Aristides

Mortgage interest on a primary residence is tax deductible in the US but they pay capital gains unless they buy another principle residence of equal or greater value. Perhaps we should be doing that to help first time buyers.

So you think the withdrawal from Viet Nam in 1973 was well handled?

So you don't believe in taxes either.

Did the Iroquois use our alphabet?

I actually think a term of compulsory service would be a good thing for young people. Doesn’t seem to have hurt the Scandinavians or Swiss. When a referendum was held in Switzerland to ban conscription 73% voted to keep it so they must see some good in it. Canadians seem to think their country owes them.

So US troops should have stayed in Iraq forever? They had already been there for ten years and it was Bush 2 who put them there.

Even the New York Post is calling her Moscow Marjorie.

Eventually we will come to the same point as the early nineties when creditors gave us an ultimatum and Chrétien/Martin had to slash spending. You can’t keep borrowing forever without your lenders eventually saying, enough.

If building homes as investments (rentals) is made unprofitable, why build them? I’ve never heard of a tax on something that encouraged anyone to produce it.

Iran has made it very clear that its object is to make Israel disappear. Israel has expressed no such intent toward Iran.

Oh, I agree. Hard to imagine it being worse than what we wound up with. I just don't think you can take anything for granted in that part of the world. Certainly not democracy. Same goes for Russia, all they have ever known is a strong man to tell them what to do, whether it be a Czar, First Secretary or a dictator like Putin. Yes, Eisenhower.

Who knows. That secular democracy might not have lasted 75 years.

It isn't a lie at all. Former Republican Guard members made up a good part of Islamic state and similar groups that were opposed by Saddam. The rise of these groups was a direct result of the instability created by the invading of Iraq. Saddam was a pr*ck but at least he was a pr*ck that had been muzzled and on a leash. His Iraq was a counterweight to Iran. Once Iraq was out of the way, Iran was free to go after Israel.

Their would have been no Islamic State if Busch 2 hadn't invaded Iraq disbanded the Republican Guard and created a huge power vacuum.

The Georgia trial won't, he is being prosecuted by the state.

Whatever happens in this trial won’t amount to a lot. Trump really should be worried about Georgia, that really could put him in jail.

Disagree all you want but the government includes pension assets when it gives you its BS net debt to GDP number.

NZ is a wonderful country. Beautiful geography, nice cities and people, the police still don’t carry firearms, civilized. If I wasn’t already a Canuck I would like to be a Kiwi. Being so isolated is both a blessing and a curse, like sharing the worlds longest land border with the US.

Mein Kampf isn't banned in Canada or the US either.

A strong conventional NATO will make that less likely because it will deter Russia from attacking with conventional forces and make it less likely that NATO would have to use them. Being weak in any area does not make you more secure. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wayne-eyre-bill-blair-armed-forces-recruitment-1.7177911 We might end up with a bunch of new equipment and no one to operate it.

Trump isn't being charged with having sex with a porn star or paying her off. He is charged with falsifying business records.

The government loves to use net debt to GDP but are you aware that number uses CPP and Quebec pension plan assets which amount to over 650 billion to bring that number down. It's a bullshit number unless you are prepared to give up your pensions.

That describes the likes of Pinochet, Galtieri and many other South and Central American dictators. They were not communists, they were very right wing and often overthrew socialist governments to gain power.

If you are weak in conventional forces, your only option if attacked becomes nuclear weapons and mutual destruction. Why would an aggressor resort to nukes and mutual destruction if they can achieve their goals with conventional forces? You have it backwards. They didn't have the ability to wipe out their species in the course of an afternoon.