Friday, Burnaby Lake, Media Election

Laura and I had a lovely walk in the sun to Burnaby Lake. Great trail. No bikes.  Everyone enjoying the peace and quiet.  We finally arrived at the lake where the ducks hang out, glad for the seed treats people bring. I saw the Mandarin Duck again. The wood ducks are always there. The delight this time was the Green Winged Teal. Also loved the Red Winged Black Birds. 

 It was a wonderful escape from the cacaphony of the election. It really is disturbing , all the corporate corruption and election graft.  I don’t like Biden.  A corporate ‘nice imposter’, with the monster son who he uses. 

Then there’s Kamala, the US Eva Brawn. I thought Obama was more than his colour but to hear women on FB Kamala is just a brown vagina. Any brown vagina who gets a head is good enough for them. I can’t recall ever thinking like that about men or women. I was raised on meritocracy and believed the best pilot should fly the plane. That’s all gone now with Identity Politics and Gender Studies.  All men in Canada are primarily in their job because of their penis and a vagina would do better.  It’s South Africa all over again where white is now murdered by blacks and still there are people who think that is good. I am so out of it. I really have these outdated ideas of ‘Love thy neighbour.’  But Islam is not Christian. Communism is the religion of Aetheism. 

I look back on my life and all the times I didn’t stoop to be have like a Trudeau or a Biden cost me financially.  Now it’s all about euthanasia and MAiD.  God is great all of the time.  In this world the authorities killed Jesus.  Canada is a war monger state that lies.  Trudeau just sold 80 billion dollars in weapons and brought in more measures of dictatorship than his bro, Obama, whose spying on citizens is second only to Communist China and Koumeni Islam.  I am afraid. I’ve been brash and outspoken. My friends say they learned to ‘whisper’ in Islam.  The leaders of Islam are celebrating the beheading of anyone who makes fun of their God who clearly has no sense of humor despite being a joke to anyone not ruled by the sword. 

I’m actually enjoying my life. I’m safe. For now. I’ve heat and shelter and running water and indoor plumbing. I have all those physiological needs that Maslow said were basic. I have friends and family and my emotional needs are met. I have work and purpose and meaning so that I’m likely to survive even Auschwitz given what Victor Frankl said of his experience as a psychiatrist. The issue is self actualization.  Poets and writers are always the first killed in totalitarian states. I’ve been passed over for promotion because I’ve believed in objective truth and stated it against the lies of leadership. I’ve watched a blatant lying psychopaths fiction been preferred to sane truth by the corrupt authorities. 

It’s been worse each year but now I’m rather old and easily wasted. I can be disappeared or arrested and no one cares. The very leaders of Hong Kong are now in jail for questioning the evil Borg regime of Xi JinPing, Trudeau’s friend and likely lover.  Nothing makes sense of present day politics except the lists of those who met together on Epstein’s Island.  They are all anti Trump. I disagree with pedophilia even if that sentiment is no longer consider a true Canadian value. I celebrate adult sexuality between consenting adults and object to the Courts persisting in the sexist chivalry and political decisions.  But I’m passe. I reread the last of King Lear and hoped that that was not what we were seeing here.  Cornelia as Ivanka. 

 I don’t like George Soros, the Nazi sympathizer any more than I like Hanoi Jane and Benghazi HIllary or alleged pedophile Trudeau the stoner and liar. But frankly I don’t know these people. 

I met Trudeau’s father, an intellectual cold fish, loved the power and leadership of Chrétien who I met as well. I also thoroughly respected Turner who I spent a day with and truly admired Harper who I spent an evening with.  The difference is that these are real people. All these other images I speak about, Trump, Biden, Kamala, are media characatures.  Comic strip people created by dumbed down leftist corporate America. The translation of world by the low brow likes of corrupt Zuckerberg, a rather evil little man who thoroughly delights in abusing powers and others as the Congress hearings have taught us. These corporate leaders are not the stuff of history.  

I loved walking and looking at the colourful birds. It was good to be with Laura. We missed Gilbert, our cockapoo and talk a lot about a coming puppy.  She has her sister, children, grand children. I’ve nephews and family in the distance, friends here. But it was the dog I lived for. I miss the dogs and cats.  I’m rather lonely in my empty house thankful for a visit from Laura in these Covid times of isolation and alienation.  

I had hoped for some relief and reassurance with the election but Xi JinPing continues to rule the world with the UN at his bidding and he now looks to invade Taiwan as he has Hong Kong. That concerns me.  Clearly Trump was a formidable leader whose skills challenged the low brow stoner trust fund mentality of slacker Trudeau.  Bide and Kamala with their criminal histories will work with Quebec’s corrupt corporate SNC Lavalin. There’s more destruction of the middle class, my class and the elite will continue to get richer and more powerful with a new Maga Carta in the works but nothing for us squished down with the peasants to fit the Marxist binary vision.  We’ll get more free Heroin and free Marijuana and maybe more cheap sex with younger and younger people  The temple boys and girls given instead of work and position that gives one self esteem.  

I’ve chosen good over wrong. I’ve been a moral and ethical person.  This is Rome and the Empire moves along.  The Dark Star has always been there. Jesus said that this world was ruled by Satan. It’s all Money and Power. Marx said, Money is the God of the Jews.  Money and power is all that communism is about. Power is all that Sharia is about.   Satan is more apparent now.  I didn’t see the powers and principalities when I was young even though I read Brothers Karamasov.  It’s taken age to help me appreciate the wisdom of the classics.

I may have to stop writing to avoid jail or to avoid economic reprisal but I can continue to take pictures of birds. I’m too old to get by with sexual favours but I could sell a kidney if the need arose.  Others will face that.  It was so sad to see the active drug addicts in Malaysia and India.  The power of AA in Mexico was wonderful to see. The Church has always been there in times of terror and strife.  These are dark times. Gandhi said that we needed to meditate more. Martin Luther King said, it’s going to be a tough day, so need to spend more time one our knees.  

Thank you Jesus for all the blessings I’ve known and have today.  Guide me this day and in the days to come. Help me be of service to my fellow man and woman. St. Patrick protect me. Christ in front of me. Christ behind me. Christ to the left of me. Christ to the right of me. Christ beneath me. Christ above me. Christ within me and Christ without. Christ in the thoughts that everyone has of me. Holy Spirit come.  Hallelujah. God is good all of the time. Thank you St. Francis for the birds.

Red winged black bird

Duckie

Dowitcher

Mandarin duck

Green winged teal

Wood duck

Bird voyeur with Nikon and chef’s hat beret

Troudeau Dynasty

I know that Justin Troudeau might not even get a seat as a backbencher if his name was Justin Smith.  He’s clearly running on the historic ‘royal blood’ ticket, ironically in a modern day democracy.  We saw this with George Bush, Junior. George Bush, Senior was a prodigious statesman and his son followed daddy in the family business.
I keep thinking of juniors, these days.  Pretty boys pampered by their dolting mothers.  Isaiah's long necked women and their boys. Chamberlains compared to Churchills.  Nice young men.  Well intentioned to a fault sometimes, though entitled and grossly out of touch with reality, in many ways.  I think of Arlo Guthrie and his old man.  Old man Guthrie influenced the whole of the american music scene whereas Arlo his son wrote  some fun music about smuggling dope into LA and getting caught dumping garbage.  I met Arlo with Pete Seegers once and thought he was a very bright, delightful, accomplished young man.  But he didn’t know the suffering that his old man had known. And it was clear that Pete Seegers had taken him under his wing.
The same goes for the burst of ‘promise’ that Bob Dylan’s son had when he put out that first beautiful album then sort of disappeared. Bob Dylan literally changed the lyric style of an era, making intelligent popular music an acceptable avenue of poetic expression at a time when popular music was mostly frills and romance.  We don’t hear much about the Dylan boy even though Bob keeps on shaking up the world with his depth of ideas and willingness to grapple with all the trials of modern living. Blood on the Saddle and Modern Times were making historic waves decades after, his protest era songs.  I don’t know that his son ‘grew up’ but he’s a good boy.  He made sweet music.  I remember all manner of lyrics from old man Bob but just recall the boy's music as 'nice'.
None of us were prepared for the break up of the Beatles.  Wasn’t everyone just supposed to ‘give peace a chance’. Yet they themselves couldn’t. Then the bubble was really busted with the assassinations of Lennon, King and finally the self inflicted death of Belushi.  Life was real.
The liberals, despite Pierre’s quickly running to the military to bring tanks into the city, never seemed to come to terms with law and order. They seemed to think that they could just talk, get paid for talking, and play the media game, not unlike Hitler who still remains the greatest political media star of all time.  Thankfully the liberals had inherited ’traditions’ of goodness very different of Germany. Their talk was aimed at acquisition of money and they tore down the military with neglect, all the while increasing police and court powers thereby destroying the protections and freedoms of individuals within the country.  We got ‘rights’ on paper, which we’d previously had in fact and lost dignity in the process.   The lawyers benefited and special interest groups but I'm not sure we, the people, did.
The attraction of old man Troudeau for me was his intellectualism.  As a young man I liked new ideas and didn’t understand the value of traditions or that most of what was sold as ‘new’ was just ‘recycled old’ and somewhere sometime these ‘new’ ideas had been proven wrong. New ideas do percolate out of the old but they’re never obvious, not like the dope smoke platitudes  the Troudeau era promised.
The baby boom was on and the fact that so many young people were at college and our parents and country had just gone through the most prosperous era of the 50’s and 60’s , we had the disposable wealth to go on collective walk a bouts, have sit ins and marches, not worrying about crops or careers. Some might say we squandered the hard gains of our parents who’d worked forever through depressions and fought for the country through wars only to have their children turn to smoke, sex and flowers.
We’d all come through the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Liberals were promising peace on earth.  We had this idea of jobs for youth and money for creativity. There was ‘change’ but in retrospect it was the kind of change that we’ve seen with Obama.  Lots of drama.  Lots of excitement.  Red carnations.  And serious, very serious, patronage at the price of all.
I don’t like that the price Canada paid was the sell out of the country to Quebec and language laws that have punished every English speaking Canadian and every immigrant ever since.  Those who benefitted most from Troudeau have been Quebec born French Canadians and we learn today that Quebec is more and more infiltrated by the MOB than ever before known. Thanks to Troudeau all of Canada  has been saddled with a very expensive  relationship with a French low born woman who denies she is married, spends and behaves like a courtesan and always extorts all manner of money from Canada with a 30 year threat of ‘separation’.  Even Quebecers themselves grew tired of this hissy fit formula.  Troudeau despite his red carnation and divorce left Canada with a major debt and a very cold marriage bed.
Further the other group that benefitted from Troudeau’s era most were the political lawyers.  Canada was once known for it’s health care system but the profession of medicine has been ravaged by Troudeau’s lawyers along with the once famed engineers who literally built the country.  Lawyers themselves have suffered at the hand of the Troueau ‘political lawyers’ with their quick draw lawsuits ad infinitum and rights for the liberal special interest groups.  Collectively the gap between rich and poor can be dated from the era of Pierre and his love of intellectual communism and unwillingness to face the millions of murders by all the communist leaders of the last hundred years.
Ironically Layton and the NDP who really did represent the poor people of Canada were most aware of how Troudeau’s group had paved the way for the wealthy to be protected by shell companies and corporations and always lawyers making millions and millions to protect the status quo.  So there was Jack Layton fighting the detritus of Troudeau era liberals who promised ‘change’ and ended up protecting the status quo at all costs.  Today Mulcair and the NDP would demolish the senate, the Conservatives would at least require it be elected, but Troudeau wants the patronage status quo to remain, though he offers to change the names,(remember ADSCAM)  liberal party members in senate in future being called ‘independent’ despite being liberals.  Smoke and mirrors.
But at least Pierre had an ideology.  His son is just a babe surrounded by the corrupt Liberals who gave Canada, AdScam.  That was the multi million dollar ’sponsorship’ scandal in which advertisers and marketing men sold the Canadian people a ’new suit of clothes’, only to have a little boy say that the king was naked.  We got ‘advertisements’ for millions with nothing more than pretty pictures and words. Again we got smoke, more smoke and mirrors, all lacking any substance.That was when I stopped standing by the the Liberal Party and began to rethink my 25 year partisan relationship.  I wasn't alone, as the Liberal Party not long after almost slid off the political map, literally 'fired' by the collective Canadian people, baby boomers a whole lot older and more mature and no longer easily duped.  The flower children had long gone to seed.
Even though I admired Paul Marten’s business acumen I couldn’t accept that he wouldn’t have any of his ships registered in Canada because Canada under the liberals was essentially anti business, anti entrepreneurial and taxes were on everything for the sake of the privileged few.  To be rich Paul Marten’s fleet and it’s workers were kept offshore.
Turner was my kind of Canadian, a lovely man with a wonderful family.  Turner really loved this country and it’s wilderness and all the riches of it’s legacy and multiculturalism but he couldn’t compete with the entrenched Quebec Liberals.  He was from the west and the Liberals have never loved the west.  The gun laws were an attack on rural,northern and western Canada, taking 2 billion dollars mostly from Conservatives and NDP because that’s who the west, north and rural folk tend to vote for.  They need long rifles in their homes but the Liberals realized that they could get the eastern city ‘girl’ vote by more smoke and mirrors about outlawing guns so that 2 billion dollars in liberal patronage money could be doled out with slick advertising and massive lies only silly urban girls would buy. Thankfully those young women had grown up by the time Ignatieff tried the same old same old and they no longer bought the lies, if only because Canadian women were winning awards the world over for their extraordinary skills with long rifles. Who would have guessed?
The intellectuals of the Troudeau era were sweet boys promising to protect the girls from the rough bullies but in fact they had to call in the military when the intellectuals turned out to be the source of world terrorism.  Today the women of Canada having grown up could protect themselves so moved laterally into either the Conservatives or NDP party seeing that this was really where facts were greater than fiction.
My concern is that Justin Troudeau is today selling himself to the dope smoking teen agers.  Canada has the highest incidence of teenage dope smokers in the world. He’s spouting platitudes and playing as the pretty boy to the pretty girl groups.  The hard nosed old liberal ADSCAM and corrupt, possibly even MOB affiliated money men, are all betting on the ‘boy king’ especially with the help of the media and the promise that gave us Obama but no real substance.
I didn’t like the Dynasty television show.  it was the Kardasian girls of my day.  I’m afraid that other Canadians will be steam rolled by the Quebec based Liberal party and the rest of Canada will continue to pay for the red carnation that became the red maple leaf. I miss the blue in our flag. I would have had some yellow or brown even, rather than having our once trilateral flag which indeed represented the three parties, including ‘middle class’, being reduced now to the dichotomy of rich and poor, a two tone state.  I’d prefer even a flag debate than see Justin Troudeau get in with more smoke and mirrors.  I”m worried about dynasty just as men of old were when families consolidated power and we had tyrannies through history until finally democracy came and we embraced the idea that ‘real change’ was necessary for progress not just the change of media marketing scams and slick ad campaigns.
I’m fond of meritocracy.  Meritocracy serves the poor because it ensures that one ‘earns’ leadership rather than getting it gifted to them by their daddy and daddy’s friends.  There’s always a mix of this but Justin Troudeau is blatantly running on his father’s ticket just the same way George Bush, junior did and I really do have mixed feelings about George, junior, no matter how much I admire his mother.  Maggie, sweet as she is, isn’t at all the woman Mrs. Bush is.  I can't imagine how bad George Junior would have been without adult supervision.
I fear that's just what we have with Justin. He's desperately wanting to be like his daddy. He's a child of divorce and whereas Pierre wanted us to keep Quebec maybe Justin will cut Quebec lose. Stalin's wife killed herself and Maggie smoked dope to oblivion. There's a lot of family issues wanting a world stage to work themselves out on with a kid like Justin.  That was always the problem with 'royal blood'.  Even with dogs we know the 'pure breed's' carry a lot of disease, perform magnificently occasionally but are never collectively as hardy and robust as the mongrels.  Intelligence often skips a generation too.  Not that I'm thinking of George, Junior by any means.  I'm just wondering about Justin Troudeau and his puppet purpose for the Quebec money men.
So I’m concerned with all this dynasty business since I think Troudeau really only represents Quebec and the old Liberal money men while the Liberal tradition I loved , passed down from Pearson and such, has to date gone to the Red Tories or the Blue NDP.  If we accept Justin Troudeau’s capriciousness with naming things and believing in the deconstructionist , the name is everything,  the NDP are the Liberals today especially under Mulcair.  The Conservatives under Harper are the same conservatives that go all the way back to John A. MacDonald.
I don’t know who Justin is.  And frankly I don’t think he does either. His father, with his red carnation, was the premier flower child of Canada of the sixties but so far all Justin Troudeau is, is a Marijuana bud.  There's something seedy about all this.

Morning after the American Election

We're still here. Civil War hasn't broken out in the US. I suspect that one day there will be a disclosure of the tricky dicky maneuvers this election has. Not because it's Obama but simply because both the Democrats and Republicans approach elections like American football games without referees. Like their money management of the world. It doesn't matter how we play the game, it's whether we win or lose. It's like war and marriage in that regard. All's fair. War hasn't changed but marriage has and will continue to evolve as societies change. The best comment I saw on Facebook was "We live in Canada." After that my favourite was "We survived Bush, we can survive Obama." According to the global warming group we won't have long to go. We'll all be black as toast in a year and it won't have anything to do with politics. But then I'm old enough to reflect on a life time of catastrophising by media who according to my personal 'conspiracy' theory are definitely in bed with booze and drugs so they can sell more anti anxiety "self medication". And we will never know if the Democrats got in because more people are smoking dope in the US than ever before. They're still drinking as much but on good days they keep peace, hunt down terrorists, send missions to Mars and develop some amazing technological advances. People quickly forget that everyone is trying to leave the Communist countries and the medieval countries with tyrants would be emptied but for one thing. America doesn't let everyone in. We may criticize Obama and Bush but that's where the world's people want to go. It's the new Rome. It's London and Paris and of course the Chinese want to be Washington but what Communist Country ever could compete since their principle atheist strategy is to kill tens of millions so they don't have dissent and with loss of dissent naturally lose creativity. Russia became great stealing American technology and China is doing the same. In contrast I put my faith in the western world where Canada recently was awarded for having the greatest personal freedom. No wonder people want to come here from all over the world. It's just sad that we 'sell' off the land letting bureaucrats and politicians get kickbacks for their sales. I'm concerned about Obama. I was concerned about Bush. I think Troudeau who was as concerning as any of them, including Harper, who I personally like, said it all, when you're a mouse living beside an elephant you have to pay attention even when you sleep. It's all way above my pay grade. I'm actually rather thankful that someone else takes care of the nitty gritty of government. Most of the people I've heard being critical of government only do that, criticize. I see those who are 'volunteering' and those who are actively involved in matters of state showing a great deal more humility. I have held many leadership positions in my life and frankly it sucks. You can't please everyone and there are in the US guys on the right and the left who think assassination is acceptable. We've seen Presidents get shot. It's not the Canadian way of doing things but Americans are footballers and not hockey players. I'm thankful that the Vancouver Riotters are being fine and put in jail by the extremely fine British Columbia judiciary which respects hockey. Hockey is not soccer where fans use the game as an excuse to get drunk and beat each other up in the stands. Hockey is not American Football where they have to have cheerleaders to keep the audience attention while everyone stands around and talks most of the game. If life was a hockey game Obama and Romney would be a different story. Who knows who would be the puck and who would be the stick in that universe. Parallel universe's exist as surely as heaven and hell. Despite threat of nuclear war all my life and rank stupidity and sometimes downright psychopathic sociopathic economic and political deceit, I'm thankful for this morning and this sunny day. Congratulations America for having yet another election without shooting voters or aborting female fetuses to fix the elections years in advance. One day I trust America and the world will ask Canada to lead but not too soon. We have hockey games and miracles to attend to. Right now our health care system and welfare system and defence system are all in as much need of help as the media here. So rather than gawking south and criticizing our neighbours we probably should get down to hewing wood and drawing water. That's what the Americans will probably be doing once they get over this outrageously wasteful and expensive political "party" boon dangle.

Political Thinking Rant

Politics is about secular 'winning'. It's a great beaurocratic legal game.  It's called a 'leader's race'. It's all about who 'scores'.  There are women and men, homosexual, lesbians, immigrants, first nations, westerners, easterners, urban, suburban, rural, but mostly rich and poor.  Harper from the Conservatives wants to win.  Ignatieff from the Liberals wants to win.  Layton from the NDP wants to win.  Individually they all stand to gain if they do.  This is a major job on the line with pensions and benefits and great pay and influence.  None of these individuals is 'sacrificing' themselves.  However, each of them is accomplished enough individually that they might well make as much or more money for themselves outside of politics.  I have learned over the years that each  in their own way popular.
Harper is a much loved family man. He's like Obama that way.  He's an accomplished pianist just as Clinton liked to play the trumpet.  He has a terrifc sense of humor.  Men and women of the media raved about his capacity for caricature before he became Prime Minister and had to back away from the media because in Canada it's been a Liberal/NDP tool for decades.  We still hear about Mulroney's dirty dealings despite him being cleared of all charges whereas Chretien avoided even investigation with the media complicit in their silence.  The media, ad men, spin doctors and the lot of paper pushers always fared well with the Liberals.  Layton started out a pro union man but the unions wanted the budget and he turned his back on them. The NDP have always catered to the 'fringe' element,  radical feminists, but especially those who are 'professional poor'.  There's a core of the old Social Credit movment which was high minded but more and more the NDP has associated itself with things like more marijuana and more legal aid for  lifelong prisoners.  I don't know Layton.  Ignatieff has always seemed like that angry entitled priviledged ivory tower sort.  He really talks to people like they're school students.  I appreciate how the tenured university sorts would like him but I don't know him.  All these years in politics and he's just been criticizing and haranguing.  Mostly he's been promsing to spend taxpayers money. That's frightening to me.  I saw Obama this week was blocked in giving away 30 billion dollars to his party supporters.  That's what I associate the Liberals with.  If they get in power they'd create more jobs for more beaurocrats while driving out every corporation and destroying small businesses.  Canada pays outrageous taxes for less and less.  In Europe they pay taxes but everyone gets 'stuff'.
Here we pay taxes supposedly for 'health care' but we've got such long waitlists and every 'health care support' but no doctors.  Anything important we pay privately for because the Liberals called 'health care' 'hand holding'  and 'advertising.  Under the liberal government doctors and nurses were left aside while glossy magazines were put out for patients.
But I started out to talk about political thinking. Note how political talk is often tangential, obsessive, and circumstantial.  I noted that Harper was pro Israel and that the Israelis bought F35's and want Canadians to have F35's.  Ignatieff was flaunting his arm around a young moslem girl in sharia dress so I thought what's that about.  Ignatieff was against the Jews when Harper was pro Israeli.  Canada took a lot of heat for Harper's decisions on behalf of our  traditional ally.  Yet here was Ignatieff appearing anti Israel but the Liberals are traditionally pro Jews.  In England it was the Conservatives that created the Israel state but later it was the Conservatives that backed Egypt.  Hard to follow these things. In Canada the major rising media control has been Jewish. So when Chretien gave away all the taxpayers money in his swindle it stands to reason that this minority group benefitted more than others.  It's like supporting Hollywood.  You couldn't help support the minority jews there in the same way.  The NDP have always supported the poor jews.  Marx, Lennin and the original communist parties were principally jewish intellectuals.  Not surprising since the Nazi of the day were so anti semetic.  Are the conservatives courting the Americans with their international support of Israel. Are the Liberals courting the rich homeland jews who might well not be zionist however have powerful control of aspects of media that would help them manipulate the public.
Now I could have used any minority group to show what I'm trying to say. Hedy Fry has been playing to the black immigrant women.  Libby Davis plays to the lesbian women.  Everyone plays to the minorities.
Political thinking is a bout winning. That means getting votes.  Though the Jews are a minority they have a major presence financially, in the media, and legally and in medicine. The Chinese are engineers and doctors, builders too but so many are Christian and Conservative because of their strong family and financial conservativism.
Somewhere there is a score sheet. What it shows is that though there may only 1 or 2 % of Jews in Canada they vote for a particular issues.  Most Canadian jews aren't zionists and many are anti american.  More and more are pro pacific rim.  So the question in the election is who is Ignatieff playing too.  He's just an actor so there's a producer and director that has either said the Jewish vote doesn't count or that they can get the media on their side and that way get the jewish vote that they care for.  Screw Israel and the United States.  Hedy Fry, a doctor, said screw doctors and raved insanely about crosses burning in Prince GEorge because her main constituency was immigrant black women.  Now these immigrant black women are often high educacated and speak french so they're replacing the old Quebecois in federal beurocracy.  Hedy gets the women's vote by getting the black women's vote.  But why.
It always comes back to votes and money.  Money buys votes and votes gets power.
Even after Churchill, a conservative, literally won the war, he lost the peace time vote because the majority of voters didn't show up.
Minority groups vote.  People who are working 12 hours a day might not find the time to get out and vote but the 'professional poor' certainly do. Also if you're gay and you've been discriminated against by cowboy cops riding into your community beating up men at private parties you will get out to vote.  Also if you're an immigrant you often come from countries where work and jobs all depended on paying the party leaders.  So many immigrants are primed to be good party voters.  In India you had to be political just to work.  Immigrrants are by way of selections joiners and will work together and join so they can bring a lot of political power with them. My Hindu friend bought a car with four other hindu friends and time shared the car.  This was his way to rapid success and independence in Canada.  I'd never want to share my Harley Davidson with anyone. No one else but me gets to drive it. That's a very Canadian thought. My friend is like that now with his Harley but alot of Canadians have been their whole life subjected to 'divide and conquer'.
Politics is strategy.  It really doesn't matter to me who you vote for.  I truly believe if everyone in Canada was forced to vote or every one in Canada was paid to vote the Conservatives would win by alandslide. They'd have a majority government and major changes for the benefit of all Canadians would occur.  If the liberals won they'd be supporting the special interest groups they'd targetted and if the NDP won they'd turn the country upside down and maybe even get us kicked out of North America.  That's my belief.
The fact is that political parties are assessing us all as Jews, First Nations, professional, unprofessional, rural, employed, unemployed, sex offender, drunkard, militarist, vegetarian or whatever.  They are all using polls to assess what we apparently like and marketting themselves directly to our foibles.
You're an idiot if you don't recognise that Harper is coca cola and Ignatieff is pepsi.  Layton is just dirty water in a pretty bottle.  It's advertising, marketting and all about the brand.
They all want the Jewish vote.  The trouble is the Jewish vote is not a single vote It's zionist, it's aetheist, it's orthodox, it's conservative, it's liberal, it's poor, it's rich, it's women and men.  Sure if the liberals said they were going to support a nuclear weapons program for Iran rather than Ignatieff just manhandling a young moslem woman for the cameras the Jewish community would join together because the political machine within the Jewish community would go to create paranoia and say we all have to vote Conservative to avoid a Holocaust.  That's politics.  As it is I don't think there's any "jewish vote' in Canada.
There certainly is a ' young urban women's vote'.  The Liberals played this amazingly well in the 2 billion dollar anti hunter, anti farmer, anti rural, anti military, anti police 'GUN REGISTRATION" swindle.  They knew that urban women didn't own guns. They knew this because a smart crooked Liberal read the ORIGINAL GUN REGISTRATION lists  and saw that there were few women's names as gun owners.  So he thought, aha, I have a group I can market too.   I'll say that guns need to be registered and that will steal money from the rurals, give it to the urbans and get the young urban women vote.
It's the opposite in the US where your urban women are principle gun owners. Canadian women  had been lead to believe that phoning 911 got police protection without realizing it just got the police at the site of the crime after the murder. Policing is about catching criminals and not a whole lot about protecting women from criminals.  So in the US women commonly buy a gun and have one in their purse or homes.  Criminals are opportunists so they always go for the easy prey. A  criminal would never attempt to rape an American woman if there was a Canadian woman to choose instead.  European women, Latin women, African women and Asian women are good with knives. Canadian young urban women only know how to order in though recently they've been arming themselves with purse dogs confusing criminals to no end.
The criminals always have guns. Even in England with the toughest gun laws in the world the criminals had guns.  The Liberals counted on Canadian women to be 'stupid' in this regard.  The fathers of Canadian women had fought in WWII and Korea and the Fathers  of Canadian women were the protectors of their mothers and their grandfathers protected their grandmothers with guns.  But the radical feminist movement said 'guns' were bad.  The liberals fanned this. Not only that ,they played up that men who hunted and men who farmed, in general, men who lived in the country, were 'bad' men. They were 'hairy' men. Whereas Liberal men were shaving their bodies and wearing perfume and panities  and not talking about guns with their girlfriends.  The Liberal men were lawyers and beaurocrats and ad men.  They were stealing money in great bank scandals and they always figured if they needed a gun they could buy a criminal with a gun. The liberal men have always thought they were smarter than the rest of Canadians.  Not smart in a good smart way. Arrogant smart.  So they ran an anti gun campaign and said we needed "GUN REGISTRATION".  It was classic liberal politics.
Now the women in Canada at the time were so collectively 'stupid' about guns and gun registration, since they were still buying makeup and reading women's magazines on how to catch a Liberal Man with tricks from Chatelaine and Cosmopolitan that they didn't know that all guns in Canada were already being registered.  Since the 60's whenever anyone bought a gun they had to have a license. Citizens had to apply for that license. Citizens had to then show that license and their identification and sign for the gun at the gun store just the way one bought and signed for a car. If there was an unlicensed gun it was like a buggy in a farmers field. A father had given his son or daughter an old shotgun or 22  from the 50's when every household had a gun. In Israel there is a gun in every househood. Every Jewish  woman in Jerusalem knows how to use a gun. In Canada our grandfathers mostly hunted and went out to the country.  In Alaska today it's considered child abuse if a women takes her kids into the country without a gun. The liberals marketted their gun legislation lies to 'yuppie feminist women' who had never been anywhere that might break their high heels or nails. Thankfully today women are as likely to be out in the woods and wilderness of canada climbing and hikeing. They're carriyng real guns, bear bangers and flare guns. Canadian women aren't afraid of guns anymore.  They just don't like criminals.. So Canadian women today are most likely to vote Conservative.
But the Liberals had to have "GUN REGISTRATION" . Why. Because stupid single urban women didn't want men to have guns.  They didn't know anything about guns but they were arrogant and outrageously silly. This got 2 billion dollars in jobs for liberal men.  It also ensured that the liberal party would never get a vote again in the country but they didn't care about Canadians in rural areas. Nobody does because all the people are in the city.  So how to get more city votes and how to get more money to liberal men.  Liberal men mostly need government jobs like NDP men.  Criminals today have hand guns, machine guns and rocket launchers thanks to the liberals and their very silly girlfiends.
One of my female friends just did her gun training and the teacher was a woman who lead safaris and a quarter to a third of the class were women. Today the top marksmen in Canada were women and my women police friends aren't afraid of guns like their silly sisters were two decades back.   The only female Prime Minister in Canada was Conservative Kim Campbell and she'd ensured that Canadians were protected from gun toting criminals.  Prior to her all this registration was in place. Kim Campbell was tough on crime. But the Liberals wanted to 'look' like they were so they made up a 'lie'.  And they sold that 'lie' to the Canadian people. They're 'admen'. The emperoror has new clothes.
In health care I saw that Canadians wanted more doctors, more nurses and more medicine and surgery.  What the liberals have consistently given them is a 'lie' in my field. Liberlas have given more 'administration', more 'party politicos' and more 'legislation' and  health care 'registration'. Doctors and nurses aren't even allowed to see patients without a lawyer in the room. Health care in Canada is now 90% beaurocratic legal and adman money.    When  the conservative budget called for more money for rural doctors, Jack Layton shot that budget down.  Jack doesn't care for rural people. There's not enough votes in the country.  He's a city guy. His constituency is the 'professional poor".  .

So this is 'political thnking.  Note that I am politically thinking too. To a liberal or an NDP I don't know what I'm talking about.  Politics is about whether you're a conservative and you believe in the Canucks and think Goretsky is a great hockey player or whether you believe in granola and hot yoga and adult pornography and think Ignatieff is your man. Or you're a revolutionary like Layton who would have Canada as poor as Cuba.

Political thinking is about crazy thinking. The greatest study of political thinking was a study when schizophrenics and those in mental asylums were asked to vote and they voted exactly the same distribution as Canadians. They voted for Conservatives and Liberals and NDP's and their votes were the same as Canadians who were supposedly sane.

So read the 'crazy thinking' in this political thinking piece.It's my rant. It's just a bit more of an honest rant than Ignatieff or Layton in my opinion.  Political thnking is all about opinion and everyone in Canada is entitled to an opinion, especially in politics,  despite what Ignatieff and Layton say.  I'm voting Conservative. I'm voting for Freedom.  I'm voting for Canada. I would like every single Canadian to vote. I am less concerned if they vote Liberal or NDP or Liberal and NDP versus Conservative. I want to see democracy at work.  So I have an opinion in politics. Everyone is 'entited to an opinion' in politics. Even silly single urban girls who don't know anything about guns and gun registration and could be bought by ads to believe that Canadians didn't have gun legislation are entitled to their silly stupid opinions.  The only un registered guns are criminals guns.  Guns rarely kill. Cities kill a whole lot more people than guns. But if this political thingking looks slightly skewed realize that that is 'political thinking'. Political thinking is partisan thinking. No one is 'right'.  In retrospect they're right or wrong but at the time it's like a 'court argument'. It's debate and it doesn't matter if the politicians lie like with the Liberals 'gun registration ' or 'health care' but only if the population doesn't know they lied till after the vote.
Further politics is never about the best person for the job.  Jesus Christ was killed by politics and politicians.  Politics is about chosing the least bad alternative. Right now I think that's Harper.  Harper isn't Jesus Christ and Ignatieff isn't Charlie Sheen. Layton isn't  Cheech and Chong.  The Quebecois are bozo the clown, though.  But politics is like hockey because there's a winner and a loser.  I like the Canucks.  I will tell you why I think my team is better and why I think your team is going to lose. That's political thinking.  There will be truth and there will be logic but there will be a lot more rhetoric. If you want to understand this more, look up the Nizkor Project.
Using my previous example, if jews were 90 % of canadians and only 1 % of jews  voted, and jews were poor and smart you'd not hear a thing about jews in this election.  Instead if there were 10% immigrants and 9% of immigrants voted then you'd hear alot about immigrants.  There are lists and the question is are your people voting and contributing money and what do your people want.
Canadians vote like insane people.  That's the bottom line. And that's what political thinking sounds like.  Now get out, campaign  and vote  I personally think elections are a release valve in which Canadians can rant and rave and run around like insane people having these silly stupid popularity contests. So vote for Harper because obviously from my writing you can see that's the only safe and mature way to vote.   .

CBC - Communist Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian media has historically been left of central for decades.  I had hoped this was changing with the CBC.   This morning I listened CBC for the 3/4 drive to work hearing the news and morning coverage. Conservative leader Steven Harper had just visitted Vancouver. So had NDP Michael Layton.  Normally good news coverage will be provided for those present.  This was not the case.  Ignatieff, the pro Quebecois, Liberal leader was given more time than either Harper or Layton or perhaps even Harper and Layton together.  Pathetic!  If this is a harbinger of the national radio's coverage of this election then really I don't think we as Canadians should have to pay for this.  Bias is often subtle and contrived as such.  A strong soundbite from one leader is coupled with a weak one from another ignoring the two equally powerful statements that could have been chosen. We really have to watch our media carefully.  Admittedly my 'sample' this morning was 3/4 of an hour but historically the CBC was grossly offensive in its anti- West, pro liberal bias.  The Conservatives actually cut the CBC budget because it was so irrelevant nationally and wholly Toronto and Montreal focussed.  Now we're likely at risk of seeing 'payback'.  I'm not impressed.

Someone needs to seriously monitor media coverage of this election.  The media blocked Fox News but said nothing about the Toronto-Montreal rag Globe and Mail claiming national status.

Today I was just disappointed.  Hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully Canadians won't have to settle for the kind of Propaganda that has citizens around the world wanting 'democracy' which implies 'freedom of speech'. But where is there 'freedom of speech' and 'free media' when the media is wholly controlled by a special interest group.