Moonlight Graham

One could argue by a popular line of thinking that donating is in your best interest because it makes you feel good, which is in your self-interest. If you kept the money and bought something nice for yourself the benefit of that would likely be eclipsed by the negative feelings of guilt & shame you would feel...which is not in your self-interest. I see merits in both yours and this argument. Maybe it all depends on what the priorities of your self-interests are? Some self-interests only benefit yourself, others benefit both yourself and others. Personally i think the latter maximizes the good and happiness in this world.

But bloodlines sure as hell is one huge advantage. John Adams, John Quincy Adams (aka Jr) JFK, RFK, Ted Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Patrick J. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, yada yada George Bush Sr, George Bush Jr., Jeb Bush Bill Clinton, Hillary ...and Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau.

This is a neat story, if it hasn't been posted already. Kate and William's honeymoon delayed by Bin Laden assassination.

It's bullcrap. Of course it's not true. He'll do whatever right-wing reforms he get get away with without destroying the party's next election chances. If he's smart.

You don't win by just predicting the CPC seats, you have to predict all their seats. Didn't look at every prediction, but August1991 did very well for all parties:

i'm thinking giving her a bucket of oil would be worse.

States usually do, the US no exception.

Farewell party subsidies, hello more corporate interests. And if you think the ban on "corporate donations" prevents this, you're kidding yourself.

That Chris Farley image was the most disgusting thing i've ever seen. Still haunts me. He had been dead for a while.

Bye Duceppe, bye bye Bloc. Go buy a Canadian flag and stay awhile.

This country can use a step to the right in some areas. Let's just hope Harper doesn't go go all wacky social & Christian conservative on us. If they stay sane, i think we'll have a good 4-5 years. Maybe the most worried i am is with foreign policy. We'd would have been in Iraq if the CPC was in power in 2003. The CPC has a lot of good policies to offer, i hope they stay with those & minimize the stupidity and power-hunger.

I hope Iggy loses and moves back to Boston. Bitch.

I like the fact that i don't have to hear Iggy squack across the the floor as much, but i preferred a Conservative minority MUCH better to a majority. The minority kept their more extreme policies and b.s. in check, despite having, IMO, the better policies on the whole than the other parties. Should be an interesting 5 years or so, and i'm interested to see what the NDP can do as the opposition. One good thing: no coalition wrangling b.s.!

Iggy is currently in 2nd place in his riding, only back by a thousand votes or so though. HA!

That dude on the CBC panel all the time says he can't see the CPC not getting a majority. NOOO!! CPC polling 40& in popular vote so far. Wow.

Really? Wow! NDP are totally killing it. I'm sure they'll even get more seats in BC.

My projections are doing fairly well so far. I predicted the NDP would get higher than most people here, but i overestimated the Bloc, they're getting killed! I should have gone with my first instincts, originally thought they'd maybe 18-20.

Mine: 144 seats - CPC 87 seats - NDP 52 seats - Liberals 23 seats - Bloc 2 seats - independents 0 seats - Green

This says OBL was given a tour of some weapons and military bases in the U.S. (possibly the White House too it says) in, and the CIA gave him the name "Tim Osman" for the tours. He wasn't a CIA agent, he was a mujaheddin fighter that the CIA purportedly gave a pseudonym. Very far from the nutjob theory the other poster was talking about.

They already said OBL was buried at sea yesterday. But why believe this? What's to say they haven't kept his body for awhile. I think they'll likely bury him at sea at some point, and with Islamic tradition in mind, but i don't believe much of anything coming out of a government administration unless there's proof.

Pretty much agree with everything here. GSP was, yet again, disappointing. Before he got poked in the eye, he was running circles around Shields, and should have opened up more, attacked forward with more kicks and such. He got hit a bit more after the poke, but still didn't try much to finish. The guy has serious problems with wanting to take any risks at all, has no killer instinct. He has all this talent, and his speed and athleticism dwarf these guys he's fighting, but he doesn't use it to attack. A bunch of big right haymakers against a guy who has hardly any stand-up game isn't what i'd call "taking risks" for a finish. GSP is becoming a boring-ass fighter. Sucks for Shields who couldn't get much of a hold on GSP. Hope there will be a Silva-GSP fight, and GSP's eye is ok. Rory MacDonald has been one of my favorite fighters since i saw him the match before his Condit fight (love Condit too) vs Mike Guymon...that was such a good fight too. He's really exciting to watch. The 3 slams were amazing! Hominick was amazing too, what a heart! His head looked just like the huge bump Hasim Rahman had vs Lennox Lewis 10 years ago: ouch! I think Aldo really had a hard weight-cut, he looked very dynamic the first round.

This wasn't done a week ago, he was killed yesterday according to Obama. Does anyone believe he was buried at sea? I dunno, i can see them hanging on to him for awhile. What evidence is there that OBL was a CIA agent? This whole story is going to bring conspiracy theories, like he's alive & stuck deep in Gitmo or something.

I'll bet this will lower voter turnout at least very, very slightly because this story will dominate the news tomorrow and some people will forget to vote.

Yes there are burdens for te US. Maybe the worst is that so many Americans must maintain its power and the security of the world with their blood/lives. Being a target of terrorists isn't a very big threat, an American is far more likely to be hit by lighting than harmed by a terrorist. Yes the US spends about half its budget on defence, but the defence industry also helps drive their economy. They are the largest arms manufacturer in the world and make a ton of money on selling arms/equipment to other countries (F35's!). I didn't word what i said quite right. I didn't mean i want a say in US foreign policy (which i would, duh), i meant that i would like Canada to have that power, and therefore I have more of a say in how the world functions. We have a sweet deal, i don't know if it's sweeter. The US has the power to influence a great many things to its specific advantage. It controls bilateral and multilateral trade policies that benefits them most. It dominates the UN, WTO, and virtually every other international institution/organization. In many cases, it controls who lives and who dies. It controls the conversation on most global issues. There are high costs for this power, but obviously the benefits are worth it for them. They don't flex their power just to be nice.

The end of Obama's speech was weird. Celebrating that America can do anything when they put they put their minds to it, our greatness when we work together yada yada. A weird thing to say about killing a man. America can shoot any man in the face when we put our minds to it! When we work together towards wonderful goal. God Bless America! p.s. i still can't wait for the movie based on operation. Oliver Stone presents...