Who are you? And what are you doing here?

It’s hard to care.


Please be clear, it’s not because I don’t care about my country, or the democratic process or the sacrifices that were made so that I could enjoy the freedoms I wake up with every morning that I take for granted.


It’s just hard when the majority of your country is populated by people who are more interested in what happened on last nights CSI trilogy episode then what is happening in the halls of the very government they rolled their eyes and had to drive all the way to the polling station to vote for a year ago.


Listening to people talk about politics in this country is enough to almost want a despot, not a really mean one, but just a guy who is enough of an asshole to make people realize what “fascism” and a “theft of liberties” actually is, and just for a few months. I can assure you that voter turn out in the election to follow would be in mid 90% range.

People seem to form their opinions based on the headline in a newspaper, or a 30 second TV ad.


Forget about actually reading the article under the headline, or doing your own research to verify what is being fed to you, I mean come on…Survivor is on tonight…


To be very clear, so that I don’t lead anyone along the wrong path:



I consider myself to be a strong fiscal Conservative, and a strong social Libertarian.


What does that mean?


1) It means I don’t care who you are nailing in your bedroom,


As long as they are of age and they are consenting.


2) It means that I don’t care what you drink, smoke, or snort in the comfort of your living room.


But the second you go out on the streets or behind the wheel onto roads that you share with me and the sons and daughters of this country, you should be pulled aside and asked to bite the curb as your skull is stomped into it for being a reckless idiot, because now you are effecting my freedom and my rights.


3) It means that I understand that many laws are in place because of a minority of people who cannot understand what it means not to infringe on the rights of others.


I can talk on my cell phone and keep my eyes on the road, however I understand that the asshole barreling down the 401 @ 3PM talking, texting, and watching a YouTube Video on his iPhone is going to kill someone, and if I have to use a headset because other people cannot be responsible just in the chance that law will save the life of someone I have never met, I am fine with it.


4) It means I don’t consider the Government a replacement for personal responsibility


You make your own choices in life, you raise your kids, you have kids, you parent your own kids, however if we reach a point where your kid power slams someone on the playground at recess because you didn’t supervise them and they watched Monday Night Raw, its not the governments responsibility to ban Raw, its your responsibility to do your damn job as a parent.


5) It means the Government should run their finances like every Canadian has to run theirs


I would love a 50” 1080p Plasma in my crapper and I could whip out the plastic and pay for that TV, however then I have to deal with how to pay for it when the bill shows up later that month, something the government (of all political stripes) simply do not do, its spend, spend, spend to buy votes and let the kids deal with it.


Well I am one of those kids who is dealing with the consequences of that mentality during the Pierre Trudeau era, I am the generation that was left holding the bag so that he could have his own chapter in Canadian History textbooks.


I always considered Pierre Trudeau to be like that cool uncle who you only saw once or twice a year who brought you awesome gifts and was so laid back and cool that you just wanted to be him, yet at his funeral you had debt collectors lined up around the corner,


Stephen Harper for all his faults (pre 2009 budget) was like that stingy uncle (a miser or a cheapskate if you will) who always brought a sandwich and an apple in a brown paper bag, never ate out, and always gave you these odd cheap gifts which were practical but not cool, and when he died you found that he left you 20k in his will.


I don’t need my politicians’ to be “cool” I need them to do their damn jobs and have the best interest of the future of this country in mind all the time.


So why am I blogging?


I don’t want to “talk” politics with my friends, neighbors’, or family.


I want to comment. I want to take the latest outrage and vent on it.


You as a reader will basically just read my internal frustrations as the explode onto a page.


In this political climate with an opposition in Ottawa that is making decisions based on weekly polling data, and a Liberal Government in Toronto who can rock out a scandal like eHealth yet still be ahead in the polls…


I need a place a vent, and since every other asshole has a blog?


Why not this asshole?