We've got the numbers.
Monday/05 October 2009
Have you
noticed that our elected politicians will do anything to stay in
power? Does staying in power mean more to most of them than
integrity and being true servants of the common good, or am I
missing something?
I gander that most of them have become centrists, gravitating towards the middle because they hope to score the biggest helping of votes. Naturally, this increases our boredom about what they do. Add that to the national embarrassment known as "Question Period" and you have a recipe for voter apathy, disinterest and demoralization.
The billblog sees it as its duty to inform you that it is one of the great illusions of our times that the issue of power is settled in elections. Good grief, no. Politicians choose on the basis of their perception of public opinion more often than not. Remember, to them it's all about winning the next election. This is even more evident in these years of minority governments. Plainly now, they are insecure. They seek the warm fuzzies of voter love. I ask you then, why be silent when they beg for your views?
So vote often with your phone and your computer. Vote today, tomorrow and the next day.
Look, voting has never been easier. Pick up the phone and punch in the telephone number of the Prime Minister. Of course you can only leave a message but that's okay. Hundreds of people phoning about Canada's insanely huge per capita carbon footprint is bound to get some attention. Thousands phoning in? Tens of thousands? I rest my case. Not a bad strategy when you think about it, eh?
And here we are, mere weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change and mere days before the October 24 International Day of Action. Perfect time for voting, say, a dozen or so times? Just saying ...
For example, there was this pre-Copenhagen gathering of approximately 100 leaders at the UN recently. They were working on climate change issues. PM Harper skipped it to attend a photo op with the Mayor of New York City. Other nations notice Canada's delinquent ways. Where's a rock we can hide under. Or, better yet, where's a telephone? Where's a computer?
To make things easy for you now and into the future, I have put links to the contact info of the PM and the whole gaggle of Members of the Canadian Parliament on the sidebar of the billblog. You can find it there anytime you wish to vote. Let them know how you feel and what you think. Do it often. Let us show PM Harper the inmost rectum of our carbon-fearing angst. Oh sorry about the rich language. You know. One of those moments. The billblog humbly apologizes.
Yes there are many online petitions. The billblog encourages the signing of them but feels that individual emails, letters, faxes and phone calls may carry more impact.
The stakes are high. The billblog sends out this call to arms, er, that is, to telephones and computers. Chaaaarrrrrge!
They got the guns. We got the numbers.
- Jim Morrison
I gander that most of them have become centrists, gravitating towards the middle because they hope to score the biggest helping of votes. Naturally, this increases our boredom about what they do. Add that to the national embarrassment known as "Question Period" and you have a recipe for voter apathy, disinterest and demoralization.
The billblog sees it as its duty to inform you that it is one of the great illusions of our times that the issue of power is settled in elections. Good grief, no. Politicians choose on the basis of their perception of public opinion more often than not. Remember, to them it's all about winning the next election. This is even more evident in these years of minority governments. Plainly now, they are insecure. They seek the warm fuzzies of voter love. I ask you then, why be silent when they beg for your views?
So vote often with your phone and your computer. Vote today, tomorrow and the next day.
Look, voting has never been easier. Pick up the phone and punch in the telephone number of the Prime Minister. Of course you can only leave a message but that's okay. Hundreds of people phoning about Canada's insanely huge per capita carbon footprint is bound to get some attention. Thousands phoning in? Tens of thousands? I rest my case. Not a bad strategy when you think about it, eh?
And here we are, mere weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change and mere days before the October 24 International Day of Action. Perfect time for voting, say, a dozen or so times? Just saying ...
For example, there was this pre-Copenhagen gathering of approximately 100 leaders at the UN recently. They were working on climate change issues. PM Harper skipped it to attend a photo op with the Mayor of New York City. Other nations notice Canada's delinquent ways. Where's a rock we can hide under. Or, better yet, where's a telephone? Where's a computer?
To make things easy for you now and into the future, I have put links to the contact info of the PM and the whole gaggle of Members of the Canadian Parliament on the sidebar of the billblog. You can find it there anytime you wish to vote. Let them know how you feel and what you think. Do it often. Let us show PM Harper the inmost rectum of our carbon-fearing angst. Oh sorry about the rich language. You know. One of those moments. The billblog humbly apologizes.
Yes there are many online petitions. The billblog encourages the signing of them but feels that individual emails, letters, faxes and phone calls may carry more impact.
The stakes are high. The billblog sends out this call to arms, er, that is, to telephones and computers. Chaaaarrrrrge!
They got the guns. We got the numbers.
- Jim Morrison
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The Mackenzie Jones Band Rides
Again
In case you didn't notice, in the billblog's sidebar, the Featured
Music Track is another gem by Adam Jones and his band, The
Mackenzie Jones Band. Don't leave this page without a listen.
And In
The News
Apple Quits US Chamber of Commerce Over Climate
Change
Alexandra
Morton At the Salmon Rally, Vancouver BC
