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Too bad Emery was found guilty in the states at a fair trial in front of a judge. Holy shit, I don't think registering trailers should be law, I don't think wearing seatbelts should be law, and I don't think I should be forced to use the Canadian Wheat Board. But those are the laws and I follow them. The consequenses sort of suck. I don't support the legalization of MJ, because I would rather have the argument of having MJ legalized or not rather than the other stuff down the line. This sets a dangerous precedent and the gov't is doing the right thing by not budging. The Charter also supports the freedom of mobility. If this country is too oppressive for pot smokers, by all means leave. Ignorance, I look around town, who has money and who is a skid. Guess what all the skids have in common, all MJ users. I'm also advocating freedom, freedom for people not to support these skids and not have to be forcefed that drivel by that fool Emery. If anyone is the loudest hypocrite it's Emery. It's alright for me to preach from the mountain tops, but don't dare preach to me. Supporting stoners who are a drain on the economy is oppression on my wallet. If Emery is your hero, then Kim Walker is mine, one less drug dealer in the world.

Jeez, I didn't think the U.S. was that bad. At least in the U.S. they are allowed to have extreme dissenting views and not have to worry about it, try that in the old USSR and it's off to the gulag.

The same could be said about the Liberals and Southern Ontario

If you don't think Franklin Graham doesn't push stuff when he flaps his gums, then you have a point. I seen the CBC documentary on him, and wasn't too impressed. I'll put him on the same wavelength as Franklin Graham. "That" culture is bs to me and bs to some people, that's opinion, just like the "country" culture is bs to some city people. I personally don't agree with booze or smokes advertising like that. They took out Winston from Nascar and changed it to the Sprint cup series and rightfully so. The fact is from his performance on that documentary, he is pushing and hard. If he wants to partake in that, then he has no right to bitch about the establishment pushing back. I've seen from many stoners who think it's perfectly acceptable to push their crap on me, and at the same time scream bloody murder at "the establishment" pushing non drug use and a healthier lifestyle. If that's not a hypocrite I don't know what is. About as much as a girl as you do when you bitch about the establishment pushing that people don't smoke j's and live a healthier lifestyle. You sir, have never been to a rural school. If you want anything bad enough you can get it pretty quickly.

Hooked is hooked. I call it as I see it. And no I'm no illicit drug user and haven't been on a perscription. Don't drink either. Saying there aren't pot junkies is like saying there isn't booze junkies. I don't like drugs and that bs culture being pushed on me by the likes of Marc Emery any more than I like that idiot Franklin Graham spewing his evangelist crap. I will still say Emery is a hypocrite, if he wants to push his crap, he has no right bitching about "the establishment" trying to keep him quiet. FTA, the guy's name is Robert Latimer, not Richard and there's another guy doing time in jail for doing what he thought was right but was legally wrong; his name is Kim Walker.

The child experimenting with pot would be like, "being high on drugs is fun, what's the other one like" or "geez, being lazy is fun" Society doesn't want the same fight in 30-50 years with say ecstasy or cocaine, users of that stuff think the same way pot users do. Then child gets hooked on mj due to all the fun they have, and boom I have another junkie that my tax dollars have to support. They made booze legal now everyone drinks it. Like it or not there are some people who don't smoke pot because it's illegal, why risk making them junkies by legalizing it. The laws are fine the way they are, if you don't like them emmigrate. Every chronic user of pot I've ever seen has been the laziest piece of garbage I've ever seen, and they feel entitled to government handouts, and they are the most dangerous people to work with. I feel sorry for people that have to resort to drugs to get them through the day, I didn't realize reality was so hard for some people. I'm proud of being part of the establishment, it pays extremely well, and I get to laugh at the pot culture hypocrites who push their garbage culture on the rest of us while bitching and complaining the whole time about the "establishment pushing their rules on us"

Getting booze is just as easy if not easier than scoring pot, any belief otherwise is naive. The legalization of this plant opens the door to harder stuff, I've heard ecstasy being compared to candy. I was refering to Marc Emery himself as a danger to children. He has the same qualities and charisma as Franklin Graham, who in your eyes is dangerous. Marc Emery pushes drug use the same way as Franklin Graham pushes evangelism and they are both offering the same thing ---> "being high" and mind altering activities. Idiots like these two examples need a good roll of CPC brand duct tape around their big mouths.

Damn, I wish he would have been sent down there, now my tax dollars are going to pay for this skid to hang out in a ritzy Canadian jail with free satellite TV. What's worse is he'll get speedy parole and he's a larger threat to society than Robert Latimer.

One less skid in Canada, brainwashing impressionable kids. This guys no better than Franklin Graham. Hope he remembers his soap on a rope.

Actual good behavior in jail, going above and beyond in jail, a shrink confirming that they aren't a threat. A polygraph test, the fact that they hate it so much they are desperate never to return. Something along those lines.

I know the YCJA and other youth crimes were on the books for around a hundred years. This was back when IMO parents were more accountable for their kid's actions and sending them to con college only to be hardened before their "immediate" re-release was a recipe for disaster. IMO if parents aren't going to be good parents and let kids run around like crazy, then the YCJA should be ammended. IMO it's also in the same boat as mentally insane people commiting the crime. Should society have to pay because somebody has issues? Just because somebody has issues it's alright to kill somebody? I think that anyone who commits murder is insane, should they all be allowed to get huge reductions on their sentances because they plead insanity? A dangerous person is a dangerous person no matter how you slice it and they should be kept away from society when it's proven they've commited a crime. If they want back, it should be up to them to explain why they should be let back in.

How would the debt being completely gone be a bad thing?

Um nat gas is going to rise, very very significantly due to fertilizer

Obviously, but if I can afford to stash 25 large, why not then? The mid income people don't have to store 5 large, they can store 100 bucks if they wanted to.

People avoid the taxman all the time by buying stuff anyways. Why can't people invest more, they're going to spend it anyway and it's going to be taxed on sales taxes. What's wrong with paying your income taxes, stashing say 25 large that a person might have extra, and taking it out again?

If this affects Obama's campaign then Ambassador Wilkins is right, Harper is one of the most powerful people in the World. Harper the massive strategist, good on him, he's keeping Canada's economic interests a main priority and looking out for our country first.

I heard Jack Layton was supposed to be on Lou Dobbs discussing NAFTA, did anyone see it as I missed it and how much did he damage the credibility of the Canadian gov't

I know that, what's wrong with stashing more

In the long run it would be cheaper to pop up a desalinization plant around coastal cities when the technology comes around. I seriously think that growing food for fuel is not a permanent fix. It is a quick way for the ag sector to make money, why? There needs to be a large amt. of capital in the ag sector to generate the funds for research of much more efficient crops etc. The grain industry is fine now, and it has generated and will generate much more employment. Also by burning the excess grain instead of dumping it, we are giving poorer countries a chance to reboot their ag economies by not flooding the market with cheap grain and putting them out of business. This backlash you are talking about was coming for sometime with biofuels or not. If there wasn't biofuels, they would blame it on the livestock industry taking all the grain to feed a few cows when the grain could have went to poorer countries who can't afford beef. The bigger problem is those murderous bastards at greenpeace who say that high yielding GMO's are evil, they would rather see people starve than growing crops that would feed them. The high grain prices are good for Eastern Europe to get their struggling Ag sector back on line as well as it's light years behind ours. The ethanol thing is a way of prolonging the oil industry until like you said hydrogen can come in, and take over which will be expensive.

I am the farthest thing from a Liberal, and the geotherm thing works, maybe not in Ontairo, but in MB if you have an older house and a decent size yard, which lots of Manitobans do, it makes perfect sense to install one. Even with the payments of paying the damn thing off that are tacked onto your hydro bill, your hydro bill is STILL reduced significantly, on top of that you get free air-conditioning. The warranty on the damn things is also very fair on top of that. My electric bill has been cut in half with this heating, and on the hydro bill I'm still making payments.

The only problem I have with TFSA's is the fact you can only put in 5,000 bucks. I'd like to be able to put more in instead of having to make a large purchase in order to make my money work and avoid the taxman.

I don't see the difference b/w smoking in the car and smoking in your home, it's both the smoker's property, if they can't smoke in the car then they can't smoke in the home and kids are present in the home as well. Hell some people live in cars for God sakes. What about RV's? This is a bogus law if you ask me, that person is not smoking in a public place.

I'd say geo-therm for suburban homes as well. Oil jobs will of course go when the wells are tapped out, but we need to milk that dry. and that needs jobs. My concern with hydrogen is that it wouldn't be very labour intensive. If hydrogen is the way of the future, why Manitoba, sure it has some water. I think cities along the ocean coasts would benefit more from it, just wait and see how de-salinization technology goes, if that comes, along with how simple and less labour intensive hydrogen technology appears, watch jobs in the energy sector go. Also, would water levels worldwide change with this? Canada won't let it's population starve, politicians aren't that stupid. The politicians are looking at Canada first and how to improve and prolong our oil based economy which has made our country wealthy. Ethanol and the oil industry are providing big jobs out there, but we shouldn't abandon them right on the spot for hydrogen; that should be phased in along with a plan for future employment of oil field and potential oil field workers. As for becoming a water sheik, I've got some water I'd like to get rid of.

The only way to get cheap food in Canada and a fair price is supply management. Hydrogen fuel cells could be viable, but wouldn't go because of the sheer fact of economics. The oil industry and now the ethanol industry are churning out a lot of dollars for the Canadian economy. The fact that this way of producing energy is more labor intensive and expensive is why our economy isn't in the tank right now. Hydrogen would be great as far as being cheap for the consumer goes, but how does that help out the economy. With all those oil jobs being lost to a cheaper form of energy, there might be economic chaos in Canada. I'm also thinking that geothermal might be pushed real hard to be put in prairie homes. Fertilizer is in great demand and they need all the natural gas they can get.

This guy got in supreme shit