Moonlight Graham

Found this video today on another forum site. Yesterday on these forums i said this: This video of Ron Paul is impressive in his foresight/predictions on many matters, and he echoes what i says above...only 9 years ago!

Except their job. This letter is a disgrace, but shows the ugly truth of how the Senate works. The PM has FAR too much power, its ridiculous. The PM has a disturbing amount of control on all 3 branches of our gov, the legislature (both houses), judiciary, and obviously executive. Our system needs reforms to severely tail back the power of the PM. One thing i admire about the US gov system is the separation of powers and checks and balances very carefully and wisely put in place. One person with so much power is NOT democratic, it is somewhat authoritarian by definition.

No, what if there are consequences to flying in Bin Laden-style and offing the guy. Or it just ain't that easy... They've certainly tried hard to kill the guy from the air.

agreed. but the system, or at least how it functions, is certainly a good part of the problem.

As has happened. What happens when you overfill it so many times the thing buckles, the wheel falls off, and pieces are lying all over the ground? Will be interesting if it happens. Regulation is much different than corporate welfare. different note: What I find ridiculous is after the dotcom bubble burst around 2000, interest rates were lowered and borrowing increased, which was a major cause of the housing crisis/bubble and other debt problems that led to the current recession, and in response to this we have lowered interest rates again to encourage more borrowing/debt and likely causing another bubble in the near future. Balls!

Everyone one knows the endgame. They should just pull a bin Laden and off the guy. Cut this B.S. Would save lots of lives and money.

No doubt capitalism is greatly responsible for the incredible improvement in standard of living and tech advancements over the past few centuries. But under-regulated capitalism (or "ineffectively" regulated may be the better word) and the drive for perpetual profit-maximization at any cost (with gov'ts full support) is destroying the system. If things aren't drastically changed, we're f'ed. I'm not sure capitalism is unsustainable, but a capitalist system that drives to maximize profits infinitely while actors do moronic things to try to prevent inevitable business cycles is unsustainable. The status quo will likely collapse. If you continually overfill a wheelbarrow eventually it's going to fall over on you.

I think we're seeing the drastically negative effects of deregulated neoliberal economic policy, and the massive flaws inherit in the unsustainable perpetual profit-maximization that is capitalism. We've been leading up to this point for many decades. The global capitalist system needs major reform, and governments (and our society in general) must make major attitude and policy adjustments or we may see a complete collapse of the global economy. How about that for a wake-up call? We may yet possibly see an end of "capitalism" as we've known it for centuries as the system used in the global economy and individual western states. What will take it's place? Who knows.

This war is one big pile of bullshit! Of course it's primarily for oil interests, not "human rights". Crock of the year. Another Mossadegh-style coup, but this time not very covert. Hell shall rain down on Gaddafi!!...(hell costs about $100,000 per smart bomb btw, fantastic for business in the defense industry). Western governments seem to learn nothing. Doing their imperialistic dance in Muslim countries, inspiring even more Muslim civilians towards radical Islamism and giving great reasons for anti-western sentiment among future governments of Libya (because as we all know, if this pro-West rebel group forms the new government they are of course going to be in power forever, right?). I hope they do nationalize their oil, just to give our governments the finger. Heck, i hope Canada nationalizes their oil just piss everyone off. *MASSIVE FACEPALM*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reading the book is unnecessary, one only needs to read the linked article to find your answer: And everything she is saying is no secret to anyone really. This is how parties function right now and have for a long time, anyone who pays attention knows it. It's business as usual in Ottawa. It is a problem with our democracy, and our system perpetuates this party discipline and cronyism/patronage . There's no reason why we shouldn't have more free votes on issues that aren't matters of confidence.

It also seems that if evil happens very slowly over a long period of time it will also not be noticed (and hence, it becomes "normal"). Maybe even more so, because all of us have noticed this woman as being an ass/thief.

Libertarians still believe in some rules. I'm sure most of them believe in theft as a law to be enforced by police. If we're going by your logic, she'd be an anarchist.

irrelevant. Jerks and thieves are from all political stripes.

Coulter didn't speak at University of Ottawa, not Carleton U. Many university student unions are pieces of garbage run by incompetent morons who trample on free speech and the Charter in the name of their own personal political agendas. I would say the same for any of those students at Ottawa U and Concordia and elsewhere who wished those people not to speak, and even threatened or took part in violence. There seems to be a lot of young people who have no idea what our country is about, what our charter says, and what free speech is. I've seen this first-hand in universities so many times.

No, because i never said it was crappy. There are good and bad aspects to globalization.

I think the only reason they were able to get that many people is that most of them were unemployed and had nothing better to do. I kid, I kid. Good for them i suppose. Sucks that part of the country (and ours) is getting the crappy side of globalization right now. To be honest, the only video i found amusing in this thread was that Nazi boy singing. Thats entertainment baby!!

Indian street dancing: African dancing: Russia street dancing: http://youtube/10O75jebAWg America is great (for the most part anyways), but i don't think dancing around in the street lip-syncing to a song about dead rock n' rollers is what makes them such.

They just got their own freaking TV channel, what else do they need to counter the "lefty" media? And yes of course they need money, they're chopping the party subsidies. BRING ON THE CORPORATE INTERESTS!!

I don't have any problem with Albertans, but i wouldn't say Albertans "earned" or "deserve" the large amount of wealth the province has. Alberta happens to sit on a mother-load of oil. It's geographic luck. Guess i have to give your province some credit for not whizzing it all away though.

This girl didn't interrupt anything. The Speech from the Throne continued without interruption. People are saying this was "contempt of Parliament", yet i don't see where standing quietly in the middle of the floor holding a piece of paper does anything of the sort that would break the specific rules that constitute contempt of Parliament. I would argue that an MP's yelling over another MP and interrupting each other during Question Period and otherwise is far more disrupting to the proceedings of Parliament than what that page did.

He's out of the country to be "treated for wounds" as an excuse to flee and save face. It was recently reported that his injuries are "worse than expected" and he'll have to stay in Saudi Arabia longer than thought. Oh, politics.

You're saying Hinduism is responsible for the poverty/violence in/around India? I'm sure British imperialism had NOTHING to do with that, right? Also, Gandhi was a Hindu, and he acted more closely to the teachings of Jesus Christ than most Christians ever have.

I like two-thirds. Half + 1% is ridiculous.

lol! Being secular is completely different than espousing atheism. Let the parents do the religious stuff, or set up a "Christian" daycare. If you raised your kids to be Catholic, i'd bet you'd be mighty PO'd if their daycare was teaching them to believe in Hinduism.