Mighty AC
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The population are morons. If we properly represented their views then 22% of MPs would have to believe Elvis was alive.
I find it funny that:
1) your support for FPTP hinges on actually wanting to distort the vote
2) that as a Christian you think belief in a living Elvis is somehow ridiculous. Hey pot...you know the rest.
Wait, as a con you might not. To you the start of the phrase 'Hey pot' might be followed by ', we'd better throw the book and mandatory sentences at that guy for possessing it.' That's a little outdated and authoritarian, concepts Boomers once railed on about. Anyway, the phrase is 'Hey pot, kettle called.'
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
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Yes, a chance to vote in a new election every year and a half. Yay. Politicians scrambling behind closed doors to make deals with other parties. Coalitions breaking up. Every party leader desperately offering expensive goodies in hopes of winning an extra percentage of support. And we'll get both a Muslim party, and an anti-Immigrant party in the same parliament. Should be interesting. Will the anti-abortion party work with both?
Seems you are unfamiliar with how a proportional parliament could work. It wouldn't be like a minority parliament in our current system. For example, the opposition probably wouldn't have the ability to topple the government like they do now.
When the make up of parliament mirrors how people actually vote, then popular ideas, supported by a true majority of Canadians pass quickly and less popular ideas are haggled over. That's how politics should work.
Also there would have to be a significant percentage of the population backing a party before they would have any power. So, I doubt we would see a party anymore anti-immigrant than the CPC currently is.
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I don't find the fact voters won't elect you to be a reason why we should change our election rules.
No...but there is a call for PR from righties, despite their side (though a corrupt, anti-democratic version) is still in power. That's huge.
I am just pleased that factions on the left and right want PR at the same time. This could happen. Imagine every vote being equal, regardless of how your neighbour leans politically.
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Gee, and to hear some of you Lefties here I'd have thought he was to the right of Atilla the Hun and Hitler.
He's not Mulroney, ideologically...just similar in ethics and bloated, arrogant, misguided government. Apparently, Brian's waning moments at the helm are what convinced a little Stevie to get involved in the Reform movement. Now, all grown up, Harper's dictatorial, corrupt rule has rekindled the Reform and even a call for PR from the right...while their side (more or less) is still in power. ouch.
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he question is whether there is enough of the old idealistic movement left to get anything going. It seems like the people with integrity (like Clark and Manning) are the old timers.
I don't know how anyone with a conscience could support the CPC. Sure it may mean abstaining, rather than voting for an ideological incompatible party, but I think most principled people would rather spoil a ballot than support a leader proven to be corrupt.
NP writer John Robson is demanding better options. I hope he and others help to rebuild a credible right of centre party. His scathing remarks are right on the money:
"Elections are such infuriating spectacles that sometimes one doesn’t know which obscenity to utter first. But I’ve decided to aim my initial outburst at the Harper Tories.
I cannot vote for them. I just can’t. They should be my natural choice but their coarse, vindictive, proudly unprincipled cynicism must not be rewarded with electoral success, regardless of the consequences."
"Power has corrupted [Harper]and his party. I wrote nearly two years ago that Harper is unfit for office because he lied to Parliament over the Wright-Duffy affair, insolently telling incompatible tales five days apart in October 2013, and lying about having contradicted himself.
Instead of recoiling from this cynical deceit, his party enthusiastically embraced it. If they think him worthy of public trust, they aren’t either."
"It doesn’t matter where you look. The Tories talk tough in foreign affairs and praise the military. But they gut defence to fund cynical handouts. They rope in the rubes by feigning concern about traditional marriage, abortion and God. But they do nothing. "
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being that Obama's name was among the membership at this site(I agree it's pretty seedy), it's obvious that people could sign up with any name they thought up.
I don't really care enough about some blogger in the US that I never heard of to bother investigating whether this guys info was real or a plant by some enemy
Who would use their own name and/or real information that could be traced back to them for a service like this? What possible reason would there be to have multiple accounts under the same name? It doesn't make sense.
Josh has admitted to the cheating and Ashley Madison accounts: http://www.duggarfamily.com/2015/8/statements-from-jim-bob-and-michelle-duggar-and-josh-duggar
I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife.
I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him.
I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust.
The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, in my heart I had allowed Satan to build a fortress that no one knew about.
As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose to our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.
The Christian right in the US will no doubt support Josh in his quest to persecute faithful, law abiding, non-child diddling, gay couples as he re-finds Jesus again and again. They'll use some 'the devil made him do it' type excuse and overlook the fact that he is a cheater and molester. However, can you imagine the response if they found out he was gay or even *shudder* and atheist? I expect that the 'pro-family' Christian righties can accept child molestation, hypocrisy, cheating on your wife and betraying your kids but being gay or atheist would be unforgivable. That's how messed up their 'morals' have become.
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Unfortunately for the small-c's Harper hijacked Manning's democratically based, grassroots Reform movement and turned it into what the CPC is now; almost the exact opposite. That's why conservatives are now starting to pursue the creation of new right wing options and are calling for PR. Deja vu all over again.
“Parliament can hardly be weakened any more than it already is. Harper can’t go much further without making the institution dysfunctional. He is trying to control every aspect of House business. In fact, it will have to be returned to its former state by someone if we are to have a democracy.” - Peter Milliken (speaker of the house)
“Canadians are sleepwalking through dramatic social, economic and political changes surreptitiously being implemented by a government abusing omnibus bills and stifling public and parliamentary debate.
Mr. Harper has not played within the rules. Having attained absolute power, he has absolutely abused that power to the maximum." - Robert Marleau (former Information Commissioner) -
Suggestions?
I had issues with my dual monitors when first installed Windows 10 (it was not detecting one of them). I eventually fixed it by updating the driver for my graphics card. If you aren't sure how you would "update graphics card driver" you should contact the place that sold you your computer.
I also had a driver issue. Windows may be able to detect and install the update for you.
1) Click the Windows (formerly Start) Button
2) In the 'search web and windows' bar at the bottom type Device Driver
3) Click on Update Device Drivers
4) Click on Display Adapter
5) Right-Click on your specific Display Adapter and select Update Driver Software
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More like we'll support it BECAUSE of the other side, which is infinitely worse.
At least Harper becoming the new Mulroney is once again creating conservative PR support.
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The Ford effect.
I love it! You're saying, our guy is corrupt with a bad record, but because you guys are telling us that we will vote for him anyway. lmao! We will support bad government to spite the other side!
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Is it time to disunite the right? Many small-c cons think so. It seems that Harper's erosion of democracy, scandals, secrecy and 'anything for power' economic decisions have left conservatives without a palatable choice in the upcoming election. How do they hold Harper accountable for bad government, when the only other options are so ideologically different?
Just like Harper and Flanagan back in the 90's, cons are now calling for PR and the rebirth of a party like the Reform, dedicated to grassroots, conservative principles. Mulroney, was the corrupt figurehead that motivated a young Steve to create change. Now, Harper has become that highbinder for a new generation of conservatives seeking democracy and bottom up representation.
Personally, I am excited that there is movement towards PR from both the left and the right. We may actually ditch this dysfunctional electoral system sooner than later.
What we need is a new party dedicated explicitly to conservative ideas — a role that used to be fulfilled by the old Reform movement. In today’s political environment, such a party would not be a contender for power. But it would be able to maintain a consistent right-of-centre line without compromising its positions in order to stay in government. And it would serve as a needed opposition voice from the right, as well as an alternative for conservative voters when the big Tory party is not fitting the bill.
The creation of such a party would be helped by reforms to the electoral system — of a kind, ironically, that the left-wing opposition now proposes. Under a proportional model, the need to form post-election alliances would be the rule rather than the exception, thereby mitigating the significance of vote splitting. Indeed, it was Stephen Harper and his former adviser Tom Flanagan who argued, in a 1997 article in Next City magazine, for proportional representation as a means of forcing an alliance out of the right-wing parties.
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/jackson-doughart-is-it-time-to-disunite-the-right
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Which stage of denial are these guys in now?
And how long until they reach acceptance?
Only when their political leaders stop seeking fossil fuel donations. They accept the truth, it's just inconvenient to their politics.
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This is an odd story. What is this, hackers with a moral code? Are they just trying to embarrass or are they trying to take down the site? What's the goal, or is it just that they did it because they could? I'd love to see these hackers go after child porn sites and collectors. Going after people seeking affairs seems pretty lame. I mean I know that people like Kimmy get their jollies if they can find a screwed up christian involved, but other than that, there's some pretty sick deranged people using the net to spread their crap and make money at it.
Duggar is definitely a story because he has made a living telling people to behave more like him if they want to be moral and godly. Yet it turns out that he is a molester and now a cheater, with a secret love nest, who prefers women (well I assume just women, but who knows) skilled with their hands. I suspect that Christians and some on the right are bothered by this because their leaders prove they will be going to hell on a near daily basis. At the start of the Republican Primaries, every candidate made sure to pose with the Duggars...not so much anymore.
I'm not sure why hackers chose Ashley Madison. It could be that the president/owner happens to be a bit of an asshat, or maybe just because they could. Hacker groups often attack targets they find repugnant, like fossil fuel companies and major corporations that treat their workers poorly. Hey I believe Anonymous said they would be releasing the real reason John Baird abruptly left politics. That will be interesting, if true.
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I'm diggn' Sedona by Houndmouth these days. I'm constantly humming the tune...no doubt in part to it's constant radio play.
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Which I don't defend them for. I did correctly say, in those cases, that virtually nobody cared. We'll see if people care this time. My feeling is that people are simply sick of Harper, and that he should have stepped down in about 2013.
He should have stepped down at exactly the moment he concluded cheating elections, voter suppression schemes and lying about the cost of major election issues were acceptable practices.
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How would he look over their expenses? Is he an expert in Senate rules regarding what can and can't be expensed?
Harper can't be blamed for the expense claims of others, he can only be judged on how he handled the situation. Lying to the public about his knowledge of the situation and involvement in the attempted cover up shows his dishonest and corrupt nature.
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I hope they keep it up. It'll be good to watch the postseason with a horse in the race.
I just happy the Jays will finally play some meaningful games in September.
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According to their policy document the CPC is still against equal marriage rights. WTF year is it? This backwards party has to go.
- Point 70, Page 28 - http://www.conservative.ca/media/documents/Policy-Declaration-Feb-2014.pdf
Your old road is Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
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Come on Tim, you sound like Socialist. Your fictitious, unevidential, zealotry is tiresome. I'm not sure if you're simply a foot soldier spreading misinformation or if you actually believe the fake BS you spread, but it's pitiful. You are on the wrong side of the extreme majority of the world's experts...if you think you know something they don't you are just delusional and need help.
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Well, to begin with, according to the police, Nigel Wright didn't break any laws giving Duff money. So all you are accusing the Tories of doing is engaging in spin doctoring and PR management, which is what every politician at every level and of every political stripe does and has always done.
Interesting that Harper had to lie about his knowledge of the situation then...
Bayne was referring to an interview Wright had with the RCMP, in which Wright was discussing how he told the prime minister about the plan to have Duffy's expenses paid back. (Wright had testified on Wednesday that he never told Harper the plan was to have the Conservative Party fund pay for those expenses.)
In that interview, Wright said he told Harper that "we're asking, basically forcing someone, to repay money that they probably didn't owe."
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Let me get this straight. You're accusing senior members of the Conservative Party of trying to do things which might make the party look good to the media and counter the bad publicity Duffy brought!? Really!? I'm shocked!
Do you mean, the bad publicity brought on by illegally giving money to a senator to pay expenses that probably weren't illegal? Yes, I am highlighting the fact that many senior Cons were in on the scandal. I'm also highlighting the fact that the CPC senate is not independent like Harper claims.
Finally, I'm highlighting the fact that Nigel Wright has discussed conversations that he had with Harper about paying off Duffy's expenses...when Harper claims to have had no knowledge of the situation. So if I were to wager on whether the PM is a corrupt liar or just an incompetent manager, the former looks like a safer bet.
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Harper was unusually testy taking questions at his northern stop today. How long can he not answer questions on why others involved in the PMO cover-up were not fired or demoted. This includes his current chief of staff Ray Novak.
It also includes Sen Marjory LeBreton who is advising his current campaign. Emails that have come out during the trial have shown that she and others were part of the PMO orchestrated scheme to cover their deal with Mike. The emails also show that Harper's senate is far from independent like he claimed during the debate.
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Interesting. I recently read "Party Of One: Stephen Harper And Canada's Radical Makeover" by Michael Harris. In it he mentions interviewing an intelligence office in the Canadian foreign service who made Harris remove the battery to his phone. He said, the PMO has had him followed in the past and couldn't be certain that Harris didn't really work for CSIS.
I find it odd that conservative voters would defend moves to increase the power of government over citizens.
Canada vs Duffy vs PMO
in Federal Politics in Canada
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His former MPs use the phrase dictatorial to describe his control of the party. His own MPs had to request that the speaker acknowledge their right to speak in the house even when Harper didn't authorize it. CPC MPs are required to attend pre-committee meetings to get their talking points and be told how to speak and vote. CPC MPs are free to vote however they'd like though going against the set government position means possible ejection from caucus, the loss of a position and even vindictive attacks on your riding. Ask former CPC member Bill Casey.
Your fantasy posts about how this government operates, when you previously acknowledged Harper's love for and abuses of power, make you sound ridiculous. By all means be conservative and ideologically opposed to progressive ideas, but don't pretend Harper's government has been democratic, principled or good managers of our money.