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That Harper will win is as plain as the nose on your face. By how much ........ THAT is the question.

Dilettantes, that's what the American military heavyweights call these Canadian military types. You know, I think that what we want to do in Canada is to spend on our military only so much so as to semi-satisfy the Americans. And if the Americans want us to spend it on policing the Arctic waters, so be it!

The reason that many Canadian nurses come back after a stint in the U.S. is always basicly the same .... "They worked my ass off." And many are back because they were kicked out, because they were too slow & incompetent. This is a fact! The doctors? The doctors get paid more in the U.S. because they produce more. They produce more because they are heavily encouraged to specialize. You see, in the U.S. they do believe in sayings like .."practice makes perfect". They also know that some surgeons are more talented at replacing hips, other's natural tallent may lie in fiddling with tiny little bones in your fingers & toes, yet others are natural born knee replacers. ETC, ETC, ETC. Not like in Canada, where doctors have "quotas". Did you know that in Canada a doctor can do only a certain number of this or that kind of surgury before he is cut off for the rest of the year? NO MATTER HOW GOOD & QUICK HE/SHE is. Why do you think there are so many more anesthetists needed in Canada than in the U.S.

Cheque's in mail for Czechs http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.ht...298b6e9&k=18487 I like the title.

Here is the article: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/st...b61bf7a25d0&p=1 Here are some excerpts for those unregistered at NP: "Liver recipient fighting OHIP for restitution In Adolfo Flora's ongoing battle to receive restitution from the Ontario government for his costly liver transplant in Britain, there is one indisputable piece of evidence working in his favour: He is alive. Leslie Lilly, the medical director of liver transplantation at the Toronto General Hospital, who concluded Mr. Flora was too sick to treat .... Determined to keep fighting, Mr. Flora sought an opinion from doctors in London. There, he was approved as a candidate for a liver transplant .... But he was forced to sell his mother's house to pay for the surgery .... At a hearing before the OHIP board, two doctors who treated Mr. Flora in England expressed the view that he was a good transplant candidate. An Ontario doctor testified that he was not." Beware an Ontario doctor!!

What is an uneducted man? I guess Winston knows the answer to that. BC has no GW's but Washington & Oregon do. I get to the Washington ones relatively frequently but the books are usually in rather poor condition with that musky old paper smell so I don't buy them. However in Oregon they obviously get overstocks as they almost only carry brand spanking, crack the spine, new books. If I lived there I'd be a regular in their book department as you are.

But you'd put up with Medicare denying you coverage and treatment, right? RIGHT?? I've heard of several cases in the past few years where Canadian doctors told a patient that nothing could be done and that they had 6 months to live .... and how these people, refusing to believe, went to the U.S. and were fully cured. I always thought that Canadian MEDICARE sprang for the bill in these cases. In today's National Post, on page A8, I see that this is not always so. The article titled "Liver recipient fighting OHIP for restitution" tells the story of a Toronto high school teacher, Adolfo Flora, who was told six years ago t at the Toronto General Hospital that his liver was shot from cancer and that he had less than eight months to live. He was a poor risk according to the TGH surgeons so they refused to replace his cancerous liver with a piece of his brother's heathy liver. But Adolfo was determined to live so he had the operation done in England where the doctors said that he was an excellent candidate for a liver transplant from a living donor, a role that would be filled by his brother. Today, six years later, he is alive, his cancer gone and his health excellent, but he is still fighting Medicare to pay him close to half a million bucks, the money he spent so that he could live. How would you feel if this were YOU? Canada would just tell you to roll over & die ... but it looks like old Adolfo could have another 40 years in him.

You know, Eureka, I think it is a good thing for an uneducated man like me to read books of quotations. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. Scored any great writers at the GW stores lately?

But who is to guard the guards themselves, you ask? Greg, I suppose. And he's doing a fine job of late ... thank you.

Want to bet?

OOPS, I meant to write "Juvenile". (sorry .. English is my second language.)

The above says: """ Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe has declined Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's challenge to debate him one on one in French. Duceppe said Wednesday that since it is the Liberals who lack the moral authority to govern, there is no point having a debate without Liberal Leader Paul Martin. "When we took the vote in the House, it was a motion of non-confidence against the Liberals because they didn't have the moral authority to govern," Duceppe said. "So having a debate without the party accused of not having moral authority to govern – I mean, this is no debate." """ STILL don't believe me when I tell ya'all that Tories wil win comfortably? Very comfortably?

Too bad. But better than nothing, I guess. As the saying goes .... "Better to be a Conservaive for a day than a schmuck for a lifetime."

"Every time I went to Quebec, from 1992 to 2002, I was actually searching for something that went far beyond ways and means of improving my linguistic capacity. I was searching for a very special someone - LaFontaine!" - Preston Manning Could Dumont be what Preston Manning was looking for but never found ..... LaFontaine? Could you please translate that damn thing!

A gold star? What a Juvenal offer that is .... tsk tsk tsk. How old are you PocketRocket?

I must be a complete idiot then. What if I were to tell you that I could get 2x, THREE TIMES as much production out of a doctor that I snitched from the Canadian public system?

Martin DID go nuts during that second debate, didn't he? "MY Canada" "MY Canada", he screamed. Thanks for pointing it out. O Canada "our" home and native land ....

I bet you that by mid January even Joe Clark wil be campaigning for Stephen Harper.

And that is why Svend won't marry Max. He's afraid young Max would bolt. Svend is a multi-milionaire, you know? At least that's what the papers say. I wonder how he came into all of that money. GO HEDY GO !!!

Those were the days my friend. Haven't you noticed how, ever since women won suffrage, to be a man and say what you mean and stand for what you say is easier said than done. I hope PR's happy!

And would you believe that Pinnacle Sports lists that thieving maniac as a favorite? http://www2.pinnaclesports.com/guestcontes...eral%20Election If this election's not gonna kill me, nothing will. GO HEDY GO!!!

Strictly a guess my foot! http://writer.electionblog.ctv.ca/default.asp?item=116615

Is it true that all three of these amigos agree that SSM is a human rights issue, AND THUS, if gays WEREN'T allowed to "marry" they would classify it as a "human rights violation"? Tsk, tsk, tsk.

OK, then, does the supreme court think the charter says that it would be a "human rights violation" not to let gays "marry"?

Would Martin, Layton and Duceppe consider it a "human rights violation" not to let gays "marry"? Just asking.