A Week of Craziness, and it’s Only Wednesday!
Obama has teamed up with Nobel Peace Prize and Oscar winner Al Gore to, once and for all, change the climate back to where it once was, damn it! Changing the Earth’s climate? Sounds like a bad James Bond plot to me. Gore, for all his help, does not want a cabinet post, though Obama is rumoured to have offered him Secretary of Propaganda. “The Time for Denial Is Over” they proclaimed. So is the Time for Common Sense, apparently.
Holland (or: The Netherlands) have come up with a “brilliant” new strategy to spend their climate change fighting $15 Billion/yr budget: they are now going to pay companies in Brazil to not cut down trees. And you thought our politicians were wacky.
Elizabeth May, yes that one, has been spotted in Poland on the UN Climate Change conference, officially titled “14th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Fourth Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol” – sheesh, I guess that’s one way of weeding out those pesky climate change deniers. She says in her blog:
Everyone with whom I speak is heart-broken that Canada’s government has been so unhelpful
and
I hear that the youth delegates burst into tears – from many countries around the world – when news reached them that the Canadian Prime Minister was hanging on to power by shutting down the Parliament.
Proving once and for all that she’s a certified nut-case.
She’s peddling her book “Global Warming for Dummies“. I guess she thinks that, besides the Canadian electorate, Poles (what do you call people from Poland?), the UN and indeed the world, are stupid as well.
Bob Rae, one time Liberal Party Leadership Racer and bankrupter of the Province of Ontario, was very un-democratically pushed out of the top lines of the party this week. After claiming the country could be taken over by another PM without a vote, and then claiming the opposite when it came to his own job, the Liberal caucus decided that Rae was a liability, and they’ve had enough liabilities over the past two years. Out he goes.
And Stephane Dion, after being fired from the Liberal Leadership position (is there any other word?), has decided to launch a new series of books in the “For Dummies” style, called “Do You Think It’s Easy?”, in order to generate enough revenue to pay off his extensive leadership race debt. The first in the series is titled “Do you Think It’s Easy? – Making Priorities”. A second one is in the works called “Do You Think It’s Easy - Home Videos – Part One: Focusing on your subject”.

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6 COMMENTS
1 John Bergen
My back is killing me from shoveling 30 cm of snow plus the plow ridge, the buses are on strike, and business is terrible…but now I had a good laugh and feel better.
Keep up the good work!!
2 Erwin
Thanks John! Glad I could be of help.
Don’t get me started on transit strikes and business.
And remember: lift with your knees!
3 Joanne M.
Is it just me, or does the sight, sound or musings coming from Ms. May grate on my nerves more each time I hear from her? The way she crawled out from under her polar ice floe – sorry, none of those left apparently – from under her rock last week during the attack on the government last week…gloating and gleefully singing her praise & support for the coalition party….like fingernails on a blackboard….
On the other hand, LOVE the new series of DYTIE books that Dion will be putting out — I’m reserving my copies right now!
4 Erwin
Joanne: yes, she crawled form under her rock, eventhough I explicitly asked her to stay there .
Some people just don’t want to listen.
5 David
Sadly I will miss Dion….He was one Liberal who made everyone laugh.
His impersonation of a party leader always put a smile on my face but his best performance was his Movie. That will forever stand as a Canadian classic!
One can only hope that the Liberal party can find somebody just as inarticulate, just as aloof and outragiously entertaining as Dion.
6 Erwin
David, my wife and I were talking about the same thing over supper. It is sad that this is the end of an era. Never again will there be a person so bad at being a leader.
And I agree, the now infamous movie will go down in history as the worst moment ever for a leader and for someone who wants to win over the public to bring down the government.
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