HE'S NOT HERE. Grand Old Panada (GOP). God Bless Panada (GB, BP).

It's one thing to pick on a person for working in another country - a lot of oil people in Libya last month will probably tell you that they are Canadian - and quite another to never really be here. Stephen Harper's (the Conservative Party of Canada's or Council for National Policy's) "he didn't come back for you" jingle was one of the most despicable pieces of childlike fear bogus cr@p ads to hit the airwaves. Who cares if Ignatieff comes back, doesn't, never left, hides under your bed, says "boo!" and falls from a rafter. Um, we're adults now, Mr Harper Bogeyman. Every time I ask myself how low can ya go, it's wa-a-a-y lower, into the fetid mystic. Thanks, Conservatives! Republicans!

And what's next? I'm dying to see, abandoned to see, losing money to see, anthraxing to see, not getting knee surgery to see, beaten up by criminal punks to see, hanging around a silent killer and job axe red tape murderers to see, invaded by Tamil immigrants to see, scanned by 3-d airport scanners to see, drowning in oil to see. It's a crazy world and Stephen will set it right, a classic *big daddy* with a *big army* super-naive bluff. By the way, this kind of "stability" is a joke. This is the 4th election in 7 years!! Where's the Adscam in that! (psst. Paul Martin swallowed the poison pill, there was a Gomery Inquiry, it's over, but for the Government of Canada's contributions to Quebec industries, that's it.)

It's Faze Too of the blessed (/daɪ.əˈkrɪtɨk/) $26M Economic Caption Plan with a May2nd election, the day after Pope John Paul II becomes a new saint on May Day, an erstwhile Workers' Day, which is a good time to think about bail-outs, the economy and Alberta Health Services executive bonuses, 33 years after Pope John Paul I was allegedly whacked, and a few daze after the new royal weeding, even though the previous heir's was enough to last a wretched lifetime, how quaint.

Now, even when the Alberta Firewall and Calgary School embers are warm after 11 years, Harper yells about Quebec, again, and God help me, legitimacy - after ALL those bridges were constructed between Quebec and Alberta, politically-speaking, exactly on account of their willingness to be sovereign provinces (states, or countries, whichever). Harper espouses a problem, not new, it's the schtick, the problem, with the recent votes of non-confidence (Contempt of Parliament) including those of a separatist federal party, as if that's all the BLOC does, separate in perpetuity, not represent constituents who happen to be Canadians the last time I checked. Harper likes to raise that spectre. It's not even an issue these days, until Harper makes it one, recklessly bellowing whenever the parliamentary system works, even proroguing it or about it. But what can you say about a guy who calls his minority government both after himself and an "administration." Whatever gets you through the night. In the day, I wrote a letter to Premier Ralph Klein, so alarmed was I about the good old confederation going into the outhouse hole that I wrote an extra one beyond my MLA to the big cheese. And here we are.

An interesting read might be Wyoming Republicans. Warren A. Morton ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wyoming and had some business dealings with Dick Cheney, U.S. Congressman for Wyoming (January 3, 1979 – March 20, 1989). Ted Morton, his son, is running for premier of Alberta. Ted Morton, Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan, Rainer Knopff, Andrew Crooks and Ken Boessenkool signed the Alberta separatist (firewall) letter.

Wyoming Republicans: Craig L. Thomas, Dick Cheney, Clifford Hansen, Mike Enzi, ... Richard Honaker, John W. Meldrum, Warren A. Morton, Cynthia Lummis, ...

Oh, that (other) silly U. of C. perfesser Barry Cooper, his Friends of Science and The Bohemian Club.