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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
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Happy Birthday to my home and native land! Now that I have made that clear... I am going back to watching the free agent tracker to see if my Canucks can get Sundin! :p |
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
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I am loving the conservative humour coming with the Dion Carbon Tax announcement. Conservative MP Jason Kenney says if the Liberals get their way, Canadians will be `shift out of luck.' Kenny also said that perhaps we should all adopt the slogan `shift happens.' I would like to add a few of my own to the mix: - I visited the House of Commons and all I heard was a load of shift
- Stephane Dion, like most Liberal politicians, is full of shift
- Dion's carbon tax plan will cause Canada's economy to take a gigantic shift
- We don't need this shift!
- What a crock of shift!
Man I crack me up sometimes... |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
Once upon a time a Member of Liberal County, Ken Boshcoff had plenty of time to spend fighting high gas prices, since his party's official stance on votes in the House of Commons was to "call in sick", at least when an election was on the line.
But before anyone commends Mr. Boshcoff on his effort to lower gas prices, let us take a brief walk down Hipocracy Lane to a little ramshackle house called Carbon Tax. There was a tired old mailbox, leaning slightly to the left of centre, with the name Dion hastily scrawled on the side.
The owner of this house... let's for the sake of argument call him Stephane, was a good friend of Ken's and wanted to share this Carbon Tax with everyone in Canada. He thought this was a great idea because it would help to put a value on his house... aka Carbon. Ken didn't seem opposed to this idea at all.
Now the downside of this plan was that further up the street there was another home called Gasoline. Gasoline was always filled with visitors. People came from all areas of the country to use it, and purchase a little bit of the house to take home with them. It had been standing for over 100 years and is still in pretty good shape. As always, there was a big "for sale" sign on the front lawn.
The problem now, was that it was increasing becoming difficult for people to visit Gasoline, because it had become so expensive to do so. So many people had been visiting Gasoline and taking bits of it, that a large part of that house was now gone. There was still much of it left, but there were also many more visitors to the home that the people repairing it couldn't keep up with the demand. And to make matters worse, people like Stephane wanted to make sure that people who visited Gasoline, would also have to stop at Carbon Tax on the way home. This would make it even more expensive to visit. This plan would also apply to anyone who visited other houses such as Home Heating, but that is for another story altogether.
Now nobody really wanted to visit Carbon Tax, it was a very unattractive place, however the leaders in neighbouring Liberal County seemed to think this was a good idea because they let Stephane continue to push forward with this plan to force everyone to take part in this Carbon Tax idea. They seemed to think that it would bring back many of the people who moved out of Liberal County after "Hurricane Election" a few years earlier. Most had moved to either Conservative Way, NDP Alley, or Green Drive. A few of the crazier ones went to Bloc Boulevard. Some decided not to find a new home at all. The problem was that those former Liberals didn't like the Carbon Tax idea either. They preferred Gasoline the old fashioned way.
Now the people living on Conservative Way used to be the biggest fans of Gasoline, but now they too were feeling the effects of so many people visiting, so they proposed that we all be more careful about how much we use, try to conserve what we have, and to gradually switch to alternatives. This would still be difficult for people, but would be much less painful to those who visited Gasoline and Home Heating. Those living on NDP Alley had their own ideas, but they too disliked Carbon Tax. Their ideas were not really bad either, however the one drawn up on Conservative Alley was a bit more realistic. Only about 9% of people really cared about what the people on Green Drive were saying, but during Hurricane Election when it really mattered, that number always dropped anyway.
People from all over the land were against going to Carbon Tax when they visited Gasoline, and because of that, Carbon Tax fell into even worse disrepair. Stephane, the owner was already unpopular with most people, and now even the ones in Liberal County were threatening to knock down Stephane's home. Still, he pressed ahead with his plan, convinced he was doing the right thing.
This story doesn't end here, but instead becomes a "Choose Your Own Adventure". Do you wish to see what Carbon Tax looks like? Would you like to keep visiting Gasoline without having to visit Carbon Tax? Next time Hurricane Election hits, where will you take shelter? I hear Conservative Way looks pretty good this time of year. The cost of living seems quite a bit lower than the alternative these days.
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