[Magdalen] Canada's election

[Jay Weigel]

Congratulations to our northern neighbors on giving Steve the heave!

And let Susan dance on the table if she wants to! I would too....

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> The Libs have gone from 36 seats to 186 -- quite a comfortable majority.
>
> This is a sweep of historic proportions, the biggest upset in Canadian
> history.  Trudeau fils has actually outdone Trudeau pere in the
> Trudeaumania election of '68.
>
> I'm sorry for the NDP, which paid a high price for strategic voting -- but
> I'm applauding the rejection of neo-conservatism and xenophobia, and I'm
> hoping the Tories turn themselves back into a party I can respect.  They
> have no obvious heir-in-waiting, as Steverino chopped potential competitors
> off at the knees (he is not a Nice Person at all).
>
> May we be a modest example to our large friend to the south.
>
> Susan Hutchinson, get down off that table THIS MINUTE!!!
>
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
>
> > On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:49 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Well, we have that participation and peaceful transfer AND we git 'er
> done in a reasonable time frame.  And I like to think our better side has
> triumphed tonight and we have been freed from the Prince of Darkness.
> >
> > I haven't checked, but the Blue Jays may have stayed alive in the
> baseball game tonight.  As a courtesy, the American baseball powers-that-be
> should have moved this game to another day or night.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> >> On 10/19/2015 10:35 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> >> I'm tempted to be very envious of Canada for getting its election over
> >> with, and I'm tempted to be depressed at what we still face here in
> >> the USA for ANOTHER YEAR YET, but I'm forgetting the good points of
> >> our system that aim for participation by the people (however
> >> engineered it may be from vested interests) and a peaceful transfer of
> >> power.
> >>
> >> Still, wish our primaries were next month and the general election in,
> >> say, February.
> >
>