ScottSA

I explained in rather more depth than it needed to be explained. Yoiu just never read what you don't want to know...not something I can help.

I hate when our money and lives of our soldiers are expended doing it with no prospect of lasting success. I hate it when people tattle on every other post.

Sounds like any 3rd world bazaar.

Hey woody, I challenge you to spend a year, nay, a month, not using fossil fuels or any products which require them. Are you game? Can you go a month without eating?

Fortunately the allies have more explosive devices and better ways of aiming them.

Try to keep your eye on the ball here. First, we're in Afghanistan to deny al Queda a national base. Kicking the Taliban out is a secondary but necessary adjunct to that, which is why we're still thrashing the Taliban. Meanwhile, behind our troops come the reconstruction efforts, and as in Japan and Germany, they are not simply being undertaken so that Shinto warriors, Nazis and Taliban can come crawling out of the aftermath and pick up where they left off by inheriting the infrastructure we left behind. Obviously it is in OUR interests to entice the populace to give up Shintoism, Nazism and radical Islamic fundamentalism. It is possible, but not if the home front starts whining about bodycount the minute the troops go into an offensive posture. I can't think of anything more enervating to our troops than having the NDP calling it a lost cause and demanding that we run away at the earliest opportunity. It's fine to be skeptical, but that is not the same thing as announcing that it can't and won't work.

The title is to get attention. The true state of affairs is made clear immediately in the post. Reported

Chretien didn't have a makeup artist, he had a reconstructive surgeon and a journeyman plasterer following him around.

Wreckless is spelled "reckless". "Wreckless" is a good thing. I don't think you mean to call the Iraq war "wreckless".

Well then, if Helen Thomas doesn't like Bush, Bush must be bad.

Link? You can't just make these announcements and then bumble off expecting people to believe you.

1. Your complaints about my reporting practices have become repetitive and tedious. 2. Liking a comment or not is not the measure. The measure is the rules (q.v.) 3. If I didn't tell someone when I report them, they might never learn what actions to avoid. And I might be accused of secrecy. 4. Your whinging responses each time I note a report are lengthier and therefore much more disruptive of the thread than is the initial note of a report. 5. Please explain why you think the forum rules should be ignored, and then explain why I should care. 1 Your tattling is becoming repetitive and tedious. Far more people are complaining about it than about me pointing it out. 2 The measure is minding one's own business and not puffing up as a self-appointed hall monitor. 3 Why is it up to you to run around warning people? Are you a member of the moderator youth? Are you trying to work toward Gruppkapitan 1st class? Greg is perfectly capable of admining this place without you derailing threads, and obviously no one likes it, or the complaint posts following every stupid "reported" post wouldn't exist. 4 Your ridiculous "reported" posts are disruptive, pointless, and aimed at nothing more than giving you the petty satisfaction of trying to get people in trouble. 5 Your premise is all haywire. Asking you to stfu is not an endorsement of rule breaking or rule ignoring, it's simply asking you to stfu. Greg is the admin here. If he gives me a warning, I listen to it and try to correct my behaviour. Your disruptive posts do nothing but disrupt. Why not hold a poll and see just how many people want you to continue with this childish inane behaviour? Do you actually imagine that you "help" people to see the error of their ways? Greg is obviously of the common sense school of admining: if someone does nothing but slag others, they will be banned. If someone makes a mis-step, then it is ignored. If someone who is a valuable poster has a bad day and is overcome with the need to call fools fools, then they will be warned. By Greg, not you. Why not take a gander at all the people asking you to knock it off? It's not like you have to DO anything to comply, just stop reporting people, or if you must report them, do it quietly. What is so hard about that?

Ya I remeber what a lot of people have said too. Most of them have degrees dealing with the earth sciences though. The world will correct itself if given time. The bigger the correction it has to make the worse things are going to be for us. Well if the rich lead the way in developing new technologies that are E friendly, eventually they will be able to sell them to the developing countries and there will be little to no need for regulation at all. You have the solution right here, probably unbeknownst to you. The operative is "eventually". Eventually a lot of things will happen; the trend toward cleaner energy will continue and succeed eventually, we will wean ourselves off fossil fuels eventually, and the earth will continue to clean up and eventually will be clean...that trend has been happening since the 70s. Even if manmade CO2 is causing a slight uptick in GW, if GW is indeed taking place, then Kyoto is certainly not going to effect it positively by making more CO2.

Given my druthers, I'd rather be forced into a bumpile and have my Koran peed on than have my head sawn off with a paring knife. At least in the first instance I'd know that the perps will actually be tried, and not made heros of Islam like the perps in the second case.

Reported. You've got to be kidding me. You are acting like a little baby. He is a disruptive influence to this forum. I think if he absolutely has to run around tattling, that he ought to do it quietly and unobtrusively so that he doesn't plunk his silliness down in the middle of every thread every time someone says something he doesn't like..

I would have thought the troops would be a lot more upset when they found out that they were lied to about weapons of mass destruction, or ties to al qaeda...but hey that's just a guess. Perhaps you should consider starting a thread about traitors in the bush administration? Well, you thought that I suppose because you actually believe it, even though you know it's not true. But you do bring up an interesting point. How is it that everyone who is actually there knows that the war is not in factr lost, but that the armchair critics here all know it is?

Extremists? Naw...not here...not in Canada. This is just more false flagging...

Malaysia is the showcase nation which supporters of "moderate" Islam point to in claiming that Sharia can co-exist with secularism. Aside from almost daily beheadings and killings, Malaysia has been slowly succumbing to the encroachment of Sharia.

Uh huh. And just how many doctorates in the earth sciences do you have again? I don't have any doctorates in earth science. I don't need one, I simply need to remember what everyone has said. Do you know of anyone who knows what they are talking about and claims that we can somehow reverse the warming trend, if indeed there is one? Do you know anyone who can explain how shuttling industry from pollution-regulated countries to unregulated countries is going to cut back on CO2?

What utter nonsense.

Well actually, the only vaguely measurable case is the economic one. No one seriously believes that meeting Kyoto's goals with achieve anything, and most likely they will do the opposite. But even if we stopped ALL emmissions today, and even if manmade emmissions were 100 % responsible for GW, no one seriously thinks anything will change anyway. So the equation is more like 'give me poverty and a longer growing season or give me poverty and a longer growing season. Kyoto is just like any other Liberal promise: swear up and down that it is essential for the survival of mankind and promise faithfully to impliment it, then once elected, blithely ignore it knowing full well that its implimentation is impossible. Which is of course why they ignored it before.

I can't believe that we're in the middle of a hot war and a philosophical battle over the planet and the Canadian chunk of it, and some see fit to make Harper's makeup artist an issue. What's next, an outrage over expensive omega-3 eggs being used in the Parliamentary cafeteria? Fits of spleen over new carpets in Centre Block?

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It's a pure user tax, and in that sense it's graduated. The problem I see is that even if there is some kind of rebate, the upfront cost may preclude the poor from buying stuff. Basic necessities of life would have to be exempted. Then of course school supplies, medical...a whole new series of interest groups will spring up, each vying for exemption status...

Or beat it with a hockey stick until it subsides. It'll be less likely to do it again, too. I can just imagine the teacher's union when it's suggested to them that their members be issued defensive hockey gear for grades k - 6, combat gear for grades 7- 9, and heavy armour for 10 - 12, although the numerical threat begins to diminish around grade 6 when the dropping out starts.