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Interesting....reported: every Democrat senator who was up for re-election AND voted against Justice Kavanaugh lost....the one who voted to confirm...won.

Well, if you use this as an assessment of Trump you have to compare it to how previous presidents fared in mid-terms, e.g. Obama, for example did much worse so in that context, Trump's split of losing the House but winning the Senate is not a repudiation of his presidency by voters. Let the games begin !

Looking more like historical midterm election norms....Trump can relax a bit. Nothing like the pasting that Obama/Democrats took in 2010 for the House (lost 63 seats).

While in my own personal world, I would like to have seen the Democrats completely wiped out, reality is as has been mentioned in this thread that they are merely following pattern and gaining in the House. In reality, this is politics as the framers of the Constitution intended - there is some balance. Sadly, the massive shift to partisanship on both sides of the Uniparty means more likely deadlock than compromise. We just have to wait and see.

I rather enjoy your taste in music and your posts.

I am not saying it is 100% secure, no IT system is, but you can be the banks have tighter internet security than most organizations considering they deal with everyone's money. Also I have a couple IT colleagues and close friends who work in that exact area. The problem does not lie with the banks system. Your IT guy should understand that man in the middle attacks are the way it happens. Meaning your PC that you do the banking on is not secure. And that is where the issue really lies. People's home systems are not secure and subject to lots of things. And I can bet that many people do not have secure passwords or are doing it from insecure computer systems.

Not so much anymore....the GOP has now adopted President Trump for their political fortune....good or bad. Trump has gone from repulsive outsider in 2016 to valuable ally for much (not all) of the GOP agenda (taxes, de-regulation, gun rights, abortion limts, illegal immigration, etc.). The U.S. Senate now has more Republican senators largely because of Trump. Senators are elected to six year terms.

Spare us the photo-op apology! After all, the annual Al-Quds rally in Toronto is allowed to go on despite its promotion of violence against Jews! Toronto Al-Quds Day rally will go ahead, despite efforts to stop it June 2018 Just about every year, Jewish advocacy groups have complained that the rallies called for hate and violence directed toward Israel. Toronto police are still investigating a music video from last summer’s rally that glorified violence against Jews. That event also featured a speech by U.S. Holocaust denier Kevin Barrett. Two years ago, a Toronto-area teacher was suspended for praising terrorists and calling for violence against Israelis. And a hate crime complaint was filed in 2013, after one speaker urged people to shoot Israelis if they don’t leave Jerusalem, but it did not result in charges. http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/toronto-al-quds-day-rally-will-go-ahead-despite-efforts-to-stop-it

True dat.....vote in governments that ruin the economy...then flee to Trump's "authoritarian" USA. Can't make this stuff up.

If Honduras is the shit hole you allude to...don't blame me. Blame the same folks coming-up in the caravan. They made it that way.

My country has plenty of violence and poverty....but I don't think I have the right to flee to another nation.

Tony Clement should be turfed from caucus a.s.a.p. The Conservatives don't need the "drip..drip..drip.." on this matter coming from the other parties until the next election. And another thing, how does one get treatment for having "poor judgment"?

Jupiter and Saturn. The Moon. Andromeda. Globular Cluster, like M5

They themselves have said so.

No, I consider it a privilege to be able to flee your "home" to someone else's "home".

I disagree...it is a privilege to be able to emigrate to another nation (legally or illegally) and improve one's circumstances.

She can't differentiate when people are talking about Islam in general and insists you only speak about individual Muslims. Then when you talk about individual cases, she insists they don't represent all Muslims, which we all already know. Basically, she just doesn't want anything bad in Islam talked about.

It's a privilege when somebody else in the world facing the same or worse circumstances can't do the same. They go through the proper process of applying, etc. They can't just walk across a border and demand things.

That may be how you "perceive" what is being said, because you are hyper-sensitive to the issue. When I'm talking about Islam, I'm talking about mainstream Islam - how it is practiced in all Muslim majority countries and the fundamentalist agenda that is currently being pushed on Muslims all around the world. That there are individual Muslims who don't agree with or don't practice extremist Islam is obvious. You often bring up Nazi times to show how white people jumped onto that bandwagon of hate. The difference between us is that I don't believe Muslims are somehow exceptional people who are immune to following their own crowd down paths of hatred. I think they're just like the rest of us. So when I read about anti-semitism growing at astronomical rates all over the world and see Al Qud festivals being held in Canada (and I believe I actually witnessed one of these hate-filled anti-Jew demonstrations but didn't realize what it was at the time), I am concerned about it. I am also concerned that Muslims In Canada think there's nothing wrong with these demonstrations because it's other religions that are calling them out on it and they are not willingly ending it on their own. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/reevely-ford-promises-to-ban-al-quds-day-protests-somehow I understand that you do not like this being discussed and will use any excuse to justify why this is only a concern to racists and Islamophobes and your new favourite insult - xenophobes. Sorry, but I'm not waiting until the Jews are in the ovens to say something about this.

These people aren't coming to the United States and Canada because of climate change. That's absolutely preposterous. They're coming because they're countries are run very poorly, with rampant violence and corruption. Somebody needs to coin the term Hispanic privilege. The privilege of ignoring countries immigration laws, and immigrating to another country, skipping the line, and demanding citizenship status.

I suspect this is exactly what Trump wanted. He did nothing to help the GOP retain the House. He needs an enemy to justify his absolute lack of movement on anything legislatively except a tax cut for billionaires. BUT now we get to see the House ask for things they didn't under the GOP and that may prove to be embarrassing. Revenge for Bengazi.

The Democrats were pretty sure they'd get the Senate, as well, with talk like that. And Maxine refuses to stop saying "IMPEACH 45!!!" at the top of her lungs every chance she gets. Simply refuses. Nancy likely to become head of the house...and that's going to piss-off the Democratic base which is much farther left than she'll EVER be.

So, that got nixed right off the bud.

Need the Senate to impeach a President.

A few rabid anti-Israel/Jewish types elected to Congress, as well. Apparently shoe-ins from the start of the campaign. One wants to use the Camp David Accords as leverage against Israel to accept forming a single Muslim majority state with their sworn enemies...for example. “One state. It has to be one state. Separate but equal does not work. I’m only 42 years old but my teachers were of that generation that marched with Martin Luther King. This whole idea of a two-state solution, it doesn’t work.” ---Rashida Tlaib The other simply hates Jews...but you just know...she loves Jews...as long as they're Dhimmi. “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." “Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews. You are a hateful sad man, I pray to Allah you get the help you need and find happiness.” (when questioned about first comment) ---Ilhan Omar

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A Facebook page is critical of the Trudeau Liberals and we get breathless headlines about “collusion.” But crickets from the same media on the $ tens of millions spent in coordinated campaigns to attack Conservatives by Tides, Lead Now et al. Much of it dark foreign money.

What's all that coughing, James? I'm not talking about what you need, or don't need! Need or not, the star power of Winfrey (along with Obama to boot), didn't matter! Btw, Democrat strategist to Hillary Clinton said on CBC last night that by the looks of it, Trump's politics is still popular! So, there! Ron DeSantis Won Florida Governor's Race by Tying Himself to Trump http://time.com/5445200/ron-desantis-florida-governors-election-results/

This IS a free country. One can choose to learn some skills, get and hold a job and hold it becoming a productive citizen. You can choose not to do so, but your life will become miserable. IF you happen to have a treaty number, though, you have a choice not available to the rest of Canada: you can simply stay at home, drinking, doing drugs, commit crimes, or go to the big city and do the same since you know with absolute certainty you will receive financial support. On top of that you can get in sync with an entire community and culture of victim belief - supported (even created) by the left spectrum of politics who use this kind of BS to justify their "us against them" zealous religion.

I don't know about that. Winfrey and Obama both campaigned for Abrams in Georgia.....but by the looks of it, she'd still lost to Kemp. Winfrey even went as far as knocking door-to-door with Abrams. If Winfrey failed to launch Abrams (even with the help of Obama)......what does that say? :shrug: Her star power doesn't seem to matter anymore. I don't think she'll run for president.

Blue wave? No. Blue wind? Yes, please!

Watching liberal panelists and public opinion-generators on TV news, the problem today is quite clear. You people are simply not listening.

History clearly says they are SUPPOSED to lose the house. Over the past 21 mid-term elections, the President's party has lost an average of 30 seats. Obama set the record - losing 63 seats and his majority. Tuesday is certainly not a referendum on Trump - it's more a referendum on the Democrats. If they cannot take the house by a significant margin - and the Republicans make gains in the Senate - it will serve to validate Trump and conversely, validate the continued evidence that Democrats still don't get it.

I am not sure the Democrats chose to become anything let alone the party of immigrants. It would appear that they have been set up and turned into that because by Trump grabbing the extreme anti immigrant position it forces them into that appearance if they say anything to the contrary of Trump's extreme statements. I think calling Democrats the party of immigrants is a false label by Trump. Any politician has immigrants in their constituency. They can't afford to look intolerant for that reason alone and they know it. The ones that sound tough usually believe they have insufficient no's of minorities to lose their elections. That might be a dangerous thing to assume this mid term round. We shall see how mobilized the extreme haters and liberal do gooders are, they might make a difference. Still its the mushy middle who no one understands who are always the wild card. If that mush middle has grown tired of Trump it will show. If they are too apathetic and feel their vote makes no difference, it will show as well. Low turn outs favour the incumbents. Its a shame American politicians do not discuss guns, the environment, education, the economy. Instead they've allowed themselves to be hijacked and reduced to listening to Trump screaming over a caravan of imagined invaders that must be destroyed. What a way to appeal for votes. Quite sad what the US has been reduced to by Trump and his dialogue of narcissistic fractured syntax and delusional self promotion. Trump hasn't only managed to label all Democrats as pro immigrant sympathizers but any Republican who disagrees with him as a dirty no good loser as well. When Ryan ran away from confronting Trump he showed his cowardice. The only Republican still fighting Trump in public right now is Mitt Romney who will win as Senator in Utah easily. People wrote Romney off in the Republican Party due to his Mormonism. It alienated the Christian evangelical wing of the party who were a powerful force at the time he ran. In retrospect he has to look a hell of a lot better than Trump. Hell any Republican candidate would other than Ted Cruz. The Republican party is truly fractured. It limps along in paralysis fearing a confrontation with Trump. Its the same fear that enabled Trump to grab the leadership of their party in the first place. Nothing Trump enunciates is very Republican. In fact he is quite the opposite. Trump believes in the cult of power, Republicans might have had a bit of that with Reagan but not as much. Other than John F. Kennedy, American Presidents since the 60's have been very bland, plain spoken. Clinton and Carter as well as Bush Jr did the folksy routine but Obama since Kennedy was the only genuine orator and even he toned down in his speeches depending on the audience. Trump is the first screamer hater. Nixon was a hater but did it passively and not out in the open. LBJ bullied and screamed but behind closed doors. Trump is this loud eruption of methane gas from his buttocks that won't stop. He could fuel the planet for centuries if someone harnessed all that gas,

Must agree and support your words. Trump engages in very hateful rhetoric that for me is very much like Hitler and Mussolini in style if not substance at times, it is absurd to call him a Jew hater. On one level he probably does,, on another level h e does not. People like him in one sense hate everyone sooner or later. They have a twisted narcissistic personality disorder that makes them believe anyone who disagrees with them as the enemy. It would be fascinating to do a comprehensive psychiatric diagnosis on him and see who he actually hates. For all we know he doesn't hate immigrants at all personally but is a sociopath who throws the first available vulnerable group under the bus. isn't it interesting he married two immigrants and has a daughter who converted to Judaism. Its interesting for sure. If he was as much of a bigot as some think I don't think he would have shook that dictator of Korea's hand as he did and suck up to him like that. Certainly he is a complex study of conflicts acted out through his mouth. The moment Trudeau entered extremist Mosques during election time to pander for votes and appointed a Muslim extremist terrorist supporter as his Middle East advisor he signalled where his bread was buttered. He signalled Muslims in Canada that he will suck up to the extremists in their community believing they will produce more votes for him. His pandering to the refugee crisis fools no one. As he poses as a welcoming mat for illegal Nigerians his Immigration Ministry as I speak circulates a refugee decision from Immigration and Refugee Board Membr Lois Figg on its site telling Board Members to follow it and reject Nigerian refugee applicants. He plays to his audience posing as open in his speeches while excluding in invisible policies the public is not aware of unless they look. Trudeau is a cynic manipulating ethnic groups as bad as I have seen. Sure all politicians have done it, but never with such blatant two faced posing. He sheds tears for aboriginals and then in a meeting with them talks down to them like children scolding them for thinking he would listen to more than ten minutes. What a joke Tell you what. The alienation and madness across the world, I don't blame it on Trump or Trudeau no, but they sureas hell play their part in mirroring the values of the day. There is a pendelum that has swung from Nazi era to the extreme opposite of the Nazi era that jas turned into a kind of Stalinism which is just as bad. On either end there has been totalitarianism. The Me Too Movement now uses all the same tactics when hunting for sex abusers as McCarthy once did when hunting for Commies The target changes but the same primal rage in gangs running after the target with torches remains the same. Frankenstein mutates in shape but he's always on the run.

That's rich, coming from you. No, you googled til you found an example of a Canadian to prove that we are exactly the same as Pakistan, to apologize for Islam, to minimize what Muslim countries are doing. Except your example doesn't do any of that. You're an apologist for Islam, who doesn't want what goes on in Islamic countries discussed because you feel that if even one Canadian does something that Muslim countries do, then we don't have any right to call them out on their barbarism. You want everyone to shut up about Islam? If we did that, people would still believe the earth was flat, witches would still be burned at the stake, black people would still be slaves, Jews would still be burned in ovens, women would have no equal rights and gays would not be winning their own equality. (Actually that sounds like most Muslim-ruled countries) Should I continue? Or just shut up now and let you continue to be an apologist?

Bill Maher gets it on Islam but would gladly convert if it meant putting the boots to Trump.

He thinks all small business people are thieves. And I just read that he was talking to a group of students and was telling then that he and his government are respectful in the house and all the cons do is scream. He is the worst of them all.

According to a news report earlier today, the information requested (demanded?) of Canadian financial institutions includes personal identifying information and most problematically S.I.N.s. To me, this is worrying. I accurately declare my income to the CRA each year and have no fear of my financial records getting into its hands but I have real concerns about why Stats Can would need or might otherwise use my confidential personal information. An item I watched on today's evening news indicated that among other objectives Stats Can could use the information to analyze consumer spending/purchasing patterns as this information could be valuable to businesses. So, is this some kind of revenue generation mechanism whereby Stats Can does market research based on information collected by government agencies (for other, legitimate, purposes) that it can then sell to private firms? If this is the government's intent, we should seriously ponder its implications. I believe the federal government owes it to Canadians to be much more transparent about this enterprise than has been the case to date.

Good for you. Some of us don't like the idea that StatsCan can access our banking records without our knowledge and consent. Looks like quite a few of us are in that camp and the Privacy Commissioner has taken notice. https://globalnews.ca/news/4615008/statcan-defends-data-projects-privacy/

No doubt Trudeau is having invitations printed up, maybe he'll even be at the border handing out vouchers for a year of free living and maybe a bag of this stuff to help smooth things over.

Limit donations to $100.00 per person per yr. No tax deductions. Manditory audits as well. No corporate donations at all. Use the cbc for campaigning. Political parties gone. Prime minister elected from the people elected.