This makes sense to me. My book Kicking Ass was released on 9/11. It didn’t do very well. People wanted to escape from reality.
I suspect the same thing’s happening again. Some will want to immerse themselves in the tragedy: as many, or more, will want to escape.
With the world ending in a week or so, it’s time to take stock of things.
Because it is, in fact, ending. Ask my son. He’s in the middle of exams, and he has no doubts whatsoever about the imminent Apocalypse.
“Dad, there’s no point in me writing any exams. The world is ending on Dec. 21. Check out the Mayan calendar.”
Dec. 21, 2012, as you perhaps know, marks the end of a 5,000-year Mayan calendar cycle.
According to the now-departed tall foreheads in that ancient Mayan culture, the cycle that commenced in 3114 B.C. will conclude on Friday, the day the world ends.
You may laugh, but lots of folks have set up Doomsday Clubs to mark the occasion, thereby providing themselves with an excellent opportunity to party hearty.
Five countries — Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — plan festivities to mark the End Time, too.
So, it’s ending.
Nice knowing you, etc.
As such, it is time to reflect on what will be missed, politically, and what won’t.
Politicians and political stuff we’ll miss:
Um. Well, that part was easy. But what about things we won’t miss so much?
That list is longer.
– The Harper government. They didn’t see the global recession coming, and they denied it when it arrived. They got us into a structural deficit.
They promised accountability, but have been more secretive than the Star Chamber.
They promised ethics, then later pleaded guilty to breaking election laws — and are back in Federal Court this week on charges they cheated in six ridings in 2011’s election.
They are arrogant, thuggish and increasingly unpopular. They are a Biblical pestilence. They won’t be missed.
– Jason Kenney. He detests multiculturalism, quite a few immigrants and an impressive number of his fellow citizens, too.
He says fellow Tories are “dishonest and hypocritical” for participating in a parliamentary pension plan, then spent $750,000 monitoring himself in ethnic media.
He called Serbian ethnic cleansing “modest,” albeit compared to Saddam’s genocide in Iraq.
He compares legal abortions “child abuse” and “slavery.”
He says Sikhs can get “overheated” and “use the race card.”
Buh-bye, Jason. See you on the other side — or not.
– Bev Oda. She spent $5,500 to take limousines to the Juno Awards. Later, she was caught spending another $15,000 on limos. She was facing a parliamentary inquiry for altering a government document.
She spent $665 a night at a swank London hotel, and bought orange juice at $16 a glass. Gone, but not forgotten. Not forgiven, either.
– The F-35 fighter jets. Michael Ignatieff warned them, but they didn’t listen. He said the nearly $50 billion price tag was a waste of taxpayers’ money and the sole-sourcing was a mistake. The former Liberal leader said he’d cancel the purchase; the Cons insisted they wouldn’t. They’ve now cancelled it. Hasta la vista, F-35s.
– The goddamn “Action Plan” ads. Newsflash! The recession ended. Despite that, the Conservatives continue to spend more than
$55 million on government propaganda, mostly in the form of those ubiquitous campaign-style “Action Plan” TV spots. Harper promised to spend less on government advertising. He didn’t. A disgrace.
– The Senate. It’s an unelected, anti-democratic abomination. Harper once famously said “the upper house remains a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the prime minister,” and he seemed to mean it. Now he’s turned it into “a dumping ground for favoured cronies,” of, er, him. Shame.
We could go on — Sen. Patrick Brazeau, listeria and tainted beef, Bruce Carson, robocalls — but we’ve run out of room.
Run out of time, too, apparently.
But I remind my son: Exams are still on.
Get back to the books.
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…because that, in and of itself, is quite interesting. They issued the limp attack piece below – helpfully edited by Your Humble Narrator – within minutes of Sandra making her Economic Club speech earlier today. They haven’t done that with any other Ontario Liberal leadership candidate. Not one of them.
Why? Because she’s the only one who can beat them, that’s why.
The release, with helpful edits, gratis:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 13th, 2012
Sandra Pupatello’s Plan for the Economy – BLAH BLAH
QUEEN’S PARK – Sandra Pupatello’s recently released economic policies are not “the plan forward” but rather a “BLAH BLAH BLAH plan” that will not BLAH BLAH BLAH, Ontario PC MPP Monte McNaughton said today.
“Pupatello’s “plan” does not make a single mention of BLAH BLAH BLAH,” McNaughton said. “Ontario families want to see a government that is focused on BLAH BLAH the economy, but BLAH BLAH BLAH Sandra Pupatello.”
“She sat at the cabinet table and BLAH BLAH to BLAH and the BLAH BLAH policies that BLAH BLAH BLAH. Just imagine what Ontario’s economy will look like if she is at the helm of a Pupatello-McGuinty government.”(ED.: well, okay. We like it.)
“Pupatello has BLAH BLAH to fix the economy and her idea of economic recovery is BLAH that the McGuinty Liberals have BLAH BLAH,” said McNaughton. “Today’s announcement demonstrated that Pupatello is BLAH BLAH BLAH. BLAH BLAH with Pupatello at the helm.”
“Sandra Pupatello is BLAH BLAH BLAH. She will be remembered as BLAH BLAH,” concluded McNaughton.
Contact: Christine BLAHjold | (416) 325-1330 | christine.bujold@pc.ola.org
Just got back from her speech to a packed house at the Economic Club of Canada. It was really, really good. Tory friends came up to me and said they now plan to vote for her, no less.
You can read it here. And you should.
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That’s me. I have the same square jaw, too.
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