And I still support the name change for Dors, er, Stock.
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On 12/10/2003 at 9:09 AM Andrew Dacey wrote:
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>From: "Mike" <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:01 PM
>Subject: [OM] Re: ( OM ) OT OT Mike Moore OT OT and guns
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>> Can't be more convoluted than Canadian parties. I'll give you a synopsis
>> since I am an unbiased observer from a foreign country ;>) Let's see,
>> The Liberals aren't liberal, at least not in BC. The Alliance wasn't
>> allied until this week and now they are just confused. The Progressives
>> are about the opposite of progressive, even more so if they ally with
>> the Alliance. That leaves the NDP, definitely not "new" anything.
>> Anyone hear from them lately?
>
>Not too bad, but you've left out a couple of the more amusing parts of this
>whole dance.
>
>We had the conservatives, they merged with the progressives to form the
>progressive conservatives (many years ago, not sure when). The Reform party
>was a much more recent addition to the political scene. Around 5-6 years
>ago
>they became the Canadian Reform Alliance Party which was quickly renamed to
>the Canadian Alliance when they realized that calling their party the CRAP
>probably wouldn't garner much political support.
>
>The first leader of the Alliance was Stockwell Day. Part of his political
>platform was that Canadian politics should reflect the views of the people
>more and that if enough people would support an idea that it should be put
>to a referendum. The humourous outcome of this was that the sattirical show
>"This Hour Has 22 Minutes" was actually able to collect enough names
>supporting that Stockwell Day should legally change his first name to
>Doris.
>
>Andrew "frugal" Dacey
>frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.tildefrugal.net/
>
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