96% of Canadians don't give a hoot about Harper's latest cabinet shuffle. Living for the past two years in Calgary, I'm with them. The Ottawa "bubble" is just that, a bubble. With talk shows and political "pundits" going on and on and on about who went where, who was promoted, who was demoted and why, the irrelevance of the whole pandering, phoney exercise is breathtaking.
As Justin Trudeau said (well-coached to be sure), "The only guy in charge in Ottawa is Harper, he's the one who needs to be shuffled." He's right, Harper runs everything, so who's in his cabinet doesn't matter much. And 38 ministers! Please. This is from a guy who vowed to slim down government when he first rode into Ottawa.
As to women? Forget about it. They have all been handed soft portfolios. The big boys are still in charge -- Flaherty, Baird, Clement, et all, the money guys. So folks, it's business as usual. Who does Harper think he's kidding?!
A word about the Zimmerman acquittal. Remember when an obviously-guilty OJ was found not? There was jubilation and partying in the streets. The black community was over-the-moon because we had a black who had brutally murdered a white -- sorry, two whites -- but who dodged the bullet. On the other hand, Zimmerman was a white who killed a black in self defence. And what does the black community do? Riots in the streets, demanding a lynching regardless of the rule of law and the evidence presented.
It's all so pathetic and wrong. As one of my American readers commented, race relations in the US have not been this bad since Selma and Governor George Wallace.
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