House of cards!!!!!!

This millenium the stock market crash will be a crisis of monetary faith . The world has been fueled by real estate greed and the lifestyle says who you are in this world..... the people who do great things aren't the icons we aspire to be like ...the youth want to be celebrities and live the life ....but they live the life with credit....

The morgage markets are in panic and very little is being said or done to alert people about the possible outcome if the markets implode. To live people use plastic to pay , the same way people bought stocks before the crash ....when the demand to pay comes and people cry to the slobbering politicians to save their lifestyle , everyone will suffer whether you owe a lot or nothing ....

America is spending billions to fuel a war so the Bush family can control oil ..... the money from Iraq oil is where? .... the Amerikan people will have no hope if the crash comes because they have no industry, no farms and nothing to trade to stabilize their economic disaster ...

Doesn't anyone suffer a lapse of faith? The Catholic church .... the big know alls of right and sinful bad paid out a settlement to avoid the details of the sex scandal coming out in open court ... do they think that it is worth holding on for a trip to the pearly gates after they trip the light fantastic with a young boy from the congegation? Who is calling out what is sinful enough to be awarded the damnation card? I wonder because the true point of religion was to deter the moral lapses for fear of losing Heaven .....

With all the crime, war, corruption, and fun goings on who is worried about the afterlife .... as long as you have a golden parachute or the upper hand in this life who cares? ..... as a last resort you can buy absolution from a catholic preist if he isn't helping shepherd the young choirboys .

Tammy Faye Baker Messner died recently and before she died she said she was going to a better place .... WHAT?

I bet if you ask any politician about Heaven they would all agree that they will go on to a better place .......WHY?

Don't you have to at least try to be a good soul .... at least try.

It is vacation time in Canada for political hacks ...our emperor is on a tour of certain countries with no real logic ...but as a conservative butt monkey for Amerikan big business and no mind of his own for his subjects he is exploring free trade in south america .....Amerika isn't popular enough to do this on their own so they send the monkey in the organ grinder show to set the wheels in motion for Amerika .... when monkey boy Harper retires it will be with a golden parachute full of gringo dollars and job offers ....and Canadians will see more jobs slide to the south so Amerika can cash in on cheap labour.

The one rush to unemployment we need is in Government monkey boys.

Amerikan politicians are using the "I" word with Bush's name ......impeach Bush and you get the real power mad villain ....Trickie Dickie Cheney .....the obvious eludes the Amerika small "d" democracy ....... Bush isn't smart enough to be getting away with anything too complex ....he can hardly speak coherently let alone walk and wave.

The big judicial victory ....Conrad Black was convicted of a criminal act .... he is in shock ....he could never accept judgement from lesser beings. If jailed he will loose his sanity when he looses his arrogant power personality to a prison dormitory and working to earn 12 pennies an hour for spending money in the prison store. At the mercy of people he would normally dismiss as insignificant. Oh well it makes me feel better for a few minutes.....

I'm not being a good person today ...I am enjoying the downfall of one of the Arrogant rich. Oh to have many more good days to feel happy about the karmic wheel turning a little towards a balance .

Canada , a country were ideals were more than words to create the illusion of democracy , is now a country where the leader thinks himself King and the voters are the lowly subjects. We have to look to the political party running the smoke and mirror show to figure which way the corruption flows. If a Liberal leads then the money goes right out of the public purse into the golden parachut fund for party faithful and if a Conservative runs the mess then they work the old Liberal tricks while traiterously sell off the sovereigncy of the country to American government and big business associates of the current crop of ignorant redkneck American politicos.

I started out hoping for an honest politician .... like wandering with the lantern in the night searching for an honest man. I think I would settle for a few hard hitting journalists who were willing to keep asking hard questions and demanding answers. Have the Canadian politicians succeeded in diluting the people of this country into a wash of selfish sects that can't or won't look to see what the future is going to be like for their future generations. They could all be waiting to move out of the country after stripping away it's identity. Back to their original homelands which we constantly hear the whining about how they loved their country even though this country is okay. I say if you aren't really a Canadian, capital C, then quit changing this land. If you moved to any other country you don't get the aid and chance to cry obout your rights as much as we endure here. Try living the same life in the big freedom land of small d democratic amerika ......

The "conservative" rulers of Canada are selling off the energy resources of the country to amerika .....the Atomic energy commission to General Electric ..... a company like so many amerikan pollution experts .... expert at polluting .... this is reminiscent of the Amerikan government trying to sell off port security to an Arabian company.... the profits must have been tempting to even consider such a deal when anyone or anything in the racial profile since 911 gets the big security search up to and including the cavity search with cattle prod.... and a trip to a CIA prison with no exit or rights .... ?

If you are CANADIAN then it is well past time to wake up and "smell the coffee" ..... spell coffee ... CORRUPTION! Be very afaid it isn't paranoia it is real.

Scooter Libby getting his sentence commuted is just another nail in the coffin holding any ideals of democracy we might harbour.

He did the crime and he did it for the vice weasel... trickie dickie cheney .... now he walks out free waiting for his pardon which will surely follow. At the white house press conference the press secretary was asked if the adminitration would explain and appologize for this affront to justice .... he flippantly said I appologize for the administration .... the press were outraged.

How can they be shocked? They must have seen the disintegration of Democracy .... fixed votes and corrupt spending. Someone , probably Trickie Dickie Cheny , is the puppet master of the sideshow.

America is on the prowl to spread democracy , small "d" , to the rest of the world .... they should try to reinstate Democracy to America before sharing the new small "d" version with the world.

Scooter , what kind of a name for a grown man is that , should be in jail despite the fact his crime was done for his leader. With Scooter for a name his cellmate could coo "scoot a little closer" and he could write his memoirs from prison..... including lots of intimate facts about his new friend.

At least in "Watergate" the presidents men fell into jail time even if the two lead weasels got off the hook. Democracy is dying quickly and it is being helped by the elected who rule not manage ..... the press who are too lazy to hound for the truth and expose it ...... and the common man who sits and accepts the power exerted over him as normal .... when it all goes to hell in a hand cart so many that could stop it will be looking to lay blame and excuse themselves as victims.....

I feel the need to ramble....

The moral compass.....part of the built in operators guide we all use to have....a sense of wonder, a sense of shame, a joy for life not possessions, and the aforementioned moral compass made the world I grew up in a place of beauty and awe.....we never worried about locking the door or fought with the neighbours for a reason we couldn't remember afterwards ..... we never had the things they tell us we need to live today.....everything to make life run faster ....I am starting to believe slowing down would be dangerous...the impact from anyone realizing they whorship greed and have "idols" called celebrities .....the long ignored moral compass could throw everyone into a panic. Society is too screwed up to stop in it's head on rush to get to the finish line.

Music....we use to listen to the music and it was for dancing, for fun, for informing us and it was free to listen to .....the artist was judged only on how much we enjoyed, appreciated, or wondered at their music....not at how much they can swear or incite people to hate....not question .....the way artists raised people's awareness of the world they lived in ......we didn't judge the artist ...he was a kindred spirit......now we measure the Booty on the female artist and not the songs or their quality ....we look at them more than we listen.....I miss the past performers who were loved for the music.....now we couldn't have a Janis Joplin, a Joan Baez, a Janis Ian or so many more......we have cookie cutter world for music that requires we see the music not hear it......if we were only able to listen to the music would we want other music....do the blind find a big ass or foul mouth to their liking or do they still find a well turned phrase and a great musical hook to their taste ..... ask yourself if Motown were today would anyone listen?


The moral compass we all have just most seem to have turned it over so they could get more have more and not have the nagging inner voice saying the compass is out of wack. I couldn't turn my compass off or hide it. I had a curse of observation and since so many won't face the compass I watched the world skew out of perspective ..... every occassion were I couldn't stop myself from speaking out I got run over by the stampede of moral lemmings heading for oblivium..... I stand in the herd of blank faces and think is getting run over worth the aggravation then I glance at the compass .... hold my tongue as much as I can and hold the course I'm on ....the lemmings be damned.

Watched a classic zombie movie and the zombies liked to eat brains.....jump to the present day and anyone with a couple of non self centered brain cells would escape long enough for the zombies to starve to death on the masses....the Zombie who gets a Britney, Paris or similar person would feel like they had chinese food....you eat it but are never satisfied you had enough to eat.

Do you wonder as I do if gangster movies, like The Godfather are the new business of the mafia? Do the crime then film the lifestyle and cash in twice.

I saw the previews for Sicko , the new Michael Moore film/documentary ......I wonder if it will ever be more profitable to cure a disease/illness than just sell new pills with more side effects than marriage.

I read a new thing for the 20 to 30 year olds is Viagra......why? Can't they see the excitement or is everything being lived at super speed....... I just need to think about Christina Ricci.

I just felt compelled to write....Paris Hilton is out of jail...ideally she would have been cellmates with some poor woman in jail for a similar offence ...only the poor person would be serving 6 months.....ideally Paris the little princess would leave after becoming the "bitch" to her cellmate and learning about the regular world of hard knocks....oh well too bad....

Elected officials ....I've been watching CNN and the Dick Cheney business where he interprets the way things have always worked to a new view of what works for Dickie.....if he were president we could call him Trickie Dickie the second....

Elected Officials....they think they are elected to rule a country....oh no....they are the managers we elected to oversee the country we live in and they should be eligible to be fired for not following the basic rules of common sense and decency....

Celebrities? politicians think of going to anywhere and any occasion for a photo opportunity.....they parade around for publicity on par with a street corner social directer parading her wares to make her "wages"......rarely does a politician complain about photographers.....hell they would even cart around a street lamp to get good lighting.

The non elected "celebrity" complains about the invasion into their private lives by photo hounds....but let the publicity stop and they get out the street light and pose shamelessly.

If they want to do something for the environment ,they could cancel all the trash magazines and show they really care .... not just publicity posturing. So many celebs are pointing out their concern about the world condition but they aren't giving up any of the monster homes and huge cars to back up the claims.

The number of people who are on the elevated stratosphere of status is comical....the new laws for the special people are the sign of a decaying civilization......I'm just jealous , I want to be special too......with the big entourage to take care of me.....

Jennifer Lopez supposedly has over 100 assistants ... one, whose whole job is eyebrow maintenance.... what does she do ? reality check...

Paris Hilton who sees herself as a celebrity....has only one worthwhile contribution to this world....her death scene in the movie "House of Wax" raised the movie to cult status...people rent the film just to cheer her death....social comentary....Atlantis sank into the ocean America will whimper into the shadows.

Every great civilization ended by disintegrating slowly from within until the neighbours could march in and take over......America is on schedule to slip into a moral quagmire and soon....

New Orleans , new justice standards, and a new morality ....don't mothers explain to their daughters about putting on underwear....I feel that I have seen enough shots of celebrity trailer trash ......America won't be lucky enough to sink into the ocean to hide it's shame ...taking for granted that they are still capable of feeling shame.





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We need a hard look at terrorists....they are supposedly graduating new suicide bombers.....the prom must really be special...no need to worry what you'll look like at the tenth anniversary reunion. The new batch are even considering Canada a target....the only thing here they need worry about are the elected politicos who shimmy and shake to the Bush puppet orchestra.....so lets hope the bombers actually pick on the people who deserve their attention and not on ordinay folk...

I think the whole issue over western ways diluting their religion is simply explained this way....the females when not swaddled in heavy robes are normal looking females but the guys....genetics can be funny....these guys couldn't get a date let alone a wife even when they are stinking rich like Osama Bin Laden.....without the bizarro religious distorted rules they would be sheep herders for the female companionship.

It's a what if kind of a day....I saw the video for "What if God were one of us?" then a movie trailer for Evan Almighty......I started to wonder what the world would be like if there was no question about the existence of Judgement day....

No politicians, no lawyers, no real estate agents, no corporate ceo's , AND SO ON.....
I ENVISION RIGHT NOW HEAVEN IS A SMALL PLACE THAT SEEMS SPACIOUS BECAUSE SO FEW ARE THERE AND HELL IS A CONSTANT RIDE ON THE NEW YORK SUBWAY...

Some old time television shows I enjoyed were recently cancelled and replaced by "reality"shows. No actors or writers or concept....the reality show has "actors" performing an edited story in controlled conditions and the most American actor wins....i.e. most arrogant ,pushy and obnoxious. I propose new reality shows.

The show would run for a few weeks on a cable channel while the "actors " wear hidden cameras and microphones. The audience would be able to vote at the end of the limited show for a winner sort of like American Idol where the popular can win over the marginally more talented.

Reality shows without any safety net or editing that I would like to see....

A group of very young looking 18 to 20 year old men would serve as alter boys in catholic churches.....don't drop that rosary sonny....and their lives would be caught on a continous show for a month.....uncensored this could be fun....drinking the saramental wine anyone.

Young women would be placed as secretarys for politicians and the fun could begin....who gets propostioned first gets bonus points.

Participants in a job related show where they are put to work for the post office in Canada and the one that doesn't need drug and alcohol counselling when the show ends..... wins.

A show similar to the apprentice only really challenging. The people would have to find a job that paid enough for them to actually afford to live a life without help from the parents or anyone and the one whose succeeds in the audiences opinion ...winner.

They could combine COPS and the reality of a rookie and we could watch the fear as they patrol the lovely world of urban America.

Any ideas ....submit them to the cheap lazy television network executives.

Today I feel about America.....the great nation that can't even fix New Orleans damage because it might get in the way of future oil exploration in the bayou....the Bush family should be characterized as oily salesmen. The world is always in danger of being helped by America...helped right into oblivion. America has so many enemies....that must be the reason they have spent more on military and security since WW2 than they spent on education or health and welfare.

Remember they won WW2....or so they say......the British and Canadians and other allies served tea and supplied women for the "heroic" american soldiers. After their great victories ,using foreign soldiers to lead the charge and foreign scientists to teach them about rockets and atomic bombs, they drew a line in the ground and if you weren't on the side of the line with their best interests then you were suspect.

The cold war was the first excuse to spread their influence to the rest of the world...too bad it's like having Satan selling bibles outside the church....somehow you can never feel he really has his soul in it. They could have crushed communism in eastern Europe and Russia just by supplying cheap and plentiful basics....bread,tissue and canned goods....alot cheaper the the cold war and a lot quicker.

Since the people running things make money off the companies selling war then they will support war like posturing... if it ever becomes possible to make riches from peace we might stand a chance.

They have become a nation of "have to excess" or "have nothing" ......they woship at the temple of the dollar and celebrity excuses everything. The idea that others don't agree is the same as saying "enemy of the state"

In Canada the taxes are the highest in the world except for Japan....and we have a leader with Bush and his cronies putting their collected hand up the homophobic leader's ass as if he were a hand puppet with a bobble head. We are neighbours to America and we can't find a leader with the guts to tell them the truth about what they are like and what the world of ordinary people think of them. Anyone feel frustrated?

I keep having the thought that politicians ,especially Stephen Harper, would be more attentive to this country if they had to worry about public trials and then prison . Try to envision a homophobic elected official trying not to drop the soap in prison with all the criminals they keep letting wander the country.

In Canada the federal elected members of government are going on vacation now until October......you really get your moneys worth with these guys....where else can you get those vacation days? Just remember they want to tax water.

6. I saw that politicians were "thinking" of arranging a commission to look into some government business. The people put in the commission will be lawyers, classmates of politicians, and they will be paid buckets of money to evaluate what the politicians did.

Why not let the law enforcement professionals look into everything that comes up for questioning? After they have investigated the problem, the supreme court judges should advise if there is enough evidence to move forward with charges. Elected officials would lose the right to hand pick whoever is making the decision on legality of their actions.

Stephen Harper should like that since he is always going on about accountability.

7.The results of votes on items in goverment should be available and should show which way each person voted. The things they vote on or makes deals about should be printed in non political speak so there are not hidden agendas passing through government.

A case in point: the Ontario Liberals gave themselves a 40% pay increase....but they also buried other benefits and raises in the same motion ...none of which made any great stir.....do you think the person you elected deserves 40% and you don't know all the small print ....the provincial reps get a raise equal to any federal raise over and above the 40%.


8 and more but first the reason you know so little is that the information sources are all owned by individuals with enough personal reasons to cater to the elected officials that they are never going to open the communication lines and the government likes it that way. If you subscibe to a newspaper to be informed....unsubscibe. Save your money to pay the next ridiculous tax that is put on your backs.


We have people collecting millions in severanse pay for mismanaging goverment offices.....The politicians need places to put thier friends and relatives in profitable posts.

I think the Pardon Now program is possibly such an agency....what country would sell pardons to convicted criminals? CANADA would!!!!

There are gun crimes but no punishments....if you aren't a citizen ....deportation without discussion. The convicted should get prison farms to grow their own food. Gun crimes should equal no priviledge,no soft treatment and no deals.

It seems every politician eventually professes to the need to make the government accountable.

If they really meant it they need only follow a few simple steps

1. If someone wishes to run for any elected position or accept a high ranking non elected government post , they should make all of their personal finances public. I mean truly public. When they leave offfice we will know how much they accumulated while "serving the people"

2. They should have to make public all of their spending while in office. If they run their political lives and offices the way they run the country it should be interesting seeing the claims for travel and food and entertainment.

3.The politician who runs for reelection should be forced to publish his finances from his previous term in office and it should be distributed with his campaign flyers. The claims he makes should be audited against his claims in office so the public knows if he just lives the taxpayer high life.

4. The number of days he actually attended to the house of commons or where he is elected to should be published at the time of re-election.

5.The amount of money he recieved in any fashion should be itemized and published at the time of re-election.

If the politician had to send out his accounts to the voters and do so before a re-election we could see book keeping that would make gansters proud or a lot of people too frightened to run twice....

6 and more soon.

Time of the Toad???

The time of the toad refers to the act of sitting back and observing government taking away any dissenters to the agenda they have set out. In Germany while Hitler consolidated his power he slowly removed intellectuals, political figures and any group that might question his authority....the toads would gather to chat and read what passed for newspapers and drink coffee. When a car would pull up and men would take someone away the rest of the "Toads" would silently say ...."better him than me" or "he wasn't loyal and deserved to be taken for interrogation". One day only one remained and the car arrived....too late for toads to make a fuss.

The title is from the book of the same name by Dalton Trumbo. He was one of the Hollywood 10 who McCarthy and his henchman Richard Nixon declared as communist during the 1950's witch hunt in America. The men named were turned in by their friends and neighbours....even though these men fought in Europe against the facists.......the time of the toad in America .

This blog is a site for my "rant ".....a view about our democracy?


To start....How did the conservative party in Canada afford to run that sham election? They catered the ads to immigrants whom they don't like but wanted their votes. The campagn was a smear all the way through...ps I am not for any political party....They should all be wearing orange jumpsuits and sharing a cell with some of the criminals their policies help proliferate.

Next I'll continue my love fest with the carpet baggers in every political office.