Wilber

My favorite business card from Shanghai Front: Li chang long Sale the golf tennis set and equipment Back: Please being busy sends out the postal matter to me What a great place.

If we were discussing liver disease in Tasmanian wombats there are some on this forum who would make the US a part of it.

How exactly would nukes in Cuba change anything? Does it really make a difference where the nuke was? A nuke on a ICBM from Russia is just as deadly as a nuke from Cuba or a nuke fired from a Sub. The cold war was over as soon as Russia and the US had enough nukes to annihilate each other. In 1962 both ICBMs and submarine launched nuclear missiles were operational but still in their early days. MAD was not an established concept and there were still many who thought a nuclear war was winnable. If the US had attacked Cuba there is no reason to think those weapons wouldn't have been used. You don't think that Cuba wouldn't resort to using nuclear weapons if it was attacked? Given the Bay of Pigs and the attempted assassination of Castro I think the odds were fairly good. Any use of nuclear weapons could easily have resulted in a major exchange. If Russian nuclear weapons were used against the continental US do you really think the Americans wouldn't have retaliated? It would have taken restraint on an unbelievable level not to. MAD only works if neither side ever uses even one weapon. Once one does, all bets are off.

Excellent post guyser

True but I think the fact that Harper has weathered those things shows he has some staying power. Dion still has a lot to prove as a leader.

It's interesting that you should say that. Recent research into the Cuban crisis has revealed that unknown to the Americans there were already tactical nukes installed in Cuba. For some reason Kennedy resisted the advice of his military commanders who were calling for a strike against Cuba. He was an exception to the rule in that he was willing to admit what he didn't know and act accordingly. Turns out we were even closer to a nuclear exchange in 62 than we thought at the time.

Speaking as a rational centrist, I would rather have our system than people going without health care or being bankrupted by serious illness. Trouble is, in our system people are starting to go without decent healthcare because the system as it is can't cope. I've mixed feelings on the daycare issue. In principal, I am not in favour of subsidized daycare but the pragmatist in me says that we will have to either somehow increase our birth rate or further increase immigration levels, otherwise we will become a nation of geriatrics.

Yes it is and also obvious.

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Read it again, you didn't say pigs may be a better term, you said "I think PIGS is a better word".

Tommy Douglas deserves great credit for Canada's adoption of universal medical care over 40 years ago but he has been dead for 20 years. We don't bow down to the name of Lester Pearson every time Canadians are sent out on a peace keeping mission but we recognise that he was the one most responsible for the concept. The same goes for Douglas. Douglas didn't invent socialized medicine but he was responsible for the first such system in North America. The OECD ties us with Iceland for 1st place in percentage of GDP spent on health care. We are 19th in doctors per capita, 18th in access to MRI's, 17th in access to CT scans and 26th in hospital beds per capita. I hate to break it to you but while our wheel served us very well for years it is in dire need of reinventing.

That is because most defence lawyers can usually find some mitigating circumstance that makes the offense in question less serious than the hypothetical 'worst imaginable offense'. It is the judge who hands down the sentence not the defence. The sentence range is there and the judge is responsible for his decision, no one else.

In that case there is no point in giving up hot cars that pollute or good whiskey and cigars.

You can't reason with idiots.

Wouldn't worry too much about it CB, surveys of public opinion consistently indicate that the great majority of Canadians support their military and police.

In most cases the penalties are there but maximum sentences are a joke because they are rarely if ever given.

Perhaps if judges stopped consistently handing out conditional sentences at the bottom of the range this would be less of an issue. We have an incident going on in Chilliwack right now where a car was shot at and a mother her small child were hit. According to the local RCMP this was not a random attack and both the owner of the vehicle and the suspects are in their words "very well known to police" meaning a little kid is now in hospital with a bullet in him because our courts continually let these people back out on the street.

How did this guy manage to get himself sentenced by a Canadian court?

margrace Oh thats interesting, care to elucidate on that? What makes me a frustrated person? Easy to make these statements isn;t it. Wilber The stuff you put in your rants. Where does it come from? Book burning, jeez get a grip, you will be far more credible. Margrace Oh come on you can do better than that It was not me who said about burning books it was you what is this bait and switch. I would like you to read more books anyone who burns them is an idiot and I think Tommy Douglas was the best thing that ever happened to Canada don't you Your right, you didn't. My appologies. This is what you said. Yes, Mr Douglas was a good man and while I don't agree with all of his ideas, he did do some good things for the country. I just don't get why you would be so vociferous about people in politics who have religeous views then bring Tommy Douglas (a Baptist Minister) into the mix as one of your heros.

Perhaps BayLee could find a new future as a greeter in Afghanistan. It would be a short one methinks.

Then why are you so PO'd when he doesn't go out of his way to acknowledge us? You don't care what he thinks anyway.

Oh thats interesting, care to elucidate on that? What makes me a frustrated person? Easy to make these statements isn;t it. The stuff you put in your rants. Where does it come from? Book burning, jeez get a grip, you will be far more credible.

Yes, Steve would like to burn you books. The secret agenda again Oh, and speaking of history, Tommy Douglas was a Baptist Minister. You strike me as a very frustrated person.

Maybe one day this country will grow up and do something by itself without always referring to the US. You don't like the guy anyway, why are you desperate for his approval?

I have no desire to even raise the profile of Zundel. The Germans were diligent record keepers but didn't keep all the names of the people they exterminated. As I said, computer models had to be done to determine the extent of what they had done. Sorry but I still don't see what it has to do with predicting the future.