Posts Tagged ‘election’
Monday, December 1st, 2008
A couple of times on the weekend I contemplated writing something about the proposed coalition. I’m kind of glad I didn’t, since things have moved at a much more rapid pace than I would have guessed possible.
And besides, as usual, Patrick sums it up better than I could have. (As a bonus, the bit [...]
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I am so disappointed in you.
Especially you Ontario, and you B.C.
I had steeled myself for 134 seats, but this… this is horrible.
OK, it’s not quite as bad as a majority, but this is still terrible.
And if this voter turnout thing is true–that the right-winger got out a lot more of their voters than the [...]
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
It turns out there’s a party running in our federal election who I am even more opposed to than the ReformConservatives.
Yes, I just found out today about the Christian Heritage Party.
Apparently they’ve been around since 1988, but they’ve never even showed up on my radar before. Since they’ve usually only run candidates in less than [...]
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
OK, that’s some of the only good news I’ve read lately.
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
So I chose to watch the Canadian federal debate live, and to record the Biden/Palin show for later.
The Canadian debates were interesting, but didn’t really do anything to change my basic opinions. Actually, that’s not true–my respect for Duceppe went up another notch, but it doesn’t matter as long as he’s the head of a [...]
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I love that the Progressive Conservative Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is spearheading an “Anything But Conservative” anti-Conservative campaign in the election. I wish it was more because of the ReformConservatives’ scary policies, and less because of them screwing over the Atlantic provinces on resource revenues, but I’ll take it anyway.
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
I am still desperately miserable about the upcoming (Canadian) election. Every time I check out Elect-o-pinion.ca I want to pound nails into my eyes, even if it sometimes does bring me lovely things like 100+ Reasons Not to Vote for Harper.
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Today, as my grandfather would say, the sadness is upon me.
Let’s just say that my growing fear that McCain’s Big Lie tactics will work, combined with my stark and utter terror at the nearly inescapable certainty of a Harper majority, have made me miserable today. I’ve lost faith in my fellow man.
Maybe I’ll be chipper [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I am filled with rage at our offensive, crypto-Republican right wing minority government today. Let’s look at few things in order of ascending offensiveness.
First we’ll start with financial irregularities, disregard for the rule of law, and good old talking points spin:
Elections chief counters Tory defence on expenses practices
Elections officials found no evidence that other political [...]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Seriously?
I mean, seriously?
Republicans picked Huckabee?
Even in crazy Jesusland, isn’t “I won’t sign this bill because calling a tornado an ‘act of God’ makes God look bad” crazy enough to make someone unelectable?
I expected some ludicrousness from Americans, especially Republicans, but my expectations have been exceeded.
And I thought the TSA facecrime thing would be the dumbest [...]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
There’s absolutely no theme here, just a bunch of stuff that caught my interest.
Why did I not know there was a new Grimjack comic being serialized to the web at ComicMix.com? There’s like 60 pages there already. I hope this is web-to-trade serialization. And look, there’s also a Jon Sable, and what’s this Bar Sinister?
The [...]
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