ScottSA

Wasn't CNN the same news organisation who reported on the WMD in Iraq?! Yeah, CNN is in on a big plot! ErEyoVne is lINYg!!!!!!! Run aaWy fsAT!1!!11! If CNN says they were in Iraqi waters, just imagine where Fox will say they were...Norfolk, probably. I'm startled at the degree of cynicism and self hatred there is in the west. I'm surprised the left doesn't just charge toward the nearest cliff en masse to just get it all over with.

That's one reason the health system there costs so much. Insurance premiums are skyhigh. Medical malpractice is not pandemic. Lawsuits are.

How many suitcases and envelopes do you need told hold $1.14 Million? Why did the Mint get rid of 1000 dollar bills? Too easy to trace. Getting rid of them was one of the Liberals' "strategic initiatives" back when they figured Ottawa was pretty much wrapped up forever.

More like Nancy Drew

Can somebody explain how this megatonnes of money will work? Under the Liberals we will pay billions of dollars to buy emissions credits, because that is the only way we can meet the Kyoto targets. Nobody disputes that. So we will make megatonnes of money buy sending billions of dollars offshore? But doesn't making money mean having money come *into* the country? Don't be so capitalistic. It's really quite simple. You sign Kyoto, take money out of the Treasury to buy credits, don't buy credits, put megatonnes of money in suitcases and brown envelopes...

You do know that you don't need to insert an apostrophe each time you put an "s" on the end of a word, right? Only sometimes, according to mysterious rules some folks aren't familiar with. Or is that habit merely a compensation mechanism of sorts?

Loyalists actually fled to Canada from America during the Revolution fought by General George, unlike those who didn't when Dubya won in 2004 (even after saying they would). Yeah, that posed an interesting problem for us, what with all the leftwing threatening to flee to the US if Harper won. I don't know what eventually happened to them on both sides...maybe they went to Cuba or some other socialist Nirvana.

OK....we'll start with the "defence money" that ends up in Canada. Canadian unemployment dropped to 4% during the Vietnam War! How distressing. Capitalism and war production all rolled into one. Far better that we should just print money and shovel it into our oh-so-superior healthcare system so that we don't all die waiting in line for the doctor to see us...

No, calm down, breathe deeply, and listen carefully. If someone were to tell you in 1939 that England was at war with Germany, would you get all aflutter and claim that he's calling for a war? Follow me here...I'm merely pointing out that we are in a war. That war is against Islam. I'm not calling for a war, I'm pointing out that we're already in one. Hope that clears things up for you

Humor is not one of your strong points...

They have restored faith in elected officials to spend our money in an honest and accountable manner. I can't believe you're saying that seriously. A massive bribe to Quebec is not an honest and accountable manner. :lol:

A senior staffer in the PMO on tape calling her American counterparts a**holes is professional? A sitting MP from the Government caucus steps on a doll of the President of the United States on public television is professional? What do you consider to be a lack of professionalism? Doing all that while dressed in a pink tutu with a clown's face painted on? Burning an American flag in front of the Speaker's chair and then defecating on it? Shovelling money out the back door of Centre Block into a waiting pickup truck? How dare you think that merely ranting at our largest trading party like drunken hookers "sex trade workers" is somehow unprofessional?

I hate my society so much that I don't want to see all of the young people go off and die in some useless war that could be solved using diplomacy. Ever hear about Mossadeq, he was deposed by the west because he wanted to nationalize Iran's oil assets. Despite the fact that's what the people of Iran wanted. The Shah, man, that guy was great. We could really use alot more people like him in the world. Try to stay on topic and not let your spleen take over.

What a moronic waste of bandwidth this poll is.

Protesting far too much, methinks. And the hysterical reaching out for allies to reaffirm yourself speaks volumes too...but hey, fortunately I don't have to be like you...

We can all thank God we're next to that big mean old country. For one, it allows us to save bucketloads of cash that would otherwise go to the military, since the US provides strategic deterence for us, with the added benefit of adopting smarmy attitudes and scoffing at its "militarism". Plus, we can sign treaties like kyoto, then blithely ignore them while trying to shame the US into being as piously hypocritical as us. On top of all that, we can run around making great global efforts like land mine treaties that everybody except countries which use landmines sign, cluck around the UN acting as if we have some clout, and generally make a nuisance of ourselves whilst angsting over such earth shattering issues as whether homosexuals can wear wedding gowns. Canada is pretty much divorced from reality, and we couldn't afford to be if the US wasn't there to tuck us in at night. But everyone hates dad, right?

I'm not "calling for" one brainiac. I'm merely pointing out that we're in one.

I'll take fish over gaining pawns in a very dangerous game of intentional escalation. These prisoners have the right to consular assistance, and the Iranians aren't even telling the Brits where they are being held. Arresting and taking prisoners are okay, as long as the situation is dealt with rationally after. I don't see that from Iran. They are doing this to be provoke Brit and the US, and to gain chips in the big nuclear poker game. Canada wasn't trying to dissaude Spain from investigating and holding us to account on nuclear weapons violations. That really is the crux of the matter. Obviously they were taken either in intl waters or disputed waters, and even if the Iranians feel they have a case, they have leapt several rungs up the escalation ladder right off the bat. There is no real excuse for it, and they will almost certainly end up getting burned. But the real eye opener is how many people hereabouts hate their own society so much that they're willing to immediately jump to the conclusion that it must be the west who is wrong, in spite of the clear evidence that Iran has been an essentially pariah nation since the 70s.

Well, you two sensitive heros keep patting each other on the back...but remember, do it gently so as not to wound your inner child!

Wow. So the Liberals support international emission carbon trading now as well? What a disaster it would be if they ever get elected. No wait...you've got the wrong idea. This is the Liberals we;re talking about. They say lots of things, but do very little. If they were elected there's no chance they'd actually DO anything they said...they signed on to Kyoto years ago, and then promptly ignored it while tsk tsking the Americans for not signing. What matters to the Liberals is what the SAY they'll do, not what they'll do.

I think you're in the wrong thread...are you ok?

Well gosh, woodie...calling me Hitler is pretty close to slander, don't you think? As is calling into question my education, whatever you think that might be...

Not really, since you can't come up with why you're an ideal man? What's manhood, honestly? We've asked you this question and yet you fail to answer it. You've simply went back to your usual childish name calling. ScottSA, I think the only person who has an identity crisis is yourself. It seem's that you feel your masculinity is threatened by the feminazis. I myself have never felt like I'm not a man, and I don't need to propose genocidal mayhem in order to feel more manly. If I pat you on the head, will it make you feel better? I don't want to make you cry, but I just don't think we have common ground to talk about manhood anymore. You just wouldn't understand.

Here you go...You're just working yourself into a perfect tizzy, aren't you? Look, you were wrong, you got caught, and then instead of admitting it like a man, you refused to. What was I wrong about?

"I think they're really trying to delay this so they can unleash an election and try to allege that all the opposition parties are trying to wreak economic havoc on the country," said McGuinty. "It will be a campaign of fear." I think all the parties are sceptical of the environment as a prime election issue. It's far too abstract, and the Church of Global Warming gets another kick in its shins every day, so its a risky horse to hitch to at the best of times. It's also an issue that the left is virtually identical on, so even if it did become a major issue, the far left would tend to take the single issue environment vote. But I agree. The Tories would like nothing better than to have one of the other parties force an election on those grounds.