We've decided to make enclosures for our Bimini. That means ordering vinyl window material, Sunbrella material, YKK No 10 zippers, binding and the required tools to do the job. Then I need to look at the YouTube video and pick up a few shortcuts.
Our friends aboard Grinn II - a Hunter 49 - is in a marina in Nuevo Vallarta (just a bit north of Puerto Vallarta). They sent two messages prior to 5 PM this afternoon pacific time. The first was that they had been preparing Grinn II for the storm. The second indicated that the marina was being evacuated and everyone taken to a shelter in the nearby resort buildings. This is an immense storm and we hope our friends are safe.
We have our country back. The Liberals will form government in Canada after a decisive win of a majority of seats in Parliament. We bring to an end the ridiculous right wing politics of division and cynical games played by the previous conservative government. The task now is to undo all the legislation that was put in place by those clowns.
I voted yesterday in an advanced pole for the October 19th General Election here in Canada. I have voted in elections since I came of age in this country. This is the first election where I felt so angry because of the nature of what has been happening after 9 years of Conservative government. This is not the Progressive Conservatives of past times. This is a deeply right wing government that has been systematically gutting the country's environmental regulations, muzzling its scientific community, participating in foreign wars, using racist rhetoric and scare tactics to dismantle our democratic rights and making secret deals they claim to be in the best interests of the country.
I do not recognize the country anymore. We were a peace loving country. We tried to protect the most vulnerable among us. We introduced a universal health system. We were peacekeepers at the UN and spoke there with moral authority. We are now losing all of this because of a government voted in by a flawed system with only 30 percent of the popular vote. What is the track record that has resulted? I think Danny Williams - former Premier of Newfoundland sums it up very well:
The very fact that I am posting a video of a former Provincial leader making the comments he is on our current Prime Minister is unprecedented. It is a measure of how low we have sunk. God help us on the 19th if we get Harper again.
