When I became 18, and time for my first vote on Election Day in
Brantford, my Mother asked which candidate I intended to mark on the
ballot. In replying to her, “I'm
undecided whether to vote for the political party...or for the individual
running in our ward,” she commented, “If you vote for anyone other than
Conservative, you will cancel my vote.”
I have never forgotten this experience which confirmed and caused me to
realize the importance of exercising one's privilege to vote. It is not an
option...because one vote may make a difference.
Dr Abdul Kalaam
stated,
“It is very easy
to defeat someone…but it is very hard to win!”
So Many
Candidates, So Little Space.
Joan Little,
Freelance columnist,
a former Burlington Alderman and Halton
Councillor
writes the following
in today's Spectator:
Elections, elections,
elections! Voters and candidates have a
busy year. It's too bad the June Twelfth
Provincial Election overlaps with the Municipal campaign period, which ends
with the election October 27 this year.
That makes it hard for these candidates who are already canvassing and
makes it confusing for voters. Municipally, mayoral races are interesting in
Hamilton and Toronto especially, where there are strong candidates and the
usual publicity-seekers, many of whom don't spend a dime on campaigns, just
want the attention.
Toronto? Perhaps the many right-wing candidates will
split the vote and left-winger Olivia Chow will win. Please, let it be anyone but Ford,Canada's
foul-mouthed embarrassment.
Hamilton is blessed with good
candidates. Interestingly, one past
mayor endorses another past mayor currently running for the mayoral
position.
There is no mayoralty race in
Burlington. It is unlikely a credible
challenger to Rick Goldring will emerge this late. A Burlington mayoral campaign would cost
$100,000 and require much preparation to begin now. But, there are formidable candidates for
council. Some are so good, they will
split the vote, probably resulting in re-election of incumbents.
(Excerpts only from
her writing)
Let’s hope the
candidates get it right!
Jim Hendrix stated: “Knowledge
Speaks…but Wisdom Listens.”
Taking Down the
Bird Feeder
Tom sends the following “analogy” ~
(Maxine, in a
cartoon, came up with a solution
for the mess that
America/Canada is now in economically)
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with
seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it was...as I filled it lovingly with
seed. Within a week, hundreds of birds
were taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible
food. But, then the birds started
building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table and next to the
barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the
chairs, the table. Everywhere!
Then, some of the birds turned
mean. They would dive-bomb me and try to
peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And other birds were
boisterously loud. Sitting on the feeder, they squawked and screamed all day and night and demanded
that I fill it when it got low on food.
After a while, I couldn't I
couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore.
So I took down the bird feeder and in three days, the birds were gone. I
cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the
patio. Soon, the back yard was like it
used to be...quiet...serene...and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now...let's see! Our government gives out free food,
subsidized housing, free medical care and free education...and allows anyone
born here to be an automatic Canadian.
Then, the “illegals” came by
tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes
went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you
have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency doctor; your child's second
grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak
English. Cornflakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to “press one” to hear
my bank talk to me in English...and people waving flags (other than The Maple
Leaf) are squawking and screaming in the streets...demanding More Rights and
Free Liberties.
Just My
Opinion...but maybe it's time
for the Government
to take down the bird feeder!
The Bells
(Another Election Message sent by an ardent
reader)
Fred was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young
‘pullets’ and 10 roosters to fertilize the eggs. He kept records and any
rooster not performing went into the soup pot and replaced.
This took a lot of time…so he bought some tiny bells and attached them
to the roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a
distance…which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by
just listening to the bells. His favourite rooster, Old Butch, was a very fine
specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all. When he went to investigate, he saw the other
roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the
roosters coming, would run for cover. To his amazement, old Butch held his bell
in his beak, so it couldn’t ring. He’d
sneak up on a pullet…do his job and walk on to the next one. Fred was so proud
of old Butch, he entered him in the Brisbane City Show and he became an
overnight sensation among the judges.
The result was…the judges not only awarded old Butch the “No Bell
Prize,” but they also awarded him the
“Pulletsurprise” as well. Clearly, old
Butch was a politician in the making!
Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most
coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the
unsuspecting populace and screwing them
when they weren’t paying attention?
Vote carefully in the next election…you
can’t always hear the bells!
Wisdom Words from Aesop
“It is not only fine feathers…that make fine
birds!”
Merle Baird-Kerr…written May
17, 2014
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