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Canadian elections finished this morning (Canadas yesterday evening). The right wing conservatives were soundly defeated.  No surprises there except the blue-out in Atlantic Canada and the third place thumping they suffered in Quebec and British Columbia. Good old Danny Williams out of "Windy Harbour" really did a number on Harper, (out there eh) profiling the PM as a backstabbing two-faced liar from his dealings as Newfoundlands conservative Premier with the conservative federal ministries.  Harper was a goner long ago. The wall writings were visible when the 3 wise men (in conservative terms)  Prentice Baird and MacKay  bailed on Harper. Prentice mistakenly stayed in politics but the other two were wisely and prosperously sequestered corporately. I initially thought their quiet unheralded departures were, perhaps, scandal management but quickly realized, after the PR hacks from Australia were contracted in (another fatal choice), that it was risk management on their p

I have to do a blog post on this Saturday night to keep my 9 year monthly string from breaking. I don't know what to write. Let's see....I bought some new golf clubs but my game continues to wallow in substandard regard. I continue to run 5k thrice weekly and slowly witness my lackadaisical dwindling body mass that is periodically hindered by a spiking appetite. My year long Asian hiatus has decidedly stretched to 18 months but the next 6 months are strictly mitigating my ever increasing homesickness to see my family by avoiding the Canadian winter. There...post complete. I'll be in touch.