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He's always late for his favourite activity - photo ops He's plummetted Canada's environmental rating to being worse than the US. His government openly doesn't care about overseas Canadians in trouble and they stated it as well. Being in minority, he's given up all the values he's had when he was only a critic - is he in power just to be in power or does he have real values he wants to implement. All his predictions about the economy were wrong. And even before the recession, he's turned the budget surplus into a deficit.

They just like to whine.

As reflected in the post 9/11 poll, Americans looked to him as the world's saviour. I don't doubt the extremist will look for anything to try to get an impeachment. I guess it can't be anything trivial like starting a war on false pretenses.

And who are the people writing the rules of acquiring power? Those who are in power, want to stay in power, of course. How can you be sure those you restrict from voting due to their economic situations or educational achievements will not be voting for candidates that have a plan to get them out of their plight? And you would categorize these people as "idiots"? I'm guessing this is the same type of discussion the fathers of democracy had when the noblemen and dictators of the world were freshly deposed and overthrown. To introduce these types of restrictions would not be far from the "Animal Farm" situation in which some are more equal than others depending upon some arbitrary (or strategically crafted) set of criteria. If there would be any definition of "idiot" we have to begin by identifying those who make important far-reaching decisions on the 6second sound-bite. Any university or college educated person, whose ever written a thesis or a discussion paper, can identify that solutions and proposals are not presented within 6 seconds. The fact is, problems are complex and so are their solutions. But marketing and campaign people know that complex solutions to complex problems don't sell products nor win votes. They do play on the lowest denominator of the intellectual pool. Explaining that taxes are used for roads, infrastructure, society, environment in specific programs take longer than 30seconds and will lose the interest of any voter. Spewing "No new taxes", "Get your house in order", "Common Sense" catch the voters' attention in seconds. Explaining the detrimental and contradictory effects of these catch-phrases take minutes. The "Green Shift" was a comprehensive plan that balances tax refunds and incentives with tax penalties against environmentally-detrimental behaviour. It was a complex plan for a complex problem. Critics said it was too difficult to understand - which in itself was a disguised statement about the intellectual level of the general population. "Green-Shaft" was a catchy phrase that caught on no matter how wrong it was. If there would be any kind of criteria, this is the kind of idiot-factor we should have as a criteria. Was my post too long?

whine, whine, whine Guess this is true after all: http://palady.wordpress.com/2006/03/22/stu...me-republicans/ http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2006/0...epublicans.html “With good parenting, we wouldn't have any Republicans.” “And this is not the first study to conclude that miserable children turn into conservatives.”

For those with short memories: "As far as overall approval, Bush's approval ratings, as measured by the Gallup organization, did not see a stark drop as suggested by Fahrenheit 9/11. Bush's approval rating fluctuated up and down from a high of 63 percent to a low of 51 percent over the pre-9/11 period. However, Bush's disapproval rating did see a largely steady increase over the period, apparently as more people who initially had no opinion about Bush came to disapprove of his handling of the presidency." http://newsaic.com/f911chap1-4.html Then after 9/11 his approval rating shot up (hmm?) and suddenly he's the world's saviour. Well we know how that turned out or we would be discussing President Cheney right now. Meanwhile, Obama's rating is steady at 58% in that same time-frame.

Shady is one of those people who get all excited when Stephen Harper's numbers go all the way up to 37%. That same number sends a chill across Canadians and the next poll Harper's back down to 34%.

Right-wingers: whine when the strike started; whine when it ended; whine when Lastman runs for help; whine when Miller settles it himself whine that it lasted 37 whole days; whine that it's too short whine about trucking garbage to Michigan; whine when we get our own landfill site whine about having to recycle and compost; whine about how stinky the garbage is whine about no place to put our garbage; whine about the place to put our garbage whine about budget deficits; whine about budget surpluses that's your raison d'etre - whine, whine, whine

Happened to me once. You can look through the garbage and find out who originally owned it. Not only that, you can find out alot of private information too. I'm sure if your neighbour found out you were doing that, it'll stop pretty quickly.

It seems you are now on the same page as far as equal accessiblity is concerned. Can we count on your support?

I boggles the mind that some people are opposed to and absolutely refuse to recycle and/or implement any sort of food composting.

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... or to Phil Donohue or to Oprah Winfrey etc

Ha ha, the last time 3 of the 4 parties agreed to make it work, the Conservatives ran crying to the GG.

Windsor's strike lasted 101days compared to Toronto's that took only 37days. No back-to-work legislation, no arbitration.

We've all seen the detrimental effects that the extreme right has on the world economy.

Obama, HR Clinton, WJ Clinton, Gore, Carter, Kennedy, Franken, Pelosi etc.

If Torontonians turn against Miller based on this strike, they're going to Mike-Harris themselves and end up making things worse. Perhaps they had forgotten how Lastman got things done by running to the Province for help everytime. That's his way of getting the city's budget in order, by running to the province for another one-time emergency funding six years in a row. And then asking the military to help shovel the snow. And of course back-to-work legislation because the Pope was coming. During the Harris era, it was like strikes and public demonstrations in perpetuity for eight years. So finally, we have a Mayor who is willing to have his city stand on its own feet. We had five years of labour peace - that's five years of averting strikes so this past one is his very first one. We see the rightwingers whining when the strike started and we see them whining when the strike ended. It was a negotiated settlement that did have the unions make concessions that including concessions on banked hours. The right ought to know from experience that if you hold out for everything, you end up getting nothing. So where did these banked hours come from? Miller didn't invent them. They existed at the time of the 2002 arbitrated settlement and they weren't eliminated back then either. But Miller did get them scaled back. A rough ride, yes but it had to be done and he didn't run to the province for help either.

Now that it's proven. How likely would a President Rush Lumbaugh go for diplomacy?

If you voted for Bush/Cheney, you have your amnesty.

Miller's longer strike ended in negotiation. Lastman relied on the Pope. Not much of accomplishment by Lastman. And for the record, this was Miller's first strike - 5 years of labour peace and strike averted settlements. No such thing for Lastman. And note, there were concessions by the union as well.

You forgot to list Stephen Harper. You spend a lot of time on the CBC - mandate achieved. It appears you don't watch the crap in those right-wing networks either.

The last strike ended in legislation because the Pope was coming. Lastman accomplished nothing and the unions got everything they wanted under arbitration. And during the Harris/Lastman years, it was strikes in-perpetuity. Thus, costs under the Harris/Lastman era kept building up to when McGuinty/Miller took over. This was Miller's only strike in his five-years and accomplished under negotiations. Relatively quite under McGuinty as well.

This is the same group that has always opposed anything Mayor Miller initiated. One of them is my own councillor of 14 years whom I have known to never had supported anything. It was also Miller's only labour strike in his 5-years as Mayor. Not a bad record compared to the predecessors in both municipal and provincial governments. The last garbage strike ended in legislated arbitration - not negotiated settlement.

You can always throw your vote away by voting NDP.