zzzzzzz *snort snort* Whu? Canada's doing something? Political coup? Do we, like, need to send in military? We're good at that. Well, when I say 'good,' I mean we do it at the drop of a hat. Better watch it Canada. Before you know it, Bush will send in a few tanks. Just for the hell of it. And to get him some snowcones.
After a blissful existence, fanfic awards have apparently come to DW. *sobs* *needs various wienerdogs to hold me*
I'm on a mission through time from Muppet Labs. HEH. Under the codename Bad Wolf. HEH HEH!! Translation: there's this game Disneyland is doing that involves annual passholders, visiting DCA for clues and text messaging while in the park. I think I might go this weekend and brave the insane crowds there for the Candlelight thing. (I sang in that in high school, which was really cool, but the park will be packed by night.)
I'm on a mission through time from Muppet Labs. HEH. Under the codename Bad Wolf. HEH HEH!! Translation: there's this game Disneyland is doing that involves annual passholders, visiting DCA for clues and text messaging while in the park. I think I might go this weekend and brave the insane crowds there for the Candlelight thing. (I sang in that in high school, which was really cool, but the park will be packed by night.)
SO JEALOUS! The one they are doing at WDW (I'm going in less than a month!) is at Epcot and it's for Kim Possible. Muppets > well, most everything.
Politicians call it a coup, I call it fussing around and kicking the Tories to the curb - basically, in Canada, however gets the most reps elected forms the governement...except that sometimes, it's not a majority government, such as is the case here - and the other parties formed a coalition, which gives them the majority and they overthrew the current government (elected less than two months ago) over a vote of confidence and formed a new government. It's a bit more complicated than that, but yeah...
So...really don't care at the moment, though it makes me really happy to know we won't have a conservative government for the next four years.
I prefer the term "coalition" to the word "coup." I mean, it's perfectly legal in a parliamentary system and under our Constitution. Just because it's never happened before and might stretch the boundaries of legitimacy doesn't mean it's a government overthrow! Sort of, anyway! XD
Dude, Merlin has fanfic awards. That fandom is not even twelve weeks old! they have all these catagories that will have no entrants becaus ewhat do you know, no ones had time to write novel length fic yet!
After a blissful existence, fanfic awards have apparently come to DW. *sobs* *needs various wienerdogs to hold me*
It was bound to happen eventually. Who is much to big a fandom to avoid the desire to hand out prizes. And really how could this fandom resist a new opportunity for wank?? It would be unnatural.
Sort of. Nothing that really looks like this, though.
During the First World War, some members of the Liberal party joined the Conservatives in the Union Party - but that was more leaving their party and joining another one than a coalition.
In the 20s, the Liberals governed with the support of the Progressives even though they had fewer MPs than the Tories. In 1926, when the Liberals lost a vote of Confidence, the Governor General asked the Conservatives to form government - which lasted three days until it fell. Mackenzie King, then leader of the Liberal Party, campaigned on this issue of the Governor General by-passing democracy in Canada and won a huge majority.
Basically, the 1926 kerfuffle set the precedent AGAINST asking the other side to govern in a coalition when the government loses confidence in the House. So this really is a completely new situation.
I love how TONS of people haven't heard of these until the past day or two. The person running them says they posted only once in 18 communities. But not a one was D/R focused because that's not her interest. Well, sorry, but, uh, a good chunk of the LJ fandom IS D/R focused. Shouldn't they have at least tried to get the word out? Contacted the_spdn or listed it in T&C maybe? I have no interest in general Who communities for much the same reason she has for no interest in D/R. Because I have no interest in interacting with that side of fandom. I love the show in it's entirety, just not the fandom. I'm partial to the D/R part only.
I'm not fond of awards anyway, the fact they are so skewed doesn't warm we to them.
Hey, wank only happens if people, you know, wank. I for one don't plan on wanking. At least not any more than I normally do. *shrug* It is what it is. Nice to see people who work very hard get wider exposure and all that.
But then again, I'm the big nerd on the playground with the kick ball going "Guuuyyssss can't we all be frieeeennddssss??? Let's play kickball then we will be BFFs!" And everyone points and laughs at me.
No kidding. I'm looking through the nominees and seeing there is a fair share of D/R fic there, but 90% of it is from the same 4 or 5 authors. Not knocking them, they are very good, but there are so many more out there that deserve recognition.
And this is why I don't like awards, doubly so when they are obviously underexposed.
Shhh! I'm safe as long I'm not visible enough in anyone's crosshairs. I'm quite comfortable behind the couch, and the wankery has moved on to things I don't care about.
Next thing you'll know I'll be back on Fandom Wank with a tutu on my head.
Yeah, it's the 1926 I was thinking of. For a political history major AND canadian, I'm seriously lacking in the early 20th century era - basically, it's sort of an academic rebellion against the global popularity of WW1-WW2 in the general population that's infected all of my teachers. I call it the DaVinci Code symptom 'ew, everyone's reading it, therefore it sucks and I'm better than that/it'. Which, sadly, I'm also affected with. So they sort of just skim over the late 19th, early 20th century, 'so, in 1867, Canada became a Dominion...and starting in the late 1950s, early 1960s, Quebec was shaken by something we the 'Quiet Revolution'.' *facepalm*
But as you said, this situation is different, in 1926 they were asked to form a government, without forming a coalition first - in this case, the coalition's already there. What scares me, however, is the prospect of having Dion as prime minister considering the instability of the leadership in that party right now, it's just asking for trouble. But better a liberal coalition than Harper, if the coalition is stable that is (which I fear, it's not - they're all looking for their own agenda and it might last a few months, but it definitely won't for a year or more)
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