Yes, they’re all scared they may have to make certain concessions and learn to be tolerant of these new tax payers. This too would make them blame us for not having white babies to endenture them to a life of servitude and to protect the lilly-white neo-con greedy bigots.

My question is to these neo-cons like Socon or Bust: Are you all barefoot and pregnant expecting minimum your 5th child. Hell neo-con evangelicals like St-Stevie and GW Bush only have two children each, for the most part.

Once again, this is a case of neo-cons shifting the blame in order to justify their own selfishness in order to hide from the real cause of the recession which was greed; pure unabashed capitalist greed and now they bitch and moan over the lack of births and can’t stand it when they have to learn to live in the same world as our new immigrant tax-payers. After all, unless you’re Native Indian,  you too are derived from immigrants.

No, it’s about time to swear off greed and materialism and start thinking about the communities in which we live.   Job creation is vital and we have to stop sending our jobs overseas at the expense of our workers. And yes, more regulation is definitely needed in the banking industry.

The blame game just doesn’t accomplish anything anymore, neither does greed nor bigotry.

I agree with Fern Hill on this one: I personally don’t care who is paying for our social programs.and such

Just when we think she can’t get anymore ridiculous, hypocritical and dumb, she sinks to whole new levels and so do her supporters it would seem.

This time, it comes so shortly after telling a captive Calgary audience willing to forgo grocery money or paying bills for the overpriced ticket, that her brother’s burnt ankle survived the Evul, Gulag-styled, ’socialized’, death panels of Whitehorse.  No, her ‘irony’ was not missed on folks with more than a grade 6 education. Neither was her hypocrisy after telling the character of Marg Delahunty of This Hour Has 22 Minutes that we should  basically scrap our single payer health care system in favor of the free markets so enterprises can turn a profit.

Well, she popped up at a Fetus-Fetishest rally to of course, open her mouth about the usual shit she spews like death panels, protecting the unborn and how she never would have aborted Trig, her down syndrome baby (she always does like to make a point of that don’t she?) and how her unwed knocked-up teen-aged daughter, Bristol didn’t have an abortion. Wow! Hot yippety dog!! Remember folks, people actually pay for this drivel!!

Well, anyhow, See Sawah run has a whole new excuse now for writing cheat notes on her hand, “God did it”. No shit! One of her bible thumping supporters sent her this passage from
Isaiah 49:16L:

¹⁶ See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
       your walls are ever before me.

Oh boy, I wonder if that supporter was part of the Andy Schlafly crowd, feverishly attempting to ‘de-librulize’ the bible?

Pretty much every story and every passage in the bible is open to interpretation. Even one of the priests at church when he gives the homily reminds us of this. In fact, he too, doesn’t believe many of the stories verbatim, but he’s very good at giving us his interpretation as to their meaning.

Using Isaiah 49:16 the way See Sawah Run did goes beyond an interpretation. It even defies logic, especially to one who studied pre-history.  To state the most obvious, they didn’t have pens or pencils or any tools for writing back in those days.

Furthermore, to believers, God is an entity; a spirit,  a supreme being, not some kind of being like a human or even an animal. God wouldn’t have hands.

Here is one possible interpretation of  Isaiah 49:16: and here’s another.  There are many other interpretations of Isaiah 49:16, as with any biblical passage, but, it most certainly would not mean God wrote on his hand, as See Sawah Run and her inbred bible-thumping fan club seem to strongly believe.

“Hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it’s good enough for me, for us. In that passage, he says, ‘I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you.’ And I’m like ok, I’m in good company,” she told cheering supporters.

As I’ve said, just when she can’t get any more ridiculous, self-contradictory or just plain dumb, she comes back with more…

The next time, she’ll stick in foot in it will more than likely be that debate started in the U.S. about backing out of NAFTA. Just think how she’ll find some way of exploiting her children for that one.

However, humour aside,  Sawah’s statement implies that typically fundamental Christian extremist that she, herself is.  It’s as if she is comparing herself to God, which is always a dangerous assertion for anyone to make, largely in part, it’s a symptom of schizophrenia and many other mental illnesses.  But then, I always did wonder about her stability as I would with any other religious extremist.

And remember, folks!! She could well be the next president of the U.S. of A. in 2012!