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Come to think of it, why am I even bothering? There are far bigger fish to fry and I’ m blogging about something relatively minor in the grand scheme of things given recent events.

Now, we get Jojo Blue. She has too much time on her hands. Clearly, the woman hasn’t a job.

She now frets over Chantal Hebert’s latest effort, discussing what kind of person  Master Steve should appoint to be Governor General and hopes it would be someone strong enough to better stand up to him than Michaelle Jean ever did (she did let him prorogue twice in 13 months!)

Don’t worry your pretty little  dear. Everybody, but everybody knows, much to most of our chagrin,but to your happiness the new GG will be Preston Manning. You can go back to your gardening now or your country club or whatever it is you conservative women do.

Don’t know why Hebert even bothered wasting the ink, really. I mean, with everything that happened in Toronto recently; agents provocateurs and further evidence being further unveiled proving this.  Police chiefs who invent the laws and evidence and lies more often than his political masters (it’s certainly a coin toss). Hebert could certainly be asking why no one has asked for the heads of  Chief Blair and Dalton McGuinty. There is plenty of stuff she could be writing about, but she chose such an insipid subject  no one can do anything about.  

She could also be writing about the indignation of the loss of privacy and dignity of travellers should this monstrosity of a bill C-42 pass.

She could even write of the dastardly effects Preston Manning as Governor General will have on our rapidly shrinking democracy and inching closer to Steve’s regime.

Let’s not forget those high priced, private, big assed prisons and tough on crime bills that would make the initial costs of the long gun registry seem frugal.

Another thing many seem to overlook when speculating about Peter Milliken as the next govenor general, he’s already said that he was staying on until the next election. While it is considered a strong possibility that Steve will call an election shortly after parliament resumes come the fall, no one has any way of knowing what date that will be. We do know that the Governor general must be replaced by a specific date in September. 

Steve is working toward that regime of his and what happened in Toronto over g20 week-end was simply a stepping stone toward that end.  Only Preston Manning will suit that end, as I’ve mentioned above. Now let’s move on. We’re stuck with that twerp more than likely.

Chantal, I often disagree with what you write, but at least you offer interesting theories and write subjects of substance. This isn’t one of them.

For those touting how great a Governor general Michaelle Jean was; let the picture  (by Pale of ACR) below serve as a reminder.

Glad that’s out of my system. Now my break is finished; back to work now.

Tonight, I go to a planning session for demonstations to be held this coming Saturday in different cities across Canada. Hope for a high participation!!

Yes, the GG will have to sit this one out for a day so Steve can control the message and have his pic taken with the queen.   Something tells me that even if the Expo 2010 were held in the U.S. or somewhere else not as far, he would still send her to the other end of the world just to make absolutely certain she wouldn’t be around for Canada Day shindig.

I’m sure he wishes she can stay permanently.

I bet he he’s just counting the days until the new GG Preston Manning or some equally as hideous takes over in September. Wouldn’t be a moment soon enough for his royal highness!

As for that staffer in the PMO office who would have come up with that brilliant idee, yes, Willy, he may well be so excited to have pleased Master Steve so to the point of losing control of his bodily functions, but you know Steve will take the credit for this MEP idea. 

Like most of today’s conservatives, I bet Steve still hasn’t gotten over being forced to share the finger paints with the other kids in his kindergarten class.

Indeed it would appear that St-Stevie isn’t going to extend Michealle Jean’s term.  Wow! Some appreciations Steve has for the woman who provided the skirt for him to run and hide under when bad, scary things happened like a coalition government of evul soshalists and separatists were looming or when  it came to Opposition parties basically voting for an inquiry into Tortruregate.

Maybe the cost is just too high, given he had to rush during prorogation to Haiti to beat out French President Nicolas Sarkozy to return the favour.

Apparently, Rick Hansen had been approached for the job but he turned it down. I’m not that surprised after catching his last interview with sportscaster, Brian Williams where Hansen says he is planning a new Man in Motion event. That’s too bad. Something tells me he would be that non-partisan type Canada needs, especially given how much power Steve has these days.

Awhile back, there were rumors about Preston Manning being a contender. Uh oh! Wow! A Harpercon majority potentially with a Harpercon Governor general. I dunno, but isn’t  that how totalitarian regimes get started?

The Grope & Fail shot out quite a few possibilities: some of whom I confess to not knowing a whole lot about, some who I think are inappropriate due to partisan reasaons and perhaps one or two of them could be good choices, except, Stevie chooses who he thinks will work in his favour; to fit with his constant tactics, not wo would be Canada’s best interests.

The poll below has choices for a potential GG. Please answer. Thanks.

Update: I just heard Richard Deschamps on CJAD news that apparently,  a Rick Hansen spokesperson has denied that ol’ Stevie even approached Rick Hansen for the job.

I knew it would be too good to be true. Please don’t let it be  Don Cherry or Preston Manning.

Another rumor circulating as a potential contender is Wayne Gretzky. Hmm, this could be a sort of gift for anyone smart enough to pick up on the hypocrisy.  Remember Harpercon attack ads regarding Iggy “just visiting” in reference to the fact that Iggy lived most of his adult life outside of Canada?  Well, doesn’t the same hold true of Gretzky? How long has he been living in the U.S. now?

I did indeed scan over the drivel during down time at work.  I couldn’t read the whole thing, but here it is if anyone cares to suffer through it.

Harpercons Work Toward Equality of Women

They want to change the national anthem to make it more gender neutral??

Ladies, what was all that crazy talk about St-Stevie bein’ sexist and misogynistic now?? Now, ya just gotta stop that nit-pickin’ now, because he goin’ to see about a makin’  “Oh Canada” more gender neutral!

If they want to revise the national anthem, may I suggest this one? I promise, it’s gender neutral and fun!! Betcha all will wanna sing it!

The Deficit

To attack the deficit, they plan to ‘freeze’  MP and senator’s salaries? They for real? However, it doesn’t go far enough.  I say take it a notch further…how’s about a salary cut?? .. How’s about gettin’ rid of the senate altogether? How’s about gettin’ rid of the GG? Wow! Think of the savings!

“Balancing the nation’s books will not come at the expense of the pensioners. It will not come by cutting transfer payments for heath care and education, or by raising taxes on hardworking Canadians.”

Remember this one folks! We will more than likely have to bring this up again at a later time; especially if St-Stevie gets his totalitarian regime.

Highlights

Here are some of the highlights- not according to ConTV, but more like what’s relevent to us. We will need to review those at a later time as well:

Reviews of department spending, eliminating of “unnecessary” gov’t appointments

Translation: now that he’s already stacked the senate with his buddies, he can afford this luxury.

More ‘Tough on Crime” bills  —

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nicholson is just itchin’ to get those passed, idn’t he? Even though they were supposed to have died at prorogation: much like the investigation into torturegate, n’est pas??  Hey, opposition parties, you wanna look good as opposition?? Block his tough on crime bills unless they agree to reform those very same committees and go back to that  torturegate investigation! What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

“The unique strength of Canada’s financial industry set Canada apart during the global financial crisis. The World Economic Forum, among others, has recognized Canada’s banking system as the strongest in the world.

Ya Don’t say! Then howcome St-Stevie is soooo hell bent on deregulating all this a la Georgie & Dickie??

They also want to encourage more foreign investment which more than likely means even less Canadian jobs. Foreign, meaning, of course, the U.S. of A., St-Stevie’s favorite country. It probably also means sending more jobs out to places like Thailand, China and India. That doesn’t help the majority working class struggling to keep the jobs they do have or the jobless to be able to find work.

In short, their priorities are changing the National anthem (Just to let you know, St-Stevie, I don’ t think you can use “The Star Spangled Banner” and freezing their salaries.

After reading that title, anyone scared? You should be, that is, unless, of course, you are a neo-con and even then, much like the tea-baggers south of the border, they are only swallowing what today’t corporatist media is spoon feeding them. Like their tea-bagging friends, most don’t have a clue what they’re signing up.

Yes, today’s right slanted corporatist media, owned by Harpercon friendly corporations and individuals are running the show. They would only hire and publish or allow on the airwaves like minded writers, hosts and pundits. They are great at not only spoonfeeding what they want their audiences to swallow, but to brainwash them into thinking listening, watching or reading anyone else would be dangerous: anybody outside their media outfits are nothing more than crazy lefty liars and/or elitists. How else did ol’ Steve have a ‘great 2009′ as columnists from National Posties and Grope and Fail (don’t remember who came up with that one, but I like the term) say he had? How else did Stevie’s numbers remain within majority grasp in spite of his transgressions?

Columnists and the Blogging Tories are all touting ol’ Stevie as THE man of the year; the politician of the year. L. Ian Thompson of the Montreal Gazette, not be outdone by his brethren at the other  Harpercon friendly bird cage liners, goes in so far as to call ol’ Stevie the politician of the decade!

Years ago, we would have been outraged at the allegations of torturing war detainees, no matter how bad they might have been. We would have been even more outraged at the cover up. We certainly wouldn’t have allowed a sitting Prime minister to prorogue parliament over some unpleasantness they’re confronted with, or at the very least, we would have put up the good fight.

Nowadays, the corporatist media just simply feeds us the typical party line: why should we care about what happens to the Terrible Taliban? They through acid in girls’ faces: they’ve repressed women for so long. Most, like the screeching blogging tories, run with this. Never do they stop and think  about the fact that torturing detainees is in blatant violation of the Geneva Convention: it breaks international law.   These right wingnuts claim to love Steve and the Harpercons because of  their ideas for maintaining law and order. Well, what kind of example do our leaders set when they, themselves break the law? How would they like to see their precious Uncle Stevie before the international tribunal in The Hague? I know that I would and so would many of my friends.

Stevie’s latest proroguation is far more sinister and evil than last year’s. What’s more outrageous about this latest proroguation is that it was done over the phone!  All the columnists and pundits are out. The Blogging Tories are blogging away with glee. Funny how they whined about the coalition being undemocratic but this proroguation is perfectly ok by them.

Last year, it was about not losing power. This year, it’s about setting the stage for the next federal election and getting the right slanted media to get Canadians to not only like it, but to embrace it.  He is worse than a schoolyard bully. He knows he has the numbers within majority grasp, but he must keep pummelling it would seem.With the Liberals at an all time low in disarray, he is coming up with a poison pill for Jim Flaherty to hand down, like to stop whatever stimulus spending was left to be done, cut all social programs, perhaps even sell off crown corporations to private enterprises (no doubt, heavily deregulated; caused the recession  but who cares, because greed must prevail, right?).  Basically, ol’ Stevie’s message in typical schoolyard bully form is:

…put the Liberals on notice that they must either accept that his government will act as though it has a majority, or be prepared to drop the government on the next budget. This only hours after Mr. Ignatieff felt obliged in year end interviews to stand down from his strategy of election mongering that had squandered so much of his credibility last year.

The Liberals appear to be without a leader these days. Iggy is incognito for the most part with the exception of a few appearances and year end speeches. Whatever speaking is happening, is coming Bob Rae and other members of the Liberal Party. One can only think Iggy is on the way out and the Liberals are regrouping and attempting to plot new strategy yet again.

Even Norman Spector, another useless hack, is now predicting an April election. All are in agreement he is planning his majority. More than a majority, but a totalitarian regime, it would seem.

Now, with the help of a video from Pale Cold of  A Creative Revolution: here is a little reminder as to who Stevie and his nasty little ”friends” are:

Yes, also let’s be reminded of another dangerous thing about ol’ Stevie: his membership of that Evangelical far right Christian sub-culture. You know, that sub-culture that is anti everything and everyone? That very same sub culture that boast a membership with the likes of See Sawah run, Georgie, Dickie and Mike Hunckapee?

Earlier, I saw a blog  discussing this latest and very sinister proroguation from the Jurist from Accidental Deliberations.

Sure, Harper’s prorogation once again made a mockery of our democracy. But since we can’t be bothered to do anything about it, we’ll chalk it up as a win for him.

Discouraging? Absolutely, but more than that, we should be terrified. Here’s why. When even now, fans of Harper such as columnists and opinion writers from the Grope And Fail criticize this proroguation as underhanded and undemocratic and when an Asper paper such as the Ottawa Citizen are allowing musings about ol’ Stevie’s aspirations for turning Canada into a dictatorship, this should send alarm bells to all, yes, even so-called centrists or small ‘c’ consevatives (if they even exist anymore).

Speaking of whom, ever notice how easy it is to push them to Stevie’s far right these days? Wasn’t hard to do: threaten evil socialism and the evils of Joseph Stalin did it. Corporatist media machine again over using and misusing the evil ‘S’ word.  Well, one way to swing them further left is to perhaps bring up General Pinochet’s Chile and other Military Junta regimes.

The Jurist is sadly right here; our complacency is one of the reasons why we’re inching closer and closer to an American styled health care system. It’s why we have become a laughing stock on the world stage. No L. Ian Macdonald, lay off the meds, ol’ Stevie is not a great force on the world stage (L. Ian really does think he’s a force on the world stage; read it to believe it!).

It is time for the Liberals and the NDP to get more aggressive. Hell, it’s time for them to merge already.

I have another question that I’m hoping a blogging tory can answer or someone like that: How come it’s only ok for ol’ Stevie to use dirty political tactics, prepare election calls and to be undemocratic but it’s not ok when the opposition parties do it??

It is time for us to learn from previous generations of activists and take action. Ol’ Stevie wants to be left in peace to enjoy the  Olympics? Let’s not  give him peace. He is counting on issues like climate change and torturegate to go way; let’s keep it alive and well.   I also don’t mean just with our blogs. We have to be more creative than that. Let’s come up with some ideas. Now that we have the internet with such networks like Progressive Bloggers, we can communicate ideas to each other far more easily and quickly amongst ourselves.  Let’s take back our Canada, they we knew it to be before Stevie completely turns this country into a banana republic; a dictatorship; a dictatorship perhaps even mimicking that of General Pinochet era Chile (ok, maybe a bit extreme, but I’ve learned that today’s neo-cons are that  extreme). Yes, today’s Right Slanted Corporatist media provides an unfair advantage for Stevie and the Harpercons, but it doesn’t mean we have to allow them to steamroll over us. It is important to not leave ol’ Stevie in peace. He is already the operation of flushing Canada down there:

Fuck off Stevie! Stay gone this time! Flush yourself down that Conservative toilet why don’t you?

After much learning and crash courses in building my own blog, Sister Sage’s Musings is now up and running on its’ own domain.

For those who followed me at Blogspot, I hope you will continue to enjoy reading my posts here. I am back to blogging regularly.

What a time to come back indeed! Stevie has once again ran away when the tough got going.   Where oh where did he go this time around? Oops! There he is!

I wonder who else is under there?

Image courtesy of Pale Cold of  A Creative Revolution

Stay tuned as I elaborate more on this subject as Stevie turns his government into a dictatorship of a banana republic. A Montreal columnist has pissed me off yet again as he proves he needs his meds adjusted during his last Harpercon brown nosing love fest.

I also saw it fitting to unveil my new blog site just before the clock strikes mid-night, although most of you are probably out partying and ringing in the New Year away from your computers; unless, of course, you’re like me and plans got cancelled at last minute practically or you don’t celebrate it really. Wherever you all may be, I wish you all a Happy New Year to you and your’s.  Here’s to hoping for the best: like Stevie to remain gone; for good! To take back our Canada. Here’s to raising a whole lotta hell in the blogosphere!

Sidenote: For those who may be wondering about the old Montreal Star pic: I wanted a retro styled theme; since blogging is a form of media, I wanted to show older styles of media, like the old radio, old tv with old pic of Montreal in the 70s. The Montreal Star was an English language newspaper now defunct since 1979.  Here is more info about it here. It is just part of the retro media theme; nothing more.