Milton Bradleys Federal Game
Ahhh yes, so yet another federal election has come and gone. All the squabble between whose the biggest idiot, whose less of a liar, but most importantly, showing us that democracy in action doesnt necessarily work.
Here in Canada, we vote on a system based on population. Each province has a certain amount of seats in parliment depending on the provinces population. Sounds simple enough. Now, the name of the game for each party in Canada is to win as many seats as possible. Call it, kind of a game of Monopoly. Who can get the most property in order to screw his other opponents. Now the party who wins the most seats becomes the government, and the leader becomes Prime Minister. Think of him as the little Monopoly guy with the monicle and top hat. He pretty much controls most of what happens and (most of the time) has the final say. As for the rest of the parties, they become the opposition. Think of them as the sore losers who have to sit in jail across from the Monopoly guy.
So we got our game set up now: LETS PLAY!
Canada's Government Monopoly!Now, unfortunately for our system, the winner doesnt necessarily get total control. We can have what is known as "A Monority Government". Basically says that the Monopoly guy won, buuuuuut not by much. Where the government still needs the support of at least one other party from the opposition to get any laws passed at all. Basically, in our game up here, its saying, "how can I get what I want and still keep them from getting what they want." . Think of this situation when your about 2 spots away from your little strip of hotels, but still have to get over two spots that you dont own. You have to convince the guy who owns it not to charge you money. Basically its the same with our laws. You cant win unless someone helps you.
Unfotunately, in the game of Monopoly at least. More often than not, we all end up blowing all our cash on one stupid purchase, and we all wind up having to start over. The purchase that did the Liberals in you ask? The sponsorship scandal.
How about the Conservatives? Are they any better? Hard to say, but give them time, im sure that we'll find something to over dramatise in the next election campaign. Cause the way things are set up now, look for the guys in jail to be planning a way to screw us into, yet, one more election within the next 18 months.
This is Falcon, signing off.
Ingus and Dingus
A concert has been announced in your area. It turns out to be one of your favorite bands. So you get up at the crack of dawn the day that tickets go on sale, you straggle out of your house, and you stand in line for a couple of hours to get your well deserved tickets as soon as they go on sale. Now all you have to do is wait.
Concert day arrives, again, you get there early to be sure to avoid any sort of rush. You find your great seats, and just wait for your band to come out and do what you came there to see them do, put on a great show. Sure, you have to wait through maybe one or two opening bands, but hey, they were still decent right?
Finally, the main event comes on stage the lights go out and... Ingus and Dingus beside you light up a dube. Now, i could really care less if people like that enjoy wasting there hard earned money on some weed, but I really dont need it when im at a concert. I also know that rock and drugs go hand in hand. blah blah blah I dont care. I hate it when i have to sit close to two or more people sharing some drag weed. I did not come to this concert to smell the scent of mary jane and listen to the annecdotes of Ingus telling Dingus that he hasnt seen his feet since he put his shoes on. I got enough of that from the guy in front of me in my english class last year.
So please, if you gotta get high at a concert, go to the rest rooms, get high before you come but please, dont do it next to me.
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Finish What You Start
In today's society it seems that people just give up. If something seems to hard, people just quit. I, personally, just cant stand quitting. I hate it when they give up on something they worked so hard on. I saw this all the time when I was in my Construction Classes.
Now, its not like this class was hard to begin with (Just hand in a project that looked like more than a wooden box with four nails in it and you generally got 75%-80%). People would have these ideas like a nice oak table, or a spectacular cherry bookcase and they just wouldn't finish it. Why you ask? According to them, it was "A lot harder than it looked". So this project just sat there for the rest of the semester, knowing full well it was destined for scrap or the dumpster. What a way to go, start out as this great plan, end up the missing piece of a beavers wall.
Now, I don't bring this up to go back in time and talk about what happened in my high school days (Lord knows I get enough of that already). I bring this up cause it pains me to see someone put their projects on hold. We live in a time where we all want things done in a micro-second otherwise we dont want it done at all. Maybe we need to revisit the times when mail took at least a month to get from overseas to our business; maybe we need to go back to when the fastest car on earth could only go 100 mph and maybe, just maybe, we need to slow down how long we expect something to get fixed. Cause just cause its broke now, doesnt mean if you work at it, it wont work later.
This is Falcon, signing off.
Well Here We Are
Welcome folks to my blog! I guess ive decided to conform to this ever growing blog craze. I will do my best to keep you guys posted on my ever changing worldly thoughts, I still have to figure a few things out so i can make my page "ever so cool" *laughs*. Anyhoo, like i said, i will be doing my best to keep this place updated so take care everyone!
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