I'm not going to say too much about this video, I think it speaks for itself. Amanda has put words to a song, but also a movement in Alberta. There is growing resistance in this province to what is perceived as a moving back to the days of deficit spending. Her Twitter account was unjustly banned, but Danielle Smith and the Wildrose friends quickly came to her defense. Wildrose will no doubt be the beneficiaries of the publicity the video has received, it was covered by Sun News Network, CBC News, and the Calgary Herald.

So in recent days or perhaps weeks it has been apparent that PCs are taking a much harder stance on the budget and recent shortfall. Between the passing of Ralph Klein, the backlash in the media, from government agencies seeing cuts, and the rising popularity of the Wildrose there has clearly been a shift in focus towards fiscal conservatism.

So, I have been using twitter for over a year now and I was getting all stressed out about Twitter filtering me from search (where your tweets cannot be found by others). This is actually something that started about 6 months ago but #twitter @support? is non-existent. And after multiple attempts at following their help and repeated attempts to get help from Twitter I realized this was futile. Honestly, I think their support team consists of a 41 year old living in his mom's basement, that gets annoyed whenever an e-mail comes in (I'm thinking of Roy from IT Crowd...

Ralph Klein was the first politician that got me remotely interested in Alberta politics . He was the first political leader I ever witnessed on TV talk like a normal human being with convictions. The reason I paid attention at all was the many liberal teachers I had telling us how terribly cruel he was.

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The Progressive Spenders party is a new unofficial political party in Alberta

Think Bigger.

Bigger Deficts: Deficits have a bad reputation, we seek to restore Alberta's short fall to a more respectable level on par with the rest of the bleeding world.

Update: I finally had a response that wasn't canned text, Facebook Payment operations admitted that there is a "glitch" sometimes when you click the link in the e-mail. Even after this admission they are still unwilling to do anything at all. Facebook is keeping the money it stole, as a result they lost a customer that spends a good amount on other ad networks and I have managed to talk several of my clients out of using Facebook ads.