blueblood

The drug dealers are penalized basically the same reason as anyone else. Possession. The dealers have more on them and hence bigger charges. The laws passed for trafficking are similar to putting the blame solely on fast food joints for enabling people to be fat. Unfortunately that does little to nothing unless you take care of the demand. No demand for drugs = no demand for dealers, much like no demand for fast food = Mickey d's goes bankrupt. At the end of the day there is one determinant of that demand and that's the junkie themselves. Boo hoo!!!

Which of these heroes point of view are you referring to, the one who caught the perp with his hand in the cookie jar, or Jo pa?

I think your on the right track, but aren't following it to conclusion. He'd be pretty mad at the fundy Christians for misinterpreting his message, however being the kind of guy he was written as, he would probably forgive them for their mistakes, because he'd be a hypocrite if he didn't as forgiveness for mistakes was a big part of his philosophy. Unfortunately for him, if he came today, he'd have to be cooking up some miracles or he'd be in a straight jacket off to the nuthouse quicker than you could say jack Robinson.

Keep digging, so now that people have mental illnesses, that gives them a free pass to do horrible things in society? Excuses excuses. If people quit making them and quit having scapegoats to have no problems on, things would be a lot better. What's next blaming a fat person's obesity because ere is a fast food joint near their house?

Especially a governor and CEO doing this since the 80s. Board meetings and Texas debates should require someone to think on their feet. I'd like Romney a lot more if he was able to communicate a plan for what he'd do in a quick soundbite. I think that's what's holding him back more an anything. You gotta be more than the anti-candidate.

Umm, I was advocating confronting the perp committing the rape and reporting said incident immediately to the police. Whether perp gets into a scrap is entirely up to the perp.

That's like saying if a person has an argument with their spouse, gets liquored up and drives, they get a free pass because they're going through a tough time. Give me a break. And it is precisely their fault. They could choose to do drugs and take the risk that comes with it or not. They chose poorly. Why should society have to subsidize poor choices? That pedestal ain't going anywhere. I know enough about humanity that it is folly to try and snell the snake oil of "it's okay to be lazy and poor, somebody else will take care of us."

I was referring to how we canadians have provisions for consensual fighting And use of appropriate force in a situation like this. Hockey fight is an example I like to use. And yes we know it didn't happen in he land of hockey, but the question was posed to Canadians, and it's an option. Fighting in hockey is a culture thing, the thing that makes fiting in hockey second rate is the staged fights, not the one that comes after a player getting two handed in the back of the legs or being hit from behind into the glass.

It could also mean that paying 50 grand or so to make the case go away is cheaper for Canadian taxpayers than going through with it. Not to mention dousing the fire as cheap as possible. You do know that some people settle out of court to save the headache. Would you lawyer up every time you got a speeding ticket or pay the thing off right away?

The grad student did the appropriate think after the fact. I don't know us law on the USA side, but in Canada, there are provisions for consensual fights and using appropriate force in situations like this. Doing the right thing involves taking that chance that you might lose. You have to remember Canada as the land of hockey and a big part of the game is fighting. It is used as an on ice deterrent for 3rd or 4th liners taking liberties at star players by having the tough guy on the team challenging the individual who took said liberties to stop or it's fisticuffs. At the end of said scrap the authorities intervene. The player didnt know if that coach would have done what other rapists would have done at that time.He could very well have finished the job, strangled the kid and thrown the body in a forest. If a person doesn't figure they could win the scrap or there is an issue with the weapon, why not call the authorities immediately and the coach would have been caught with his and in the cookie jar. It's like the situation in vancouver and Toronto during the hockey riots and g20. Some individuals step up when there is the likelyhood of ending up on the wrong end of a scrap in order to do the right thing. Those people did the right thing and have been properly recognized for doing so.

Two words consentual fight.

A 20 billion dollar refinery is not chump change. An investment like that would be very hard on a company's books. It was a no brained to send the oil to Texas as planned. I'd like to know what Canadian outfit has the ability to raise 20 billion of capital. Heck they had a heck of a time finding investors to out bit bhp billion for potashcorp. And th only reason bhp billion didn't get it is because the Feds put the brakes on it.

It makes even more sense to have pipelines going to Texas AND to the west coast. Let it flow!!!

I don't think these are the pipelines that stick up above the ground. They will be buried fairly deep so no implements will be disturbed by then. Shouldn't need to be tilling that deep anyway. Essentially the producer is getting a free cheque from the oil company.

Um, except it is their fault, no one had a gun to their head forcing them to take drugs and become junkies.

Is it actually jeopardizing their water supply? There are miles and miles of pipeline elsewhere that can easily contaminate water supplies. I think it was a successful use of fear tactics.

Not only that, there is the added expense of shipping all the finished products of cruse. Remember that they don't waste a drop and it makes various products, all have to be transported separately. The texas route was the cheapest way for the oil to be refined, that's not even up for debate. It could kill it, which makes the pipeline going west a bigger possibility. I imagine that regulatory review in January is going to go quite quickly. That alone should put heat on the Americans.

I'm not, his debates were awful and he ripped off Cain's idea. His campaign was "I am the anti-Obama". Not really a recipe for success.

I think that everyone understands it has a role in the market. The debate is how much of a role should it have. In my opinion there is always balance and whenever something acts it upsets the balance and something will happen to restore that balance. Almost like physics. That's why I'm such a supporter of market principles, it doesn't try to change nature, it understands it and works within it's parameters and is fair to a point of cruelty/benevolence. I think that people by nature are impatient and want to correct imbalances quickly and to their benefit rather than waiting for the imbalances to correct themselves over time. The problem with people trying to correct imbalances through gov't intervention is that quite often they don't see the unintended consequences of those actions. The USSR is an extreme example of this.

No city folk are wussies, 40 below is bugger all.

Except it does exist, gov't is unique in that it can manipulate the market because of it's monopoly on the use of force. Yes it did evolve on the market, it listened to consumers and provided them services and it prospered. Your poisoning example is the market at work. If someone screws up, the market will correct it. Instead of people not doing business, they demand regulations. Unfortunately these regulations have the unintended effect of making it more difficult for honest firms to do business. If a firm poisoned people, the free market would have punished them anyway by people not doing business with the firm, thus killing the firm. What I'm saying is that balance will come gov't or not, the thing is if the gov't comes in the pendulum does more swings to find balance using up time and resources. No, everybody lives in the market. Thinking that anyone can overcome nature is a fantasy because it will always bring itself into balance. The soviets found that out the hard way.

Then Marx that buffoon may have had a point. People will eventually fall for big gov't/socialism. So many people drank the kool-aid...

It's not about the people ODing, its the occupiers forcibly denying police/firefighters/medics to do their jobs.If they want to be anarchists and obstruct a medic/firefighter from doing their jobs, they get to live with having an OD death on their hands. At least on the street there isn't that obstruction. So its all right to obstruct public institutions from doing their jobs at occupy which involves ensuring the safety of ODers, but its not all right to leave the OD's die on the street. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.

Loss of tax exemption, regulations on catholic schools, etc.

Judging by what happened to SMU, SMU was down for more than 20 years and is still not in the Oklahoma, LSU calibre of NCAA football teams. No bowl activity and no tv in this day and age would be close to the death penalty. The graduating players will be all right, but the freshman, sophomore, and junior players will probably be looking at other schools for next year.