Canada election watch

[Feilan]

we're shooting straight vodka now ... ... there is no emoticon for the way I feel.

on edit: what's with the silent amerikan majority? are you all at a loss for how to console us???? c'mon!! misery loves company.

[Feilan]

Fresno was right. End result? Happy ending? Jack and Olivia get to live in a really nice house for the next four years.

I feel sick.

party. hat. off.


CANADA - such as it ever was in it's best moments - or could have ever dreamed of being - IS OVER. There will be no more do-overs.

IGGsome's capitulation monologue is causing domestic dispute. I feel barfy.

[hava1]

Bin Laden got your elections ?

well, it was probably a spin on the predictions. They do that here, you know. In order to get the right winger to go and actually vote, they fake the prediction polls to increase the results of the opposition. this way, those who are right wingers that otherwise would not bother, schlep and vote. old trick...

well, join the rest of the world. I dont vote since 1988, except I was fooled once in the 2005, to vote , and was sorry for making a fool of myself. But I thought your system is different. well..

back to the good life as "voice calling in the desert"...or join the tycoons if you havent already done that. (briefly - choose a friendly tycoon as your feudal, and be happy).

[norton ash]

Everyone's bamboozled and bedazzled. The people you don't see did the bidding of the invisibles, the whole media narrative that wasted our weeks is now utterly unbelievable, I suppose it always was. Someone knew this was inevitable, and they giggled very quietly while we got played.

So forget it, I feel at home in Chinatown anyway.

[Perelandra]

on edit: what's with the silent amerikan majority? are you all at a loss for how to console us???? c'mon!! misery loves company.

Yes, and welcome.

[barracuda]

on edit: what's with the silent amerikan majority? are you all at a loss for how to console us???? c'mon!! misery loves company.

[JackRiddler]

Sixty percent disenfranchised by a stupid system and another four years of even worse shit for you guys.

Then again, someone could always try destroying Harper with the Mountie Monica.

[DrVolin]

Interesting result. We are essentially going back to pre-1993, with the NDP and the Liberals swapping numbers. The 1993-2006 regional blocks are well and truly gone. The voters have apparently now realized that there is no difference between the Conservatives and Liberals, and have opted for a Conservative government with a real opposition. The only option was the NDP. Now we have to see if this is a new equilibrium, or whether the NDP wave is a mere protest, with a return to the Conservative/Liberal ping pong game. Or maybe, just maybe, the Conscience of Parliament has now become the long-term Parliamentary opposition to the Bay Street/Calgary boys.

[Feilan]

Hava - you are a breath of fresh morning air. I picture you lounging, black coffe in hand in a glass, Israeli style

Thank you for checking in.

I am despondent - in case you can't tell. I thought our system was different too ... but that was years ago, if ever. I think I'm chasing unicorns.

The thing is - my Daddy was a career member of the Canadian armed forces ... which ... HAD a somewhat different meaning once ... and his version of his mission instilled in me (a LOT of argument) AND the irresistable compunction to vote - as a duty - like observing remembrance day - when called on. Not merely to vote - but to be an informed voter, motivated by higher principles of enlightened disinterest. That doesn't really explain how mommy and daddy vote these days ... i'm at a perrenial loss as to how the 'law and order' dude that brought me up could cop over and over again for Harper's SHIT. Pie in the fucking sky.

Anyway. I'm really happy to see you in here tonight/this morning. Wish I could remember some nice hebrew something or other to say to you ... how about - shalom?

xo Feilan

[norton ash]

on edit: what's with the silent amerikan majority? are you all at a loss for how to console us???? c'mon!! misery loves company.

Ouch. That sympathy card just reminds me of all the nice old people who keep screwing us.

[Feilan]

Thank you Barracuda and Perelandra, but ... Barracuda? memories of what exactly?

I'm still profoundly depressed, but not so lonely ...

Thank you Jack for bringing home the pre-midnight LOL. I'm super-cute but I don't think I'm *Steve's type *(ie. not an immobilized kitten) - TANK GAWD. Nevertheless - I shall begin prerecruitment scoping on the ttc forthwith

SIGH.

[Feilan]

Ouch. That sympathy card just reminds me of all the nice old people who keep screwing us.

That shit is too true. I'm seething in the general direction of my parents right now. Damn.

[Feilan]

... still drinking here, amerika. c'mon. pitch in, dammit.

[Fresno_Layshaft]

I hope Jeff doesn't take this too hard. He seemed to be putting a lot of stock in this one. Maybe he'll be moved to Blog! That would be the only bright side to this night.

[Feilan]

I hope Jeff doesn't take this too hard. He seemed to be putting a lot of stock in this one. Maybe he'll be moved to Blog! That would be the only bright side to this night.

agreed.

on edit: hanging out at an NDP campaign central would be superSTRANGE tonight - a total mind fuck of happy and inoperably sad.