Why Marmot Days?.. Good question.. Lots of witty, or unusual, or definitive titles out there, but as I live on Vancouver Island, in Canada's beautiful British Columbia Province, we have an endangered species known as Marmots [a little like groundhogs, or prairie dogs, elsewhere]. Being retired, I moved here from Ontario, some 12 years ago, and have never regretted it.
I can identify with the endangered species tag, as I feel that in this politically correct world, that is what I have become. In any event more about this in a later entry. Currently, I am quite interested in many of the Conservative bloggers and others who try to tell it like it really is, instead of how politicians, liberals, and the media try to spin it.
The current election campaign is a turning point for Canada and the Canadian way of life that I grew up with, as I see it. I have worked for Government Companies, Large corporations, small businesses, and been a consultant for many decades. I have had dealings and been a member [forced] of a union. I have seen many a person rise to the level of their incompetence, and good, intelligent, skilled individuals, fall by the wayside of office politics. Amazing that the country functions at all, given the declining capability of the average younger adult and students to understand and use the language.
Enough rambling for the moment, other priorities call, like catching the latest PBS, Discovery, or one of the other few interesting shows on the 'idiot box'..
Okay, back now.. I have been reading a lot of interesting election news, not seen or mentioned in the Media, relative to the Liberals, and more investigations into the last decade of corrupt Canadian politics.. Why this has been ignored by the apathetic public for so long is beyond me. I guess it's a case of 'I'm alright, Jack', and 'better the devil you know'.. but I continue to hope, [perhaps without foundation], that right will eventually win out, and someday we will actually have the government we need, rather than the ones we keep voting into power. Perhaps, this time, if the Conservatives [Reform, Alliance] get elected, there is still a chance.
I can identify with the endangered species tag, as I feel that in this politically correct world, that is what I have become. In any event more about this in a later entry. Currently, I am quite interested in many of the Conservative bloggers and others who try to tell it like it really is, instead of how politicians, liberals, and the media try to spin it.
The current election campaign is a turning point for Canada and the Canadian way of life that I grew up with, as I see it. I have worked for Government Companies, Large corporations, small businesses, and been a consultant for many decades. I have had dealings and been a member [forced] of a union. I have seen many a person rise to the level of their incompetence, and good, intelligent, skilled individuals, fall by the wayside of office politics. Amazing that the country functions at all, given the declining capability of the average younger adult and students to understand and use the language.
Enough rambling for the moment, other priorities call, like catching the latest PBS, Discovery, or one of the other few interesting shows on the 'idiot box'..
Okay, back now.. I have been reading a lot of interesting election news, not seen or mentioned in the Media, relative to the Liberals, and more investigations into the last decade of corrupt Canadian politics.. Why this has been ignored by the apathetic public for so long is beyond me. I guess it's a case of 'I'm alright, Jack', and 'better the devil you know'.. but I continue to hope, [perhaps without foundation], that right will eventually win out, and someday we will actually have the government we need, rather than the ones we keep voting into power. Perhaps, this time, if the Conservatives [Reform, Alliance] get elected, there is still a chance.
posted by BC-Bear | 12/28/2005 01:10:00 p.m.
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