Coalition
Wow what an exciting week in Canadian politics. People with Conservative leanings and little to no understanding of the Canadian constitution and parliamentary process are losing their freaking minds.
Prime Minister Harper whom I prefer to call Mr. Shrub because in my mind he's the mini-me to Mr. Bush, has decided that he wanted to put ideology and partisan politics in front of the economic survival of our country.
Instead of pledging a multiple billion $ injection into the economy like the majority of governments in the world are scrambling to do right now he's proposed less spending and budget cutbacks.
This is the Conservative Government that has for the last couple of years managed to quietly outspend the Liberals by leaps and bounds. Yes Mr. Shrub has promised "tax cuts", forgive me if I'm less than excited. When was the last time any of you has seen the difference on how far your paycheck goes because of tax cuts. I'm willing to bet never, this is because the cost of living has by far out striped any tax cuts the government has decided to give us.
Part of the budget cuts the Shrub government has proposed is eliminating the $1.98 per vote subsidy that political parties get in order to communicate their platform to voters so that people can make an educated choice at election time. Taking this away erodes the quality of democracy we have in Canada. This effects the opposition parties way more than the conservatives as they get a lot of their funding from corporations (legally and illegally).
Wow what an exciting week in Canadian politics. People with Conservative leanings and little to no understanding of the Canadian constitution and parliamentary process are losing their freaking minds.
Prime Minister Harper whom I prefer to call Mr. Shrub because in my mind he's the mini-me to Mr. Bush, has decided that he wanted to put ideology and partisan politics in front of the economic survival of our country.
Instead of pledging a multiple billion $ injection into the economy like the majority of governments in the world are scrambling to do right now he's proposed less spending and budget cutbacks.
This is the Conservative Government that has for the last couple of years managed to quietly outspend the Liberals by leaps and bounds. Yes Mr. Shrub has promised "tax cuts", forgive me if I'm less than excited. When was the last time any of you has seen the difference on how far your paycheck goes because of tax cuts. I'm willing to bet never, this is because the cost of living has by far out striped any tax cuts the government has decided to give us.
Part of the budget cuts the Shrub government has proposed is eliminating the $1.98 per vote subsidy that political parties get in order to communicate their platform to voters so that people can make an educated choice at election time. Taking this away erodes the quality of democracy we have in Canada. This effects the opposition parties way more than the conservatives as they get a lot of their funding from corporations (legally and illegally).
Now Mr. Shrub has suspended Parliament until January 26, 2009. His efforts to evade democracy have made it impossible for the people of Canada see any real plans to mitigate the current economic crises put into place until at least the end of January. That will be little consolation to those losing their manufacturing jobs, those currently unemployed and unable to find a job and put meals on their table.
Ughh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Playing Pool
Ok, in the hopes of elevating the level of play of our matches I've instituted a every second Sunday practice. I had been asked by certain people on my team to help them with different aspects of the game so this is what I came up with.
Did it work? I don't know, but on Tuesday we did quite well and were able to take 5 of 6 round points available. Mind you this is the league where round points only count for where you're seated in the year end tournament. The bonus is we scored a pile of ball points as well which counts towards 1st place.
The above is the table we practiced on. Exciting eh?
Peace and pool we play tonight yay.
