What is getting lost in all of this, is the fact that this scandal is even happening.

Yes some races were tight.

31,000+ complaints? That is a massive number in this country.

But some keep trying to shift the focus. They are looking at what races could have been affected. Answer: ALL of them. The whole country has been tainted. This is like a poisonous tooth, and we need to remove it.

What really matters, is that someone even tried to hijack the election.

Looking at who would have benefited, the culprits look pretty clearly outlined.
Whatever happened, was illegal, immoral, and completely against Canadian values.

The Harper Cons have been spinning and twisting and even suggesting that the Libs did this themselves....

SUE the bastards!
Too funny.

RackNine Inc. and its chief executive officer Matt Meier have followed through on an earlier threat and served NDP MP Pat Martin and his party with a $5-million lawsuit Friday.
The Edmonton-based call centre company that is part of the ongoing election calls controversy is suing for defamation, claiming that multiple comments made by Martin, and published by the NDP on its website, demonstrated malice and caused the company to lose business.

If Racknine wanted to keep up the "nonpartisan" pretense, there is little chance now....
But yanno,it would be hard to see many buying into their story. It looks like they have a lot of contacts with the Harper Cons.
I think they will be losing business as well, but more because the whole story has been blown and what appears to be a HUGE client will probably looking elsewhere for "services".
This is all far too out in the open now. The Cons will be looking for something a lot more out of the way. Like Racknine used to be.

January 11th, 2012.

They are contemptuous of anyone that disagrees with them, and even of the ones they have hoodwinked into voting against their own best interests.

I do hope someone gets a pic of Harper with a goat and a chandelier soon. This is not going to end well, but it will end.

This, is better in some ways.

One: no one really wants to see Harper In flagrante delicto anyway. I can only imagine the result would be like the great Pokemon seizure incident of 1997.) 

That is technically the accurate terminology.

Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote. It is distinguished from political campaigning in that campaigning attempts to change likely voting behavior by changing the opinions of potential voters through persuasion and organization. Voter suppression instead attempts to reduce the number of voters who might vote against the candidate or proposition advocated by the suppressors.

Yes, it is fraud. But voter fraud is different.

Examples of voter fraud would be when someone tries to vote more than once, or under a different name.

Oh bloody hell, how does one even get this friggin clueless?

“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. “Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”

and then THIS:

“If you’re making $50,000 and your salary gets down to $40,000 and you have to cut, it’s very severe to you,” Dlugash said. “But it’s no less severe to these other people with these big numbers.” 

Actually, at that level; $50,000 after a 1/5 cut it means EATING or not. At $250,000 minus 1/5th it's one less car or vacation.

And that is why Occupy gets so much support. Because the elites really think that they are oh so hard done by. 

That it costs JUST pennies to make a call and spoof the caller ID.

You wanna make a call and pretend that that call is coming from somewhere else?

Totally doable!
And most likely, done.

You could purchase a card, and call.....NDP voters and pretend that you are calling from an NDP office fax line, for instance. You could tell the voters that they need to vote for the guy that has removed himself from the race.

It would split the vote and benefit someone like.....Gary Lunn. For instance. (And do throw in some shadowy third party advertising....Just for good bad measure....)(h/t Alison)

You can also do that online through sites that offer spoofing services.

Since the Reform party merged with the Conservatives, we have been seeing a total disregard for the election process in Canada.

They became similar to the Republican party in the US in many many ways. As I have said before, they often act like a Republican franchise.  Interchangable in popular culture.

They have conducted this series of continuing attacks that are really against all of us....Let's start with this one, where they may have used the RCMP and fake allegations to influence an election.....

Have you all seen the commercials on Tee Vee lately? Courtesy of the Canadian Government, and paid for by all of us.
It is a very real problem which needs addressing.

But as always, it strikes a massive disconnect with what is going on with the Harper Government. In real time, they are now talking about "reform" (Reform means screw stuff up in Government double speak, BTW) of the pension system. Ta DA!

There are many places to research elder abuse as it does happen all too often. In the Wiki description, there are these parts:

Financial abuse:also known as financial exploitation. e.g. illegal or unauthorized use of a person’s property, money, pension book or other valuables (including changing the person's will to name the abuser as heir). It may be obtained by deception, coercion, misrepresentation, undue influence, or theft. The term includes fraudulently obtaining or use of a power of attorney. Other forms include deprivation of money or other property, or by eviction from own home.

Ok Vic. You want to play this game?

Critics of a bill that would give law enforcement new powers to access Canadians' electronic communications are aligning themselves with child pornographers, Canada's public safety minister says.
"He can either stand with us or with the child pornographers," Vic Toews said of Liberal public safety critic Francis Scarpaleggia during question period on Monday, after Scarpaleggia asked about a bill expected to be tabled Tuesday.

Spying on Canadians with no checks and balances. Probably Definately will be used for political purposes. (Recall medical records being passed around so the Cons could smear honourable people?) 

That, my freinds, is aligning yourself with fascists and dictators.

Anyone paying attention to the Brouhaha down south right now, that has to do with contraception and the decision from the Whitehouse that all women should have access to birth control?

I must admit, I really do not get the whole hoopla from the Catholics. The church has dropped a lot of their other bullshit ideas over the years. Like the Sun revolving around the earth for example.

But this one thing still sticks with the Catholic church, and the reasoning is pretty obvious.....It is because it lifts women out of servitude to their own Uterus's.

Can't have that.

The leaders of the Catholic Church are verrrrrrrrry quiet when it comes to priests having sex with children, but women being able to decide when to have children? They are in poutrage mode about that one. Jeebus, that is one screwed up set of priorities.

Most of the followers of that Church have figured out by now that the anti birth control doctrine is crap.

Timing eh?
Today, the Film Pink Ribbons, Inc. opened in theatres.

An exploration of the Pinkwashing by the Susan G Komen race for the cure.

And how perfectly useless and offensive SGK and all their corporate partners are. The National Film Board of Canada. ROCKS.
Here is the trailer.  Wait for the fireworks from evil litigious "charities". Popcorn?

Fucking Jason Kenney is such a fucking gawd-damned hack. Part of a larger Fucking Gawd damned borg of the stoopid.

And that also includes fucking Sun News.

Documents released to The Canadian Press under access-to-information legislation show that just a few weeks before Canada's Citizenship Week last October, Mr. Kenney's staff directed departmental officials to add a last-minute citizenship ceremony at the network to their list of scheduled events.

Question? What the hell is Kenney doing deciding that Faux News North Sun News had to hold a ceremony?

No they are not connected at the fucking hip. Not a bit. Nah. 

We watched the 1988 schlock film again the other night, They Live.
Most definitely a satire, based on the commercialism and greed of the 80's which was showcased just the previous year in 1987's Wall Street, it stands up very well even today in the age of #OccupyWallStreet.

Consume, sleep. OBEY.

These messages are being delivered to us through even more communication mediums in the 2010's; Social media, on one side is an equalizer and a great tool for grassroots movements. On the other side, it is used to make us consume and become far more complacent to the encroaching police state which has been growing faster since 9/11.

Cable which was still in it's infancy in the 80's is a major part of the film, the control of the masses is engineered through the signal emitting from the Cable station tower. Them good old days of over the air transmitting......

They are extremely obsessive, and mostly uneducated about their choice of saviour.

Today at work, Mr I read the Drudge report, and know very little about much of anything as a result was in teh store today.

Birther, global warming denier and a Paulbot. How fitting hey?

He thinks Ron Paul is going to save the US.
I mentioned that not so much for women. (Not so much in anything, but I was actually trying to avoid much of this convo)

He got all pissy and said I NEEDED TO READ MORE!
Paul is NOT ANTI CHOICE!

He thinks that the STATES SHOULD DECIDE! (not acknowledging the fact that a lot of states are debating draconian anti choice legislation to force women to become incubators because the fat white male fucks sitting in State legislatures are as anti choice as he is....)

After I said I disagree ( I wasn't about to smile and nod, but I also wasn't going to get into a debate at work), he stormed out, and opened the door a few seconds later and yelled something about _____ LIBERALS!

Newt Gingrich's (currently a frontrunner for the GOP on the faith and values magical mystery tour) ex wife has done an interview with ABC news.

This is ex wife the second. The first one he ditched when she had cancer. The second one was just freshly diagnosed with Scoliosis when he asked her for an open marriage and divorced when she declined.

Apparently.

I also found a site today that sayz that Newt's first wife was one of his high school teachers that he had an affair with starting at age 16 and married when he was 19, and she was 26. *blink*