Last week, Chuck Strahl, Barry Penner’s Federal BFF and one of Chilliwack’s Three Musketeers (well, Two Musketeers Plus John Les Who Is Also There, I Guess) announced that he would not be running for re-election. Now, being devoted to Barry Penner as I am, I don’t really know too much about Chuck. However, I can say this: he certainly stood next to Barry Penner every so often.

To recognise his outstanding career and his great achievements in the field of Standing In the Frame When Barry Penner Has His Picture Taken, I proudly offer the Chuck Strahl Retrospective Experience, Featuring Barry Penner. Just click here to re-live his accomplishments (for the full effect, be sure to open this in the background.)

I’m sorry, I don’t know why I put this up. There is no Barry Penner in this picture. Just some Moustache Dude, a Red Scarf Lady, and that guy with what appears to be reading glasses and a sweater vest. No way Barry Penner would be caught dead with these squares.

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Clearly, this is being masterminded by Barry “the puppetmaster” Penner, in a bid to install a new premier that he alone controls with his secret stash of organic catnip and dolphin-friendly tuna fish. It may be a bit of a modification to his master plan, but a well-thought out one, worthy of any Bond villain. What does Barry Penner have to say about this?

“He’s clawing his way to the top.”

- Barry Penner (Vancouver Sun)

Look out, Victoria. Ranger’s coming.

Draft Ranger the Cat for Leader (Facebook)

1. Fix The Environment
2. Get transferred out of that dead-end Environment Minister job
3. Convince El Gordo to quit (read between the lines of Barry Penner’s comments here… it’s obvious it was Barry Penner’s doing)
4. Become the new Premier of British Columbia
5. and so forth.

Obviously, we aren’t sure of all the details yet, but it’s clear now that the road to the premier’s office has opened up for the best MLA in existence in the history of the universe. I’d be surprised if they even bother with a leadership convention; it’s obvious that Barry Penner is their man.

However, I had a bit of a surprise today… the Fight HST Hombres have on their website a list of 24 names up for recall… including one Minister of The Environment Barry Penner. Hmm… did they think that by not including him in the press release or any news story that they will somehow sneak it by me?  Well, the joke is on them. They obviously did not know that I have a crack team of Barry Penner researchers that do nothing all day but comb through TV, newspapers and web sites for any and all mention of everybody’s favorite MLA.  It’s not that I’m worried, though. They probably just have him on there to make the other guys look really bad in comparison. After all, there is no way that Barry Penner is getting recalled. They couldn’t risk it; The Environment would fall apart without his expert Ministering Of!

Of course, this is one contest where I’ll root for John Les over Barry Penner any day of the week. Go Les! You can do it!

Barry Penner and John Les are on a hit-list of 24 MLAs targeted by the anti-HST forces for recall.

“We have more (petition) signatures than John Les and Barry Penner had votes in the last election,” said Ben Besler, anti-HST organizer in Chilliwack. – The Chilliwack Progress

Come on, people! John Les I can see, but BARRY PENNER?!? Has nobody been paying attention?

Sigh.

See you tomorrow.

Is there anybody that is anywhere close to John Les in presence, authority, or the ability to pull off that tie? I don’t think so. And neither does that police officer there. He knows it, you know it, and you had better believe that John Les knows it.  John Les is a totally rockin’ dude.

And not the least bit scummy.

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So here’s what’s going to happen: I am going to choose five BPiA classics – images from the posts of yesteryear – that I figure prove Barry Penner’s awesomeness in more ways than the one that I have already highlighted. I will post one each day at the regular time and invite everyone to explain to the world exactly how it displays Barry Penner’s awesomeness. Posting is easy. On the main page, just click on the number in the sun at the bottom of the post you want to comment on. Scroll down to the “Leave a reply” section, give it your name, email address, and (if you want) your website. Enter your comment, hit submit, and away you go! Your email address is only used to identify you the next time you post (skipping the moderation queue if you’ve been approved before), and will not be seen by anybody except me (you will also never get any email from me). Your name and link to your website will be displayed to everyone.

A few rules:

• Keep it clean. This site is family-friendly (much like Barry Penner). I will not allow any posts that I wouldn’t want my mother to see, so keep that in mind.
• All posts from new posters will be held for approval. If yours doesn’t show up right away, don’t panic. I’ll get to it eventually (unless it violates the above rule).
• Barry Penner is awesome. Remember that (as if you need reminding)

So have fun, be creative, and I’ll see you back here bright and early tomorrow morning for the first Barry Penner Community Classic Invitational! I’m so excited!

And don’t worry, we’ll be returning to our regular format soon enough… with a theme week, to boot!

First, it seems that we have been getting a little attention these past few days (the word is spreading!), so I have created a totally new section of the website to chronicle it: Praise for BPiA. I admit it, it’s completely self serving and of no interest to anybody but me. Check it out anyway!

Second, BPiA now has a Twitter account. All new posts here will show up there as they are posted, along with my occasional Barry Penner-related thoughts that fit in 140 characters or less. All the fun of BPiA with almost none of the content!