Say Amir Khadir 20 times

[Doctor Rock]

Say Amir Khadir 20 times.

Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir Amir Khadir.

There!

[Tripp]

I'm home from work today.  either a virus or food poisoning.  fun stuff.

[Doctor Rock]

I'm home from work today.  either a virus or food poisoning.  fun stuff.

That sounds ghastly!  But who's poisoning your food?  You should hire a food taster. 

[Tripp]

everyone keeps telling me it's this virus thats going around but I've had food poisoning before and this is what it felt like. Like, agonizing aches and just absolute weakness.  I'm feeling a bit better now.

We got some chinese take-out sunday and the lo mein sat out on the counter a little too long then I ate it. I think thats what it was.

I don't mind a could of days off from work though.  And today was perfect for it cause it's pouring down rain.

[bebopbalogna]

for tripp.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZtOAf7MaOZM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ZtOAf7MaOZM</a>

[Tripp]

thank you Pat.


How's Kim and the baby?

[matthew]

My riding, the huge (25,000+ people) Jacques-Cartier riding, stretches from my town, Pointe-Claire, to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (the Southern portion of the Western tip of the island of Montreal - Pointe-Claire, Beaconsfield, Baie D'urfe, part of Kirkland, Ste-Anne's), and is 55% Anglophone, 18% Allophone, 27% Francophone, and I guess that partly explains the fact that we have the lowest level (in the Montreal area) of support for Quebec Solidaire. Wealth would be the other part of the explanation.

Only 363 people other than myself voted for Marianne Breton Fontaine (a 21 year old photography student/communist), while the victorious Liberal Party took 20,428 votes.

The other major West Island districts are Robert-Baldwin (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, part of Pierrefonds), which managed 375 for QS (Liberals won with 17,078) and Nelligan (Ile Bizard plus the northern portion of the western tip of the island of Montreal (i.e. most of Kirkland, Senneville, Ile Bizard + a little bit of Pointe-Claire) which had 378 for QS (Liberals won with 18.039). However, Nelligan is far more French than my district, as evidenced by the Parti-Quebecois coming in second there with 14% of the vote (in both my district and D'Arcy-McGee, the Green Party comes in second place by virtue of it serving as a dumping ground for the votes of frustrated Anglos (such as my parental units - though my mother says she would almost voted Quebec Solidaire at the last minute and would have had she known a little more about it).   

The district of D'arcy-McGee (Cote-Saint-Luc/Hampstead) had the lowest number of votes for QS (264), but it accounted for 0.2% more of the vote there. However, the vote there was close to unanimous, with 89% of the vote going to the Liberals; the Green and the Part Quebecois (PQ) breaking with 4.2 and 4.0; the Action Democratique Quebec (ADQ) and Quebec Solidaire both with less than 2% each. My district still had Green and the Part Quebecois breaking with 7.5 and 6.2 and ADQ with 3.9. Hampstead in D'Arcy-McGee is one of the absolute richest towns in all of Canada (and about 84% Jewish) and is well known for being the Alamo of Federalism in Quebec.

Where my sister and Rosad vote, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, things are not as monochromatic - the victorious party (the Parti-Quebecois) took only 55% of the vote. The Liberals came in 2nd place with 21% and Quebec Solidaire had 13%. ADQ managed 6.7% and the Greens the remaining 4.2%. One corner of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve touches the Mercier riding where Amir Khadir won his seat...so perhaps it might spread?

These are my own calculations based on the the numbers that were in the morning paper..so precision is unlikely, though I believe the depiction of events is accurate.

[matthew]

for tripp.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZtOAf7MaOZM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ZtOAf7MaOZM</a>

Anyone who feels good and desires to feel worse can also use a Santanic Application, his song with That Guy From Matchbox 20 and That Christian Rock Song He Did With That Guy From Nickelback are highly recommended.

[Bizarro]

Won't get Yuled Again (The who vs. Whoville, mashup).

[matthew]

erm............................................................................................yeah

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6g4Yb4saA7Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/6g4Yb4saA7Y</a>

(perhaps less disturbing than hockey bear)

[captqitn]

 

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[Doctor Rock]

I can't go to that inn, my dick's too small!

[Doctor Rock]

It's quite rare that the english-canadians who post on the internet on subjects related to Quebec bother to say something intelligent.  Their comments usually oscillate between indifference and bigotry.  In fact, it's so rare that they say something intelligent that I immediately take notice when I read a comment that doesn't smell of resentment and prejudice.  I read such a comment today, and it so impressed me that I am going to the great trouble of copying and pasting this particular comment, so that you can appreciate it with me.  Here it is:

"Am I the only person in English Canada who supports the Quebecois right to self-determination? I don't understand why the rest of you are so imperialistic. I never see any rational argument for why Quebec should remain in Canada, just a knee jerk reaction, that underscores the belief that Canada as an entity in inviolable.

A nation is defined as a collection of people with a common language, history, customs and culture. Under this definition Quebec is clearly a nation. Indeed Quebec is more clearly a nation than Canada is. While I do support Quebec's right to independence, I do think the best solution is a bi-national confederation. An arrangement much like that of nations within the European Union."

Right on, dude, whoever you are! 

[Doctor Rock]

Yep, yep, yep...










Snowy over here. 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

bi-national