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January 23, 2006
The Fat Lady Is About To Sing……
It’s all over but the counting here in Canada. Once again we trundled off to the voting booths and cast our ballots in the good cause of democracy. A cause where there’s no right votes and no wrong votes. So long as you vote. If you don’t exercise your right to vote if you have the capacity to do so, then you are beneath contempt and I hope misery befalls you.
This was a fascinating election here in the great white north. Many new facets and changes and I will discuss them later, after the announcements come down later tonight.
It looks like we’ll get a change, and from this pundit’s perspective, that is good. If the Conservatives do get in, I will never be so happy to have been wrong in my early prediction.
Coverage in the USA was better than ever before. It was refreshing to see the awareness of our election. I’m still trying to decide of that is because there is better awareness of our political scene, or if it is because our dingbat Prime Minster, Paul Martin and his predecessor, Jean Chrétien were so openly and ignorantly anti American in their political posturing. A couple of political whores of the worst order those two. It will be especially sweet to see them slink off into political obscurity. Even that lying, liberal twerp, Michael Moore waded into the fray with an open letter to us Canadians (see extended entry), proving once again that he truly is a moron of grand stature. I received the letter in the form of an email at the last minute in an effort to sway my vote. I responded in a well deserved and very unkind letter to the sender. What an empty and brainless soul that he should think that an opinion of Michael Moore would have even the slightest possibility of affecting my decision.
In a day and age where progressive thinking is needed, I am convinced more than ever that Jack Layton is a pinhead. He and his socialist cronies are so completely out of touch with the world around them that is it comical to watch them trumpet their ignorance for all to see. Their platforms are nothing more than a re-hash of a failed political idea, but, they sure sound good in some ways don’t they? Of course that’s because it’s easy to make promises and take altruistic stands when you know you will NEVER….EVER form a government and have to live up to your commitments.
I’ve stayed out of the debates and election rhetoric to this point in time in an effort to remain sane and calm. But with coming of the new dawn, I will have fun as I see fit, at the expense of some and in cautious praise of others.
The fat lady is about to sing, we’re just not sure what song yet. All we do know, is that her play list changed over the last eight weeks and the coming music holds the promise of a sweet melody indeed.
~ AP
Michael Moore Statement on Canadian Election
Friday, January 20th, 2006
Michael Moore is currently in production on his next movie. As an avid lover of all things Canadian, he has issued the following statement regarding Canada's upcoming election on Monday:
Oh, Canada -- you're not really going to elect a Conservative majority on Monday, are you? That's a joke, right?
I know you have a great sense of humor, and certainly a well-developed sense of irony, but this is no longer funny. Maybe it's a new form of Canadian irony -- reverse irony! OK, now I get it. First, you have the courage to stand against the war in Iraq -- and then you elect a prime minister who's for it. You declare gay people have equal rights -- and then you elect a man who says they don't. You give your native peoples their own autonomy and their own territory -- and then you vote for a man who wants to cut aid to these poorest of your citizens. Wow, that is intense! Only Canadians could pull off a hat trick of humor like that. My hat's off to you.
Far be it from me, as an American, to suggest what you should do. You already have too many Americans telling you what to do. Well, actually, you've got just one American who keeps telling you to roll over and fetch and sit. I hope you don't feel this appeal of mine is too intrusive but I just couldn't sit by, as your friend, and say nothing. Yes, I agree, the Liberals have some 'splainin' to do. And yes, one party in power for more than a decade gets a little... long. But you have a parliamentary system (I'll bet you didn't know that -- see, that's why you need Americans telling you things!). There are ways at the polls to have your voices heard other than throwing the baby out with the bath water.
These are no ordinary times, and as you go to the polls on Monday, you do so while a man running the nation to the south of you is hoping you can lend him a hand by picking Stephen Harper because he's a man who shares his world view. Do you want to help George Bush by turning Canada into his latest conquest? Is that how you want millions of us down here to see you from now on? The next notch in the cowboy belt? C'mon, where's your Canadian pride? I mean, if you're going to reduce Canada to a cheap download of Bush & Co., then at least don't surrender so easily. Can't you wait until he threatens to bomb Regina? Make him work for it, for Pete's sake.
But seriously, I know you're not going to elect a guy who should really be running for governor of Utah. Whew! I knew it! You almost had me there. Very funny. Don't do that again. God, I love you, you crazy cold wonderful neighbors to my north. Don't ever change.
Michael Moore
Posted by Anonymous Pundit at January 23, 2006 02:50 PM