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He doesn't want to end taxation. Geez...How would he get paid? haha. He simply wants to get rid of the IRS because it is a prime example of a government agency that is too large and doesn't work and is a waste of money.

God I hope so! Get rid of Canada's weak version of Neo-Cons PLEASE!

Go ahead. Spend yourself into oblivion for all I care. I think you need to take some basic economics classes if you believe the American ecnomy is growing. You also have an overwhelming trade deficit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_trade There is a really good graph that displays your so called "growing" exports. Although a believe a steep decline into negative numbers implies loss/deficit and not growth. I won't even get started on guns as I understand it is part of the American character and identity and will not begrudge you of that. To Jerry Seinfeld, I don't believe fiscal responsibility has anything to do with being left wing. In fact smaller government and less social spending is more Republican is it not? So is NOT getting involved in foreign wars and disputes. That dates back to Mr. Washington. Finally, I don't believe that the current war is a war of civilizations. The middle east is merely fighting back against American cultural imperialism. The Americans are fighting to make sure there are weak nations in control of vital resources so they can be more easily extracted. Even a good Neo Con would profess the same.

As has been stated before, I believe I have summed you up pretty concisely. I didn't jump the gun, I have read twenty odd pages of this forum afterall. I never professed to be the first, and I don't care if you are pissed or not. This is one thing I actually believe. Either Jesus was a gay man or he did in fact have a wife and children that are either not documented or have been erased out to try to create a more cohesive argument for his messianic status. I think you are really reaching here. Children may learn alot of things, but sexual attraction is a fairly natural thing. I don't believe we are taught to want the opposite sex or the same sex, I believe this is a natural occurrence just as a newborn naturally gravitates towards mother's milk. You are right, some people are like that. But they are not the majority of gays. In fact these are people who are screaming for attention, probably because they don't get any at home. I don't believe being gay has anything to do with self-hatred or societal hatred. If anything, coming to terms with who you are makes you a much more secure and deeper person. I pretty much feel you know nothing about gay lifestyle or the mindset of a gay person, unless you are in fact gay yourself and are really messed up about it. Which could actually explain alot. Again, I feel you are way off the mark. However, this is your opinion and not a stated fact so you are free to express that belief just as I will profess the opposite. I think you are proving me right here. I said that gay lifestyles are more accepted so more gay people who in the past would have kept their lifestyle and true feelings a secret are coming out. It is true to consciously make a choice not to do anything. I can also choose not to engage in herterosexual sex which would drive me crazy after a couple months. Think about a lifetime of living in secret and not engaging in the sexual satisfaction you desire. I think your idea of sin is outdated and out of touch, but your belief system is over 1500 years old. It is not 2000 however, because there is no way for any of us to know what Jesus really said considering we have no direct quotes and the earliest gospel was written well after Christs death. And some weren't written until 140 AD. How are we really to know what Jesus really said or thought about gays when so many others own judgements and moralities would have gotten in the way? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament You big tough guy...You going to hack my internetz? oh wait..I know, Let's tell each other we'll meet so we can fight...Ok? That would be great. Now you aren't just acting like a moron....

I am not talking about previous wars. I am discussing the war in Iraq and the fact that it is hurting the American economy. Unless you call $270 million a day money well spent. http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsec...IraqNumbers.htm The US has spent about $600 billion since the war began and plans to dump anouther $200 billion in for next year. $9 billion is lost and/or unaccounted for. That stat is INSANE. Aren't you happy you voted for a complete moron and his equally bumbling cohorts? I don't even know how anyone could defend such irresponsibility. It is called BLINDLY following, time to open up your eyes.

I believe immigration has been a fundamental aspect of the Canadian identity and economy and it will continue to do so in the next century. Canada required immigrants to fuel politicians' dreams of a coast to coast country. Without them the prairies wouldn't have been settled as quickly nor the railroad built to do so. Immigrants built our major cities and populated our vast expanses of arable land. We have gotten wealthy off the backs fo immigrants just as Americans have gotten rich off the backs of slaves. They built the infrastructures that we rely on today. Today, as more and more of our manufacturing is sent overseas and our economies are moving towards jobs that do not require manual labour, but rather more specialized technological skills or other jobs traditionally not associated with labour, we require immigrants more than ever. We have an ever expanding service sector of the economy that requires unskilled labour. I highly doubt these will be filled by many who have university degrees or specialized skills/trades. However, these jobs are perfect for unskilled labour that immigrants and teenagers can provide. Many have professed that Canada should not allow more immigrants but shoudl rely on what we already have. I applaud that sentiment but also think it is unrealistic, unless you also believe that thousands upon thousands of Canadians dream of working at Timmy's in their forties for near minimum wage after getting their masters degrees or pciking apples in the okanagan after finishing their carpentry trade. Canada was built on the backs of immigrants and it will continue to grow and expand with the aid of the same formula. I am not adhering to unrestricted immigration but certainly it should continue. I hope that many of you are not just being anti-immigration for racial reasons, or xenophobic ones. Anyways, that is my two cents etc etc.

That is so true about Canadians overseas. I'm Canadian and I used to purposefully avoid them if possible, although if I was wearing a Molson Canadian shirt or some other give away as to my Nationality and someone tried to strike up a tired conversation about our shared background, I found telling them I was from Newfoundland usually shut them up. HA!

I know the Romans officially crucified Jesus. But it was the Jews in power who backed this crucifixtion and wanted it to occur. I doubt if Pontius Pilate cared one way or the other quite frankly, Jesus wasn't exactly a militant.

I have read the entire post up until now and I will not hold my breath getting into an argument with Kengs, it is completely useless. If you use logical flowing arguments, that are well written and concise he ignores them. If you use biblical passages that contradict him, he says you don't understand the bible. If you ask for empirical evidence he professes that he doesn't have to, which in my mind makes him lazy, just as he will not read posts longer than 200 words. I am willing to bet he has not read the Bible or any theological treatise. It is my contention that Jesus was a homosexual. He did not marry in a time when men were expected to marry quite early. He had a profession that would easily afford a wife and family. He spent much of his time with 12 men, professing love of fellow man. Jesus was probably killed by the Jews not only because of political dissent but immoral and deviant sexuality as you suggest kengs. The temple in Jerusalem at that time certainly would not condone homosexuality even if it may have still been prevalent in Roman society. Back to the original contention that Dumbledore being gay may influence children to lead homosexual lifestyles, this is ridiculous. People don't make a conscious choice one day to become gay. "Hmmm, I think I will become what many in society consider aberrant, perhaps costing me friends, family, jobs and even my happiness. I think I would like to really love to lead a lifestyle of secrecy and lies that may even lead me to taking my own life because of depression and a sense of helplessness. WHERE DO I SIGN UP!" People are gay because they have always been gay, they are perfectly normal and natural. The fact that there "seem" to be more gays in these days is that it is more accepted and many feel more confident in coming out instead of bottling it up for their lives and committing suicide etc. Don't be a total moron Kengs

The surge can work all it wants to. America could win outright at this point and still come out as losers. I base this entirely on the state of their economy as a result of this war, the number of new terrorists they have created worldwide. The de-stabilization of the entire region and the information for all small insurgent groups that the worlds largest military can be bogged down for years maybe even beaten, perhaps not in an conventional war, but beatable none-the-less.

I am replying to the guy that said right wings means warlike. This is a misconception. Republicans are historically anti-war and conservative in nature. It is actually far more common for the democrats to declare war and expand conflicts. Just so you know.

And you are certainly reaping the rewards of that brain fart aren't you?

But if the UN doesn't exist, what other organization will have extremely long and vague acronyms?

Oops you seem to have one...Just looks like the party SUCKS!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_Party_of_Alberta http://www.separationalberta.com/

I am reading a lot of polls and topics dedicated to Alberta separating and I ask myself, do I really care? Half of them are merely soap boxes for Albertans to blow smoke up each others asses about how great they are and how they have saved Canada somehow. However, I have to say, if there were that many unsatisfied Albertans we would prolly see a stonger precence politically as in the provincial and national equivalent to the Bloc Quebecoise. If there are so many of you out there who feel this way, stand up and get something done instead of crying all over this forum. It is getting old fast.

At the time of the seven years war, the colonies were NOT more prosperous than Britain. Britain didn't lose control of their colonies until after the end of world war two. America is not and was not the most lucrative colony nor was Canada. The tiny sugar colonies in the Caribbean and their holdings in India and the far east were far more strategic and lucrative than any North American colonies. You obviously have no grasp on history whatsoever making statements like that.

He is the only republican candidate looking out for the States. He is the only Republican candidate that is a true Republican, lower taxes, isolationist, no foreign wars, constitutionalist, smaller government. I could go on. Bush is so far away from what a Republican should be it is scary.

The muslim world did give us the cure for the bubonic plague...

Yeah? So what? I never said English was the first language to use the verb "to be"... I said English's conjugation of the verb "to Be" stems from two previous Germanic versions of the verb. I'm sure the Greeks have their own version of the verb "To Be" as well...so again, I'm not sure what your point is at all.

I'm not sure what your post meant. Nice quotes?

I wouldn't say that the same applies to English, atleast not in the same context as Japlish, Konglish, Chinglish etc etc. Borrowing may be a bad word to have used. I think it is more appropriate to use "adoption of language", because in the case of English, foreign languages have not only influenced words taken into the language but also have changed the actual structure of English itself. Which is why we see such verbs as "To Be", one of our most basic, which has its conjugational roots in two seperate Germanic languages: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search...searchmode=none

Nice links to back up all of your numbers....and claims. I;m being sarcastic by the way...it may not translate in print.

Someone mentioned a depession to wages earned on the oil sands etc... I think you'll find that mexican immigrants who can't speak english wil take more jobs in the service (fast food), the same ones that no one else will take. I could be wrong, also with far more restrictions and enforcement, I can't see them only earning pennies regardless of where they work outside of agriculture.

Can you elaborate on what wasn't offensive? The insinuation that our aboriginal populations are still in the stone age, or the insinuation that they somehow require our "divine" light to guide them to civilization. These don't seem offensive to the extreme to you? Do you honestly believe, looking back on history that there has been no wrong doing by European powers and then continued by all governments in the western hemisphere against native populations?

That is an extremely offenive response ScottSa. I'm not sure I would make a statement like that...ever. I am glad you are not a politician or anyone who holds political power. That kind of sentiment is not going to help any healthy debate and it seems like you are looking for a flame war perhaps?