My favorite Olympian image so far

[hel_ana]

Is this one of Canadian Skeleton racer Jeff Pain. Because it's crazy enough to fling yourself head first down a track, a mere eight inches above the ice and reaching 80MPH; doing it with a mean beaver airbrushed on your forehead is my kind of even crazier. You go, you crazy Canuck. Fly, fly like a beaver.

MATTHIAS RIETSCHEL/CP

So, in actual Adrienne news, I tried to get an egg separator last night at Target. Not only did they not have one, they didn't know what it was. The woman asked me outright what you did with it, and the guy pointed me to their fine selection of microwave egg cookers.

::sighs::

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[the-nita.livejournal.com]

It is a great helmet...

[hel_ana]

It is. He was inspired by an American olympian in 2002 who had an eagle on his helmet.

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

*laughter*

Oddly - I think I like the beaver better - doesn't feel as overused...

[much-ado.livejournal.com]

"Fly, fly like a beaver"???

i miss you :)

BTW, since you're infinitely more connected to canadian politcs, even now, than i ever have been, what do you know about a current rumour or movement to move to an elected Canadian Senate?

[hel_ana]

The feeling is mutual.

Well, the elected Senate has been a plank of the Reform party (and its successors, including the current Conservatives) since I've been aware that there *was* a Reform party. And I first heard about the Reform party when my grandparents were living in Arthur, which means I was about 14 years old.

Now that the Conservatives have formed a minority government, I would imagine that's what's causing the upswell in chatter about the possibility to move thusly.

[hel_ana]

Of course, I should point out that whether or not it actually happens will depend very much on whether the Conservatives are able to convince everyone else in Parliament (in whose party platforms it is *not*), that it's a good idea, or make it worthwhile for them to support it anyway.

OTOH, I personally would rather them focus their energies in electoral reform on changing to some form of proportional representation for the House of Commons. Unfortunately, they're likely to meet stiff opposition to that from both the Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois, though the NDP has everything to gain from such a change. And the Conservatives and NDP, even if they were willing to stop spitting at each other long enough to work together, don't have enough votes to pass it into law.

For instance, with the same votes cast in the last election, Parliament would have looked like this:

Conservatives - 36.3% of the popular vote: 113 seats (not 124)
Liberals - 30.1% of the popular vote: 93 seats (not 103)
NDP - 17.5% of the popular vote: 59 seats (not 29)
Bloc - 10.5% of the popular vote: 31 seats (not 51)
Greens - 4.5% of the popular vote: 12 seats (not 0)

Of course, that's assuming everyone voted the same. The reality is that the NDP and Greens might well do even better than that, since the incidence of strategic voting would probably go down.

[emortimer.livejournal.com]

At Target? You were shopping at Target?

[hel_ana]

In 2006, yes!

In 2010, sadly no.

I miss Target.

[morrisman.livejournal.com]

I have a nice hand-made wooden egg separator, found it at a craft show along with a bunch of other nice wooden utensils.