Figleaf

I've argued this in other threads. Groupthink is very very intense amongst professional groups, Do you mean more so than other groups?

The right doesn't have a corner on smear jobs or malicious innuendo, the left is bettert at it actually, more practice - I'm glad you're not trying to say that with a straight face.

There is a bit of an interesting question here though ... while there seems to be no state action or any illegality* from other parties directed at O'Donnell in this case, she may suffer the imposition of a private economic sanction from her employer. The interesting question then, is to what extent should the state consider protecting free speech from private economic sanction. (*Then again, there is a tort of inducing breach of contract. If someone calls for someone to be fired, are they inducing breach?)

Indeed, or having to breath it. I don't think religion or culture or any other sort of special pleading should be used as an excuse to impose negative externalities on others. Note, though, if I understand correctly the court decision referenced here is only a threshold question and a full hearing to decide the issue will follow.

Surely you are not trying to pretend that fundamentalist Christians are a figment of the collective imagination!?!!

The U.S. has certainly not 'granted' us sovereignty. Britain granted Canada sovereignty starting in 1867 culminating in 1982. As for U.S. protection, they had their own reasons which somewhat diminishes the need for us to be grateful.

Seriously, does Stock think he can simply ignore this situation? He's tainted. Serious allegations of this kind of corruption can't just be left to fester.

Howard Stern??? Anyway, when were Howard Stern or Abby Hoffman ever made keynote speakers at Democratic party functions, as Coulter has been at Republican ones?

You are. Rod Love, right? I just assumed, since your every utterance parrots exactly the CPC party talking-point circulars. How could anyone internalize them so quickly and thoroughly unless you were involved in writing them? Also, the way you have been so desperate to defend the indefensible payoff to get MP Hart to resign his seat for Stockwell Day made me think you must be ... close ... to that issue. It's okay to admit you're Rod Love. I can't think any less of you.

I never said anything about most Canadians. It was you who made a foolish unsupported claim along those lines. I was speaking for myself.

How would you know? Anyway, if they don't think that yet, they soon will. You can't show the kind of folly that Steve has shown and get away with it forever.

Newsflash, Einstein -- I'm not in the Liberal caucus.

Probably it's the scandalous, false, slanderous, stupid, hateful, scurillous, things, rather than the 'provocative' ones.

Phoquing stupid comment.

Holland hasn't done anything wrong. But SOMEONE seems to have paid MP Hart to resign his seat so Stockwell Day could have it, which would be against the Criminal Code. Why is Stockwell Day standing in the way of a fair investigation of this matter? Who is he protecting?

Well Rod, I don't think you should overlook the likelihood that a large proportion of that group opposes an election until Dion gets all his ducks in a row, precisely because they want no more of Steve's style of government.

No, leave it there. The trouble will be for the Liberals. Their leader is still Stephane Dion. Tories may think that, or want to pretend to think that. But Dion is a scrapper and a smart man. He'll be a tough opponent.

As a positive the Conservatives are the only party to be growing their support. I don't know why you'd say that. The Liberals had fallen below 33% and are now on the rise, meanwhile 36% represents a drop from 39% for the tories. Yep!

Two words: BUP KISS. If there isn't a name for the psychological condition wherein the sufferer compulsively voices nonsensical content in a particular dialectical form, e.g. legalese, there should be. 'Jargolalia', perhaps. You can see this kind of thing in other specialized dialects as well. A famous example is the Book of Mormon.

The phrase is actually 'suffice it to say'.

Unlike yourself, Rod, I'm not a party hack. I only vote Liberal once in a while.

Explain yourself, if you wish to not be considered a troll. What crimes do you allege that she committed?

Y'know, just when I think I've already read the loopiest comment I'll ever see on a forum, someone comes along to exceed that expectation. The territories you refer to were conquered by the Ottoman Empire, but the extant populations in those areas generally kept the same composition before, during and after the Ottoman Empire rose and fell. So, the people who lived there have a clear and obvious interest in the lands they inhabited, irrespective of the fact that the Ottomans ruled it. Furthermore, the 'Ottomans' don't exist anymore. For both those reasons, positing that the Ottomans and not the inhabitants should retain any interest in the territories is ... inappropriate.

Yeah, that guy with the three initials can really mess things up ... oops ... I mean ... never mind.

That would be bigotry. Bulgarians were not abused by the set of all Muslims, but only by certain Muslims. May be bigotry - but may be justified ? Hatred of the Muslims that oppressed them is justified, and not bigotry. Hatred of the Muslims that didn't oppress them is not justified and is therefor bigotted.