Remiel

Mistrusting the Government is not inherently stupid. Especially in the face of an overwhelming pattern of half-baked legislation built on hyper-partisanship. I would posit an accompanying notion: Why is it that despite the wealth of information about things that are happening right out in the open so many people seem so willfully blind to them?

If you, the person making hiring decisions, can see the names on the resumes you have received you are doing it wrong. The very first step in the deliberative process should be to arrange for all resumes to be made anonymous before you first look at them.

I think I would call myself a feminist were I not prone to do awful things that disqualify me.

Why is socialist so committed to trolling us on this topic?

Gee, such a ringing endorsement of meritocracy. Your name does not guarantee the presidency.

Those photos of them washing down the crime scene within hours of the shooting... Nuts.

If another Bush becomes president you all might as well swear allegiance to the Queen again, because your countries small-r republicanism will be a God damned joke.

Founders' intent is kind of intellectually bankrupt as a legal theory.

The fundamental problem with Sun News was that they wanted to be called a news channel when their core content was editorial. Here you guys are complaining about losing their opinions. If CBC, or CTV, or Global went off the air people would be complaining about losing their coverage.

I seem to recall seeing a diagram that suggested every one of about eight realtors in the Ontario Legislature is a Conservative. Given your comments now I really wonder what to make of that.

The problem with the article is that there is a lot of things in it that are neither here nor there when it comes to whether writing was a cause of patriarchy. That could be completely true and yet most of their reasoning could be complete nonsense. There was way too much essentialization going on in there of complex properties of human faculties. That A causes B to happen does not mean by any means that the continued presence of A is the cause of the continued presence of B.

The more I read of this the more bizarre it started to seem. Most of the "evidence" seems to have been circumstantial at best. And did it even attempt to explain patriarchal structures in societies where only the elites could read? Not to mention that I think it got images wrong. Images are not holistic. There is a lot of brain work going on behind the scenes of seeing. That is all tied up in why we have this idea of "focus" , both the visual and mental versions.

Can someone tell me what the difference is between advocating for terrorism and inciting terrorism?

That would be a funny lobby group in the US: Canadians Against Gerrymandering United States Electoral Districts (CAGUSED) . Anyway, proportional representation is, in my opinion, to the advantage of anyone living in an electoral stronghold. That might be a relative term in Canada, but they definitely exist. The Prairies, Alberta in particular, rural parts of Ontario. If your MP does not listen to you and you can not get a new MP, then in our system you are basically SOL.

When the Conservatives can count on greater than 20% of Canadians to misunderstand their political system whenever the issue of coalitions comes up what proportion of that 80% do you think really has a clue about the treaties? 80% of people agree we should respect the treaties because they do not understand them at all and because we are conditioned to accept "rules" that are in place. If they did understand them though and what they entailed, much fewer people would acquiesce so easily.

As long as you are not advocating for the elimination of printing as well...

All of society is getting messed up. Look at Jupiter Ascending and its ridiculous message of being "born better" . If that is where we are at these days then society is definitely going down hill...

The spouse of the Prime Minister is nothing like the First Lady of the US. The latter has been formally ruled by the courts to be a de facto Federal official. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/23/us/court-rules-that-first-lady-is-de-facto-federal-official.html

If Laureen Harper wants to muck around in politics she can run for office. Otherwise she should try to remember that she is a nobody in our system.

Unlike some, I do not think that indigenous peoples need to have only the exact rights and legal systems that the rest of us have. But basically what so much of this amounts to is that First Nations want a form of aristocracy, whether they think of it that way or not. The only difference between them are traditional aristocrats is that they are impoverished now. The system has practically makes indigenous peoples inferior to "settlers" . But the system so many of them seem to want has as its core principal that the rest of us, the vast majority in this country, are born inferior. They say we make them feel like strangers in their own lands. Well, they say we are aliens in the lands of our birth and our parents birth too. I really think we need to get rid of the monarchy. Not necessarily the Crown, but the monarchy has to go. There will never be reconcilliation of any kind so long as one side maintains that sovereignty flows from the people while the other side are just some incidental bunch stuck with upholding a sovereignty that belongs to hereditary monarch. Tradition be damned all around. And anyone who dwells too long on the fact that Canada would not be here without John A. should wonder whether Cambodians born in the aftermath of the Killing Fields should feel gratefully to the Khmer Rouge for being such bloodthirsty scumbags. After all, without that shower of the blood, they never would have been born, right?

Maybe we should focus less on the relative risk of allowing certain people to become Prime Minister and instead focusing on effective methods for holding them to account for when they fall off the wagon. Because, you know, judging from the out and out theft of tax dollars for partisan purposes by the CPC Government, there seems to be jack all in the way of rules preventing or punishing what they are doing. One way you know somebody is above the law is that there is literally no law to address their wrongdoings.

We are probably going to be hearing about this girl for God damned decades as evidence of how it is us "settlers" and our colonialism that killed this girl with our evil chemotherapy treatments. Jesus Christ indeed.

I am not sure I care anymore. Why bother being "anti-Zionist" anyway? What is the point? Do you have to be "anti-Zionist" to disapprove of some of the things done by the State of Israel? No. So why bother going there? Besides, who even calls themselves anti-Saudi, or anti-Russian, or anti-Myanmar-ian? No one that I have ever heard of, and I have seen plenty of people who oppose the actions of those states.

"Leave the world a better place," is a dumb commandment. That is the sort of thing that can be completely out of your hands. "God is not necessary to be a good person or to live a full and meaningful life," is also a dumb commandment because it is not a commandment at all. It is a statement with a truth value.

No, just the head of the police union going on air to announce that they are now at "war" .