Straight Tickets Are Anything But Straight Forward

No wonder there are so many problems with elections in the United States. Who could possibly make sense out of any ofthis?I like to think that I’m a reasonably smart guy, but I’ve read this twice and still have no idea what the heck I’d supposed to be doing to make my votes count. The …

Finally Some Clean Politics

Clean cars reflect election outcome? One local businessman says he’s got a better way to predict the outcome of the presidential election: Ask his customers. “My wife and I were talking about the election with our kids and polling came up, how it can be skewed based on the way they phrase the question to …

Welcome To 2006

Well, that whole thing right there was pretty pointless I’d say. Let’s take a look at what happened. Stephen Harper and the Conservatives won a minority government, just like last time. It’s a slightly stronger one, but a minority is still a minority. The Liberals have a leader in Stéphane Dion who whether he’s admitting …

Your Last Reminder And Some Other Somewhat Related Crap

I mentioned it yesterday, but it never hurts to say it again. Canadians, there are only a few hours left. If you haven’t done so already, go vote, for Christ’s sake! Seriously, don’t make me yell at you again. Consider this. If Carin and I were willing to possibly get lost in the middle of …

>Happy Holiday Monday

>Hey. I figured I’d better take a break from drinking in the sun and pop in and say hello and happy Thanksgiving to everybody. Yes my American friends who I know make up a majority of our site visitors, today is Thanksgiving. It’s real Thanksgiving, meaning the Canadian version, not that wacky November thing y’all …

My Letter Got In!

Under the post about the debates being after the advance polls, we said we were going to write letters to the editor. Well, mine got in! Here’s what I said. Dear Editor – I note something distressing about the timing of the televised federal election debate of Guelph candidates. The date is next Tuesday, Oct. …

Conservative Crazies

Wow, we have some serious wackjobs at work. Apparently, over the weekend, people in Toronto who had liberal signs up on their lawns had their houses sprayed, their brakes tampered with, and their phone and cable lines cut! It wasn’t just a few. It’s happened all over the city, and apparently, it happened in Guelph …