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Well, Janey Canuck, you solved my not being able to see Long Lost Family. http://www.expatshield.com/ is a wonderful site - thanks bunches. I must throw in my two sents' worth about your comments on maple syrup, however. I can drink Mrs. Butterworth straight from the bottle if I find myself with nothing to put it on - how can anything be too sweet, really?
Thanks very much for the website.

Pouring with rain here today


..........that often means fewer people vote.




sylvia

Hi Aunty


glad that it was only a memory problem



do you think your computer geek could sort out my memory?

Hi JWABF,

I see you have met Janey!!!!! Did you find the answer to your question hidden in all the politics.

My computer is fixed. Not as bad as suspected, was actually a memory problem. Seems to be lots of that around right now.

Catch you later.

Heh, Sylvia, I see my Q regarding voting Conservative was a little too dry for the print medium. ;)



Susan#, odd comment. We in the outer darkness get lots of UK television programming, just as you get lots of US programming and even some Canadian.

Oddly, you get the US WDYTYA, and the UK program does not air in North America (not in Canada, and not in the US, to my knowledge).

off to bed,

I have to get rid of enough of this cold to go and vote tomorrow afternoon


I've had it since last Wednesday, haven't been out ince then, and it's just getting worse and worse!






Just listened to Obama's tv conference .... Osama Bin Laden is dead, and the US have his body!

Janey


No, I did NOT think you wanted me to change my vote to onservative.


But the fact remains that we know even less about the NDP candidate, Meena Wong, who was born in Beijing.



living in the riding .................. I think Ujjal, the Liberal, is the safest option to stop the Conservative from winning



Wai Young really is incredibly ignorant (in the sense of knowing nothing)


Her English is almost perfect, she was born in Hong Kong, but raised in Vancouver, went to high school here, has run a consulting company for at least 18 years, has 30 years experience in business (all according to her platform as posted on the web)

..... yet claimed with a straight face she had "never heard of" the Air India crash, Malik, OR the Air India trial ??????????????



and as for ignoring the approximately 55% non-Chinese in the riding

.... that seems idiotic to me!


But it is what she did in 2008 as well.





hee hee


we have one of the perennial Marxist-Leninist candidates running!



should I, shouldn't I??!!!

If we can't get yours....I don't see why you should get ours.

Um, Sylvia ... the fact that it may well be the NDP candidate who has the best chance of keeping the Conservative in your riding from taking the seat? I don't think you thought I was suggesting that you switch your vote to the Conservative.

I trust you do get the papers, have access to a television ...

The Toronto Star still seems to think Vancouver South is between the Conservative and the Liberal, so it may still be the safest place to park a vote.


AuntyS ... sigh ... have you anything left to break in your vicinity?

Aunty thinks about standing to attention and saluting but decides to apologise (a) for liking maple syrup and (b) for taking so long to reply.

(a) Yes I am a sweet thooth. I do try t o keep it under control and I figured that one squirt of maple syrup was better for me than a 250 gram block of chocolate. That's about enough chocolate to fit into two cups Janey.

(b) My tardiness was caused by a major computer malfunction which IT Guru has described as "the demise of your hard disk drive". Today I will find out what I have lost, and the thought of re-loading all my programs fills me with such glee I am almost but not quite speechless.

I need to stop typing now because if the truth be told I am on government time. Catch you later.

well now, Janey


Conservative Wei Yeung has had to defend herself against .........

a) attending a meeting at the Khalsa School, and accepting support from Ripudaman Mann Singh ...... the one who funded the Air India bombing (granted found innocent, largely due to perjury by witnesses)

Held a press conference in English but only for the Chinese media, to say that she had no idea who he was

b) claims from family that she accepted a loan from their father, but has refused to pay it back into his estate, saying now that it wasn't a loan. 5 of 7 siblings will not be voting for her.

c) Has made absolutely no attempt to hold dialogues, has not attended all-candidate meetings, and has made no attempt so far as we can tell to contact any non-Chinese voters.

We have had no door knocking, flyers, or phone calls.

Nothing from Harper


The NDP candidate, also a woman, also Chinese origin, but no idea of her name ................. no contact, no flyers, no bill boards, etc etc

Nothing heard from Layton


Liberals .......... flyers, and several phone calls from Ujjal and from Ignatieff.


In view of this lack of information on 2 of the major candidates ................ on what do I base any reconsideration of changing my vote?

Sylvia -- any chance you're reconsidering?

(Perfectly good thread here, may as well hijack it!)

http://www.straight.com/article-390299/vancouver/dosanjh-expects-nail-biter-race-vancouver-south-voting-day-approaches

As Canadians head to the polls Monday in an election that is expected to deliver some tight races in B.C., Vancouver South will be a closely watched battle.

Incumbent Liberal candidate Ujjal Dosanjh, who won by just 20 votes in the 2008 federal election, described the area as a “hotly contested riding”.

University of Victoria political scientist Dennis Pilon said nearly all of the Vancouver ridings could be at risk for the Liberals, as federal polls show the party’s support dropping next to the surging NDP.

But he noted that “national polls are national polls – they don’t tell us what’s going on in particular ridings.”

“Even the worst results for parties, you know parties still have areas of strength. The Liberals would still have to fall pretty far to lose a considerable chunk of seats,” he added.

Dosanjh expressed confidence as voting day approaches, but predicted the race in his riding will be “a nail biter”.



Voting *Liberal* could actually be the straw that split the vote and let a Conservative win!

I know, I know


elections are usually completely sorted out by the time the polls close here!


It's rather depressing to know that our votes count for very little.



I think though there will be a lot on the "social media"

Sylvia -- we're going to try a trick we discovered last election.

We tape Coronation Street from the Newfoundland time zone, early in the evening.

Last election, we turned on the teevee around 8, and that's the station it was set on. And there we were, seeing east coast returns, since the polls there had closed while they were still open west of central Canada. Contrary to all the election law rules, which prohibit broadcasting results until all polls have closed.

We thought how clever we were. Then we flicked over to another channel after a while, and back to Nfld CBC ... and we were locked out. Not so clever after all.

I think that's the glitch the CBC or the cable company got in trouble over that year, so I doubt it will work again this year. ;)

see, JWAB


we said she'd know what to do!



meanwhile out here on the mixed up hard-core right-wing / hard-core left-wing coast ......................



I guess we will all know what the new government will be some time after 8 pm PDT Monday



sylvia

Here's that recommendations thread for info:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/chat/thread/1263923

Here I am!!!

Back from a week-long venture into hard-core right-wing cretinous fringe-of-Toronto Conservative Party territory. My poor mum actually has to live there.

My secret weapon for viewing forbidden video is No.1, who knows where to find these things on line -- and of course the wonderful Brits who put them there.

Rose has the right idea for anybody who doesn't have handy access to a middle-aged teenaged boy.

This one was recommended to me in my recommendations thread, I think by Mick:

http://www.expatshield.com/

We haven't tried it because No.1 manages to find the right sites to find stuff every time the previous ones get shut down. ;) So we're able to keep watching Casualty even though BBC Canada has eliminated it in favour of a steady diet of reality pap, and also get hold of miniseries from the UK and such (like Brinkburn Street and Any Human Heart, and the various other things I catch sight of hereabouts from time to time).

Uh oh, he's whining for lunch.


AuntySherlock, maple syrup is one of the most revolting substances on the face of the earth. But I suspect you're not appreciating the real thing because your taste buds have been fooled by the pure sugar (or corn syrup) in the fake one. Odd, because I find maple syrup sickly sweet, myself, and I like sweet. But you should give it a chance to let its subtler charm seduce you maybe.

Oh, OF COURSE, how could I forget that wonderful song! I liked the song sooo much I wanted to name our son Jeremiah and call him Miah. My husband had a sign made for the nurses station saying that the woman from whatever agency comes in and takes the baby's name was not to be allowed in my room unless he was present. Really, how rude. I must say, though, that would have made the kid Jeremiah Jenkins.... : ) But I woulda if I coulda. Now I'm going to have to go download that song : )

And I know it as the Three Dog Night song, "Joy to the World"


Jeremiah was a bull frog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
Singing
Joy to the world................

And that was many many years ago as well!!

I've looked over the websites and am sure i'll do something soon - thanks bunches! And I'm sure Janey can handle being introduced to JWAB, which, incidentally, comes from a footnote in a green American Lit book from my jr year of high school many, many, many years ago. Of all the questions that the teacher could have asked that would have come from the text itself, she chose to question us about a footnote in the Mark Twain story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Obviously, I missed the question and, obviously, I've never forgotten it. And may maple syrup take over the world!