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This is hillarious - you are railing at Ruskies for $10mm and other laughable attempts to do who knows what while our left wing pissed away 2.4 BILLION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS in one single bribe the the Canadian media to keep the Little Turd in office.

Here is a snapshot of some gov't departments and their growth at that time (long since exploding in second Liberal term - and you might have noticed that the vast majority of the current expansion is...uh to be a little polite....people not borne in this country. https://globalnews.ca/news/10626474/canada-civil-service-increase-justin-trudeau/#:~:text=That's an average annual growth,in both 2021 and 2023. Remember when there was a "self supporting" gun registration programme? Remember the billions pissed away doing something the government had no business doing? I suppose you think the whole carbon tax debacle is one of those things we really need - along with the army of useless tits employed for big bux for the Little Turd to play politics with our tax money. And on, and on, and on it goes. This is the monumental outgrowth of the problems pointed out in Eric Nilsen's White Paper that found....ready for it....1,100 departments and programmes run by the Federal Government. I guess it's hard to see things when your head.....ah geez I am not supposed to take the oh so easy cheap shot at that one.

The majority of what government and its employees do is to dispense privilege in the process of picking winners and losers in manipulation of economy and society - NOT delivering essential services.

The business of government should be restricted to governing: i.e. legislate, regulate and enforce - plus essential public services. The rest is a complete waste of resources and should stop overnight.

The reason is sheer ignorance and stupidity.

This was not the Little Turd's doing - it is part of the "Code Red" project from the backroom boys to dump him. The Uniparty (that is about as far from "right wing" as you could get) counts on Canadians being sufficiently ignorant of pretty much anything outside of beer and hockey to realize banksters ARE the problem and Carney is very much part of it - a genuine leader as it happens. So easy to forget it was central bankers that not only facilitated the Roaring Twenties but directly caused the "Dirty Thirties".

I appologize for writing such a lengthy and technically difficult reply that you clearly can't understand.

This whole EV market is happening because of the global shift to "the big lie". Now, people are pretty consistent at doing this - or there wouldn't be religion, wars, etc. but with globalization of markets it has brought geo-political elements into our market place that would simply not be there without some huge outside force. EVs exist largely because EU and China don't have oil and governments around the world have thrown trillions in subsidies into the pot with some strange misconception that each of their marketplaces can eke out a share in what these two super markets have dictated.

I don't think The Donald has been doing anything much differently of late, just that instead of every news story slagging him the media have shifted to worshipping Camel Hair.

What seems impossible to understand is why so many people worship at the temple of endless growth. The Liberal fascination with foreign workers and foreign people completely ignores the culture that is unique to each source country. The one causing so much trouble in trucking, for instance is a place where the truth and any semblance of ethics exist only on a "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" basis. I have tried to do business in several of the "problem" countries and life in those places is based upon corruption, deceipt and privilege. Is THAT what "we" want Canada to become? Listening to the news media, the problem is now at the feet of 15-24 year olds who would like to enter the workforce - only to find a guest worker or new immigrant - usually COMPLETELY unfamiliar with the marketplace in which they work taking those jobs (probably at rock bottom prices). Go to any hospitality business, trucking company, government agency, medical or financial institution and you will be hard pressed to find a single native borne Canadian. We are not only destroying our culture but our economy as well. But: it will have more Liberal voters, so I guess fait accompli.

Will repeat something I said some time ago. About 20 years ago I had an HD tractor/trailer run out of safety inspection time while I was in ON. Called my cousin (gravel trucks) to point me at a shop that wouldn't screw me over - so went to a Polish family in Hamilton. Made a habit of stopping there for a visit each time in the area and on another trip a trailer safety timed out. Went to their shop and was told they had 50 trucks to do and only 5 mechanics but if I wanted to do the inspection (I was designer and builder of that trailer) he would look over my shoulder and sign it off. Came back on Sat AM to do the paper work and my friend said (in heavy Polish 2nd gen accent): "Looking here, Mr. xxxx - feeftee deeferent trucks with feeftee differnet drivers, but on vun drivink license!" 20 years on things are far, far worse. Ask anyone in Humboldt what the consequences can be.

Every time this topic comes up it brings me back to what I believe is THE core issue: a reasonable and supportable definition of when human life begins and ends. Get that right and a LOT of things are easy to reach compromise on. If I had to choose a starting point, it would probably be 8 weeks after conception. I might prefer same day, but somewhere along the line we have to come up with reasonable and workable compromise.

No, Ukrainian Orthodox seminary. I am neither Ukrainian nor Orthodox - was there for very different reasons but obviously paid attention to what the theologs had to say. I have come to the conclusion that the human animal seems to be borne with something that compells them to believe in the biggest lies they can be told.

Why not? Roosevelt consciously allowed 3,500 or so Americans to be killed at Pearl Harbour. Nixon and Johnson ordered 58,000 Americans to be killed in Vietnam. What's one more Yank between friends? Not to worry, though. Biden will quit a few days before the DNC virtual convention and Newsom will take his place.

If Presidents or other cabinet members could be held accountable legally for their decisions, the whole business of government would fall apart. Think about Pearl Harbour, for instance: should Roosevelt have been charged with lying to the public and death of 3500 or so in the attack? (worth remembering that US could and DID translate almost every encoded transmission by the Japanese Navy for many months before Dec 42), For that matter decisions by other Presidents to send troops into Vietnam where the US had no real business in being there? I would love to see the entire cabinet accountable for the incredible level of greed and criminality involved in the whole system of money coming and going via favour and privilege granted by government, and think that SHOULD be done, but hard to draw the line on where doing things by cabinet decree becomes criminal vs. expedient politics. Above all else: the US Constitution was upheld, and that is very much the duty of the SCOTUS to support. Wish we actually had such a piece of legislation.

Have thought about it for much of the last 75 years - including my time in a seminary.

Call it what you like, but 99% of what many different cults (oh...uh...RELIGIONS) is a total pack of BS. Having someone repeat the lie over and over again does not make it true. If it is not the truth, it is a lie. Pretty straight forward.

Many versions of the same lies: Religion

Sadly, the Little Turd's band of misfits got something right - then typically screwed it up. Taxing speculative gain is one of the best things you could do to drive "investment" money out of speculation (that creates zero wealth - but LOTS of inflation) and onto Main Street (where virtually all wealth is created). The way to do it is not give any quarter million free rides up front, but to start the rate very high (IMHO 99%) on day one and taper it down over something like 20 years to match the nominal tax rate of overall income. The way to save our economies (yes, far more than Canada up that shit creek) is to take business over by businessmen and entrepreneurs and get Wall Street the Hell OUT of business.

I chose this post for response, as it is typical of many attitudes. First of all: you (and much of the world) assumes academic score relates in any significant way to intelligence. It does not. In the very broad world of academia test scoring is one of the main tools to progress and recognition. Unfortunately, testing (especially at lower levels) relies for the most part on little more than memory - and those who have good recall combined with some fairly basic intellectual skills plus an attitude of participation and harmony within the institutional setting will score well. It is extremely difficult to measure actual intelligence (IQ scores notoriously inaccurate, but far better than HS or Uni testing). The world in general (and appreciate the OP pointing this out) assumes that accumulation of wealth is some display of intellectual gift. It is not. In my experience people who are genuinely smart often have two HUGE impediments to the easy path to wealth = integrity and conscience. Anyone can become a billionaire by simply following the rest down the well documented paths to riches. Hard to do when you are cursed with the awareness of how badly you have to screw the rest of the world over to get there.

Still not exactly sure what is being asked, but it does bring up the major flaw in pretty much every government on this planet: they are all in place to distribute privilege. I have written a few times before about how Sir Roger Douglas managed to turn around New Zealand's economy in a few short years by (in his exact 4 words): "We simply removed privilege". IMHO the business of government should be to legislate, regulate and enforce only things that provide an equal opportunity to EVERY qualified citizen on a perfectly level playing field. Look at what every bannana republic (Canada being well up that list) or any superpower of any political persuasion does and has endless departments, agencies and bureaucrats to deliver is 100% special privilege for one group or another. It is the very foundation of corruption and THAT is what government is modelled upon.

Evolutionist DO believe in intelligent design - and they call Her "Mother Nature". The existence of hundreds of "one true religions" is proof positive she sure screwed up on the "intelligent" part.

absolutely. My only reservation is with the total incompetence of our immigration "authorities" and system there is no way to distinguish an actual Paleo refugee from a Hamas member seeking to establish another cell in Canada.

Genuine refugees fleeing viscious theocracy. I would similarly welcome those ex-communicated from Catholic cult.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-06-14/pope-francis-will-be-the-first-pontiff-to-address-a-g7-venue-hes-raising-the-alarm-about-ai I guess the story is supposed to be about "artificial" intelligence, but in reality it displays the incredible stupidity of global politics and diplomacy. The organizers of the G7 meetings have turned back the world clock by many centuries and they are now turning to cult leaders for advice and guidance. I suppose it will happen between the tarot card session and oija board meeting. There is nothing artificial about this display of lack of intelligence at all.