Election Two

One of the things people outside of Michigan may not know is that there are two major elections going on. One is the Obama/McCain slugfest of competing world views. The other is the Harper/Dion/Layton and whoever that odd Green Party Lady is donnybrook. Huh, I hear a number of you say.

Michigan by virtue of our proximity to a thin dotted line is barely separated from Canada, the Great White North. Right now they are about a week away from a national parliamentary election. The polls indicate a fractured electorate and in most likelihood a minority government. Minority government rule is an interesting topic in the poltical science milieu, but if you have an interest in its nuances look it up when you have a moment. I refuse to bore you with such arcane.

Still I like the odds there better than here. In Canada there is only one conservative party (it took them a few years of turmoil to get there) and three liberal parties. Given my leftist leanings Canada with three left leaning parties, one a variant of the left wing our Democratic party, the next an actual good old fashioned socialist party and the last a bunch of really, really far left even beyond the pale of my support wackos, is kind of like nirvana. Thus I follow there politics. Also I own property there and it is free and clear and if our economy implodes at least one economic choice I made will have been a good one.

If you need a break from our weirdness please check out their weirdness. One of my favorite spots is a program called the Hour’s attempts to lure the Prime Minister on for a political discussion with the promise of a free kitten. Here is the link although embedding does not seem to work real well on this blog, http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/blog/2008/10/harper_bait_08.html You may have to cut and paste.