So it's Thanksgiving, happy Thanksgiving to the two people who read this. Much to be thankful for, we live in a land of plenty, where banks, even though they face no crunch will receive 25 billion dollars. Harper claims that our banks are secure, that the American problem is their's alone, yet we need to prop Canadian banks up? Is there a disconnect in logic here? Now simple arithmetic tells us that if the American economy is ten times the size of ours, and they need 700 billion dollars to secure their banks, that we are facing a problem roughly a third the size or the American one. Hardly reassuring. But then again Harper's arithmetic skills have never impressed me.

Have heard a number of people talking about this being the death knell of the capitalistic experiment, it may well be true, the frightening thing about this possibilty is that China will be the emergent economy, and will be on the vanguard of whatever transpires. Hope that they factor in the environment, and how to feed their immense population (as well as the worlds) when whatever replacement economy emerges. In short I hope that China grows a heart.

Our election is tomorrow, a couple of near greens have withdrawn, to make way for the Liberal
candidates, and Elizabeth May has asked near green supporters to consider strategic voting, ie vote for the non Conservative frontrunner in close races. Good for you Ms. May, now would you please do us all a favour, and sign up as a Liberal, it is where your heart lays, and will make less fractious the left in this country. I love Canada, where else would one find a country of this size with four left leaning (I know they don't lean nearly far enough) political parties, facing off against one right wing?? Vote tomorrow, not because Harper is dangerous, not because his policies will cripple this country, not because he will further sell us out to american oil interests, and not because he is a war mongering bastard. No vote tomorrow because I am sick of seeing his idiotic smug face on tv all of the time. This guy looks like the self assured ass in our history class, who didn't have a clue, but couldn't shut his bleeding gob, well let's shut his bleeding gob for him.

Would you take investment advice from him, because had you, you would have lost big.....from tuesday to friday. shheesh. This is a man who admits that his mother knows what's happening on the markets before his Minister of Finance. Stephan, are you sure that you got the right man at the helm. And if you were Jim Flaherty, would you be looking for another job, if your boss made this sort of comment about your capabilities? Please Jim, get your resume out there, please.

Happy thanksgiving everyone, be thankful that nothing is forever, that government policy changes and rarely is catastrophic, nothing is non reversible, and that come Wednesday, we will still be living in the greatest country in the world, albeit maybe one ruled by a class A moron.

There is much to be thankful for.