Category Archives: Politics

The Agenda and Election Review

It’s been a while since I’ve really blogged, about a month to be exact. The reason for this has been that with the Ontario’s Sexiest Candidate poll that I was running, it felt unnecessary to be creating content while that was so popular. I was also having some complications with keeping the site live, so wanted to make sure there would be no issues.

Well, after a month of voting and a ton of media attention, (great practice for Talk Back Show) it’s time to get back into the content creation game. And you’ll be excited to know that I actually have a ton prewritten, and definitely a few that are bound to create the kind of discussion and dialogue you’re used to from me.

But first, let’s just wrap up Sexiest Candidate… while the radio appearances were fun, I’d say my television debut was the most exciting. And while nervous as hell, I feel like I held up well. Hopefully, this is just the start! Thanks again to Steve Paikin and the entire Agenda team for having me on.

Elected
Brad Duguid
Tim Hudak
Jeff Yurek
Michael Harris
David Orazietti
Andrea Horwath
Cheri DiNovo
Laurel Broten
Monte McNaughton
Jonah Schein
Teresa Armstrong
Bill Mauro
Dalton McGuinty

Runner Up
Karl Walsh
Lori Holloway
Marisa Sterling
Cortney Pasternak
Christine McGirr
Michael Lende
Pam Hundal
Donna Skelly
Liang Chen
Sandie Bellows
Helen Burstyn
Megan Cornell
Sophia Aggelonitis
Sarah Thomson
Andrea Mandel-Campbell
Ali Chahbar
Marilissa Gosselin
Paul Watson
Kevin Gaudet
Vince Agovino

Didn’t Place
Andrew Brannan
Aleksandra Navarro
Joe Whitfeld
Nancy Fiorentino
Angela Salewsky
Andrew Miller
Tanya Gutmanis
Matthew MacKenzie
Meredith Cross
Aren Bedrosyan
Erin Gorman
Cheryll San Juan
Michelle Bilek
Nik Spohr
Judith Van Veldhuysen
Taylor Howarth
Gina van den Burg
Mark Cairns
Kevin Lebonte
Kira Mees
Trevor Westerhoff
Stephanie-Lynn Russel
Paul McKeever
Steve Dyck
Evan Wiseman
Judi Falardeau
JD McGuire
George Singh
Charlie Taylor
Gerti Dervishi

Sexiest Candidate is Here!

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We are announcing Ontario’s Sexiest Election Candidate at 5PM!
**PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE ON OCTOBER 6TH!**

This vote isn’t the one that shapes the your daily lives. Your vote on October 6th affects you, your family, your friends, your city, province, country and ultimately, your vote helps shape our world. The world is a very volatile place right now, so now more than ever, casting your vote for who you think is the best choice for our future is important. On October 6th, please get out and vote.

Would like to thank all 64 of the Candidates who were selected to be in this competition. I appreciate your sense of humour and kind words. Thank you for being active members of our democracy and I wish you the best of luck in tomorrow’s election and into the future.

Also, thank you to the voters who participated in this. My hope is every single one of you are voting tomorrow, whether it’s your first time or not. I’m glad together we were able to have a little political fun!

It will be found here - http://swingcatproductions.com/blog/ontarios-sexiest-election-candidate-2011/

Total Votes: 150,034

Total Unique Voters: 29,840

Total Clicks on Candidate Links: 7198

Toronto Star –  Website Seeks to Crown the Campaign’s Cutest
Rock 95 Barrie – Barrie Politician Among Ontario’s Sexiest?
Yahoo! News Canada – Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak in the Running for Campaign’s Sexiest Candidate
B101 – Sexiest Ontario Election Candidates
NewsTalk 1010 – Interview with Jim Richards
Barrie Examiner – Candidates Bringing Sexy Back
Simcoe – Barrie has Sexy Candidates
iPolitics – Who’s the Sexiest Ontario candidate?
CTV News Toronto – Online poll asks which Candidate is Ontario’s Sexiest
CBC.ca – Does a Candidates Physical Attractiveness Affect your vote?
The National Post – Q&A with Zach Bussey, Can ‘Ontario’s Sexiest Candidate’ Sell Voters on the Provincial Election?
24 Hours Toronto – Ontario’s Sexiest Candidate? You be the Judge.
The Sun Times – They’re Bringing Sexy Back
Barrie Examiner – Miller is up Against MacKenzie in Online Sexy Poll
Huffington Post – Online Poll Asks which Candidate is Sexiest

Enjoy! And remember to vote on October 6th!

Since When is Stealing a Wheelchair Cool?

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I didn’t really comment on this when it first happened. Mostly because I just *heard* about it, and hadn’t actually seen it. But the long and the short of it… Lauren O’Neil, better known as @laurenonizzle on Twitter hanging out with Casie Stewart (@casiestewart) came upon a power wheelchair and decided that it would be a great idea to use it. Ignoring common sense or bothering to show any compassion towards the owner of the chair, they took pictures of Lauren in the chair, and even had the gall to shoot video of it.

Now, I get that people make dumb mistakes. It’s possible they had been drinking. Who knows. We all have done something silly in our lives that in hindsight we probably shouldn’t have and the next day we shook our heads at ourselves and learned from it. But the difference here… is they thought it was a great idea, glorified it, and blogged about how awesome they were because they did it. They had no remorse. They didn’t (don’t?) care. It was all a big joke.

“Do not leave your wheelchair unattended at night… this will happen,” the blog reads.

Now, soon after they posted and people commented on how this behaviour was “repugnant”, “disgusting”, “inept” and others… the blog was quickly edited to remove the majority of the admission of borderline criminal behaviour.

What once read;

Has been changed to remove most of the details… so now basically consists of a new story that the owner of the chair actually gave them permission. That no one was injured. And the video was removed.

On the other hand, the one in the chair still states proudly on her blog “Did he really expect a fun wheely motorized device to go unnoticed and untouched in the middle of downtown Toronto on a Saturday nightwith all those young, irreverent millennials roaming about?”


I think this is more telling about her character than anything. Rather than shed the ‘young, irreverent millennial’  (read stupid asshole child) reputation she seems to poke fun at, adopts it as what she is expecting the world to ‘deal’ with it. What’s sadder, is that Lauren represents a brand – Vitamin Water. And while I’m sure her employers haven’t seen this, I doubt they would approve of this kind of behaviour. And perhaps that’s what bugs me most about this… Casie and Lauren are seen as great people for brands to partner with because of the ‘vanilla’ nature of their blogs.

Me on the other hand… I deal in the realm of discussion. I like to make people talk, think and act. It’s perceived as controversy but it’s actually just discussion. But for whatever reason, this makes me.. as one community manager says “a potential liability”.  Which honestly, couldn’t be further from the truth. Hell, I even applied to a job last year where I was denied because my blog was “Too honest”.

It’s a sad reality we live in when bad behaviour is often rewarded, and honest behaviour is punished.

I equate this whole thing to my favourite Social Media Moron from the Vancouver Riots; at least he was disciplined.

Want to make it right you two? I’ll retract this post if you write an apology to the anonymous man who’s wheelchair you hijacked AND did some community service. The punishment fits the crime and all is right in the world again.

Oh and images are used under CC License from TCL just in case there was any confusion.

Social Media Propaganda

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I posted about a year ago the Social Media Ads from 50 years ago… well now I’ve found a new set that I love! These are social media propaganda ads to show your  support of the social media war. And I’m pretty in love with them… if you want to buy my love, you’ll get these for me! They’re available on Etsy by designer JustOneScarf for $7.50 for a poster.

My birthday is coming up…. in 5 months, so this would be awesome. Honestly… very well designed and crafted. I actually might place an order for these. Not just because of my love of social media, but because they are genuinely cool. I’d like to have the original side by side… show how the times have changed (yet they remain the same…) Anyway, enjoy!

Your Blog Topics

The other day I put out a simple question to Twitter “What should I blog about?” figuring I’d get an interesting topic from someone. What I ended up getting was actually a bunch of interesting topics and it didn’t seem fair to just blog about one of them, so I’m going to address each one suggested in one article. (I may make this a biweekly thing as it might be fun!)

Clearly this is in response to the Amy Winehouse death. I don’t know what it is to be honest. Maybe our lives are so boring or so awful that we need to distract ourselves with the pain of others to get by? Once, almost a half decade ago I cared about celebrity deaths… but that was because there was a year long bet on celeb deaths – a death pool. How’s that for morbid? (I won btw, $250).

My guess is people just like feeling bad about things. It’s why the media always tells awful stories of death and despair. It’s a sickness that we all have, and because we all have it it’s just written off as normal. People die… I don’t know why it’s such a big deal.

Ironically, Amy Winehouse’s dad is setting up a foundation to help people with addiction… because he was so good at helping those with it. (Yeah yeah I’m a jerk.)

The link is about the US Debt Ceiling. You know… the States are pretty fucked up. I don’t think anyone down there is sane anymore. Barack Obama has shown to be an AWFUL president. He promised changed, and then brought in all the same people Bush worked with. The same people who caused the mess are now being tasked to fix it. Boehner is the dumbest orange with a mouth you’ll ever see, This guy is a nutcase. “Annoying Orange” compared to Annoying Orange Boehner isn’t even a fair comparison.

Here’s  the reality, there will be a deal. It will come right around August 1st and anyone who actually thinks the US will default doesn’t understand that the 2012 election campaign has started already. The funniest thing about this whole thing of how transparent Obama + Boehner have been about it… Obama’s original plan covered the debt problem until just after the 2012 election (passing the buck) whereas the Boehner plan would go just before the election (ensuring Obama loses).

Wish fitness could be easier. But that being said, I’m looking forward to being in great shape! I’ve been doing P90X and seeing improvements already! So today is July 28th… so by December, women better be ready for me to be filled with testosterone  and more flirty than I already am! They may even flirt back if there’s any kind of improvement over what I look like now.

Can you hire interns that are all attractive? About 2 years ago I worked with a company that’s interns were honestly the hottest girls they could have found. They had about 3 interns and all three of them made working very difficult. The hot outfits they wore all trying to outdo each other… and god damned they knew how to flirt. I could use a couple interns….

That being said, interns should be paid and I dislike all of these companies that use interns. I’ve known interns who work at marketing and advertising companies who actually did the work of their collegues – with no pay. Ridiculous. Pay your god damned interns you cheap ass companies, even if it’s minimum wage – give them something to actually assist with the expensive cost of living, transit, eating and school!

Hahaha, I need to get some Jewish interns to help write me stuff. This made me laugh when I saw it. It’s midsummer and in summary, it’s been a good one for the most part. I think there’s been a shift in Toronto’s social media scene and it’s not a good one. It’s led to a lot of strange behaviour by a lot of people. As such, I’ve taken a step back from it all. I’ve always heard people say “It’s like highschool” and didn’t really see it… but now I do. Collectively let’s grow up ya? Also… not enough bikini pictures! (Feel free to send to busseyzach@gmail.com… ZachBussey.com could use a sexy host!)

Meryl Streep: Great actor, obviously can fake an orgasm convincingly. She could be in any movie and pull off the role! I’d like to see her in an action flick though.

Anne Hathaway: Ahhh god she’s hot. She’s probably one of the most ideal girls in Hollywood to date… is she dating anyone these days? If you get a chance, check out Love and Other Drugs – convinced me I was developing Parkinson’s.

Sarah Jessica Parker: Horse with dead eyes. Leave Ferris Bueller alone.

Kim Cattrall: Love that she fucked Trudeau.

Kristin Davis: Do women actually relate to her? I find her as annoying as Cynthia Nixon.

Cynthia Nixon: Just as annoying as Kristin Davis. I watched the SATC show like 15 times, and every story involving her was annoying.

Sleep is great. Since changing my diet and working out more I find I need less sleep and feel more energized! Though maybe after reading this post, it will help you sleep. Haha, maybe this whole idea isn’t that good after all… guess we’ll see. You need to have a little physical activity before you go to bed and you’ll sleep great! ;)

 

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