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I don't look at it like that. I think that you have to evaluate the situation on a case be case basis. Take "Hannity and Colmes." Hannity is far right-wing and Colmes is centre-left. That makes the show right-leaning, not centrist like Fox News claims.

I can count the times i was spanked on my hands, and i think i got the belt 4 times. The first time i got the belt i was 12 years old. I told a jewish girl that i was a german and i was gonna cook her. (/stupid) Funny thing was about 4 years later i ended up taking the girl out for one of those high school month long relationships (also /stupid) The 2nd time i got the belt was about 14, for swearing at a teacher. The third time was for lying to my father, and the last time was for Fighting my father (haha). All in all i turned about pretty well. When i did something that did not really warrant a spaking, my father would sit me in a chair. Hey wore glasses so he would look at me over the top of his glasses and in a calm rational voice would say "Do you know why we are here?" It wasnt so much punishment as interrogation. My father was excellent at making the punishment fit the crime. First time i came home tipsy he want and bought a bottle of Black velvet and made me drink the whole bottle straight up. Being all of 17 i threw it up. Learned my lesson on excessive drinking. I know this is really random but I really like Black Velvet and I don't think you can buy it anywhere in Montreal...

Even if you have 3 right-wing guys and 4 left-wing guys, it is still biased.

Well good on you for being the bigger man. Although I think that was out the window when you generalized 90% of Canadians with leftist views as not willing to defend themselves. That was an excessive quote written in the heat of typing and I accept the fact that it was exaggerated...

Apparently, there's a rule that bars demonstrations in the galleries. However, apparently Capitol Police regulations specify that "demonstration activity" does not include merely wearing "Tee shirts, buttons or other similar articles of apparel that convey a message." I also have to ask why , if wearing a T-shirt is bad, then why does having grown men waving ink stained fingers (see: 2005 SOTU), or trotting out weeping military widows and "liberated" Afghan women not constitute "demonstration activity"? Well if someone from the left (T-Shirt...how many more dead?) and from the right (Support Our Troops) was thrown out, how can one complain? If civil rights were violated, then I'd have a problem.

I fault everyone involved in the process, including Bush. Louisiana was not ready. Nagin and Blanco dithered. FEMA and Michael Brown were not ready and Brown's leadership skills were flawed (he shouldn't have been there from day one). Bush let Brown (who was unqualified) handle the dirty work.

Well I live in Alberta and I'd like to know where you get the idea "modernizing health care" from. You obviously have not sat in our emergency rooms or made an appointment with a specialist lately. Which is precisely why health care in this country needs to be reformed.

I do agree with Shoop and that is the reason why Harper needs to play such a fine line between Quebec and Alberta. If he is seen as pro-Alberta, the Bloc will again regain speed. If he is seen as pro-Quebec, a new Alberta federal party may not be long in the making.

Hollus, I refuse to sink to your level of insults and expletives. I don't like you very much and I respect the fact that the feeling is mutual.

Also interesting... If you're with the T-shirts, you're with the terrorists. Maybe there is a policy against wearing T-shirts in the gallery.

What the kid should have done is refused to answer your hypothetical on the grounds of it being a cheap rhetorical parlour trick. He should also have mentioned the left traditionaly rejects nationalistic sentiments, prefering a more humanistic approah to looking at the world. But then he's 18, so I doubt he'd have any of these answers. But hey: if picking political fights with kids out of high school gives you validation, power to you. I don't consider intellectual debate to be "picking a fight." If he had said what you just said, I would have respected his view on the world, albeit an extremely leftist and idealistic one.

Your so deluded im not even going to waste my time replying. tml12: You've just been added to my 'dead to me' list. Have a nice life(ignorant ass!) You aren't the first person on my "dead to me" list either. I can see that really got to you.

The "maximizing" description would definitely not work.

"Its about time Canadains stood up for their country and not globe trotting corporations. Unfortunatly, the current economic envirounment created by previous liberal/conservative governments has pretty much got us pimped out to corporate interests, and dis' pimp dont like back talk. Maybe if NDP had power in the past we wouldnt be in this situation." I get such a kick out of the left when they start talking about "standing up for their country." I was talking to some 18 year-old Molson Canadian-drinking, Canadian flag-waving, anti-American ranting, multiculturalist believing kid the other day and we started talking politics. When I told him I was pro-Harper and Conservative he gave me a bizarre look and started ranting about the above things and then told me he was pro-NDP and standing up for Canada, etc. Then I said to him, if Canada was attacked and we went to war and there was a draft and he had to go serve, that would be no problem, right? I mean, he is all about Canadian, right? He responded, in shock, that Canada would never be attacked because it was a country that was loved in the Arab world for standing up to the U.S. (boy, the left has got that dead on... ) Then I asked him the question again and he started stuttering and walked away. The left has always been about rhetoric and myths but I bet 90% of them wouldn't pick up a gun and defend this country.

Agreed...excellent post Army Guy!!!

I agree. I am not saying that Cindy Sheehan speaks for the American left, I am only saying that she needs to be careful people centrists don't start associating her with the leadership of the American left, as it could backfire on what you guys are trying to accomplish down there (I am taking you side here...) The mothers/wives/girlfriends/sisters/cousins/aunts of dead soldiers very rarely are friends of the military afterwards. Ive seen it many many times. I find that disappointing...

That hurts crazymf... ...it is not my fault I live in the province with the highest debt, the least efficient government (provincially), and on an island that continuously elects Liberal and Bloc (left-wing) MPs. And unfortunately I can't drive to Alberta to shop without sales tax like BC residents do. Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt feelings. You are welcome here at any time and until we see you, I dub thee an 'honorary Albertan'. You have to move here to be a real Albertan and get royalty cheques though. Do it, soon. We have a growing labor shortage to match our growing economy. There's room for more. I am an honorary Albertan! I do wonder how long it will be before I move there. It is, after all, the most successful province in Canada that is dragging Canada into the 21st century with its modernizing health care, championing hard work, and reforming welfare. Not to mention an incredible economy...

The Liberals should have those things in their platform because in my POV they are in the best interests of Canada.

The breakdown you'd see, probably, in Quebec is: Federalists=Dion Soft Nationalists=Harper Hardcore Separatists=Duceppe

We have to wait until 2008 for a CPC majority? :angry: I just hope Harper can balance government out between Quebec and Alberta. You live in Alberta, right Shoop? Do you think Harper can please both provinces?

We have a very high gas tax in this country. You want it cheap? Drive south of the border...

Congratulations Greg!!!

It excludes China and most of Saharan Africa, but includes Nigeria, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, India, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Indonesia. But first, the bad news. World opinion on economic prospects is mixed. Evaluating the global players NGOs 60% mainly positive v. 12% mainly negative UN 59% v. 16% World Bank 55% v. 18% News media 48% v. 24% IMF 47% v. 21% Global companies 41% v. 26% World Bank Nigeria 83% mainly positive v. 6% mainly negative Kenya 81% v. 5% Tanzania 79% v. 8% Ghana 76% v. 6% Congo 75% v. 6% Senegal 74% v. 6% South Africa 58% v. 5% Zimbabwe 43% v. 19% Indonesia 80% v. 12% Afghanistan 79% v. 7%. India 51% v. 9% Iraq 44% v. 18% Iran 42% v. 21% USA 47% v. 28% Canada 43% v. 28% http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Economy/...s_Jan06_rpt.pdf Toro, You're back!!! Globalization can act as a good and a bad tool. If we use it for the forces of good to improve quality of life in the world, then I support it 100%.

If you're going to dump Layton you have to dump the NDP. Not that I would mind...

I forgot that he was gay... I think that this will be a fun race...