TheNewTeddy

It's a great idea in fact, but the prov should lower it's take so the sales tax level stays the same.

Upcoming elections Bermuda will hold national elections on December 17th Venezuela will hold regional elections on the 16th Kuwait will hold elections on the 1st Burkina Faso on the 2nd Slovenia will finish it's elections on the 2nd Ghana will hold the first round of Presidential Elections on the 7th Romania will hold elections on the 9th. Romania is a EU country, thus, this may be of note. Japan will hold elections on the 16th. Japan is one of the most powerful countries in the world, and this election will get much attention (from me at least) South Korea will elect a President on the 19th. It will also get much attention from me as SK is in an important position. Ghana will complete it's elections on the 28th. In Lithuania the sitting government was voted out and replaced with the Social Democrats. The sitting government is a Conservative party, and pro-Europe, but is seen as nationalistic. The Social Democrats are a more traditional left-wing SD party. They will be sitting in coalition with Labour, which is actually a liberal party. Order and Justice, a right-wing radical group, will join them. This party is a mix of borderline racists, populists, and liberals who do not care for Europe. In opposition will be the Liberals, who are indeed liberal, the Polish Party (representing the Poles) the populist party, and the Peasant Party. Numerical results were as follows: Social Democrats - 38 Conservatives - 33 Labour - 29 Order and Justice - 11 Liberal - 10 Polish Party - 8 Populists - 7 Peasants - 1 Independents - 3

Missed Updates: Belarus The dictatorship's party has won 109 of the 110 seats, and is set to win the final seat in a second round of voting. The election was "Fair" if you consider "Fair" to include counting all administration ballots 4 times. Switzerland referenda were held. A smoking ban failed, as did a proposal on secure housing (old age), however music lessons (in schools) passed. Georgia (the country) National elections were held. The sitting administration won 65 seats while the opposition won 85. The opposition (now government) is a mish-mash of the the overthrown admin (2003), racists, pro-west liberals, and pro-market neo-cons. Venezuela Chavez was re-elected with 55% to the opposition candidate's 44%. The elections were generally considered fair and free. This 44% combines with 47% in the most recent parliamentary election to be the strongest opposition challenge to Chavez to date. Czech Republic Senate elections were held. The Social Democrats won 13 seats. The Democrats won 4, and others won a combined 8. The Democrats are a Conservative party. Lithuania A referendum on a new nuke plant was held and was rejected. Parliamentary elections were also held. Due to the complexity of the system, this is dealt with in my second post. Montenegro The Pro-European party won 39 seats, and lost it's current majority, in the assembly of 81 members. It is expected the party will find support in the party of the Bosnian minority, which won 3 seats, and has worked with them before. Iceland A referendum on a new constitution was held and all questions passed. The questions included adopting the constitution, making natural resources not already privately owned naitonalized, creating an established national church, something I don't understand about elections, ending the favoring of rural areas (more seats) in parliament, and allowing a certain fraction of the electorate to demand a referendum. All questions passed with between 57% (church) and 78% (question I didn't understand) support. Ukraine Final results are out. Among the opposition, the Fatherland party won 101 seats, the Democrats 40, the Communists 32, and the Freedom Party 37, for a total of 210 seats. The smaller parties won 7 seats, and 43 Independents were elected. The Party of Regions has won 185 seats. Blue is PoR and Pink is opposition. Of the smaller parties is one party who's leader threatened to physically assault anyone who supports the gays; a pro-opposition party, a pro PoR party, and a party that's more pro-Russia than the PoR. This gives the Government 189 seats and the opposition 213, however the government is expected to be able to persuade most of the Independents to vote for them. They would combine with the Government to make for 232 seats. Note 5 seats are still undecided. Vanuatu Yes this place is a real country. The sitting government has been reduced to 4 seats, surpassed by the NUP at 8, and the VP at 11. The VP is left-wing while the NUP is supported from English speakers. I'm unable to find who won the other 29 seats in Parliament, but in short, we can expect a coalition. Ireland A referendum was held on children's rights, and passed. Slovenia A first round was held in the Presidential elections of this EU country. Phor, the Social Democrat, and Turk, the Independent made it though to the second round, which will be held a week from today. San Marino The world's oldest republic held an election, and the Christian-Democrat lead Centrist Alliance won a majority, and was thus re-elected. China "Elections" were held and Xi Jinping (pronounced 'shee gin-ping') was "elected" as the new leader of China. Sierra Leone The Incumbent President was re-elected to another term. Elections were considered to be both free and fair. Belgium Sub-national elections were held that only confirmed the existing balance of parties, with the Flemish autonomists increasing in power. West Bank Palestinian local elections were held, where Fatah continued it's strength. Elections in Gaza were postponed due to it being controlled by a theocratic single-party terrorist militancy. Spain A number of local elections were held. In the Basque region, Basque nationalist and separatist parties won. As a result, the terrorist Eta has said it wants to disband and is willing to hand over it's weapons. In Galicia, the Conservatives won, and local nationalist and separatist groups did poorly. In Catalonia the Catalonian Conservatives trounced the Catalonian Socialists, whom both finished ahead of the national Conservative and Socialist parties. The Catalonian parties are a mix of nationalists and somewhat separatist. Due to failed autonomy negotiations between the local and national Conservatives, a coalition between both nationalist parties may be in the works. Turks and Caicos After imposition of direct rule by the UK due to corruption charges, free elections were held last month. 8 of the 15 seats were won by the PNP and 7 by the PDM. Their politics are unknown at this time. England and Wales. Elections for PCCs were held. These are new positions of people who will control the budget of local police forces. The election results map as thus: The Tories won 16 seats while Labour won 13. 12 Independents were elected. Both the Liberal-Democrats and the anti-EU party UKIP failed to win any seats.

"Don't read them" is a poor excuse for allowing people to break the rules. ...Presuming this is actually against the rules??? This place has some of the most bizarre rules I've ever seen on a forum, so I actually have no clue.

Nobody "makes English largely an illegal language" and to imply so is, frankly, racist. (in the context of this discussion)

You contradict yourself in your own post. Only 18 people on that list. In a country of 300+ million, there SHOULD be a list containing at least a thousand. Frankly, I'd add - All Senators, by term length - All House members, by term length This is far more stable, but still possible to beat. - All Governors, by term length (BTL) - All State Senators, BTL - All State House members, BTL Now this makes it almost impossible to kill all of them at once, as they are never all in the same place. - All County/Municipal Mayors or Chiefs, BTL - All County/Municipal elected members of any kind, BTL - Any remaining elected officials, BTL This would be "the nth degree" - All Judges, BTL - All military personell, by rank - All formerly elected people, BTL - All candidates for office who lost, by total number of votes gathered over their career - All government employees, by salary in the most recent year. Including bus drivers and teachers etc - All persons who held any of the above titles "formerly", by title rank. Now THIS. THIS is a succession list.

All the pollsters were both wrong and right. State by state polling was generally accurate, and when combined with the electoral college, had Obama ahead every single day of the election. Nationwide polling was highly inaccurate and more often than not had Romney ahead.

Digging though the results: 6 states Obama did better in this time than last time. Rhode Island New York New Jersey Mississippi Alaska Louisiana And looking at the counties in particular, all of this can be summed up in 3 ways. Palin was not on the ballot this time in Alaska. More black people voted for Obama this time than last time. The areas hit hardest by Sandy must have liked what Obama did as his vote increased there.

Election results rolling in is a prime time to be in a chat room. If this US election results in no or almost no activity in Chat, it means Chat has failed.

Chat rooms are excellent as the results roll in, as people can discuss their own conclusions as well as the conclusions drawn from the various media outlets they are watching.

I'm in the chat! I'm also playing a drinking game involving cups of sambuca (and water) and red and blue food colouring. When a D or a R wins a state, I take a sip from the proper cup! When one cup is empty, I win!

My real name is Nicholas Joshua Sylvio Ferdinando (AKA Nick J) "Teddy" Boragina I give this to you freely. But if you tell me I can not remain here; that I'm forced to give it to you? I will leave this forum despite the fact that I've just given it out for free. That is too much commitment to a political forum. In addition, such a policy would only encourage cyberstalking and starte rangewars involving other websites and forums. You would effectively be seeing up other political forums for trollflame battles because of a stupid policy implemented here.

You must keep from within 100 feet of yourself at all times?

First off William you are wrong. Secondly, are you saying if Quebec went bankrupt that Alberta would be willing to pay?

Only one person bothered to respond to this, despite the fact that the poll that started the thread suggests this.

It is interesting... What if Israel holds a referendum, a free vote, and 60% vote for Apartheid. Are we going to go in there and tell them that their democracy is invalid? That their people are not permitted to choose this option?

In other words "Stop catching my/our lies"

The point is the east was there to help.

Disney is buying Star Wars and making a 7th movie? http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/1279943--disney-buying-star-wars-maker-lucasfilm-from-george-lucas is this some kind of joke, cause I don't get it.

Reports are the way the admins want the forum run. To oppose them is in effect breaking the rules.

Election counting ongoing in Ukraine. Current results are as follows. 210 - Party of Regions and small party allies 89 - Fatherland Party 42 - Freedom Party 41 - Democracy Party 19 - Communist Party 49 - Independents The Party of Regions is pro-moscow and many accuse it of being anti-europe and anti-democratic. Fatherland is the pro-west pro-democracy party of that lady who was premier for a while "Freedom" party is a NAZI-like party Democracy is what is left of what was once the party of that guy who lead the "orange revolution" Communists are Communist of course The Independents will decide what happens. 226 is needed for a majority and many expect the Party of Regions could offer them enough with legal powerful positions or illegal bribes for them to form a majority. Ukraine uses 225 single-member-ridings like we do with 225 seat in a form of parallel Proportional Representation.

There are alternatives to the wawa washout. There are no alternatives to some routes in Northwest Ontario.

The emergency room won't help you if you have slight head problems.

You are okay with only one (1) road connecting the entire country together? This isn't some kind of tip of a tip situation, this is the middle of the entire country. There is a similar situation east of Thunder Bay. Fixing these two problem spots would ensure that this sort of thing is nearly impossible.

Actually the Hugging thugs VS Praying for thugs (to stop crime) is an excellent point. Ideology does not work. Pragmatism does.