Apolitical Staples

Go vote for Mike Harris at this stupid liblog “Greatest Premier” poll. He’s in second right now! http://www.demochoice.org/dcballot.php?norot=on&poll=Ontario

Yes Greg go vote for Mike. That will make him great. God knows his record didn’t.

But you miss the point entirely, Socialist Greg. Entirely. There are only two possible purposes for voting in such a poll - 1. to publicly affirm and reinforce your own bias; or 2. to inflame persons not of like mind by sabotaging their poll.

Clearly, of course, only the second reason is legitimate.

Sorry for spamming the discussion by getting back to the original topic but …

Watching Canadians debate the merits of socialist health care is like listening to a bunch of six-year-olds discuss the existence of Santa Claus. They’re smart enough to know that nothing in life is free, that you have to either earn something or steal it, but emotionally they’re just not ready to tear themselves away from the fantasy of a huge city at the north pole in which millions of elves magically produce billions of toys and instantaneously deliver to every boy and girl everything that they could reasonably request.

The six-year-old arguments break down as follows:

“Two tiered Christmas is a pretty good idea - rich kids’ parents buy them toys at department stores and that way the elves will have more time to make toys for everyone else.”

“In the cartoon pages I read the other day that France has really great Christmases put on by the elves, which pretty much proves that Santa exists.”

“If you’re trying to tell me that the belief in Santa Claus irritates non-Christian kids to the point of violence then you can shove your department-store theory of Christmas and I’ll just go back to writing letters to Kris Kringle, thank you very much.”

“I’m not saying the elf theory of Christmas is right, and I’m not saying that department stores are bad, so I’m going to disguise my turbulent feelings by making obscure comments about buying and selling children and making people do stuff against their will, that way I won’t have to commit one way or another and Santa will keep coming to my house.”

No one really cares that much about health care. I never hear anybody talking about it, to tell you the truth, unless they are actually waiting for surgery, or have died waiting for surgery and been caused great inconvenience and expense as a result. Dead people are so whiny.

Paco,

It’s just a fun little competition being organized by the CalgaryGrit. He’s a good man, so why run him down?