Canuckistani

Absolutely. And thank God we're also competitive or we'd all be stuck in the mud. But the right doesn't acknowledge or validate our co-operative side, the left tries too hard to shut down the competitive. The trick for governments is to get the middle way right. In the US, at the moment, it seems to me they're way too far on the right, so an obvious statement like Obaman's is seen as commie cant.

Well sure. And pumping in billions to rebuild Germany for the benefit of the Germans. If Isreal creates a Palestinian version of the German state they will indeed have done well. Just annexing more and more land won't cut it. That's more post WWI behavior.

So Israel is following a policy of Danzigfication for the last 50 years?

Can't speak for Canada, but in Saudi, you bet many women wearing burkas drink at home.

It does. And as was shown by the example of Germany. the allies learned from WWI and did things differently after WWII. Maybe at some point Israel will do the same.

Next up, 14 yr old boy sneaks into girls changing room wearing a burka and offers them Sambuca.

Every president is for spreading the wealth around. The US has lots of income redistribution schemes. Some presidents may believe in it to a greater degree than others, but all know that if they want to stay in power, they'd better be spreading the wealth around. Much of the wealth is spread around on the wealthy, (agricultural subsidies, ethanol subsidies, etc) the middle class is the greatest beneficiary of income redistribution. "Keep your government hands off my Medicare."

I bet fish don't realize they live in water either. It's all about them.

Pretty well every business out there operates like that. They borrow because they think there will be money later. But your measure we would have almost no economic activity at all.

Maybe you'll get in on second reading.

What he said was wrong. What he meant wasn't. Most people understand the difference.

Well they're not true religions. They want state funding, let em get their own country.

What do you mean? The Protestant school boards get far more funding than the Catholic ones.

Yep, you nailed it. That's the problem all right. What do you expect when you elect a Kommie Kenyan to the White House.

Well no, there's families too. Maggie Thatcher said so. But no society.

You mean like the Scandinavian states? Seems to be working well for them. Or are you using the strawman of communist states. Nobody I see is advocating the latter. More are return to the trend of only a few decades ago.

Correction - they barred them from bowl games for 4 seasons, didn't cancel 4 seasons outright. I think this will smarten up administrations who are inclined to look the other way next time.

I believe they cancelled 4 seasons. Good for them. What's next, we don't fine corporations because then they can't give their workers raises and have to raise prices so we're really only punishing the consumer? The NCAA can't prosecute someone criminally. All they can do is levy fines and cancel seasons. That's what they did.

Lots of X tho. Fair amount of crystal meth too, I bet.

Norway gun crime is also very low. You can't base it on one aberration.

Funny, we allow state funding of religious schools, yet we don't have enough nutbars that want to turn Canada into a theocracy to make an impact. Unlike the US, which I gather does not allow funding of religious schools by the state, but does allow fundie school boards to have religion taught as science. I'll take Canada on this issue.

"There's no safety net" Then they'll have to put one in place, or suffer the consequences shown in the TED talk.

Reducto ad absurdum, eh? In the TED talks, he mentions how Japan addresses income inequality by having a much smaller gap between the lowest and highest earners. So we can either pay people at the bottom more, or raise taxes and redistribute money back to them. I think the first way is the way to go, but I'll settle for the second.

We'll never have total income equality. Nor should we want to. But as is shown by history and by how various countries manage income inequality, we can choose to have less or more of it. And within certain bounds, less is better. For everybody.

Can you give a concrete example of that? Are you saying because the person that serves you your Timmies coffee, Canadian exporting businesses will become noncompetitive? Did you not watch that TED talks video about income inequality? Poverty costs us all money.