Inventory thoughts - Winter Election - Blah...

Well here it is Sunday December 4th and I'm sitting at my desk at work doing Inventory... the end of year ritual... I stopped off at McDonald's drivethru to pick up an Egg McMuffin thingy this morning and when I went to pay the girl reaching out to hand her the coins I twisted my back in such a way that I pulled some muscles and now I'm in a lot of pain... I can't find a comfortable position to sit in and getting up and down is painful... sigh... man I can't win.. bad enough I'm working on the weekend but to have put my back out on top of it is annoying.... thankfully I'm not in the warehouse counting because this would be just "too convenient" and no one would believe me.

Anyhow we're in a slow spell this morning so I thought I'd write something here to kill time.. I'm listening to my Ipod... Everlast "Seven Years" is playing through my PC speakers.. kinda smooth... So let's see, what's happening out there in the world these days...

The Federal Government fell... whoop dippity.. Idiot Opposition calling an election when the numbers aren't even strongly there for them. Having the campaign over Christmas and into the freezing cold of January no less.... Pollsters say we'll likely elect the same minority government with a slight chance of a Liberal majority. There's no decent Party to vote for anymore.

The Liberals are corrupt and should have been kicked out years ago except the parts of the country are head strong on electing local niche-interest parties pushing their regional issues at the Federal level. The Bloc being the main culprit... like they care anything about Canada or have any interest in helping to make it work or even make it work better. All they care about is making Ottawa look bad in the eyes of Quebecers so they can win a referendum on Independence or whatever they are calling it these days. So Quebecers selfishly vote for them ensuring no large group of Canadians will ever put their vote behind any other party other than the Liberals and then they'll turn around and complain nothing ever changes in Canada.... Effectively leaving Ontario to decide the country's fate and ensuring there will be very few ridings in Quebec who'll have actual members in the Government to pass legislation and makes significant changes in their ridings. All they can do with the Bloc is voice opposition and push for change which I'm sure they would prefer not to see happen too often since it would go against their political goals of proving Ottawa in ineffective. In effect by voting for the Bloc ensures the same idiots they know and love to hate stay in power. Nothing like trying to keep your enemy close at hand so you can continue to manipulate a known entity.

However that being said there isn't any alternative worth wild out there anyways. The Conservatives lean towards American Republicanism and need to be sent back to the Opposition for all their hard line right wing values that won't go down with most Canadians.. the NDP is perhaps the best alternative but pushing union and alienating the wealthy needs will only lead to more confrontation... so the Liberals are still the best option despite the fact they stole millions of dollars and lied to the public about it... wonderful, the best option has a criminal element to them... says a lot for Canada. Maybe Les Quebecois are right, we really just need to split from them all. Sometimes it really does seem hopeless here and perhaps we are really just in the way of the rest of the country's progress.

Oprah was on Letterman the other night. Sheila PVR'd it and we watched it last night. The way the audience reacted it's like this woman has become a saint or something lately. I have to say though she is at least making the effort to help people with all her money. Criticize her all you want but she's not obliged to do anything she's doing. It's excellent that she puts African issues out on the table for public awareness and discussion. It would never surface on the radar otherwise. Although you'd never know by watching the news they are among the most serious issues facing the planet at the moment. AIDS, serious illnesses, lack of education, hunger, poverty, a low life span, orphaned children, Darfur, lack of jobs and industry, war and suppression of females and the weakest people there. So I tip my hat to her for at least acknowledging that. By focusing on education she at least has her sights set in the right direction even if she admits herself it's only a drop in the bucket... but it's much more, hell, significantly even amazingly more than what I or most people are doing. Letterman seemed pretty good with her, he must really have pissed her off and now he's wooing her big time for whatever reason.. it was a good show actually. I'm not sure what all the feuding was about and she too seemed a bit confused by it all.. perhaps it was just marketing on the Late Show's part...

Any ways.. waiting for St-Hubert to arrive.....sigh.... Krispy Kreme came in this morning too... might as well cart me out to the car this evening... have a fun day..