Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Beer Not Kids
To: The Right Honourable Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada; The Honourable Stephen Harper; The Honourable Jack Layton
Dear Sirs,
We the undersigned demand an immediate cessation of anti-beer comments from individuals running for Parliament.
We are quite frankly flabbergasted that an election debate surrounding something as mundane as child care has degenerated into an attack on a sacred Canadian pastime like drinking beer.
We think it is time that candidates started respecting beer. Beer is more than a beverage. It is part of the National Fabric.
Some Canadians do in fact choose beer not kids.
Don’t bash the beer drinker.
Sincerely,
Flippy Odegard
Rick Mercer’s Beer Not Kids Petition
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Okay, this just proves it - i love flippy! Rick Mercer is totally my imaginary boyfriend. I feel about him the same way everyone feels about Jon Stewart. The Daily Show is on way too late for me, but The Mercer Report rules!
jess on 12/14 at 08:43 AM -
What𠏋 funny about this is that the NDP and Conservatives are shooting their loads on this and it isn㦙 resonating at all. It𠏋 really a non-issue of an off-the-cuff remark that was right.
It wasn㦙 said by a candidate.If people have cash that can be spent on anything instead of a voucher for child care there is a probability greater than zero that it will be spent on something other than child care.
Notwithstanding it was brilliant in that it removed the sponsorship scandal from the headlines.
The Liberal party couldn㦙 have asked for anything better short of a conservative candidate saying something stupid about gays, guns, black, Jews etc.This election is fascinating.
The NDP party gave up its power as king maker for an election. Their supporters have totally been betrayed as a result.The Conservatives have become the uber-spenders and have proposed more spending than any Liberal party in history.
It will be interesting to see if anyone believes that the party that opposes every government social program now wants more social programs.Silent Leanne on 12/14 at 01:40 PM -
I am just reading your story and godness, my heart goes out to you. You need to have a heart to heart with that woman at your doctor’s office. I would have had a stroke by now. I absolutely love my surgeon and his staff. They are the most dependable employees and in 3 years, never once, missed returning a phone call. I am really thanking god for having found a wonderful doctor…. staff and all, after reading about that horrible woman. Her actions are unacceptable and I’m an easy going person. Don’t put up with it.
Susan on 12/14 at 01:45 PM -
A heart to heart with the woman I can’t get to call me back?
I think I’ve found good doctors, but I can’t say the same for all of their staff members.
Flippy on 12/14 at 02:20 PM -
Jess, we tape The Daily Show and watch it the day after, during dinner. Sadly, the only time we “see” Rick Mercer is on his website. Someday, maybe we’ll get a satellite so we can get Canadian tv.
Leanne, I know Leigh-Ann thinks your government is easier to understand than ours, but I get so confused with all of your different parties. Still, I have a crush on Jack Layton. I’m not sure I agree with everything he says, but he has a lovely twinkle.
I think I’d like to spend more of my childcare money on popcorn, than beer. I hope that’s not too anti-Canadian.
Flippy on 12/14 at 02:29 PM -
Let’s see if I got this right….
IF, (through some colossal galactic error) Harper became the next Prime Minister and IF, (I were so lucky that) we moved back to Canada, we would see a severe cut in our beer budget in order to pay higher taxes so that those with children (AKA “parents”) could increase their beer budget?
Forget that! I realize that it is a Canadian tradition to be taxed to death, but please don’t tell me that it is Canadian to steal my beer and give it away to someone else!
Even Robin Hood had enough sense to leave the beer alone!
Expat on 12/15 at 02:36 PM
