Well, it's finally actually spring. After a long winter with the crazy amount of snow finally melting, there are now lots of turds visible...
Which brings us to the election. For the first time ever, I really don't see a leader to vote for. Harper is the conniving second coming of GWB, Ignatieff is an inept campaigner who doesn't give a rat's ass, and Layton is scared to death of actually being in power, although he seems the most honest. Likely I'll vote NDP for the second time ever because of Linda Duncan running in my area. I kind of like being the sole pocket of leftist rebellion in a Conservative Alberta.
I don't want to waste my vote, but obviously a lot of people have given that idea lots of thought. Especially those wacky my-big-fancy-wedding Brits. Or maybe they just update Wiki more thoroughly. Here are political parties who have a less serious party line:
[Wikipedia]
Australia
Deadly Serious Party
Imperial British Conservative Party
Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Part
Party! Party! Party!
Surprise Party
Austria–Hungary
PFGFIDSDG Partei für gemäßigten Fortschritt in den Schranken der Gesetze (Party for Moderate Progress Within the Bounds Of the Law)
Belarus
Beer Lovers Party (liquidated in 1998)
Canada
Absolutely Absurd Party
Canadian Extreme Wrestling Party
Christian-Atheist Party of Canada
Prince Edward Island Draft Beer Party
Parti Citron (Lemon Party)
The Party Party
Rhinoceros Party
Denmark
Union of Conscientiously Work-Shy Elements
Nihilist People's Party
Estonia
Royalist Party of Estonia
Faroe Islands
Hin Stuttligi Flokkurin (The Funny Party)
Finland
True Finns
Germany
Die PARTEI (The Party; Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Protection of Animals, Promotion of Elites and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative)
APPD Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany
Hungary
Double-tailed Dog Party
Iceland
Besti flokkurinn
Framboðsflokkurinn
Israel
Pikanti (a food manufacturer that contested the 1992 election as an advertising gimmick)
Italy
Fronte dell'Uomo Qualunque (Ordinary Man's Front)
Partito dell'Amore (Love Party)
New Zealand
Bill and Ben Party
Imperial British Conservative Party
McGillicuddy Serious Party
Netherlands
Party of the Future
Norway
Beer Unity Party
The Political Party
Poland
Orange Alternative
Polish Beer-Lovers' Party (defunct after winning 16 seats in 1991)
Russia
Beer Lovers Party
Slovakia
Paliho Kapurková, Cheerful Political Party
Spain
Partido del Karma Democrático, PKD ("Party of the Democratic Karma")
Sweden
Donald Duck Party
Ukraine
Ukrainian Beer Lovers Party
United Kingdom
Adam Lyal's Witchery Tour Party
Church of the Militant Elvis Party
Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality
Death, Dungeons and Taxes Party
Dog Lovers Party
Fancy Dress Party
Glow Bowling Party
Hardcore: You Know the Score party
I Want to Drop a Blancmange Down Terry Wogan's Y-Fronts Party
Mongolian Barbecue Great Place to Party
New Millennium Bean Party
Miss Great Britain Party (candidates are mostly women who have entered the Miss Great Britain beauty contest)
Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Raving Loony Green Giant Party
Rock 'n' Roll Loony Party
Scottish Jacobite Party
Teddy Bear Alliance
United States
Guns and Dope Party
Mickey Mouse as an independent write-in candidate
OWL Party
Straight Talking American Government Party (STAG)
Surprise Party
The Rent Is Too Damn High Party
Unsurprisingly, beer is well represented.
