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Are you seriously comparing Stephen Harper to Kim Jong-Il?

Not if the new Soviets are just as dangerous. This is arguably true, but what do you propose? If NATO expels Turkey it turns them into our enemy and they will turn more and more towards Islamic politics. In what way? I don't believe it is arbitrary. If you are going to join a group dedicated to mutual defense than it seems reasonable to me that each member be required to furnish a percentage of that defensive ability.

But most people do not have capital gains so would pay no taxes. And how would this make anything simpler with respect to the varying tax brackets? What could be simpler than a flat tax along with a VAT?

Hi. I'm still confused. We're having more deaths than births because of an aging population. Where is the sense, please, in bringing over a lot of new seniors to die here? Also, aren't people sponsored by their families exempt from the points system? I'm pretty sure they are.

I think that taxes are too complicated as it is. I would prefer a simple, flat tax along with a VAT.

I'm sorry, but I'm confused. If the avowed goal is to counteract our aging population why is Canada bringing in 40,000 seniors each year, and why have the Liberal Party and New Democratic Party promised to make it easier for people to bring in their parents and grandparents? Is it that the stated goal is not considered very important?

Hi. Please explain to me how we help to offset our aging population by bringing in seniors from other countries. Thanks.

But our thoughts on immigration are much older. We look back on when most immigrants were from the UK and Europe and see that they assimilated and assume new immigrants will too. But this isn't an island in the ocean far from home any more. They can get home and back again in a day, can talk to people back home, watch TV from back home, and hold onto their old culture more. If a little girl went to school in a chador thirty years ago all the other kids would stare at her and ask her why she was wearing something so silly. She'd want to be like them, want to be like Canadian kids, and would beg her parents not to wear foreign gear. Now if a girl goes to school in a chador it's nothing surprising. Lots of kids in school are wearing them. If you look at some urban classes 80% of the class is foreign born or the children of immigrants who are being raised in their immigrant parents culture. How are they supposed to assimilate when the class is more foreign than Canadian?

And when a woman does something amazingly dumb due to some emotional reason, can we also say well, that's just a woman acting like a woman?

Tattoos are essentially graffiti. Most of them aren't very good, and almost none qualify as art. Nor is human skin an appropriate canvas. I know two women who have multiple tattoos. One got them because she hates how she looks, especially after babies gave her bad stretch marks. The other used to be a stripper. Tattoos are mostly an expression of the rebellion of the young who all want to do what all their peers are doing so they'll win approval from them. lolz

How about the fact there are no capable, strong female leaders who inspire? There have never been any in Canada. All the current crop are miserable failures. The one female prime minister we have had lost an election essentially because she was too busy making out with her new boyfriend.

Yes certainly. Farming used to be back breaking work. Now there is all kinds of machinery to help. Still and all, there are times when a farmer needs his strength to lift and carry and control powerful equipment. Most of the building trades still need a lot of strength, too, as do jobs like police, fire and soldier. Women 'can' do it, but not as well as men. All these are dominated by men because of the need for strength. Teaching and nursing are dominated by women because those are nurturing professions. I disagree. Women are more emotional, more prone to panic, more prone to crying and breakdowns. Whenever some awful accident happens, you'll see the men rushing forward to help, not the women. Women run away from perceived danger. Men take charge of things. Women form committees. Men lead, women seek consensus (approval). Men inspire and persevere. Women give up because it's too hard. Why are there few women at the top of politics or business? Because it's too hard, requires too much of their time away from families (caring and nurturing) and they don't like the tough, elbows-out environment. What do women look for in men today? The same thing they looked for 100,000 years ago. They want a man with broad shoulders who will protect them from wild animals, and preferably tall, for long legs help in hunting. A good hunter/provider is what all women seek, even though those physical abilities and traits are essentially meaningless in terms of today's world. Women want men who are tough. Women will be drawn to a strong man who beats them rather than a man who they perceive is too wimpy to protect them.

One of the universal traits of beauty is clear, unblemished skin - of whatever hue. Marring that with ugly looking blotches of fading ink is one of the dumbest things anyone can do, especially a woman. There is a reason those popular tattoos at the small of the back became known as 'tramp stamps' and you can see them in porn videos and at strip clubs all the time. Women who get such tattoos tend to be more slatternly than other women. The tramp stamps are an advertisement of their sexual availability and their desire for sexual attention.

Why should they? Women are not equal to men, never have been, never will be. Women are physically weaker, and cannot do physical jobs as well as men. The are not leaders. Women are not risk takers. Women are nurturers. When women are in leadership positions they either act like nagging mommies or just follow policies and regulations. They don't inspire loyalty, don't have leadership skills, and rarely ever think outside the box or initiate new ideas. They are also highly emotional, play favourites and make enemies much more easily than men. And most of the people they are enemies with are other women, because instinctive they see other women as threats to them. Women are more educated than they were 50,000 years ago, but are still guided by the same emotions they had when living in caves. In the entire history of Canada there have been very few female politicians of any note or ability. There are none on the political landscape today.

Just because crazy people make stupid statements about the United States that doesn't mean a logical comeback is saying stupid things about Canada, unless you're twelve.

It means I don't give a damn what happens to terrorists or those who sympathize with them.

Yeah, Russia is a member, so is Turkey. And they're doing reports on how Canada's laws don't meet up with their standards for freedom? Bah!

Because it would be indecent, and no western government ever releases such video. What is it you want to see, his head exploding into pieces and blood splashing all over the floor? I don't know what the hell you're looking at but I certainly don't see that every day, nor do I want to. I understand, however, that there are places on the internet that cater to your particular fetish. I suggest you go visit them. Another nutty conspiracy theory! This place is full of kooks!

What a huge, heaping load of crap. Nothing either of you say is supported by any evidence, just your feverish, conspiracy minded imaginations.

Your cite not only does not support your statement it has absolutely nothing to do with your statement. Your cite has to do with specific cases of Guantanamo detainees. There's nothing in there about how this could or would or might aid the US in preying on poor countries. This gives us cause to wonder about your "any thinking person" claim, as in What in the hell is he thinking anyway? Because most American Muslims have it pretty good and don't think shooting someone in a mall is going to get them to heaven. I've noticed that those who believe in one conspiracy theory tend to believe in lots of conspiracy theories. The world is a seething mass of dark forces conspiring and plotting and doing all kinds of weird and awful things, none of which anyone normal knows about. The people who died in terrorist acts in New York and Boston and Florida might disagree with you.

No, we don't. He was convicted of killing a US medic in a US court while in a place he shouldn't even have been living. No one who tried to leave Canada has ever been arrested so there's no reason to think someone who leaves and comes back could be arrested either.

No one is going to bother to argue the citations and opinions you post from psychopaths and maniacs and other freaks and losers. If the US was as evil as you say they are, and any of this was remotely true, they'd have silenced all these freaks years ago. To anyone but you that might be a clue.

None of which happened.

What makes you think he's white?