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Ah, I think this comment explains it. Further, to folow the trail of money, it looks like people are leaving the Liberal party and heading for the NDP or Green. And easy does it Topaz, people don't trust ANY politicians.

See, that's where the environmental alarmists got tricky. They realized that their whole house of cards would fall as soon as the planet begins its regularly scheduled cooling trend. So they thought they could fool everyone if they starting calling it climate change. Funny thing that they think just changing the name solves this problem.

I disagree because a child starts in life dependent on a parent for its most basic needs. A parent is the first person to convey (or fail to convey?) an appreciation of consequences to actions. Parents hold the first concept of social authority in a child's life. Television, pop music and hoola-hoops are not going to feed, bathe, clothe, shelter or love a child. This is not the village concept. Pop culture doesn't have to do any of those things you mentioned to influence a child. This concept I am supporting is why advertising works, to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Haven't you seen kids in the store insisting that they get such and such a toy or seen what goes on their christmas lists? When the commercials are over on TV, the influence doesn't simply stop until the next set of commercials.

Yeah, uh, I think that just maybe freeway structures are built to handle a different level of pressure than highrises.

This is a classic case of back pedalling if I ever saw one, and a pathetic excuse to boot. She's hoping like crazy this will blow over without her having to withdraw the comment, which would have her lose even more face. This, coupled with the recent incident in Vancouver with a Green party candidate whose sympathy with 9/11 theories came to light, make the Green party substantially less of an option for the middle in Canada.

What about Jesus? He always claimed he was deity. His believers followed this from day one, whatever certain church denominations came to conclude about Him.

Charles, do you think that pop culture, TV movies and video games, have no influence on kids compared to their parents? That's what you appear to believe, although you don't directly address it. Children spend hours a day absorbed in these mediums, which BTW also teach that parents are not cool. Kids to not spend nearly as much time with their parents. I believe the winner of influence is the one the child is immersed in more. How a parent scolds a child and treats otherr children is a factor, but if the child spends 3 hours a day immersed in pop culture and 1 hour a day with their parents, which will have more influence on the child?

I don't think in today's culture a good word smith is appreciated anymore. And about jbg, she wasn't saying Churchill was Canadian.

In light of the revelation that Elizabeth May has some pretty far out ideas about Nazis, it's interesting to note that I don't think she ever did anything about this incident in Vancouver except say she wanted to talk to him first hand and hear his story. Apparently they have some things in common - kooky theories.

I've been staying out of this thread because I thought the premise a fool's errand but I couldn't quite put my finger on why. In our culture, respect for the law is a learned behaviour just as most other learned behaviours. And where do children get most of their education on society from today? Pop culture, that's where. TV, movies, and video games. Perhaps you see my point. Respect for the law, and by extension authority, is at an all time low in these mediums. Since children spend the majority of their day occupied with these mediums, they are taught to respect no one and demand whatever their little heart fancies. My wife is a school teacher, and time and time again, when she catches little Johnny cheating on a test, the parents defend the child and assume the teacher somehow is wrong. Then they bargain for another chance. When this behaviour (which the parents no doubt got from pop culture themselves as children) is modelled in front of the child, they have no chance.

Is there anyone around who had to go through the Ontario gas shortage of a couple months ago? Were gas stations gouging then?

Nope, but when the attack ads hit, polls show people listen up good.

This is how silly it's become. A kidnapping in Nigeria is being blamed for the latest jump in gas prices. I am not making this up. The result? Gas hit 1.28/ltr in parts of Vancouver today. We are being gouged when a mere kidnapping of oil workers in a country across the globe 'causes' flucuation in Canada. Excerpt: Six foreign oil workers were kidnapped and a Nigerian sailor was killed when dynamite-wielding militants attacked an oil vessel early Tuesday. A Nigerian spokesman for California-based Chevron said four Italians, one American and one Croatian were abducted. The company shut down an oil station, decreasing production by 15,000 barrels a day. What will it take for Canadians to get beyond the shoulder shrug? $2.00?

The oil industry is doing what all industries do: trying to be profitable. Venezuela opened the doors to them, now they seizing their assets. And that is wrong. Modern refineries are environmentally safe, certainly in Canada with all the legislation we have. But we now need more capacity. Remember though, corps only ship crude, not gasoline or diesel, so it's not like oil corps are doing all their refining in one place. The hard left politican Chavez is pulling the carpet out from underneath industry to seize control after they've invested billions. On top of this he's closing down TV and media outlets that disagree with him. If either of this happened in Canada even the left would be freaked.

Lets step back a minute and look at the big picutre. It is very politically incorrect to find anything negative about gays in the medical community or anywhere else. They have been given the Midas touch. So every sexual deviance is approached with this bias. If a healthy gay is attracted to adults, then an unhealthy gay could be attracted to boys. To merely use the description these obviously sick people choose to describe themselves - heterosexual - is kin to asking the patient to figure out what desease they have. Their diseased minds are not to be trusted simply because their descriptions are helpful to gay culture. As far as Nambla goes, if you think they didn't care what the sex is of the young person, then why did they call themselves, North American Man Boy Love Association? And if you think they are shut down, try again. They just went underground. At any rate, I am not suggesting that all gays are child molestors, only the ones who have sex with kids of the same sex. Your last comment was very telling, for you suggested that to find out the difference between a sexual deviant and a gay, I only need to speak with a gay. Not a molestor. Get it through your head, gays are capable of molestation just as straights are. The game the medical community is playing with names and terms won't change that.

I'll try again then. The Global warming debate has only been around for about 25 years. This is different than the age of the earth debate which is much older. That is a red herring. Since the GW debate is quite young, scientists should not have their funding yanked merely because they disagree with GW. That they are shows an effort to shut up scientists. This is not good. I might be a person on the outside, or I may not be, but Richard Lindzen and many like him are not.

Actually, big oil has a refinery in the works in New Brunswick. Oops! The problem has been those of the tree hugging variety who have so much red tape and enviro crap in the way, it makes it super expensive to build new refineries. But since Ontario had gas stations close down temporarily because of no gas from that refinery fire and train strike, it seems the tree huggers are under seige.

wow! is PN ever all powerful, that he can 'suck' riverwind into a 9/11 discussion. How exactly is he doing that? Or is riverwind, an unwitting victim of PN's 'powers'? what a silly thing to say. Please note the number of posts poly has made. Now compare them to yours. Poly has been around here as long as me, and I have noticed the poly trends. He is a conspiracy theorist nut. He has a theory for every thing. Really. Everything. He just finished a thread on 9/11 that was over 100 pages, all filled with the same old repeated engineer arguments. He could not answer some very valid points, so ignored them. Now he is starting a new thread with the same old subject matter. We are worried about Poly and the people he sucks in. As a matter of fact, some have contacted Maury to see if there is a show in there somewhere and Maury is really excited. Stay tuned.

You are paying more because the supply side is so tight. Refineries are at maximum capacity, our prices flucuate even when one goes down for maintenance. We haven't had a new refinery built in Canada in about 20 years, yet in that time our population has grown significantly.

I googled suzuki and mason, got bupkis. Other than that, there is a current thread on Global warming being nonsense in the Rest Of The World section.

So this is the cash flow you were talking about? Seems like many of those dollars would just end up in the Big Oil's pockets. Recall that many of the US oil companies have posted record profits consecutively for the past few years. And I bet for sure none of those dollars Big Oil gets directly help you out in any way shape or for aside from gouging you at the gas pump to power your fuel inefficient SUV. So is Chavez really stealing from the US? Or just taking back what big oil has raped for many previous years?? Again, Venezuela has different rules, not our country. So not much we can do about that. Unless you really want to link Chavez with the next terror attack in the US, then we can Iraq it up and take all that back, and leave nothing for Venezuela. Fuck em, let them starve .. right? Chavez is a theif in his own home. What are you talking about? I never, and continue to not, talk about cash flow. I am, and continue to, talk about property being seized. It's wrong for a country to seize assets of an industry. Gas prices are another issue, which BTW I am against. Your argument on ignoring Chavez since he's doing it in his own country reminds me, why all the hubub about American carbon dioxide emissions. Hey, it's THEIR country and THEIR customs to drive around in SUVs. Why do we care? Oh, and if you think I'd be shot dead on sight, then the oil companies have a legitimate argument after all since they are being robbed.

What asinine logic. In effect you're saying that all scientists should agree to the same thing regardless of scientific enquiry. Your analogy is even sillier, since it posits the growing number of sceptics as fools, when in fact they are doing their job. No im definitely not saying they should all agree to the same thing. I am saying there are limits. You call my analogy silly, but surely you agree that a geologist who believes the earth was only 6000 years old should not be employed in positions of scientific representation. So when a scientist is kicked out of a position for their viewpoint, it might not necessarily be unjustified. But what of the Global Warming debate. It's a brand new debate that's only been around for about 25 years or so, unllike the age of the earth debate. Yet back in 1992, scientists were being pressured to accept it without study. This is uncomparable to old squabbles scientists have had on the age of the earth. The scientist I referenced, Richard Lindzen, states that the mean temperature of the earth has been stable for about 6 years now which is what it always does before it starts to cycle downward. You can bet the Global Alarmists will be shrieking about this new trend as if it's a dangerous new development. Maybe even another mockery of science coming from a new Gore 'documentary'.

It seems a lefty, Chavez, has seized control of foreign oil companies in his country, or as most people would say, stolen. Better tank up everybody. I wonder how long it will take to affect prices in Canada.

No, I'm saying he's seizing 60% ownership of the oil companies. If I walked up to your house and carried out 60% of your possessions, you wouldn't be happy about it. On top of this, Chavez has been closing down and shutting up TV stations that have been critical of him. If Bush did this lefties would freak, but since it's Chavez, the left swoons.

I never made any pronouncements about whether they were westernized or not, didn't even infer it. But if a person comes from China, India The Phillipines, or Pakistan, their culture IS different than ours, and since you mention it, you have no evidence to suggest these people would be westernized, and the evidence suggests otherwise. Regarding your other point, here is a link that shows out of the top five nations where people come from, only number 5 is predominately white. Excerpt: Among the permanent residents, the ranking of the top five countries where immigrants come from did not change. Top on the list is China, followed by India, then the Philippines, followed by Pakistan and the United States. In addition to this, a majority of foreign workers came from the United States followed closely by Mexico and France -- then by Jamaica and Japan. Among the provinces in Canada, Ontario remained the province of choice for most immigrants, followed by Quebec and British Columbia. So, it's not that wild a claim to suggest that the vast majority of immigrants to Canada are non-whites.