Hi Folks -- Bonjour encore;

It seems so long ago now -- the May election -- where almost 80% of the eligible voters consciously acted to NOT VOTE for the Harper-crits...(yes they got 40% of the vote, but 40% of 50% who voted equals only 20% of the eligible total -- the non-voters also made their own decisions to not vote to support them!)

And yet still under our supposed democratic system, the Conservative Reform Alliance Party (CRAP) "won" a majority government (financed to the hilt by their corporate keptocracy supporters who supplied the surplus cash for their admittedly illegal "In-and-Out" advertising scam which bought them their first crack at the government trough).  The Harper-crits will reign over 100% of us for the next 5 years -- acting almost exclusively in the best interests of the 1% -- and filling the corporate coffers of their bagmen with public tax dollars for untendered and unnecessary projects like prisons, jets, submarines, pipelines, etc., etc., etc..

Gretchen had 'bet' us that if our Pontiac New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate won, she would buy the first round for the members of this group one evening at the Black Sheep Inn...and I had seconded her bet by offering to cover a 2nd round. 

I was speaking recently with Gretchen in Montréal where she now lives, and we think we could probably combine our bank accounts to each cover 1/2 of our bet (ie. pay for one round of ale combined -- as a road safety measure -- MADD and all that).  We also thought that we could invite Mathieu to join us and buy him a brew too -- as he has turned out to be a pretty good deputé in his first few months in the Chambre.

The key question is: when?  It probably can't be before Xmas, but then should it be during the worst months of winter (which given global warming, may not even come this year -- as it is now December, and still no snow has stayed on our ground at Otter Lake for more than a couple of days)?  So if we wish to combine celebratory occasions, and do so during more driveable weather and if you folks can wait that long, we could propose a Vernal Equinox-NDP-Spring Thaw toast to the defeat (at least in the Duchy of Pontiac) of the CRAP and its loose Cannon...

...ideally on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon to permit daytime returns on our not-so-well maintained Pontiac 'highways'.

Other suggestions would be welcome...

Cheers all!

Toby