Canuck E Stan

Paul Martin Sr. a Windsor MP I'm sure would have already started to do something for Windsor decades ago. Herb Gray got the grand shaft from Chretien just so Chretien would have more years in Partiament thatn Herbie. Windsor has to stop voting in the Liberals to give these guys a wake-up call in getting Windsor established as the hub of International trade. New York traffic expert Sam Schwartz has the right idea for Windsor,it's too bad the Liberals can't see the light at the end of the Windsor/Detroit tunnel.(had to add that,I couldn't resist)

Pettifogging- rules or details are too small and unimportant to give attention to. Mirror , your post only tells me that the Americans are happy to recieve Canadian help.I don't think you got the point of my post. Ann McLelland words are what I'm referring to . If I told my best friend that I was her best friend, that's not saying she is my best friend. If you can understand that. It's the choice of words by Ann McLelland I question,not the actions of the Americans towards Canadian help.

A nervous taxpayer was unhappily conversing with the Revenue Canada auditor who had come to review his records. At one point the auditor exclaimed, "Mr. Carr, we feel it is a great priviledge to be allowed to live and work in Canada. As a citizen you have an obligation to pay taxes, and we expect you to eagerly pay them with a smile." "Thank God," returned Mr. Carr, "I thought you were going to want cash!"

If those who want to nationalize natural resources for the benifit of all Canadians feel it is necessary to take over the oil industry, how is it that not a word is said about Ontario Hydro and Quebec Hydro. Why is there no federal tax on Ontario's Hydro and Nuclear Power as well as Quebec's Hydro Power. I also believe that Quebec hydro pays no federal tax from resources it takes from it's "now to eternity rip off contract" with Labrador/Newfoundland. Why don't those who want to nationalize go after the Electricity market in the East "for the benefit of Canadians" because after all it is "our" resource? A heck of a lot of power is pumped into the US from Canada and the government could tax this resource just as well as the oil. For the benefit of Canadians,of course.

"Most peopel have personal lives outside of MLW." -Sparhawk True for most,but not all. The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished. -Daniel W. Davenport

The Ambassador Bridge Corporation is owned by U.S. billionaire Manuel (Matty) Moroun. What can the Canadian government do to force him to produce the documents? Can they close down the bridge(not likely) but can he be forced to prove it's safety and force it's closure? If ever there was a need for the government to quit promising to help get another route to the US and actually get started now is the time. Poor people of Windsor have been polluted to death by the poor air quality from the trucks for decades. Matty is currently in trouble with the workers on the bridge Union trouble for Matty

QUOTE(Canuck E Stan @ Sep 7 2005, 12:58 AM) From the same article: "Some of Harper's officials noted that Prime Minister Paul Martin's office has seen more than 30 people leave since the June 28, 2004 federal election." Of course the "unbiased" media doesn't see a story in that, and why not? The article did mention it,but with the Conservatives the announcement of these events is almost immediate to the event occurring.With the Liberals it is never reported in the same timely fashion by the media or does the media feel it's relevant to report or even give information about those canned by the Liberals. How about the changes in staff by Layton? It's like reporting only half the story if your reporting about staff changes.Is this not bias reporting? I'm still waiting for a story on Deputy Prime Minister Ann McLelland, when she said last week that "we are the Americans best friends" and would help them. Note,she didn"t say they are OUR best friends ,but we are THIERS.Was it a sllip ,or was she trying to score with the anti-American crowd. I felt some reporter would have done a story on that one.Seems reporters don't want to ask questions that the public would ask. Sorry if I went off topic.

From the same article: "Some of Harper's officials noted that Prime Minister Paul Martin's office has seen more than 30 people leave since the June 28, 2004 federal election." Of course the "unbiased" media doesn't see a story in that, and wht not?

Experts: Feds won't cut energy taxes It won't be through gas taxes relief that Goodale will be boosting the living standards.Maybe by boosting living standards he means boosting it in a negative way.

I would like to see the Pollsters take a poll on nationalizing the Banks. Bet we would almost get the same results. Some papers are calling it a majority of Canadians wanting to nationalize the oil.I thought a majority was at minimum over 50% plus 1 Canadians favour nationalizing gas Funny how the media looks at 49% as being a majority of those polled in the case of oil,but in the Quebec referendum 49% wasn't considered "majority" enough.

A Finance minister walks into the government accounting office. Here the next budget is being reviewed before it's release, he discusses how the total of the monies should be allocated. His deputy minister askes him : "Should I divide all of the monies into six catagories or eight catagories?" The Finance minister replies: "I'm feeling this should be a large budget. You'd better divide into eight."

Don't be so hard on the Feds. After all a lot of tax dollars went to the auto companies in Ontario so they would keep producing there. I believe $500 million in the last go round.So your tax dollars are helping.With gas prices escalating, is anybody going to buy these cars? Sales have been going down and only been revived through those "employee price" campaigns. This whole gas thing is going to make a lot of people think twice about their next vehicle purchase. As for transit,I believe a lot of people don't like it because of the crowded conditions which Canadians really are not used to.Try standing next to a guy who hacks and coughs all the way to work,or worse yet smells. How about the Terrorist thing? Canadians still love their cars and if that's taken away from them many are going to be awfully upset.I can see the second,third or more cars in a household gotten rid of and people reverting back to a one car family.All this will affect automobile manufacturung in Ontario and that will affect the economy and Ottawa.

Living well within your means "But it's just the message federal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale will take to Canadians on a cross-country speaking tour where he'll urge greater private-sector investment as well as new government thinking on boosting living standards." After falling behind the US in the standard of living for over twenty years are Canadians going to buy the message Goodale is preaching, and is business going to invest in the education,innovation and research programs the government is proposing. All this under the government's new tight budget plan. Sounds like an election is just around the corner.

"But Paul "we lead the world" Martin is cutting taxes. Doesn't the National Post remember that Paulie said he was raising the personal exemption $100, thereby giving Canadians a $16 tax break? Doesn't the National Post remember how the liberal media immediately parroted Paulie's hailing of this "tax cut?" Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents. -Peg Bracken

Paul hasn't called George for a long time so he calls to ask how things are going. George says to Paul, -Paul, you know, I have a big problem I don't know what to do about. I have a hundred bodyguards and I think one of them is a traitor. I don't know which one. Paul says to George, -Not a big deal George, I'm stuck with a hundred advisors I have to listen to all the time before any policy decision, and only one tells the truth but it's never the same one.

An Quebec advertising agency sent one of his Advertising/ Marketing people to Rome to try and get the Pope to record "Give us our daily support to the Liberal party." The P.R. man came back empty handed. He had offered the Pope $1,000,000 dollars and had been turned down. His boss commented, "Turned down a million bucks! I wonder how much the bakeries are paying him?"

I was about to ask you that very question about having "anything of sustance to comment on" ....and my friend I do have a life because I do turn my TV off as you suggested and my monitor, to boot.

"Let's turn off our TVs and try living in the real world!" Mirror, You should take your own advice 986 Posts since July 2 2005, I think you're the one who should try LIVING in the real world.

Well Folks, this is my 100th "joke" post, I guess it's an anniverary of sorts. Hope they all given you a chuckle or two. Types of Governments FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need. BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the regulations say you should need. FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk. RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. ASIAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment. MILITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you. PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk. CANADIAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the prime minister is caught speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowscam". BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything. BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows. ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows. CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. BAY STREET CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly - listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother - in - law at the bank, then execute a debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the fung shiu is bad. ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them. FEMINISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf. TOTALITARIANISM:You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned. COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude,there's like... these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk. SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons. LIBERTARIANISM: You have two cows. One has actually read the constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas about government. The cow runs for office, and while most people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody except the other cow votes for her because they think it would be "throwing their vote away."

Because "link" the poster sometimes gets carried away.

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally, I was thinking all the time. That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent the night at her mother's. I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself. I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?" One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to think about. I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking . . . " "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But, Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as a university professor, and university professors don't make any money. So if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!" "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently. She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door. I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche. I roared into the parking lot with CBC on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors. They didn't open. The library was closed. To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinkers Anonymous poster. Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational CBC video; last week it was "Wayne and Schuster." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting. I still have my job and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me. Today I registered with the Liberal Party of Canada.l

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." -Calvin Coolidge Canadians have been legally robbed ever since Chretien's first Liberal surplus was announced.....and they have been opening their wallets to the Liberals ever since ....and every election they tell the Liberals to keep doing it.

"Why do you trust your own government." Three reasons: 1. It's the only one we have. 2. It the one Canadians want. 3. It's the one we deserve.

A seedy-looking man was sitting in the first row at a political party meeting, heckling the MP as he delivered a lengthy speech. Finally the MP pointed to the heckler and said, "Will that gentleman who differs with me please stand up and tell the audience what he has ever done for the good of the province?" "Well, Sir," the man said in a firm voice. "I voted against you in the last election."

Just before an election an MP chokes to death in the Parliamentary cafeteria while chewing on a Texas steak(America Day in the cafeteria that day). His family decides to sue the cafeteria for negligence for offering American beef instead of Alberta beef,on the assumption that had the MP eaten Alberta beef he wouldn't have choked. As he cross-examined the coroner, the defense attorney asked, "Before you signed the death certificate, had you taken the man's pulse?" "No," the coroner replied. "Oh? Did you check for breathing?" "No." "So when you signed the death certificate," the attorney asked with a smirk, "You had not taken any steps to make sure the man was dead, had you?" "Let me put it this way," the badgered coroner replied. "The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk. But," he added, "I guess that he could still be out there campaigning somewhere."