Moonlight Graham

double post

you're saying nobody has been paying attention until this rukus broke out? How long have we been discussion Occupy on this forum?

Didn't i just give you a real-life example of people i met you do work and go to university. Read the OP & not just the title of the thread. Jesus. Shady did the same thing. Most reporters work 9-5 or so, so they're showing the people that are there during the day. Ever seen news footage on TV or pictures of the protesters at night time? I haven't. I'm sure some exist, but it in the huge minority. Maybe there is a different demographic of protesters at night when ppl get out of school/work and go down to join in.

I was just kidding, being sarcastic.

Another victory caused by the Occupy movement! OCCUPY!!

Belinda Stronach. Scott Brison

not much preventing someone from crossing the floor to the Liberals either. They could offer a sweet position and whammo! A bi-lection is also a possibility obviously. Would be crazy to have one for a vacant non-liberal spot and watching 1 riding determine the fate of the province.

Well i think it's fair to say that you're by far the exception to the rule. That wasn't your high school education though. Why not stick kids in a high school class and make them learn something? I'm not sure the intent of spares. Reduce stress? Give kids time to do homework, especially kids with part-time jobs who are saving for college? Teach them to manage free time like they'll need to do in University? Would have been sweet to save up all spares from the week and take every friday off I agree. That's why in 1st & second year they have separate labs/tutorials/discussion groups etc. beyond the 150-student lectures. I could go on about flaws/benefits of current universities forever, so i'll stop now haha.

My opinion is if somebody believes that, say, the earth is only 6000 years old, or that we are all the trapped souls of aliens from the planet Gourgamoth (or whatever is that ridiculous nonsense Scientologists believe) then you are unfit for public office. And maybe go retake that high school science class they obviously slept through.

Agreed. All I did on those was go to McDonald's and work on my tan! Universities are a business. Honestly, with today's technology a substantial percentage of courses could be taught online via video lectures using the best professors in the country and around the world, with TA's or contract instructors helping out. Many popular courses are already taught like this. Most 1st and 2nd year classes are so big that you have little or no interaction with the prof during the lectures anyways. This would save gazillions of dollars on tuition because of the reduced need for classroom space & other buildings, paying 3rd-rate profs, reduced admin costs etc. Most textbooks should also be made available to buy online as PDF files or whatever instead of being gouged by publishers and university bookstore corporations and needlessly chopping down forests to print these books that are useless/out-of-date in 2 years.

Well it was in my case. The other problem in my school was that everyone seemed to push university over college if you had the grades. Nobody ever said "you can go into the trades and make good money", or "ladies, if you want to be a dental hygienist you can make $35 an hour". There should have been a lot more career counseling/prep and job shadowing (in what you're interested in, not spending the day at dad's work) in high school. But hell that was over a decade ago, maybe things have changed.

The thing that is truly garbage is that nobody tells these kids when they are in high school that a uni degree in history or sociology or whatever will not get you a job. High school teachers/counselors and certainly nobody in university told me this...luckily I dropped my English/Fine Art major after 1st year. Paying tens of thousands for a mostly unemployable education you could have got for free at the library is a sham. I don't fault the kids, they are 18 and don't know how the world works until 4 years later and in debt. Some of them are lucky and have natural interest in an employable area of education or parents who will guide them right.

Now just found a video clip of her saying at a GOP debte that both Iraq and Libya should reimburse the US, and people in the audience of the debate clapping. Nothing more dangerous than having countries you voluntarily choose to attack paying you back for your military adventures. Geez, just replace soldiers with robots and there would literally no cost to going to war. War on everybody!

Just heard a clip of Michele "Bat-crazy" Bachmann saying these things: And the winner of the most crazy Republican is... p.s. Michele, Iraq has a GDP-per-capita of $2,500, so if you think that makes them a "rich country" you are batshit stupid too. And that number is likely inflated because of all the people killed in the last decade...or maybe deflated because of the destruction to their economy/infrastrcuture caused by the war.

lol ya.

I've recently gone back to university, and after a 4th-year political science class i had last week I was talking to 2 guys in my class, neither knew each other, but both came to class with luggage and a tent, and told me that after class they were each heading downtown (I live in Ottawa) to join protesters in the Occupy movement at Confederation Park, a block from Parliament Hill. These guys were both full-time 4th-year political science students who had part-time jobs too, and said they go down to protest whenever they don't have classes/work and that they sleep at the protest site whenever they can. I really respected that. This changed my tune a bit on the protesters from the image portrayed in the media. These are intelligent, well-spoken, and obviously educated guys who obviously aren't just bums whining about being paid more for being lazy. Oh and they weren't hippies or weirdos either. One of them said the protesters are a mix of social democrats and anarchists. I suspect there are many other full-time students doing what these guys were doing, as well as people who work full-time in good jobs who are down there and sleep down there. It's likely mostly young people protesting because older folks who have family responsibilities are obviously less likely to do so, and yes unemployed people too are disproportionately represented in the protests because they have the most free time to give. I would bet there are many older, fully employed regular folks who support the protests but aren't represented well among the protesters because of time and family responsibilities. So let the media & people on here call this a "lazy bum" movement, but I think it has much wider support than it appears.

If he said what he felt could get banned. Hard to blame the fascist-zionist. If he does live in Israel, i'm kind of glad he's there and not in Canada. As dangerous as any hate-preaching Christian or Muslim.

No, but they better fight it and have it removed. Easy way: add a $6 fee for Americans coming into Canada by air/sea.

Good then we agree. It's just that you have been defending the bankers etc. more than the others, or should I say blaming the others more than the banks etc. Not sure if this is your argument, but they should occupy wall street AND Washington. And i'm not sure why there are so many "occupy" movements in Canada, our corps & investors & politicians aren't saints, but Canadians didn't cause this recession. Maybe they should get on some buses and go down to NYC and Washington.

Just saw on the news that some protesters are planning to "occupy" through the winter and 2012 presidential elections. I'll give them one thing...they have commitment!

Would agree that is was the fault of all players - Banks, investors, government, and consumers - who contributed to the housing/credit crash? Yup consumers should have been more careful, yup US gov't policy was horrible, and yup banks pushed predatory lending on customers using deceitful tactics. If someone gets conned, they must be blamed for falling for it, but the con-man has to take blame too.

Of course it is. Bob is always good for fabulously entertaining irony. Sounds like he's supporting the idea of a holocaust of Arabs/Muslims or whomever he sees as his enemy over there.

Removed a democratically elected leader and installed a US-friendly monarch. Liberty! I don't disagree, but that has nothing to do with my point. What about the last 60 years? Or slavery? My point is that removing/killing leaders at whim is not a sound strategy in the middle-east.

Like Mossedegh? That worked out awesome. How would you like it if Saudi Arabia became the global superpower and kept bombing and killing your leaders and whatever US civilians were in the crossfire? You'd probably want to go kill those bastards and fly planes into their buildings too. So let me get this right: American colonies got PO'd at the British King because he had "...a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States" (US Declaration of Indep.), so the colonies formed their own state over this and self-determination and freedom from tyranny became the basis of their constitution, yet some, like you and a long history of US leaders, support forcefully removing at whim foreign leaders who don't agree with your interests and otherwise imperial policies like the good 'ol British Empire Americans despised. Sounds like a bunch of massive hypocrites to me, King George.

Smash and destroy who? The Muslim radicals, or all Muslims?