So, lefties. How would you like an elected senate now?
When the right complained about the rubber stamping in the 90s, I only heard crickets from the left.
The Unmentioned Majority (Senate)
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Majority
It is now with great happiness, I congratulate Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his excellent win tonight.
This is the results of the BRINW poll I was running over the last number of months. Conservatives have spoken and have given him the majority he asked for. Now it is time for him to deliver that badly needed reform.
52% – Scrap the CBC
32% – Kill the HRCs
10% – Lower Taxes
The other 6% was for other and most people wrote in “All of the Above.”
Goodbye Iggy. Goodbye Bloc. Layton, you can ask your question first now. Harper actually doesn’t need to answer.*
* Heard on CBC.
Please don’t Vote. If…
I disagree with the notion of voting being compulsory or something that everyone should do. More people voting is not the cure as long as the people voting are acting like lemmings.
Everyone should vote. IF they have invested the time and energy to understand who and what they are voting for. The following list should disqualify be a guideline for people being involved in choosing who gets to run our lives.
Don’t vote if..
- Your intellectual investment in this election involves change for the sake of change.
- You have not read the actual policies of the party you are planning on voting for. Go beyond the glossy pamphlets with the broad generalized statements and read the fine print. The fine print is why there are policy conventions. {This may be too harsh, you should be able to at least go beyond talking points.}
- Everything you know about the leaders, you know because you saw it on TV. This is true whether it is CBC or Sun News.
- You are planning on voting for the same party you voted for last time, just because you voted that way last time.
- Your union literature told you to vote for ______. So you will.
- Your church told you to vote for ______. So you will.
- Your parents told you to vote for ______. So you will.
- Your school told you to vote for ______. So you will.
- You actually feel that all parties are the same and it doesn’t matter.
- Your going to vote for ______, because they offered to drive you.
Don’t spoil your ballot. I don’t think of spoiled ballots as anything other than wasting your time and Elections Canada’s time. We live in a country where every vote does count. Out of the people on the ballot, which do you want to represent you? Which do you want to make decisions, on your behalf?
I know that many will say that “none of the above” is their choice but that is not on the ballot. Apathy and intentionally spoiled ballots are the same thing. Both say that you don’t want to be a part of the decision.
How does one protest then? We all know that no party meets all of our desires, whether policy or implementation.
One, by withholding donations (this is why it is so critical that per vote subsidies are scrapped) and not renewing memberships. If I get called for a donation or am asked to renew my membership, I explain to the unfortunate caller that reasons A, B, C and D are why I will not support the party financially or renew my membership at that time.
Two, contact your current MP or person on the ballot. Explain where the party has deviated from its policies and/or made decisions that you don’t agree with.
Three, become a member of a political party closest to your ideals then work within that party to enact policies. You won’t get everything you want but that’s democracy in action. The difference here than at a general election, is that your vote carries a heavier weight.
Democracy at its heart, is giving everyone, not just elites, the ability to control their future. If you are going to vote, do so with understanding, not ignorance, otherwise you make the votes of the people that care, worth less (as a percentage.) People didn’t die in wars so people SHOULD vote, they died so people COULD vote.
Note: I understand that there is a historical feeling of spoiling a ballot as a means of protest. I just think it is pointless at this point in history.
This is just opinion, feel free to disagree or make your opinion known in the comments below.
The Jack! Preview
If, for some reason, you feel an NDP led coalition would not be a bad thing for Canada, try the following to preview what it would be like.
- For every dollar you keep after taxes, take 30 cents and give it to the guy living under the bridge. Don’t ask what he will do with it, that’s none of your business.
- If you own guns, hand them in to the police, or better yet, just give them to the drug dealer that sells to the guy living under the bridge.
- If you have own a business, hire the first person that walks in the door, regardless of whether it will ruin your business or not. Then pay them double. Then triple your EI & CPP payments.
- Take the bus, or bike, everywhere you go, including overseas.
- If you own a vehicle that has enough seats for a family, the next time you fill up for gas, multiply the cost by 2 and give the difference to that guy that lives under the bridge. By now, he’ll be filling up his VW van at the gas station beside you so it should be easy to find him.
- Quit your job and live under a bridge (Equality!)
- Get a job somewhere that you want to get promoted, and pretend you are in a union by turning down every promotion until everyone else that was there before you moves up.
- Take your globe, atlas or map of the world, cross out Israel and write “Palestinianland.”
- Go to your bank and withdraw your money. Send it to Hugo Chavez, c/o The White House, Washington, DC.
- If you own stocks, cash them in now, they won’t be worth much soon.
There are more but we only have a few weeks before a Jack! led government could be a reality.
Get out and vote for a Conservative Majority. It may not be the optimum, but its better than the alternative.
Global, call your webmaster
On the top left of the Watch Online grid, on the home page of Global TV, they are linking to an episode of Spring Wipeout. The Title: “Spring Wipeout” The teaser: “Prime Minister Harper’s tour of Canada continues”
You have got to be kidding me. Doesn’t anyone have editors anymore in their workflow? I know how easy it is to make a mistake but this is getting stupid.
This is why the Right mocks the MSM.
Excellent reporting CW Media. Under the headline of “Canadians ok with coalition” on the Global News website, I found this gem of a conclusion.
The Conservatives say a Liberal-NDP coalition government would be bad for the country, but Canadians wouldn’t have a problem with it.
From reading that paragraph, I’d think that a large sampling of Canadians would not have a problem with what will happen if the voters choose to send the parties back with the same numbers they currently have. Iggy will vote down the first budget and continue with the previously signed coalition agreement with the NDP. The Bloc, having to prop up the coalition, will get bribed to keep the coalition alive on everything.
But that ISN’T WHAT THE POLL SAID!!!! Reading the next paragraph, it makes it very clear that the left doesn’t want the Conservatives with a majority. Ya, no kidding. That’s why getting out the vote is important for the left. It’s too bad for them that you can’t vote while playing World of Warcraft in mommy’s basement.
A new Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Global National and Postmedia News indicates the majority of Canadians would prefer to see a Liberal-NDP coalition government (54 per cent) than a Conservative majority government (46 per cent).
It is the next paragraph that should have changed the thesis statement of the article.
Also, almost half of Canadians (48 per cent) support the idea of a coalition of opposition parties forming the government.
A little more than half (52 per cent) of Canadians oppose the idea.
If that isn’t obvious enough that this bit of reporting had the wrong conclusion, this paragraph should be the cherry on top.
If a coalition of all three opposition parties – Liberals, NDP and Bloc – were to be formed, 59 per cent of Canadians would like to see NDP leader Jack Layton lead it. Just 27 per cent would like to see Ignatieff do so, and 14 per cent would choose Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe for the job.
Here, let me take a go on the headline and first paragraph of the article to remove the pro-Liberal spin.
My headline based on the poll data:
Poll shows Canadians want the Status Quo.
My thesis based on the poll data:
Canadians want a Conservative Minority and they don’t want to see Ignatieff as Prime Minister.
As Kate at SDA would say, “Not Waiting for the Astroid.”
Vote Compass Flip-flopping
So, if you are on the CBC Vote Compass, and you keep taking it but you give different answers each time, of course it thinks you are a Liberal.
It actually thinks you are Michael Ignatieff!
Election 2011
Here are my thoughts on heading to the polls this spring.
I don’t mind having the opportunity to make my voice heard officially. I just wish I was able to vote for a fiscally conservative party rather than the 1990 Liberals.
If the Conservative party cannot get a majority in this election with the cast of characters currently leading the opposition parties, then it is purely due to the Conservatives not being conservative.
The Liberals have no message, other than they aren’t led by Harper. The NDP says the same things as always so they’ll get their usual group of crazies. The Bloc will promise to leave Canada, or at least take the rest of Canada’s money but because they say it in French, no-one will notice.
So anyone that realizes that we cannot afford to continue burning money in the CBC bonfire can only vote for the Conservatives, hoping that we get a majority and pleading that there actually is a secret agenda in place so that we can start cutting the waste.
Do we need a tea party in Canada? No, we had the Reform party. We just need a Conservative party that acts like it is actually conservative.
If they build it, we will pay.
There’s no federal cash, no private sector commitment, and absolutely no guarantee that NHL hockey will ever return.
But Quebec City has announced it will nonetheless begin construction within several months on a new NHL-style hockey arena — with or without any involvement from Ottawa or private industry.
“While we congratulate all those involved on this exciting development for the Quebec City region, we also reiterate our position that the League has no plans at the current time for either expansion or relocating any of our existing franchises,” said NHL senior vice president of communications Gary Meagher in a statement.
Gong show. I just have this feeling we’ll be borrowing money to pay for an arena for peewee tourneys.