WestCoastRunner

The attacks against her are unreasonable given her record of achievements even at this current campaign and has more to do with her gender.

One thing only? Seriously? You don't think women of all races may vote for Hillary because of trumps mysoginistic and racist views? You are of course displaying a mysogynistic view that women are too dumb to consider government policies when choosing who to vote for.

You are going to have to spell out your point. I completely missed it.

What does this have to do with the OP Is this your attempt at taking a weird dig at Canadians weighing in on American politics.

What baggage are you referring to?

Of course I would agree with you there. Sarah Palin comes to mind. Buchanan and what was that republicans name who claimed she was a practicing witch.

Who is it you are referring to and what corruption and garbage are you talking about?

A lot has been said about Hillary in other threads on this forum ranging from 'crooked Hillary' to 'sociopath' to 'power hungry'. No one has really provided much to backup their theories on why they think this except to say that because she is part of the establishment she is a 'shill' for Wall Street. I have other theories regarding the backlash against Hillary and I will back them up with some studies. A Yale Study discovered these: Voters are less likely to vote for female politicians when they perceive them as power-seeking, though male politicians are not penalized When participants saw male politicians as power-seeking, they also saw them as having greater agency (i.e., being more assertive, stronger, and tougher) and greater competence, while this was not true for their perceptions of power-seeking female politicians. When participants saw female politicians as power-seeking, they also saw them as having less communality (i.e., being unsupportive and uncaring), while this was not true for their perceptions of power-seeking male politicians.When female politicians were described as power-seeking, participants experienced feelings of moral outrage (i.e., contempt, anger, and/or disgust) towards them.An experiment was conducted at Columbia Business School and was mentioned in Sandberg's book 'Lean in'. It involved copying a resume for a real-life female entrepreneur who was very successful as well as very out-going. The participants were each presented with these two resumes but one had a man's name on it. The results of the study were mentioned here: "The students rated Heidi and Howard as equally competent, but Howard was judged to be likable and a good colleague. Heidi, however, was seen as overly aggressive, selfish and not someone you’d want to work with." It would be nice to see some hard evidence of Hillary being a sociopath among other terms thrown around here. A Progressive Case for Clinton - In These TImes People Don't Have to Like Hillary Clinton To Vote For Her The Price of Power: Power Seeking and Backlash Against Female Politicians

If we could see his tax returns then we would really know about his generosity towards charities.

Is 'Duh' really necessary. It only makes you look immature. If a man is dressed as a woman, why would he be challenged? He looks like a woman!

Why are you so combative?

One of your sources in the OP from the 'DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD' has no mention of abortion' :This was the basis of the Convention of the Rights of the Child adopted by the UN General Assembly 30 years later on 20 November 1989. The Convention on the Rights of the Child was entered into force on 2 September 1990.' Now this article: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS UNDER THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD' states: "The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has strongly advocated for the realization of children’s right to sexual and reproductive health services, urging states to “ensure universal access to a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions.”1 To this end, the CRC recognizes that adolescents should have access to short- and longterm contraceptive methods, including condoms, hormonal contraceptives and emergency contraception;2 “safe abortion and post-abortion care services, irrespective of whether abortion itself is legal;”3 and maternal health services." "In P&S v. Poland, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) addressed human rights violations stemming from hospital personnel and clergy members intentionally obstructing access to abortion services for a 14-year-old who became pregnant as a result of rape.9 Recognizing the petitioner’s vulnerability as a child, the court ruled that the state violated her rights to liberty, respect for private and family life, and to be free from inhuman and degrading treatment." Another quote from the 'Convention of the Rights of a Child': "The Convention repeatedly emphasizes the primacy and importance of the role, authority and responsibility of parents and family; it is neutral on abortion; and is consistent with the principles contained in the Bill of Rights." So, if you are going to use the 'Convention of the Rights of a Child' as your source, you should probably read it first.

You have never met bc lions fans

This topic has been debated endlessly on this forum. The big picture shows why we are fighting to protect our province.

Everyone knew she was biased towards Hillary. It was very public. I don't get the up in arms bs.

BG. You espouse an incredible amount of gloom and doom going back to your experiences in the 70's! I have experienced the olympics in Vancouver in 2010 and they do not reflect the pessimism you convey in this thread. Many, many athletes do participate without drugs but you seem to insinuate every Olympic athlete injests performance enhancing drugs.

So are you arguing that oil companies should be allowed to earn huge profits at the risk of catastrophic oil spills in bc because they should get the best price for their oil?

What's your point?

You are absolutely right. In Russia, athletes are groomed from a very young age to excel in their sport which includes performance enhancing drugs. These atheletes really have no choice except to take the drugs or be banned from competing. These are Dick Pound's thoughts: “I do get the impression, reading between the lines, that the IOC is for some reason very reluctant to think about a total exclusion of the Russian team,” he said. “But we’ve got institutionalised, government-organised cheating on a wide scale across a whole range of sports in a country." "Pound urged the IOC to take decisive action, saying: “You’ve got to send a message that will deter that conduct. One of the ways you can do that is to say: ‘We just don’t want to play with you any more. You’re cheating. You’re destroying the competitions in which you’re participating. It’s not fair to anybody else. So why don’t you take a vacation?’” "Warming to his theme, Pound warned of the dangers of inaction. “I think the Olympics have to be very careful having said for so long: ‘We have zero tolerance, zero tolerance, zero tolerance,’” he said. “You’ve got to keep from turning that into: ‘We have zero tolerance except for Russia.’ On the other hand, if you do take the tough line and walk the walk as well as talking the talk, I think a significant portion of the world would be very pleased.” "It would demonstrate that, on matters of principle, and the protection of clean athletes and the integrity of competition, that the Olympic movement is prepared to suspend even one of its most successful countries, because it has been demonstrated to endorse and in fact organize cheating." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dick-pound-ioc-russia-ban-1.3687153 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/20/russia-olympic-games-rio-drugs-dick-pound

"Currently, approximately 25% of the world population lives in many countries (mainly in Africa, Latin America and Asia) with highly restrictive laws that either ban abortion entirely or permit it only to save the life of the pregnant women. These restrictive abortion laws violate women's human rights based on agreements made at the UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights." Not only that: "Making abortion illegal does not reduce the number of abortions; it simply reduces the safety of abortion. According to The World Health Organization (WHO) 20 million of the 42 million abortions performed every year are illegal and unsafe. In every country, it is young, rural and low-income women who bear the most suffering from unsafe abortion. These women are often already mothers, struggling to support the children they already have. With no safe options, women try to abort using sharp instruments or unsafe chemicals, or they seek help from people with no medical training. As a result, a woman dies of an unsafe abortion every 10 minutes (about 47 000 women every year)." https://www.womenonweb.org/en/page/508/abortion-a-matter-of-human-rights-and-social-justice

Yes you are. However, those pipelines are in our backyards. Not yours.

Right. So let us residents of BC be self determining of our future.

Really? I'm guessing a lot of people were in on the know. But apparently the families weren't. That's a great disservice to the families.

You are in the minority of BC residents that support oil pipelines.