Crazy Hair, Crazy Eyes: what Stephen Harper does to people.

[Pic shamelessly poached from Globe & Mail]

Okay, okay, Becker was not really talking about Harper. He was actually talking about the bad choices Tiger has made. But still, surely you can see how Stephen Harper's bad choices of late would cause crazy hair & crazy eyes? I know I awaken every morn' looking the same... crazy hair, crazy eyes, ... and I blame it all on Stephen Harper!

Harper, Tirture, Truth, and Consequences?

Dear Canadian Prime Minister,

You Bastard! In light of your morally retarded and indefensible stance to try and silence witnesses who are willing to testify in the inquiry into allegations of Canada's complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners - I believe you should take note of this breaking story by Salon's Glen Greenwald:

British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence

Sir, as one pecker-head to another, I aver it is time you reconsidered your efforts to silence those who wish to speak the truth to power. It is time you stopped trying to bury the truth under the faux guise of 'national security' and your turning of a blind eye to the systemic torture of defenseless human beings. Maybe, just maybe, your government's concerted efforts to hide the truth needs to be reassessed? Because maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world is going to start seriously questioning what Canada stands for, who we are, and what kind of government we have. And, maybe, just maybe, the world's spotlight will not be forgiving .... for as Greewald highlights: the "Court's ruling 'a devastating judgment,' ... [saw that] the 'judges roundly dismissed the foreign secretary's claims that disclosing the evidence would harm national security and threaten the UK's vital intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.'"

Oops! Ritz wrong Again! It is Swine Flu after all.

So a day after an Edmonton Sun article was lamenting the plight of pork producers and complaining that medical authorities were still calling the new virus "Swine Flu":

"Why couldn't the flu have been dubbed the H1N1 flu, for the sake of accuracy, when farmers first raised concerns?"

Well it turns out, this is why ..... This just in: "Alberta Pigs Believed to be infected with Swine Flu"

Oops! And this only one day after our incompetent Agriculture Minister, Garry Ritz, and Canada's Tory answer to 'just a brain stem', Minister Stockwell Day, issued a news release assuring one and all that:

"The government of Canada is confident that Canadian pork is safe. We want to reassure Canadians that human swine influenza cannot be contracted through eating pork or pork products."

What! Okay, maybe its true we can't catch it from eating pigs. But if they can catch it from us and we can catch it from them.... maybe it should be called "Farmers-Swine Flu"? And maybe Ritz should not have released Friday's news release if they already knew the story of sick Alberta pigs was going to break today.

Oh well, ... chalk up another one for the Tory's. They've tried to say 'Don't worry, be Happy' one too many times - (see: Tory fall debacle over the true state of the economy). While we can understand why they want to spin a bad situation; rather than issuing an its-okay-to-eat-pork memo on the very eve of a more ominous news release they probably knew was coming was too cute by half. Coming out with a news release that draws attention to pigs and professes them to be safe when you know there is a good chance a bad announcement is on the way is just plain silly. And all it does is draw attention to how stupid and just plain wrong you are ... yet again!

Can't imagine what this will do our pork export market. One things for sure - it ain't gonna help! A year from now Ritz will be in charge of another closed door inquiry that will be guaranteed NOT to get to the bottom of the issue.

Whew, the more things stay the same, the more they....