read: http://decima.com/en/pdf/news_releases/050719E.pdf

I was doing my usual readover of all of the polling sites recently, and I ran across this research poll which was amazing and exciting at the same time. The Green party right now has committed support of 3% of the electorate with an additional 6% saying that they will likely vote green the next election.

What’s particularly interesting is the fact that 34% of the electorate are saying that they are unlikely to vote green, but are willing to consider. Which is a major shift from having the green party viewed as a radical party to it becoming a mainstream one. If they handle this correctly, we may actually have a Lib/NDP/Green minority government in parliament next election. Heck, even having 1 or 2 Green party members in parliament could really change the political climate in this country. (And probably start to sound the death knell for the Cons.)

Either way, this poll is probably one of the most exciting new polls I’ve seen in a while, and it definitely has made me look once more over the Green party platform and debate whether I should vote for them or not in the next election. The weird thing is, unlike what I expected (Being a rather mainstream voter), the Green party platform is very sensible and pretty much what I would like to see from a party that is centrist with left tendencies regarding "green" policies. No wonder their potential is so high.

For those of your interested, the Green party is http://green.ca/ , the NDP party is http://ndp.ca and the liberal party was posted below in another article.

If anyone here knows an active Green party member, I would love to hear from them and hear their views regarding a lot of the issues. Maybe even write up a blog based on our discussion.

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see: http://liberal.ca/default_e.aspx specifically the graphic at the top

I was looking at the liberal party’s new design on their website, and I have only one comment. Is it just me or does it not look like paul martin has a bunch of phalluses being waved around him with the word liberal written on it? Especially that one on the lower right, it even has the shaping at the top that looks like a bellend.

After seeing this on the Liberals site and what I saw on the Cons site, I really think both of these parties need to hire someone somewhat sane to do their websites, or at least someone who wouldn’t put something blatantly incorrect on their site, or something that looks really really… um… oddly phallic.

The fact they are flashing just makes it that much worse, and yet somewhat mesmerizing… Vote Liberal… we have little phallic symbols that flash around with our name written on it. Vote Liberal… watch our flashing phalluses… Vote liberal… we have…

Must… vote… Liberal…

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goto: http://www.conservative.ca/1209/11950/

or http://secure.conservative.ca/EN/1033/

Specifically read upper right hand corner where it says: "This is a secured site" . Now if you understand how SSL works with your browser, go and look at where it would really tell you if it’s secure or not. If you don’t, notice the fact that both of these sites are http, not https’. What’s even funnier is that the top one, if you click on proceed gives you a bad certificate for www.snakeoil.dom, the bottom one on the other hand seems to be fine (it then actually goes to a secure site) after you click proceed. Note: the top one is a link from http://marriagecanada.ca site and the bottom one is the link that the conservatives have on their main page to join.

You know, I wonder how hard it would be for them to have things actually secure without having to be dishonest to people who join their ranks that "THIS IS A SECURED SITE". It’s probably just a header on the secure.conservative.ca website, but if that’s so, then why not relink the initial link to it so it uses https right from the get-go. The other link from the marriagecanada.ca site is just creepy, considering it uses a bad certificate, does not match the real "join us" link, and well, a long list of other oddities. If anyone knows a person who works on the Conservative website, I highly recommend they look into that.

This is just incredible, but what else do you expect from the Cons.

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"The chief aim of their constitution and government is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life."

– Thomas More, Utopia

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So yeah, went off to Club Abstract tonight in my brand new punkish gothlike shirt and sweet jeans. While dancing, and meeting someone whom I did not expect to run into, I had a lot of strange epiphanies which I have not really had in a while. Some which may actually change things, and some which were just useful to have.

For one, I have to admit this is the first time I have gone out in a long time where I have not been drunk or even really intoxicated. After 2 drinks, I switched to bottled water, more because I felt like dancing than because I wanted to "party", for lack of better words. So yeah, but even then I had a chance to ponder things while sweating like mad (The air conditioning was not working), and dancing like crazy to some great retro music. Normally, I do a thought of the day, but lets say this is my thought of the week (For all the days I have missed.)

"There are problems in these days, but none of them are mine." — Shirt from store in the mall (I actually own this shirt now.)

This is really a strange ponderance, and really did not sink into me until I ran into someone which I was hoping personally never to have to encounter again. Mostly because of the issues she has and the strange ability she has to project them onto other people. Humourously this time, I was able to completely ignore it, and go on dancing, enjoying the music and accepting the fact that people have issues. These issues are not mine.

This is not that deep of a realization. I know, but for a guy like me it is something which is more freeing than you would like to believe. It’s very easy to take on other people’s problems. It is even easier to take them on when people use their issues and problems to direct negative feelings towards you. Yet, humourously, it is important to just let these things go. Until they take a swing at you, or attack you physically, it is their problem, and in the words of a good friend, "They can just suck your c**k."

"When you follow your bliss… doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else." — Joseph Campbell

Now this is another thing that came to mind. It sounds so obvious, but today, I actually did this. I rented a car, and drove it around, something I absolutely adore doing. I went to a club and just danced, did not try to "pick up", did not try to "get smashed", just danced. Followed my bliss, and amazingly this is the first time I have come home from a club without feeling depressed or rejected. I even left early, not because I felt ignored or *insert excuse here*, but rather because the club was scorching hot, and I wanted to go home and write this up while it was fresh in my mind. For the first time in years, after a minor incident at work today, I actually followed my bliss. I did what I wanted to, when I wanted to. I bought the clothes I wanted, I rented a car I wanted, I danced all night like I wanted. From all of this, my mind is open tonight in ways that amaze me. I would write it all out here in one entry, but I would rather let everyone who does get anything meaningful out of this (and anyone who does not can well.. you know.) have time to digest it piece by piece.

Finally, and most importantly.

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." — Joseph Campbell.

Just as a note for those who care, expect to see more changes soon in the future. Not only have I lost incredible amounts of weight, gotten different clothes that better fit my attitude (not the attitude of those around me), and reworked some pretty serious mental blocks in my mind, I have decided that it is time for me to change those things that do not matter in my life, the things that I spent inordinate amounts of time scheduling for, and start to do those things that really matter to me. Heck, maybe I will try to become a saleperson at a clothing store even. (Now, for those of my friends who are anal, you have to understand that any change is a gradual one. I am not dropping university and going to live in a commune suddenly, that would be silly. Yet at the same time, it is probably important for me to really decide what is the life waiting for me, and grasp onto it.)

Now, I know I rambled on, but I thought I would get this out while I still had it fresh in my mind.

So lastly, here is a quote for all of you, each and every single one. To those who believe they have hurt me, to those I have loved, to those who dispise me, to those who are just curious.

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning." — Joseph Campbell.

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"Love itself is a pain, you might say. It is the pain of being truly alive."

– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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read: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/london.asp

Man, those londoners got it right. They mourned, got along with business, and didn’t let the terrorist change their way of life. Unlike the Americans, who freaked out, passed the PATRIOT ACT and have been at war with anyone and everything ever since.

The British should shine as an example of how a real nation should behave in the specter of these people, proper, mature… British.

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So yeah, it’s my birthday. Happy birthday to me, one day older, and no more wiser than I used to be.

I hope everyone has fun today.

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This is probably one of the more impressive things I’ve seen in a long time. http://dancingrabbit.org/ Basically it’s a collective that’s trying to move off the grid and become self-reliant. I especially was impressed by their biodiesel initiative. Albeit, it may be wiser for them in the long run to look at hydrogen fuels and see if they can generate that. Either way, the site is fascinating.

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A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure. There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend, and no scales can measure his excellence.

– Sirach 6:14-15, Revised Standard Version Bible.

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