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Which is how you know it's propaganda, right?

Well, that'll certainly be a good reason to put you on my ignore list.

No I was just bored and you lot were ticking me off.

Texas.

I once saw a film clip of a chimp driving a manual VW Beetle. Maybe there's an opportunity for chimps to move up the chain here...

Hmmm. Seems like there's an opportunity to make some good money in the arbitrage market. Might be a good way to mitigate the cost of filling up the old Hummer...

This is all pretty amusing. It has only been a matter of a decade or two since it was considered justifiable homicide in some US states to kill your wife if she was caught in the sack with another man. I'm not sure, but I believe you could get away with killing the other man too. What a bunch of heathens. Really.

He means "If you're not with us, then just shut up." Sort of a diplomatic Bill O'Reilly.

Parliament needs some sort of microphone arrangement wherein only the person recognized by the speaker is heard and the rest are only seen silently flapping their gums and waving their arms. Sort of like radio talk show hosts use. Would straighten things out pretty quick, I imagine.

You have to admit though, NHL refereeing has gotten a lot better since the league tightened up on the cheap shots.

I'd put him and Roosvelt on a league with Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini, Bernardo and Pickton. You'd put Hitler on a par with Roosevelt?!? You'd put Bernardo's handful of victims on a par with Hitlers millions?!? What are you thinking, man?!? OMG Figleaf. What are you imputing?

I thought it was interesting that Blair was in DC at the same time as Wolfowitz was being given his walking papers. Could be coincidence, but the whole Iraq mess is going to need a lot of money to straighten out and with the US taxpayer in revolt, there is that big stash of cash sitting at the World Bankand already accounted for on an annual basis. Who better to hold the key to the strongbox than a true believer? Blair was just in Iraq preaching about holding the course, after all. They're going to need someone with an awful lot of political clout to get all those economists over on H Street to hold their noses

Yeah, the Sun. Now there's a standard bearer for you

My bet is there's a spot opening up for him at the World Bank

Like I said, and you probably didn't read or understand, people who have their money in locked in RRSPs can gamble them all away in the stock market. The 90 year old lock in provision assumes a lifespan greater than the actuarial tables allow for. The locking in provisions are a leaky boat and the only way to patch the boat is to restrict the kind of investments allowed in locked in RRSPs, which is administratively impossible. None of this has anything to do with the tax breaks given to seniors. Those are available to all - even those with no RRSP. Would be a pretty hard sell on a general population basis, I imagine.

Why is it a good thing? We are being heavily downsized by the producers.

Not at all. It is an indication of what relevance should be placed on opinions put forward by the National Toast

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Yeah, this was highlighted on the front page of the National Toast yesterday. Keep in mind this is the same newspaper that was urging us with all possible speed to join in the invasion of Iraq

Perle would be hard to get rid of because he's not an appointed or elected official, but sort of slinks around as a consultant. There will always be someone who is willing to pay guys like Perle to bolster their position.

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Paul Wolfowitz, who apparently still does not get it, has resigned. The World Bank has finally forced the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz. Perhaps a sign of George Bush's final defeat since he tried and failed to stop it. The World Bank and the appointment of its head has long been considered the exclusive property of the US. For years, the World Bank has been the lender of last resort to countries teetering on the edge of complete financial collapse and has probably prevented many a war. However, it has always dictated very strong medicine in terms of cleaning up bad monetary practice and corruption. The World Bank, and others like it (International Monetary Fund, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank) has, more than anything, been about governance and the reform of bad government. Even the World Bank's Staff Association, a very tame body that usually dedicates itself to straightening out pesonnel matters and arranging retirement parties, was coming out and making public statements calling for Wolfowitz to step down. Unfprtunately, Paul Wolfowitz still does not get it, which shows why George Bush was such a moron to appoint him in the first place. There have been commentators who have claimed Wolfowitz is really being given the boot because he was the architect of the Iraq invasion. However, Robert McNamara survived the Vietnam stain on his record and went on to serve the Bank well. Wolfowitz was fired for corruption and greed, and in the final analysis, a crime more serious than that for such a lofty position - stupidity. Another neocon put on the sidelines where they all belong.

I am creating this special post to point out by highlighting in red all those points where Rue tries to turn debate into thought crime by stretching, exaggerating, and distorting the words of the other party. I am then reporting the post for the review of the administrator. This debate will continue once a ruling on Rue's behaviour has been issued. Because Rue resorts to these accusations on a routine basis, I am also asking the administrator to suspend Rue until a decision has been reached.

Because the above (abridged) post contains irrational allegations of criminal behaviour and/or intent, it is inapproriate for response and for inclusion in public debate. See my post below.

Judging by a lot of your previous posts, you also do not have the education. Arab Muslims do not live in peace in Israel. An article in the Globe and Mail - Jan 27, 2007 - points out that the number of Israeli Arabs seeking refugee status (and being granted it) in Canada has increased substantially over the past 5 years. These people are living in a state that is run by and for the benefit of a group to which they do not belong - Jews. It is widely acknowledged that successive Israeli governments have publicly fretted over the threat that the Arabs would out-breed the Jews and "democratic" Israel would cease to be a Jewish state. Consider what would happen if the government of Canada started to publicly worry that one demographic group might outbreed the other. The Arabs were willing to accept a previous proposal for partition and the Jews rejected it. So what? I will answer your third question with these questions: why is it that you hold the Arab nations around Israel responsible to solve a problem that Israel created? Why is it that you feel you have the right to expect them to behave in the way that Israel has with respect to refugees? Israel's behavious towards incoming Jewish refugees is unique to its own intentions. What makes you think that the Palestinian Arab refugees would accept citizenship in other Arab countries when their homeland is Palestine and by doing so they would likely forfeit their claims? And finally... "I expect?" Who exactly do you think you are? The quizz master?