The election is off to a slow start here in Caledon, although I get the impression things are about to take off purely from a visibility factor. Our local Liberal candidate is a young professional named Rebecca Finch; you can read up on her on her campaign website at www.rebeccafinch.ca. I had actually gone through her site last week and was looking for the right time to post, and seeing as Stephane Dion was called out for endorsing her today in light of his anti-Chris Reid comments it should be an interesting ride.
Aside from her day job Rebecca is Editor at Large of a site called The Metaball, stated to be “keeping our politicians accountable”. The site contains any number of opinion pieces running through racism, Christianity, and of course, politics. The item in question by the Tory campaign is a campaign blog started back in June, in anticipation of her campaign no doubt.
Rebecca has a lot to say on her blog, and it’s of no surprise I disagree with much of it. One article that made me question her logic and ability to govern our riding is titled ‘Step Out of The Car, Ma’am, and Show Me Your Vein‘. I can imagine some politicians were scared of random alcohol tests when they started as well, and I’m hoping most of us like the idea we can drive without concern of drug-fueled cars in our area. Finch’s argument against these random tests includes a few gems:
Say you’re at a party where people are smoking pot in an enclosed area. When you leave that party, if you are pulled over for one of these tests, you will come up positive for marijuana… This could be true, and the reason you’d come up positive is because you’d be high on marijuana. Perhaps it would be in one’s best interest to not be in the habit of driving home from parties where people are smoking up in enclosed areas.
Say you’re addicted to poppy seeds and have eaten tons of them in a short time before you’re randomly pulled over – you’re going to show a false positive for opium or heroin. I’ll ignore the apparent rampant addiction to poppy seeds I wasn’t aware was present in society, but I won’t ignore the fact that testing positive for opium due to a poppy seed addiction would not be a false positive; you’d be high on opium!
I’m interested in whether this blog, and the logic held within, starts garnering even more attention on this election. Suffice to say I have no intention of voting for Rebecca Finch, even if I agree with her that our incumbent David Tilson is taking this riding for granted.
Today’s Random Links
A Flash game that allows you to pick Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s new hairstyle!
Gospelr = Twitter for Christians. I guess the domain was available.
Microsoft used a Mac to create their “I’m a PC” ads.. oops.
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Big Bang Theory (8 p.m.)
Boston Legal (10 p.m.)
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Dancing with the Stars (9 p.m.)
Dr. 90210 (10 p.m.)
Heroes (9 p.m.)
How I Met Your Mother (8:30 p.m.)
Two and a Half Men (9 p.m.)
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Matt Nathanson – Some Mad Hope