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February 19 2007

Celebrating Addiction in Alberta

It's a holiday here in Alberta; Family Day. I always thought it was celebrated just sorta because a day off in February is a good thing. I was wrong.

According to Wikipedia, the story is far more interesting:

The holiday was proclaimed by Alberta Premier Don Getty, in response to a drug scandal involving his son, Dale Getty, who had been arrested for possession of cocaine and was revealed to have cocaine addiction. Premier Getty was obviously embarrassed by the revelation and admitted publicly that he had neglected his family, saying that it was important for all Albertans to take more care with their families also.

Given that this ultimately was accepted, I'm surprised that we don't also have an Idiots Day. After all, we had all those years of Ralph Klein making an idiot out of himself, and, well, if you can declare a holiday because your son is a drug addict, you could surely declare one when you, yourself, are an idiot.

Of course, Ralph is now being idiotic all on his own, so we will have to wait to see what is worth celebrating about his successor. So far, I'm thinking we have a Boring Day coming up.

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Comments:

#1 19 February 2007 - 18:48

I loved this one. I'm still laughing out loud.

Thanks.
Kathy

Anonymous

#2 19 February 2007 - 20:45

i suppose you could say it was idiot's day here today -- since it was president's day.

limine

#3 20 February 2007 - 11:14

I was watching Leno last night (which I call the Johnny Carson show) and in the monologue he (Jay not Johnny, him being dead and all) said it was the day we celebrated Presidents, from George Washington who couldn't tell a lie, to George W Bush, who couldn't tell the truth. He zapped Clinton along the way as well.

v

taming

#4 21 February 2007 - 09:57

off topic-- have you ever had kopi luwak - the most expensive coffee in the world? It's made from coffee beans eaten and excreted by the Asian Palm civet. Yumm.