ramblings 4

events in north america that have caught my eye recently...

- tonight (or this next morning) the super bowl is on, so im excited for that. but its on at like 5 in the morning, so instead of eating pizza and drinking beer, well be eating pancakes and drinking coffee. should be an awesome game though...it looks like pittsburghs year but i think everybody is really underrating seattle because of their geographical location. so ill take seattle in a close game. my fantasy football league fizzed out, as my team decided to have terrible games in our "playoffs" in week 14 of the season. have to wait until next year for that again.

- the canucks dont look good because they cant win in their division at all...that division is brutal, vancouver, edmonton, calgary, and colorado are going to beat each other up so that in the playoffs they wont be in any shape to play any other teams. in other hockey news, i hope to watch some olympic hockey somehow, someway...but im not sure if it will be on tv. theres one place where i know they will show the games, but the bar is run by the same sleazeball housing agent that screwed us earlier in the year, so i might have to go against my personal convictions and go there for 2 weeks to watch the games.

- the conservatives won the election...no big surprise really i guess, i didnt want the liberals to win so i think its good for the country that at least theres somebody new in charge. the problem for stephen harper is that he really has noone to work with except the bloc quebecois. he could work with the bloc on increasing the power of the provinces and getting corruption out of government but in terms of social conservatism i dont think they can do very much. another problem is that unless they do really really well as a government then conditions will never be as good again for them as this time. which means that their current minority government might be as much as a harper led party can win. if theres another election soon then this might be like the joe clark conservative government...calgary guy comes in, has no other party to work with, cant do anything, needs to call an election within the year, and the liberals regain the government.

more later.