Why the GOP Doesn’t Love Chris Christie

I think I Found a Ruby in the Rubbish Heap

An Honest Politician?

I got up early this morning and was just surfing the news when I happened on an article in the Daily Beast titled “Why the GOP Doesn’t Love Chris Christie”. I’d give you a link but its 3 lines long and not worth clicking on unless you like him. I’m a fan because he’s the only politician in North America who actually speaks his mind and backs it up with common sense reasoning.

The article has two main points that I thought were worth notice:

1.     Compromise and how you get there,

2.     Fat retirement benefits of our political Aristocracy.

It’s a reality that both our governments have fallen into gridlock and hostility: Canada because of Stephen Harper and his majority. He has the ability to ram shit down people’s throat with no explanation or justification. He loves to do so: a perfect example is the MMPR. We can’t get rid of him and he’s free to fuck up the country until the next election. Woe is us!
The U.S. has had the unfortunate experience of having government ranks corrupted by a handful of Tea Party assholes. Having been elected they are now free to fuck up the system until their next election. Woe is them!
Following I quote from that article:
 “We have to find ways to compromise with each other,” Christie said. “The place is so dysfunctional; they so don’t talk to each other, they so dislike each other that they can’t get to the common-sense point. I have said this all along with Jersey. I have argued all the time with the legislature. You heard me say a bunch of stuff about the Democrats in the legislature this morning. But I don’t have the luxury to hate. I have a job to do. You elected me to accomplish something, not just to occupy a space.
“I am not going to compromise my principles, because that is who I am, and that is why you elected me. But there is always a boulevard between getting everything you want and compromising your principles. There is always some space there, and the job of a governor or any executive is to find that space.”

Can you imagine it? Christie is honest, has principles and managed to get elected to a position of power. Fortunately for Stephen he didn’t have to overcome those obstacles: Lying is second nature to him and he has no idea what principles or decency is.

Also worthy of note is Christie’s assessment of his political peers. That group, the bureaucrats, were, in Christie’s telling, a bunch of greedy paper pushers lining their pockets with the public’s money, especially in retirement. I quote:

“If we are going to pay these folks these exorbitant sums of money, you should be able to give it to them personally. I think that when one of these guys retires, we should have a little party down at the town hall in Parsippany, for instance,” the governor said to guffaws from the crowd. “Every person who lives in Parsippany gets to come in with their check for their share of the money. It would be like the wedding line! You would go in and you would say to them, ‘Great service, congratulations. Here is my $120 for your sick time.’ And at least then you would get a thank you!”
If only that could happen up here: Maybe then someone like Bev Oda wouldn’t be able to screw up, resign under a cloud and then keep sucking the left hind tit of the public purse for the rest of her life. At $16 a glass she can afford to buy truckloads with her ill gotten gains. May she choke on it.
I wonder what revelations and opinion he’s going to come up with next?
Blaine

TheSmeeGoanGuy

Harper and his Conservative Fools Never Differ

Harper and his Conservative Fools Never Differ

Great Minds Think Alike

WE already knew THAT!

So What?

The man who wrote this went all out with his comments and I couldn't agree more. I have no idea who he was and the article is obviously plagiarized, but it tells it like it is and I think most of my readers will find themselves in complete agreement. If you do, I hereby grant you the right to join

F.R.O.G.S

Fraternal Order of Grizzled Sarcastics

I'm telling the crooked politicians the way it really is. Too many blind voters keep them in office!

I don't think pissed really covers it!

Harper's conservatives call senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Old Age Security " to a Milk Cow with 34 million teats.

Well, here's my response........

"Hey Stephen, let's get a few things straight!

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for many, many years.

2. I have been paying taxes since I was 18 years old. I am now 63).

3. My Old Age Security payments, and those of millions of other Canadians, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning CanadianSocial Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of Canadian seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other Canadians, have been paying into health care from day one, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from health care to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Canadians, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the Canadian taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.

To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU:

1. How much money have you earned from the Canadian taxpayers during your pathetic political career?

2. At what age will you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much will you receive in annual retirement benefits from the Canadian taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called "The Harper Government" who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted Canada and stolen the dream of a decent retirement from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers: And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.

That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted Canada for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.  

Disregards:

No Friend of Yours

More benefits of Multiculturalism

Is this our destiny as well?

Some Sick American History

Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler.

By Frosty Wooldridge


For 15years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit, Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!

Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed 8-10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.

A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great Society' flourish in Detroit. If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.

Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees. He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".

You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.

As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.

Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city for the free government handouts, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit. As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.

As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism, pure dislike, and total separation from America!!!

Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan, paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America!! English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.

Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine's October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night." Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.

But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making.

As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit.

"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.

At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century.

If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about America's future?"

As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, "$20 Per Gallon", the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit, thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America. If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.

You have already seen it in Madrid, Spain, London, England, and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters, and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.

I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON,AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS, THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA. IF YOU THINK MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FOREIGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN, THEN YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE.

IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY FOR YOU.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin

IF YOU LOVE AMERICA, PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG…..

The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

The Cops are Vicious Sons-of-Bitches

Harassment is Their Favourite Game

They Slander to Distract?

Subtitled:

I got Lucky and Hooked a Copsucker!

I’ll warn you in advance this is a long read but I think you’ll find it a worthwhile read. I finally got the bastards to screw up. I love it.

Once upon a time I used to believe there was a possibility that somewhere in the ranks of our national police forces we could find some evidence of simple goddamned decency. Not in recent times with the sudden avalanche of pot busts and propaganda postings that have followed the arrest of Dr. Rob Kamermans one year ago.

For that past year I have been advocating for Rob and portraying him as a simple respectable doctor caught up in a whirlwind Stomp the Bastard Flat attack. A copycat imitation SS Death Squad attack led by Storm Troopers ruined his business, but that wasn’t enough for the Blue Bully Boys. This has been followed up by semi-successful Character Assassination with Goebbels inspired propaganda in all the media except Medical Marijuana with TheSmeeGoanGuy.

This finally drew notice of some simpleton who apparently devised a plan to feed me false information to erode and destroy my Loyalty to Rob. I would then stop painting him as a resurrection of a Crucified Saint and the Police as a motley collection of dunderheads. This was put into execution two weeks ago. It is a simple series of 5 e-mails between me and an anonymous confidential informant who approached me as a friendly well motivated advisor. I have inserted appropriate comments.

Enjoy the read. It describes one of the weirdest fucking weeks in my life! Its not often I get the opportunity to rub noses with slime.

It all began On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM, when I received a strange e-mail from someone named Freddy Elderf

Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM

Freddy Elderf <medcan4u@gmail.com> to Blaine Barrett

I think the posts you have made and the fighting you are doing for dr Kamermans, well honestly I think he has you believing him as well. He may have started out signing MMAR  for the right reasons, but somewhere along the way it turned to greed, and greed only. I know this first hand. I am willing to talk with you about this, but if I find out you are relaying this info to dr Kamermans , my lips will be sealed. 

On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 8:20 PM,

Blaine Barrett to Freddy Elderf

Freddy, I honestly do believe him; I have no reason not to. I have researched the hell out of him for over a year now and up until your e-mail today I have had no negative comment and that includes a fair sized list of his patients. I would very much like to hear what you have to say and I can assure you confidentiality. If you know nothing else from my writing you should know that I value honesty above all else. I may use what you tell me to correct any bias in my belief and advocacy but I will never reveal my source.

 Your information could be very important but your suggestion I might report you back to the Dr. is a direct attack on my integrity and I resent it. It is also an indication you’re not to be trusted.

If you truly are a victim your request for secrecy is unusual because most victims I know want to get even, want their offender to know that it is them returning the favour and twisting the Knife. You don’t! Why not?

Why would you fear your evidence and identity get back to him?

If you can give me a satisfactory answer to that question:

I would very much like to hear what you can contribute. Perspective is everything and negative counts for a lot.

If you can’t provide an answer, don’t bother to reply.

Your request for secrecy has already created suspicion of a back stabbing Character assassination and there’s too much of that going on now.

Your choice

Blaine.

Suddenly A Sex Change Took Place.

Freddie Eldorf became Annie Oakley
WTF?

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:19 PM,

 Annie <medcan4u@gmail.com> wrote to Blaine Barrett:

Hello Blaine,

First of all I would like to tell you I am not a patient and never have been. I am someone who has a very close relationship with Rob Kamermans and his family members. I know a lot of this mans character, as i was very much in the circle of trust you might say.

Establishes her bona fides! OK

I feel terrible for the patients, as most of them think of this man as a very caring and compassionate man. This is not true at all! I have seen him numerous times when he has made it very clear that it is all about money, and yes making a name of hero for himself for all the , I quote…potheads of the world.

Greed and ego as motivation?

I have seen him and heard him engaged in meetings with high profile criminals, for the purpose of signing MMAR applications. Many of these applicants were never seen but I can tell you the forms were signed, and he was paid well.

No names or identification of how she knew they were High Profile criminals,, that the forms were signed and fees paid. Is there a peephole in his office? I don’t think Rob is stupid enough for a public performance of his crimes.

I have seen people with visible illnesses and documentation be turned away for lack of cash and told to find the money then return.

Now he’s Indifferent to visible need and greedy again

I know of a regular patient who needed treatment for ear problems and were told he could not do anything for her, because he had too many paying appointments waiting.

Doesn’t value his normal customers and greedy again.

So you see Blaine I have a real hard time, … seeing him the way you do.

He stole those poor patients money…even though he knew he was not suppose to be signing after he agreed with the College Investigators and attorneys. Do you have any idea how much that money adds up to?

Then why do the college and the attorneys let him keep practicing?

Then after taking their money he turns around and withdraws his consent on them. Did he return their money? NO he did not. A lot of these people are on Ontario Disability or welfare; these are people who don’t have two red cents to rub together on a good day. And I am pretty confident in saying that, that month they had to scrape up the money to get his signature, they went without something be it groceries, bill payment, etc. It breaks my heart.

Obvious question where are the complaints from these victims?

He is not a great man.

I beg to differ!

Maybe ask the IRS what kind of man they think he is. He owes the American Government plenty for not paying his taxes for many years.

The IRS are unforgiving SOB’s who can give lessons in Nasty!.Why haven’t they seized his US assets (house) or arrested him when he crossed the border at Christmas.

Maybe ask the woman he owes years of unpaid deadbeat dad child support to, if she thinks he is a great man.

No complaint, no names, no history I know of and I know a lot.

You are talking to the wrong people Mr. Barrett.

Am I?

In Mr. Kamermans own words……these POTHEADS think I am a god, and they will do anything for me.

Another arrogant and ego shot.

I trust I have your trust, I am counting on it.

Sincerely

Annie

On Sunday, February 10, 2013,

Blaine Barrett wrote to Annie Oakley

Annie: Here is why I have reservations about what you tell me. I got this from another person close to the family:

Hi Blaine 
Saw rob last week.   He is flat broke and verge of giving up.
As of next month he won't be able to keep up with heat and electrical costs and bills on his coe hill clinic. 
 They have cut off his lines of credit, all sources of income and his ability to serve the community is being compromised.
Too bad my personal health is so shit as to prevent me from setting up some kind of fund raising although i would donate if someone else were to set up.
Call him when you are able.   Poor fucking guy is being fucked and good.   Now the entire community will suffer as they set an example of him and his very beautiful wife.   The strain is showing on her in terms of health, i just fucking hope this ends well as can't stand to see her cry.

Annie: who am I to believe?

You're an anonymous enemy and my other contact is well known and respected by Rob.
He's a mutual acquaintance whom I trust.

I don't understand why this late anonymous report but for all I know you could be on the cops payroll. If you saw him dealing criminally why didn't you go to the cops as a witness to a crime by someone with the despicable character you apparently despise? Unless you can give me some reason for your delay in reporting your damaging information I have no choice but to consider your information as nothing but a back stabbing by someone with an axe to grind.

Unless you have something more to justify your allegations don't contact me again. I value my reputation for truth and there is no evidence that supports your allegations.
Blaine

On  Wednesday, February 13 at 1:54 PM

Annie Oakley wrote to Blaine Barrett

Hi Blaine, well I figure by the letter it was either from a patient (John XXXXX) or a employee (Drew , Jake or Max).  I'm sorry you have a hard time believing me.  I can tell you that I do know you have betrayed my trust in you. I am very very close, this is why I cannot tell you who I am. You are completely wrong thinking and telling Rob and Mary that you believe Annie and Vxxxi are one in the same.  Unfortunately now you have made rob and Mary even more suspicious of everyone around them. I was trying to help you so you also did not stick your neck out too far for someone who does not deserve your support.

Sincerely, Annie

On Sat, February 16, 2013,

Blaine Barrett wrote to Annie Oakley

Annie, my dear I’m sorry to tell you but you just fucked up. You should never have answered me back so soon. You should have allowed a couple of days for the word to spread but you couldn’t wait. As soon as I got your message advising you knew I told Rob and Mary about you, you exposed who you are. You dropped your mask!

You are not good guy Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties trying to get me back on the road to righteousness. You’re Snidely Whiplash-Villain extraordinaire doing the bidding of Fearless Leader.

The only way that you could know that I had informed Rob he had a Traitor in his midst was if you were listening in on our phone call or accessing our e-mail. Rob didn’t tell anyone! I called him immediately and he hadn’t even told Mary yet. So much for your intimacy and social circle: All fucking lies.

Well I sat here and stewed and asked myself how can I expose this gutter level activity with the best impact and I had a brilliant idea. I called Rob and I asked him if I could publish all these lies and dirt and inferred character flaws they were claiming and he said why not, they’re already spreading the dirt. Some asshole named Big Nono already repeated the propaganda in the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/andrew-feldstein/brazeau-domestic-violence-charge_b_2649331.html

Apparently the scanner the cops use for Internet nosiness picked up a comment made regarding Senator Brazeau that used the name Kamermans. The bully boys couldn’t pass up an opportunity to kill a favourable comment and sent Sergeant Nono to kill it.

i.e.

Jimbho Eckstein

8 Fans

03:45 PM on 02/09/2013

A defective justice system exposed by a defective appointment to Senate?

Someone tell my family doctor, Rob Kamermans of Coe Hill, Ontario about injustice. Asset seizures, forbidden to practice medicine at Emergency Room hospitals or to make an income all for the alleged signing of medical marijuana permission forms. Most dangerous grandfather in canada and his RN wife won't be able to pay for heat and hydro at their clinic as the noose of injustice extends its claws and strangles the medical access of a community.

Big Nono

0 Fans

08:22 AM on 02/12/2013

Hmm no money for heat, but money to go on holiday to California with the whole family in December 2012. Don't forget he made an estimated of 1.2 million.
He is evading child support for his disabled 11 year old son, think about that when you talk about what a poor guy mr. Kamermans is.

I decided to write this exposé to let everybody know what kind of slimeballs are involved in this.

Assholes fuck me around at their peril.

Blaine

TheSmeeGoanGuy

P.S. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you, I reported all this Gmail Program Policy Violation to Google and concluded my Report with this statement:

There followed an exchange of e-mails between freddy elderf <medcan4u@gmail.com> who suddenly changed sex to annie: Annie Oakleymedcan4u@gmail.com and myself,  Blaine Barrett, regarding the Subject Dr.Kamermans. I am a Medical Marijuana Advocate on Blogger at Goan-Smee.blogspot.ca. I am a supporter of Dr. Kamermans while he is under his current persecution by the Canadian Government and I don’t mince words..

Annie <medcan4u@gmail.com> wrote to Blaine Barrett on Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:19 PM, and again on Wed, February 13 at 1:54 PM.

Her first e-mail is nothing but a rambling vicious slandering and character assassination of Dr. Kamermans. That is bad enough by itself but the second reveals knowledge of things that are impossible to know. I have confirmed with Dr. Kamermans that the information disclosed is solely between us. It was discussed once between us and was the subject of one e-mail. There is an active tap on Dr. Kamermans phone, a bug planted in his home, or the government Internet hackers dropped from Bill C-30 now working for either the RCMP or the OPP.

In short, I believe that Canadian law enforcement is using Google and Gmail to effectively disseminate hate mail with the sanction of the Canadian Government.

I trust you will be as pleased as I am. All concerned e-mails are available and I intend to publish the complete list with comments as soon as I can put it together. I hope you can provide the information for my Posts’ conclusions.

Regards

Blaine Barrett

*imitating or impersonating another person or his, her or its email address, or creating false accounts for the purpose of sending spam

*Impersonate another person (via the use of an email address or otherwise) or otherwise misrepresent yourself or the source of any email

Where is the “Liars Lair” in Canada?

Stephen Harper’s Office

The Absence of Honesty

I believe that honesty is the fundamental basis of Character. After watching the circus in Ottawa created by the Tories complete unfamiliarity with the concept I am simply disgusted and confused. They lie, about minority governments, about Jets, about G20 and G8, with Vic Toews and Stevie tied for honours as the biggest bullshitters of all time.

They don’t only lie about fact, and distort true perspective; they also are masters of creativity when it comes to presenting fiction as fact. They are expert character assassins. They openly and blatantly slander and lie about their opponent’s i.e.  concealed personal flaws, evil motivations, suspect loyalty to Canada and a threat to freedom and democracy: Dion, Iggy, Khadre, Guergis, environmentalists, now Native Americans who simply don’t want their asses frozen again. All their enemies are painted with whatever emerges from the shit bucket available to the army of propaganda experts Harpo has hired.

Criticism of them is claimed a violation of personal privacy: (like Grandad Toews avoiding Statutory Rape of a minor. He avoided with a hasty divorce and remarriage to the victim. If that dodge isn’t possible then Harpo simple ignores the problem as unimportant and refuses comment. He can pick and choose both the people allowed into interviews and also limits the questions to specific topics he wants to promote.. Where did all this abuse of truth and fact start, how can they get away it?

To me the answer is simple: In One Stupid Elections Canada Regulation. It simply stipulates that any falsehood or promise told in the course of an Election Campaign is not a Lie. The liar cannot be held responsible if he reneges because all he made was an Election Promise. Elections Canada realistically recognizes historical precedence for concluding that the Canadian electorate has accepted that anything promised in an election is pure bullshit when the time comes to honour that promise.

 The first real demonstration of how far the distance is between Political Opportunism and political integrity was the result of the Liberals winning the 1997 election and failing to eliminate the GST after having promised to do so as a critical component of their campaign. Jean Chretien used his political pragmatism to defeat consequences and on national TV unashamedly told a bald faced lie knowing that his entire national audience knew he was lying. “I never said dat!” was told to an audience of twenty million who had watched and heard him promise GST freedom. Sheila Copps, his partner in the deception, is the only Canadian politician in my memory to show integrity and resigned as she had promised to do if the tax was not abolished.

The only difference between Harpo and Jean is that Harpo expanded the B.S. arena and gives himself Electoral Absolution by deciding that the next election campaign starts the day the old one ends. He now has the freedom to promise and not deliver anything his little shrivelled heart desires.

I don’t think I am a lone soldier in my disillusionment but I was surfing through all my new friends, and I was surprised at the naivety some people have when it comes to Politicians and their promises. Then I remembered an Ipsos Reid Online Poll of 1,101 Canadians, conducted June 20-25, 2012 for Postmedia News and Global Television.

The complete article re the poll results can be seen at

http://www.canada.com/Most+Canadians+politicians+touch+remote+poll/6873219/story.html#ixzz2AVUfZwPc.

For simplicity I have condensed it to a simple statement of its findings with all the B.S. eliminated.
The poll concludes

1.     95 per cent of Canadians feel politicians in Ottawa have little in common with average Canadians, That sentiment perhaps can best be seen on the issue of trust.

2.     57 per cent don't really trust the federal government to do the right thing.

3.     The provincial level results were very similar with voter distrust of provincial governments highest in British Columbia and Quebec

4.     72 per cent either strongly agree that we have too much government interference in our lives,.

5.     77 per cent Canadians feel they pay too much tax in Canada for the services they receive. A small majority of those polled said they don't receive good value in services in return for the tax dollars they pay to the federal and provincial governments. Public sentiment was a bit more positive at the local level, with a slight majority (55 per cent) saying they either get very good or somewhat good value for their tax dollars from their municipal governments.

The report concludes that the public's feelings of being overtaxed and interfered with by government plays lets the Tories present themselves as the party of lower taxes and smaller government.
It's one of the reasons that they got elected, because people don't see Ottawa as being a source of great ideas, they actually see government . . . more as part of the problem than as part of the solution."

I think the Canadian public is far from naïve after all. They are fully aware that nothing can be done before the next election. Why pay attention. Harpo has his majority and a free hand until the next vote on his promises. I hope and pray the Canadian Electorate will send the complete Conservative caucus to the Hell reserved for Political Malfeasants.

More later

Blaine Barrett

. TheSmeeGoanGuy

Maybe It’s Her Squinting

Sometimes it's difficult to look someone in the eye when you're talking to them.

I think in her case it's because she's squinting.
 
Yepp!  I'm sure it's the squinting!

The Doctoral Dilemma!

The Doctoral Dilemma!

Cover your Image, Cover your Wallet, or Cover your Ass?

What comes first?

For twelve years the Canadian Medical Association has been content to sit on its ass and show no concern about the risk of signing Medical Marijuana Applications. They adopted a position of benign disapproval as soon as the MMAR were published. Up until that point they had been proponents and had made recommendations regarding the doctoral role and recommended decriminalization. Unfortunately the Government didn’t swallow the bait and spit it back out. There wasn’t much they could do!

They could deter most of their membership from signing by promoting the false belief that there were unknown risks of harm from long term use. The liability risks for authorizing its use were unknown. While they did not disapprove of signing B1’s for Category 1 applications they could not recommend signing B2’s for anything less because of the possible consequences. Their membership followed along and created the almost impenetrable barrier of physician refusal to sign. Three Supreme Court justices just refused to recognize reality threw out the allegation of any barrier because of lack of evidence. Once upon a time I had the belief that judges were made judges because in addition to the letter of the law, they were expected to exercise some common sense. Another myth shot to hell.

Absolute bullshit: Why all the sudden opposition?

Because all of a sudden, if the new MMPR becomes law Doctors become responsible for their actions: 90% of CMA members have in all likelihood never seen a patient who requested their signature and have never ever read carefully what they were signing on a B2.

They prescribed nothing, recommended nothing, and were liable for nothing. They simply fulfilled a useless bureaucratic mandate

Per Form B2 the Physician signing simply certifies the following:

a. The applicant’s symptom(s) listed in Page 1 of this form falls under Category 2     (symptoms that do not fall under Category 1);

b. conventional treatment(s) for the Category 2 symptom(s) have been tried or considered, and have been found to be ineffective or medically inappropriate for the treatment of the applicant.

I am aware that a Notice of Compliance has not been issued under the Food and Drugs Regulations concerning the safety and effectiveness of marihuana as a drug.

a. If you are a medical specialist that your area of medical specialization is relevant to the treatment of the applicant’s medical condition; or

b. if you are not a medical specialist, please declare:

i. that the applicant’s case has been assessed by a specialist;

ii. the specialist’s area of specialization is relevant to the treatment of the applicant’s medical condition;

iii. that the specialist concurs that conventional treatments for the symptom are ineffective or medically inappropriate for the treatment of the applicant; and

iv. the specialist is aware that marihuana is being considered as an alternative treatment for the applicant.

   (Signature required on next page)

Any physician who signed an application for Medical Marijuana under the MMAR only certified that the instructions on the form had been followed. They consented to nothing and were not legally responsible for any risk. The risk is all Health Canada’s, they are the ones who review and approve the application, license possession and use, and they bear full responsibility for any future consequences.

The new MMPR makes the signing Doctor actually approve the application and accept responsibility for any consequences. While the probability of harmful consequences is extremely remote the CMA wants an environment similar to that which applies to physicians prescribing pharmaceuticals, total immunity from prosecution for iatrogenesis (medically induced harm) when they prescribe drugs they recommend to replace marijuana: the notorious Sativex and Marinol. Both of these have a list of nasty side effects with symptoms that are worse that those they are supposed to be minimizing. Is somebody pulling strings here?

                                        Big Pharma?

 The CMA has already pointed out to the Government that it wants immunity from prosecution for iatrogenic harm before it will even consider the MMPR proposal.

The CMA has more bugs up its ass when it comes to another MMPR proposal granting Nurse Practitioners the right to sign and approve Medical Marijuana Applications.

Horrors: Actually allow Nurses to prescribe on an equal basis with Doctors.

The Medical Profession would have to abandon its preferred position of respect and purported infallibility. They would be forced to assume the role of a Master competing with his former servants for customers and money. In my mind I have a picture of the CMA board of Directors sitting around their massive conference table scratching their heads wondering “What eve happened to the century’s old tradition of nurses grovelling before us like we were God on his rounds?”

Up until the middle of the last century, the first rule of survival for nurses was constantly stressed throughout their training:

”Never challenge or question a Doctor’s authority or treatment.”

Termination was almost inevitable if you did and any excuse was used as grounds for dismissal. The real unjustified cause was insubordination and lack of submissiveness to an inflated ego.

Besides being a big kick in the ego, now comes the real problem for Physicians: Money! As usual.

Suddenly they will be faced with competition from rivals not possessed and driven by greed but by actual compassion and empathy. They can only speculate on the damage that perception will create but what about the damage to the fee structure. Somehow I can’t conceive of a nurse making $50 an hour demanding pay for 5 hours work foe a 15 minute physical and signing of a paper. That would be unethical.

Nurses actually understand the Six Pillars of Character that doctors traded for training in Corporate Finance and Moral Indifference. Patients might actually value that.

What do you think?

Later

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy