Nat and Ashley are as ready as they'll ever be for the new baby. Good job with the baby's room guys!!!

I guess Canada has voted in a new minority government: Conservative Party of Canada! YIKES!! This is breaking the tough Liberal barrier that had been going on for the last 12 years. Stephen Harper will have a chance to prove himself to Canada. Personally, I'm not happy with the results but that's democracy for you. All we can do now is hope for the best.

Michael Moore Statement on Canadian Election

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Michael Moore is currently in production on his next movie. As an avid lover of all things Canadian, he has issued the following statement regarding Canada's upcoming election on Monday:

Oh, Canada -- you're not really going to elect a Conservative majority on Monday, are you? That's a joke, right?

I know you have a great sense of humor, and certainly a well-developed sense of irony, but this is no longer funny. Maybe it's a new form of Canadian irony -- reverse irony! OK, now I get it. First, you have the courage to stand against the war in Iraq -- and then you elect a prime minister who's for it. You declare gay people have equal rights -- and then you elect a man who says they don't. You give your native peoples their own autonomy and their own territory -- and then you vote for a man who wants to cut aid to these poorest of your citizens. Wow, that is intense! Only Canadians could pull off a hat trick of humor like that. My hat's off to you.

Far be it from me, as an American, to suggest what you should do. You already have too many Americans telling you what to do. Well, actually, you've got just one American who keeps telling you to roll over and fetch and sit. I hope you don't feel this appeal of mine is too intrusive but I just couldn't sit by, as your friend, and say nothing. Yes, I agree, the Liberals have some 'splainin' to do. And yes, one party in power for more than a decade gets a little... long. But you have a parliamentary system (I'll bet you didn't know that -- see, that's why you need Americans telling you things!). There are ways at the polls to have your voices heard other than throwing the baby out with the bath water.

These are no ordinary times, and as you go to the polls on Monday, you do so while a man running the nation to the south of you is hoping you can lend him a hand by picking Stephen Harper because he's a man who shares his world view. Do you want to help George Bush by turning Canada into his latest conquest? Is that how you want millions of us down here to see you from now on? The next notch in the cowboy belt? C'mon, where's your Canadian pride? I mean, if you're going to reduce Canada to a cheap download of Bush & Co., then at least don't surrender so easily. Can't you wait until he threatens to bomb Regina? Make him work for it, for Pete's sake.

But seriously, I know you're not going to elect a guy who should really be running for governor of Utah. Whew! I knew it! You almost had me there. Very funny. Don't do that again. God, I love you, you crazy cold wonderful neighbors to my north. Don't ever change.
Michael Moore

(Mr. Moore is not available for interviews because he now needs to address the situation in Azerbaijan. But he could be talked into it for a couple of tickets to a Leaf's game.)

I'm really excited of going to Los Angeles in March.

I wish it could be sooner though but because I'm moving at the end of this month and my work is asking us not to request vacation time during February because of training we have to go through... So March 3rd it is! I also can't wait to finally meet Julian! We've been chatting for over a year now and it will be great to hang out with him and his friends.

A fun little Personality Test:
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~chua/test/test.html

Here's mousey, my new pet!
The building I'm living in is having a mice problem. I thought I only had one until I noticed that there was more of them. I think Mousey is sooooo cute!! haha I know I'm nutts.

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