So What Would My Ballot Look Like Today if i was voting?
1. Gerard Kennedy
2. Stephane Dion
3. David McGuinty
4. Ken Dryden
5. Michael Ignatieff
6. John Godfrey
7. Martha Hall Findlay
8. Ralph Goodale
9. Ashley MacIsaac
10. Scott Brison
11. Bob Rae
12. Belinda Stronach
13. Maurizio Bevilacqua
14. Carolyn Bennett
15. Joe Volpe
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
On Strike
Unfortunately, We are now into the 2nd day of a strike here in Ontario Colleges, there has been no agreement reached and as a result I have been locked out. As a matter of principle, I am pro-union and I am for their right to strike. However, I believe that teachers have no right to do it during a school year and it is wrong for them to walk out on the students that are also paying their salaries.
I am hoping this is resolved quickly because I want to get back to school.
I am hoping this is resolved quickly because I want to get back to school.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
My Opinion on the Oscars
It was a night of glitz, glamour and dissapointment. I am glad to see a film like Crash win. But those were not the dissapointment that many of you thought I was going to talk about.
I want to say that Felicity Huffman and Amy Adams, two talented Actresses. Were robbed by sad excuses for performances coming from Rachel Weisz and Reese Witherspoon and I say that because I have seen there performances. Ms. Weisz really did not deserve that Statuette she was barely in the Constant Gardener at all I'd estimate at least around Twenty to Thirty Minutes in that movie. I'd like to compare that to a woman like Amy Adams who played a very difficult role considering the fact she had to wear a fat suit to show her pregnant belly, but also she was funny and heartwarming in that movie. I'd like to say Felicity, its a shame you had to lose to that tart Witherspoon.
Let me say Felicity Huffman's performance was one of the most difficult roles that anyone could ever play. How hard do you think it was for this woman to be put into that makeup everyday and play a role (a pre-operative transexual) that many people in this world would look down on and think that someone like that is nothing. Let's compare this to Reese Witherspoon who played June Carter Cash, let me say she had her moments but the problem is I just really do not think she deserved this because I believe this was a much easier role then Felicity's.
Finally, Dolly Parton shamefully and sickeningly got robbed by a rap song with no class (It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp), I challenge you to listen to Travelin' Thru the song from Transamerica. This is a beautiful song that has lyrics that fit the movie perfectly.
This is a great lyric because it perfectly shows the internal struggle going on inside Huffman's character Bree Osbourne. The Puzzle and Pieces analogy is a perfect example of what somebody like Bree goes through in this film.
Again, these are beautiful lyrics that state Bree is going to undergo an operation and be born again as the woman she never was.
Also, her lyrics about God making her (Bree) the way she was is exactly speaking the truth to what the LGBT community faces everyday.
Now lets compare these to the Lyrics from It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp.
If anybody understands a single sentence of what the heck he's saying please translate for me.
I want to say that Felicity Huffman and Amy Adams, two talented Actresses. Were robbed by sad excuses for performances coming from Rachel Weisz and Reese Witherspoon and I say that because I have seen there performances. Ms. Weisz really did not deserve that Statuette she was barely in the Constant Gardener at all I'd estimate at least around Twenty to Thirty Minutes in that movie. I'd like to compare that to a woman like Amy Adams who played a very difficult role considering the fact she had to wear a fat suit to show her pregnant belly, but also she was funny and heartwarming in that movie. I'd like to say Felicity, its a shame you had to lose to that tart Witherspoon.
Let me say Felicity Huffman's performance was one of the most difficult roles that anyone could ever play. How hard do you think it was for this woman to be put into that makeup everyday and play a role (a pre-operative transexual) that many people in this world would look down on and think that someone like that is nothing. Let's compare this to Reese Witherspoon who played June Carter Cash, let me say she had her moments but the problem is I just really do not think she deserved this because I believe this was a much easier role then Felicity's.
Finally, Dolly Parton shamefully and sickeningly got robbed by a rap song with no class (It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp), I challenge you to listen to Travelin' Thru the song from Transamerica. This is a beautiful song that has lyrics that fit the movie perfectly.
I'm out here on my journey, trying to make the most of it
I'm a puzzle, I must figure out where all my pieces fit
This is a great lyric because it perfectly shows the internal struggle going on inside Huffman's character Bree Osbourne. The Puzzle and Pieces analogy is a perfect example of what somebody like Bree goes through in this film.
We've all been crucified and they nailed Jesus to the tree
And when I'm born again, you're gonna see a change in me
God made me for a reason and nothing is in vain
Redemption comes in many shapes with many kinds of pain
Oh sweet Jesus if you're listening, keep me ever close to you
As I'm stumblin', tumblin', wonderin', as I'm travelin' thru
Again, these are beautiful lyrics that state Bree is going to undergo an operation and be born again as the woman she never was.
Also, her lyrics about God making her (Bree) the way she was is exactly speaking the truth to what the LGBT community faces everyday.
Now lets compare these to the Lyrics from It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp.
In my eyes I done seen some crazy thangs in the streets
Gotta couple hoes workin on the changes for me
But I gotta keep my game tight like Kobe on game night
Like takin from a ho don't know no better, I know that ain't right
Done seen people killed, done seen people deal
Done seen people live in poverty with no meals
It's fucked up where I live, but that's just how it is
It might be new to you, but it's been like this for years
It's blood sweat and tears when it come down to this shit
I'm tryin to get rich 'fore I leave up out this bitch
I'm tryin to have thangs but it's hard fo' a pimp
But I'm prayin and I'm hopin to God I don't slip, yeah.
Man it seems like I'm duckin dodgin bullets everyday
Niggaz hatin on me cause I got, hoes on the tray
But I gotta stay paid, gotta stay above water
Couldn't keep up with my hoes, that's when shit got harder
North Memphis where I'm from, I'm 7th Street bound
Where niggaz all the time end up lost and never found
Man these girls think we prove thangs, leave a big head
They come hopin every night, they don't end up bein dead
Wait I got a snow bunny, and a black girl too
You pay the right price and they'll both do you
That's the way the game goes, gotta keep it strictly pimpin
Gotta have my hustle tight, makin change off these women, yeah
If anybody understands a single sentence of what the heck he's saying please translate for me.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Three Strong By-Election Candidates
Wow, The Ontario Liberal Party has three strong Candidates running in By-election and you know what, it looks like they have a chance at all three.
Police Chief Brian Ford running in Nepean-Carleton for the Liberals against Tory Insider Lisa MacLeod, I think the Tories have an extremely weak candidate here and while this may be a tory stronghold, I think this could go Liberal because Ford is well known.
Well known toronto Broadcaster Ben Chin running in Toronto-Danforth against a former city councillor Peter Tabuns. Peter Tabuns will make this a close race but Chin has the upper hand because he has the name recognition.
Finally, Former Liberal MP Judi Longfield running in Whitby-Ajax, she has a very strong chance at winning. She might face off against Ian McNeil who she beat in 2004. I think she has a good chance of winning this seat. It would be kind of funny if she won because it would almost mean that Longfield and Flaherty switched spots.
Police Chief Brian Ford running in Nepean-Carleton for the Liberals against Tory Insider Lisa MacLeod, I think the Tories have an extremely weak candidate here and while this may be a tory stronghold, I think this could go Liberal because Ford is well known.
Well known toronto Broadcaster Ben Chin running in Toronto-Danforth against a former city councillor Peter Tabuns. Peter Tabuns will make this a close race but Chin has the upper hand because he has the name recognition.
Finally, Former Liberal MP Judi Longfield running in Whitby-Ajax, she has a very strong chance at winning. She might face off against Ian McNeil who she beat in 2004. I think she has a good chance of winning this seat. It would be kind of funny if she won because it would almost mean that Longfield and Flaherty switched spots.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Toews Loses His Mind
Just when I think I've seen it all, I manage to catch this little gem from the Ottawa Sun.
I am at a loss for words at the sheer stupidity of Vic Toews, this man now wants to put twelve year old children in the prison system. Unbelievable, I cannot honestly believe somebody is so coldhearted to somebody who is still growing up. Imagine if your twelve, how scared would you be if you were put in prison, with men at least much older then you.
Some kids at a very young age are introduced to crime. Punishment is not answer to crime. What the Conservative Party clearly doesn't understand is Urban Areas. It should be no surprise they've been shut out of every major populated urban area except one seat in Winnipeg and a few in Regina, Saskatchewan as well as Edmonton and Calgary. But the fact is that the only way you can kill off crime is by cutting it off at its source. You can't kill a tree of slowly by poisoning it but if you cut it at the bottom it will die. The same analogy can be used for Crime.
Mr. Toews has clearly lost his mind in this case and I am just shocked he even thought about this.
I am at a loss for words at the sheer stupidity of Vic Toews, this man now wants to put twelve year old children in the prison system. Unbelievable, I cannot honestly believe somebody is so coldhearted to somebody who is still growing up. Imagine if your twelve, how scared would you be if you were put in prison, with men at least much older then you.
Some kids at a very young age are introduced to crime. Punishment is not answer to crime. What the Conservative Party clearly doesn't understand is Urban Areas. It should be no surprise they've been shut out of every major populated urban area except one seat in Winnipeg and a few in Regina, Saskatchewan as well as Edmonton and Calgary. But the fact is that the only way you can kill off crime is by cutting it off at its source. You can't kill a tree of slowly by poisoning it but if you cut it at the bottom it will die. The same analogy can be used for Crime.
Mr. Toews has clearly lost his mind in this case and I am just shocked he even thought about this.
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