Should Canadians have opinions on the US election?
Absolutely. We all have a big stake in how the world shapes up, and our biggest trading partner and dominant neighbour will always have a big impact on our lives here in Canada.
Besides, I may be a red and white Canadian, but I’m also married to an American, and more than half of my living relatives are American on both sides of the family. I worked in the US under a visa earlier in my career. Its safe to say that my family feels like dual citizens even if I am the only one under this roof technically not so.
While I’m a card-carrying Canadian Conservative, I could never support Bush nor his circle of advisors. Its not only Bush that needs to go, but Rice / Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft and others from that gang that must be sent packing.
John Kerry’s sister stumps Canada for votes – “I trust you are all registered and will be applying for absentee ballots?” Diane Kerry told one group.
I couldn’t easily find a non-partisan site that provides information on ex-patriate voter registration, but this http://www.overseasvote.com/faq/ Democratic site is useful enough. It turns out that elligibility has a lot to do with which state one last resided in. Reading through the requirements, it seems to me that many ex-patriate Americans may be falsely assuming they are ineligible when in fact the registration process is open and straightforward. Read up!
Listened to Dave Winer and Adam Curry’s Trade Secrets audio show (I don’t plan on tuning in again, but hey, how about recording it in lower-fi and save some bandwidth bills for yourselves and others) and was amused at how much apparent angst went into dissecting the RSS (and Atom) support built into the new preview release of Firefox.
Sure, they claim that their lack of enthusiasm for this first utilization of RSS in a mainstream browser is because its not apparent to them whether this first support is useful or not, as if that would truly damage the continued evolution of RSS / Atom / aggregators and all things XML and holy.
Seems to me that Dave has forgotten what “bootstrapping” is all about.
And both forget that if the community can envision better, more compelling use cases, it will happen.
You’ll want to read Defining Success, by Subroto Bagchi in its entirety.
The driver of the jeep was treated with respect due to any other member of my Father’s office. As small children, we were taught not to call him by his name. We had to use the suffix ‘dada’ whenever we were to refer to him in public or private. When I grew up to own a car and a driver by the name of Raju was appointed – I repeated the lesson to my two small daughters. They have, as a result, grown up to call Raju, ‘Raju Uncle’ – very different from many of their friends who refer to their family drivers as ‘my driver’. When I hear that term from a school- or college-going person, I cringe. To me, the lesson was significant â you treat small people with more respect than how you treat big people. It is more important to respect your subordinates than your superiors.