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Dear I Miss Trudeau and Black Dog, Iraq has enough troubles without left wing wingnuts like you two trying to find every reason to discourage or sway peoples attitudes around here with the useless rhetoric and excuses to find things wrong with the efforts being expended. Why don't you think about the aid workers over there trying to help the bad situation and getting kidnapped? Why don't you have a good hard look at some of the videos of the insugents tactics with kidnap victims? http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/index.html Stomach that and then come and tell us how Iraq is better off without some help. Come up with something productive for a change, or even an original idea for once instead of just taking a hard line voice of inexperience from the way left field. Quoting from books and endless websites doesn't really show any individuality or intelligence. How about some opinions based on your life experience rather than theoretical political crappy attitudes. You two make me sick with some of the stances you take.

BD, Your glass is obviously half empty.

IMT. Lighten up. This topic has been beaten to death. Maybe you'd want to move there, yes???

I think gay people should be able to adopt only gay children. And then they should have gay settlements with gay schools and gay shopping centres. They could start gay churches and have their own gay politicians. Hell, why not have a gay province?? Could call it Queerbec maybe.

I worked out of the 424 IBEW for years. Contruction unions are almost the worst there is when it comes to militant crap. I got tired of the union heads sitting at the front of a gym and goading the troops how to vote on contracts. Unions are great for supplying a labor force and for mandating safety and wage protocols, but when they get unrealistic, they're done being useful. They protect useless unproductive twits while holding back the cream of the crop at the same time. I worked out at Gregg River Resources near Hinton for 6 years as a pit electrician in the mine there under the Operating Engineers. The union and company got along good and we never went out. That worked. Unfortunately, not all unions know their place in the scheme of things. Don't get me wrong. I'm not for slave wages or Mexican labor. Bad company owners that don't pay enough wages will have trouble keeping staff. That should be allowed to just work itself out. A union is just a make work project to keep a few select leaders well paid on the backs of other workers, imo.

Union leaders can be such idiots. They somehow convince the workers that they owe their living to the union. I agree that a union is useful to a large industrial site so the company may talk to the workers in one voice, but when the union stops bargaining in good faith, they've outlived themselves. Ultimately the company signs the cheques for the workers, not the union. I say get rid of these idiots and let the supply and demand rules dictate the wages and benefits. Let the good workers excel and the deadwood float away. And if the company bosses aren't playing fair, I hope they go under. Maybe the next owners will be better.

Well, I'm an honest person. I'd give the money back unless the cashier pissed me off by talking on her cell phone to her buddy while I'm waiting in line. Or I may not give her money back if the business owner owes me money. No compassion is shown either way. I don't give beggars money. Unless there are more mitigating circumstances, they should look after themselves. In the circles I travel, I rarely see anybody begging, rural. Get a job.

I didn't call masterkush a troll. I called him/her a whacko. To me when someone doesn't answer or respond to a debate or question or a point of view, but rather tirades into a rehearsed rhetoric, they're a troll. If someone gets turfed because they have a point of view someone just doesn't like, that would be wrong, but I don't see that happening. Frequenting the board to specifically attack individuals or to push an agenda needs to be stopped as it will eventually degrade the discussion into nothing productive.

Well, to ask Montgomery Burns about it, he has stated that AP is just another purveyor of left-wing propaganda.Argus, I would fully expect that Clinton was 'advised' that Somalia was a lose-lose situation. Clinton found out pretty quick upon being elected that the president doesn't run the country with impunity (his promise to introduce universal health care, for example).Neither at the time was there the impetus for invasion (and as events proved, costly loss of life), for the purposes (ostensibly)of 'democratic nation building'. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ....when there's no payback available, like oil.

Contgratulations on an insight that Jean Jaques Rosseau nailed more than 230 years ago ("Man is born free and everywhere else he is in chains"). What does it have to with your earlier comment and my response to it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Because you and I have hashed most of that over before and I don't feel like doing it again.

Ironic that such things are considered nagatives in the so-called "land of the free". <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You haven't figured out that we aren't free yet? By your sarcasm, perhaps you have. We're free as long as we play the game of society by the rules layed out for us. We have a choice on where to live and be employed but are tied to our mortgage and work commitments. Commitments to the infrastructure to support our free choices make us a captive to our own choices. It's the pay-as-you-go plan. A race to the death.

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If you can't take it, don't dish it out. The response was appropriate for the statement made in the context it was made. The inference is that Canada is great the way it is being a left wing liberal socialist state so I should leave if I don't like it. I don't think so. It needs to be changed.

No, my point was simple. People were very friendly down south. Made me feel welcome. As for you newbie, the day you pack my bags for me is over my dead body. I was born and raised here in Alberta and ain't leaving. If we separate from Quebec or become a state, whatever, that's different. It's asshole statements like yours that makes Canada what it seems to be today. And quit backpedalling. That makes you look like a wimp. At least stand up for yourself if you're going to say something like that.

Loaded question. Look who's there now. Do you have a pulse? Ok then.

I never thought of myself as being political at all before I came to this site. I never knew the stark differences between left and right and am still trying to separate political from personal beliefs. Come to think of it, I don't know if you can. Anyhow, thanks to the discussions here, I found out I'm pretty far out the right side. Left wing people never seem to be happy with anything including governments, laws or even life on a day to day basis. What a miserable existance...ecchh.

This is what popped up on mine. Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging Mastermind Rational Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the contingency planning or entailment organizing role that reaches the highest development in Masterminds. Entailing or contingency planning is not an informative activity, rather it is a directive one in which the planner tells others what to do and in what order to do it. As the organizing capabilities the Masterminds increase so does their inclination to take charge of whatever is going on. It is in their abilities that Masterminds differ from the other Rationals, while in most of their attitudes they are just like the others. However there is one attitude that sets them apart from other Rationals: they tend to be much more self-confident than the rest, having, for obscure reasons, developed a very strong will. They are rather rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population. Being very judicious, decisions come naturally to them; indeed, they can hardly rest until they have things settled, decided, and set. They are the people who are able to formulate coherent and comprehensive contingency plans, hence contingency organizers or "entailers." Masterminds will adopt ideas only if they are useful, which is to say if they work efficiently toward accomplishing the Mastermind's well-defined goals. Natural leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command of projects or groups, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once in charge, however, Masterminds are the supreme pragmatists, seeing reality as a crucible for refining their strategies for goal-directed action. In a sense, Masterminds approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity. To the Mastermind, organizational structure and operational procedures are never arbitrary, never set in concrete, but are quite malleable and can be changed, improved, streamlined. In their drive for efficient action, Masterminds are the most open-minded of all the types. No idea is too far-fetched to be entertained-if it is useful. Masterminds are natural brainstormers, always open to new concepts and, in fact, aggressively seeking them. They are also alert to the consequences of applying new ideas or positions. Theories which cannot be made to work are quickly discarded by the Masterminds. On the other hand, Masterminds can be quite ruthless in implementing effective ideas, seldom counting personal cost in terms of time and energy. Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging by Marina Margaret Heiss Profile: INTJ Revision: 3.0 Date of Revision: 27 Feb 2005 To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know. INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake. INTJs are known as the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play, as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this; INTJs have also been known to take it upon themselves to implement critical decisions without consulting their supervisors or co-workers. On the other hand, they do tend to be scrupulous and even-handed about recognizing the individual contributions that have gone into a project, and have a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice. In the broadest terms, what INTJs "do" tends to be what they "know". Typical INTJ career choices are in the sciences and engineering, but they can be found wherever a combination of intellect and incisiveness are required (e.g., law, some areas of academia). INTJs can rise to management positions when they are willing to invest time in marketing their abilities as well as enhancing them, and (whether for the sake of ambition or the desire for privacy) many also find it useful to learn to simulate some degree of surface conformism in order to mask their inherent unconventionality. Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations. This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete', paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness. Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications. Functional Analysis by Joe Butt Introverted iNtuition INTJs are idea people. Anything is possible; everything is negotiable. Whatever the outer circumstances, INTJs are ever perceiving inner pattern-forms and using real-world materials to operationalize them. Others may see what is and wonder why; INTJs see what might be and say "Why not?!" Paradoxes, antinomies, and other contradictory phenomena aptly express these intuitors' amusement at those whom they feel may be taking a particular view of reality too seriously. INTJs enjoy developing unique solutions to complex problems. Extraverted Thinking Thinking in this auxiliary role is a workhorse. Closure is the payoff for efforts expended. Evaluation begs diagnosis; product drives process. As they come to light, Thinking tends, protects, affirms and directs iNtuition's offspring, fully equipping them for fulfilling and useful lives. A faithful pedagogue, Thinking argues not so much on its own behalf, but in defense of its charges. And through this process these impressionable ideas take on the likeness of their master. Introverted Feeling Feeling has a modest inner room, two doors down from the Most Imminent iNtuition. It doesn't get out much, but lends its influence on behalf of causes which are Good and Worthy and Humane. We may catch a glimpse of it in the unspoken attitude of good will, or the gracious smile or nod. Some question the existence of Feeling in this type, yet its unseen balance to Thinking is a cardinal dimension in the full measure of the INTJ's soul. Extraverted Sensing Sensing serves with a good will, or not at all. As other inferior functions, it has only a rudimentary awareness of context, amount or degree. Thus INTJs sweat the details or, at times, omit them. "I've made up my mind, don't confuse me with the facts" could well have been said by an INTJ on a mission. Sensing's extraverted attitude is evident in this type's bent to savor sensations rather than to merely categorize them. Indiscretions of indulgence are likely an expression of the unconscious vengeance of the inferior. Famous INTJs: Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers) Susan B. Anthony Arthur Ashe, tennis champion Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus) Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) William J. Bennett, "drug czar" William F. Buckley, Jr. Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironsides) Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane) (Fletch) Phil Donahue Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader Veronica Hamel (Hill Street Blues) Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote) Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV Peter Jennings Charles Everett Koop Ivan Lendl C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) Joan Lunden Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles) Martina Navratilova Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y. Pernell Roberts (Bonanza) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar) Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State Lance Armstrong Richard Gere (Pretty Woman) Katie Couric U.S. Presidents: Chester A. Arthur Calvin Coolidge Thomas Jefferson John F. Kennedy James K. Polk Woodrow Wilson

Quite the world traveler. If you need help to pack your bags, give me a call. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Exactly. thank you for helping my point.

ehhhh.....I think this thread proves undoubtedly that there's global warming, or not. Also, it proves that it may be a part of a previously undocumented normal cycle of weather patterns, or not. The thread also proves that it may be a random spike in temperature caused by random events that we don't recognise. The prudent thing to do is to move away from the coast as somebody here may be right. My personal feeling is that I hope the globe warms up soon because it's frickin' cold here in January.

I did. I just got back from a 3 week bike trip through New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee. A LOT of discontented people around here could learn a thing or two about manners and hospitality from those folks. We met nothing but great people, both white and black down there and were left with the feeling that they were genuinely happy to see us. Made me want to live there. However, we had to come back to Canada, home of the liberal socialist majority. Any American I talked to about Canada that knows us at all thinks we are a liberal bunch of passive hippies tolerant of everything from gays getting married to free dope on every street corner. Made me proud to call myself Canadian, not. Lucky, we're not all like that. There is hope.

Can I be the honorable right minister of Western Affairs, Gay Marriage Council, and Dope Law Enforcement? I can handle the gun laws too. hehe

Whacko alert!!!!!!

The one major advantage that Calgary has over Edmonton that cannot be disputed is that you can always move on up to Edmonton when you realize it's better.

This truly is a political website. Partisanship abounds even in the choice of cities. Calgary has the nicest weather???? Are you sampling the BC hemp? What about the Okanagen Valley? Me, I realistically despise all cities. If you want a nice place to live where the real estate market is low and people are square and friendly, then try any small town in Saskatchewan. The summers are great, winters not so great. Can't go wrong there. hehe