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Welcome to the depression. If your cell phone goes off during the game you will lose. The toilet roll dispenser will withdraw, the toilet will flush and the stall door will be open.
Legend has it that during the last depression, in the last century, even before the days of most those who now administer the CFC, chess gained popularity. It's not like there was a lot to do. Listen to the wife talk about the job you didn't have or go play chess. It was a no brainer and when you get down to it, who really ever wants to work? I only ever worked because the kids used to cry when they were hungry. I went to work and my wife stayed home and listened to them cry.
With any luck at all the chess clubs will flourish as the job market crashes.
We have an election coming up. I don't bother voting these days because it's my feeling it only encourages them. Really, though, in the days when I did vote the only question was if I was better off than I had been before the last administration took office. Probably you thought I cared if you were better off, or humanity was better off. Not a chance. If I was better off then the government had earned my vote for another term. If I was not then I would vote for someone else.
This is a tough election. The government has quite the record. Remember the income trusts? They are spending our national wealth on a war and building our war machine. I've never voted for a war. They allow tax deductions if a parent sends his kids to a camp. But not if it's a chess camp. They want chess parents to vote for other people whose kids participate in other activities to get tax breaks while the chess parents get ZIP. How do you like that model?
The official oppositon is also the treat of the week. The leader wants us to vote for a carbon tax. Here we are entering a depression and they want us to vote for more taxes. Probably he's wondering why the polls show one of the parties is heading for a majority government and it's not his. The Liberals are not losing this election. The leader is giving it away!
The NDP and Green Party have staked out the same ground as the Liberals so we should see a nice split of the votes.
Probably crotchety John will tell me I sound bitter. I sentence him to a week of watching the stock ticker on TV. :)
Legend has it that during the last depression, in the last century, even before the days of most those who now administer the CFC, chess gained popularity. It's not like there was a lot to do. Listen to the wife talk about the job you didn't have or go play chess. It was a no brainer and when you get down to it, who really ever wants to work? I only ever worked because the kids used to cry when they were hungry. I went to work and my wife stayed home and listened to them cry.
With any luck at all the chess clubs will flourish as the job market crashes.
We have an election coming up. I don't bother voting these days because it's my feeling it only encourages them. Really, though, in the days when I did vote the only question was if I was better off than I had been before the last administration took office. Probably you thought I cared if you were better off, or humanity was better off. Not a chance. If I was better off then the government had earned my vote for another term. If I was not then I would vote for someone else.
This is a tough election. The government has quite the record. Remember the income trusts? They are spending our national wealth on a war and building our war machine. I've never voted for a war. They allow tax deductions if a parent sends his kids to a camp. But not if it's a chess camp. They want chess parents to vote for other people whose kids participate in other activities to get tax breaks while the chess parents get ZIP. How do you like that model?
The official oppositon is also the treat of the week. The leader wants us to vote for a carbon tax. Here we are entering a depression and they want us to vote for more taxes. Probably he's wondering why the polls show one of the parties is heading for a majority government and it's not his. The Liberals are not losing this election. The leader is giving it away!
The NDP and Green Party have staked out the same ground as the Liberals so we should see a nice split of the votes.
Probably crotchety John will tell me I sound bitter. I sentence him to a week of watching the stock ticker on TV. :)
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