The year in review

Alright, so, fuck it.  I've decided to start blogging again, and since a lot has happened in the Kafkaesque goatfuck that is modern Anglo-Canadian politics, I guess I'll take it one step at a motherfucking time.

First off, the Ontario election.  I liked Hudak.  I hoped that he'd win.  I mean, I know he looks like a weasel but he had a budget plan that involved actually saving money, something that the province of Ontario so desperately needs.  The other serious contender was a bull dyke named Kathleen Wynne, whose idea of budgeting was "spend money to save money".  I see no problem with that idea, except for EVERY FUCKING WORD OF IT!  You can NOT spend money left and right, money that you don't fucking have, and expect any sort of profit on this borrowed dosh to overshadow the inevitable fucking INTEREST that borrowing generates!

Like, look.  Two men lose their jobs and need money.  They have to make money to survive.  One man gets an even more high-paying job, and tightens his belt so this doesn't happen in future.  The other man goes to a cash point, withdraws $250 from his Barclaycard, and then says, "Hey, look, I've made money." NO YOU HAVEN'T.

Wynne didn't even spend money where it counts.  What she should have spent it on was a tube system for Toronto to rival London's or Manhattan's.  Instead, she spent it on giving happy-ending massages to teachers, government sector workers, and the unemployable poor.  The majority of this province DOES NOT work for the government... and sinking money into the public school system is never a good idea, since it tends to disappear very quickly.

Oh, yes, and she cancelled two gas plants Ontario desperately needed to save two of her party bootlickers' arses.  This had the end phenomenon of a 150% hike in gas prices... because the winter in Ontario was precisely the same as the one that helped defeat Hitler's forces in Russia.

Of course, this useless cunt of a candidate won.  Now, I know Ontario voters are a perverse bunch.  Never in the history of Ontario has a provincial Prime Minister been of the same party as the national Prime Minister, but for once, couldn't Ontario voters vote with their brains rather than their cocks?  They should at least have balanced themselves out so that there was a hung parliament... now she and her gang of knuckleheads can put any bill, even a hare-brained one like the provincial budget, forward and it'll get passed come hell or high water.

Then the whole business with Russia/the Ukraine.  Another complete clusterfuck.  Now, I understand that Crimea was a gift to Ukraine by Khrushchev, with terms and conditions attached.  Ukraine violated those terms and conditions.  So I believe that the annexation of Crimea by Russia, especially following a popular fucking referendum, was legal and justified.  But the goatfuck currently taking place in eastern Ukraine, Donbass, etc---there is no way that could even be described in the same fucking book as legal.

Now, people's rebellions are commonplace and understandable.  Especially following Tymoshenko's machinations.  Now, I know the old girl wasn't guilty of price-fixing all on her own, and I do know that the Russian colonial government put her in prison to the exclusion Putin supporters.  This is a totalitarian tactic and one that is in opposition to everything that the word "democracy" stands for, but the fact is, that Yulia Tymoshenko is guilty of offences that would warrant the same punishment anywhere in the civilised world.

But price-fixing and collusion with illegal monopolies does not excuse the Russian government, under the despotic and iron-fisted rule of Vladimir Putin, rendering significant and material aid to rebels.  But for the illegal interventions of the Putin regime, the situation in the East might well be over.  Since Putin insists on goofing the floof in this area, though, we are saddled with the possibility of a Third World War.  Putin's actions of fomenting unrest in the Ukraine mirror certain aspects of the actions of a particular Austrian corporal (yes, the same one Prince Charles compared him to).

Furthermore, he has not sent people who simply agree with the "ideals" (if you could call them that) behind the Anti-Maidan movement.  Instead, the "potato bugs" (the pro-Russian ribbons they wear look like the elytrae of potato bugs) causing disturbances in Eastern Ukraine are mercenaries who have been paid on the order of $500 a week specifically to, as I said earlier, goof the floof.  So not only is it an illegal ploy, but it is the work of a sociopath, with no ideals except cold, hard cash behind it.

One more thing that has happened is the separation referendum in Scotland.  Scotchmen want to separate from the United Kingdom; on this, I hold no fixed opinion aside from a very weak "no".  I am entirely willing to debate the benefits and the costs of separating, as I really and truly hold no major opinion.  Yes, I'd like the Kingdom to remain United till the stars fall from the sky, but it is simply an ideal, rather than some deep-seated fucking conviction or something.

On the other hand, though, there have been some extremely dirty tactics from proponents on both sides.  I use Twitter to express my dissatisfaction with certain elements of the "Yes" cause.  These include the First Minister of Scotland, Alexander Salmond (whom I refer to as Fish) and his deputy, Nicola Sturgeon (whom I refer to as Fish Number Two).  If I choose to air my dissatisfaction with these two individuals, my tweet is almost instantly picked up by the "Britnat Abuse Bot", a COMPUTER PROGRAM rebroadcasting "abuse" of anyone connected in the least with the Yes movement.  This exposes me to enormous quantities of vitriol and hate-mail in spite of the fact that I HAVE NO FUCKING OPINION ABOUT YES OR NO!!!

First of all, Salmond and his party (the SNP) have a political platform and a style of rhetoric that is xenophobic, nationalistic, hateful, and specifically anti-English.  Salmond has made it absolutely and perfectly clear that, should Scotland become independent, university will remain free of charge for members of the European Union, with the single exception of England.   His currency plans are unworkable and smack of a petulant toddler throwing a tantrum.  He has demanded that the British government establish a pound-sterling currency union; as he was roundly shot down by damn near everyone who fucking mattered more than a rabbit's fart in the Grand Scheme of Things, he simply said that he'll use the pound anyway, drag England (for it will be the United Kingdom no more) into a currency quagmire that it wants no part of and would have absolutely no control over, and essentially told the British government to kiss his morbidly obese arse.

And then comes the kicker.  It was widely reported that Salmond and his SNP cronies personally "discouraged" certain powerful financial corporations from delivering an official, published opinion on Scotch independence.  Reportedly, Salmond's telephone call was "forceful" and designed to "discourage... from saying anything".  In plain English, what this means is that Salmond PERSONALLY EXTORTED LARGE BANKS INTO SHUTTING UP.  He called them and most likely screamed unprintable obscenities and threats at a nominally independent coalition of banks.  Heads of free and democratic countries DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS!!!  Of course, the wonderful and magical SNP put a great spin on this: one of their mouthpieces said, basically, that Fish had been making sure that anything published was neutral and properly balanced.  Well, then, I pray that God does not choose to become neutral.

What happened was extortion, pure and simple.  If it had been Labour doing this, or Conservatives, or even fucking UKIP, they would be locked up and the key eaten (not merely thrown away) at the behest of the SNP.  But because Saint Fish is doing this, nothing will ever come of it.

And all this has devolved into a culture of intimidation and hate.  I remarked on Twitter that automatic accession of a separate Scotland to the European Union would be impossible.  Two European presidents (as in heads of the European Union as a whole) had agreed with me: first Barroso and then Juncker.  I was bombarded with a torrent of questions and hate mail.  The first was rather easily dealt with.  I don't mind answering questions.  Many of them asked me to point to a specific EU law that agreed with me.  I couldn't, I'll be the first to say, and that is because European law is such a complete and utter clusterfuck that it requires a degree so far beyond your regular Cambridge BA and that it is offered only at one tiny institution in Europe.  This is why we have specialised civil servants such as Mr Barroso and Mr Juncker.

But when I was honest and up-front with this fact, and the fact that every major newspaper and the majority of government documentation on this issue seemed either to agree with me or simply not to disagree with me, I was labelled an "Anglo Canuck" (don't mind that, I'm proud to be an Anglo Canuck!) and a "member of the Village Idiot Club" (I am neither from a village, nor am I an idiot, so fuck you, fucking cunt.)

I'm just sick and tired of this shit.  Debate intelligently or just why don't you SHUT THE FUCK UP.