Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Conservative Tax Plan

Saturday, January 7th, 2006 Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »

I actually like the Conservative tax plan. It is simple. Simple is beautiful. The cut in GST would save me about $30 every month. The increase in the basic exemption would save me about $150 every year. ...

Karl Rove Leaked?

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005 Posted in Politics | 2 Comments »

Preamble: I'm not a big fan of writing about US politics. I do follow events fairly closely and keep myself informed. I prefer to keep my views and analysis to myself. A conversation about US politics is usually a race ...

Quantization Error

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

From a comment from by previous post on STV: this is a feel-good proposal that doesn't really solve any of the underlying problems. >> Which are? There is quantization error transforming the (input signal/citizens' votes/polygon) to the (output signal/elected representation/pixels). The mathematical forumla ...

NWO vs WCW

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

Belinda Stronach announed earlier today that she is defecting to the Liberals and from this day forth she be referred to as Hollywood Belinda Stronach. Peter MacKay was not available for comment as he was attempting to put Jack Layton ...

Vote no to STV

Monday, May 16th, 2005 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

Tomorrow is election day here in BC. So go out and vote you dumbasses. Anyway, regarding the Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform, you should really vote no for the Single Transferable Vote system. I'm gonna assume that you are aware ...