sharkman

What Suzuki is doing must be embarrassing many scientists. For him to speak about Global Warming is one thing, but to take pot shots at the PM hurts his own credibility among those people who matter, the undecided. Saying Harper is so far up Bush's butt lowers the debate in Canada and just turns it into a left vs right argument, which as we know around here, is not that fruitful. But it's funny to hear this criticism when the Bush administration has outperformed Canada on environmental issues. This, of course, means nothing to Suzuki, who can't see such plain facts in his kyoto glasses.

This is simply outrageous. He's robbing these companies in broad daylight, and will no doubt use this new influence in the oil supply to manipulate prices.

Why do you assume all immigrants are non-white? Simply because the vast majority of them are non white.

Right now, I'm saying that is highly insulting. Do you care to take it back? No, because it wasn't a statement but a question. The reason I asked it is you never addressed why, as a former student in Florida, you agree with the statement you quoted: "the real idiots in this matter are the ones who use heavy-handed police tactics..." So let me ask again. Why, as a former student in Florida, do you agree with the above quote? What was your personal experience as a student in Florida, that you would agree with such a statement.

Don't look now river, but poly is sucking you into another 9/11 conspiracy thread. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Rich, very rich, and pointless to boot. Hope it doesnt scare you Do you realize that you are doing the adult version of the ole tried and true grade 3 response, "scardy cat scardy cat"? It does not work as well anymore, even when you try to dress it up with grown up words like phobia. You're still doing what amounts to a school yard taunt based on fear. Have you no argument to put forth?

whups, you are right, its over 5 or 6 years. But I believe my point still stands, if over a longer time period. I think I'll try the free membership thing.

The real idiots in this matter are the ones who use heavy-handed police tactics to deal with upset six-year olds. I graduated High School in Orlando FL -- I concur, "the real idiots in this matter are the ones who use heavy-handed police tactics..." Why, are you saying you turned out badly under spanking laws of the time?

If we average 1.2 million a year from here out, added to our large immigration population already here, in ten years or so white Canadians will be a minority, and Canada will be much changed. What a strange situation, but I prefer to see the glass half full. For instance, most of our immigration comes from the east rim nations which are known for their pro family conservative stance. A voting block to be listened to. BTW, your link is asking for a password - no article.

Your link oops I made an errant post

why, because you say so? Word is, NAMBLA IS gays, whateve some of them think of them.

I don't follow. Socialists are not ashamed or insulted to be called what they are, neither are leftwingers. Although, they have a new term for their politics, progressives. An insult would have been more along the lines of commie pinko, bleeding heart liberal or idiot.

Sure. That's why it was the exact reverse phenomenon when Belinda ran for the CPC leadership. Are you saying women voted for her because of her experience while men voted for her because she was hot? Doesn't work, she at least had some experience, but she's not really that good looking, unless she's standing beside Hedi Fry. Edit: And it could be argued that women voted for her simply because she was a woman since there are so few of them running.

What's happening is scientists who disagree with the Global Warming theory are bullied into changing their views, while anyone questioning pro Global Warming research is labelled a witch hunter: Excerpt So how is it that we don't have more scientists speaking up about this junk science? It's my belief that many scientists have been cowed not merely by money but by fear. An example: Earlier this year, Texas Rep. Joe Barton issued letters to paleoclimatologist Michael Mann and some of his co-authors seeking the details behind a taxpayer-funded analysis that claimed the 1990s were likely the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year in the last millennium. Mr. Barton's concern was based on the fact that the IPCC had singled out Mr. Mann's work as a means to encourage policy makers to take action. And they did so before his work could be replicated and tested--a task made difficult because Mr. Mann, a key IPCC author, had refused to release the details for analysis. The scientific community's defense of Mr. Mann was, nonetheless, immediate and harsh. The president of the National Academy of Sciences--as well as the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union--formally protested, saying that Rep. Barton's singling out of a scientist's work smacked of intimidation. All of which starkly contrasts to the silence of the scientific community when anti-alarmists were in the crosshairs of then-Sen. Al Gore. In 1992, he ran two congressional hearings during which he tried to bully dissenting scientists, including myself, into changing our views and supporting his climate alarmism.

I just re-read the link, and here's the revealing part: Last spring a number of civil rights organizations collaborated on a study of disciplinary practices in Florida schools and concluded that many of them, “like many districts in other states, have turned away from traditional education-based disciplinary methods — such as counseling, after-school detention, or extra homework assignments — and are looking to the legal system to handle even the most minor transgressions.” Civil rights groups (read liberal activists) have decided to target school districts. I wonder how they get the word out so idiot parents can call them in on a case? No doubt they have a crack team just itching for the phone call. Pathetic.

You know what? This whole thing would have been taken care of quite nicely if the kid had been doing this in 1965, when teachers and principals were allowed to spank. Plain and simple. In today's school the child is never wrong. No one is allowed to even touch them. So frustrated educators, who no doubt had to deal with this type of nonsense regularly, thought a brush with the law might smarten the kid up. The probable reason this is a news story is the parents, instead of apologizing for their idiot kid, are prbably idiots themselves and had a hissy fit in the principal's offce, the police station, and then the local news channel. If I were the principal I'd kick the kid out of school for good.

Wow, that's great news, I hope it's sooner rather than later.

Okay, please tell us to whom you are referring when in the above sentence, you use the term turd blossom, in captital letters no less. Edit: Yeah, Dancer, here we go again.

That's quite often because men think with their brains ( he has no experience) while women tend to go with feelings, which can be affected by looking good in a suit.

Churchill sure had a way with words...

No, I am not name calling. But you are offering false accusations. Don't you know that offering false accusations is the first resort of a disturbed pathological mind? Huh? turd blossom is the name and you are calling it on Bush. How is that fals... never mind, I don't want to know what leap of logic you are making to excuse your rule infractions. I will simply take satisfaction in the fact that no matter how much you hate bush, he still will be around until his term is up.

Oh, so you are name calling again. Don't you know that calling names is the first resort of a lazy mind?

Here's an atmospheric physicist by the name of Richard Lindzen Here's some of his thoughts on the warmng issue: He frequently speaks out against the IPCC position that significant global warming is caused by humans although he accepts that the warming has occurred, saying global mean temperature is about 0.6 degrees Celsius higher than it was a century ago.[6] His position with regard to the IPCC can be summed up with this quotation: "Picking holes in the IPCC is crucial. The notion that if you’re ignorant of something and somebody comes up with a wrong answer, and you have to accept that because you don’t have another wrong answer to offer is like faith healing, it’s like quackery in medicine – if somebody says you should take jelly beans for cancer and you say that’s stupid, and he says, well can you suggest something else and you say, no, does that mean you have to go with jelly beans?" And why are there fewer scientists who disagree with the Global warming?: He has been a critic of some anthropogenic global warming theories and the political pressures surrounding climate scientists. He wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in April, 2006, in which he wrote: "In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming. Aksel Winn-Nielsen, former director of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization, was tarred by Bert Bolin, first head of the IPCC, as a tool of the coal industry for questioning climate alarmism. Respected Italian professors Alfonso Sutera and Antonio Speranza disappeared from the debate in 1991, apparently losing climate-research funding for raising questions." So, when you have a movement that shuts up scientists who disagree with it, is it any wonder there are fewer speaking out?

But this is a sound point, and to ignore the one group while condemning the other shows a disreguard for the victims of both. So straight people molest kids but gays don't? Give me a break. Rue, have you ever heard of a group called NAMBLA?

What my problem is suggesting is that people should not have to bear their gas bills going up 20% in one year(.95 to 1.17), which is inflationary and could itself start a recession in a weak economy. You obviously would love to see much higher gas prices, in which the poor of our nation would suffer most, and those sinful suvs would be banished to storage. We'll get there one day, but to allow gas corporations to gouge customers and make much bigger profits than normal is unjust, even if they are doing the environmentalists bidding. Ah, but the happiness of the consumer is the underlying basis by which the capitalist system we have operates. That's what makes people purchase everything from houses to those dangerous little smart cars. But the point is not to have happy or unhappy consumers so much as to not have their disposable income greatly reduced by gas prices going through the roof. As for the monopoly question, a few years ago in the lower mainland, an American discount gas company, Arco, began selling gas. For the next 2 years or so we had gas wars as the major players all lowered their prices to not allow Arco to gain a market share. They sold out shortly after. This is an example of all the players ganging up on a new comer. Now our local prices change every few days up or down, but it's all done within a couple of hours and every single one does it. A monopoly which has no competition and has gas up to .17/ltr more in Vancouver than Toronto, simply because it wants to. In these matters you sound like a socialist with your disregard for capitalism, or at least a leftwinger. I suppose I am a rightwinger. It's no wonder we see things differently on this topic.