save the humans, oust a Tory

In time for Tuesday's election. A Website that tells you how to best vote to ensure the Conservatives don't get a majority.

http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/

My riding doesn't stand a snowball's chance of going Conservative, but it's worth looking at if you live in one of the areas that does.

Up, Up and Away!

Something that you may not know about me is that I enter a lot of those on-line draws and contests. I've never won anything big, but I do get the odd small prize. A knapsack here, a $20 gift certificate there. I keep at it because it's a minimum of effort and I do hold out hope of ending up with a free trip for three to Australia or something one day.

The thing of it is that once you start entering these damn things they start multiplying. Companies start falling all over themselves at the chance to send you targeted - and often not-so-targeted - advertising in the form of contest entries. I get a lot of spam for golf weekends and back-stage-with-the-band competitions that kind of leave me scratching my head.

So it just so happens that today I got an email for a contest where the first prize is a long weekend in Ottawa. That made me chuckle a bit because Ottawa isn't exactly an exotic locale when you live in Toronto. I've driven there for concerts.

Then I read the second prize.

A Sir John A MacDonald action figure.

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I could not sign my name fast enough. I also could spell my name properly because I was laughing so hard. If I do win the damn thing it will come in the mail addressed to Siohaban Nilioflin.

If it's pose-able it's entirely likely I may wet myself.