Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:00 17-11-00 -0700, you wrote: >Stockwell Day (Yes, that is his real name. Hang on the funny part is still >coming) is the leader of the Alliance Party in Canada and one of the planks >of their platform is that a petition with 350,000 signatures will force a >national referendum on any topic. One of our socialist CBC comedy >programmes, This Hour Has Twenty Two Minutes, has an online petition to >force a national referendum on changing Stockwell Day's name to: >Doris Day > >The petition has 608,000 signatures so far!! If you are Canadian, please >join in on the fun. Now THIS! is democracy.. Where else can entire country join in on a national joke to point out the absurdity and shallow foolishness of a potential Prime Minister. ...and I HAVE to point out that the guy who set this up is a Newfoundlander. Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland locke@straylight.ca http://www.straylight.ca/locke - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Touched By Fire: doctors without borders in a third world crisis. http://www.straylight.ca/touchedbyfire.htm ISBN#0-7710-5305-3 McClelland & Stewart