SAD Overcomes Canadians
The map to the right is the latest map of Canada, following the elections that were recently held there. According to Avant News, "Canadian voters, weepy and bleary-eyed from a national epidemic of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), voted the previously dark horse Conservatives, led by Stephen Harper, into Parliament yesterday. Voter turnout was a healthy 11.8%, with over 88% of voters reportedly staying home with "apathy, runny noses, or, in most cases, both". Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper's conservative ticket, which ran on a platform of "bigger, juicier corruption scandals", was reportedly "sort of okay, I guess" with the victory." This is but an exerpt of the article, which can be found in its entirety at Avant News.
In fact, there are quite a few issues, for lack of a better word, with the election of Stephen Harper. But of course, the most notable is that he's a fucking conservative, straight out of the dubya dummy cast. I suggest you read some of his miserable ideology, which is articulated rather succinctly at NOW, a Toronto online news site. It seems that Canadians are emulating the worst of the worst about the United States. While reading this site, I felt like I was reading about the American neocons, including the entire dubya administration. Did the neocons steal the Canadian elections, also? One can only wonder................
(This article is dedicated to my friend Latour, who has to live with the outcome of the Canadian epidemic of SAD. So, what's the US' excuse?)
posted by Dusty Dog at
1/28/2006
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The Conservatives won with a campaign of deception. They tried to convince Canada that they weren't the same party of Rob Anders, who voted against honorary citizenship for Nelson Mandela, or Cheryl Gallant, who said abortion is the same as the killing of Nick Berg in Iraq. They even convinced some of us that Harper was some wonderful Red Tory, because he didn't lead with fundamentalist far-right issues. They even convinced some of us that Harper, a man who voted no on the resolution to urge the government not ot send troops to Iraq was not in favour of the Iraq war or sending Canadian tropps. Some people have a short memory. If you want to see the real Harper, just look at when he was in the Alliance, or when he wasn't running for anything as Presiudent of the NCC.
That Avant news article: funny, but true. You've hit the nail right on the head here. Hopefully he will fall within one or two years (oh, these next couple of budget votes are going to be fun!)
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Anonymous, at
11:21 AM
Brilliant thread and brilliant link. Only benefit that Canadians have over Americans is that they probably won't have to wait a full four years to dumb their clowns.
as long as there are people like Latour living in Canada, there is a good chance that the government will fall very soon.
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4:21 PM
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