The Timeout

Okay, so I usually talk about lessons that God is currently teaching me and not a political or current events commentary but there are two things that I cannot let go right now and I need to vent; for my own sanity. Here it goes:



Winston Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst system of government...besides all the rest." Well, I'm not usually one to disagree with Winston on most things, recent events have made me far more skeptical.



Let's start with politics in Canada. On this past Monday night I went to sleep in a democracy and when I woke up in some messed up place where people used words like "Prime Minister Dion." Over night the liberals had grabbed power despite the fact that they had suffered one of their worst losses in Liberal history and given the Conservatives the largest mandate for a minority government in Canadian history. If things couldn't get worse, we hear that 6 NDP MPs are going to be ministers in Dion's government with crazy Jack Layton taking Minister of Labour. Are you kidding me? A socialist becoming our minister of Labour? Have people just forgotten how the NDP royally screwed Ontario? How could this happen in a democracy? How could Canada have gone to the polls only a 6 weeks ago and elected a Conservative government and we get the unholy alliance of Liberals/NDP/Bloc? Come the end of January, Canada might have a Prime Minister that the Liberals did not even think qualified to lead their own party and which Canadians resoundly told Ottawa we didn't want.



Okay, point number two: the BCS fiasco which has somehow destroyed the Longhorn's chances of reaching the National Championship. Now, I've followed Texas all year (slight disclaimer, I am a Texas fan and I am biased towards the Longhorns so take this all with a grain of salt) and I don't think I've seen such a dominate College team. They dominated every all season except their last second loss to Texas Tech after dropping a game winning interception on the second last play. Yet, their on the outside looking in barring a miracle as Oklahoma gets the nod. Here's the kicker: TEXAS BEAT OKLAHOMA. Get that? Both teams have the exact same record, very similar schedules (Although both ESPN and SI say that Texas had the slightly harder season), and their stats are virtually identical. Yet, Texas (on a neutral field) beat Oklahoma 35-25 on a neutral field (Texas lost, on the road, and by a last second hail mary throw) yet the BCS polled writers and somehow these writers, lacking the wisdom of Solomon, have given the nod to Oklahoma. Are you kidding me? Why are we even voting? Does the NFL vote on who makes it into the playoffs? No, they pick the best record and then head to head and then record within the division.



Canadian politics and the BCS... what is one to do?