Making It Up As I Go Along #348

TUESDAY...
— Crazy day. Work and car to the garage for winter tires... walking to the car after work and walking back again after finding the car still isn’t ready... then a ride back again from Annick and finally get the car and home a mere 15 hours after I left.

WEDNESDAY...
— Wake at 2:45 and don’t get back to any real sleep. I’m exhausted at work... the last few hours being a struggle.
— Groceries and crashing after work.

THURSDAY...
— Sleep until around 10:00. Some TV and then to Mazda for 1:00. There until close to 3:00 for a service... which gets annoying.
— Straight home for nap time... up by 4:45... then time to get ready for work.

FRIDAY...
— Work was alright last night. Had pizza with Melissa and kept steady but not super busy through the night. Even had company as a homicide happened in Ottawa and a police officer came by with prints of one of the victims for us to ID.
— Up around 11:15 this morning. Ruby and Lee arrive about an hour later. We chat a bit before they go to visit other friends until Sunday... then it’s nap time for me and work to follow.
— Work goes fine. Hit the gym around 2:30. And forget my pizza in the fridge when I leave... so it’s probably a trip by the office to pick it up tomorrow. I’m supposed to go to the movies near there anyway.

SATURDAY...
— Quiet day around the house (sleeping until about noon). Then off to supper and a movie with Sheila and Janice. Religulous is pretty good.

SUNDAY...
— Up around 8:30 this morning. Kind of tired but still up.
— Ball at 5:00. We lose again... mostly some fun still but I’m tired of the idea that we’re accepting of a loss like we’ve gotten.
— Ruby and Lee are here when I get home. We have supper and watch a little TV.

MONDAY...
— Around the house... get some groceries with Ruby... and watch lots of politics on TV. Looks like Harper may get tossed and a coalition government will take over. But who knows. It’s the biggest political mess I’ve ever seen but it’s all Stephan Harper’s fault. He got stupid and greedy and backed the other parties into a corner. The result was either he’d be the equivalent of a dictator, or they’d push back.


Oh Canada!?!?
Never have I seen politics in such a sorry state. I don’t even mean in my own country... any politics. George Bush and the boys look professional compared to this lot. And the problem is, there’s no right answer to any of it.

Stephen Harper has been and now has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, to be a lying, arrogant and stupid man. He may have book smarts but politics is as much about being wise in your dealings with people. It’s probably more about being wise with people than being intellectually intelligent. And Little Stevey Harper is a six year old who thinks he knows better than the adults in the room. He’s mean spirited and vindictive... the man’s a bully.

And because of the traits that make Stephen Harper who he is, we’re left with a laughing stock country.

The other three political parties are now looking at cooperation in order to wrestling the government away from the elected party without another election. It sounds undemocratic. Maybe it isn’t. In the last election, 65% of Canadians who voted didn’t want Harper. But it’s at least a very different spin on democracy. Forever is it changed, the idea that because you got more votes than anyone else, you win. Now it’s possible that the losers can come together and overtake the winner.

It’s a dangerous ball to start rolling. Governments in Canada have been dysfunctional for a long time now, this just brings on a new tool to be used in maintaining the dysfunctionality.

So we have a party that’s heading by a man who has tried running a dictatorship accusing the other parties of a coupe. I feel like I live in some Central American nation where the president dresses in military garb and only his top generals can be trusted.

El Presidente Harper, lock yourself in your room... they’re coming to get you.

Only in this case, rather than a strong and rebellious Rambo type soldier, the leader of the revolt is a mild mannered university professor type. How far can you push... how much sand can you kick in the face of Stephane Dion before he fights back? Harper has found out.

So we have the mild mannered professor who has already announced his departure joining with the Socialist with the support of the Separatist. And they all are trying to take down the Dictator. It’s the most bizarre political game in the world today. Over the top movies making fun of political dramas would be tagged as too unrealistic and too over the top if this was fiction. But it’s real. It’s really happening.

Personally, I’m for giving the coalition a try. Why not? Harper as proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that he can not be trusted. He can promise the world now and there’s no reason to believe him. And I fear the possibility of that man ever having a majority government. He really will become dictator.

If we don’t go with the coalition, what option remains?

God I wish Canada had an Obama.