<div dir="auto">Merry Christmas all -<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks Donald F for the hilarious Grinch poem! Here's a link for sharing it: </div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/12/05/how-the-trump-stole-america/">http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/12/05/how-the-trump-stole-america/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Eleanor </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 Dec 2016 09:27, <<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc-request@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-disc-request@listserv.thinkers.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send fvc-wat-disc mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: Jenn's letter in today's Record (<a href="mailto:cdcampbell9@gmail.com">cdcampbell9@gmail.com</a>)<br>
2. A Christmas Poem for PR (Sharon Sommerville)<br>
3. Re: A Christmas Poem for PR (Donald Fraser)<br>
4. Re: A Christmas Poem for PR (Jennifer Ross)<br>
<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <a href="mailto:cdcampbell9@gmail.com">cdcampbell9@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a><br>Cc: <br>Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:05:04 -0800 (PST)<br>Subject: Re: [fvc-wat-disc] Jenn's letter in today's Record<br><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:initial"><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Good work. Jenn. It's crucial to rebut lies by smug, right wing columnists</div> <p style="font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</p> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <div id="m_3095579099596228375_persistentHeader" style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in;font-family:Tahoma,'BB Alpha Sans','Slate Pro';font-size:10pt"> <div><b>From: </b>Sharon Sommerville</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 23, 2016 6:35 PM</div><div><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.<wbr>thinkers.org</a></div><div><b>Reply To: </b>FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</div><div><b>Subject: </b>[fvc-wat-disc] Jenn's letter in today's Record</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(186,188,209);border-top-width:1pt;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></div><br><div id="m_3095579099596228375_originalContent"><div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone,<div><br></div><div>Thanks to Jenn we have a letter in today's Record which will be followed up next week with Donald's letter.<div><br></div><div>Here is Jenn's letter:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/7033939-voting-systems/" target="_blank">http://www.therecord.com/<wbr>opinion-story/7033939-voting-<wbr>systems/</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Sharon</div></div>
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<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Sharon Sommerville <<a href="mailto:sharonsommerville@gmail.com">sharonsommerville@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:46:33 -0500<br>Subject: [fvc-wat-disc] A Christmas Poem for PR<br><div dir="ltr">Hello & Season's Greetings,<div><br></div><div>On behalf of the Board of FairVoteCanada - Waterloo Region, I would like to extend our very best wishes to you and yours for a joyful & safe holiday season.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a little holiday cheer which we hope you will enjoy. This wonderful poem came from Ann Remnant in Alberta.</div><div><br></div><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt;font-family:"segoe script",sans-serif">Oh Liberal MP, oh Liberal dear</span><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Pull up a chair and lend me your ear.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">My tale is short, I won't keep you long</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Just a wee ask to fix a big wrong.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Twas not long ago Trudeau made clear</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">FPTP had had its last year.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The people cheered and voted in trust</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">that Trudeau's Liberals would fix the unjust.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The committee studied, all summer through</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">With a survey, emails, and many a backyard do.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">A PR system was the favoured choice</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">of committee experts and the peoples' voice.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">So, quite shocking it was to hear Trudeau say</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Hey! 'Canadians actually think I'm okay'</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Then, Monsef to a room full of PR support!</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px">“<font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">There's no consensus” I regret to report. </font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">It's truly awesome to be a Liberal MP</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">devoting yourself to the entire country.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Pardon, I do not intend to insult or provoke</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">But, be wary, your power depends on our vote.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The time is short and the task is great</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">To keep the promise our PM did state.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Please give thought, 'mid the season's jollity</font></font></p><div><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"segoe script",sans-serif">To how you will fix our democracy. </span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>All the best!</div><div><br></div><div>Sharon</div><div>for FVC-WR</div></div>
<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Donald Fraser <<a href="mailto:donaldafraser@gmail.com">donaldafraser@gmail.com</a>><br>To: FVC Waterloo Region Discussion <<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a>><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org</a>><br>Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 08:53:00 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [fvc-wat-disc] A Christmas Poem for PR<br><div dir="ltr">On the topic Christmas political poems ... here is a sobering one regarding the elephant-in-the-room election result south of the border ... in the end it's a plug for PR<div><br><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<wbr>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<wbr>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<wbr>+++</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">Trump out-grinches the Grinch<br>=======================</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">HOW THE TRUMP STOLE AMERICA (apologies to Dr Seuss)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">By John Pavlovitz</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">In a land where the states are united, they claim,<br>in a sky-scraping tower adorned with his name,<br>lived a terrible, horrible, devious chump,<br>the bright orange miscreant known as the Trump.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">This Trump he was mean, such a mean little man,<br>with the tiniest heart and two tinier hands,<br>and a thin set of lips etched in permanent curl,<br>and a sneer and a scowl and contempt for the world.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">He looked down from his perch and he grinned ear to ear,<br>and he thought, “I could steal the election this year!<br>It’d be rather simple, it’s so easily won,<br>I’ll just make them believe that their best days are done!<br>Yes, I’ll make them believe that it’s all gone to Hell,<br>and I’ll be Jerk Messiah and their souls they will sell.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And I’ll use lots of words disconnected from truth,<br>but I’ll say them with style so they won’t ask for proof.<br>I’ll toss out random platitudes, phrases, and such,<br>They’re so raised on fake news that it won’t matter much!<br>They won’t question the how to, the what, why, or when,<br>I will make their America great once again!”</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">The Trump told them to fear, they should fear he would say,<br>“They’ve all come for your jobs, they’ll all take them away.<br>You should fear every Muslim and Mexican too,<br>every brown, black, and tan one, everyone who votes blue.”</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And he fooled all the Christians, he fooled them indeed,<br>He just trotted out Jesus, that’s all Jesus folk need. <br>And celebrity preachers they all crowned him as king,<br>Tripping over themselves just to kiss the Trump’s ring.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And he spoke only lies just as if they were true,<br>Until they believed all of those lies were true too.<br>He repeated and Tweeted and he blustered and spit,<br>And he mislead and fibbed—and he just made up sh*t.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And the media laughed but they printed each line,<br>thinking “He’ll never will win, in the end we’ll be fine.”<br>So they chased every headline, bold typed every claim,<br>‘Till the fake news and real news they looked just the same.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And the scared folk who listened, they devoured each word,<br>Yes, they ate it all up every word that they heard,<br>petrified that their freedom was under attack,<br>trusting Trump he would take their America back.<br>From the gays and from ISIS, he’d take it all back,<br>Take it back from the Democrats, fat cats, and blacks.<br>And so hook, line, and sinker they all took the bait,<br>all his lies about making America great.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">Now the Pant-suited One she was smart and prepared,<br>she was brilliant and steady but none of them cared,<br>no they cared not to see all the work that she’d done,<br>or the fact they the Trump had not yet done thing one.<br>They could only shout “Emails!”, yes “Emails!” they’d shout,<br>because Fox News had told them—and Fox News had clout. <br>And the Pant-suited One she was slandered no end,<br>and a lie became truth she could never defend.<br>And the Trump watched it all go according to plan—<br>a strong woman eclipsed by an insecure man.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And November the 8th arrived, finally it came,<br>like a slow-moving storm but it came just the same.<br>And Tuesday became Wednesday as those days will do,<br>And the night turned to morning and the nightmare came true,<br>With millions of non-voters still in their beds,<br>Yes, the Trump he had done it, just like he had said.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And the Trumpers they trumped, how they trumped when he won,<br>All the racists and bigots; deplorable ones,<br>they crawled out from the woodwork, came out to raise Hell, <br>they came out to be hateful and hurtful as well.<br>With slurs and with road signs, with spray paint and Tweets,<br>with death threats to neighbors and taunts on the street. <br>And the grossest of grossness they hurled on their peers,<br>while the Trump he said zilch—for the first time in years.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">But he Tweeted at Hamilton, he Tweeted the Times,<br>And he trolled Alec Baldwin a few hundred times,<br>and he pouted a pout like a petulant kid,<br>thinking this is what Presidents actually did,<br>thinking he could still be a perpetual jerk,<br>terrified to learn he had to actually work,<br>work for every American, not just for a few,<br>not just for the white ones—there was much more to do.<br>He now worked for the Muslims and Mexicans too,<br>for the brown, black, and tan ones, and the ones who vote blue.<br>They were all now his bosses, now they all had a say,<br>and those nasty pant-suited ones were here to stay.<br>And the Trump he soon realized that he didn’t win,<br>He had gotten the thing—and the thing now had him.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px 0px;display:inline;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And it turned out the Trump was a little too late,<br>for America was already more than quite great,<br>not because of the sameness, the opposite’s true,<br>It’s greatness far more than just red, white, and blue,<br>It’s straight, gay, and female—it’s Gentile and Jew,<br>It’s Transgender and Christian and Atheist too.<br>It’s Asians, Caucasians of every kind,<br>The disabled and abled, the deaf and the blind,<br>It’s immigrants, Muslims, and brave refugees,<br>It’s Liberals with bleeding hearts fixed to their sleeves.<br>And we are all staying, we’re staying right here,<br>and we’ll be the great bane of the Trump for four years.<br>And we’ll be twice as loud as the loudness of hate,<br>be the greatness that makes our America great.<br>And the Trump’s loudest boasts they won’t ever obscure,<br>over two million more of us—voted for her.</p><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 December 2016 at 17:46, Sharon Sommerville <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sharonsommerville@gmail.com" target="_blank">sharonsommerville@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello & Season's Greetings,<div><br></div><div>On behalf of the Board of FairVoteCanada - Waterloo Region, I would like to extend our very best wishes to you and yours for a joyful & safe holiday season.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a little holiday cheer which we hope you will enjoy. This wonderful poem came from Ann Remnant in Alberta.</div><div><br></div><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt;font-family:"segoe script",sans-serif">Oh Liberal MP, oh Liberal dear</span><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Pull up a chair and lend me your ear.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">My tale is short, I won't keep you long</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Just a wee ask to fix a big wrong.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Twas not long ago Trudeau made clear</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">FPTP had had its last year.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The people cheered and voted in trust</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">that Trudeau's Liberals would fix the unjust.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The committee studied, all summer through</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">With a survey, emails, and many a backyard do.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">A PR system was the favoured choice</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">of committee experts and the peoples' voice.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">So, quite shocking it was to hear Trudeau say</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Hey! 'Canadians actually think I'm okay'</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Then, Monsef to a room full of PR support!</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px">“<font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">There's no consensus” I regret to report. </font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">It's truly awesome to be a Liberal MP</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">devoting yourself to the entire country.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Pardon, I do not intend to insult or provoke</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">But, be wary, your power depends on our vote.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The time is short and the task is great</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">To keep the promise our PM did state.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Segoe Script, sans-serif" style="line-height:1.22em"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Please give thought, 'mid the season's jollity</font></font></p><div><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"segoe script",sans-serif">To how you will fix our democracy. </span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>All the best!</div><div><br></div><div>Sharon</div><div>for FVC-WR</div></div>
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<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Jennifer Ross <<a href="mailto:2jennross@gmail.com">2jennross@gmail.com</a>><br>To: FVC Waterloo Region Discussion <<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a>><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-announce@listserv.thinkers.org</a>><br>Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 09:26:38 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [fvc-wat-disc] A Christmas Poem for PR<br><div dir="ltr"><div><div>That was really, really good! Thanks for posting it, Donald, in spite of my determination to not follow U.S. politics--an impossibility now, I'm afraid.<br><br></div>Merry Christmas to all! Unless you'd prefer a Happy Holiday :)<br><br></div>Jenn<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Donald Fraser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donaldafraser@gmail.com" target="_blank">donaldafraser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On the topic Christmas political poems ... here is a sobering one regarding the elephant-in-the-room election result south of the border ... in the end it's a plug for PR<div><br><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<wbr>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<wbr>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<wbr>+++</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">Trump out-grinches the Grinch<br>=======================</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">HOW THE TRUMP STOLE AMERICA (apologies to Dr Seuss)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">By John Pavlovitz</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">In a land where the states are united, they claim,<br>in a sky-scraping tower adorned with his name,<br>lived a terrible, horrible, devious chump,<br>the bright orange miscreant known as the Trump.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">This Trump he was mean, such a mean little man,<br>with the tiniest heart and two tinier hands,<br>and a thin set of lips etched in permanent curl,<br>and a sneer and a scowl and contempt for the world.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">He looked down from his perch and he grinned ear to ear,<br>and he thought, “I could steal the election this year!<br>It’d be rather simple, it’s so easily won,<br>I’ll just make them believe that their best days are done!<br>Yes, I’ll make them believe that it’s all gone to Hell,<br>and I’ll be Jerk Messiah and their souls they will sell.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And I’ll use lots of words disconnected from truth,<br>but I’ll say them with style so they won’t ask for proof.<br>I’ll toss out random platitudes, phrases, and such,<br>They’re so raised on fake news that it won’t matter much!<br>They won’t question the how to, the what, why, or when,<br>I will make their America great once again!”</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">The Trump told them to fear, they should fear he would say,<br>“They’ve all come for your jobs, they’ll all take them away.<br>You should fear every Muslim and Mexican too,<br>every brown, black, and tan one, everyone who votes blue.”</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And he fooled all the Christians, he fooled them indeed,<br>He just trotted out Jesus, that’s all Jesus folk need. <br>And celebrity preachers they all crowned him as king,<br>Tripping over themselves just to kiss the Trump’s ring.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And he spoke only lies just as if they were true,<br>Until they believed all of those lies were true too.<br>He repeated and Tweeted and he blustered and spit,<br>And he mislead and fibbed—and he just made up sh*t.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And the media laughed but they printed each line,<br>thinking “He’ll never will win, in the end we’ll be fine.”<br>So they chased every headline, bold typed every claim,<br>‘Till the fake news and real news they looked just the same.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And the scared folk who listened, they devoured each word,<br>Yes, they ate it all up every word that they heard,<br>petrified that their freedom was under attack,<br>trusting Trump he would take their America back.<br>From the gays and from ISIS, he’d take it all back,<br>Take it back from the Democrats, fat cats, and blacks.<br>And so hook, line, and sinker they all took the bait,<br>all his lies about making America great.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">Now the Pant-suited One she was smart and prepared,<br>she was brilliant and steady but none of them cared,<br>no they cared not to see all the work that she’d done,<br>or the fact they the Trump had not yet done thing one.<br>They could only shout “Emails!”, yes “Emails!” they’d shout,<br>because Fox News had told them—and Fox News had clout. <br>And the Pant-suited One she was slandered no end,<br>and a lie became truth she could never defend.<br>And the Trump watched it all go according to plan—<br>a strong woman eclipsed by an insecure man.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And November the 8th arrived, finally it came,<br>like a slow-moving storm but it came just the same.<br>And Tuesday became Wednesday as those days will do,<br>And the night turned to morning and the nightmare came true,<br>With millions of non-voters still in their beds,<br>Yes, the Trump he had done it, just like he had said.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And the Trumpers they trumped, how they trumped when he won,<br>All the racists and bigots; deplorable ones,<br>they crawled out from the woodwork, came out to raise Hell, <br>they came out to be hateful and hurtful as well.<br>With slurs and with road signs, with spray paint and Tweets,<br>with death threats to neighbors and taunts on the street. <br>And the grossest of grossness they hurled on their peers,<br>while the Trump he said zilch—for the first time in years.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">But he Tweeted at Hamilton, he Tweeted the Times,<br>And he trolled Alec Baldwin a few hundred times,<br>and he pouted a pout like a petulant kid,<br>thinking this is what Presidents actually did,<br>thinking he could still be a perpetual jerk,<br>terrified to learn he had to actually work,<br>work for every American, not just for a few,<br>not just for the white ones—there was much more to do.<br>He now worked for the Muslims and Mexicans too,<br>for the brown, black, and tan ones, and the ones who vote blue.<br>They were all now his bosses, now they all had a say,<br>and those nasty pant-suited ones were here to stay.<br>And the Trump he soon realized that he didn’t win,<br>He had gotten the thing—and the thing now had him.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px 0px;display:inline;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">And it turned out the Trump was a little too late,<br>for America was already more than quite great,<br>not because of the sameness, the opposite’s true,<br>It’s greatness far more than just red, white, and blue,<br>It’s straight, gay, and female—it’s Gentile and Jew,<br>It’s Transgender and Christian and Atheist too.<br>It’s Asians, Caucasians of every kind,<br>The disabled and abled, the deaf and the blind,<br>It’s immigrants, Muslims, and brave refugees,<br>It’s Liberals with bleeding hearts fixed to their sleeves.<br>And we are all staying, we’re staying right here,<br>and we’ll be the great bane of the Trump for four years.<br>And we’ll be twice as loud as the loudness of hate,<br>be the greatness that makes our America great.<br>And the Trump’s loudest boasts they won’t ever obscure,<br>over two million more of us—voted for her.</p><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_1089329187968348072h5">On 24 December 2016 at 17:46, Sharon Sommerville <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sharonsommerville@gmail.com" target="_blank">sharonsommerville@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_1089329187968348072h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello & Season's Greetings,<div><br></div><div>On behalf of the Board of FairVoteCanada - Waterloo Region, I would like to extend our very best wishes to you and yours for a joyful & safe holiday season.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a little holiday cheer which we hope you will enjoy. This wonderful poem came from Ann Remnant in Alberta.</div><div><br></div><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt;font-family:"segoe script",sans-serif">Oh Liberal MP, oh Liberal dear</span><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Pull up a chair and lend me your ear.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">My tale is short, I won't keep you long</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Just a wee ask to fix a big wrong.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Twas not long ago Trudeau made clear</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">FPTP had had its last year.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The people cheered and voted in trust</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">that Trudeau's Liberals would fix the unjust.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The committee studied, all summer through</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">With a survey, emails, and many a backyard do.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">A PR system was the favoured choice</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">of committee experts and the peoples' voice.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">So, quite shocking it was to hear Trudeau say</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Hey! 'Canadians actually think I'm okay'</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Then, Monsef to a room full of PR support!</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px">“<font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">There's no consensus” I regret to report. </font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">It's truly awesome to be a Liberal MP</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">devoting yourself to the entire country.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Pardon, I do not intend to insult or provoke</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">But, be wary, your power depends on our vote.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="line-height:1.22em"></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">The time is short and the task is great</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">To keep the promise our PM did state.</font></font></p><p style="line-height:1.22em;margin:0px 0px 0cm;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style="line-height:1.22em" face="Segoe Script, sans-serif"><font style="line-height:1.22em;font-size:15pt">Please give thought, 'mid the season's jollity</font></font></p><div><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"segoe script",sans-serif">To how you will fix our democracy. </span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>All the best!</div><div><br></div><div>Sharon</div><div>for FVC-WR</div></div>
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