New Brunswick grabs the Democratic Process by the ass

Well, this is rude.

Fourteen NDPers jump ship en masse for the Greenies!

It's a bad day for Jagmeet and a good one for whatsername over there at the Green Party.

And what is her name?... Elizabeth Green? Greene? It's Elizabeth something or other, I'm pretty sure...

Whatever it is, it's got about as much traction in the media universe as Jagmeet's brand.


Don't look this gift horse in the mouth, Liz.

Trump drunk on Deep-State Kool-aid

I was just putting my lap-top to bed for the night when the Farm Manager announces that Trump has hit the GO button for Paveways and Tomahawks to Damascus.

Apparently Macron the imbecile and the hapless May are fully on board with this most recent Trumpian misadventure.

Which should not surprise.

Macron has his trousers more than full with the uprising against his "labour reforms."

May is still in denial about that whole Brexit thing.

Both of them desperately want a distraction.

As does Donny J.

Between the Comey book and the Cohen raid, Mafia Don needs a distraction more than anybody...


Bombs away!!!

Dump Harper? There's an app for that...

My personal inclination about October 19 is to just not vote.

That's what I usually do at election time,

It just encourages the bastards, as a certain right-wing friend has been saying all along.

But I think we have a chance to make a difference.

I like Larry Miller. I ran into him just the other day at the liquor store in Wiarton. We exchanged pleasantries.

At the end of the day, though, Larry is nothing more than Big Steves's minion in these parts.

So while there may not be an actual app yet, I'm sure some geeks are working on it. There is already a movement afoot to get an anybody but Larry thing going.

And while I'm inclined to vote for Ms. May, were I inclined to vote, this new idea of combining votes to rid the nation of the Harper scourge makes a lot of sense,

Sorry Larry...

And if there's not an app for that yet, there'll be one soon.

Fear and loathing and sheer imbecility at the Munk leader's debate

You gotta feel Peter Munk's pain. A couple of years ago he had the biggest gold mining company in the world. Now he's got the "Munk Debates."

Tonight's iteration of that over-reaching franchise is billed as the "Munk Leader's Debate," and features the three old boy leaders while ignoring the new girl, Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

Near as I can tell, the only winner in this "debate" was the unctuous moderator, "social entrepreneur" and careerist extraordinaire Rudyard Griffiths. He was obviously enjoying his most recent fifteen minutes of fame.

I have a hunch that a lot of tickets for this gig were sold via the Ukrainian-Canadian Council. How else to explain the undue prominence given that tired trope, "Putin's aggression?"

Before watching this I read the texts of both Obama's and Putin's speeches at the UNGA. Sure, Obama was obliged to toss in a few bromides about how it's unacceptable for big countries to run roughshod over small ones, but absolutely no one in the place takes that seriously.

Who runs over more small countries? The USA or Russia? And how many refugees are streaming out of Crimea?

The Israel-pandering was quite distasteful too. Apparently none of these charlatans can grasp the fact that it's possible to be "pro-Israel" while being vehemently anti-Netanyahu, anti-settlement, and anti-Likud. In fact, the long-term viability of Israel will depend on allies who are capable of doing just that.

Who won the debate?

Elizabeth May, simply by not disgracing herself by being a part of it.

Old boys club circles the wagons to keep new girl out of the election debate

I've been watching the Canadian election debate, brought to me by the national newspaper of record.

Absent from the debate is the leader of the Green Party. She won the last debate, which is why the old boys club made sure that she was excluded from this one.