Moonlight Graham

Where does Palestine rank on the list? Oh wait, they aren't a country yet...OH SNIZZAP!!?!

Somewhat fixed.

I know this. My point is that the reasons for impeachment for presidents like Nixon and Clinton were ridiculously minor IMO compared to so many other things every President since WWII has done. Lying about blowjobs, seriously?

Symbolically, being a constitutional monarchy stinks because power via bloodlines is pretty ridiculous, and all the ties to being a former imperial colony of Britain isn't really that appealing for me. I'm not pleased to still have Union Jacks etc. on our flags. I'm not sentimental of things British. Practically though, our constitutional monarchy system works fairly well (though far from perfect) and instituting a republic would be a massive headache for this country while raising numerous other problems to replace the old. Canada will never be a republic, at least not in my lifetime. Even if we wanted it the constitutional mess would be insane & very likely unresolvable.

The monarch would also step in if the PM went crazy and enacted clearly ridiculous/abusive laws under public pressure to do so.

Why would I trust my government?

Watergate is a weird scandal. Compared to so many other controversies involving the President throughout the last several decades, conspiring a break-in seems pretty minor to bring a presidency to its knees. But that's what happens I guess when you have a Republican President spying on a Democratic Party that controlled majority in both chambers of Congress and were likely to then impeach the guy. All the b.s. of Vietnam and Iraq etc. is fine, but hit Congressmen/Senators where it hurts (or get a blowjob from an intern) and all hell breaks loose. Odd.

I don't think it will be as bad. Bashing the president at a time of war & thus patriotic fervor would be a more universal no-no IMO. Radio stations banning Carrie would be deemed homophobic and whatnot. Lots of people support gay marriage so I don't think it's as sensitive an issue.

I agree. They can make up the assignment/test, I don't see why not.

The so-called "resource curse".

Poor to rich, ya right. Just like all those African countries with oil & mineral resources up the ying-yang. And just like many African countries, may just lead to more war as internal factions fight over them & they fund civil war efforts.

From the cbc article: That sounds like an ideological stance, possibly based on psychology theory, possibly just based on nothing in particular. Sometimes the experts have it right, but parents also should have some kind of authority into how their kids are taught. Sounds like they just don't want troubled or lazy or parentallly challenged (whatever the cause of the "behaviour") kids getting walloped by missing assignments/tests. Fair enough, there's a huge difference in a 45/100 for a bad essay and a 0/100, even though both are F's. I think they should focus on fixing the behaviour rather than symptom. If a kid is doing poorly and missing assignments/test, a social worker and teacher should step in & talk to the student and parents/guardians to figure out why and fix it. Totally depends on what the substitude mark is for the zero too. A 1/10 or a 4/10?

The IMF/Brettons Woods institutions came into existence in great part in order to bail out Europe after the devastation from WWII. So looks like the we're up to those old tricks again. Bailing them out completely sucks but I think we have to help them because one day it could be us. An economically broken Europe will also affect us economically so it's in our interests unfortunately.

Predictable the moment he took wanted the leadership. He's an opportunistic douche and a crappy leader. I won't vote for him.

Shell Oil doesn't have the nuke codes. McDonald's can't storm your house and arrest you.

What isn't out in the open? Closed door meetings with lobbyists, phone calls we don't know about, sure. But there's no secret club behind the curtain pulling strings.

Listened to the last half of it. He's right that their are forces beyond politicians who control things, but he's wrong, and I don't see much if any evidence for it, that politicians are controlled by these elite "families" he's speaks of. It's not a bunch of powerful family bloodlines are some other conspiracy that controls, it's right out in the open, it is powerful lobby/interest group actors like big oil/energy, big pharma, big agriculture, defense industry (re: military industrial complex), the Israel lobby, NRA, unions, etc. that control agendas. Citizen pressure (us) is a also pressure group, but it's only one among the many mentioned, and the general voting public aren't as organized and don't lobby with one voice and don't give party/candidate donations or post-election jobs & aren't friends with some of these politicians like some of these other lobby forces are/do.

I think the future of limb/body part replacement is cloning a real human part (likely your own) by growing it in a lab and then surgically attaching this to your body. That said, who wouldn't want to be Robocop?

Religion does make people behave this way. We have thousands of years of proof. But as you say, you can't blame all of Islam for what Islamists do, they are very different. Like blaming all of Christianity for David Koresh's cult of insanity.

I didn't say jiu-jitsu was more effective lol. Just cooler.

How do you do this? Arrest the kids? This would be a difficult thing to legislate, though I guess the Canadian gov could contact Facebook and try to have them block access of accounts of under 13 y/o with IP addresses coming from Canada. Better solution: parents ban kids from Facebook of whatever age limits they want.

Rockets aren't very effective compared to suicide bombings. Wikipedia says 8600 rockets fired since 2001, only 28 deaths. A guy with boom-boom strapped to his chest could beat that in a morning.

The firearm is the worst invention in the history of humankind. The nuclear bomb will likely take that spot at some point, but until then... I refuse to possess or even learn to fire a gun, and will hopefully do so for the rest of my existence unless myself or my loved ones are in imminent violent threat. Also, jiu-jitsu is way more badass.

You're comparing Wyoming and Alaska to New York and California? Anyways, in a way you're right, more restrictive gun laws on law-abiders isn't going to do much to curb gun crime. But I doubt CCW would either. The problem is that there exists IDIOTS who point guns at people and pull the trigger

Your source is a few phrases at the top of an amateur website? That doesn't even have an article or any context/info whatsoever?