Duhhhhr! Ooonnggg… errrrggg…. Out of the mouths of babes. It’s been an awkward delight watching Conservative spinmeisters trot out Plan A through Plan W in their Catalogue of Flimsy Excuses over the F-35 affair. Blaming bureaucrats didn’t cut it, even blaming the other parties hasn’t cut it. One waits with
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Impolitical: Pentagon ups #F35 costs again
From one of the leading aviation publications in the U.S., Aviation Week, the latest on the F-35’s increasing costs sees Canada in its headline: “Canada Concerned As F-35 Cost Estimate Rises.” The article’s main point is to highlight still more increasing costs of the F-35 program as announced by the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: F-35 Lies by Harper and MacKay
Our top Ministers of our Canadian Government are so very disgraceful. They continue to lie to us, after being caught by multiple non-partisan authorities. It’s often claimed that people expect politicians to lie, but there’s been an understanding in Ottawa that it was taboo for Ministers to lie to Parliament
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: In and Out: Political Double Tap
The Harper Government is known for its zombie like resiliency. Just when you think it’s down for the count, it gets back up to bite your arm off. Zombieland was a humourous zombie movie where the main character explains the ways to survive a zombie attack. You’ve gotta have good
Continue readingOrange Blood II, the NDP Edition…
This is about the NDP Leadership Convention 2012, and why I think that democracy has failed. I became a member of the NDP for the BCNDP Leadership race. My partner and I both joined the Party to support our MLA, John Horgan. A man of principle, who listened to the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Proud 50 Year Conservative Tradition: Fighter Jets
Bungling Canadian fighter jet development: A proud Conservative PM tradition for over 50 years. #AvroArrow #F35 #Dief #Harper Canadian Military Journal (Vol. 10, Num. 4) (2010) (with bold added): Debate over the F-35 may make the debate over the NFA/CF-18 pale by comparison. When the dust settled on the CF-18
Continue readingImpolitical: Impetus for the push on the #F35
Dave at Galloping Beaver is going to work, picking apart the Harper government’s tales over the years on the F-35 acquisition. Go there to read the entire post, which I take it is part of a coming insightful series. Here is an excerpt that speaks to the political backdrop motivating
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Pierre Poutine Revealed #RoboCon Prescott
Christian (Canadian) Conservative, Andrew Prescott, has been accused of being the flesh and blood of the aliases Pierre Poutine, Pierre Jones, by researcher Brian-Michel LaRue. LaRue gives his reasoning in the first of a series of posts started Saturday, and promises the evidence he’s gathered to back the accusation will
Continue readingImpolitical: Accountability!
On this Easter weekend, let us reflect, yes. In the 2012 version of this video, let us ask: How is it that a government could fail to disclose to Parliament $10 billion in costs on a major purchase they were planning to make? (h/t)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls – Globe & Mail Should Blush
There are days I worry that the Globe and Mail is unfit for birds to poop on it. If their endorsement of the Harper Conservatives prior to last year’s electoral fraud riddled election wasn’t enough of a credibility hit, there’s their more recently published Ibbitson column claiming Harpercons wouldn’t openly
Continue readingCo2 Art: Wildrose Tainted by Association with Harperism?
Danielle Smith: A wildflower blooming virtuous and free on the Prairie… or a programed-from-youth apparatchik of big oil corporatocracy and U.S. Republicanism? A legitimate enough question. If only it were the only question. The problem for Wildrose is that the federal Conservatives are not only their ideological “soulmates”. The Conservatives
Continue readingCo2 Art: Wildrose Tainted by Association with Harperism?
Danielle Smith: A wildflower blooming virtuous and free on the Prairie…or a programed-from-youth apparatchik of big oil corporatocracy and U.S. Republicanism?A legitimate enough question.If only it were the only question.The problem for Wildrose is t…
Continue readingCo2 Art: Wildrose Tainted by Association with Harperism?
Danielle Smith: A wildflower blooming virtuous and free on the Prairie… or a programed-from-youth apparatchik of big oil corporatocracy and U.S. Republicanism? A legitimate enough question. If only it were the only question. The problem for Wildrose is that the federal Conservatives are not only their ideological “soulmates”. The Conservatives
Continue readingImpolitical: Auditor General #F35 fallout
Terry Milewski’s report on yesterday’s remarks by the Auditor General and the reactions those remarks set off, above. It is helpful to see whose eyes are grave, whose eyes are dead and whose eyes are lit up. More on the AG’s remarks and DND apparently getting restless at holding the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: An American Takes on Harper’s F-35 Snake Oil
Here’s another repost, this from April, 2011, wherein an American expert calls out Harper on his endless F-35 lies. From Embassy, a preview of remarks to be made tomorrow in Washington by Winslow Wheeler of the Center for Defense Information about Canada’s unhinged decision to purchase the F-35 Joint Strike
Continue readingTrashy's World: Lies and deceit…
…. have become the signature of the current Conservative government. And this is a sad thing to say. Brian Stewart penned a good piece today on how the current government is obsessed with a) never admitting when they have done wrong and b) pretending that something didn’t happen that did
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: CBC’s Brian Stewart Casts Bones & Reads Entrails – Stephen Harper’s Bones and Peter MacKay’s Entrails
It seems Brian Stewart has been a CBC defence wonk since the days of muzzle loaders and black powder. That makes his take on the F-35 fiasco all the more notable. “The who-knew-what about the real costs of the F-35 fighter jet Canada wants to purchase is worrisome enough. But
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Canada Lacks Political Immune System – #RoboCon
If you think of Canada’s democracy as a living organism, right now we’re suffering from cancer. RoboCon is a growing problem, and the electoral fraud will multiply further as punishments are avoided by the guilty cells. If this society were an organism, it would be one with an immune system
Continue readingImpolitical: Chart of the day
And maybe of the year (click to enlarge): (Source) 2.76 We also have significant concerns about the completeness of cost information provided to parliamentarians. In March 2011, National Defence responded publicly to the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s report. This response did not include estimated operating, personnel, or ongoing training costs (Exhibit
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Smartest Man in the [Tory Caucus] Room
Like scary stories? Here’s one. Imagine that Stephen Harper truly is the “Smartest San In the [Tory Caucus] Room.” Since he came onto the federal scene we’ve repeatedly heard the Steve sees himself as the smartest man in the room, a claim his underlings seem to take at face value.
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