Hey Doug,

Here are the original names of the main Canadian political parties...

The Liberals.

The Progressive Conservatives (cute, eh?).

The New Democratic Party or NDP (socialist).

And more recently...the Bloc Quebecois (separatist) and the Reform Party (far right), recently renamed the Canadian Alliance (or something like that...trying hard not to be quite so far right as before, but no one is convinced).

What did comedians call them? The Gliberals, the Regressive Constipatives, and the Nearly Defunct Party (NDP)...HA! HA! HA!

As for the Bloc...well, how about Block-head-EK-WA...and the Canadian Reform Alliance Party, of course had the brief and unfortunate acronym CRAP (no kidding!)...which gave the press a field day, as you can imagine.

All this has nothing to do with Attacks on America, but I thought you could use a little Canadian comic relief.

By the way, the most brilliant of the above psuedonyms is definitely...the GLIBerals!!! Marvellous! It sums them up to a "T".

And they are the only ones with any hope of winning a majority government...which they have now done twice...I think...or is it 3 times...geez...it's like watching "I Love Lucy" reruns. No surprises here. :-)

- LH