Okay, I know I’ve been babbling about this for a while now, but this time I really mean it. Here’s the first draft for the first shirt design:

I’ll keep at it till it finally looks right to me.  When it does, I’ll make ’em available.  So, in the meantime, what does everybody think?

PS – Yes, I KNOW that I’m not worth a damn at image editing… 🙄

E minus 5 days and counting.

Hang in there. Just five more days. Must… keep… brain from… falling… out…

The scramble for votes in London North Centre is starting to look like a game of full-contact musical chairs. Even high school kids aren’t immune, it seems. Say what you want about the Canadian Action Party’s Will Arlow, but he sure seems to know how to talk to kids:

Another cynical note was struck by Will Arlow of the Canadian Action Party, who advised his listeners “Politicians lie their faces off to get elected.” He urged students to press into service their “bullshit detectors” when measuring promises.

-Willy to an audience of about 700 students at Catholic Central high school

Nice going, Willy; real classy. Even a trashmouth like me at least tries to watch his language around kids. About those detectors, Willy: I think you already fried ’em. 🙄

The great Talker To Americans, Rick Mercer, popped up — fully clothed, thank God — to “endorse” Tory Dianne Haskett on his blog. Hey, Rick; a little hint for ya: you’re only the kiss of death when you actually endorse somebody. But nice try, anyway. 😉

Green leader/candidate Liz May-or-may-not, on the other hand, took a break from the campaign to appoint Adriane Carr and Claude William Genest as deputy leaders to her party. At least she wasn’t banging on my door.

In an interesting bit of turnabout-is-fair-play, the Haskett crew has fired one across Pearson’s bow over his silence on just who he thinks should lead the Librano$ into their next electoral defeat. Kind of odd, considering:

“Why is Pearson afraid to share his leadership choice with the people of London?” taunts a news release issued yesterday by the Haskett campaign. Pearson’s sudden vow of silence is rather odd, however, given that earlier in the campaign, he readily acknowledged his candidate was Stephane Dion.

The televised all-candidates debate at the London City Press Club (broadcast on Rogers) somehow evolved into one hell of a game of Go Fish:

Conservative Dianne Haskett played the tough-on-crime card, Liberal Glen Pearson the we-can-make-Canadians-proud-again card, Green Party leader Elizabeth May the make-history-with-me card and New Democrat Megan Walker the we-can-stand-up-to-Stephen-Harper card.

Fringe candidates Will Arlow of the Canadian Action Party, Steve Hunter of the Progressive Canadian Party and independent Robert Ede played the we-deserve-a- chance card, arguing all major parties are doing a poor job.

And when the hell did Stronach become a brunette, anyway? 😕

The Freeps
Debate draws best cards
CCH students get their fill of political baloney
New-look Belinda boosts Pearson
Campaign notebook

Catholic World News
cat got your tongue?

Curiosity, as my mom always told me, killed the cat. But satisfaction brought him back. Luckily for me, I’m not a cat. What’s got me scratching my head lately is traffic. No, not the kind that makes you spew cusswords on your way to work. I mean the kind that hits websites. I’ve managed to get a stats monitor up and running but the darned geolocation isn’t working worth crap, so… I put up a new poll.

I’ve been wondering for a while just where all you folks were coming from so, now you can tell me yourselves. Don’t see your location in the list yet? No problem. In this poll, you will be able to add answers of your own to the list (sorry, but for some reason, that won’t work in IE6. It works fine in Firefox and I’m not sure about IE7).

So . . . where ya from? 😉

E minus 6 days and counting.

The election machine grinds along in London North Centre and Repentigny. After what seems a long and distinguished absence from the Repentigny race, BQ leader has finally popped out of his hole. Legend has it that, if he sees his shadow, we will have six more years of grumblymooching before the next referendum.

Back in London, Freeps columnist Rory the Tory Leishman sounded off today with 7 damned good reasons why Haskett isn’t just the best choice in the riding; if you think about it, she’s the only choice in the riding. Meanwhile, Haskett herself stuck a pin in the “she’s a religious fanatic” baloon by being the only one of seven candidates to decline to answer a series of morality-based questions from the Christian group Citizen Impact London. As Jack Baribeau, president of Citizen Impact, put it:

Baribeau said he engaged in “a little bit of arm-twisting,” but it did no good.

“Dianne has never done things in an orthodox way . . . I had to respect her approach.”

So much for the canard of Haskett being some sort of blindly obedient zealot. 🙄

The Librano$’ Barbie Girl also slid through town, stopping long enough to stump for Grit Glen Pearson, but couldn’t even seem to impress the hopeless Lefties of Richmond Row:

“So they come in here and the photographers climb on chairs. Whoop-de-doo. I’ve got friends who support the Green Party, so if I did vote, I’d probably vote Green anyway.”

She also served as one helluva handy reminder of just who it is that really is the candidate to beat in this race:

Stronach didn’t dodge any questions, using most as a launching pad to attack the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Time for the links:

The Ministry of What You Should Think
Duceppe defends priest candidate in Repentigny byelection

The Freeps
Haskett only choice in London byelection
Haskett refuses group’s queries
Stronach stumps on behalf of Glen Pearson

No, I’m not talking about Iraq, or even Americans in general. Stuff that.

What I am talking about is that the House of Commons has voted unanimously in favour granting a full state funeral to the last surviving veteran of the Great War. This has been a while in the making, but definitely worth it. I don’t have time to go too deep into this yet, so here’s just a few links:

MPs support state funeral for last surviving WWI veteran

State funeral for last war vet wins approval

Petitioners Win

House approves state funeral for last WWI vet

Damned good news, no matter how you slice it. More will come later in the day.

So the Donkeys of the far left are once again braying about getting the hell out of Dodge Iraq, PDQ. They say that pulling out will save the lives of innocent civilians. It makes one wonder: just how far up your backside does your head need to be before guys that sit around drawing cartoons all the time have figured out the lessons of history better than you have?

Just wondering, of course.