22 Sep, 2008
Posted by: Geoff In: General
Dear Calgary, my former home, I have a reminder and a request for you.
First, please remember that Jim Prentice, one of several MPs up for re-election in Calgary, will be running again in the October election.
Second, remember that Mr. Prentice is wholly responsible for Bill C-61 — that vile pile of ass-kissing lobbyist-driven legislation that will destroy [...]
08 Sep, 2008
Posted by: Geoff In: Rants
This isn’t a predictive headline, folks. This is truth. The Conservatives will win the election in October. I, as an Expat, can’t vote in it, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t take at least a sense of interest in it. Or stock in the fact that the Conservatives are finally getting what they wanted [...]
I love American politics. It’s my form of WWE — all the cheers and jeers with all the spectacle to go along with it. One day, I think the American presidency will go the way of the President of the Galaxy from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and be little more than a distraction from [...]
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04 Mar, 2008
Posted by: Geoff In: Rants
Yep, believe it or not, there was an election in Alberta yesterday. Provincial. New MLAs, new premier (in theory), all that jazz. In most provinces, it’s usually time of actual change — old regimes are voted out, new ones come to power, more scandals (from different angles), and (this is the important part) an opposition [...]