Sorry!
No updates in a long time - lots of reasons... I promise I'll finish the top CD list soon.
In other news, Canada has officially "jumped the shark" and elected Stephen Harper as Prime Minister. To all those folks in Canada that don't hate me because of the idiot we elected to "run" our country, I promise to return the favor. (Or should I say, favour?)
Although, to be fair, in my eyes Bush 2.0 makes Stephen Harper look like the second coming by way of comparison.
posted by Jason at 8:22 AM
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Hey Jason, it's Amy. :) I was talking to my friend Steeve about the election and he sent me the following thing by Michael Moore. Harper may not be great, but at least there's not a conservative majority in the House of Commons. They can call for a vote of no confidence if things get really hairy. Wish we could do that here. Anyway...the comedy or whatever it is...:
"Oh, Canada -- you're not really going to elect a Conservative majority on Monday, are you? That's a joke, right? I know you have a great sense of humor, and certainly a well-developed sense of irony, but this is no longer funny.
Maybe it's a new form of Canadian irony -- reverse irony! OK, now I get it. First, you have the courage to stand against the war in Iraq -- and then you elect a prime minister who's for it. You declare gay people have equal rights -- and then you elect a man who says they don't.
You give your native peoples their own autonomy and their own territory -- and then you vote for a man who wants to cut aid to these poorest of your citizens. Wow, that is intense! Only Canadians could pull off a hat trick of humor like that. My hat's off to you.
Far be it from me, as an American, to suggest what you should do. You already have too many Americans telling you what to do. Well, actually, you've got just one American who keeps telling you to roll over and fetch and sit.
I hope you don't feel this appeal of mine is too intrusive but I just couldn't sit by, as your friend, and say nothing. Yes, I agree, the Liberals have some 'splainin' to do. And yes, one party in power for more than a decade gets a little... long.
But you have a parliamentary system (I'll bet you didn't know that -- see, that's why you need Americans telling you things!). There are ways at the polls to have your voices heard other than throwing the baby out with the bath water.
These are no ordinary times, and as you go to the polls on Monday, you do so while a man running the nation to the south of you is hoping you can lend him a hand by picking Stephen Harper because he's a man who shares his world view. Do you want to help George Bush by turning Canada into his latest conquest?
Is that how you want millions of us down here to see you from now on? The next notch in the cowboy belt? C'mon, where's your Canadian pride? I mean, if you're going to reduce Canada to a cheap download of Bush & Co., then at least don't surrender so easily. Can't you wait until he threatens to bomb Regina? Make him work for it, for Pete's sake.
But seriously, I know you're not going to elect a guy who should really be running for governor of Utah. Whew! I knew it! You almost had me there. Very funny. Don't do that again. God, I love you, you crazy cold wonderful neighbors to my north. Don't ever change.
Michael Moore "
I'm not a huge Michael Moore fan...but this was funny to me. :)
10:30 AM
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