Even though I totally rule the Google search for "Canada Votes" amongst, you know, the semi-pro semi-literate set, forgetting those bulky government and media sites ahead of me...yet I am bored. I have no idea how I will vote. Someone polled me by phone for the Tories tonight and I didn't even make a smart remark. This is bad. If there were Rhinos, I would be a Rhino. Where is Mel Hertig when you need him? There may be a difficult decision in the polling booth if this keeps up - as I will vote...I just have no clue as to which way it'll go.
Exception Proves The Rule Update: my disgust at the quality of some minds picked by apparently all parties to run in this campaign screams as to the quality of candidate attracted to Federal office, now after 20 or more years of the devaluation and stripping of the authority of Ottawa. Jay's post is but one awful example of the hateful dolts who should never get past a nomination process let alone party membership application. Back to your regular Friday bullets...
In honour of my disillusionment, some not "Canada Votes" bullets for this Friday:
- Despite best efforts, Ben can't make the US election not boring to me either.
- Even with the assorted company, Darcey makes a very good point about Canadian-style anti-Americanism. Argue that and my mind glazed over in the presence of your stunned simpletoonery. Yet this is still quite valid.
- Canada has really old rocks.
- Coming home explained with interactive maps.
- Excellent - the US and Pakistan are trading shots.
- TSN asks of the Maple Leafs: "What's better, winning a championship and suffering for years to come or being competitive year in and year out, with no guarantee of a title?" I will take door #3 - my Leafs sucking out loud for another decade.
- Remember when Russia and Georgia had a war last month?
- I am zapping next month.
- I may well follow the song if I watch NHL at all.
- When, oh, when will the paleontologists tell us what these things tasted like?
- Why can't I get even a paid ball cap promotion. Or maybe a "post-BBQ-handy-wipe" paid promotion.
- I never knew that folk in France were that careful.

Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - September 26, 2008 9:40 am
Boring, you say?
Is it boring to watch Bill Clinton stick it to Barack Obama on national television? :p
sean - September 26, 2008 9:47 am
Here is my own interactive map for enjoying the fall colours by travelling highway 2 thisweekend. Note, one can do so and completely bypass the homecoming annoyance. (Note. Also use on weekends to avoid downtown shoppers and from april to october to avoid tourists)
aych tee tee pee colon slash slash
maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=HWY-2%2FKing's+Hwy+2&daddr=HWY-15+to:44.262904,-76.547241+to:HWY-6+to:HWY-33&hl=en&geocode=FeyLowIdntBy-w%3BFcO6owIdPbdx-w%3B%3BFbxiowIdoYlt-w%3BFdIroAIdBHBo-w&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=2&sz=10&via=1,2,3&sll=44.197467,-76.753235&sspn=0.489323,0.878906&ie=UTF8&z=10
sean - September 26, 2008 12:11 pm
Hateful dolts... Thats a pretty wide brush with which you paint everyone that doesn't buy into the official 9/11 fable.
Ben (The Tiger) - September 26, 2008 2:55 pm
Alan, there's no escape from the 9/11 truthers...
Alan - September 26, 2008 3:25 pm
Even here apparently.
sean - September 26, 2008 4:42 pm
One doesn't have to believe that it was a faked attack to believe that it was known to some to be planned in advance and that those that knew tried to warn the powers that be then bugged out. If I knew that someone was going to toss grenades into the food court next wednesday and no-one listened, I'd avoid eating there that day. Doesn't mean I had anything to do with it.
Alan - September 26, 2008 5:01 pm
@#($)(&*(&@#%)*@#&%)*&)*@!_(^!!!
Alan - September 26, 2008 5:07 pm
Another evil tooth fairy sighter bites the dust.
Ben (The Tiger) - September 26, 2008 8:33 pm
This may be my day to push Bill Clinton on the world.
Alan - September 26, 2008 11:33 pm
How can I vote NDP when this idea is associated with a discussion in a major media outlet as an NDP idea?
...About three years ago, author Ron Susskind revealed in The New York Times Magazine an entire new dimension of political life in the United States. After interviewing many of those who worked for or near George W. Bush's White House, he realized that there were now two realities that characterized Mr. Bush's America. One was what was. The other was whatever the Bush neo-cons wanted it to be. Reality, as one informant explicitly said, is what we say it is. Thus ended nearly 400 years of the battle to elevate reason and evidence as the main instruments of democratic and humane governance..."
What the heck does that have to do with this Federal Canadian election? Is it a legitimate association? A legitimate statement of an underlying NDP perception of the world?
Ben (The Tiger) - September 27, 2008 12:42 am
You can vote NDP if you just won't vote for DIon and you don't care for Harper.
(But as I said before, I'd be sorely tempted to vote for Milliken.)
Jay Currie - September 27, 2008 2:09 am
Nailed her....And the best part is that Dion had to call up the CJC to figure out that saying Jews fled the WTC on inside information was anti-Semitic. Is this man a dolt or what?
Mike Campbell - September 27, 2008 10:30 am
And here's me just back from the Smithsonian feeling all smug having handled 3.8 billion year old rocks, from Greenland no less. As Al on Happy Days used to say, Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Sean - September 27, 2008 10:44 am
<small><small><strike><font color="#D2B9D3">Interesting. To me, stating that the word "Israeli" is synonmymous with "Jew" is sort of like saying "Italian" is synonymous with "Catholic".
This back patting, name calling and finger pointing is asinine. If a nation hears word of an attack on a physical asset by bad guys, tries to warn the host country of such (as the Germans and Israelis are purported to have done) they are simply doing their part for world security and to assist friends. Full stop.
If they in turn inform their own countrymen to remove themselves from the asset ahead of the attack, they are protecting their people. Full stop. Thats what governments are supposed to do.
Anyone who claims it is some sort of Jewish (or more accurately an Israeli) conspiracy is a twit, however anyone that states that presenting evidence, however flimsy, that such a thing may have happened is anti-semetic is just being frakking PC.
Countries are countries and religions are religions and both do things to protect their interests and people and friends. Whoop de fargin doo.</font></strike></small></small>
Alan - September 27, 2008 5:54 pm
Done and getting supersmalled.
CRAP! Can't supersmall anymore with the new system.