MiddleClassCentrist

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/07/arts-baldwin-flight.html A non story with the name of the game listed 4 times, aswell as a description. This story is almost more about the damned game, not that Alec got removed from the flight for gaming. I find CBC especially bad for this crap. They do it for Apple all the time.

Meant more as in how they conduct themselves and the parallels between their actions and how dictatorships keep a stranglehold of control. Obviously we can vote them out next election but, their conduct does not represent that of an ethical democratic political party. In the modern world, we keep losing freedoms under the guise of public security. Right wing parties are at the forefront, initiating and trumpeting these policies.

Absolutely. Cons have no moral compass. When are people going to catch on?

Sad. Personal freedom under the veil of gun rights is a tragedy when the same party wants to track people without just cause. I guess if I never leave the country I won't be tracked on exit. Don't they also want the right to track people online? Iron fisted dictatorship of a government if you ask me.

Why aren't Canadians paying attention. The Conservatives are a group of wannabe despots manipulating democracy to ensure the keep winning.

The world is warming. Humans influence it. Fact. The debate is what we should do about it and to what degree. You don't think the oil lobby would create yet another grass roots facade the spread misinformation and create false skeptics to protect their 100's of Trillions of dollars to be made off petroleom? Haven't you noticed that hydrogen fuel cells were only really BIG news when big oil was trying to kill electric car laws in california? They were promoting them because they knew that the viability of hydrogen was 50 years off, letting them milk the oil cow longer.

If you don't know what the protest was about, you were ignoring it and never read anything other than what you wanted to hear. I didn't even support them fully in their message but I understand what it was about. Frustration toward the weealthy elite who manipulate our laws and government for their own benefit at the expense of everyone else. Welfare is a safety net for everyone if they ever end up in a worst case scenario. As has been pointed out in other threads, welfare abuse is highly vocalized by conservative ideologues but the reality is that investigations into welfare fraud rarely result in fraud being found. Letting a corporation fail would simply mean that another corporation would grow by buying it up or increasing it's market share. It is a business entity that when ceasing to exist has little real impact on anything except for the people who knowingly made a risk investing in the company. Corporations aren't people, jobs shift but the world goes on. Saving a corporation that has mismanaged billions, has limited liability keeps the bad corporate policies that lead it there alive. Letting a family fail means that you end up with ghettos, higher crime rates and more homeless people begging you for money. I guess that is part of conservatopia. Keep up the noble fight for more starving children, ghettos and homeless people. Welfare should have a hard cap of time spent on it consecutively Welfare recipients should be required to report for communty service/volunteer services for the community if physically/mentally able.

I find it hilarious. Let's encourage beating each other up by promoting UFC and linking it to school.

Doesn't it depend on whether they had reason to believe he was intoxicated? You can't just send a drug sniffing dog into a school because the charges won't hold up in court. I've gone through Holiday stops and never been asked to take a breathalyser. He probably spouted off about his rights and the police had a power trip. End of story. Or they must have had reason to believe he was intoxicated.

The telephone survey of 1,202 people, conducted in late October, is considered accurate to within 2.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. I'll be interested to see if he continues to trend up. Harper has trended upward because people aren't paying attention to all of the backhanded maneuvers his party is making. Good for them, bad for Canada.

Don't Americans still believe that all of the pilots entered the US through Canada even though that was debunked fairly quickly afterward?

This. Why argue when the same points have been repeatedly countered on this board and the scientific community. The deniers left are willful deniers who won't be convinced. If you want to argue with a brick wall, then arguing with a denier is just as good. There are still areas of dicussion, like what steps we should be taking to curb our negative effect toward climate change. Then we can argue what degree of efforts is necessary, whether we should be using technology to solve the problem, whether capitalism fits with an environmental model to prevent the human race from killing itself to begin with, etc.

I think there is a clear difference between banning a cloth piece that covers one's entire identity and can easily conceal suicide bombs. has a main purpose of keeping women as property so that they can't be looked upon by other men. does not have a place in modern fashion and Attacking everyone's freedom by randomly having them searched and fondled for bombs and weapons. Yes, you can argue that the burqa ban targets a specific people. But, the modern world does not believe in the opression of women which is the main purpose of the burqa within that culture.

What shocked me is that they did it despite all of the preachings of the 'free market' that I hear of. It should have been all paid back or we should have received ownership of much more thant 1.5% as multibillion dollar stake holders with our multibillion dollar investment. Chrysler was bought for $7.4 billion in 2007, tax payers(US and CAN) could have bought the damned company provided funding and sold it again for better investment.

Oh sweet, everyone gather around. IT'S STORY TIME! Sharkman, you've given us the preview. Can you share the story in more detail? It's obviously a work of fiction but, I'm having a hard time determining the inspiration behind it.

http://newsvoice.se/2011/12/02/us-senate-declares-the-entire-usa-to-be-a-battleground/ I saw this posted on another board I frequent. I brought it here for discussion.

This. They signed up for the program. The government shouldn't 'win-win'. We take their gambling money and the jackpot. The Jackpot should go to a gambling addiction charity.

Even last spring: Auto Bailouts won't be repaid in full Every billion is just under $30 that every Canadian owes. $60,000 for sod? $0.022/Torontonian.

Makes sense. I was wondering why I've been seeing adds for pennies from before 1982 in the local paper.

Haven't you heard? Crime rates are dropping and historically I'm pretty damn safe in my house. But, preach on. If politics is your religion I can be your outlet, brother.

If only people got this enraged over our tax money being used to bail out and subsidize private companies. But yes... let's fight over people protesting the billions we give away to private corporations. Yes, let's fight about the grass the protesters stood on instead. Because that makes absolutely no sense, and that is what the elite would rather us do. Fight ourselves for the scraps...

Absolutely. Especially since the cost of bill will be footed by the provinces. Maybe we can ship all of those cases to Alberta where the expense of trial and keeping people locked up for longer can be covered in Conservatopia. Preferably, Stephen Harper's riding.

We know there will likely be cuts. Let's be honest, generally Conservatives don't have the support of Public Wokers anywhere. That is at least if the Public Workers are sane and understand that their interest is not in losing their job or funding. There are two political games done with funding to create the facade of responsible governance. Grow the service, then cut the service for anwhere under half of the increase for the election. Cut the service, then dole out half of the money cut to improve the service... for the election At least Harper gave some people temporary jobs. Hopefully they'll be able to find a job at Starbucks when EI finally runs out.

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/11/10/torstar-layoff-buyout.html Wouldn't you be glad? The left leaning news paper isn't healthy enough to be hiring. I don't like Rob Ford. But he was trying to do exactly what people elected him to do: make cuts. That's not really news... at least to me.

If the NDP or Liberals were in power, you'd see more articles for people to talk about regarding things they have done. The news focuses mostly on those in power, if you haven't noticed. The government of the day makes more news than the opposition. Everything reportable regarding the opposition is in response to something the government has done.