Freedom

I wanna smoke cigarettes while watching Konvent Girls Get Kinky 7, drink discount beer, drink bottled water, eat a Jos. Louis, smoke pot, eat poutine (only the vegetarian kind. After all it's my choice and not yours), watch the football game and actually bet on the game. I won't pay for sex because that's just dirty, but what's it to you if I want to? When Miller and Harper send the cops out for me, I'll tell them to shove a donut up their ass.

Last Post for 2008

I'll briefly comment on senate appointments and then move along. I have heard and read people criticizing Stephen Harper's appointments of senators as if it's another way to manipulate the government. The patronage appointments of the senate are nothing new and have been happening since the beginning of the senate. Whether you like it or not, Stephen Harper does have the right to appoint senators, something he has not done while in office, regardless of there being more important issues to deal with. Harper is also trying to change the senate to be an elected one, which is truly a great improvement from the status quo in existence. Am I in favour of this plan? Actually, no. I'd prefer to see the red chamber abolished, unless there were to be some sort of massive constitutional shakeup in how the country is run. Right now, the senate is irrelevant. I suggest we do away with it, leave things up to parliament and save some cash. It's a valuable spending cut. Let's do it when we get rid of the monarchy and let the GG's house be converted into condos (or a homeless shelter, or a bingo hall as Preston Manning wanted to do to Stornoway, until he actually got a chance to live there and decided it wasn't so bad after all.)

I commented more than I thought I would. Sorry.

I just wanted to wish any readers out there, if there are any, a happy new year. I'll be candid and say 2008 was less than stellar for me and a lot of people. But 2009 is a new year. Don't be resigned to accepting next year as a bad year because the papers say so. For those of you who had a good 2008, I hope your success continues.

For me, this week has been great. A friend from Vancouver Island is visiting and we are having wonderful times. Tomorrow I shall ring in the new year at a party put together by my good friend Clara Blackwood (who is not from Vancouver Island).

Good luck to all.

The CANADIAN election debate

I watched the Canadian election debate tonight. My cable got cut off some time ago and I haven't hooked it back up since. I don't know if I told the story of it getting cut off, but it was re-hooked up in 2006 after I complained about my Internet being disconnected and I never really complained about that. A couple of months ago Rogers caught up with me.

Anyway, I'd rather watch the Canadian debate then a debate featuring non-leadership candidates in someone else's country. Earlier I thought I was going to vote for the Green Party in protest of them being denied a spot in the debate, but outrage of many Canadians won and Elizabeth May was in the debate. I myself sent an angry letter to Olivia Chow (my MP) saying I would refuse to vote for the NDP because of their stance. During this campaign I was disappointed as there was no one truly worth voting for. I'm still not sure there is someone worth voting for. I still may vote for the Greens or a fringe party in protest. However, Jack Layton, who is mistaken if he thinks he will be Prime Minister, clearly won the debate to me. He was constantly hitting on Harper, but offering solutions, whereas Dion didn't seem as such, whereas May seemed often invisible, regardless of reports she's a star in the making. Layton's comment about the arts and those in the arts not being able to afford arts lessons for their kids was great, as was his comment about Harper's platform being under his vest. I really liked his comment toward the end about the winner always being locked by the boardrooms, as if he was offering change.

Layton deserves a chance. He's the best leader out there, but he doesn't have a chance of winning. No chance at all. Might I vote for him? His wife is my incumbent, so even a strategic vote is worthwhile if I were one for that. I like Layton quite a bit right now, though I am lukewarm overall to all candidates.