So it's 2006 Already

[morgan_dhu]

Happy New Year to all.

If I make any further comments, I'll only reveal my typically cynical opinion of the world in general, so I'll just stop here. ;-)

Comments

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I hear ya! Happy New Year! *hug*

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

*Hugs* back to you.

[mishaslair.livejournal.com]

Today, I'm watching "To Kill A Mockingbird" on television and it's making me really weepy because I think Atticus Finch is my all-time favorite movie hero (IIRC, the American Film Institute agreed). My country so desperately needs a few Atticus Finches, and a few Jefferson Smiths (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/), but those kind of people are rare these days, and when they do try to step forward, they're so quickly and viciously shot down. Maybe people like that never really existed outside of fiction. But it's nice to dream.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

I think any country needs people like that. I think they do exist, but the way politics and money are so intertwined these days, they have no chance at getting to a place where they can be heard, and can inspire people who have forgotten that there is another way.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year!

How about some comments on the political situation over there?

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Well, we're in the middle of an election (I think you knew that), so things are rather up in the air.

The government fell on a confidence motion in early December, and with the election set for January 23, this is one of the longest campaigns we've had in decades.

Which is probably why, despite muckraking ads from the Conservatives (and there is a lot of muck to rake), all the parties promising the sun, moon and stars (in the appropriate colours of the party's political philosophy, of course), and Liberal threats that the country will either fall apart or become exactly like the U.S. if anyone but them forms the next government, the polls have scarcely budged since the writ was dropped.

Now that the holidays are over, we're going to have a free-for-all, and things will be incredibly volatile - at least that's my guess.

What will happen? My best guess right now is that we'll have another minority government, probably Conservative, but that enough NDP members will be elected that a Liberal-NDP alliance (with occasional Bloc Quebecois support) in the opposition will make their governemnt hellish and possibly rather short.

What might shift that to a prediction of a very slight Conservative majority is the progress of a current RCMP investigation into whether there was a leak in the Finance department about a change in regulations that might have resulted in a major insider trading scandal.

But really, anything could happen (except an NDP majority, of course)- though I think a Liberal majority is highly unlikely, because of the situation in Quebec, where the Bloc is likely to pick up seats from the Liberals, who don't have any seats to lose. It's going to be fun over here for the next three weeks, that's for sure.

sorry for replying here, your email's not listed!

[goodlookinout.livejournal.com]

hey,

back here (http://goodlookinout.livejournal.com/495792.html) you said that you'd read some of the books listed in the supplementary reading list of my physics class and also new something about it.

well we have our outline for our paper due soon which if you see from the website for our course, is on one of the topics of the course using one of the books listed there as well as supplementary readings.

do you have any suggestions for me?? keep in mind, something as easy to understant and basic as possible, the better! I really dont get this stuff too well...
thanks a lot!