TheNewTeddy

Says I associate white people with weapons.

This. I have 0 doubt that my hard-right stances on Justice issues stem, in part, from my extreme bullying during school. I also have 0 doubt that I will ever change my opinions on justice; despite the fact that I am aware of my bias. Rather than desiring to change it, I am proud of it.

On gay rights, more and more right-wingers are coming to your point of view. However, on other social issues, like abortion, more and more take the journey that I have; moving from left to right.

More and more right-wingers are coming to that view, Mr.Canada, and for the same reasons that you have. The right and left is always changing, changing along with it does not make you any less right-wing (should you wish to still remain right-wing)

FYI https://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?authuser=0&vps=2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=214668381355121949879.0004c3db6a963a4cc8613 This is a google maps (made by me of course) showing the 1948 partition boundaries (or as close as I could get)

You make 3 great points, which are all true. >Dominic Cardy is one of the best leaders the NDP has ever had in this province. >He's a solid social democrat, ready to modernize the party. >Cardy's the guy to beat. But fail to realize this. >Cardy did not have to run. He did. He chose to run in a place he knew he could not win. He made a foolish decision and this shows he, despite being one of the best leaders, despite being a modernizer, a social democrat, and the 'guy to beat', that despite all of that, he has 0 political instinct.

I actually want loons in there. Many Canadians are loons, so why deny them a say?

Keep in mind that they eliminated this from happening automatically because it clutters up threads pretty quickly if everyone starts doing it. I would keep that kind of quoting to a minimum and be sure you trim down the posts to only include the pertinent parts that you're replying to. testing to see if I can grab only two of the quotes and not the third. hum, not automatically, but I can edit the positions

I don't even see your point.

I have a few biases myself, most of which I'm quite willing to look past, but a few I am not. However this is one or two issues, compared to the multitude of issues that many posters are seemingly quite willingly blind to.

...And just to clear some things up before others say or question these things. Being Anti-Israel is not the same as being Anti-Semetic There is no Apartheid in Israel Proper There is Apartheid in the West Bank (on all sides)

I think it's time for an ascii based venn diagram XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X = People at Gay Pride for Gay Pride reasons O = People at Gay Pride for Anti-Israeli reasons therefore Gay Pride =/= Anti Israeli Rally

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11009379/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/political-bias-affects-brain-activity-study-finds/ In short, those who seem to ignore facts (there are many right on this forum) actually do, but are unaware that they are, because they've been brainwashed.

I think Gay Pride is Gay Pride. After all they call Gay Pride Gay Pride because it's full of Gay Pride. People are there to celebrate Gay Pride and watch Gay Pride. In general, Gay Pride supports Gay Pride and Gay Pride related causes. Gay Pride has always been pro-Gay Pride and supportive of Gay Pride. I won't doubt that there are those who partake in Gay Pride who support other non-Gay Pride causes. In fact, Gay Pride is full of causes not directly related to Gay Pride. One of those small causes is Anti-Israel. Gay Pride however is Gay Pride, supporting Gay Pride of Gay Pride for Gay Pride. Gay Pride is not an Anti-Israel rally. I hope that clears things up.

House results: PRI-176 PRD-70 PAN-54 PRI totals include 50 candidates elected as straight PRI candidates. 3 Greens. and 123 PRI-Green merged Candidates. There is also an element of PR. The results being PRI-81 PRD-56 PAN-55 ALL-8 For a trand total of: PRI-257 PRD-126 PAN-99 ALL-8 Note the Alliance is Mexico's Liberal party

Mexico In the Senate there were 32 seats up for grabs. PRI-18 PAN-8 PRD-6 PRI totals include 10 straight PRI candidates, and 8 merged PRI-Greens. But the method for electing Senators is very strange, thus the end result will actually be as follows. For the winners you double the number PRI-26 PAN-16 PRD-12 Then the second placed party also gets a seat PAN-13 PRI-12 PRD-7 Subtotal of PRI-39 PAN-28 PRD-19 Then an element of PR PRI-13 PRD-9 PAN-9 ALL-1 Totals PRI-52 PAN-37 PRD-28 ALL-1 if my numbers are right, and they may not be.

Sall's party is expected to win a majority (counting) In Mexico, the PRI Candidate for President is leading with 37% of the vote, with the leftist Obrador has 33%, and the right-wing candidate, the first Female to run for the office from a major party, is far behind at 25%. This is with 2/3rds of ballots counted.

Senegal has Parliamentary elections today. These come in the wake of Presidential elections held in February and March. Then President Wade attempted to run for a third term, something many saw as illegal. Wade's party, the Democratic Party, held nearly all the seats in Parliament after the opposition boycotted the last parliamentary election. Macky Sall ran against Wade, and managed to defeat him on the second round, even beating Wade in his own constituency. Wade manned up and announced he had been defeated. The 2007 Parliamentary elections, as mentioned, had been boycotted. The result was thus 131 seats for the Democratic Party and their Sopi coalition, and 19 seats for everyone else. The Democratic Party considers itself Liberal, partly because of a law that was passed in 1976 that said the only parties allowed are Socialist, Communist, and Liberal, and the first two were already taken. In reality the party is a personality based catch all party often found in developing countries. In the 2001 Parliamentary elections, the Democrats won 89 seats, with the Progressives winning 11, and the Socialists winning 10. It was from these two opposition parties that the 3rd and 4th placed candidates in the Presidential election were from. Sall himself was from the Democratic Party. His new Alliance Party was set up to support him, and could do well in these elections. No polls have been done.

Pensions start at 6 years of service (which is why I specifically ended the term at 5) There would also be a significant wage reduction. For the record, we have 105 senators. Using your figure of 300K, this brings the total to 94 million, using your numbers, for the additional senators. I certainly hope we are spending more than 94 million on the armed forces. I would reduce the wages to the average wage of Canadians, and, I would allow for things to be expensed to make up for it, with reasonable limits. IE $50 per meal. That's fine. That is part of the point. If your job and career is more important to you than public service, then you can say no. There are others however who would say yes, and these are the kind of people I want in the Senate. (Also, generally, after you find yourself jobless, you usually find another job unless you want to linger on social support - a lesson I am learning first hand unfortunately) I also have my doubts that someone who has had an even semi successful career, and who has then served in the Senate of the land, would be unable to re-enter the workforce at any level that is not at minimum equal to his former wage. All citizens over age 30 actually can be appointed. But they won't be, only hacks will be, and have been since 1868 (1867 was a good year) I would, however, support EEE, but only after Quebec screws off. And modified EEE. I grew up on PEI and you won't hear them demanding as many Senators as Ontario. 8 Senators per province, but, 4 from PEI. Gives you 76 before the Territories and/or any First Nations are added. I'd be uncomfortable with a Senate that is too small. Politicians are supposed to be our representatives. They are SUPPOSED to be there to speak for us. How can they speak for us when we can not tell them what to say? They need to be accessible. A Senate with only 60 Senators is too small IMO. In fact I'd not be comfortable with any number below 72 (being the number of Senators we had when Canada was founded) 6 per province, with all 10 provinces, and 1 per territory, gives you 63. You'd need to add 10 First nations senators to get me to back that, and even I think that is too many.

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The Rhino Party once proposed that Lotto winners should also win a seat in the Senate. I agree. Partly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition I propose we reform the Senate by choosing it's members at random. Random citizens, like you and I, would have the chance to make law and be Senators. Senators would, under my proposal, serve for 5 year terms, and upon the end of their term, not be allowed to be selected to the Senate again, and, be under a 5 year ban from being elected to any office. We would leave the pool of eligible people as wide open as possible. For each seat available, 10,000 names will be drawn, and they'd be sent a mailer asking if they wish to serve, and returned letters would be put into a large drum, and the name(s) would be thus drawn. Additional "back up" names would be drawn in the event the "main" Senator leaves the Senate early for whatever reason. Anyone who is qualified to Vote will be qualified to sit in the Senate. People would, however, be able to opt-out. In addition, certain groups could be prohibited (like convicts serving time), but the number of people not allowed to serve should be kept as small as possible. In such a system, it is likely that a number of people chosen will be, for lack of a better term, stupid idiots. To counter this, we would increase the number of Senators. Rather than this making more politicians, this makes more slots for people like you and I to counter-balance the elected house. My preference is for these numbers: ON, QC - 75 Senators Each BC, AB - 50 Senators Each MB, SK, NS, NB, NL - 25 Senators Each PE - 15 Senators YK, NT, NU - 5 Senators Each First Nations - 25 Senators These 420 randomly selected individuals would form our Senate. The Atlantic would have 90 Senators, Western Canada would have 150 Senators, while Central Canada also has 150... Of course, Quebec would never agree to any of this, so an alternative is: QC - 75 ON - 50 AB, BC - 25 MB, SK, NS, NB, NL - 10 PE - 5 YK, NT, NU - 1 First Nations - 10 At least until Quebec finally decides to leave, when the original numbers would balance at 150 for the west, 75 for the middle, and 90 for the Atlantic. The idea is to get the "lowlifes" into office. I want that 20-something single mother with two kids and a 3rd on the way who does not know weather London or Paris is in Spain or not. I want that construction worker who uses a profane word 1.25 times per sentence he speaks. I want that 90 year old man who complains about everything to anyone who will listen. Why? Because this is who we really are. Canada is not a nation of perfect people, we are a nation of real people, some of whom are rotten, disgusting, failures, and it's about time that we gave them a voice.

Godin should run for the provincial leadership, he could actually win the province. The federal NDP is strong enough to find some random to hold his riding, but the provincial NDP needs a strong hand at the top to win.

Elections Tomorrow! More soon.

Maybe a little more data to get a discussion rolling about Provinces and their Budgets? NL Roy - $2,224 (Royalties, in millions, mostly from Oil/NatGas) Inc - $948 (Income Taxes) Sal - $891 (Sales Taxes) Crp - $724 (Corporate Taxes) Gas - $174 (Gasoline Taxes) Cig - $136 (Tobacco Taxes) Can - $600 (From Canadian Govt. IE Transfers) REV - $6,591 (Total Revenues) Int - $362 (Debt Interest) ssw - $825 (Social Services & Welfare) Hth - $2,423 (Health) Edu - $1,235 (Education) EXP - $6,481 (Total Expenditures) DEB - $8,129 (Total Debt) - - PE Roy - $0.3 (Other Royalty sources: Wind power, Timber) Inc - $290 Sal - $218 Crp - $41 Gas - $43 Cig - $40 Prp - $106 (Property Taxes) Can - $509 Equ - $337 (Equalization. Included in above figure!) REV - $1,510 Int - $110 ssw - $93 (Note provinces report things differently...) Hth - $542 (...Hence these numbers will vary widely...) Edu - $229 (...from province to province) EXP - $1,536 DEB - $1,695 - - NS Roy - $110 Inc - $1,981 Sal - $1,621 Crp - $393 Gas - $253 Cig - $213 Can - $3,006 Equ - $1,342 REV - $8,877 Int - $885 ssw - $985 Hth - $3,768 Edu - $1,135 EXP - $9,336 DEB - $12,827 - - NB Roy - $122 Inc - $1,317 Sal - $(forgot to grab, will edit in) Crp - $223 Gas - $247 Cig - $150 Prp - $469 Can - $2,728 Equ - $1,597 REV - $8,013 Int - $672 ssw - $1,074 Hth - $2,585 Edu - $1,093 EXP - $8,196 DEB - $9,480 - - QC Roy - $366 Hyd - $2,586 (Hydro Quebec Profits) Inc - $18,897 Hth - $6,162 (Health Charge?) Sal - $14,548 Crp - $4,078 Gas - $CNF (could not find) Cig - $CNF Can - $15,039 Equ - $7,639 REV - $62,650 Int - $7,794 ssw - $CNF Hth - $CNF Edu - $CNF EXP - $67,150 DEB - $111,902 - - ON Roy - $240 Inc - $25,800 Hth - $3,100 (Health Charge?) Sal - $21,100 Crp - $10,800 Gas - $CNF Cig - $CNF Prp - $5,600 Can - $21,800 Equ - $3,621 REV - $112,200 Int - $9,849 ssw - $9,985 Hth - $47,090 Edu - $24,006 EXP - $121,842 DEB - $214,511 - - MB Roy - $29 Inc - $2,796 Sal - $1,834 Crp - $620 Gas - $296 Cig - $256 Can - $3,599 Equ - $1,872 REV - $11,158 Int - $258 ssw - $CNF Hth - $5,152 Edu - $2,321 EXP - $11,695 DEB - $12,837 - - SK Roy - $3,148 Inc - $2,084 Sal - $1,348 Crp - $817 Gas - $508 Cig - $247 Can - $1,586 REV - $11,290 Int - $400 ssw - $852 Hth - $4,680 Edu - $1,351 EXP - $11,195 DEB - $3,783 - - AB Roy - $11,198 Inc - $9,314 Crp - $4,471 Gas - $850 Cig - $925 Prp - $1,762 Can - $4,915 REV - $40,263 Int - $531 ssw - $2,556 Hth - $15,864 Edu - $6,543 EXP - $41,149 SAV - $21,653 (Savings) - - BC Roy - $2,986 Inc - $6,630 Sal - $6,101 Crp - $2,266 Gas - $937 Crb - $1,172 (carbon tax) Cig - $652 Can - $7,257 REV - $43,101 Int - $2,516 ssw - $3,928 Hth - $17,970 Edu - $11,761 EXP - $43,869 DEB - $30,637 - - Next I will convert these numbers to per-capita for comparison

He said he has a reason and got hot under the collar. I can't speak for anyone else, but me, if someone caught me in a lie, I wouldn't want to say nothing, but if I had a damn good reason - one I wanted to keep private - I'd get pretty pissy too and start calling people names. I believe him.