GWiz

I repeat > I know that, the Tsunami that hit Japan this time was enormous by any standards you want to apply... Look at the pictures, play the videos > http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8449736-biggest-tsunami-in-history/video/74995693-best-footage-tsunami-japan-earthquake Nuff said

Harper has lost control on this one, good thing, perhaps Layton's hands are now tied for the same reason... Opposition Day on the 25th (moved there from the 21st by Harper) is where I'm thinking the Liberals will introduce a no confidence motion based on the Harper Regime's illegal actions will be what triggers the election rather than the budget which is what Harper wants to happen... But then again the NDP (about 15 of them anyway) may not show up next Friday to vote or take part in Opposition Day for some excuse or another... It'd be an extremely stupid move by them, but who knows, anything may happen when it concerns Layton, the NDP and losing seats... All in all a very interesting week in Canadian politics coming up...

18 March 2011 Last updated at 12:00 ET Libya 'to halt military action' - 'Actions not words' US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Libyan government would need to demonstrate it was implementing a ceasefire. "We are going to be not responsive or impressed by words, we would have to see actions on the ground and that is not yet at all clear," she said. -

Why the budget vote? I'd watch TV on the 25th not just the 22nd if I were you...

I know that, the Tsunami that hit Japan this time was enormous by any standards you want to apply...

- 1993: Okushiri, Hokkaido, Japan A devastating tsunami wave occurred along the coasts of Hokkaidō in Japan as a result of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, 80 miles (130 km) offshore, on July 12, 1993. The highest wave of the tsunami was a staggering 31 meters (102 ft) high. - I think you're forgetting that the water we've seen is only the water coming OVER 10-12 meter high sea walls and some of the most sophisticated tsunami protections anywhere in the world where-as the Indonesia tsunami had no such barriers to overcome and much lower terrain to flow over... I saw one picture of the oncoming wave with it still out to sea and it was staggering... PLUS it's a whole series of waves not one wave... Have a look at that picture > http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8449736-biggest-tsunami-in-history/video/74995693-best-footage-tsunami-japan-earthquake

That one very relevant sentence says it all... After THAT the rest of the "findings" by the judge aren't relevant at all... IMHO

- Based in part on such precedents, villagers felt safe building homes behind the village’s stout seawall, which residents say was indeed high and strong enough to hold back the first wave of Friday’s tsunami. However, the waters soon returned, pouring over both the sea wall and the monuments. Such was the force of the flow that a heavy stone marker to the 1933 disaster was knocked down and dragged away. Around the region some defences – including the Yoshihama sea wall and a barrier built at the mouth of the bay on which Ofunato port is built – failed completely in the face of such fury. Others, such as Ofunato’s final seawall, were simply overwhelmed. “We have never expected such a big tsunami,” says Mr Toda. “I think no one expected such a big one.” - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12dc0ec0-50bf-11e0-9227-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Gxmay7mq http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_tsunamis I'm being VERY conservative when I state 30 meters, it may have been considerably higher to have reached 10 km inland over such a wide spread... - Especially hard hit was the coastal village of Taro (now part of Miyako city) in Iwate Prefecture, which lost 42% of its total population and 98% of its buildings. Taro is now protected by an enormous tsunami wall, currently 10 meters in height and over 2 kilometers long. The original wall, constructed in 1958, saved Taro from yet another destruction from the 1960 Chilean tsunami (see below). -

If "economics" are the sole consideration I agree... But! It's the 21st century, with 21st century technologies and understandings... Canada is a VAST land with many, many options available to it when it comes to meeting not only Canada's energy needs but far beyond what Canada needs... Without the "need" for nuclear energy... "Where there's a will there's a way; without the will there's no way." - GWiz

Oooops, wrong button...

Can't be, Japan's sea walls are 12 meters high and they were easily "topped" as everyone saw...

Check your facts... Yup, good thing too, at least with third world (actually mostly 2nd world) countries Canada can get FAIR TRADE into the deal, unlike the one MORONey did with the U.S. of A., which is what Canada needs to do... Abolish the senate and replace it with what? Or are you saying absolute power should be bestowed on whatever "Government of the Day" Canada happens to end up with? Allowing them to ignore every law that's in place in Canada to prevent just that from happening... The ultimate Fascist or the opposite Marxist dream one could say... Correct... Plus very stupid, but essentially Correct... Check your facts again... Actual numbers tell quite a different story... One could even call the Liberals "the ordinary People's Party" ...

Chanting like that to get rid of punked may or may not help... But thanks for trying...

The way I see it is that EVERYBODY has it wrong... It's a work in progress and it won't be known for days yet what the actual level of catastrophy the Fukushima nuclear plant produced/produces... One can't go by what one sees from Japan either... The Japanese are the most stoic and resilient population in the world as evidenced by taking this tremendous triple hit of an 8.9 Earthquake, a 30 METER high Tsunami and a multiple nuclear reactor incident, the level of which is still to be determined... Had all this happened, say on the west coast of the US, the world as we know it would technically cease to exist... In Japan it is simply something more that that amazing nation has to overcome, and I can assure you, they will...

Awwww, I thought he was just ridding himself of his obvious frustrations about the NDP...

First you can't count, now you're saying you can't read, what are you good for?

I gotta tell ya, in all my years, through good and bad, this is the first TIME I've ever seen anyone say that a Canadian Political Party hates Democracy...

Is there a point in that somewhere? Read the thread title... Too little, too late? Let's hope not... Or maybe you're a Ghadaffi fan?

Surely you expected nothing mo - nevermind... When Ignatieff was in Winnipeg during Kevin Lamoureux's (a friend of mine) bi-election campaign a bunch of NDPers just like punked tried to disrupt his open mike session... They stood out like a sore thumb dressing and acting like total goofs... To his credit Ignatieff handled them pretty well, except I thought a little too "diplomatically" for my liking... Nice to see Judy Wishywashylies out of the spotlight... She got trounced in her bid for Mayor as well...

Canada to send six CF-18s for Libya 'no-fly' mission

Looks like Layton is looking for a way to vote with Harper on the budget...

http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums//index.php?showtopic=18275&view=findpost&p=641112 In case you missed it... Keep up the good work...

I'm not! I WIN!

I think you hit the nail (aka punked) on the head with your "crack" comment... Seems he's gotten more than he bargained for seeing two of us on one thread...

Hmmm, here's the thing though, one can't lose what one never had... Ergo, I can't possibly lose, since I never had anything to lose, did you?