A Megaman-inspired rock opera. Al, I think I've found your new favourite band:

The Protomen - Light Up The Night

It's surprising how many people I've talked to who are seriously torn over who they are voting for this election. I really hope it translates into a significantly higher voter turnout than usual.

Given how the most recent polls look, if you fail to vote today you will be indirectly responsible for allowing a party with no grasp of the consequences of their actions into power. It's illegal to tell a person how to vote, but the consequences of this election will probably throw this province back 50 years in the way they think.

A wildrose polster called my girlfriend's parents' house last night. We were eating dinner naturally. They asked first to speak with my girlfriend's dad and brother. When told they weren't home, they then asked to speak with my girlfriend's mom or my girlfriend. Form your own opinions on that one, but I say the bigotry is built into the party from top to bottom. I honestly wish the election was a week from now because I don't think we've scratched the surface of that kind of thinking coming from the Wildrose.

Please please go do something about it today.

and this one too.

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bahahaha!

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One day I want to ride a mototrcycle just as good as this:

The Good Natured-Wolves

um... so, if you were standing in a public square and suddenly a police chase brought you within 10 feet of an armed stand-off and exchange of bullets, would you try to hide?

Not these people...
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I realise it's complete cheese, but there are some things that just don't seem plausible, even as flash mobs. That or most people are just too dumb to react when their lives are "in danger".

Includes three current party leaders (and one potential new premier. Crazy:

I know I'm a bit late to the conversation, but some of what teachers purchase for the classroom is often what they consider necessary classroom equiptment. For example, one of the Physics teachers at my highschool purchased each piece of lab equiptment himself (gravitron, tesla-coil, etc.) because the school's budget for equiptment was very limited. Most teachers I know, across all the teaching disciplines, have done something similar to one extent or another.

Oh, and I completely agree Par - the platform documents are almost surprisingly unhelpful.

Hmm, fair enough. I guess after trying to read through all the party platforms, that point hit really high on the "Promote Good Things Everyone Thinks are Good" and "Give More Money to More People" meters. There's a lot for both those things, but few platform points that hit both of them.

I don't know if anyone else has gone through them, but they are profoundly unhelpful documents. There are a few big ideas in the NDP and Liberal plans (zero tuition?). The PCs want to keep things roughly the same with some tweaks. And the Wildrose is kind of libertarian (there's a lot of "get government out of the way" rhetoric mixed in with some painting over of social conservatism.) Oh, and the Alberta party thinks everyone has good ideas and we should stop fighting so much and implement good ideas.

Does anyone have a positive motivation in voting this year, or is it just a "stop the Wildrose" year?