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Come'on, I thought he was a mad dog fear biter? But let me guess, next he'll be a stupid face, right? Of course, everyone has to remember, that anyone who challenges liberals is considered mean and/or nasty. What a waste of a thread. Somebody thinks Harper is mean. What is this? Kindergarten?

A Tamil protest blocking the Toronto pride parade. Discuss

I don't know, would you call Chirac and Schröder conservatives?

Poll: Reid's re-election numbers don't add up CARSON CITY -- Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds. About a third of the state's voters would re-elect Reid if the 2010 election were held today, according to the poll, but 45 percent say they would definitely vote to replace him. Seventeen percent would consider another candidate. The findings are echoed by another poll question about Reid's popularity that finds the four-term incumbent to be a polarizing figure in his home state. Link Looks like I was right yet again, and you were wrong yet again. Seems to be kind of a pattern around here. Perhaps that Cook Report has been updated? Also, more good news for the GOP! Gallup: Party affiliation now tied (Dems held a double-digit lead not long ago) 2009 May 7-10 Republicans % - 32 Democrats % - 32 Independents % - 34 Republicans (including "leaners") % - 45 Democrats (including "leaners") % - 45 Gallup And imagine what the numbers will look like a year from now, after a jobless recovery!

The science is settled, and you're on the wrong side of it my friend. The 3D ultrasound is the beginning of the end of the rapid anti-life movement and the abortion in any circumstance crowd. This has nothing to do with your false choices of patriarchal pasts, or marching to war, or joining priesthoods, or any other strawmen you'd like to erect. It's about science and human life. I side with science. How about you? Why are you so anti-science? Why do you continue to dwell in the darkages? Not to the rapid anti-life crowd. There's absolutely no point of development that they'll agree to where abortion is wrong. None. That's incorrect. Embryonic stem-cell research is one thing. Government funded (ie their tax dollars) embryonic stem-cell research is another. And some people have a definite problem with the creation of life for the sole purpose of it's destruction to aid in the lives of the already living. Now you've resorted to crazy person talk. Women have the choice as to whether or not they want to get pregnant. Ever heard of contraception and birth control? Thought so. And even when pregnant, women retain their voting rights, as well as their rights to run for political office. Yes, all of those "extra" human beings. Oh the horror. Lets determine their right to live on the basis of social costs. Yeah, that sounds logical. And at the sametime, we'll completely ignore the long lists of parents looking to adopt. Eugenics is an evil and rejected form of policy.

Your numbers are skewed, because they don't reflect that fact that many Red States house military bases, so of course they receive extra federal dollars. The top 1% pay a higher percentage of all taxes to the Federal Government now, then before Bush took office. But more importantly, you don't seem to learn the lesson. When the rich are gone, who will you then soak to attain your socialist utopia?

Blue States have been bleeding tax-payers at the benefit of Red States. NET DOMESTIC MIGRATION, 1998-2007 Connecticut -113,892 Pennsylvania -148,979 Massachusetts -335,391 Louisiana -390,998 Ohio -397,899 Michigan -419,961 New Jersey -468,024 Illinois -735,768 California -1,438,480 New York -1,936,127 Florida +1,579,704 Arizona +817,169 Texas +736,903 Georgia +679,420 North Carolina +646,284 Nevada +481,534 South Carolina +295,074 Tennessee +278,698 Colorado +248,322 Washington +206,168 Link Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich Updating some research from Richard Vedder of Ohio University, we found that from 1998 to 2007, more than 1,100 people every day including Sundays and holidays moved from the nine highest income-tax states such as California, New Jersey, New York and Ohio and relocated mostly to the nine tax-haven states with no income tax, including Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and Texas. We also found that over these same years the no-income tax states created 89% more jobs and had 32% faster personal income growth than their high-tax counterparts Link In closing, all one needs to do is consider the following. Over the last several years, as taxes in California have continued to rise, over 15,000 millionaires have moved out of the state, shrinking California's tax base greatly. And in New York, 40,000 people currently pay 50% of they city's operating budget. Which means, they're precariously close to disaster, if they happen to drive out their tax base, the way California has devastated theirs. So go ahead "progressives", soak the rich. But when they dry off, don't be suprised when they're gone.

Dead People Get Stimulus Checks This week, thousands of people are getting stimulus checks in the mail. The problem is that a lot of them are dead. A Long Island woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury -- but it wasn't for her. Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream was expecting a $250 stimulus check. But when her son finally opened it, they saw that the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago. He'd been a U.S. citizen when he left for Italy in 1933, but only returned to the United States for a seven-month visit in 1969. The Santopadres are not alone. The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, says that some of those checks mistakenly went to dead people because the agency had no record of their death. That amounts to between 8,000 and 10,000 checks for millions of dollars. FoxNY Just another reminder of how great Government is at doing things effectively. It's also another example of why Obama and the Democrats should have actually read the stimulus bill before passing it. What a novel concept.

Hmm, the law doesn't quite seem to agree with you. Scott Peterson pleads not guilty to killing wife, unborn child MODESTO, California (CNN) -- Scott Peterson pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife, Laci, and his unborn son, charges that could bring the death penalty. CNN

More Americans “Pro-Life” Than “Pro-Choice” for First Time Also, fewer think abortion should be legal “under any circumstances” PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion and 42% "pro-choice." This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995 Gallup I see this long-term shift as proof, that the pro-life position isn't just about morality, but also science. Your average non-partisan person recognizes that an unborn child, with a heart-beat etc, is more then just "a lump of cells" or "zygote" or whatever other pajorative term the anti-life crowd likes to use to try to delegitimize their existence. Those who advocate abortions under any cirumstance will eventually go the way of the slave owner, and we'll all be better off for it.

Yep, because the old boss had it right. It's amazing how reality can trump campaign fearmongering isn't it? Another example of how Obama didn't know what the hell he was talking about last year, and how platitudes are easier than policy. W vindicated once again.

Absolutely. Alan Greenspan has much to be blamed for during this current economic downturn. However, Ronald Reagan doesn't. I'm not sure if you know, but he left office in 1988. See, that's where you're completely wrong. The market was quite regulated. Quite regulated by the government, forcing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and private lending instituations into providing mortgages to people who wouldn't otherwise qualify, all under the guise of so-called affordable housing. Giving people loans they can't pay back isn't Reaganomics. It's liberal feel-goodism. I think we have an excessive degree of concern right now about home ownership and its role in the economy. Obviously, speculation is never a good thing. But those who argue that housing prices are now at the point of a bubble seem to me to missing a very important point. Unlike previous examples we have had, where substantial excessive inflation of prices later caused some problems, we are talking here about an entity — home ownership, homes — where there is not the degree of leverage we have seen elsewhere. This is not the dot-com situation; we have problems with people having invested in business plans for which there was no reality. People building fiber-optic cable for which there was no need. Homes that are occupied may see an ebb and flow in the price at a certain percentage level, but you’re not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble. And so, those of us on our committee in particular, will continue to push for home ownership.(2005)

I'm not exactly sure what a mod dog fear biter is, or a mad dog sociopath. But if you're proposing the Liberals engage in the same strategy, and quite pleased with it, then doesn't that make them, and you, the same as Harper?

Nope. Defining your opponents, wins you elections. Opponents defining you, loses you elections. Just ask Michael Dukakis, Bob Dole, Al Gore, John McCain, Stockwell Day and Stefan Dion.

Well, seeing as you've continually stood up to government overspending, regardless of party, I'm sure you and I can agree that Obama has gone completely overboard. I can sense that you're already putting the finishing touches on some rather witty and substantive posts taking him to task over his gargantuan deficits. and his irresponsible budget. Right?

When you're on offense, your opponent is on defense. I'm sorry you're so bent out of shape by it, but it's good and smart politics. And if it wasn't effective, you wouldn't be complaining about it, and the Liberals, wouldn't be complaining about it. The Liberals are still lost in the political wilderness, and Harper's taking advantage of it. In politics, defining your opponent is paramount. Always has, always will.

The disingenuousness of your statement (and the title of this thread) is even more disgusting. The number 266 refers to everytime a drop of water lands on a terrorist, which can be dozens of times during one waterboarding. Waterboarding isn't torture. It's used as training in the United States military. There's always a physician present, and there's no chance of drowning or death. It's used as a last resort by professionals after the use off all regular interrogation methods have failed. Waterboarding works, has worked, and has saved lives. Period.

What Liberal overspending since 2006? They have no power to spend at all. I've written quite extensively on the subject and I provided the link in a previous post.

Specifically which deregulation, and when? And your premise that Reaganomics is tantamount to deregulation is completely false. Blaming such deregulation (which you haven't yet cited) 20 years after his last year in office is pretty disingenious. Nice try.

Really? What Liberal overspending have you been posting about here since 2006? Maybe you mean on a Provincial level? I've posted numerous times regarding Republican overspending. They're all right here in this link. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/ Take a look and get back to me.

Nope. It's smart politics. You define your opponent before they define you. If the Liberals weren't a bankrupt political party, they might have a chance to do the same. But alas, it's hard to raise money when your party is equated with corruption.

What deregulation?

And what about last fall had anything to do with Reaganomics?

Nice false choice. Try again.

I don't recall any of yours either.