WHEN THE PHONE RINGS...

Do you want someone who speaks like this in the Whitehouse when the red phone rings...


"“I went to 80 countries, you know. I gave contemporaneous accounts, I wrote about a lot of this in my book. You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things – millions of words a day – so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,” she said." - Hillary Clinton

Give me McCain or Obama. Either have a much better shot of pulling th US out of its current funk.

Cheers,

P

REPLACE THE WORD 'WHITE' WITH THE WORD 'OTTAWAN's'

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/

Too perfect.

Cheers,

P

2011

So Parliament finally did some work and passed (rightly) the extention of Canada's mission in Afghanistan until 2011. This is the right decision. The challenge now will be to bolster the troop, diplomat and aid worker number in the south and indeed across the entire country.

Canada has been on the front lines for longer than its entire involvement in WWI and it is time NATO as an alliance of some 26 countries. It is completely unacceptable that only 4 or so are doing the real work. Hey Germany hey Italy, hey Spain where are you? Getting other countries to take a turn at the front is now our biggest challenge.

Cheers,

P

VISITING

Back in a week! Although it will be nice to see an old friend again whom I haven't seen in about 5-6 years.

Cheers,

Patrick

MORE OF THE SAME

So I leave for a week and come back to more accusation of scandal, vote rigging and generally badness in parliament. This time its not liberal envelopes full of cash but conservatives offering live insurance for elections.

Look I'm all for investigating problems like this, however this is the job of the RCMP not parliament. Parliament has other things to worry about like creating good laws to keep us all safe, fixing the environmental problems that plague this country, or maybe how to deal with a crumbling health care system along with provinces, ditto municipal infrastructure oh and there is also a matter of that little afghanistan problem.

All to say we pay our politicians to deal with real issues not potential criminal goings ons, that's why we pay the police.

Shameful.. all of them... shameful.

Cheers,

P