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Michael Hardner

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  1. 1. Thank you for giving me that mental image. Kind of like a rash with a beard stuck in it. 2. Yes, but the Canadian franchise has some great characters, as in real people type characters. Kevin O'Leary is a loud, brash, right-wing Canadian. He's hilarious and there's not many on TV like him. The egos of the panelists make for some great side-clashes and real toe-stepping. There's also a pleasant middle-aged lass named Arlene Dickinson to remind the middle-aged guys why middle-aged ladies are great.
  2. But myths aren't necessarily false... just blown a little out of proportion.
  3. Even if it were true, it wouldn't imply that a talking snake told Eve to eat an apple... or that it didn't tell her to eat it.
  4. This is incorrect. Furthermore - how much of a choice is heterosexuality for you and why did you decide against gayness ?
  5. It's getting better. Being Erica.. is... watchable... and Dragon's Den is great fun actually. I think that if you're going to have a nation, especially one that lives beside a cultural behemoth with 10X the population, a national psyche needs to be engendered and promoted. They could do a better job of being efficient, though.
  6. Why do we want to do this, first of all ? If you answer me that, then I'll propose a criterion.
  7. Of course. The point being that America - referring to the continent - was formed on an idea, which has been successful. It was about setting up conditions for prosperity by respecting rights and diversity. See the First Amendment of the bill of rights.
  8. I could enroll for 'adult education' there, I suppose. Then, I would quickly max out on wives before handing in my term paper.
  9. ...and how much are our 'tv taxes' today ? Those are given to private broadcasters too.
  10. I would say that CBC Radio should be run as a loss - as public radio is everywhere. But it's mind boggling that CBC television would cost $1B / year, when the private equivalents are (I assume) profitable. Can anybody illuminate us as to what costs so much money ?
  11. This is the language of science, not the ways of Glenn Beck, Al Gore, or this board.
  12. No, my contention is that the love of immigration comes from the business sector, which is right-wing. You have acknowledged that.
  13. Any private religious school would also have these privileges.
  14. And... no surprise... the Canadian Government website doesn't appear to have CBC budget information in a web search. The CBC has this: http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/annualreports/2008-2009/pdf/AR0809_e.pdf Rather long, but around p48 there's some financial stuff.
  15. The problem, Sharkman, is that picking criteria in this way can never be objective.
  16. Freedom of religion means freedom to discriminate in hiring, period. This has been going on for years, and changing it will have a lot of negative ramifications for freedom in Canada.
  17. Let's all rally together and pray that they go out in 4 straight next round.
  18. It's a French thing. That's my first language. Nobody pointed this out to me before, so...
  19. As with other religions, one shouldn't project the aims of the zealots to all adherents of that religion.
  20. I gave you a quote explaining that it's used in Canada. I didn't even really have to do that, but I thought you might appreciate the link. Cheers.
  21. Word Reference Forum I'm not changing it, firstly because it's fine and secondly because I'm too old.
  22. And the Republicans don't tell them what to do... so you have a two-headed beast, which is strategically a problem. The network has to reach swing viewers, though... I think all the extreme ROC folks likely already watch FOX. So where will they get their viewers from ? A national network (ostensibly a 'news' network) that breathlessly promotes a nascent political movement can easily be said to give birth to that party. If you like, I can say 'help conceived' the Tea Party, or somesuch. I was taught to separate exclamation and question marks from the last sentence. Indeed, my understanding is that that's a Canadian thing. Too late to break the habit, sorry.
  23. I have no position on whether the media coverage of these events is biased or not. Certainly protests such as the G8 protests, haven't had favourable coverage that I have seen. Indeed, in Quebec they actually infiltrated the protesters to incite violence. I'm not concerned about that. FOX certainly helped launch the movement - Glenn Beck himself promoted the March on Washington on his show.
  24. But... NONE of those vehicles are self-critical ?
  25. Could the conservatives finally be tiring of FOX ? Is the idea of a conservative news network setting the agenda reached the end of its usefulness ? I have indicated in the past that Rush, Beck and the rest of the hog callers - having their own agendas - have ceased to serve the Republican party. They speak to conservatives, and reflect anger, and old age - not the best icons to reach over to swing voters. Something seems to be happening. Updated News Rupert Murdoch says: Odd... they gave birth to the Tea Party, and now they shouldn't support it ? David Frum: Republican Senator Tom Coburn:
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