Day 12 of the Federalection - H vs. H, ep II

Haught vs. Naught Episode II - Election version

Double Naught - Conservative Agricultural Minister Gerry Ritz for his comments regarding the 12 terrible listeria deaths and if Liberal MP Wayne Easter was one of them. Funny? Yes, but because it was in bad taste at a very poor time ... like um... during an election, he was obviously smart to apologize immediately, but this story has a few days legs in the media. Conservatives will drop 1-2 points as a result and have no hope in PEI and perhaps other Maritime ridings of winning.

Naught - Conservatives. After a strong week, their lead is slipping in key ridings. The above comment won't help. But if they stay focused with key daily policy announcements and good fuzzy ads, a majority is still a possibility. I believe Harper will easily win the debate as everyone will gang up on him, but he being cool and calm, he will look ...well. .. cool and calm.

Haught - All parties for releasing policy platforms that truly define who they are. But the Greens and NDP are looking awfully similar (Bloc too). But as Warren Kinsella said, "campaigns are about emotions", so only if these platforms translate into positive warm fuzzy feelings about the future, then they translate into actual votes. But why does everyone but the Conservatives want to raise the GST? Even when they say they'll lower income taxes, I don't think anyone believes any of them.

Haught - Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer for hosting a party this Saturday. Looking forward to it. A good way to get people out to then motivate them to hammer some signs. Rahim's a great guy and stellar MP.

Haught - Two blogs that kicks ass: Warren Kinsella's Daily Musings, especially his "Warren At Arms Length" vlog, and Steve Janke's "Angry In The Great White North", who's attention to detail is amazing, how he's got Liberal MP Garth Turner on his toes, slams Dion whenever he gets the chance with hard cold facts, but how he finds the time is beyond me.

I'm now also pondering on adding some video to this blog using my old Canon 3.2Mp camera.

Day 4 of the Federalection - Haught vs. Naught version

Hatrock's Haught vs. Naught is back. If you didn't know, it's a muse on CTV's Jane Taber's Who's Hot and Not feature, but it's my version.

So a quick NAUGHT: CTV Election 2008 "Racebook" website leader profile pictures. Could you have picked worse photos? Didn't think so.

HAUGHT: Green Party leader Elizabeth May for being included in the televised debates because Jack Layton and Stephen Harper changed their minds and she didn't give up.

HAUGHT: Jack Layton and Stephen Harper for changing their minds on this. I was on the fence on this one but the latest poll shows the Greens bleeding votes mostly from Liberals as a "catch all" alternative to the Liberals, so smart strategy. And have you seen Elizabeth May talk at a podium yet? You're in for a treat.

HAUGHT: Stephen Harper for ending the Afghanistan debate. We're pulling out in 2011. Next question.

HAUGHT(naught?): Stephen Harper's remarks that he'd rather be a fruit.

HAUGHT: Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for staying neutral in this election.

NAUGHT: Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach for not staying neutral. Shut the f**k up!

NAUGHT: Has-been prime ministers Clark, Turner, Campbell, and Martin on promoting climate change solutions. Does anyone care? Next. (Nice try Dion?)

In America:

HAUGHT: McCain-Palin. Big jump in the polls as white women move to Palin and independents leaning McCain. Can Obama counteract?

HAUGHT: Democratic Senatorial candidate and comedian, Al Franken for clinching the nomination in MinnesOta.

NAUGHT: Joe Biden for his crafty implied comments regarding Gov. Sarah Palin special needs child. Obama, you'd be best to muzzle the guy, but don't say some didn't warn ya when you picked him.

The Return of "Haught vs. Naught"

Haught vs. Naught #6

(Where the "gh" is silent")

For starters, here's the archive of H vs. N from 2006:
http://hatrockscave.blogspot.com/2006/04/haught-vs-naught.html
http://hatrockscave.blogspot.com/2006/04/haught-vs-naught-no-2.html
http://hatrockscave.blogspot.com/2006/05/haught-vs-naught-3.html
http://hatrockscave.blogspot.com/2006/05/haught-vs-naught-4.html
http://hatrockscave.blogspot.com/2006/06/haught-vs-naught-5.html

It's interesting to read the happenings of our parliament back then, just over a year ago. No one remembers any of that, do they? Did you? I totally forgot.

Without further adieu:

Haught:

The weather -- North America is undergoing a significant heatwave, including Edmonton. Kelowna is super haught. Here in Kansas, it's terribly hot and humid. Las Vegas is way up in the cent-teens (115F). Crazy. Listen for Kyoto krazed environazis calling it global warming. But being on recent holidays in the Okanagan and noticing the summer activity in Kansas, I'd say that everyone is enjoying it.

But perhaps external factors are causing this to happen, not just on earth, but everywhere in our solar system and others. In fact, maybe our solar system isn't even part of the Milky Way as we had originally thought. Welcome to Earth, part of the Sun solar system, which is in the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (S-DEG). Cool. Er .. I mean HAUGHT!

The Canadian electorate -- It doesn't appear that we have to endure another silly summer in politics. Harper tends to avoid it and prefers the dirty burgers. Dion probably won't "bite either". Stampede was full of political hob-nobbing, but nothing pie-tacular happened. Watch Jack Layton speak and get more attention from the media as a result, but if an orange NDP tree falls in the forest, does anyone hear? Voters are haught for not listening to it and the rest of the politico and getting on with real life.

Naught:

Shawn Hennessey & Dennis Cheeseman -- Two Mayerthorpe jerks in cohoots with James Rozko to kill four RCMP. Shameful.

Conrad Black -- Guilty. But I could care less. Why do others?

Jean Lafleur -- Guilty. 45 months. Ouch. So far, no Liberals have been convicted as far as I know.

Federal Liberals -- How many more Liberals are going to announce they're not running next election or jump ship? How much in debt are their former leadership hopefuls, including current leader? Ouch. I bet they all wait until they can write all this off.