I'm not inside my own mind today... I have to be... Liberals had to remind us they were Pro-Pot.
Why did we forget all of a sudden. if Jean Chrétien had his way, we would all be smoking big fatties right now. THEY JOKED ABOUT IT IN THE HOUSE FOR FUCK SAKES! OF course, American Oversight's, ahem, nipped that in the bud pretty quick.
Why would they go out of their way to remind us...
Well lets look at the facts here, facts are facts, I don't need bullshit statistics to sell this to you.
People smoke weed, a lot of people. People you know, people you didn't know do it. It's easy to say "majority" to exaggerate but when it comes to smoking marijuana, the people have spoken in the past and continue to keep tokin' in the privacy of their homes because, well, it's the most comfortable that way. It's not ridiculous for me to say that MOST Canadians would be in favor of legalizing Marijuana, it's a simple fact. A truth. Honest and pure.
Now The Liberals got crushed in the last election, CRUSHED... Like. The NDP Did REALLY good. They didn't win, despite the NDP doing really well, the Conservative Majority, when the dust settled, the Liberals were left gasping, breathing crudely into a 30 year old respirator while the Michael Ignatieff experiment failed thanks to maybe the most brilliant smear campaign in the history of Canadian Politics by the Conservatives.
Now, they're desperate. The Liberals have never been the third wheel in the Canadian political spectrum. The announcement of the liberals being pro-pot, especially at this point and time is essentially meaningless. It's like giving someone with the stomach flu cough medicine... What exactly are your words going to change? The Liberals have no weight to throw around in the House right now, all the Liberals are trying to do at this point and time is sway voters...
WHY?
WHY WASTE YOUR FUCKING EFFORT LIKE THAT?!
Unless you REMIND Canada of your feelings for the wacky tobbacky during the prime period of election, people aren't going to care. I'm not much for flow charts or funny pictures to make my points for me, so lets play the hypothetical scenario game.
In the 2011 Election, approximately 61% of Canadians voted. Of that 61%, only 18.9% of those people voted Liberal... so
61% of Canada, approximately, is 34,278,400 (as of January 1st, 2011 according to Statistics Canada) so that means of that 34,278,400 people... A solid 20 million or so voted leaving a decent 10 million Canadians looking like lazy assholes. OF those 20 million people that voted, not even 20% could muster the confidence to vote Liberal, I blame the Conservative smear campaign. It's a double whammy for both, the liberal decline AND the NDP Surge (you can also give Jack Layton considerable credit for that as well) SO for the 18.9% of people that voted Liberal, that means about 4 million Canadians voted Liberal. This is not a small number by any means, but with two parties getting 70% of the vote, the Liberals were due to be lost in territory they don't know, much less understand: The wasteland of Canadian Politics with the Green Party and the Bloc...
SO.... lets look at the numbers a little further. Compared to the 2008 Election, there was a decline in votes of 7.3% approximately in regard to the percentage of the vote the Liberals had, now that 7.3 percent drop accounted for over 40 seats in the House of Commons and almost 5 million votes. A brilliant attack on Ignatieff left the wind out of the Liberals sails and while Layton was launching a spirited campaign for Prime Minister the Liberal Party might as well flushed themselves down the toilet.
That brings me back to the original point... WHY REMIND Canadians that you're pro-pot? Because the Liberals need to make some NOISE... ANY kind of noise will do for them, those 5 million votes made a HUGE difference.
Compare and contrast with the NDP who saw a vote increase of roughly 4 million voters from 2008 to 2011. Those 4 million voters helped the NDP get an additional 66 seats in the house of commons. Many of those new seats were acquired from Liberal territories.
I'm not going to bother with the Conservatives, all that matters is despite getting LESS THAN 40% of the total vote, they have MAJORITY government. That doesn't make any fucking sense no matter how you look at it.
BACK to the Liberals and their dirty pot smoking ways, and why it's important...
The NDP didn't out and brag it, but their rather more relaxed attitude toward small crime such as marijuana and priorities on the health system and education really won over a lot of voters (these things are staple of most Liberal platforms (among other business related things of course) but people didn't care what the Liberals were trying to do.. What were the Liberals trying to do? Nobody knew, and nobody gave a shit because the TV told them they weren't to trust Ignatieff and that ate that shit up like a five dollar Chinese Lunch smorg.
The NDP offered a more appealing body to vote for, and then the conservatives basically got by on name alone (Oh that and pressure power-plays from Big Oil, that's right...) because a large body of Canadian voters hear "Conservative" and just seem to sub-consciously check the box for whatever reason. I will NOT turn this into another Harper HateStock... fuck it, you tell me Big Oil didn't buy this last election and I will say prove me wrong. This left the Liberals gasping for air in the end and the results show it.
A party who, I think still doesn't have a leader. (A quick fact check tells me: Bob Rae is apparent party leader...) Okay so Bob Rae looks like Ric Flair with the chin of a hockey player but what does he stand for. I know nothing of the guy, haven't heard him say a speech and well I don't go Liberal so what does it matter.
HERE is where it matters. IF the Liberals REALLY embraced their sudden fondness for being pro-pot. They would win Canada. Period. IF they came up with an actual platform to legalize it, use the money revenue for Canada's benefit and they have another 3 fucking years to come up with something so STEP YOUR SHIT UP LIBERALS. IF you WANT Canada, it's right there waiting for you to take it. You just have to show some cajones like ol' Jean did embrace an ideal that could help you win an election.
If they just tack it on for notoriety, they're going to sway, maybe a million votes max. Nothing changes, we stay pro-conservative because there's too many people in the older generations who are confused by the new conservatives and what they represent.
You see, there used to be TWO conservative parties in Canada. Red and Blue. I cant make this shit up! They merged and Stephen Harper became the party leader (the leader of the other Con's was, Peter Mackay, our Minister of Defense. Don't even get me started on him. He's as fucking slimy as Harper and he's done more than enough this last year to prove it. He took his position in government, let Harper take control of the party, maybe it was for the best that way because Peter Mackay is not PM material. EVEN if the entire fucking county here has their head up his ass. He's just as robotic and two-faced as Harper ANYWAY....)
Despite both being branded with the Conservative name, these two parties did exemplify different ideals. You can see why the initial merger was so rocky (and why we had minority government for half a decade) people don't know what Conservatives they are voting for, they just know what they know. They voted Conservative in the past (unless you think about LYING BRIAN MULRONEY.) but ohhh the Liberals have done so much to fuck Canada up, never mind what Mulroney did in his time in office. This older generation votes Conservatives, they're not voting for PC's like Brian Mulroney (the Blue Con's) they are probably thinking Red con's (or Tory's as they were called in those days)
Basically, these conservative voters who have voted conservative simply on the merits of the Tory's, are voting for a party that is basically strictly PC-ideology. It's not what THEY were voting for those years ago but its what they continue to vote for now because of the conservative name.
That's another problem for the Liberals. Embracing marijuana as a PLATFORM to use, not just a token decriminalization and maybe promotion of use in a medicinal capacity since many Canadian doctors seem to shun the idea of medicinal marijuana. (Much like the STATES...) so a Liberal platform to facilitate that for patients that could actually use it would be great for Canadians who could use it. That would encourage voters. Showing that you, the Liberal party, have thought about a LEGITIMATE way to use marijuana to HELP Canada and make money for Canada, then the voters will respond to that. IF you are just using the hype of being 'pro-pot' to get some extra votes, you're going to find yourself at the bottom of the barrel again.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Fear Factor
I'm not inside my own mind today... why is everyone so fucking afraid in this country?
Afraid to walk the streets at night
Afraid to leave their doors unlocked
Afraid to let their children play in the yard unattended
Afraid to confront people
Afraid of pretty much anything you can put to mind. It doesn't make any sense. The thing that boggles my mind isn't really how much people tell me they're afraid but how much media tells me I'm afraid. The News tells me to be fearful, Newspapers write horror stories while, Radio plays this up as well by keeping the people up to date on the latest tragedy. Nobody really seems to question it, lots of people read the newspaper and watch the news and they don't even seem to realize how afraid they really are.
Everyone is afraid, it's a culture of fear that's been created in less than my cognitive 'adult-ish' years so lets say a good decade at least.
The biggest telling tale is current events of my small town. A young girl/woman (19 I believe) was abducted and later (over a month) found murdered. People rallied together to find this girl, you couldn't pass a block of street without seeing her missing persons poster. The hope everyone shared that she could be alive was a real uniting energy the likes of which I have RARELY seen... The town set up this corner of the road where I believe her shoe was found as a kind of memorial. Candles and such all along the side walk. It was kind of cool to see such a sporadic commemoration of good will. Pretty much a couple months passed from the day she went misising before the people were given any kind of answers and even then, knowing what we know. We know this:
- She was murdered. (Around the same time another person was brutally murdered in front of his fucking family, disgusting act. I believe this to be mere coincidence, there are those who do not. That is all I will say on this. Believe what the fuck you want on the matter.)
- She was abducted off the side of the road. She lost a shoe, and it wasn't akin to Cinderella.
- She didn't have her phone because some assshole Cab Driver wouldn't wait for her and her friends as they went to the bar that night.
- She was found, pretty far off from where she was supposedly taken. On farmland, I'm not sure WHERE exactly it is because the knowledge I have of the local area is shit. It was out of town though, that I am sure.
- Her boyfriend was supposed to pick her up at Big Al's, a convenience store quite a ways away from the bar, Doolys, she was at, why couldn't her BF have just picked her up at the bar? THIS was a point of much finger pointing at the boyfriend for some time though I believe he's innocent of the matter, again, lots of chitter chatter of people wanting to believe otherwise.
That's another thing I want to digress on, people LOVE to theorize with open books like this. Holy shit everyone had their two fucking cents about what happened to this poor girl and who did it. ITS STILL LIKE THAT for a lot of people but the hysteria has really died down since she was found and that's something at least...
It scares me how eager people are to play the blame game and make causal accusations based off of pure thought. No basis what so ever other than what they've been told by and read in the media. We all know the Media is such a trustworthy fountain of knowledge so why question it. I think it's a big reason for the fucking coma Canadians seem to be in right now, again, another rant for another time...
Moving along... still, nothing has been really proven to the people. I will not dive into the theories I've heard, aside from the brief tidbits I've touched upon (personally intriguing IDEAS to me.) In a small town you have to believe what you feel and I have the sense there is a lot of bullshit to the whole situation and when you let your mind wander with possibilities, something menial can become sensational and something horrific could become extraordinary in a sense.
What followed after her death was something that disgusted me entirely. The way the local newspaper in particular pushed the story and did so for nearly a week after her being found in farm land decomposed made people crazy. They were scared to walk the streets day or night, there was this whole kind of global maternal instinct to protect young women who looked vulnrible. Not for me, that's ANOTHER rant... but just the general consensus of people adopted this attitude "Oh, you shouldn't be out there by yourself." "You gotta be real careful these days, you don't know who to trust."
That's a doozie right there... "You don't know who to trust."
What the fuck is that. YES YOU DO. YOU FUCKING KNOW what you KNOW.
For fuck sakes, OPEN your eyes and look at the world for what it is and right then you will know what you can fucking trust in this world. Some of the people you KNOW are the only people you can trust in this world. That's why I hate that saying... It makes me so mad when people casually toss that one around like any one of us is a goddamn psycho.
I am so sick and tired of people and the media telling me who I have to fucking trust. I am an adult, I see the world for what it really is and I can trust what I want to trust and DO trust what I want to trust, you can keep your fucking opinion to yourself asshole.
Why does it seem like crime rates are actually down (one of the HUGE arguments against Harper's Megacrime bill) yet all they tell us about is how fucking dangerous the world is. Its not safe anymore despite what the numbers state. It's this meticulous fear factor that they have really been working on in the last decade. You cant talk about walking home at night without someone telling you about how dangerous it is.
Why is that?
Its everywhere, every single one of us is constantly being told that we're not safe, we're not to trust anyone and we're not to feel secure and it's gotten to the point that it's borderline hysteria with our belief. It's complete subconsciousness, a lot of the time people don't even realize they do it. It's kind of scary. There's no real logic to it and there's no critical thinking against it. People don't really even seem to realize it and they just accept that they are scared and they don't really know why.
I don't know if it's this generation of 'depressed' people being given pills that make them docile and complacent with their oh so horrible lives of having a home and wonderful technology and making money instead of like the third world where GENOCIDE is a casual worry in some people's daily activities. Get over your fucking self... okay I am getting distracted again but I don't know if its this docile society, accepting and believing everything THEY ARE TOLD and not chosing to really think about things for themselves.
Maybe things really are worse, maybe I should be afraid, but fuck you. I will not be afraid because you, the television, newspapers or radio told me to be afraid. I will be afraid because I know the world is capable out there and I will be afraid of the things that are actually happening that people don't give a shit about.
Bills and Laws their governments are passing without a thought because of ignorant, complacent zombies. Fearful zombies that will come together whenever they are displeased about cell phone service but when it comes to their fucking standard of living and their civil liberties (liberties is the most apropriate word, because you can take a liberty away from someone. Rights sound too permanent and I don't believe we have rights anymore in this world)
Let the suits decide, fuck what I think right?
Afraid to walk the streets at night
Afraid to leave their doors unlocked
Afraid to let their children play in the yard unattended
Afraid to confront people
Afraid of pretty much anything you can put to mind. It doesn't make any sense. The thing that boggles my mind isn't really how much people tell me they're afraid but how much media tells me I'm afraid. The News tells me to be fearful, Newspapers write horror stories while, Radio plays this up as well by keeping the people up to date on the latest tragedy. Nobody really seems to question it, lots of people read the newspaper and watch the news and they don't even seem to realize how afraid they really are.
Everyone is afraid, it's a culture of fear that's been created in less than my cognitive 'adult-ish' years so lets say a good decade at least.
The biggest telling tale is current events of my small town. A young girl/woman (19 I believe) was abducted and later (over a month) found murdered. People rallied together to find this girl, you couldn't pass a block of street without seeing her missing persons poster. The hope everyone shared that she could be alive was a real uniting energy the likes of which I have RARELY seen... The town set up this corner of the road where I believe her shoe was found as a kind of memorial. Candles and such all along the side walk. It was kind of cool to see such a sporadic commemoration of good will. Pretty much a couple months passed from the day she went misising before the people were given any kind of answers and even then, knowing what we know. We know this:
- She was murdered. (Around the same time another person was brutally murdered in front of his fucking family, disgusting act. I believe this to be mere coincidence, there are those who do not. That is all I will say on this. Believe what the fuck you want on the matter.)
- She was abducted off the side of the road. She lost a shoe, and it wasn't akin to Cinderella.
- She didn't have her phone because some assshole Cab Driver wouldn't wait for her and her friends as they went to the bar that night.
- She was found, pretty far off from where she was supposedly taken. On farmland, I'm not sure WHERE exactly it is because the knowledge I have of the local area is shit. It was out of town though, that I am sure.
- Her boyfriend was supposed to pick her up at Big Al's, a convenience store quite a ways away from the bar, Doolys, she was at, why couldn't her BF have just picked her up at the bar? THIS was a point of much finger pointing at the boyfriend for some time though I believe he's innocent of the matter, again, lots of chitter chatter of people wanting to believe otherwise.
That's another thing I want to digress on, people LOVE to theorize with open books like this. Holy shit everyone had their two fucking cents about what happened to this poor girl and who did it. ITS STILL LIKE THAT for a lot of people but the hysteria has really died down since she was found and that's something at least...
It scares me how eager people are to play the blame game and make causal accusations based off of pure thought. No basis what so ever other than what they've been told by and read in the media. We all know the Media is such a trustworthy fountain of knowledge so why question it. I think it's a big reason for the fucking coma Canadians seem to be in right now, again, another rant for another time...
Moving along... still, nothing has been really proven to the people. I will not dive into the theories I've heard, aside from the brief tidbits I've touched upon (personally intriguing IDEAS to me.) In a small town you have to believe what you feel and I have the sense there is a lot of bullshit to the whole situation and when you let your mind wander with possibilities, something menial can become sensational and something horrific could become extraordinary in a sense.
What followed after her death was something that disgusted me entirely. The way the local newspaper in particular pushed the story and did so for nearly a week after her being found in farm land decomposed made people crazy. They were scared to walk the streets day or night, there was this whole kind of global maternal instinct to protect young women who looked vulnrible. Not for me, that's ANOTHER rant... but just the general consensus of people adopted this attitude "Oh, you shouldn't be out there by yourself." "You gotta be real careful these days, you don't know who to trust."
That's a doozie right there... "You don't know who to trust."
What the fuck is that. YES YOU DO. YOU FUCKING KNOW what you KNOW.
For fuck sakes, OPEN your eyes and look at the world for what it is and right then you will know what you can fucking trust in this world. Some of the people you KNOW are the only people you can trust in this world. That's why I hate that saying... It makes me so mad when people casually toss that one around like any one of us is a goddamn psycho.
I am so sick and tired of people and the media telling me who I have to fucking trust. I am an adult, I see the world for what it really is and I can trust what I want to trust and DO trust what I want to trust, you can keep your fucking opinion to yourself asshole.
Why does it seem like crime rates are actually down (one of the HUGE arguments against Harper's Megacrime bill) yet all they tell us about is how fucking dangerous the world is. Its not safe anymore despite what the numbers state. It's this meticulous fear factor that they have really been working on in the last decade. You cant talk about walking home at night without someone telling you about how dangerous it is.
Why is that?
Its everywhere, every single one of us is constantly being told that we're not safe, we're not to trust anyone and we're not to feel secure and it's gotten to the point that it's borderline hysteria with our belief. It's complete subconsciousness, a lot of the time people don't even realize they do it. It's kind of scary. There's no real logic to it and there's no critical thinking against it. People don't really even seem to realize it and they just accept that they are scared and they don't really know why.
I don't know if it's this generation of 'depressed' people being given pills that make them docile and complacent with their oh so horrible lives of having a home and wonderful technology and making money instead of like the third world where GENOCIDE is a casual worry in some people's daily activities. Get over your fucking self... okay I am getting distracted again but I don't know if its this docile society, accepting and believing everything THEY ARE TOLD and not chosing to really think about things for themselves.
Maybe things really are worse, maybe I should be afraid, but fuck you. I will not be afraid because you, the television, newspapers or radio told me to be afraid. I will be afraid because I know the world is capable out there and I will be afraid of the things that are actually happening that people don't give a shit about.
Bills and Laws their governments are passing without a thought because of ignorant, complacent zombies. Fearful zombies that will come together whenever they are displeased about cell phone service but when it comes to their fucking standard of living and their civil liberties (liberties is the most apropriate word, because you can take a liberty away from someone. Rights sound too permanent and I don't believe we have rights anymore in this world)
Let the suits decide, fuck what I think right?
Thursday, January 5, 2012
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I'm not inside my own mind today... its before 7am. I do not enjoy this time of day, it's very vampire. That and I need coffee.
Happy New Year!
It's 2012, resolutions abound, I'm looking forward to leaving 2011 behind. It's just the way it is. I'm not exactly one to mull about in the past.
I don't have any specific thing to talk about so I'm just going to shoot from the hip here.
Lets start with SOPA: It's kind of a big deal .
Honestly, it was only a matter of time before the suits took an aggressive front against internet piracy. What did you honestly expect was going to happen? The record companies, film / tv producers, game developers, etc, etc, by people's sticky digital fingers. They need to push the bill through before the election, obviously. I wonder how hard the people are really going to try and fight this after the whole Occupy movement has lost a lot of steam?
We live in a world where there is the capability to do this. People can afford the monthly bill to get the internet but they cant afford the cost of a CD, DVD, Video Game, Computer Software, etc, etc, so many things can be pirated these days. It's not as bad (at least I don't think it is) as the Napster days when downloading music was this bizarre taboo. The allure of the cost (none) plus the anonymity of the internet is a cocktail of disaster. It was (and still is) only a matter of time before the powers that be put the clamps down on the internet.
I read a quote somewhere, it said - "The wild west days of the internet are coming to an end." I agree.
There have been arguments that SOPA will change nothing, maybe this is also true. SOPA is just the beginning though. Once those suits (aka, whoever's in charge. I don't think SOPA's as big a priority for Obama as some other things, at least I would hope it fucking isnt... depends who'se voices are wispering in his ears. Okay I sound like a weirdo hah!) take the time to put something together it will get passed and the internet will change.
WHEN that happens? I don't know. SOPA isn't it, but it's the start.
Okay onto something else, Happy New Year!
Yeah I already said that but with 2012 brings new things. The end of things to some of us crazy enough to believe it. The entire notion the world is going to end is ridiculous to me. Remember the doom preached on Y2K. People legitimately lost their shit, fearing what they would do when their precious technology was rendered useless at the stroke of midnight?! Give me a fucking break!
Oh yeah, it's the MAYANS... for fuck sakes!
Okay... so other than that. There's things to look forward to!
The Dark Knight Rises, Mass Effect 3. Okay I love Movies and Video Games but the fact remains that those are just the little things. I'm not going to rant and rave about life. Having a new job just makes everything better and Christmas was perfect so that is the best way to turn the corner into a new year. Maybe Diablo 3 will come out sometime in July that way I can put a few months into it before the world ends?
The sun is starting to come up. I need coffee... maybe breakfast. Until next time,
PEACE!
Happy New Year!
It's 2012, resolutions abound, I'm looking forward to leaving 2011 behind. It's just the way it is. I'm not exactly one to mull about in the past.
I don't have any specific thing to talk about so I'm just going to shoot from the hip here.
Lets start with SOPA: It's kind of a big deal .
Honestly, it was only a matter of time before the suits took an aggressive front against internet piracy. What did you honestly expect was going to happen? The record companies, film / tv producers, game developers, etc, etc, by people's sticky digital fingers. They need to push the bill through before the election, obviously. I wonder how hard the people are really going to try and fight this after the whole Occupy movement has lost a lot of steam?
We live in a world where there is the capability to do this. People can afford the monthly bill to get the internet but they cant afford the cost of a CD, DVD, Video Game, Computer Software, etc, etc, so many things can be pirated these days. It's not as bad (at least I don't think it is) as the Napster days when downloading music was this bizarre taboo. The allure of the cost (none) plus the anonymity of the internet is a cocktail of disaster. It was (and still is) only a matter of time before the powers that be put the clamps down on the internet.
I read a quote somewhere, it said - "The wild west days of the internet are coming to an end." I agree.
There have been arguments that SOPA will change nothing, maybe this is also true. SOPA is just the beginning though. Once those suits (aka, whoever's in charge. I don't think SOPA's as big a priority for Obama as some other things, at least I would hope it fucking isnt... depends who'se voices are wispering in his ears. Okay I sound like a weirdo hah!) take the time to put something together it will get passed and the internet will change.
WHEN that happens? I don't know. SOPA isn't it, but it's the start.
Okay onto something else, Happy New Year!
Yeah I already said that but with 2012 brings new things. The end of things to some of us crazy enough to believe it. The entire notion the world is going to end is ridiculous to me. Remember the doom preached on Y2K. People legitimately lost their shit, fearing what they would do when their precious technology was rendered useless at the stroke of midnight?! Give me a fucking break!
Oh yeah, it's the MAYANS... for fuck sakes!
Okay... so other than that. There's things to look forward to!
The Dark Knight Rises, Mass Effect 3. Okay I love Movies and Video Games but the fact remains that those are just the little things. I'm not going to rant and rave about life. Having a new job just makes everything better and Christmas was perfect so that is the best way to turn the corner into a new year. Maybe Diablo 3 will come out sometime in July that way I can put a few months into it before the world ends?
The sun is starting to come up. I need coffee... maybe breakfast. Until next time,
PEACE!
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