Canadian election results are starting to come in!
So far the Liberals are doing quite well in Atlantic Canada...The new Conservative Party is taking in considerably less of the vote than the combined Alliance-PC tally from last time, which serves if nothing else to indicate that the Canadian population is not in the middle of a seismic rightwards turn. Queer Tory-turned-Liberal Scott Brison has been re-elected. Looks like about 10% of the ridings have their results in now, at least tentatively. 22 Liberal, 7 Conservative, 3 NDP. Although honestly who really gives a shit? Ontario's going to be the exciting part. Will Jack Layton win himself a seat? Will his wife win her's? Will the Conservatives have a breakthrough in Ontario? Will Stephen Harper rape twelve malamutes in an offering to his dark and terrible gods?
By the way, there was quite a good article in the latest Notices of the American Mathematical Society on the Poincare dodecahedral space and its possible connexion to the topology of spacetime. Can you believe that my old blog posting is the tenth site that comes up when you Google 'Poincare dodecahedral space'? Something is clearly wrong with the universe if an interesting 3-manifold gets so little attention.
Well piss my soul, it looks like the Bloc Quebecois just won its first seat of the election. That means we should soon find out exactly how hard an ass-pounding the Liberals have taken in Quebec. Is it a soreness-and-mild-headache sort of a pounding, or more of a teeth-falling-out sort of a pounding? I don't think it could be quite as bad as a swallowed-up-by-one's-own-inflamed-anus sort of a pounding. But don't take that as Gospel; I could be all coned up on rockies right now.
I really hope Transport Minister Tony Valeri loses; he's the chap to whom Paul Martin essentially gave Sheila Copps' seat. Some of the local Liberals are sufficiently miffed that they've been openly encouraging voters to go for the NDP candidate instead of Valeri.
Nothing particularly dynamic happening right this very pulsating moment, I don't think...I'm going to go for a pizza.
UPDATE: Change of plans...I got cheap Chinese instead. This election results business is going to take quite a while; maybe you should get a snack.
UPDATE: The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada candidate in Mississauga East-Cooksville is ahead in his riding right now. I fucking love that.
UPDATE: Fun's over; looks like the Marxist-Leninist candidate has slid behind now. Oh well.
UPDATE: I need to buy a new sofa. I was looking through IKEA's catalogue online; it seems decent sofae are cursedly expensive. But that is life. A sofa is really an investment in one's future. Unless it is just a piece of furniture.
UPDATE: The Liberal candidate in Medicine Hat is named Cocks. So far the Liberals are looking unexpectedly strong: Ontario is being kind to them. Paul Martin and Jack Layton are both behind in their ridings right now, but only a teeny fraction of the votes have been counted so far, so this really doesn't mean anything at all, and so you might as well just disregard this update. Pretend I've been talking about fishing for the last paragraph.
UPDATE: The CBC has declared a Liberal minority government based on the results so far, thank crap; I think a Liberal-NDP coalition may just be a realistic possibility! And Jack Layton's catching up to Dennis Mills...Layton may just take this. (If he doesn't, he's probably finished as NDP leader.)
UPDATE: Layton's ahead by about 350 votes now!
UPDATE: That egg roll made me gassy. Better light some incense. Tony Valeri's lost!
UPDATE: A Liberal-NDP coalition looks pretty much inevitable now. The Bloc has apparently won more seats than ever before; the NDP looks to pick up at least 11 more seats, too. It seems every single pollster out there was totally and completely wrong about just about everything. Today's Jerkcity is just about the greatest thing I've ever seen. Ed Broadbent's won; I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts Layton will too.
UPDATE: He did! Unfortunately, it looks like Tony Valeri has pulled ahead again in his riding...Oh well. It's still going to be a Liberal-NDP coalition, just about the best outcome one could hope for. Layton talks about energy a lot; he sure does have enough of it. It's all that socialism. It's better than speed, you know. I'm cranked up on it right now. And it's beautiful.
And that's that! It's all over but the orgies.
Posted by aloysius at June 28, 2004 06:11 PM | TrackBack |