In a move that surprised the hell outta me, Bob Ray has stepped out of the Liberal Leader race, paving the way for Michael Ignatieff to replace Stephen Dion as top dog. Kudos to him for counting his cards and folding gracefully rather than putting up a fight and eating up what little time remains before parliament resumes in January. Would he have lost anyway? Probably, but it would have taken time and money, neither of which we have to throw around right now. I give Dion the same Kudos for expediting the process by not putting up a costly and ultimately futile fight for leadership. Were the countries best interest their actual motivation? I couldn’t care less. Regardless of any possible behind the scenes reasoning it was the right thing to do considering the extent of Harper’s “Lord & Master” routine.
Will the coalition be able to hold it together til January? Will They get the chance to rule the roost? It’s hard to say what will happen next month, but in all of this I am thankful for one simple reason. This little political shit show, regardless of the eventual outcome, has reminded Harper that he does not head a majority government and behaving as though he does is NOT acceptable.
Those who know me well are right now saying “What the hell? Your tree is up? It’s not December 24th yet!” I don’t know, maybe it had something to do with the bottle of wine?
Yeah, chances are good.
Thanks to Dusty for bringing this one to my attention because it hadn’t yet hit my reader…… If you have a weak stomach, you may want to go frolic in a meadow, weave some hemp bracelets or pour Frank’s Red Hot Sauce directly into your left eye. For the rest of you- try to not punch your computer screen when you read this.
So I was rooting though this giant antique trunk that I have the other day looking for miscellaneous Christmas crap and I ran across some old school pic’s. Being the self deprecating good sport that I am, I pulled them out so Steve could have a good laugh. This is my Holly Hobby faze circa grade 6. I’m clearly riding out the last remnants of a bad perm.
Wake me up before you go-go. Besides the charming lime green sweatshirt, I’m pretty sure that I was wearing a jean mini skirt and hot pink heels. It appears that grade 10 was very WHAM-a-rrific.
According to Steve, I was HAWT in grade 11. Since checking out the old pics he’s been getting this new far off look in his eyes and I think that he’s cheating on me with grade 11 me.
On the down side of the shit pile–the number of Canadians killed in Afghanistan has topped 100
On the up side of the shit pile–OJ Simpson the asshat has been handed a 15 year jail sentence.
I understand why Michaelle Jean would make the decision to accept Harper’s request to prorogue parliament, however, I don’t agree with it. It delays the inevitable until Jan 26th rather than getting this shit taken care of NOW. Harper is holding on to the ledge of a very tall building with all of his mite and Jean’s ruling means that we as Canadians will bend over and let him stand on our backs until he is forced to let go in January.
Right now, I’d like to ring the fucking neck of every single one of them. I’d like to kick them to the curb and have new and better choices. I also wanted a pony when I was five and this is just as fucking likely.
So, parliament is in temporary suspended animation and we wait. The economic shit storm is flooding the country, and we……..
wait.