I confess, I actually enjoy elections. I know they cost millions, and shut down the country for six weeks, but so do the Stanley Cup playoffs. And for those of you who anticipated that this election would be boring, at least it hasn’t disappointed. We’re only half way through the campaign and already nothing’s happening.
You see, in Canada we don’t over stress the system and collapse the economy like they’ve done in the United States. I tried to tell them that a black dude, a girl dude, and an old dude, all running at the same time would be too much, but would anyone listen? nooooooooooooooo! If this keeps up, in four years they just might get their first chance to elect a poor dude.
In Canada everyone’s complaining about goofs and gaffs, but if it weren’t for these who would even know we we’re having an election? A Conservative site hosted a video cartoon that featured a puffin pooping on Liberal leader Stephane Dion. Harper had to apologize, calling it tasteless and inappropriate. To be sure, but I have to admit I found it a little funnier when I learned that the puffin is being promoted by Liberal MP Michael Ignatieff as the symbol of the Liberal Party. It should be noted, however, that Mr. Ignatieff, who opposed Dion for the leadership, was promoting the puffin even before the cartoon came out.
The NDP have lost two candidates over their use of illegal drugs , the Liberals have lost one over things he said about Mohawks (the people, not the hairstyle), and the Conservatives have lost one for suggesting that the beheading of a man on a bus near Winnipeg might have been prevented if the other passengers had had concealed handguns. Not a good idea as far as I’m concerned, though if NDP candidate Julian West had been concealing a handgun on his person at the time, perhaps he wouldn’t be apologizing today for taking his clothes off in front of minors to go skinny dipping. I’ve read several versions of this story and none of them even bothers to mention if it was a mixed group or all boys. Perhaps it doesn’t matter these days, but they do note that no parents or kids complained.
Come on folks, what more could you want in an election? Puffin poop, handguns, drugs, nudity. What a country!!!!
1 comment:
You are right, no mention of boys or girls. But this one mentions "fits of crying". I don't mean to stereotype, but that sounds a lot more like girls than boys, unless things were really bad. From Tyee:
In June, 1996, the Province newspaper reported that West skinny dipped, but also that he “got too excited during naked body painting” at a Conference for Earth at Mesachie Lake near Duncan. The story quoted Cowichan Secondary School principal Tom Miller saying several of the dozen young witnesses requested counselling and there were “fits of crying.” A parent said one child “nearly vomited.”
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