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Freeways that cross the border, or, come close. I-95 The I-95 crosses into NB and on to NB highway 95. Both are freeways. freeway-to-freeway connections are too rare. I-91 Connects to Quebec highway 55. A freeway-to-freeway connection. I-89 Dumps on to Quebec highway 133. While this highway has been twinned in parts, it is not controlled access. This twinned section ends a few KM north of the border and 133 becomes a simple one-lane-each-way rural highway. I-87 This dumps into Quebec highway 15, a freeway. Lets hop over to the west coast shall we. I-5 A freeway-to-freeway connection, this highway dumps into BC 99. I-15 Dumps into Alberta highway 4. While Highway 4 is twinned in parts, it is not controlled access. Eventually Highway 4 dumps straight on in to Lethbridge, red lights and all. I-29 Dumps into Manitoba highway 75. While twinned, it is not controlled access, and, goes straight though Morris Manitoba as it's Main Street. Now on to Ontario I-75 The problem happens before you even cross the border. The connecting bridge is only one lane each direction. When you do get in to Canada, you find the "highway" ends at Huron St. I-81 On a map this looks fine and dandy, but the reality is once you cross the border, you are funnelled into a single-lane-each-way road to the 401. Best yet, despite what the map says, it's not controlled access. I-94 A freeway-to-freeway connection with the 402 though Sarnia. I-190 Connects to the 405 as a freeway-to-freeway connection. This is where we reverse the trend, and rather than have US freeways end at the border, we have Canadian freeways do it. 420 This freeway ends in the middle of downtown Niagara Falls, before crossing over as a simple road bridge. QEW This connection, the Peace Bridge, has 3 lanes total. I would presume they reverse the centre lane as needed. While the connections are very awkward, I suppose it could qualify as freeway-to-freeway as it does connect to I-190 Finally we get to Windsor. 401 One of the busiest, widest, oldest, and economically important highways in the world, comes to an end, by dumping on to Talbot Road. If that's not insulting enough, Talbot itself dumps on to Huron Church road. This road cuts though Windsor, generally avoiding much due to parkland/undeveloped land along it. Oh, and don't forget to stop for passing trains, as some train tracks cross near the border post. When you get to the US, there are some awkward connections to I-75. No wonder Americans think we are a joke. If you had to drive into this country on your truck, and this is what you saw, you'd laugh too.

Israel's failure to compromise on the important issues has made it the "hated" country it is. It's like a little brother that got bullied a lot in elementary school, so big bro (USA) helped out, but now that Israel is in Jr. High it is a bully, but it can still rely on it's big bro whenever needed. Look over at Ireland. The Jews were persecuted for 2,000 years, the Irish, for half that time. In fact the Irish got so angry, they started blowing things up. A little thing called "The Troubles" Then They sat down. Gerry Adams sat down with Ian Paisley and they decided they'd rather have peace. Now look at Northern Ireland. SF and the DUP, once both associated with the most extreme policies of the opposite sides in the conflict, are now working SO well together, that the other parties in the assembly attack them for it! Meanwhile Israel refuses peace.

Reliable Trade. When you can walk from backyard BC to backyard Washington with nary a fence, I really do not see how a Teddy suggested "two additional bridges in Ontario" is going to bring either Canada or the USA to it's knees.

Spain's various provinces and states are all deeply in debt.

This post is nothing more than flame bait. Why not try engaging in rational discussion?

Poll averaging and projections for the Greek election. ND-74 or 124 SYR-74 or 124 PAS-37 ANE-19 DIM-19 KKE-14 XA-13 If ND or SYR wins, at these numbers, they'd need an additional 27 seats to form a majority, meaning PAS is likely to end up in any coalition agreement. ND and SYR are up 10 points from last months' election PAS and DIM are stable. The 3 parties that refused coalition arrangements, ANE, KKE, XA, are all down by about 3 points each. Parties that did not make the threshold last time are also down. An alliance of small parties (DX/DRASI/FS) may pass the threshold. DISY from last election is running in an alliance with ND. SYRIZA itself is an alliance of parties. This makes calculating the 50 extra seats difficult, as alliances do not qualify, so the head party of either alliance needs to manage the win. PASOK + the party that gets that extra 50 = majority in every poll since the call of the election. Since coalition forming parties are up, Greeks seem to want a coalition. ND and PASOK have already sat in one, and are willing to do it again. If SYRIZA rejects a coalition with PASOK there'd likely be hell to pay, thus, it seems almost a certainty, at this time, that PASOK will be the Jr partner in a coalition, and the only thing left is to find out who wins.

http://img.rasset.ie/0005f8aa-1024.jpg Ireland Referendum Results DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Danilo Medina has won the Presidential Election, 51% to 49% for Hipolito Mejia. The winner is "Liberal" while the loser is a "Social Democrat" ALBANIA Apparently this country tried to hold a convoluted non-direct election for President... but nobody seems to have the results of the first round. Meh. SERBIA Nikolic won, he was the "bad guy" from my earlier posts. Supposedly, he's turned in to a "Good guy" now, and supports things like freedom and Europe. We shall see. LESOTHO This is that blob-shaped country in the middle of South Africa. The Sitting Prime Minister refused to resign, and so left his old party (LCD) and started a new one (DC). DC won 48 seats, more than any other. ABC (the opposition) won 30 seats, and LCD (former gov) won 26 15 seats were won by other parties. ABC and LCD agreed to form a coalition government, along with the 5 seat BNP, 3 seat PFD, and a 1 seat party. LCD is seen as left while ABC is seen as right. Politics in many African countries, however, is dominated by personality, and this vote can be seen as a rejection of DC's leader and his attempt to cling on to power. EGYPT The big one. First round results. Morsy - 24.78% - Conservative / Muslim Brotherhood Shafik - 23.66% - Part of former Administration These two are going to the second round. Sabahi - 20.72% - Left wing Fotouh - 17.47% - Former Muslim Brotherhood Moussa - 11.13% - Part of the former Administration Predicting the second round Morsy should pick up Fotouh's votes. Shafik should pick up Moussa's votes Morsy - 42.25% Shafik - 34.79% I can not see many people voting for small parties going for a candidate of the old administration. Morsy - 44.48% Shafik - 34.79% The old adminisration was sort of left leaning in a way, so I could see left-wingers streaming over there. Shafik - 45.51% Morsy - 44.48% Remain - 10.00% Some however would likely oppose a Shafik victory Shafik - 45.51% Morsy - 45.51% Remain - 8.97% The remainder would likely split Shafik - 50.00% Morsy - 50.00% So in the end, I have no clue who the hell is going to win.

All also good reasons for a second connection. I'd also personally like to see an additional connection south of Sarnia, and perhaps, another in the Sault Ste Marie area. Ontario's connections to the USA are atrocious. I think New Brunswick has more connections with Maine than we do with the 3 states we share a land border with.

There is a small tunnel connecting the two cities, as well as a rail connection. Neither can handle much capacity. There is just one other bridge, the Ambassador bridge, connecting the two. A full 1% of the US GDP crosses this bridge, and if it were taken out of commission, it would do serious damage to both our economies. A single terrorist attack could destroy the bridge, and THAT is why we need a second one.

Not sure where else to post this. I notice that some people (I won't name names) will attack anyone on the left or right in the "status update" section, when that person is of the opposite alignment. Now I've done this myself, but I do not save my attacks for just one side of the spectrum. I'm curious if A - You can, as in, are able to, say something nice about your political opponents, IE, those you disagree with politically and B - If you think so, I encourage you to give it a shot in this thread There are enough threads full of attacks on people you disagree with, lets try something a bit different. Do you dislike Harper? Say something nice about him. Obama? Same thing. And don't just go for stuff like "uh, well he's nice with his kids I suppose". Nobody agrees with another person 100% of the time, so logically, nobody can disagree either. What's something they've done that you actually agree with. I'll start. George W Bush I always thought of this man as an idiot. Despite that, he did throw the Taliban out of office, and brought democracy to Iraq. He generally left social issues up to the states. He also refuses to get involved in politics, saying that his term is over, and refuses to meddle. Stephen Harper He likes cats. This might sound stupid, but I love Cats. I have a hard time seeing a cat person as being pure evil. Weather you think his EI changes are good or not, he still aims to provide for those who need a temporary helping hand. In fact, despite changing some eligibility, he has generally not touched personal transfers, and, has generally kept provincial transfers at a good level as well. Pierre Trudeau I know he's been dead for some time, but I personally consider him the worst PM we've ever had. Despite that, he legalized being gay, and really put "Canada" on the world map in many different ways, showing how we are distinct from either the US or UK.

Climate Change causes a whole lot of **** The problem is that the words "Climate Change" have become interchangeable with "Global Warming", AND, to make it worse, "Global Warming" has become interchangeable with Local Warming. IE: It's cool this morning so Climate Change does not exist. Climate Change is Climate Change. It means change. Global Cooling is Climate Change. We are already seeing Climate Change. Toronto, for example, is wetter. Our winters are warmer. London, England, meanwhile is dryer, and, has cooler winters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931317 This is an excellent example of climate change at work. In short, it started raining... and raining and raining. Not every day, but much more often than usual. Crops went bad, people died. But... People started to question God (which at the time, was the best buddy of the Pope) Caused desperate times, which not only increased criminal activity, but made war more "dirty" Helped weaken the population so that the Black Death could kill many more This lead to, after some time and development Protestantism Guns Medicine One could argue, if you believe in Darwinism, all the death caused Europe to become "stronger", though I disagree with this personally. And all cause it started to rain. We've built not just our roads and buildings, but our government and society, by-in-large between 1950 and 1990. The climate of that era has already changed and continues to change. We must either adapt, or we will fail, and many many years from people people will look back at our era and say "Man... thank God I didn't have to live though that"

In order to do a proper trend, you need proper data, and that means recent data. Again: if you want to be an arse, or, arrogant, or, act like you are all that, you need to know what you are talking about.

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What I take away from these polls is our politics is "stuck" The Tories can't seem to get a majority coalition of voters back together because of all the mini scandals they keep having. The NDP can't seem to build the trust and convince enough "progressives" to vote for them they they could win a majority. And the Liberals can't seem to regain their momentum and return as the main alternative to the sitting government of the day. Beyond that The Bloc is unable to appeal to Quebecois, and even when the NDP is down in Quebec, it's the Liberals and Tories who are up. And the Greens, who at one time regularly polled between 10% and 12%, are stuck near the 7% range, and not budging. Then again, remember, that from the 2004 election to the middle of the 2006 election, we were "stuck" From the middle of the 2006 election to the middle of the 2008 election, we were again "stuck" From the end of the "coalition thing" to the middle of the 2011 election, again, we were "stuck" I have no doubt that sometime in 2015 the polls will move, but ATM, they are not moving much at all.

Alliance HQ? Didn't we just ban misleading and/or overly politicized headlines?

Clue: It's the end of May right now, not the beginning of April. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Canadian_federal_election#Opinion_polls Try this. You'll note each entry comes with a link to prove it's authentic. Polls since your website stopped updating show the NDP beating the CPC 6 polls to 5. Tip: and I mean this is the nicest possible way. But if you are going to be arrogant about something, know what you are talking about and have correct, accurate, and up-to-date information. Otherwise you'll quickly be made to look foolish.

Bad hunters might be good inventors. There is a reason for keeping people alive who do not have skills in one specific area. Note this differs from people who lack skills in all areas.

We reduced the dose and now the cat is off insulin. We are going to test if he can handle this well for two weeks, and if so, he won't need insulin anymore!

Religion dampens faith

I'm not very religious at all, in fact, I'm anti-religion. But, I have more faith than all of you combined. Also, I got $5

Stephen Harper: Empowering Women!

I agree that ONLY a third of these jobs were lost to Dutch Disease so we should ignore it. I also disagree that this supposed "world wide recession" is at fault, clearly it's all the Liberals fault that these jobs are gone. Frankly, all of this smells of some kind of Liberal-NDP conspiracy.

It was done to purposely offend and bother people. AKA it is "edgy".

Lucky, polls have XA down. All parties are pretty well down except SYR which some polls have as high as 28%. There is a very good chance they'll win this new and current election, due June 17th, but the question is weather they'll be able to cobble together a government or not, as only DIM is really willing to sit with them without problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble It explains how some of the people here on the extreme right and extreme left seem to live in their own wacky world... They actually do.