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Everyone was saying before the Cain fight that Brock could take a punch. He did take a ton of punches from Carwin, but when the fight began he got rocked by a punch then fell to the ground to get wailed on some more. The same freakin thing happened in the Cain fight to Lesnar. I find it very weird. How can Lesnar take so many punches from Carwin while on the ground, yet get rocked by both Cain and Carwin standing up? Seems like Lesnar's first reaction to getting hit with a decent punch standing up is to fall down into the fetal position. But man, what a fight. I thought Cain was going to get destroyed honestly. Lesnar looked in the greatest shape i had ever seen him. That huge open gash under his eye was epic. Can't wait for a rematch. It's too bad Lesnar got such a late start in MMA. If he had started at age 25 who knows how good he would be.

Bickering if liberals or conservatives use Nazi comparisons is ridiculous. People from both sides do it. Somebody dropping Nazi/Hitler/Fascist comparisons must occur within several posts a day on this forum. It is just for shock and shows little historical knowledge. ie: People referring to Harper (and his controlling behaviours) as a "fascist" shows me they know little of what fascism entails. Instead of dropping the "fascist" bomb for super-scary effect, they should use the term "authoritarian", which would be much more accurate in what they are trying to describe.

cranky + bored is a lovely combination isn't it?

very interesting link.

Costs of war > benefits. USA loses.

This has a lot of truth to it. Fringe parties have the benefit of voting the way their ideologies speak most of the time. The opposition parties and a party in power in a minority situation has to vote much more strategically based on what will or won't pass, what will or won't trigger an election etc. Some people would call this "selling out" for votes/power or whatever. But it's just called politics. Virtually all parties change their voting behaviour based on their political circumstances.

Dumb reason to fire somebody.

I don't see how that's imperialism. It is rather exploitation or protectionism. It's good to see an improvement in hunger index #'s, however given the dynamics of global trade and with the large agriculture subsidies in the west, i don't see this hunger improvement getting increasingly better by any significant margin. In fact it may be a blip. Hunger in the 3rd world is not a problem of access aka a lack of available food, its a problem of people not able to afford the food that is being sold locally. Also, because big agri-corps own much of the land that locals use to own in ie: latin america, plus an increase in urbanization in many areas, many people do not own their own land to even produce their own food for subsistence. We are, in a large sense, killing millions of people in order to increase our own profits.

currently reading: "The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European overseas Empires 1415-1980" - by David Abernethy good reading. it's insane to think how much former european empires have completely forged the current world we live in.

lol what?? We survived the Cold War without a nuclear war, i think we'll probably be good.

This "Dan" was a bad person because he was a transsexual/cross-dresser? Ok...

True. One of the main problems with capital punishment as an actual punishment is that it does nothing to make the criminal pay back his debt to society. It's far better to have a killer serve life in jail and work his nails to the bone on behalf of the state (ie: digging ditches all day etc.) to pay back some of his debt. Killing him solves nothing, and if the criminal is doing tedious manual labour every day & has a cell with few luxuries he/she would probably rather be dead.

I hope Harper brings Khadr hope and into a Canadian prison if/when he gets sentenced. He'll apparently be in a Gitmo jail if he's not. Even if he's guilty he doesn't deserve that b.s. Harper's a real racist a-hole for not wanting to repatriate Khadr if he's convicted. If he were a white lad he'd be home in 2 seconds.

Mr. Dress-up. Kids in the Hall. Tom Green Show The Friendly Giant every version of Degrassi ever Kenny vs Spenny Dragon's Den

I'd say "geez you had me over for dinner just to crap on me??" Then I'd take my dessert and leave.

Well for one, Ahmadinejad never said that. You are referring with the remark that Israel should be "wiped off the map", which was mistranslated in the western MSM. the more accurate translation was that israel should "vanish from the pages of time". a bit less aggressive. But no i wouldn't be enthralled if the US sec of state said what you remarked. However, i wouldn't give much of a rats behind because what are you gonna do? Nuke us? wahahahaa! You certainly wouldn't do it if we had nukes.

There is a huge difference in saying things and doing things. What actions has Ahmadinejad done on the international scene that is so "irrational"? Has he shot missiles into any countries lately? And does he show signs of wanting to kill himself, as would be his fate if he launched any nukes? Does he drive on the wrong side of the road? Slash his jugular while he shaves in the morning? He says some controversial things, like denying the Holocaust and other possibly anti-Semitic remarks. Big deal. Him saying that Israel should "vanish from the pages of time" isn't exactly a call for war or any kind of logical means to think Iran is going to launch nukes at them, or any kind of military attack against them. Besides, he is only part of the political power structure of that country.

I love my Xbox 360.

I agree with this assessment. However, i think another primary reason for Iran wanting nukes is for self-defense against western aggression. The west has invaded the 2 states flanking Iran (Iraq and Afghanistan), so why wouldn't Iran want to protect itself against future aggression? It also sees its regional enemy Israel having nukes, and thus a nuke deterrent is also favourable to even the power-game. As you stated, a nuclear first strike against Israel would be suicide, as would providing nukes to a terrorist organization if said nukes were to ever be traced back to Iran. Those that control Iran are not irrational, suicidal, martyring idiots.

More democracy isn`t enough of a reason? The only thing i see as a problem is what some others have mentioned, that is people voting on matters they are not informed about and do not have the time to do so. One of the reasons we have elected officials to represent us is that the average working adult does not have the time to stay informed on all matters. That being said, there are so many dolts on the hill that would this even matter? Also, if this were implemented very few Canadians would be voting on a regular basis anyways. I think it might be better to keep our Parliament the way it is for most of the menial legislation but substantially increase the # of referendums on key issues so every Canadian would have a chance to vote.

He's still a snot, but it was a very good ad. They are trying to sell him & make him more likeable, and this does that a bit.

McCartney has barely done jack all of anything great since The Beatles. He's a had a few hits, like Jet and Band on the Run, but Lennon whooped his butt in the 10 years or so he was alive after the Beatles compared to the 40 years Paul has had.

Rxactly. Your post pretty much sums up it up.

You think that's is torture? It's a victory dance. Much better than a victory slap or a victory rape or a victory naked human pyramid. But overall an unwise/unprofessional display.

Dalton was an idiot to plan an in-your-face tax on items that even showed up on my receipt: eco-tax fee: $2.85!! Yay me so happy! If he was smart he would have slipped it through the back door somehow. Charge it to the businesses, who would have then passed it on to the consumer.