Moonlight Graham

let them put it up. who cares.

Bingo.

A conservative: 1. believes in being self-reliant with as little government intervention in their life as possible. 2. tends to resist change in his/her cultural values/norms. i think that kinda sums it up for me.

Well this a nice suprise from palin. Good for her. However, she still needs to read a lot more books & newspapers if she wants to become President in 2012.

George W. Bush = what my dog coughs up. But at least what my dog coughs up is legal, so maybe i'm being too kind. Score 1 ad hominem for Moonie!!

I agree 100%. Decent speech, but not one of his best. Anyone else annoyed during his speeches when he does that folksy twang thing on the last word of every sentence/phrase? Like "God bless America". It sounds so fake & annoying. Like there's some southern preacher tring to leap out of him or he's trying to sound like small-town America. It was abnormally evident in this speech.

From the Ottawa Citizen. Way to have any sort of open mind there Mr. Layton. What a meat-head. Can't you at least PRETEND to try to work with the gov't? Frustrating.

I agree. Who cares who served more and where and how? There are Generals who have been brilliant and Generals who have been morons, yet they've shared similar types of 1st-hand war experience. In the end, its your ideas that matter, not the tours you've been on.

But it was worth a shot, in my opinion. As i said, if it didn't work then continue to drop nukes on more populated areas until they do surrender. I just think it was worth a shot. On a different note & speaking of kamikaze pilots, it just occured to be that its a strange coincidence that the last 2 attacks by a foreign force on U.S. soil involved crashing airplanes into targets.

There are many freedom-loving demoratic countries in Europe that aren't English speaking. Japan also blah blah i'm not going to get into this argument. I just don't think English as a language is a strong factor for one to be good/evil.

I agree. This solves very little. Israel may get rid of the rockets and some of Hamas, but it will stir more hatred and violence among Arabs in the region and elsewhere toward Jews/Israel, resulting in more deaths and suicide strikes in the future. Its simple math. You cannot defeat an ideology with bombs & missle strikes.

What the heck does than mean??? No it isn't. War is the EXACT OPPOSITE of peace. War is death, murder, suffering, disease, poverty etc. Peace is exactly that - peace.

Your argument is completely insane. In order for less people to die, we must kill more people quicker? I don't think so. In war we should defend ourselves, but also respect human life, especially innocent human life. You really have no idea how to be humane The a-bombs at the end of WWII were handled poorly and inhumanely. What should Truman have done? 1st, detonate an a-bomb in the middle of nowhere (not on a well-populated city) but where its fearsome results could be known to the Japanese, and give the Japanese 24hr to surrender or another will be dropped. If no surrender, drop one on a small town(preferebly a military installation actually) and give another 24h warning. If no surrender, then drop on larger and larger populated areas until surrender occurs. That would have resulted in much less civilian death yet yielded the same result. Maybe it would have taken more time this way, maybe a few more days, but if the U.S. and allies drew back its troops into defensive positions during this time there would have a minimal military casuality during that extra time taken. Also, for someone claiming to be "humane" and the "resident left-wing yank", your signature saying "Freedom speaks English" is so freaking bigoted and xenophobic it disgusts me.

Since this crisis began, 4 Israelis have been killed by rockets fired from Gaza. In the two decades preceding it, 20 have been killed. Not sure what the Arab casualties are now, over 400 for sure and rising, with the U.N. claiming 25% of those being casualties. There is proportionality to consider. Does 4 dead deserve a 400+ bloodspilling and a large ground invasion of Gaza? If this kind of violence is a the result of 4 dead from rocketfire, how will there ever be any peace? Israel at the least should have responded more proportionally. Take out some rocket sites. 20-30 dead? Its impossible to put a number on lives like that, but what is happening now is crazy.

You don't have to formally vote on a resolution to block it. CBSnews.com

From antiwar.com: 2009 is business as usual!

No the funniest part is that you claim Canada irrelevant, and yet you post on a Canadian message board. If we are so irrelevent, why post here? Why not post on a Fiji message board? Or a Trinidad and Tebago message board. Obviously you secretly think we're awesome and hide it under a passive-aggressive veil of neo-con jibberish. You'll never admit it, but thank you we love you too!

Well put. Which is why the whole abortion argument is so contentious and may never end. I see both sides of the debate, and IMO both are legit viewpoints.

You are irrelevant. Why don't you scuttle off to another message board until you have something useful to say. Im tired of your crap. Whenever you can't think of anything as a response, you twist it into some anti-Canada bash. If we're so irrelevant, then why are you posting on a Canadian message board? Make like you your username and just go away.

I'm not very religious at all, nor right wing. But i agree with you. Women want choice. I think the choice occurs when you allow a man to stick his penis in your vagina. I'm against abortion except in cases of rape and when the mother's life/health is at risk.

Then why do we get smog & air-quality alerts on hot days in the summer in my city, & they do weathermen tell at-risk people to stay inside? And why do they show charts of % of particles in the air? And is the asthma epidemic just because our kids are fat?

There's a big difference between a nation and a nation-state.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in the "human-caused global warming" theory. Humans are still using up natural resources much faster than they are, or sometimes can, replenish them. Wood, fish (plus other aquatic life), oil etc. The global population + the rate of your consumption + the rate of our overall pollution is going to get us quite screwed in the coming century unless we make drastic changes to our lifestyles, technology we use, and the way we treat the planet. Even if we fix the greenhouse gas problem we're still f'ed. Oh, and CO2 isn;'t the only thing that comes out of car tailpipes. We have a smog problem around our cities for a reason.

Having a surplus doesn't mean you're a good finance minister. Martin simply lowballed his budget estimates each year & conveniently had a surplus at the end of the year. Wow he's so smart!! But at least thats better than running a deficit, so i'll give him a bit of credit.

This isn't a time for Canada to support Israel, its a time for them to support a ceasefie from both sides. Israel's retaliation on Hamas is vastly unproportional to the attacks Hamas has fired recently. 350+ deaths > 4 deaths. There needs to be another ceasefire agreement. Then a 2-state solution. Easier said than done i suppose.