Election Day 2

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I'm getting the majority of my election news from CBC and CBC Newsworld.

Federal leaders come out swinging as Jan. 23 election set

It didn't take long before the mud slinging began (especially here!)

At the forefront of this mud sling fest is Stephan 'I got a stick up my ass' Harper swinging and trying to go deep, but, can't quite make it because of his weak-kneed policies. He is also proving to be adaept at being a mindless twat...

"In the coming weeks we will unveil our plan for Canada," said Harper. That plan will include cleaning up government, reducing taxes and getting tough on crime.

"We need a government that reflects the greatness of this country," he said. "Canada need a national government that will focus on the future."

I find this ironic, because the government that Canada needs isn't the government that the Conservatives are offering us.

Further, I fail to see how the Conservatives, or rather Alliance (Reform Party, anyone?) plans to clean up the government, given that the Liberals are certainly doing a very good job cleaning up. They are also distancing themselves from their predecessor through means such as the Gomery Inquiry and cleaning up the cabinet by removing the pox that was Chretien's hand picked cronies.

Lastly, why would we want the Reform Party in power? They only have Republican-minded policies in head, which includes expanding the military and finding a way to fuck over Canada by putting us in bed with America and its screwed up, unpopular, international law violating policy. They are nothing more than ignorant rednecks who won't do the country any good.

Further, the last time we had a Conservative government at the federal level, we were given such lovely things. NAFTA which means fuck all given the lack of American willingness to oblige by an international treaty that they signed onto and ratified; GST, which was introduced to help eliminate the federal debt. It helped, but part of the promise was that it was only temporary, but it stuck.

Now take for example, the NDP, who are socially minded and have Canada's interests at heart, even if they don't have the same level of fiscal conservatism that the Liberal party has shown it can exercise when it comes to federal spending.

They also come off as being far less arrogant.

"Friends, this election is wide open," said Layton. "This election is wide open because Canadians have a real, a positive and a progressive choice, the option to choose a real alternative to the Liberal broken promises and Conservative wrong-headedness."

"Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats."

There is no lies here. The NDP were the only opposition party that even tried to make the government work. They had paired up with the Liberals to get something done. They had done what was needed to make Parliament work.

Yes, they jumped ship when the Liberals wouldn't give them what they wanted for healthcare. Though, let it be noted that the Liberals did make a counteroffer, which sadly fell short of NDP expectations.

Need more reason to consider the NDP? Look at the statement provided. Jack Layton does come out swinging hard for the NDP, but he's prepared to take whatever pitch is given to him. He's not just going for the homerun; he's going for whatever gets his party out there and in play.

Still looking for good reasons? What is a better reason that a socially minded one like education?

Invest in education, not tax cuts: Layton.

With education, we get more back and we can give more back than we can with a tax cut. A tax cut is only good in the short term; education is a lifetime investment and takes only a few years.

"We can't afford that kind of direction. It's the wrong priority right now," Layton said.

"What we want to see is those investments made in helping students to get an education."

Tell me how tax cuts are better and why the Conservatives would be better when they have come out swinging in favour of tax cuts and military spending, as well as attacking the Liberal mandate.

I'll resume mudslinging later when I get more information.

Homosexuality is now a culture!

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Or at least it is according to the Vatican.

You see, being the ignorant biased tools of Satan that they are, they decided that they had the authority to decide that they could do whatever the hell they please, and that includes deeming homosexuality to be a life style.

Vatican renews ban on gay priests

Now it's time for my favourite passtime - looking up the meaning of words!

Gay (Gā)
adj. gay·er, gay·est

• Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
  
• Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
  
• Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
  
• Given to social pleasures.
  
• Dissolute; licentious.

As you can see, it isn't defined as a just a lifestyle/culture, contrary to what the Vatican likes to think (oh gee, golly, they're thinking now? Careful, I think I see the apocalypse on the horizon! No, that's just an elephant, and there goes a baby driving a car). Back, a long time ago, it had a different meaning.

Now, onward with my Vatican bashing.

Like other religious freaks of nature, they have this very odd belief that homosexuality is by choice and not natural, and as such, it can be "overcome".

But it treats homosexuality as a "tendency", not an orientation, and says those who have overcome it can begin training to take holy orders.

At least three years must pass between "overcoming [a] transitory problem" and ordination as a deacon, the rules say.

Exactly how does one overcome such problems? I mean, it's not like these people woke up one morning and thought, "you know, I wonder what it's like to be gay?".

If one wanted to overcome those "unnatural" homosexual tendancies, they could always turn to: Hetracil.

Back on topic...

It seems that the Vatican needs a scapegoat to help itself redeem it's "good" name after the slew of allegations of abuse that took place primarily in the US. It seems that the scandal that arose from these was highly damaging. And like with any good lynching mob, they have found their scapegoat, however...

They are the outcome of a review ordered by the late Pope John Paul II following highly damaging abuse scandals in the US in which several men accused priests of having abused them as teenagers.

No link has been established between homosexuality and the abuse of children.

Ouch! That has got to hurt! It seems that there is no link between the molestation of these children and the presence of homosexual priests. That isn't going to stop them of course; why should it?

The Vatican document describes homosexual acts as "grave sins" that cannot be justified under any circumstances.

So, I'm guessing that this means that a man can't give a man mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. That would be a homosexual act, because a man is putting his mouth against that of another man. Isn't that kind of like kissing? I wonder what they have to say about that...

"If a candidate practises homosexuality, or presents deep-seated homosexual tendencies, his spiritual director as well as his confessor have the duty to dissuade him in conscience from proceeding towards ordination," it says.

Given that most sexual practices are done in private, how does a candidate necessarily present such tendacies? What does the Vatican do to prove this? Do they take a homosexual guy and a straight woman, put the two in front of the candidate and see how the candidate responds to both?

And what exactly are 'deep-seated tendancies' anyway?

ten·den·cy (tĕnədn-sē)
n. pl. ten·den·cies

• Movement or prevailing movement in a given direction: observed the tendency of the wind; the shoreward tendency of the current.
  
• A characteristic likelihood: fabric that has a tendency to wrinkle.
  
• A predisposition to think, act, behave, or proceed in a particular way.
  
• 
  
  • An implicit direction or purpose: not openly liberal, but that is the tendency of the book.
    
  • An implicit point of view in written or spoken matter; a bias.

Now, since it's referring to human actions, it can't be a weather pattern, it can't be fabric, so it's got to be the third point about thinking, acting and/or behaving. Since it is predisposed, it was voluntary and not involuntary, due to being born in such a way.

So, it seems that a tendency towards homosexuality is wrong; it would be a sexual orientation because it is the way that someone is from birth, and it can't be changed, even via societal and familial pressures.

"Such persons in fact find themselves in a situation that presents a grave obstacle to a correct relationship with men and women."

Ok, that doesn't even make sense! I'm not going to touch this point with a ten foot pole!

I have to wonder, what makes a homosexual man any less deserving of priesthood than a heterosexual or bisexual man? They all share the same kind of pure love for the 'God' that they wish to represent. How does one's orietation necessarily change "God's" message to the masses?

In the same way that it does with a teacher... in no such way at all!

Non-Confidence Motion Flattens Government

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MPs topple Liberal government, trigger election

The Liberal minority government has been defeated in a motion of non-confidence tabled by the CPC (Conservative Party of Canada), led by the biggest asshole in Canadian history, Stephan 'I got a stick up my ass' Harper, who has about as much charisma as dry rotting fungus on curling linoleum.

According to the polls, it seems that the standings, amongst decided voters, are as follows:



So, it seems that this kind of voter opinion would lead us to another minority government, precisely what the bloody CPC didn't want. We all know that they want a majority; a CPC majority. Tough! It isn't going to happen!

And in this voter's less than humble opinion, I think this election is just an excuse not to do anything! We all know that Her Majesty's Official Opposition is only good at piddling around a dead tree and pissing on it! And as evidenced by their continual behaviour in Parliment, they are completely incompetant and unable to govern as a respectable opposition party. This means that they'd be the worst minority/majority party since Margret Thatcher's Conservatives.

Holodomor - Murder By Hunger

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In December of 1948, the United Nations passed the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Within it, one of the articles clearly defines genocide as:

Article II.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transfering children of the group to another group.

Many of us are not naive about the Nazi atrocities leading up to and during World War II. We also have come to acknowledge the genocide in Rwanda and the massacres under Pol Pot.

But many, like Darfur aren't being treated the same way. While people dye due to wide spread genocide, the world isn't acknowledging that it is truly genocide and won't take action.

Even in the case of a large massacre, very few have acknowledged it as genocide.

Stumped? I'm talking of course about Stalin's Forced Famine in which 7-10 million Urkranians died due to being stripped of their produced and forced to send their produce to motherland Russia.

This happened between 1932-1933.

Stalin's Forced Famine 1932-1933

Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, set in motion events designed to cause a famine in the Ukraine to destroy the people there seeking independence from his rule. As a result, an estimated 7,000,000 persons perished in this farming area, known as the breadbasket of Europe, with the people deprived of the food they had grown with their own hands.

There, a nice summary of the 'genocide' (and in quotes because it hasn't been given the UN designation of genocide yet).

And it wasn't like the world didn't know, and didn't care. Many tried to help...

By the spring of 1933, the height of the famine, an estimated 25,000 persons died every day in the Ukraine. Entire villages were perishing. In Europe, America and Canada, persons of Ukrainian descent and others responded to news reports of the famine by sending in food supplies. But Soviet authorities halted all food shipments at the border. It was the official policy of the Soviet Union to deny the existence of a famine and thus to refuse any outside assistance. Anyone claiming that there was in fact a famine was accused of spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. Inside the Soviet Union, a person could be arrested for even using the word 'famine' or 'hunger' or 'starvation' in a sentence.

And not even 1 million have died in Darfur and we're rushing to get it designated as genocide, and yet, in one day, about 25,000 people were killed in Ukraine. There are towns in Canada that aren't even a third that size! That would almost be entire towns. And yet, even now, it's still not called genocide.

Though, who can really blame the west and Europe? The Soviets did a damn good job covering their asses during those years. Just like with Bush's photo opts, the Soviets staged events that disguised what was going on.

The Soviets bolstered their famine denial by duping members of the foreign press and international celebrities through carefully staged photo opportunities in the Soviet Union and the Ukraine. The writer George Bernard Shaw, along with a group of British socialites, visited the Soviet Union and came away with a favorable impression, which he disseminated, to the world. Former French Premier Edouard Herriot was given a five-day stage-managed tour of the Ukraine, viewing spruced-up streets in Kiev and inspecting a 'model' collective farm. He also came away with a favorable impression and even declared there was indeed no famine.

This happens quite a bit doesn't it? Just when things start to look bad, the country in question holds a staged event to redeem its good name. Many modern countries still use this practice to cover up what is really happening. If it doesn't work, then they use heavy handed tactics like embargos and sanctions to make a point. Such as with the Iranians. They have their nuclear intentions but they aren't going to deny most of it; instead, they chose to let the UN's Nuclear Task Force take a look at the facilities (what are the odds that they weren't deceived).

Now, this brings me to my favourite question...

Why is it when 6+ million Jews died or were massacred under the watch of the Nazi regime, between 1933-1945 was the subsequent Holocaust called genocide, whereas when the 7+million Ukranians were massacred in the year span of 1932-1933, it isn't genocide, but rather a nation tragedy?

Nevertheless, a UN declaration - while recognising the famine as Ukraine's national tragedy - did not include the word "genocide" - to the great dismay of Ukraine which lobbied hard for the inclusion of the term.

Ukraine demands 'genocide' marked

End The Handouts!

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I have had it with the government handing out 'cash settlements' to every disgruntled douche that happens to think it was 'wronged'. Pardon my French - but... what the fuck? How were you necessarily wronged it it was your ancestors that were displaced by someone else's ancestors? Just because your skin is darker and you were once a member of a tribe who was here before 'white man', does NOT entitle you to any of the federal money any more than the rest of us blue collar no name slobs! Get over your fucking selves already!

Abuse payout for Canadian natives.

Canada has offered to pay more than C$2bn (US$1.7bn) compensation to indigenous people who were abused at government-funded residential schools.

Give me a fucking break! Just because someone's damn grandparent was abused in a residential school before even my parents' generation was born is no reason that their generation and mine ought to be paying!

Further, it wasn't the federal government that led these abuses, it was the damn Anglican Church, amongst others.

Oh and what; you're surprised that it's not the Catholic Church? Haven't you realised yet - the Catholic Church likes little white boys and the Protestant Churches much prefer to prey on anyone who isn't Protestant.

And guess what? The rest of us who never had a damn thing to do with it, are paying for the stupdity of those who weren't even, for the most part, our ancestors.

This sickens me! Now... any tips on tax evasion?