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I don't completely disagree. However, I think this is a separate argument, no doubt a complex one, as I don't see conservatism (and certainly not conservatives) as more pragmatic than anyone else.

Hear hear.

And if you and your mouth-breathing pals held a boy down and cut his hair while he was crying for you to stop...and then later brushed it off...your sense of empathy and compassion might rightly be called into question. (I'm not sure why I reiterate Kimmy's fine post, however, as you seem to be pretending she made no argument at all.)

It's true that you can sometimes count on a principled stance from a libertarian. Just as often, however, they forget, and embrace the very statism they purport to detest. (Oh...except for the Greatest Evil: taxes!)

I'm a Bruins fan, so...nope. It's all good.

You're the one who insists that any speculaiton about possible Conservative wrongdoing is...well, wrong. But speculation about those EC fatcats....that's reasonable.

So...now you don't want to play Hunt and Murder? Make up your mind. Team-size is limited and time-sensitive.

Yes, I hear this hypothesis often...always a self-serving one, from conservatives whose youthful liberalism was mindless and hostile to thought. It's the assumption of "been there, done that," which always assumes everyone else must be as weak-minded as the speaker feels he or she once was. Sort of the way a career thief believes that everybody wishes to steal from him.

After which, as you added, you would give him a "ten minute head start," and then send the infantry to hunt him and kill him. If that wasn't for fun and sport, then by definition no game would be made of it. Obviously. Own your opinions, bloodthirsty and morally relativist as they may be! Own 'em and love 'em! Then why the ten minute head start? Because it'd be fun! Yes?

Many people claim that Argentina's defaulting saved the country. It's certainly better off now than it was under imposed austerity.

Scroll up a couple of inches. I was quoting you directly. Also....what accusation? I asked for your opinion on a question directly relevant to what you posted. I'll take your answer to my question as "no."

You mean like military personnel who enjoy the idea of hunting and murdering people for fun and sport?

Speaking as a very liberal sort of guy (I preface this way to avoid the "your horse in the race" kind of response), I find it mildly interesting that Dick Cheney's stance on gay marriage--identical to Obama's, except that he came to it earlier--did not win him too many accolades from the liberals generally. Ah, partisan politics......

Actually, you can be an atheist Jew. Plenty are, in fact. The others, no, by definition not, I guess.

I didn't say, nor vaguely hint, that Iran was "well-behaved." I didn't say it because I don't believe it. Go back and read it again.

Actually, you called him a snivelling little baby who lacks testicles. (Which tells us a little about your views of the feminine, of course.) Which means, of course--by your own formulation--that if anything offends you (anything at all), and it doesn't offend others...well, you do the math.

And yet, if the zombies don't breathe, how are they making their gutteral grunts and moans? Somethin ain't right there.....

All Canadians?

God became embarassed, and shunned him.

I think you're right. As much as Liberal supporters wish to blame the NDP for all their party's ills (since they are much more aligned with the Conservatives in most respects, if arguably less competent), folks like McGuinty are someday going to have to take some blame for their predicaments.

Ah! Good point. Meanwhile, the rest of us can live our lives contentedly without worrying about the looming crescent shadow of the impending Caliphate.

Then (unlike myself) you plainly do not disagree with Mulcair's little foolishness here, unless you hold yourself to a lower standard. But not a serious question.

That's your answer?

....and what in the world does it have to do with "racism," anyway?

It's not "hair-splitting"; it's about (among other things) the limits of power, the meaning of partticular laws, and other matters of tremendous import. I thought you were a lawyer, for crying out loud.