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I left FD after two years because of the excessive homophobia. During that time I concluded that you and Pinetree were the two most level headed posters. FD in Spring 2006 was not the same forum I joined in the middle of the 2004 election campaign. Omitting you was an oversight. Sorry.

Utter rubbish. If it was about oil Alberta's a far easier and less dangerous target.

Yes it does. However, this forum does not allow 'cross-posting', and discourages posts with borderline 'hate speech', especially when it is not used to foment debate. I expect the above poster was banned from other forums with good reason. I know this guy. He's good. He was banned from a particularly rabid board, where I was once banned in ten minutes for a harmless gay marriage parody.

Great analogy. Same irresponsible, whiny behavior results.

You do have to remember that from 1996 through roughly mid-2003 the prices were actually extremely low in real terms. It has only been from about August 2003 on that they have even been at, say, 1983 levels in real terms, and only challenged 1974 and 1981 peaks recently.

You may be heading there in this forum. With free speech comes responsibility. Do you really think you're contributing to the spirit of debate with your Liberal bashing poetry? I see nothing irresponsible in expressing an opinion. That is what freedom is all about.

Lots of nuts at FD. Proudpegger has shown up at CanCon while cagerattler is posting - and getting hammered - at CKA There's actually a large pool of banned FD posters that were very reasonable and not "nuts". One (reaching for the back-patting handle) is myself. Others are Muddy, Solomon, Springer, Pinetree, and many more I can't think of.

As to Tobin, one must look at the economic record of the province he led. In our country, a governor's record is examined. Frankly, that is one of the advantages of governors often running for President. While it is hard for sitting premiers to run for PM, if not impossible, it is a good thing to be ablle to examine their record. From what I hear Tobin's is badly wanting.

Profits make it far easier to borrow the money for capital expenditures to produce more oil.

Many parents want their children to be their friends. Children are not and cannot be the equal of parents.

I'm an FD bannee and now proud of it. I'm said to have led a "cabal" against Connie.

For my reaction, go to this new topic. My reaction is off the topic of this thread.

I am 49, and grew up in suburban New York, in a quiet, white, Jewish, affluent community similar to what I live in now. Back in the day, I remember clearly, in March 1967, days before I turned 10, enjoying the luxury of riding my red Schwinn to Springfield Park, about 6 Trudeau Units (kms, though we called it and still call it 3 1/2 miles) to a pickup baseball game. Fun was had by all, and no one went home crying. And no adult supervision, just pickup teams. Fast forward to June 2006. I have a ten year old, who attended a closing school picnic at a friend of my wife's house, and days later a closing soccer picnic. Both, despite ample adult supervision (or maybe because of it) were unmitigated disasters. At the school picnic, games had to be stopped constantly because of rough play or worse. At the soccer picnic, my son came home crying after being pelted mercilessly with water balloons. I called a father who was there to find out what happened, and he swears that both he and other fathers were struggling to keep their 10 year olds under control. Now, these kids are driven to all activities. Fear of pedophiles (thanks for the politically correct journeys out of the closet) mandates that the children do not ride their bicycles the 2 mile trip to the local school or local playground. Is it any surprise that these children, having no experience with being on their own, wind up thinking that urinating on a soldier's monument is "cool"?

Shit, I wonder if that defence would work for dope dealers. "Well your honour, I'm just a businessman. It's not my fault that the junkies are hooked on the stuff. And besides, if I didn't sell them their fix, someone else would." It's a little different. If Alberta cuts off the supply and the price skyrockets, one hting I can tell you is it won't be the wealthy people of the world that would suffer the most.

Kandahar's nice that time of year. Mecca even nicer. I hear it can get to 50 in the shade, easy.

You quoted him out of context. Full quote:

I do not see an Amero as necessary or desirable. The Euro has served little purpose, and I predict it will eventually implode. My preference, now that global inflation in the developed world is both relatively tame and the rates of inflation are relatively similar is to return either to the gold standard or to a standard based upon a basket of commodities, say gold, silver, oil and copper. That way, every country could decide what pretty faces to put on their currency but, with full convertability, there'd be none of the transaction costs incurred nowadays in currency hedging.

Are you assuming our labor unions and political parties are asleep? This is either unadulterated rubbish, or there's a good reason for it. The attack is on the article, not the person who posted it, mind you.

Query, if Quebec were to leave what would it cost to "work around" the geographical discontinuity? What duty would the ROC have to the cut-off Atlantic Provinces? Or would that fall into Uncle Sam's lap? Further, do you think the US would really tolerate hostile control over the Seaway?

If this werein the US, this would be considered "conduct", which is not protected, rather than "speech", which is. You mean conduct like burning a flag? Localities can ban open burning, and flag burning would violate that. Where US courts have gone a bit ditsy is to state that Congress cannot regulate flag burning in and of itself as a vial activiity.

Unlike the EU, it's a lot of smooth words. Basically, from what I gather, it won't affect identity. Mexico is too different from its English-speaking neighbors to the north, Canada and the US, both in terms of form of government and relative living standards, to really form an EU. The US would go berserk since we'd have to pay to bring living standards up to US levels. If we won't do that for Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands, we're doing that for Mexico? I don't think so. In short, there will be integration of trade and security, but not of currencies, or other fundamental things. Even in Europe, language and other distinctions are not slated for erasure. I'm listening to the Dobb's report and it sounds hysterical.

I think you mean Sudan, not Yemen.

I totally agree. The Left must draw the line at disrespect of those whose blod gave them the right to spout their nonesense.

Yup, just like True Dope did for a half-dozen disoriented people who called themselves the FLQ.

Are you looking at it from an antiwar point of view?