As a member of the minority in Oklahoma, I plead with you!! Please loose
the dogs of war (Huskys, I assume) if Kerry doesn't win. I am surrounded by
a bunch of wild-eyed, drooling, fundamentalist Republicans who are more
interested in protecting my 40-year marriage than almost anything else (other
than having their taxes reduced, of course).
If Kerry carries the day, stay home and enjoy doing whatever it is that you
do when the snows come and you cannot get out.
Stephen Black wrote:
> I said, in one of my posts apparently free from typos, that Canadians
> would have voted for Kerry.
>
> Rick Froman admonished me:
>
> . I would <snip> suggest you
> > consider how it would sound if you heard that most Americans would vote
> > for a particular individual for Canadian Prime Minister but,
> > unfortunately, my American ethnocentrism just kicked in and I can't
> > remember the name of your Prime Minister and I am just too apathetic to
> > Google it. I don't even know if you have direct elections of your Prime
> > Minister. You do have Prime Ministers up there, right?
> >
>
> And Jody Gabert helpfully contributed:
>
> > If I remember correctly, Paul Martin is the current PM of
> > Canada and he's a member of the Liberal party. Do I get
> > full marks for that?
>
> I'd say about 90%, Jody. Actually, our previous prime minister was
> Jean Poutine, and the current one, just elected, is Paul Merde, who
> is indeed the leader of the Liberal party.
>
> I'm also happy to enlighten Rick Froman, a typically political
> science-challenged friend from our southern neighbour. Yes, we do
> have a Prime Minister and no, we do not directly elect him or her.
> Instead, we vote for our representative member of Parliament and the
> party which elects the most members ("seats") gets to choose the
> prime minister.
>
> In reference to Rick's admonishment, those in the Undecided States
> are probably not aware that just before our election we had a visit
> from someone named Michael Moore. He advised us not to vote for the
> Conservative Party, whose platform is pro-gun, pro war in Iraq, anti-
> abortion and anti-gay (sound like a political party you know?). Some
> hotheads in that party resented Moore's good advice, and advocated
> use of an obscure law we have in Canada, never-used and probably
> unconstitutional, to prosecute him for interference in our election
> (see
> www.talkaboutabook.com/group/alt.censorship/messages/218649.html)
>
> No one did, and we seem to have taken his advice, which is why we
> ended up with the Liberals and Paul Merde. I might also mention that
> we have an unusual example of real democracy in our current
> Parliament, in that the Bloc Quebecois holds a substantial number of
> seats. The primary goal of this party is to achieve Quebec separation
> and, in the process, destroy Canada. In other countries, notably the
> US and France, it is an extremely serious criminal offense to
> advocate such things, and I believe you can be executed for doing it.
> Up here, we just call it democracy.
>
> And while I'm on the topic of political differences between Canada
> and the Undecided States, I should point out that voters in the US
> are allowed only to elect electors, who do the real deciding on who
> gets to be president. So Americans actually do not have a democratic
> system. Given that you don't, and that you also possess weapons of
> mass destruction, we're thinking of invading you to bring freedom and
> democracy.
>
> Stephen
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