Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 15, 2008
The election is over and the political landscape pretty much looks the same as before the election.
The Elections Canada event was a $300 million exercise in apathy.
I can completely understand the lowest voter turnout in Canadian history, I vote in Alberta where Conservatives will have to be pulled from office with a collective crowbar.
I went [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 13, 2008
One. The fellow that suddenly repeatedly stabbed- reportedly up to 50 times- and then cut the head off a fellow Greyhound bus passenger in Manitoba was charged with second degree murder. I’m no lawyer, but what, pray tell, do you have to do in Canada to be charged with first degree murder?
Two. A middle-of-the-road aging [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 12, 2008
I can write about the candidates, but here’s the question- who am I going to vote for?
First, in this election I don’t give a damn who the local candidate is. I haven’t attended a single discussion on the candidates, not a single forum, haven’t met them, haven’t gone to their campaign office to pick up [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 12, 2008
The late great Richard Pryor had an epiphany he recounted for a crowd during his stand-up comedy act which had used a lot of foul language, including the “n” word. In fact, at one time Pryor’s act was saturated with the word.
In the video he describes for the audience a moment [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 11, 2008
There is a movie that I want to see. It is called I.O.U.S.A. Movie critic Roger Ebert wrote about it and has whetted my appetite for it.
Roger Ebert is my one of my favourite writers of whom I can only think of two at the moment, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Steinbeck. Ebert is [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 10, 2008
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, has been found by an Alaskan legislative panel to have abused her power in having her brother-in-law fired from his position as a state trooper.
The news can be expected to negatively impact the Republican chances in the November American general election, which are already faltering.
For more, here [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 10, 2008
With all the gloomy financial news, let’s hear Woody Guthrie sing ‘Dust Bowl Blues’.
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 10, 2008
I remember this site from a previous election. It predicts the outcome by multiple inputs from people throughout the country in every constituency. The outcome is pretty close and it’s all a good read. I even contributed to this at one time. Here’s the link, which predicts a Conservative minority government, with four days to [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 10, 2008
There is fear now in world financial markets.
American president George Bush has addressed his nation 20 times in the last month, providing reassurance. The stock market responds by going into free fall.
A “crash” on the markets is a 20 per cent loss in value of the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Index is down [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 9, 2008
CTV Halifax interviewer Steve Murphy, in a sit-down interview with Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, asked if he were prime minister today, what would he do differently than Prime Minister Steven Harper on the economy.
Much is being made of Dion’s not understanding the question. The beginning of the interview is shown above [...]
