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I bet a lot of "non-foreigner" conservatives are even unable to understand the "technical manual" of their laptop computers, though I'm sure they can "read" the manual... Maybe it is better McGuinty offered funds to Canadian companies like Bestbuy and Futureshop to extend the warranties of TVs, camcorders, computers, XBOX360s...to ten years, so these companies would be able to hire more immigrant workers to reinstall operating systems of these products once some existing witless guys like Hudak messed them up.

Why? According to some conservative supporters' theory, an unemployed is unemployed just because of his or her inability to acqurie a job.....so it is all his or her fault

It depends on what kind of job which you work on. For doing most common scientific, technical and industrial jobs, knowledge, experence and skills are more important than communicating ability unless your job is a manager, supervisor or team leader, because as a professional, what you are supposed to deal with are machines and scientific instruments, which you only can communicate with by 100110101...universal language. In the Canadian company I work as a technician, most my fellow technicians are Chinese immigrants or Chinese Canadian, though the boss of the company is a white Canadian. It is nothing about racial selection. It is just because the machines we are supposed to deal with are all made-in-China, so the boss is easier to find someone with experience on the field among Chinese immigrants or Chinese Canadians than others.

It sounds like "talking" is the only advantage for some guys to get their jobs....

I wonder if those designers of the "psychological tests to identify gifted learners" have the gifts to know "the whole concept of gifted kids". Do you remember the weird attempt of murdering a rival in love which a female US astronaut involved in? I'm sure as an astronaut, she had passed countless "psychological tests". Anyway, everyone has the gift of creating job for himself. For example: a teacher of gifted-kids' class wants gifted-kids because of no gifted-kids, no class for the kids, no teacheres for the class...

Haven't you noticed that he has learned a lot of things about the country he chose as his new home? One thing is---it is safe here to criticise politicians, governments, authorities and laws.... Another thing is----his ID will not be canceled by webmaster just because of being a dissenter.

I think Wilber would like the idea that each shareholder of those corporations(and not an organized capitalists or business owners union which is usually called the board of directors) is the equivalent of an entire union, LOL, of an individual worker.

Slobodan Milosevic and Kim Jong-il, who is batter on ruling his country,or better on survival, or better on kicking Uncle Sam's ass? If I was asked, I would say Kim is just a lucky one. His country happened borders a great power but Miloseic's doesn't. Was Neville Chamberlain the worst PM British ever had? If Adolf Hitler was as smart as him or as stupid as he thought, historians would comment him with a different way.

Maybe you are right but #4. The oil companies which Harper's dad worked for when young Stephen was a liberal-supporting student of U of T will not be able to move to China or anywhere...and those Walmart Canadian factories, if there are still some left, will move to China, India, Mexico... anyway unless the ex-"Reform" boss reforms the mininum wage of Canadian down to ￥8/h.... Back to the topic---I'm sure that the first victim of this conservative majority will not be those right-wing liberals who voted conservative to stop NDP, though Iggy had been so desired to represent them all the time...

If anyone knew he would be hung once he was caught, fighting back would logically be the choice to increase his chance of survival. I bet it wasn't the first time a thief was beaten, but I'm sure there still are theives in India. Furor engulfs Brampton MP in child beating I think drunk drivers have already been banned on road by laws and will be fined or jailed in every country if they are caught, let alone they have more odds to die or to be injured in car crashes. But there still are drunk drivers just becasue they are not always caught or they don't always crash their cars. I think Canada is already safer than those countries which lash thieves.

That's the theory which Gahdafi used to "clamp down" Libyan rebels . I have to say sometimes it works, but sometimes it just backfires like this time . If the criminals knew that they would get a life sentence if they were caught by police twice, what would they do? Would they stop to commit crimes and become law-abiding citizens? I guess a few of them might be...but others may just buy a gun and shoot at the policemen who try to arrest them.

Maybe the best way is to make the solution more "fiscal-conservative"---just as the solutions they used to offer---offshoring the prisoners to some third world countries so there is no need to spend tax$ on building new prisons...

I heard the only reason that foreign reporters were not to allowed to wander around freely because reportedly there were a lot of military facilities include a nuclear reactor complex which was supposed to produce or develope A-bombs nearby. And obviously there wasn't any radioactive leaking after the earthquake. Maybe the corruption contributed a fraction of the situation, but if you lived in a region which average GDP was less than $1,000/per capita, you would also have few steel bars in the walls of your school buildings. I believe you said this genuinely...but I guess those who were burried alive beneath the debris of their houses would not agree with you. If I was someone wearing uniform and paid by tax$, I would rather like to check every houses in the district which I'm supposed to responsible for to make sure nobody was left behind, than evacuated myself first and left civilians behind. Everyone knows it is insane to go inside a burning wooden house. But taking some risk to fulfill our duty isn't insane at all, isn't it? Two firefighters die in Ontario blaze And I think, after the tsunami, there are not many houses left intact. So it isn't very difficult to fly a few helicopters over the area to check every left farmhouse to make sure there isn't anyone left behind.

I have to concede that I have lost confidence in Japanese government. The communist governments(like the Soviet and China) sometimes were talking, were covering, but they at least did something when such things happened. The Japanese government is also talking, covering, but what have they done or what is their plan? I can hardly believe such thing is really happening--if a foreign media reporter can go into the area and find this old man, why couldn't those policemen, soldiers and rescue workers find him if there are organized rescue operation? I think the super-fiscal-conservatives, if there had any, might like this story: just let the strongers survive and the weakers die, meanwhile government does nothing---Isn't it the best way to cut down governmental spending? Scared and alone, Japanese farmer waited weeks for help

The "economist" conservative boss is becoming funny when he is scared by the coalition stuff. Does it mean that the CEOs can get tax deductions for attending all sorts of fitness clubs to deduct the fat from their supernutritioned bodies meanwhile their workers, who are supposed having less time, less money and less motive (because they have already done overmany bolt-screwing "bodybuilding" in their GM mass production lines ) to enroll such things, will get nothing from the conservative boss's tax-money-spending generosity?

If a politician has never evaded a question, he must be a sophisticated liar....

I don't think revenge matters a lot on a great power's policy, though it may be used as an excuse to involve in a lucrative war or conflict. Gadhafi doesn't play a alone hand, or only count on his mercenaries like CNN-kinds having been telling us. It's obvious that some tribes in the country support him meanwhile other tribes rebel against his regime. So if you chose supporting rebels unconditionally, you would have chosen to confront not only Gadhafi but the tribes which he represents their interests. There isn't a clear defination between the tribal people whose interests Gadhafi represents and the "Gadhafi loyalists" who only exist on the TV screen of CNN news. That's what has made the war in Afghanistan "unwinnable". I think this is why this time the US wants to hand over the leadership of the campaign to NATO---I guess Obama just wants to copy what China has been doing all the time---to be an industrious good oil-digger and let others play bad guys.

I agree with you. But I think the French overdone air-show may have already done some political damage on what the west wants to achieve in the region. The circumstance today is very different from the old colonial time. Nowadays without some sort of political achievement, no one can simplely dig oil from Libya or Iraq with a favourable price.

It's ture. Without Uncle Sam's "unique capabilites and support", the satellite network or something, a French aircraft may be still functional----I mean it can still drop bombs like Gadhafi's, but its pilot may not be aware what he is bombing, just like Gadhafi's....

But there wasn't an earthquake factor in the Three Mile Island accident. If the vessel was damaged during the quake, I mean maybe just some cracks on the wall of the underground part of the vessel, it would be far more difficult to deal with. Soviet successfully re-sealed the Chernobyl reactor by constructing a new containment vessel wrapped the reactor up...at the cost of the life and health of thousands of the soliders', workers' and engineers' who built the containment vessel.

There are some bad news...possible bad news indeed. I just read from Chinese media that there is a problem in #2 reactor. Japanese now are using fire trucks pumping sea water into the containment vessels of the reactors to cool them down (meanwhile a little radioactive substance along with hydrogen gas and vapor come out from safety valve because the water poured in is vaporized by the core). They have poured a lot of water in the vessel but they have found that the water level of reactor #2 had reached "normal level" for a time then began to drop again, and they don't know exactly why. The phenomenon may indicate that there might be a possible breach at the bottom of the containment vessel of reactor #2. If the containment vessel was broken, the situation might be more worse than the Three Mile Island accident though it would still be better than the Chernobyl disaster. Another possibility is just sample. The water may just be vaporized again.

I agree with you. According to what I read from Chinese media, when the earthquake happened, there were 11 reactors scrammed for security. After the reactors were scrammed, they needed power supply from outside power grid to power the cooling system to bring out the residual heat from the core of the reactor. Since the outside power grid had lost because of the earthquake, the Japanese turned on the backup diesel generators instead. At this point, it seemed like everything was OK. But about an hour later, tsunami stroke.Sea water engulfed some backup diesel generators and the backup generators were also lost. That was the moment the real disasters began. Losing power, the cooling system could not cool the reactor core down, and the residual heat began to build up. Japanese government managed to send some portable generators to the reactors, but it seemed like their capacities were not enough. The cores of the reactors were overheated and at the high temperature the chemical reaction between zirconium hull which was used to contain the feul of the reactor and the water which was used to cool down the core yielded hydrogen gas. When the hydrogen gas along with vapor were released from the safety valve which was used to protect the containment vessel of the reactor, the hydrogen mixed with oxygen outside and somehow exploded. I guess the designers of the power plant just didn't consider the tsunami scenario, or they would built some watertight door to protect the backup the diesel generators.

The uranium fuel in a reactor isn't weapons-grade so the chain reaction may not fast enough to make it a A-bomb, but the Chernobyl reactor's hull was damaged because the design of the reactor lacked self-stopping mechanism. The power generated by the uncontrolled chain reaction was so massive that the 2,000 ton upper plate of the reactor's concrete hull was reportedly blasted off and the radioactive material from the core of the reactor was ejected from the broken hull and scattered everywhere which caused the disaster. It worked more like a huge dirty bomb than a A-bomb.

The reactor of Chernobyl is a Soviet-designed High Power Channel-type Reactor(RBMK). Its structure and design is very different from the Pressurized Water Reactor(PWR)used in North America, Western Europe, China and Japan. The Chernobyl disaster took place because there was a design flaw in the reactor which would make the control rod jammed if the reactor overheated. The operator just could not stop the nuclear chain reaction in the RBMK so the overheated core of the reactor exploded and the explosion destructed the reactor casing which was used to contain the radioactive material of the core. To a PWR, even if the core of the reactor is overheated, the fuel rods will melt and fall down to the bottom of the casing so the chain reaction will be spontaneously stopped. The explosion in Japan was just because of the hydrogen gas which came from the release valve. The reactor casing is still intact(that's very important). The explosion is totally chemical and outside the reactor casing. Before the explosion, the chain reaction in the core had already stopped and the amount of radioactive material released from the release valve was very small because the reactor casing was still undamaged. The property and consequence of this event are more like the Three Mile Island accident's in the USA, though the Hydrogen released from the reactor didn't exploded in the Three Mile Island accident.

It will not be a real war because, unlike the time of the Kosovo War, the biggest war fan in the world now is at the state of "insufficient funds"---which used to prompted out when my son was playing a computer war game called Red Alert by spending too much on tanks, planes and warships.....when he was 4 years old.