vote.
I vote because I secretly love these things.
I also love elections, so I'm hoping for another one in 18 months.
Miss Canadiana for prime minister!
Oh God Yes! She should be Prime Minister. (And she does has the power to declare herself so.)
She's currently in a group show at A Space called I Represent and she has a small installation on the 4th floor of the same building at the VMAC gallery.
(and I wonder if my constitutional powers as not-Governor-General of this great land would allow me to appoint her to that office in the case of a conservative victory)
Rob sent me to MK's link of Rick Mercer's breakdown of Stephen Harper's plans for cabinet.
lol i forgot there was a conservative mp called Art Hanger
(a small, potentially gay, person being intimidated by Stephen Harper)
Happy news for Olivia Chow in Trinity Spadina.
My riding's NDP candidate was totally creamed by the Liberal incumbent. I got a sign for my front yard to repel the Tory and Liberal canvassers, but that just singled me out for special NDP attention where they phone you every few days to make sure that you still love them.
I asked the very sweet NDP worker, who showed up at my door this morning (noonish) if they could possibly wait until I got out of my pajamas before I went to vote. Then I told the NDP guy who phoned an hour later not to worry, I was really on my way to the polling station and then, several hours later, I had to reassure a third very nice person, on my doorstep, that I had already voted.
(I hate that, because now I feel so badly for them, getting shitfaced at the Lula Lounge and crying. Shit...Shit fuck damn.)
Yay for Olivia. Yay Peggy Nash. Too bad about Gord Perks. A friend of mine was working on that campaign. I dunno what folks see in that Mario Silva dude, but he's haaaaaaaaard to beat.
I teased the NDP guy who was encouraging us to go to the advanced polls. Me: So you want to make sure you get our vote, in case we get hit by a truck before election day? Him: Don't say that! Me: Okay, but seriously, if we vote early and then we die before the election does our vote still count? Him: Well, yes as a matter of fact, it does. Me: Hm, I see your point.
yeah, too bad about gord perks but not surprising.
i worked as a depurty returning office at one
of the polls yesterday. it was really fun to do the poll
count which olivia chow won handily.
headed down to the guvernment. jack layton was
impressive. he always seems tireless to me.
I was surprised and happy over the Peggy Nash win over Sam Bulte. (Hollywood's Pocket Canadian Lawmaker)
Derek Zeisman, our favourite Tory bootlegger and luxury car smuggler, came in third behind the NDP winner and the liberal candidate in the British Columbia Southern Interior.
Not surprised over Belinda Stronach's win, everyone loves a rich man's daughter.
At my polling place, one of the workers had his reading material nearby in case it got slow: "Vimy" by Pierre Berton. (aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww)
He doesn't have the mandate to screw with reproductive rights, or gay marriage ...yet. But it may soon be goodbye to Kyoto. Canadian oil producers do not want to be encumbered by restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions when it takes so much energy to extract oil from the tar sands. Alberta is sitting on a potential bonanza of oil deposits that, with improved extraction technology, may be larger that the Persian Gulf states. Our weakness for Rambo bucks may literally choke us.
carbon to carbon, dust to dust
A couple of kids at my polling station yesterday were being confirmed, since they weren't on the list, and they were given the choice between "swear" and "affirm." Anybody know what that's about? They both chose "affirm." I asked them about it afterwards, and they said they made the decision because it was a prettier word. But then one of them said he thought "swear" implied a religious affiliation.
i think that is the difference between swear and affirm, M. Jean.
by the way, reading through the manual from
elections canada, i found out that inventory can also be used as a verb. i never knew that because i don't think
i have ever heard anyone use the word that way.
I've decided to join the herd who want to invent verbs. (Inventory, dialogue, access, etc.) Here are the two I'm currently promoting:
conflue: what rivers do when they join (The Fraser and the Nechaco conflue in Prince George.)
harbinge: the action of predicting or prefiguring (Heavily laden mountain ash trees harbinge a hard winter.)
From Jack Womack's Ambient, the evil CEO of Dryco commands his chaffeur: "Bookstore me." (As in, drive me to the bookstore.)
That's hilarious, I'm going to shout that whenever I get on a bus.
Here's a bit of news in regards to David Sweet, Rick Mercer's perfect tone-deaf Tory pick for Minister Responsible for the Status of Women. It seems that his own web site (and the website of Promise Keepers Canada) was swept clean of any mention of his past presidency.
wow. It's as strange as this story from the Globe. Muzzled conservative right wing freaks in hiding. Are they all gonna pop out now and show their stripes? Or wait for a majority government?
I promise...not to screw around...and to spend time with my kids...in exchange for my wife's absolute obedience as we forge ahead in our greater mission...of spreading God's word...that mission we call...life.
signed, a promise keeper
I was watching an interview with little weasel man David Frum (who still has this pathetic need for you to think he has influence in the Bush White house when he was just a dime-a-dozen speech writer, who suddenly lost his little job when his wife emailed all her pals to brag that her husband came up with that 'axis of evil' line), anyway, there was some amusing footage from an American Conservative think tank showing a bunch of ...thinkers, I suppose, thinking aloud, that the U.S. position on Canadian softwood lumber tariffs was totally unconscionable, the U.S. was totally in the wrong on this issue, and it really should be straightened out soon. (I believe they were petting a mad cow at this press conference as well)
Bookninga has good post election wrap-up: scroll to 1st two posts for 01/24/06
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vote.
- sally mckay 1-23-2006 6:03 pm
I vote because I secretly love these things.
I also love elections, so I'm hoping for another one in 18 months.
- L.M. 1-23-2006 8:27 pm
Miss Canadiana for prime minister!
- sally mckay 1-24-2006 12:23 am
Oh God Yes! She should be Prime Minister. (And she does has the power to declare herself so.)
She's currently in a group show at A Space called I Represent and she has a small installation on the 4th floor of the same building at the VMAC gallery.
(and I wonder if my constitutional powers as not-Governor-General of this great land would allow me to appoint her to that office in the case of a conservative victory)
- L.M. 1-24-2006 12:56 am
Rob sent me to MK's link of Rick Mercer's breakdown of Stephen Harper's plans for cabinet.
- sally mckay 1-24-2006 1:07 am
lol i forgot there was a conservative mp called Art Hanger
- anonymous (guest) 1-24-2006 1:58 am
(a small, potentially gay, person being intimidated by Stephen Harper)
- L.M. 1-24-2006 6:52 am
Happy news for Olivia Chow in Trinity Spadina.
My riding's NDP candidate was totally creamed by the Liberal incumbent. I got a sign for my front yard to repel the Tory and Liberal canvassers, but that just singled me out for special NDP attention where they phone you every few days to make sure that you still love them.
I asked the very sweet NDP worker, who showed up at my door this morning (noonish) if they could possibly wait until I got out of my pajamas before I went to vote. Then I told the NDP guy who phoned an hour later not to worry, I was really on my way to the polling station and then, several hours later, I had to reassure a third very nice person, on my doorstep, that I had already voted.
(I hate that, because now I feel so badly for them, getting shitfaced at the Lula Lounge and crying. Shit...Shit fuck damn.)
- L.M. 1-24-2006 8:18 am
Yay for Olivia. Yay Peggy Nash. Too bad about Gord Perks. A friend of mine was working on that campaign. I dunno what folks see in that Mario Silva dude, but he's haaaaaaaaard to beat.
I teased the NDP guy who was encouraging us to go to the advanced polls. Me: So you want to make sure you get our vote, in case we get hit by a truck before election day? Him: Don't say that! Me: Okay, but seriously, if we vote early and then we die before the election does our vote still count? Him: Well, yes as a matter of fact, it does. Me: Hm, I see your point.
- sally mckay 1-24-2006 3:47 pm
yeah, too bad about gord perks but not surprising.
i worked as a depurty returning office at one
of the polls yesterday. it was really fun to do the poll
count which olivia chow won handily.
headed down to the guvernment. jack layton was
impressive. he always seems tireless to me.
- nanmac (guest) 1-24-2006 6:56 pm
I was surprised and happy over the Peggy Nash win over Sam Bulte. (Hollywood's Pocket Canadian Lawmaker)
Derek Zeisman, our favourite Tory bootlegger and luxury car smuggler, came in third behind the NDP winner and the liberal candidate in the British Columbia Southern Interior.
Not surprised over Belinda Stronach's win, everyone loves a rich man's daughter.
At my polling place, one of the workers had his reading material nearby in case it got slow: "Vimy" by Pierre Berton. (aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww)
- L.M. 1-24-2006 7:30 pm
He doesn't have the mandate to screw with reproductive rights, or gay marriage ...yet. But it may soon be goodbye to Kyoto. Canadian oil producers do not want to be encumbered by restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions when it takes so much energy to extract oil from the tar sands. Alberta is sitting on a potential bonanza of oil deposits that, with improved extraction technology, may be larger that the Persian Gulf states. Our weakness for Rambo bucks may literally choke us.
- L.M. 1-24-2006 7:48 pm
carbon to carbon, dust to dust
- sally mckay 1-24-2006 8:32 pm
A couple of kids at my polling station yesterday were being confirmed, since they weren't on the list, and they were given the choice between "swear" and "affirm." Anybody know what that's about? They both chose "affirm." I asked them about it afterwards, and they said they made the decision because it was a prettier word. But then one of them said he thought "swear" implied a religious affiliation.
- M.Jean 1-24-2006 8:43 pm
i think that is the difference between swear and affirm, M. Jean.
by the way, reading through the manual from
elections canada, i found out that inventory can also be used as a verb. i never knew that because i don't think
i have ever heard anyone use the word that way.
- nanmac (guest) 1-24-2006 11:28 pm
I've decided to join the herd who want to invent verbs. (Inventory, dialogue, access, etc.) Here are the two I'm currently promoting:
conflue: what rivers do when they join (The Fraser and the Nechaco conflue in Prince George.)
harbinge: the action of predicting or prefiguring (Heavily laden mountain ash trees harbinge a hard winter.)
- M.Jean 1-25-2006 12:13 am
From Jack Womack's Ambient, the evil CEO of Dryco commands his chaffeur: "Bookstore me." (As in, drive me to the bookstore.)
- tom moody 1-25-2006 12:19 am
That's hilarious, I'm going to shout that whenever I get on a bus.
- L.M. 1-25-2006 12:31 am
Here's a bit of news in regards to David Sweet, Rick Mercer's perfect tone-deaf Tory pick for Minister Responsible for the Status of Women. It seems that his own web site (and the website of Promise Keepers Canada) was swept clean of any mention of his past presidency.
- L.M. 1-25-2006 12:47 am
wow. It's as strange as this story from the Globe. Muzzled conservative right wing freaks in hiding. Are they all gonna pop out now and show their stripes? Or wait for a majority government?
- sally mckay 1-25-2006 2:38 am
I promise...not to screw around...and to spend time with my kids...in exchange for my wife's absolute obedience as we forge ahead in our greater mission...of spreading God's word...that mission we call...life.
signed, a promise keeper
- tom moody 1-25-2006 4:58 am
I was watching an interview with little weasel man David Frum (who still has this pathetic need for you to think he has influence in the Bush White house when he was just a dime-a-dozen speech writer, who suddenly lost his little job when his wife emailed all her pals to brag that her husband came up with that 'axis of evil' line), anyway, there was some amusing footage from an American Conservative think tank showing a bunch of ...thinkers, I suppose, thinking aloud, that the U.S. position on Canadian softwood lumber tariffs was totally unconscionable, the U.S. was totally in the wrong on this issue, and it really should be straightened out soon. (I believe they were petting a mad cow at this press conference as well)
- L.M. 1-25-2006 7:18 am
Bookninga has good post election wrap-up: scroll to 1st two posts for 01/24/06
- sally mckay 1-25-2006 3:42 pm