Christmas Events

Before we get to the events, we must get something straight. As you probably are aware, we have a cat (Stewey) and a dog (Kato). Stewey is a mutt. Kato is a Pekingese, a royal breed from ancient China. These dogs were bred for looks and NOT intelligence. This was confirmed a few weeks ago at Costco. Kim was looking through a you-have-no-life-if-you-buy-this book--about everything dog. It compared a Pekingese to a cat in terms of lovability and, most of all, brain power. It states: "They are very similar, except you can train a cat." We chant that phrase as we clean up the occasional dog smash in our master closet with the unfortunate realization that sweet Kato is most likely running on all cylinders--as small as they may be. The cat, on the other hand (a very distant other hand), is pretty much zero maintenance. He doesn't need walks, table scraps, carpet cleaner or even a cat box. He doesn't exactly surprise guests as they visit the bathroom only to find the cat squatting on the porcelain thrown, but he has never found the carpet to be as desirable as the outside. If fact, I've not found cat smash anywhere in the yard (sorry about that, neighbors).

Any male human, upon truth pill ingestion, would admit to poop and other related functions comprising most of their hee hee subject matter top 10 list. Ludacrist5 allow no political correctness, no sir.


The kids are doing great things in their respective school activities. They are all in choirs. We've been to several performances so far. We'll report on that as we're able to get the video uploaded.


I just returned from Canada--Vancouver, to be exact--where I presented our debt pay down program to a few thousand Canadian mortgage pros. Interesting city--kind of like San Fransisco and Seattle. It's the most mild of all the Canadian cities.

If you think our government is messed up, try this: Canada had an election 4 weeks ago. They elected the Conservative party and thus was appointed a conservative prime minister. Several parties exist in the parliment. Some of the smaller yet much more exciting include the Animal Alliance Party, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada, and my favourite (Canadian spelling), the Marijuana Party. I mean, who wouldn't be in favour of that? The Marijuana Party currently holds no seats in the House of Commons. Seems the leader Blair T. Longley is unable to fill out the proper forms to get himself on the ballot. This is reportedly due to his constant "munchies" and inability to focus on tasks requiring more than 7 minutes of attention. The Progressive Canadian Party (PCP) has tried to make alliances with the Marijuana Party, whose leadership is unaware that PCP is merely an acronym.

Ok, some of that was a fish story. There are 3 viable parties, the Conservatives, New Democrats and the Bloc Quebecois. The Conservatives are like our liberal democrats. The New Democrats are akin to our left wing psycho freaks--man is bad, free the monkeys crowd. Bloc Quebecois is from Quebec and is left of the New Democrats. One Canadian gentleman described the 3 parties as liberal, socialist and communist.


Like I mentioned earlier in my drug party paragraph, 4 weeks ago a conservative was made prime minister after the Conservative Party won the election.. The New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois parties joined forces to oppose every single thing the conservatives tried, which has resulted in a complete stale mate. Then, through maneuvers not seen since 1922, the other 2 parties booted the prime minister out of office and put a socialist freak of nature in his place. As a result, Canadians effectively have no elected ruling government. That would be like the a Republican majority in Congress (if there was such a thing) booting Obama just because they had a majority.



Conclusion: USA rocks. Say what you want, but we really do have representative government. The last election was a testament to that fact. (I could go on about the bail outs, but I need my beauty sleep). OK, you talked me into it: All bail outs bad idea, period. Thank you.





Oh yea, I ran into Ben Stein. For those of you living under a rock...

From Farris Bueller's Day Off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s-oGumvPz0

Ben Stein on Glenn Beck recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg9pbA634ig

Me with Ben Stein in the Vancouver Airport (for those of you keeping track at home, that another 45 seconds of fame):




--Brian