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The Tories ARE the real issue concerning the wholesale labelling of Liberals as crooks. The fact is that the Tories need adscam to be bigger and farther reaching than it appears to be, and truth or accuracy be damned, its going to get that big! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And I suppose only the Liberals have a handle on the truth. Nobody outside of Gomery know what's coming, so spare us your Liberal interpretation of what's about to come down. Please give us a break!

I must have misread. I thought you were just complaining that this was a thread to discuss Harper. Talk about derailing one's own thread!

As opposed to the New Democrats, with their PEAK support of 20% in the 1988 Federal election? Do answer a question though mirror? Why is it that you whine like a biotch everytime somebody hijacks one of your threads, yet you are supporting this terrible little hijack of ndpnic'? Me thinks thou art a hypocrite. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hijacking. Carjacking. Quick call CSIS. It must be one of those dirty extremists. Let's send him to Syria to get tortured, eh! Seeing as this is about Harper let's discuss him. It must be quite discouraging for his Wild West fans that everytime the issue of Alberta's priorities come up it seems it gets hyjacked by Quebec separation issues. I mean I live in the West, but don't quite get why some folks out here would support a party like Harper's Tory party. When is the next boundary revision commission? Perhaps Albertans could arrange a little gerrymandering so that they have 75 seats like Quebec.

newbie Life has been much better since Black Dog introduced me to the ignore feature. It works wonders and you should at least give it a shot before completely throwing in the towel. Have you tried it? Maybe though I will start comiling a list of the people who have quit here because of the lack of civility. Feel free to add names to the list. muddy67 newbie mad michael Tawasakm moderate conservative

Political self-destruction is not on the Liberal agenda, but sometimes things don't always work out the way the Liberals planned. Time for a little history about the Liberal Adscam game plan: 1 Liberals set up Gomery prior to last election, to get through the election, on the assumption that they would get a majority. 2 We all remember. Martin was going to lead the Liberals to the promised land with a massive majority of 250 seats. 3 With their majority government the Liberals would shut down and bury Gomery after the election, if and when it became a problem for the Liberals. What actually happened: 1 Liberals did not get their much bellyhooed majority 2 Liberals no longer completely control the Gomery agenda 3 Liberals are currently freaking out about the potential Liberal damage when Gomery releases his findings 4 Liberals are desperate to get another majority government in order to control and bury the damage that Gomery is going inflict on them. 5 To suggest that anyone actually knows precisely what or who Gomery is going to report on is full of it. It may well be that Martin is exonerated but so what. There are a slew of other ministers that could be implicated. The Liberals receiving a majority government is just about the worst possible result, within the realm of realistic election possibilities, that could happen to Canada, and could ultimately cummulate in Quebec's separation. Liberals have been milking this fear of Quebec separation issue for a long time now. Trudeau brought forward some good ideas to help Quebecers become more accepting of their role within the Canadian mosiac, but all we have seen is steady support, around 35-40%, for it in Quebec. Aren't Canadians ready for some new people with some new ideas so we can finally put this baby to bed?

Things just seem to be going from bad to worse for the president. Katrina fallout echoes earlier criticism

"Well you can beat up on me all you want in the media, but me and my buddies are laughing all the way to the bank" Guess who is thinking that? Follow the money here folks. First you allow things to deteroriate, and then you make the money are the repairs. brilliant strategy. It's not that governments are bad, it's just when people like Bush control them they go bad. Firms with Bush-Cheney ties clinching Katrina deals

Quite an accurate statement actually as that certainly seems to be the consensus for the vast majority of Canadians.

Interesting party support here at MLW: Bloc Probably [ 0 ] [0.00%] Bloc Definitely [ 1 ] [3.13%] Conservative Probably [ 2 ] [6.25%] Conservative Definitely [ 10 ] [31.25%] Liberal Probably [ 1 ] [3.13%] Liberal Definitely [ 6 ] [18.75%] New Democrat Probably [ 3 ] [9.38%] New Democrat Definitely [ 5 ] [15.63%] Other Probably [ 2 ] [6.25%] Other Definitely [ 0 ] [0.00%] Not Canadian Citizen [ 0 ] [0.00%] Refusing To Vote [ 2 ] [6.25%] None Of The Above [ 0 ] [0.00%] Tories are overrepresented, yea Leithbridge, the Grits are underrepresented, and the NDP might be a bit overrepresented, compared to our national polling statistics. It confirms my hunch that these kind of boards usually attrack the opposition party supporters more often than the government supporters.

The real issue is that the conservatives, and their supporters, need something like this to ever have a shot at forming the government. When your policies are so far out of whack with what Canadians want, over zealous mudslinging is your only kick at the can. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Only a Liberal supporter's logic could infer that the Tories are the real issue concerning the Adsacm culprits.

Fanatical Martinites and Hardcore NDs as opposed to the perfect Tories. Right. Maybe you might want to cut down on the hyperbole a wee bit. No, the Tories will just get into bed with the separatists, and screw what Canadians want, like they did during the last session of Parliament. The logic here boggles the mind. Those dirty rotten NDPers. Imagine the gall of them listening and supporting what 75% of Canadians wanted.

The point is that ID is not based in any empirical knowledge at all, it is a purely supernatural concept. Therefore, it is not testable, not provable, and should certainly not be taught in our schools. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As Persky the author of the initial article pointed out, and the reason for the article, we are losing the battle to the fundamentalists. Therefore to have some control over the discussion he suggests we do teach it in the schools, but not as part of the science curriculum. I agree with him.

I wonder how Quebecers are reacting to this proposal? Let's face it the Bloc has had it pretty good. There are not very many countries that would even allow a separatist party to exist, so they should not really complain about this, although they will try and generate an outcry.

Texas Fires Lawyer After Story on Rove Gawd. If it's not one thing, it's another.

A brief history lesson. BANK OF CANADA

As I suspected Bush's popularity is sinking like a stone. It has dropped even more now and less than 40% of Americans approve of the job he was doing. How said that the president of the USA is not supported by his people. It is even worse that the Americans have to wait to 2008 to get rid of him: Bush: "The breach of levees was a surprise"

Waffling on Katrina could cost Bush dearly: Quite the group. It is painfully obvious Bush and the Republicans are in serious political trouble. I think it is only going to get a lot worse for them from here on in.

Liberals ready to discuss cut to Bloc's public funds So the Liberals want to cut funding to the Bloc? Is this because the Liberals can't win against them on a level playing field?

Last superpower finds itself more alone How sad for America to have not realized that when people such as Axworthy suggest an alternate approach to world affairs they do so with the best of intentions towards America. If they continue along these lines the sooner Canada disengages the better.

New directions for welfare system Finally we are starting to get some enlightened leadership from some of the corporate community. Governments who ignore these kind of progressive proposals do so at their own risk.

Toro That ignore feature came in handy about six posts ago. Cheers

Toro Where did you move to? U.S. must examine its soul I wonder what Americans are thinking now? Are they making plans to change some things, or are they going to continue to live as is? Already we have seen a key Bush appointee get turfed for incompetence. Whose's next on the chopping block or are we going to have to wait until the elections in 2006?

Toro Try it. You can cancel it any time you wish. What you do see is the person's name and date and time but not her/his message. Works like a charm.

No kidding Cheney is coming to Alberta!

newbie Some people are well, you know. They come from the Mulroney school of politics: If you throw enough mud against the wall, some of it will stick.