Another OLG Paradox Of Probability

In stochastic processes the future is not uniquely determined, but we have at least probability relations enabling us to make predictions.
William Feller, An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications, Third Edition, Vol. I, p. 420

The Oracle of Ottawa has the grand pleasure to be a resident of Ottawa, Ontario. And in the Province of Ontario we have a wonderful organization known as the Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation.  The OLG is a house of many games. One of the most interesting is a sports game known as Pools. It is just like an office sports pool that you play at work, but Pools is an office pool that has as its "subspace" the whole population of Ontario! (population, 13,505,900)

Lesson? - Probability is Spooky...

  As you can well imagine, things can get pretty exciting well into the NFL football season, where by one of the most popular bets in Ontario is the weekly series of NFL games. There can be up to 16 games, from Thursday night to Monday night. For five dollars you can take your best shot, straight up, and come Tuesday, the winner(s) are announced. If you can pick 14-16 NFL games, straight up, you could turn $5.00 into several hundred thousand dollars! And it being Canada, this will all be sweet and tax free.

HP-11C - Good tools are very important...

If the Oracle of Ottawa's old brain is working correctly, The weekly NFL Pool was the first and only Pool in the Province of Ontario. Then of course came the weekend NHL hockey Pool, then the MLB baseball Pool. With a hold back of any where from 40% - 60% the good old OLG ran with a really good thing until at the time of this writing, there are pools offered every day.  Which is proper and fitting, fair and wide open.

Most of the time, the results are to be totally expected. Such as the days when 14 baseball games are on the list, and the results are that only 2- 4 people were able to pick 12 of the 14 offered games. For this awesome feat, the reward can be several thousand dollars! This, for those that know of such things, fits the normal curve about just right. And tomorrow there will another list. Now remember, this is a pool, you do not have to get all the games right, you only have to be the punter or punters that gets the most games right, result, you get all the money, Sweet!  

William Feller - Awesome beyond words...

For example, early last week, there was a card offered of a mere 10 night MLB games. If you have tried it Dear Reader, you know that handicapping MLB baseball is all but impossible. But on this day one punter in Ontario got all 10 games, and in turn took all the pool money, which was north of $20,000 bucks Canadian, great work, if you can snag it!

On Thursday last was offered Card #99, it consisted of all the pre-season NFL games from August 15, 2013 to August 17, 2013 a small list of only 14 pre-season NFL games. If you think that major league baseball is hard to cap, you also know that regular season NFL games is an awesome feat of capping prowess. But who in heavens name would be crazy enough to even try to cap 14 pre-season NFL games? Surely a total impossibility?


Then the little fridge light came on in the Oracles brain, give it a random guess, by a very possible stroke of luck, the Oracle could possibly pick say 12 out of 14 games and share the prize with say at least six other randomizers. Well it was this fine Sunday morning when the Oracle checked his ticket and discovered that he only could guess 7 out of 14. Pure text book expectation. But the Oracle of Ottawa was shocked to discover that 66 punters in Ontario were able to predict 14 out of 14 pre-season NFL games!! The odds of performing such a feat of picking 14 of 14 games are 1: 16,384! That means that about 1,081,344 tickets at five bucks each would have to be sold, more or less. For a gross pot of $5,406,720 +/-. before withholding percentage of the house take, assuming 40%, would leave a prize pool about 3,244,032, which would have meant 66 prizes of $49,152! The actual prize that was awarded to these awesome subset of punters was a mere $555.30 each!! Hmmm...

This of course means, and makes very much sense, that only a very very small subset of the population of the Province of Ontario actually played. But excuse me! Sixty six people of this small subset were able to pick all 14 of 14 winners!???  While the greatest capper in America alive today Kenneth Massey, could only manage a paltry prediction of 10 out of 14!? If one was really cynical one would blurt out that the only way this could possibly happen is if you were somehow able to buy your tickets after all the games were actually played! But the Oracle of Ottawa wouldn't think of doing a nasty thing like that....

Paradox Of The Spread

If you do know that here is the hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, Section 1

In the Province of Ontario there is a game called Point - Spread offered up by the folks at Ontario Lottery and Gaming. It is offered in baseball (MLB), hockey (NHL) and football; both NFL and CFL! The "authority" assigns a value or a handicap figure to the perceived favorite of a matchup and you the punter simply have to decide if the team in question can win by more than a half point, a full point, and so on, or not. You can select from two to twelve games. The prize for picking the spread right for twelve consecutive games is one thousand times the wager. In Ontario at the time of this writing you can wager from two to one hundred dollars on one ticket. Imagine! Turning a two-ney into two thousand dollars!

Probability, even simple probability is very weird...

And in Canada it gets even better, the winnings are tax free! Provided of course that you are not doing it as a business, but only as a hobby. (If you are employing fifteen "runners" to place your tickets, odds are that you will be declared a business, so one must be careful.)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

 It is now on the verge of July. And everyone knows that July and August are nearly the two most important months of the MLB baseball season. Along with April, May, and June, not forgetting of course, September and October.... Again the Oracle of Ottawa is contemplating the fine points and eternal mysteries of the "spread". How hard can it be? Picking the correct result of the spread in a mere two games pays two times money. Two dollars becomes four dollars. There are games every day, why a really sharp person could own the world! Two events, with only two possible outcomes, Bust or Cover, gives the punter a one in four chance of doubling his money. That is like flipping two heads in a row, or hitting cold on two babes and getting their phone numbers one right after the other, stuff that the Oracle of Ottawa has done over and over in his long life with total ease. But sub in the words point spread and it might as well be infinity.   

The cold hard odds of picking the spread on twelve consecutive games is a mere 1 in 4096. Close inspection will reveal that that is one of the fairest props going. And it is fair. We are not talking soccer or cricket here. What keeps the Oracle of Ottawa up late in these summer nights is the certain knowledge that he has done far better at events with much, much higher odds. Take for example a twelve question test where there are four possible answers for each question. We now go from 1 in 4096 to 1 in 16,777,216! That is on a twelve question multiple choice quiz with four possible answers for each question, there are 16, 777, 216 ways to answer! And 531, 441 ways in which you can answer all twelve questions wrong! 

The paradox to the Oracle of Ottawa is that he can remember far more than one instance in his long life where by he has aced a twelve question multiple choice test with four choices offered for each question...Yet for the sheer life of me at the time of this writing, the Oracle still has yet to cash out on a three gamer point spread ticket. Which has the hard odds of 1 in 8, and which pays five times money. 

P.S.

Friday last there were 13 MLB games on the list. The Oracle of Ottawa focused for one more try and doped up all the days games. Then in fear that he might be becoming a problem gambler at two dollars a throw per day, put away the list in revulsion. The plan was to play two twelve gamer tickets one starting from the top and the other from the bottom of the list. Yesterday the Oracle decided to teach himself a lesson once and for all and check the results. There is no way on Earth that anyone can pick the spread results for thirteen games! Well Dear Reader you are right, I only picked 11 out of the possible 13!! If the Oracle would have played the two long shot tickets, he would have had two tickets that had 10/12 correct results, which pays 10 times money! My high stakes of $4.00 would have become $40.00... The Oracle is sure there is a moral to this story, but he just can't put his finger on it....

The Surface Area - Volume Paradox

Even simple surfaces can display surprisingly counterintuitive properties.
Eric W. Weisstein, CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, (1st edition), p. 1763

It was while conducting research on the job of the "thinking about thinking" project that carried the Oracle of Ottawa to You Tube to observe a large number of videos on HHO production. As mentioned in earlier posts the Oracle marveled at the utter imagination and craft of the various home experimenters and builders, in their search of the most efficient machine to produce hydrogen and oxygen gas.

Gabriel's Horn - Finite volume - Infinite surface area...

Of all the time the Oracle spent in schools various, the one chemistry demonstration that I clearly remember is the one in grade 7 or 8 when the science teacher actually took the trouble to demonstrate the electrical decomposition of water. Using two test tubes and a dry cell lantern battery the teacher soon had a nice pile of hydrogen and oxygen gas in their respective tubes. After demonstrating to us visually that the chemistry text was indeed correct, in that, there was indeed twice as much hydrogen as oxygen we were asked to possibly put forward an explanation. The Oracle of Ottawa proposed simply that the oxygen atoms had much better union representation than the hydrogen atoms! Which earned a hearty laugh from the class.

The teacher than explained to use the correct answer; for every unit of water there must be two hydrogen atoms bonded to one oxygen atom, because our Maker had engineered it that way. (of course this was a Catholic school....) Then he asked what would happen if the two gases were combined in the presence of a spark or open flame? Of course the Oracle of Ottawa at that time had no idea. So the teacher got two volunteers from the class. One had the hydrogen and another the oxygen test tube. A smoldering wick was lit. The tubes were turned slowly over and the hydrogen and oxygen escaped perfectly in unison to the open spark. KA - BOOM !! There was a white flame with a cherry pink edge and the cloud of mist was perfectly white! I can remember it all like yesterday. There is a shit load of energy, in hiding, in water.

 Now ponder this Dear Reader; You have a plate that measures 10 units by 10 units with a thickness of say 2 units. Calculate the volume, now calculate the exposed surface area in square units. Now cut the plate in half. Calculate the volume and the exposed surface area. Continue. In the words of William Shatner; how weird is that? The total surface area continues to increase, yet the total volume remains the same!

Now ponder this. You take a 1 cm.stainless steel rod, 10 cm. long to use as an electrode in your HHO machine or water decomposition experiment. Weigh the electrode, and then calculate the surface area. Now run you device and time how long it takes to generate say 10 ml. of hydrogen gas. Now substitute a stainless steel scouring pad for your honking stainless steel rod. Which electrode will generate more gas? What is the surface area of the scouring pad? What is the weight of the scouring pad compared to the honking rod?

Could it be Dear Reader that it is not about honking massy plates or about the amount of current, but rather the whole thing depends on exposed surface area? Feel free to let the Oracle of Ottawa know how that all works out for you.... Then ponder porous iron granules... 

Some Thoughts On Laminar Flow

There is nothing like our ideas existing in the bodies themselves.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, p. 87

Laminar flow is one of the physical phenomena, with the most striking demonstrations, that we seem to know the least about. The Oracle of Ottawa has started coming across it over and over lately, while carrying on the "thinking about thinking" project. One of the most powerful demonstrations of it can usually be observed in water fountains that are in public buildings such as shopping malls and airports. There is one in Ottawa, at the Orleans shopping mall, where a laminar flow column of water goes nearly a hundred feet high in a perfect tube of water. Once you see it, you never forget it. Especially when it is surrounded by columns of water in turbulent flow.

Laminar flow(a) - Turbulent flow(b)

How this trick is achieved with water is strikingly easy. They insert a tube of tubes in the pipe of the laminar flow column. The Oracle of Ottawa finds it cosmically ironic that making the water (fluid) flow through what you would think be a constrictive construct would actually make the water flow super smooth, go figure, God does not only play dice, He / She has a morbid sense of humor to top it all off.

Even more weird is that if you look up laminar flow in a university physics text, even the extended version, laminar flow gets all of less than two of the texts one thousand plus pages! Laminar flow occurs in all liquids and in any fluid mechanics text, air is considered a fluid. The Oracle of Ottawa checked in some of the texts that he has on heat engines, and even in the newer texts, the authors admit that not much is known about laminar flow inside a heat engine of any type! The Oracle of Ottawa cannot help but think that there is a huge field of research here. And huge opportunities for major improvements in performance and efficiency with little up front cost. The Oracle of Ottawa may discuss a few these ideas in later posts...

All this weirdness was opened up by two Englishman of the nineteenth century; George Stokes and Osborne Reynolds. Now this Reynolds guy put all the magic of laminar flow in an equation that gives up the value of the Reynolds number. He also wrote a very weird book called The Sub-Mechanics of the Universe. And that is one read that the Oracle of Ottawa will have a look at in PDF format. He had some very out there ideas that would probably be very useful in the "thinking about thinking" project. The Oracle of Ottawa also finds it ironic that Reynolds life overlapped that of Karl Marx... Hmmm. There will be more on this insanely esoteric subject in the near future...

Does The World Population Problem Add Up?

As long as it is allow'd, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, 'tis in vain to pretend, that morality is discover'd only by a deduction of reason.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book III, p. 457

The Oracle of Ottawa has heard it since he was a kid in the 1970's, and I am sure you dear reader have heard it all your life, so far, also. If the population of the planet Earth is not reigned in soon, there will be humans six deep everywhere before you know it! It is now well into the 21st century and the Oracle of Ottawa is alarmed to hear that Canada is going to need at least a million immigrants this year just to man the burger joints, all the walmarts, and to drive all the cabs that you can never seem to find when you really need one. So how bad is this so called world population problem really?

Hardly anyone here really...

As the Oracle of Ottawa has warned you dear readers over and over; always do your own thinking. Never take some talking heads word for it at any time. Do some research, crack a book, track it down, know for yourself and always do your own math, if you are able.There are about, depending on which authority you abide, six billion people, more or less, now alive on Earth.

Well how bad is that really? For example if you placed six human beings on a square meter, how much real estate would you require to have the whole population of the earth in just one place? Now, second part, if we break the world population into a average family size of three and give everybody a house and a yard measuring 30m by 30m, (or 1/4 acre, for you Yanks), how much land would we require? Would it even be possible?

Well the answer to the first part, is 1000 sq. km! That is a square measuring about 30km a side! Which is about the present size of Los Angeles! That's right, the whole population of the earth could fit into a square of about 30km in size! Why there is hardly anyone on this damn planet when you do the math! The second part, if you gave every family a home and a yard as described above, you would need an area the size of Alaska! Or an area about twice the size of Egypt, or if you want get jiggy with it, an area about 2/3 the size of the Province of Ontario! (All the above are about 1% of the Earths surface....)

It is all rather shocking isn't it? It appears that we are very far away from any population explosion anytime soon! The fact is that we haven't even broke ground on the back forty! Now the Oracle of Ottawa isn't pulling your chain. I will even provide a reference; Guesstimation - Solving the worlds problems on the back of a cocktail napkin, by Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adam, published by Princeton University Press. 
Check it out, it is just brilliant, maybe next time we will talk about how deep the oceans will get if all the ice melts..

And yet another source that you can check out...

Failure Means You Are Just About There!

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.
Stanislaw Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician, p.55

The month of March was very busy for the Oracle of Ottawa. The "Thinking About Thinking" project hit a rich vein.Yes indeed. I deployed elementary critical thought into a very elegant thought experiment, and then I postulated a very elegant hypothesis leading to a very simple lab experiment. The results were a total failure. 

Lorentz Transformation...

Many years ago when this happened to the Oracle of Ottawa he simply chalked it up to experience and moved on. This past algorithm has been wrong for all these years. This is what they teach in our schools and our universities. But, the Oracle of Ottawa had the recent self gained knowledge of the results of his intense "Thinking About Thinking" project to fall back on, this time. Instead of abandoning the idea totally, I turned the whole proposition on its head. Failure was turned into a very important, totally counterintuitive, discovery of the nature which is somewhat proprietary. The Oracle of Ottawa is still somewhat shaken at the nature of his discovery.

Quiet a lot of inspiration came from Stanislaw Ulam, and his book Adventures of a Mathematician. If you are involved or soon to embark on the creative sciences, I highly recommend it. You will find it endlessly inspirational. 

 It is the optimists that get all the glory. Even though they are not always the "smartest" or the most "gifted" people. On any given day the prize will go to the person, that will try one more time....
 

Does Everything Come In Threes?

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:20, King James Version

As per program, the Oracle of Ottawa has kept motoring on with his little "Thinking About Thinking" project. And as fate and accident would have it, the Oracle of Ottawa thinks he has found a very important pattern of all things real and temporal. It seems that every process reduces to essentially three steps. And when these are acted on by a whole bunch of "agents" you end with some thing called a "complex adaptive system". Which on the surface appears to be immensely complicated, but in reality is something that indeed can be gamed? I will list a few examples.

Complex adaptive system....

 Labor - Capitalist - Consumer

Father - Son - Holy Ghost

Up - Down - Sideways

Buy - Sell - Hold

Rock - Paper - Scissors

Win -  Lose - Tie

Long - Short - Straddle

Capitalism - Socialism - Fascism

Well those are a few of the basic systems, I am sure there are more.  The Oracle of Ottawa will continue to ponder the subject...

Some stuff to ponder...Now I am back to think about thinking....

Musings On Extended Diversification

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell  what may happen.
Jean Chretien, Straight From The Heart, p. 195

Every year in Canada due to the two national lotteries there could be created up to 154 new millionaires per year! But due to the prizes building from week to week and not being won and then having, say, a 40 million dollar prize go to a group of 35 people, you could on average count on 154 as being a pretty stable estimate.
Now this is not counting the smaller provincial lotteries that often award prizes over a million dollars. So therefore the number of newly minted millionaires could climb to over 200 in any given year.

Is this process solvable??

Take a six column 1 to 49 drop ball lottery. The odds to beat can be as high as 1 : 15,000,000 or more depending on variations built into the game. The Oracle of Ottawa often ponders how so much randomness can be squeezed into such a small 'space'. Now essentially this is a closed process. Yet it is deemed in all the texts as fruitless to even begin thinking about a way to 'solve' this process.

William Feller - Made math cool...

I often tell any youngsters that will listen, and there isn't many, that the most exciting field they could probably enter is the mathematical field of probability. If you want to get the biggest bang for your education nickels a degree in probability and statistical inference would be a fine place to start. For a life long pursuit that will have many more doors open as the future unfolds, all very hard to beat...

Is this data random? - Can you prove it?

 For example take the old card shuffling problem. This is a problem that is still yielding really weird and totally unexpected results! Who knew? But for a mere mortal or a really sharp kid read about one William Feller!
If you can get hold of a copy of 'An Introduction to Probability and Its Applications, Volume I, just dip in any where... You will soon find why that it is regarded as the greatest book on probability ever written. Why the bit on coin tossing is still rippling through the world. Some of the stuff in that book is so weird and so totally unexpected that it is at first read just incredible.... But the best piece of gold I mined from this work is to break the process down into smaller independent processes... Try it before you scoff...

Yes, all that is all very interesting, but these games are for silly poor people and ignorant rubes... A middle class or better off person does not buy lottery tickets or bet on sports, or go to the track or the card tables at the local casino... Well not so fast! And I have a reference! You should budget a very small amount for such things! See 'Investments' by Sharpe, Alexander, Bailey and Fowler, Second Canadian Edition, Chapter 26.   
Read this carefully. You can't win if don't have a ticket!

Many professional Mathematicians have been clobbered by this one! Now do you see the power?

My Blog Is Displaying A Logarithmic Distribution?

Mental conceptions of the world can become a 'material force' in a double sense; they become 'objectified' in material objects and materialized in actual production processes. 
David Harvey, The Limits To Capital, p. 101

The Oracle of Ottawa is certainly not innumerate. As a matter of fact he has a very good grounding in numbers indeed! Due to security concerns there is no need to delve into any great detail. But suffice it to say that the said grounding in all things numeric has allowed the Oracle of Ottawa a much greater limit of freedom than an ordinary person. Why it is one of the main reasons he is now free to regale you with his near daily missives.

Damn logarithms are everywhere!!

Aside from the utter joy of seeing my verbal constructs in immediate print and marveling at my God gifted artsie limp wrist when it it comes to all things of effective graphic design, the Oracle of Ottawa realizes that he abounds in wealth of more than one kind. One of the most interesting places in the blog has become the Stats section. Some weird things are going on here that I have not seen mentioned in any math book that I have read lately. It appears that there are two very clear demonstrations of the logarithmic distribution at play

Logarithmic distribution....

The first one seems to appear in the top ten hits. I will list the articles by number as a percentage of the total hits of the whole blog....

Article 1 : 22.04%
Article 2 :   7.67%
Article 3 :   5.82%
Article 4 :   3.80%
Article 5 :   3.17%
Article 6 :   2.12%
Article 7 :   2.12 %
Article 8 :   1.96%
Article 9 :   1.60%
Article 10 : 1.40%

The conclusion? Well, from a total posting of 165 posts, the top-ten posts will amount for over half (!!) of the total hits of the blog! ( 51.70% exactly...)  To this blogger, that is rather extraordinary in deed! The second display of the log distribution resides in the top-ten viewing countries! I will list the top-ten countries by percentage of total blog views....

Canada :               59.27%
United States:       19.28%
United Kingdom:    2.93%
Netherlands:           2.21%
Singapore: (?)         1.71%
Germany:                1.17%
India:                      1.01%
Russia:                    0.88%
Australia:                 0.70%
France:                    0.61%

The conclusion here is that about 90% of your total blog views will come from just ten countries! ( 89.77% exactly..) Who ever said that doing math is boring? And a little "experiment" like this is essentially doing applied math... I am still amazed that the distribution is so logarithmic, I expected a much less pronounced or "flatter" distribution...Always look for yourself and always think for yourself!!

Don't believe me? Watch my buddy here, he backs me up nice....

The Parrondo Paradox And The Office Lottery Pool

There are pairs of losing games which if played one after the other become a winning combination. Whereas you would expect the combination of two losing games in sequence always tend to lose.
Michael Clark, Paradoxes From A To Z, (Second Edition), p. 155

As any reader of this blog will now know the Oracle of Ottawa loves his paradoxes! A paradox is the tip of the iceberg that we can see over the wall of the limitations of our existence. They are very important. A paradox is proof that such useless things as the study of philosophy can be very profitable indeed. Paradoxes also prove that we don't have such a solid grasp of our respective reality's as we are lead to believe. A paradox is an indicator of all the knowledge that we are not yet aware of.

What is the optimal algorithm?

One paradox that has captured the Oracle of Ottawas attention of late is known in the literature as the Parrondo Paradox. It is the work of one J. M. R. Parrondo. I will leave it to the reader to track down all the forms that this striking oddity can appear. It is not a waste of time and you will get a lot out of it.

Back in my working days I was in a very large office lottery pool in a government office somewhere in Ottawa. The guy that ran it was old Bob. The way an office lottery in Ottawa usaully works is that you cough up some money every week. All the winnings go into a pool that is distributed just before Christmas. We had a great run with this pool. All of us shared in a prize of a couple of grand once! It was just before the closing of my first home purchase and it came in mighty handy, paying my closing costs and enabling a larger down payment that of course lowered my monthly payment. The mortgage has been paid off for a while now, but the thought of how to maximize the office lottery has kept popping up in my thinking.

J.M.R. Parrondo

If you are running a large pool or are buying a lot of tickets on a regular basis, you want to, at the least, play the most plays for the least possible amount money. A possible way to do this is to split up the number of plays between two or more lotteries per play cycle. For example in the province of Ontario there are at least three weekly lotteries that I like to take a flyer on. I think of it as "Extended Diversification". I once saw in a serious Investment text book that you should put at least a fraction of one percent of your yearly take into such bets! My combination at present is Lotto-Max, Lottario, and Ontario 49. There are not too many lotteries anywhere you could possibly win a seven figure prize for 50 cents a play! It is quite weird, but I am most always cashing winners in and keeping the over all cost down.

Isn't that just extraordinary?!

Sun News TV - Civil Service Reality Check -

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business. 
Lewis H. Lapham, Money And Class In America, Chapter 3, p. 59

One good thing about Sun News TV is that they never let the facts get in the way of a poor story. It was sometime on Tuesday afternoon and the big news was that 24 people at Public Works lost their jobs! We are well on the way to paying off the deficit! Oh man, and then the wailing really started! The incredible size of the civil service, it being beyond control! The astounding number of civil servants must be reduced, must be cut. I swear I could hear the long lost wail of Preston Manning, eeee-limmmm-aaannnn-ateee the deficit!

Well the Oracle of Ottawa perked up, perhaps the hapless hack of a guest had information, that the Oracle of Ottawa was not privy to! I must cover this breaking story like the Mint 400! But alas Dear Reader there was no new information! The guest haplessly babbled that there are over 420,000 civil servants in Canada! Now that includes everyone drawing a Federal pay cheque. From the Governor General down to the newest, ugliest, penis headed, private in boot camp of the Canadian Forces! Let us put that in perspective. There are at this very moment, about 35,000,000 Canadians. So 420,000 divided by 35,000,000, times one hundred, and that gives an astounding 1.20% of the Canadian population is involved in the administration and defense of the whole country of Canada!

Everyone showed up at the last Tory Convention!

Why if we keep up this pace, the great man Thomas Flanagan will be proved correct after all! We will not be able to decide anything, because there will be soon no one in charge! Sorry, as Prime Minister of Canada I regret to inform the Canadian people that I am going to have to fire myself.... God help us all! Good Night!! Of course this announcement will be done somewhere on the Sparks Street Mall on top of a wooden orange crate, as the former location of the Ottawa CBC is now a legalized rub parlour. And the door man looks really familiar!  Hmmmm.....

Meanwhile in other news! It is with the deepest regret that the great man in the present form of Theo Caldwell, is being deleted from Wikipedia, under speedy deletion! " Due to web and article content that does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject! "  To add insult to injury, as to press time there have been no contests to this request. So I guess I was not the only one that thought... Breaking News! The 24 lost jobs at Public Works are now 12 lost jobs! Poor Krsita Erickson was so disappointed!

This is the way Liberty dies....