The old man, my father, said to me once, that “Tory times are tough times”. Yes he stole the cliché. Appropriately segue this.
One of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's speeches apparently appeared a plagiarized script. Thus delivered and suitably outed by political opponents, god fearing Harper, the orifice supreme of Canadian ethical behavior, stole the words from an Australian prime minister.
Its made bigger news in Australia than in Canada. Not surprising since Australians possess a greater degree of critical thinking, than most Canadians.
A political aide who allegedly wrote the speech for Harper abruptly fired. A lot of Harper's aides have been turfed on the run up to, and during this election. Harper has been through a lot of assistants. Either his party is rife with too many of inept assistants, or he cannot chose people.
Machiavelli pointed out that it was important to be able to surround yourself with competent assistants. Oratory was Pierre Elliot Trudeau's greatest skill. Hardly recognized was Trudeau's skill of almost always being able to choose the right guy for the job. Harper seems to have great difficulty in doing this.
There is a point where Harper must be held accountable for the words he said. It wasn't the speech writer who spoke the words. When presented to the public Harper took all the credit for making the speech. He, Harper, was ultimately responsible for orally making them published. He signed off on the speech. They were in essence his own words. It is not the speech writer who is accountable.
So typical of the primitive structure of the neo-conservative brain. Everyone else is accountable. They claim that they are. Harper should be the one taking the heat for this. It is not a faux pas. The Canadian Conservatives introduced a more stringent copyright regulation because ordinary people were having fun listening to music free from the avarice of the American music industry. Yet this is the download copyright violation of the century.
Harper appears intelligent. Politically he has skill. But obviously he is not an original thinker.
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Are you trying to say Harper might be a dishonest politician? There isn't any other kind of politician, is there?
Bulletin: Dog Bites Man, film at 11.
Just wait until Harper gets his majority from all the idjits, who seem to have forgotten Brian Baloney ever existed.
In my crystal ball I see...
A Bailout of the Wealthy in Canada!
WTF? If it works in the States, why not in Canada, where a majority government based on less than half the votes cast temporarily makes the Prime Minister an Absolute Dictator?
Why not, indeed?
I still haven't figured out why we pay so much for gasoline when we live in an oil-producing country. In other oil-producing countries, they get a break on the cost of gasoline and heating oil, don't they?
They see at least SOME benefits, don't they?
I guess we're just lucky the federal government taxes it all away before we can get our grubby hands on it and waste it on mortgage payments or rent or food or clothing or university tuition or something else, equally silly.
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