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I don't think he'll successfully make the transition to the Big Leagues well. He's on a downward trend in Ontario. He'll be damaged goods in the West. So that leaves him trying to pry away Quebec from the NDP. Gerrard Kennedy and MH Finlay seem good because they are centrist Liberals. They of course both lost so who knows.

at Zionism smack. Grow up seriously!

First time Ever! We will spend less next year than we did this year. Yours, R. Ford

So Iggy was incompetent now. He was named leader of the party without a convention.

Another than Daddy Dalton who are some of the high-profile candidates the Liberals are lining up?

Oh I follow politics. But to get all jizzy over a favorable poll over 3 years a way from a potential elections is more than a little LOL.

Good for him.

Big Red Machine. Less than a year after a federal election where the winner won a majority and people are tracking polls. Get a life please.

When was Pepper Spray or Tear Gas ever used at St James Park?

I have never heard anyone ever use this nickname. Shows how effective Eye Weekly is.

If every episode was a level of Dead Rising it'd get boring pretty fast. Like any show they want you to care about and/or hate the characters in there. Obviously the first half of this season had a story arc that came to a head on this last episode. The girl was in the barn the entire time! If I was Rick, Shane and Company I'd be making Herchel answer as to why he kept the fact he found a girl (likely in a similar tar pond) secret. It's hard to know how they'll stay true to the comic and make a new storyline going forward. They'll probably leave on their own accord at this point. And Maggie will likely go with them.

Dude you cherry picked one comment out of many I've made in this thread. Rick was essentially advocating violence in this thread. I'm more than sympathetic to the issues these "Occupiers" were trying to make but their tactics did more to distract from the issues than it did to bring attention to it. When you squat in a public park and just stay there, you only really bring attention to yourselves not your cause. If they tried to camp at Queen's Park or tried to make life uncomfortable for the powers that be on Bay Street then perhaps I could be sympathetic. But these people took control of a public mark and their only real victims were the people that lived near the park, not the 1% they were screaming about.

I noticed because when I asked to get my equal billing rate lowered they told me I'd be paying more because I signed with a third party energy distributor. I reviewed the bill and there it was. I was paying more as soon as the company fixed my rate. Another scam is going around where people try to get you to change water heaters and the people that I have my water heater made me very aware that it's a bit of a scam. A guy came to my house trying to sell me a subscription to Macleans magazine + 3 other subscriptions. I thought it was a good deal but they made you pre-pay for the subscription and it was way more than I would have had to pay if I just subscribed to the magazine on my own. It's really cheap because I'm a Roger's customer I found out. Car dealers try to scam you all the time by offering you things you don't need. Or trying to get you to extend your term to the point where you'll be paying for 8 years. Or financing that involve balloon payments. The big scam that I think a lot of people pay for is the insurance on the credit card where if you stop paying they pay your minimum payment for you but you still rack up huge interest rates. They really hard sold me on it the last time I got a credit card, but it's a scam. It's not really protecting you against much but it's a lot of extra money they pocket every month I pay a premium. I actually learned about that scam on an episode of Marketplace. These are some of the risks at living in a free world, people will try to scam you for your money. It's a salesman's job to make you think you need something you don't. Do you really need a new car or a new iPhone? Probably not but it's a marketing person's job to make you think you do.

A successful salesman. When I first moved into my home a man came to my door representing an energy company. He wanted me to sign a contract fixing my gas-bill rate for 5-years. He told me a bold-faced lied that the rate I would be paying would be the same but it was fixed. He was nice enough so I signed up. I was a new home owner and had no idea what the going rate for natural gas was. Months later I noticed the rate was jacked up. I went back on my records to realize the price I was paying now was much higher. The fuckers even waited to change the bill so the cool down period had passed so I was S-O-L. I still have like 2 years left to pay far above market rate natural gas. Now this guy was a scumbag but ultimately it should have been my responsibility to know that he was scamming me. Same deal with predatory lenders.

If you think it's ever OK just to make the minimum payment then yes it's a personal problem. I'll even forgive times where you lose your job. But that can't be a majority of the people with credit problem, at some point it's gotta be a lack of proper money management skills.

All of which are personal problems and not the fault of the bank. As was said many times already, there are lower interest options for people need to take on debt. CC's are just easy.

Or people are unwilling to live within their means and feel entitled to buy whatever they want even though they know they have no realistic method for payment. What's you're hypothesis as to why a great many people don't use their CC's properly? Sure there are predatory lenders, I get sent letters offering me CC's all the time, they usually offer a really low introductory interest rate. But that's just bait. Oh and for every CC I've ever owned, they interest rate is clearly stated. It's also usually on every single bill you get.

Why would they, they just hired Lisa LaFlemme.

Rioting for an Xbox? What is this 2005?

That's irrelevant. How would knowing what Peter Mansbridge makes make, say Global, more or less likely to poach him. People go to Fox News because it's more popular and likely pays more.

Anyone else find it wildly hilarious that one of the reasons the CBC gave for not disclosing salaries is that they were afraid other networks would steal their talent.

Well that's their problem. Don't protest credit cards when no one has a gun to your head to own one. Also why would anyone, let's say you had to make a big ticket purchase you couldn't afford right away, keep that money on their CC. Are Line of credits that hard to get?

Only the Lions and Cowgirls play every year on Turkey Day. Up until this year it was thought that the Lions were too shitteh to get a Nationally Televised game like that every year. This is the 8th Thanksgiving game they've lost in a row.

Occupy Christmas doesn't give me pause. My cheapness does.

Sorta like the ones where you call Harper a dictator and assume he'll fuck up the country? I'll make a claim. In four years the Global economy will finally be turning around and Harper will get credit for it. Prove me wrong!