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I guess the Liberals are forgetting that Paul Martin and Bill Graham chose the Kandahar mission knowing that our troops would be in hamrs way. Back in the fall of 2005, Bill Graham on a tour across Canada warned us that the Kandahar mission would be costly. Graham said: "Our troops will be engaged in a much riskier and more dangerous mission than they were engaged in, in Kabul." Graham said: "From a Canadian perspective, our mission in Afghanistan is totally consistent with Canada's new international and defence policies; in fact, it is the first and most significant tangible expression of those policies in action. Our role in Afghanistan is also quintessentially Canadian: We are helping rebuild a troubled country and we are giving hope for the future to a long-suffering people. This is a clear expression of our Canadian values at work." Graham said: "So when I hear voices who call for the withdrawal of our troops, who suggest that we are engaged in a war there against Islam ... I say: 'Let them talk to the Afghans, Afghans who are Muslims themselves, Afghans who want us there to help them transform their country' ..."

I beg to differ on that one LOL

The CPC could have stayed home too? What kind of thinking is that? The CPC didn't have to, more aptly the NDP would have been more principled if they had abstained. Speaking about the Taliban, maybe this is one of the reasons we should stay, to help prevent more of these atrocities. http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/...rticle_continue Global outcry at Taliban's use of boy in filmed beheading The Taliban's use of a young boy to behead a man drew international criticism yesterday, with Unicef condemning the incident as "a terrible example of how children can be used by adults to commit heinous crimes in times of conflict". In the videotape of the beheading the boy, who appears no older than 12, is seen standing over a blindfolded man, brandishing a long knife. Wearing a combat jacket, oversized sneakers and a white headband, he denounces the man in a high-pitched voice. "He is an American spy. This is his fate," he says.

Sure are Actually if the NDP really didn't agree with this, why didn't they just stay away, they would come out looking more principled if they hadn't voted with the CPC

I think her cheese has allready slid off, she's unhinged, not the same Rosie from a few years ago.

But you still haven't indicated what about the Murdoch introduction offended you. The incident you reference was another time in response to an equally classless individual, Donald Trump. http://www.nypost.com/seven/04242007/gossi...six/pagesix.htm It was the same event

You're obviously very sensitive if this "rant" is what offends you: "Rosie also took a jab at Murdoch over recently booted "Idol" Sanjaya Malakar. "While (Murdoch) seems to have a lot of power he couldn't keep Sanjaya on 'American Idol,'" Rosie ranted" I think you're looking to be outraged by anything, much like the so-called "PCers run amuck." I'm referring to "grabbing her crotch and shouting, "Eat me!" She then added it was sad when Trump called her "disgusting" and "fat" because, "it was always my dream to give an old, bald billionaire a boner."

She didn't do that when introducing Murdoch. You're thinking of her fight with Donald Trump. She went on a rant about Murdock which wasn't necessary, and the rant about Trump was very offensive. http://www.accesshollywood.com/television/ah5011.shtml According to the New York Post's Page Six, Rosie ended a rant about The Donald by grabbing her crotch and shouting, "Eat me!" She then added it was sad when Trump called her "disgusting" and "fat" because, "it was always my dream to give an old, bald billionaire a boner."

Her Rupert Murdock rant was pretty bad, and downright rude. Who wants to listen to cr.p like that.

Can't believe the Red Star said this and to think I agree with them : http://www.thestar.com/article/205638 Tax changes never win applause from people who lose tax advantages, even when such advantages are considered to be patently unfair. And the anger of such taxpayers is all the more palpable when restoring fairness means breaking an election promise, as happened last fall when Finance Minister Jim Flaherty slapped a new tax on income trusts. But the backlash is even greater when the government gets hit by opposition parties seeking to curry political favour with disgruntled taxpayers, despite the finance minister's attempt to do the right thing. Unfortunately, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is trying to capitalize on that backlash, and he is doing it by turning his back on sound tax policy. -snip- Defending tax unfairness will not win him the next election.

Pretty hypocritcal of the Liberals too as they are undermining a mission they chose to get into without a vote, at least the CPC held a vote. Dion supported the mission in Afghanistan. Since the 2006 election, however, he has flip-flopped his position several times: * May 2006: Dion voted against extending the mission; * May 2006: Dion said he has “always been a strong supporter of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan and Kandahar”; [http://stephanedion.ca/?q=en/node/120) * September 2006: Dion said that Canada would “dishonour” itself by withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan; [Vancouver Sun, September 19, 2006] * November 2006: Dion said Canada should withdraw its troops “with honour” before 2009; [Edmonton Journal, November 22, 2006] * December 2006: Dion said: “we can’t give up on the mission until we have deployed everything to ensure it works.” [Montreal Gazette, December 19, 2006]

Could you show a map or something from that era showing a Palestine, who ruled it etc. etc. http://www.levitt.com/essays/palestine.html The term Palestine is rarely used in the Old Testament, and when it is, it refers specifically to the southwestern coastal area of Israel occupied by the Philistines. It is a translation of the Hebrew word “Pelesheth.” The term is never used to refer to the whole land occupied by Israel. Before Israel occupied the land, it would be generally accurate to say that the southwestern coastal area was called Philistia (the Way of the Philistines, or Palestine), while the central highlands were called Canaan. Both the Canaanites and the Philistines had disappeared as distinct peoples at least by the time of the Babylonian Captivity of Judea (586 B.C.), and they no longer exist. In the New Testament, the term Palestine is never used. The term Israel is primarily used to refer to the people of Israel, rather than the Land. However, in at least two passages, Israel is used to refer to the Land:

Acting Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Sheikh Ahmad Bahr, From Hamas, In Friday Sermon in Sudan: U.S., Israel Will Be Annihilated; Oh Allah, Kill the Jews and Americans "To The Very Last One" To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD155307 . The following are excerpts from a sermon delivered by Ahmad Bahr, acting speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, from Hamas, which aired on Sudan TV on April 13, 2007. As long as these views prevail there will never be peace. watch a clip here: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1426 "America Will Be Annihilated, While Islam Will Remain" Ahmad Bahr: "'You will be victorious' on the face of this planet. You are the masters of the world on the face of this planet. Yes, [the Koran says that] 'you will be victorious,' but only 'if you are believers.' Allah willing, 'you will be victorious,' while America and Israel will be annihilated, Allah willing. I guarantee you that the power of belief and faith is greater than the power of America and Israel. They are cowards, as is said in the Book of Allah: 'You shall find them the people most eager to protect their lives.' They are cowards, who are eager for life, while we are eager for death for the sake of Allah. That is why America's nose was rubbed in the mud in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and everywhere." [...] while we are eager for death for the sake of Allah oh right

Just a guess but Layton probably didn't want to lock himself into a date which has actually allready been set (2009) I'm betting he voted against it to give himself elbow room in calling for earlier withdraw. There's method in his madness.

You have a big waiting list, mainly because of the shortage of doctors. So you allow a private clinic which takes half the doctors away and you pay them to do the procedure. They are in it to make money so they only pick the easy ones and bill the government full price. What If doctors where able to practice privately and make more we could probably attract the doctors and technicians back that we lost to the U.S. http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/sports/200...ound_for_u.html One in nine trained-in-Canada doctors is practising medicine in the United States, says a study published in Tuesday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study suggests that luring back some of these Canadian physicians would go a long way toward solving the country's doctor shortage.

There never was a Palestine, or any Palestinian Arab nation "The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity." ---- Golda Meir quoted by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1995 Palestine there is no Palestinian language or distinct culture. the land we now call call Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries . . . . - Professor Bernard Lewis, Commentary Magazine, January 1975

Who wants to volunteer for the job of toilet paper enforcer ? -

It would be interesting to know how it is weighted againt other countries. If you pick a smaller country but use the same answers, your footprint is much lower. If you live in a country with warmer temps. your furnace oil consumption for instance, would be lower so I would assume a smaller footprint. Does it take into consideration people who live in small towns with no public transportation, thus requiring a car. If I took it during the summer when I walk and kayak, it wouldn't change my answer as that is recreational, not for transit purposes. It didn't ask about pets, what about people who have animals especially large dogs, they would contribute quite a bit to the 'footprint' wouldn't it.

Hah, I had the wrong place, I had checked English but wrong country, came up with this. FOOD 2.8 MOBILITY 0.2 SHELTER 3.6 GOODS/SERVICES 2.9 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 9.5

Better check your pulse. I double checked it and it doesn't seem right, because I checked off mostly the worst answers, e.g. no public transit, the largest house mileage etc. , meat every night. There was only one answer for the house single dwelling with running water, maybe I'll try it using another browser,

I think I've got the right thread, read this !!! Ethics in politics (or lack thereof ) theft by conversion I think the Liberals have shot themselves in the foot while cutting off their nose to spite their faces. http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/ or this one for the full version http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/f...cover_story.pdf “The law does expect you not to detain, not to keep it, even temporarily. If you form the intent to return it to the authorities for turning it over to the rightful owner right away and you do so, then you haven’t committed an offence. But detaining it for any time is called ‘theft by conversion’—converting something to yours at least temporarily belonging to somebody else to your knowledge,” he says. Unfortunately, that’s what the Liberal Party of Canada did as one of its first acts as Her Opposition (OLO) knew they had the files. For 14 months they held onto them—30 boxes full of personnel evaluations, private correspondence, newspaper clippings and who knows what else, some of it dating back to the Canadian Alliance and even the Reform party years in the 1990s—and kept quiet about it while the Liberal Research Bureau in the OLO rifled through them looking for dirt. The fact that the Liberals would stoop to such depths, resorting...

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES FOOD 0.6 MOBILITY 0.3 SHELTER 1.8 GOODS/SERVICES 1 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.7 Must be because there are only two of us, I did it twice just in case, I don't take public transit or ride a bike etc.

In that case next time some one starts attacking Zionists or those evil Christian fundamentalists better remove that one too. so, are you saying ALL Christians are evil? and when you say, 'Zionist,' do you include all Jews into that group??? or do you just practice your bigotry against Muslims? Not saying anything of the kind don't put words in my mouth, otherwise Balderdash

Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor

In that case next time some one starts attacking Zionists or those evil Christian fundamentalists better remove that one too.