yeah... I know

So the blanket really is coming along. No, really. It's been tough to get to it, even though the baby is due any day, between trying to keep things running at home, the puppies and managing the other blogs/podcasts. The election nonsense in both Canada and the US lately is also distracting, not always in a bad way. Let's face it, the Canadian election was an utter sham. Stephen Harper broke a law he created in a bald faced attempt to get a majority when poll numbers told him it was possible. How did the poll numbers go up? The 2 month plus campaign before the election was called, where the Tories ran tv ads and sent out numerous mailers (on your dime) to tear down Stephane Dion and the Liberals was the height of scummy politics, the likes of which this country has never seen. Where was the outrage? Where was the rejection? No, people decided that in the midst of a financial tsunami that has this country being dragged into recession by our intertwined economic relationship with the US, that being "tough on youth crime" was more important. Well 37 odd percent of the 59% of the voting public did. That's no mandate. This country is headed for disaster and all of you who bought the slick, American style campaign of the Tories should hang your heads in shame for enabling it. Mark my words, kids... dark days are ahead. In the US, the disgusting and pathetic last gasps of the Conservative movement have led to their most heinous and desperate ploys yet. Lies so far out of touch with reality, and speeches carefully crafted to light the fires of racism and intolerance. Even a wave of calling Obama, the Democrats and any area behind them as Un-American. It's been said that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. To see the generation of elder Americans angrily repeating Republican talking points that Obama is a (socialist/muslim/arab/communist/terrorist) and the horrifying racism rearing it's head in a country that has struggled to heal from it's shameful past show that racism never went away. It just waited to be given the signal it was safe to crawl out from under the rock.

To my American friends, be you knitters or metalheads, a plea: Please vote Democrat, and show the world you reject his hateful, ignorant, backwards, intolerant movement that is Conservatism. If you're a metalhead, you should be terrified at the thought of Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away from the Presidency. If you think for a moment that this extremely hardcore religious activist will not attack our music, you're more ignorant than she is. Stand up. Fight for freedom of speech. Send her back to Alaska, where hopefully they will find her guilty of ethics violations and throw her and her redneck husband in jail where they belong.