The Federal Election is Monday June 28th
Though Canada's idea of government is a sad excuse for a democracy, part of the reason why our "democracy" doesn't work is becuse not enough people are interested in politics. Last federal election less than 60% of the people voted, that is a very sad, sad percentage. People have become disillusioned and don't take the time to make informed decisions. True polititions often say a bunch of crap that they later deny once they enter into office, but each party is based on a concept and set of underlying beleifs. Your voting decisions should be based on these, because they will not change.
Here is my understanding of the 3 basic parties:
After 1789 a group of aristocrats formed the conservative party to try to reverse the effects of the french revolution and restore power to the wealthy nobles. The conservatives, obviously are very conservative (right wing). Their interest is in preserving tradition, and keeping the wealthy wealthy and paying little attention to the lower classes. They also tend to be the least interested in environmental concerns. They are on the other hand, good for small businesses.
The Liberal party seems to be somewhere in the middle. My experience is that they tend to dance around trying not to step on anyone's toes inorder to reach a mediocre middle ground. They are also the best party for farmers and their interests.
The New Democratic Party is very socialist (left wing) and interested in looking out for those usually overlooked.... like single mothers for example.

I plan on voting strategicly. I realize that for the most part my vote is very insignificant (though NDP wants to magicly find a way to make voting results more proportional to actual voting percentages... though i don't know how they plan to do that with our government being based on number of seats that are won), but i plan on voting anyway and seeing what happens. I'm voting NDP and hoping that they will gain more seats and Liberals will loose some seats in order to have a more balaced government.

It's hump day again! Some of you (Cheryl) will be pleased to know that i changed my msn profile name back to Queen of the Nymphs, and i haven't gotten any random emails from people because i changed my marital status to single not looking.

At work we often (most days) have debates and discussions. One of them was that Karen was educating me about Calvinism... because i had forgotten what it was that i disagreed with. The conclusion: I am not a Calvinist and never will be. (I already knew this before) And Karen and I agree to disagree. (But we did find that we do have a lot in common in our thinking)

One of the topics i brought up wasn't developed as far as it could have been.... mostly because of people being uncomfortable and other people going out of their way to make other people uncomfortable.
It is this: Women and Sexuality.
I posed this question: do you think a woman's sexuality is considered a taboo subject in our society? For example: there are many women who do not or will not admit to masturbating (dictionary definition for those who don't know: excite oneself (or another person) sexually by stimulating the genitals with the hand).
Someone asked me if i thought masturbating was right or wrong, and i said neither... it's a healthy part of life, there isn't anything morally right or wrong about it.