The things that go through my head

I hate stupid cheapskates that post their worthless, over-priced junk on the internet that I wouldn’t charge my worst enemy money to haul away!

I just got back from trying to buy my rugrats a wagon for their flier route.  I drove through rush hour traffic, endured “I kissed a girl” on my radio playing 2478934 times and inhaled cancerous car exhaust.  FOR NOTHING!  The wagon was completely worn out and had a broken wheel.  And the idiot wanted to charge somebody (me) money for it.

Can you believe the audacity of some people?  #$&^$&^

I am trying to keep this blog profanity free, and stuff like this makes it very difficult.

POOOOOOP!!!!

I still have no idea how I am going to vote! At the beginning of this obscenely depressing election cycle, I said that I just might vote for the NDP, just my futile attempt to thwart a Harper majority, which I feel would be an absolutely terrible outcome to this election that nobody cares about. Then I got angry with the NDP for their treatment of Dana Larsen and Kirk Tousaw and said I would never, ever vote for them.

I love the Green party, but I can’t help feeling that it’s a waste of a vote.  Of course, it does help the Green party out, as they get $1.75 per vote.

If I was to vote with my convictions, like Jim Bobby recommends, I would vote Green.  If I vote strategically, I vote NDP, as they are the only candidate with a reasonable chance of defeating the Conservative candidate.  Until we reform our electoral system we won’t have election results that reflect what the people want.

I guess I will wait for the debates!

When I began this blog I hoped that I would be able to be dependable enough to at least complete my weekly Friday 4:20 post. But after only 6 Friday 4:20’s I have managed to forget one. In my defense, I made my kids get a job delivering fliers so I had to help them do it after school. But really, that’s no excuse. Well, by next week ho[pefully I will have gotten used to getting the kids to do their job with the papers and I will get’er done. Yay, parenting.

A paper route sure does give you a different view of the world. It really gets you to stop and smell the roses. I had no idea that my neighborhood had so many beautiful old trees and houses and lovely, well-tended yards. There are also a number of election signs on all of the local lawns. I should probably photograph the lawn signs and see if that does a decent job of predicting who will win the Canadian election. It will probably be pretty close. I see a number of Nettie Wiebe ugly orange NDP signs but I also see plenty of stately blue Conservative Kelly Block signs. I just have to know which political signs are more pervasive!

But truly this election depresses me. My crummy vote won’t make much of a difference, as all choices feel equally odious. We are marching towards the middle. A couple of drug policy reform activists can’t admit to using the illegal drugs that they think should be legalized. I guess that shouldn’t surprise me, as everyone is so infested with reefer madness. We have strange expectations of our politicians. We accept all kinds of unethical and dishonest behavior, sometimes I think we demand it. How else do you explain the fact that they routinely lie to the public and continually get re-elected? Yet everybody freaks out when they see youtube clips of politicians smoking weed. If only that was the worst thing a politician has ever done! Or maybe it’s just that the two-party system we are headed for seems too formidable to do anything about. I wonder how long it will be before all of the lefties unite, the way Harper managed to unite the right and successfully give the nuttier right wingers a muzzle.

The green shift? All I ever read is that it’s bad and means that everybodyu in the West will pay more taxes.  That is all that the average voter really knows about this plan and I suppose that’s all they need to know, isn’t it? Anyway, I have a bit of work to do on my way to becoming an informed voter. It has been my observation that nobody cares about this election. Hardly anybody that I know in meatspace seems to have an opinion about it. If it wasn’t for the internet, I would have no way to vent my rage at the horror that is politics.

Prepare to be amused and horrified by this clip of Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric. I have never in my life felt sorry for a politician, as they are a bunch of blood-sucking insects. But watching Palin humiliate herself was really awful. Please, just drop out of the race already and put a stop to this madness.

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I found this on facebook. LOL

I promised not to post about pot politics for a while, although I was and still am, very upset by the NDP’s cowardly treatment of their fine candidates, Dana Larsen and Kirk Tousaw. Like Pete of Drug War Rant points out, in the US, being seen on camera smoking marijuana didn’t hurt Arnie’s chances. What is wrong with Canadians when they treat two such fine activists so badly? My riding is a swing riding and I was considering voting for the NDP. They can forget it now! They may think the opinion of one lowly pot activist (me) means nothing but I can guarantee that I would have convinced a few people to hold their nose and vote for them. No way am I doing that now! Just look at this lying scrum with Jack Layton, who once went on POT-TV to promote his cannabis policies. I have said it before and I will say it again: There is nothing wrong with getting support from the cannabis community. Pot people are not criminals and have jobs and are not afraid to support good causes.

The Liberals join in with a really stupid press release demanding to know the connections between the Marijuana Party and the NDP. As if there aren’t a whole lot of pot activists within the Liberals. *cough* Boris St. Maurice *cough*

The NDP did not stand behind their candidates when they were being smeared based on their past open drug use on POT-TV. They got rid of Dana Larsen and Kirk Tousaw because of their connections to Marc Emery, the BC Marijuana Party and the drug policy reform community. Dana Larsen is the founder of eNDProhibition, a drug policy reform group within the NDP that calls for the end of the drug war. This group has done wonderful work getting the word out that the drug war is an important issue to all Canadian voters. Now what are we going to do? I don’t see how any self-respecting cannabis consumer could ever support them again.

Now the Liberals are flinging their monkey poo and demanding to know the NDP connections to the cannabis culture. They make it sound like they have something to be embarrassed about. Of course they took money from drug policy reform activists. There are many people living in Canada that are upset about the drug war and they vote. They also have jobs and put their money where their mouth is by donating to good causes, like political campaigns. I won’t be giving the NDP my money any time soon. I better stay out of politics, before I get contaminated.

You know, I didn’t want to turn this into drug blog but here I am ranting on my internet soap box about the unfairness of this smear campaign. Not happy. After this rally is over today, I promise to write about something else. No really, maybe I will take a picture of cute puppies and kittens and post that instead.

Who do I vote for now? I wonder if I should even waste my time. I just think that the NDP should have stood by their candidates. Now it’s going to be impossible for anybody who is guilty of the crime of ingesting politically incorrect drugs to ever be taken seriously in politics again. Are all politicians that have smoked pot going to be expelled from politics? Jack Layton was on POT-TV. Are these cowards going to stand by their leader when the mud starts to fly?

We are getting a two party state. The Reform and the PC’s and the Conservatives all managed to combine powers under one leader and the “left” will end up doing the same thing. Which means that anybody with so-called “far-left” views will be ignored. All those far-left hippies, with their concern for the environment, the promotion of drug use and organized crime and anti-war activists. BAH! As you can tell, I am very steamed by this unfortunate turn of events. I am so discouraged by the whole undemocratic system, that I just don’t see how I can stay tuned in.

This is an amazing smackdown of the Republican party. Never in my blogging life did I ever expect to read a former Republican pro-lifer write such a glorious diatribe. Here is just one bit of its’ goodness:

That said — certain power-hungry individuals (Dobson, Falwell, Robertson, Rove, Reed et al.) took the energy of our original pro-life movement and used it to build a hate campaign reminiscent of the early momentum that drove European Fascist parties in the mid-1920s through the mid-1940s. Fear of the “other” gays, immigrants, intellectuals, artists, the media, feminists, etc., morphed into a general critique of “the elite” which turned out to be anyone with an education or even big city dwellers. The Religious Right became a crude populist movement pitting the resentful rubes against the rest.

What are you waiting for? Go and read the whole thing. I promise you it will be worth your while.