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If that's the price to stop Radical Islam, The let's do it. Nothing wrong with Public Education, they can learn religion on their own time, their own tab.

Wow! Two of them! That many! Oh, wait, I didn't ask about "individual nut cases" but groups. How many violent, terroristic Christian groups have launched attacks over the past twenty or thirty years. Round numbers will do. I believe Ireland provides acts of religious terrorism. Sabrah and Shattila were mass slaughters by Christians Militias.

I don't know if bombing of Abortion Clinics count. Or Shooting Doctors. Prior to the last decade, it would be hard for them to be terrorists, they were to busy committing suicide, Jim Jones.

I buy it, I've seen it happen with my own eyes. I'll say with all the people I know that smoke pot 75% went on to worse stuff because of the same reason they tried pot in the first place. Wow, sounds pretty scarey. The people I know that smoked pot, oh probably my entire Grade 13 Graduating Class, went on to become Lawyers, Doctors, Airline Pilots, Pharamacy Pros, and Teachers. I have yet to be worried about POT as a gateway drug. But there are drugs that one should be worried as gateway drugs including prescription drugs.

You are in dreamland. Republicans made their bed in the popularity of the War against Iraq. It did have 75% support at one time. The War went south, and so did the Republican Majorities. About as good a storm as the Democrats could get. Harper tied himself to the War in Iraq, he just didn't have to bleed it. And now that his government is in power, they haven't done anything that is really going to make a hill of beans difference in Alberta. It is a blue Province, that is their identity.

That's just ignorant and racist. I almost thought it was a MikeDavid00 comment.

40,000K/year. I was just going to get my violin out. Guess, I better put it back in the case.

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It certainly is an interesting point. Yet 53 votes cost them 2 seats. And It could disprove Spears Theory.

It doesn't matter what the CBC supports. You should have stated that YOU had categorized the information to your needs and NOT the CBC. I didn't jump to any conclusions. You have done that after the fact, so why are your T*Ts still in a knot? Ditto. However, I think you have an ingrained perspective of supporting the status quo. Why would you make a jerk statement like that? And Ignoring how an enemy attacks you doesn't lower the risk. Certainly is a concern after 5 years. Sounds like you have a great solution. Hope it works out for you. Should stabilize the country and fewer Canadian Casualties to. But even better, they do work in the mountains. Helicopters were the most effective tool of the USSR. Which is why the US gave the Islamic Fundmentalists Stinger Missiles. Luckily there doesn't appear to be any in circulation or used since the 2001 invasion. It was your opinion. You are entitled to it.

The Chief was brought down by Liberals and members of his own Party whom wanted Nuclear Tipped Warheads, at this time, he lost the support of both the Social Credit and the NDP and his minority government failed. From Widipedia This does not imply that the SC and NDP/CCF did nothing to aid the Progressive Conservative. Just the opposite, they propped it up, until it collapsed from within. And if you have a better version of history.....

So who would be left?

The US isn't going anywhere. Particularly with the small footprint that they do have, there isn't much of what is left in Afghanistan to aid in the"surge" in Iraq. But they could reduce the US footprint a little more, and expect NATO to pick up the difference. I think this is unlikely to occur. But you never know how the Iraq surge will play out.

It's the result of the FTA and the backlash to the NEP of the 80s. Oil is sold to the Market, where Canada has been the #1 Supplier to the USA. We then have to import oil at market prices. From the Canadian Association of Petroleum Products. Exports: Crude Oil: 1.58 million barrels per day Imports: Crude Oil: 927,000 barrels per I don't know why you wouldn't believe it. Probably because it doesn't make any sense in a Nationalistic Sense. But I am certain Geoffery can provide the economic details. He's proven to me he is pretty solid in this regards.

What you have done, is take and article at CANADA.COM and question the authors methodology by calling it shoddy journalism. You very much made it appear that the CBC supported your view of arranging military casualties. It does not. You have now clarified that you have taken the data at CBC and arranged it for you methodology. You can stand by that. It is your methodology, not anyone elses. Combat does not imply an exchange of fire. Combat has been around long before gunfire. And as far as I am concerned you are critizing an article that mentions clearly the number of Canadians killed in Afghanistan and choose to make that value less than half because you believe only casualties taken in a fair exchange is countable. The enemy in Afghanistan, has adopted more tactics involving Suicide Attacks and IED to kill Canadian Soldiers without directly engaging in a firefight. You can hold your opinion that we should only be counting combat death in firefights, and not IED's, strategically planted mines and Suicide bombers. That is your choice. But because an author publishing at CANADA.COM does not, doesn't mean it is shoddy journalism. He just wouldn't agree with you.

NickleBack vs System of a Down, Playstation 3 vs WII. Green Party, NDP, Conservatives and Liberal, if they bother to get a lift to the polls. Personally I think that Unemployed people that waste valuable time trolling on the internet vs finding a job or going to school, shouldn't be allowed to vote or drive.

I wouldn't say there aren't any but it is not like it used to be, however, there were more in the past two elections then in the previous 15 years. I'll give you my opinion in Ontario. In the Days of the Big Blue Machine in Ontario, and Ontarios Strong Manufacturing base, workers switched between Conservative and NDP. This transcended into federal politics as well, but not as great. However, free trade eliminated alot of the manufacturing jobs, and Lunch Bucket Joe, left both the NDP and Conservatives for Reform or Liberals federally. Thus the Liberals gaining a huge dominance, and both the Progressive Conservative vote and NDP vote collapsing. This maintained until the merger of the Canadian Reform ALLIANCE Party (CRAP) successfully became the CONSERVATIVE party of Canada. This Merger somehow had a positive effect on the growth of the NDP. The bump the NDP got occurred in 2004 with Liberals not concerned about anything than power, and Progressives Conservatives whom couldn't identify with the new party, some came to the NDP, but they weren't lunch bucket joes, but Teachers, Lawyers, Economists. The Conservatives Real Bump came in 2006 when they were able to overcome the "Scary" profiling giving to them by the Liberals and the downgrading of their Social Conservative agenda. It also allowed Longtime Business Liberals to move comfortably across party lines. So you are correct, there aren't nearly as many Conservative NDP vote switchers as there has been in the past. But why when the Conservatives are Stronger then when they were split in two parties, the NDP would grow, at a time the Liberals need every vote to counter the NEW party, leaves plenty for discussion.

Oh..This from Larry Zolf in 2004.

I choose to go to your source at the CBC. Yup shoddy journalism.

Ok, I am sorry if I missed it, are you currently in the Military? As you are aware, many fine young men signed up to fight in both WW1 and WW2. If you are not currently in the Military, then you can do battle with these guys now, and sign up as they did in the past. You can think about this and decide. As for the past month or so, when the recruiters were enticing my sons, I left the decision up to them, but certainly don't believe that this war is worth the loss of my sons. Do I think it is winnable? Yes, I think there is still time under the current doctrine? I am still not convinced So do this White Doors, RAH RAH RAH< FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! Kill all the bad guys and don't negotiate and maybe we will win this right? Which is the doctrine of some of the posters here, not a formal military doctrine.

The context was this. We are there and clearly would require more personel if we were to extend the stay. The media didn't get confused, I watched the O CONNOR and Hillier on TV not Harper, they explained it. This was the option used, Rerolling, which isn't that unusual for military overstretched. So take an overstretched military and stretch it further. Of course as a "truck driver" in assymetrical Warfare it is the truckers that are going to be tagged. I have driven a duece and half in the dark.

Fair enough, however, my comments weren't directed towards you, they were for Jean Poutine. I know they are slow, etc, and I understand their benefits towards the troops and you have confirmed what I have said in prior threads. I am aware of Afghanistans geography, I was simply saying they can't go into the mountains, much like a Soviet Tank couldn't go into the mountains which was a fact. I hear you. I understand the mindset and the tactics, it is Jean Poutine whom claims the Taliban don't care. What you have read in my reply to Jean Poutine is out of context, but not misquoted. That is good battlefield analysis, and also very similar to what I have said in other threads. I am well read with regards to Al Qaida. I am well read in Afghanistan's history. But you are giving good enough advice in this regards. I used to spend alot of time on this, but I do have a real life, no time for translating cassette tapes and other forms of media. What I am interested in , is , is there a successfull model of the 3 block strategy?

Yes, it is called a minority government. Members get edgy when supporting the Liberals, or the Conservatives? IIRC Conservative members were edgy about propping up the Liberals in early 2004. Working within Government is what minority parliments are all about. If the NDP cleans up the Environment policy of the Conservatives to a level that the conservatives will accept and wouldn't have been able to achieve on their own accord because of ideological differences within the party, then so much the better. IT's done, and the NDP may or may not get blown off the map, like other years. 2006 is the first time the NDP actually gained seats after a minority parliment, and 2004 was an increase in seats from previous. So if they drop, it is market correction, and if they rise, then, people like the Conservative Brand with the NDP, actually doing something productive. Which is far more than can be said environmentally for the Liberals when they had no one to monitor their actions because of majority rule.

Why woud you want to compare GHG per capita ? Why would you compare it on a per person basis?

Yeah but they are getting in the way of Lazy Ontarions from finding a job.