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18 days to go and still no deal. They better get going by now.

Carter vs Ted Kennedy in 1980 was the last time when an incumbent president had a serious challenge within his own party.

Even though Trump has said that he will seek re-election I think he will chicken out if he is not 100% sure of winning.

The Spanish wiped out an entire continent in terms of population-replacement. Nobody else has come even remotely close.

If the economy is doing badly do you blame the federal government or your provincial government?

It's still early days. In 1991 in the aftermath of the Gulf-War Bush sr enjoyed approval-ratings above 90% and the Democrats were adviced not to bother to run against him. However, the next year people had forgotten about the war and Bush's promise "read my lips, no new taxes" was beginning to bite his arse as he introduced new taxes.

Electric cars wont be an alternative for some time in sparsely populated countries of vast distances.

These people are only pleading to come back because isis and the caliphate have collapsed. Otherwise they would be happy to continue their life in their chosen utopia.

Isnt Trudeau currently in the middle of political crisis which may force him out of office?

Yesterday was an election-day in Estonia. A party called EKRE finished third. The party campaigned on an anti-immigration platform. Some people say that was strange that the issue was so big in Estonia as the country supposedly has next to none immigrants. People who say that dont seem to remember that about 1/3 of the population of Estonia are ethnic Russians who were transfered there during the Soviet times. Another thing what people said was strange about the popularity of EKRE was that it was the most popular party among expat-Estonians. People who have emigrated support a party which opposes immigration. It sound funny but given that most Estonian expats live in Finland and Sweden and they have first-hand seen what unfettered third-world immigration does to a country and they dont want that to happen to Estonia. What does this rant have to do with the thread-title refugees in Canada? Little or nothing really. My apologies for that. I considered this thread the most relevant for that purpose.

In Sweden they had a referendum in 1980 in which the electorate voted to give up nuclear energy. Sweden is yet in the process of carrying out the outcome of that referendum.

Do you still have a TV-licence which you can refuse to pay? We used to have it but now the state-propaganda is funded straight from taxation. In this age of the internet many people would stop paying for being brainwashed.

Bernie is too old and Kamala is horrible. Btw, kamala in Finnish means horrible.

Has this issue surfaced following the news-story about the ISIS-bride who wants to return "home" to the UK after ISIS has been destroyed? The British government has revoked her UK-citizenship and has said she is not welcome back. However, as the UK-law states that nobody can be made stateless through revocation of the UK-citizenship she may have to be accepted back to the UK even though she is a poisonous snake who is a real threat if and when she returns to the UK. Countries such as Iraq dont take back their own deported citizens, which is against all international laws but different laws seem to apply to different countries. Perhaps even the Iraqis have understood that receiving Iraqis is not a good idea.

All the more reason you shouldnt hand out citizenships too lightly. For one thing, dual citizenship shouldnt be allowed.

Unlike countries such as Iraq which refuses to accept its own deported citizens back we have no choice but to take back those who carry our passports. Having said that, this particular problem highlights the importance of exercising good judgement as to whom citizenship is awarded to. Citizenship should be more difficult to get than some supermarket bonus-cards.

Why is there so much media-hype about this Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Ok, she is a youngish woman and not terribly ugly either so it is easy to understand why she is such a pet of the media. However, AOC is a first-term HOR-member but judging by the media-coverage one would think that she is a very important leader of the Democrats.

How are they allied these days? In the era of the cold war India was close to the Soviets and Pakistan to the Americans.

Theresa May is the worst PM for decades but yet she is safe as houses. Mainly because the opposition is even worse. One may ponder is it even possible for any UK-government to be worse than the current lot but apparently that is the case.

British politics is changing beyond recognition. Brexit is destroying the Tories while Labour is falling apart as many MPs are fed up with the commie-Corbyn who also sympathises terrorists.

Just think about poverty and crime in the USA. Now think again if abortion was banned in all of the USA what do you think would poverty and crime be so bad that today's real situation would even be ideal?

Hungary can propose something like that because there are hardly any third-world immigrants in that country. T Their problem isnt immigration but emigration as hundreds of thousands have moved to the west. 50 years of communism which destroyed their economy like elsewhere in Eastern-Europe ended 30 years ago and those countries still arent on their feet. That is all you need to know about communism.

If you look at the map of the world you should realise that nobody just turns up in Canada by chance unless they hate the USA or can swim thousands of miles and accidentally end up on the shores of Canada. Similar here in Finland as we receive these refugees fleeing from war-torn countries escaping persecution. Somehow it is never mentioned in our media that it is impossible to enter Finland without passing through several perfectly safe countries.

If Brexit is delayed that could cause a dilemma as to how to deal with the upcoming EU-elections.

I know this is a tongue-in-cheek-thread but on a serious note Russia allowed the Baltic States to restore their independence but did not return Karelia to Finland. They should have. Similarly, the reasons dont exist any longer why the act of Union between England and Scotland was signed in 1707. Scotland should secede.