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Bush Says Iran Speeds Output of A-Bomb Fuel Sounds like a man on a mission, don't ya think?

David Frum is claiming that Arafat died of aids. What does it matter - the guy is dead!

The United States presently is our planet's one super power, and they intend to go down fighting. They don't want to give up their position of world dominance, and this is their last kick at the can. Their economy depends on oil, they don't have enough, and they are going to take what they need, to keep their economy going, come hell or high water. Or so they think. And if Martin ever gets a majority government, Canada will be right beside them like a dirty shirt. What do you think the real reason is that Parrish is so upset?

MapleBear....welcome to mapleleafweb. Above the message box where you post your message click on code button: http:// A box will appear and paste in your URL there. Then click on OK and type or paste in the title of your link. Click on OK again Then click on Add Reply below your message box. Let me know if that works for you. Anything that would bring Gates down a few notches is fine with me.

Yea, big winners all right. What a croc! :angry:

Actually if Canadian governments had listened to their scientists in DFO, the fisheries off Canada's coasts would be in a lot better condition today. Unfortunately the commercial fishing transnational lobbyists, the people who have funded the Cons & Libs, prevented that.

august....he's kid, Please let him enjoy his youth without laying on all your heavy duty paranoid fears on him. I see you're into the booze again, confusing your thoughts with my posts: I did NOT post that. Why don't you try AA. It might do you some good, to work on all that anger you seem to be carrying around.

- this was in today's Globe and Mail although I am unable to access it there. The serious grown-ups of Ottawa >by Rick Salutin November 19, 2004 Let's start with Carolyn Parrish's appearance on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. She was handed a Bush doll, told to kiss it — yuck — then throw it on the floor, stomp it like an angry brat, and flash a maniacal grin as the camera panned back to her face. Many serious grownups in Ottawa, like Liberal MP Roger Gallaway, found this “pathetic” and “a perverse joke.” The Prime Minister said he did not “share her sense of humour,” and expelled her from the Liberal caucus since he cannot “tolerate behaviour that demeans and disrespects others.” I remind them all of Jon Stewart, when told The Daily Show had become the main news source for many young viewers. “Bulletin!” he snarled at the camera, “it's not a real news show!” Bulletin: This Hour Has 22 Minutes is satire. Carolyn Parrish was parodying herself, not George Bush, as she patiently explained to the press, ex-teacher that she is. Politicians who don't get this should take a course on something like, Making Distinctions as an Adult. It brings to mind a six-year-old I know, who was shown a news clipping this week about a Winnipeg peace group that denounced the Lego set Bionicles because they're warriors and “promote violence” among kids. He said he disagreed. When asked why, he harrumphed, “Because they're toys!” The matter of childishness has pervaded this dispute in revealing ways. Roger Gallaway said he would “expect more from infants.” Conservative House Leader John Reynolds said the Parrish TV bit set a bad example for children, and “somebody like [her] needs real help.” They all fretted over how she might act when George Bush visits the House at month's end. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said MPs should “behave like adults.” Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan clucked, “I don't know about you, but my mother brought me up to believe that when we had visitors we always treated our visitors in a polite, respectful way.” Hmm, verrry interrresting. Many of these people seem to have childish behaviour on their minds. Why could that possibly be? Well, have you glanced at Question Period lately? There is no more infantilized group of adults in the land. Look at them sitting sheepishly behind their little desks, arranged for the camera as background to their leader or his ministers, dutifully clapping, whomping their desks, and yucking it up over the feeblest personal putdowns or substitutes for wit, because it is their job to do so mindlessly. Does an occasional glimmer of embarrassment cross their faces? No way to tell, it's gone too fast. Some are people of accomplishment, I know it for a fact. But you'd never guess it then and there. Anyone who has attended Question Period in person, including the guards who admonish high school kids in the galleries to behave nicely, have shaken their heads over it and the way the (real) kids gawk unbelievingly at our hallowed parliamentary infantilism. These people have a stake in deflecting the thought of childishness elsewhere. As for their media analogues, here is Rex Murphy on CBC-TV talking about the “kindergarten approach” of Carolyn Parrish to U.S.-Canada relations. She has worked up a “vaudeville act” in “increasingly ridiculous venues” such as 22 Minutes that belongs to “the classroom showoff, the needy clown, attention-getting by means of insult and crude display . . . juvenile, smug and vulgar.” It leaves me a bit flabbergasted since his entire commentary is nothing except name-calling, as in — recess? If you don't believe me, here's how it ends, and I'm not pulling it out of context, it has no context: “And one last note: A lot of people who think George Bush is the stupid party ought to visit a mirror.” What age were you when you last heard that one? At the least, I would argue that by taking a strong stand on a crucial issue — America's hapless response to terror — which reflects the views in her riding and in most of the country, Carolyn Parrish has behaved in a far more adult way than our, ahem, pathetic barking parliamentarians or their equivalent media scolds. Somebody, or possibly everybody, with the possible exception of Carolyn Parrish, should grow up. I am glad Salutin brought up the subject of the CBC's Rex Murphy. Murphy certainly has tainted the environment over there. I sure miss Peter Gzowski.

T & E......welcome to mapleleafweb & thanks. I hope you will find being here a worthwhile experience.

Truck traffic complaints fall on deaf ears Maybe it is time for the federales to have a Royal Commission about the trucking industry in Canada.

Caesar: IOW, you're clueless. Maple Syrup: Ipso facto. Into the sauce again I suppose. Too bad Greg doesn't address this chronic, is it every Friday evening, issue.

Powell's statement on Iran based on unverified source: Report : Shades of WMD in Iraq anyone? /35

Now the BC Liberals have lied to us again about the RAV line. Their contractor is proposing to build it for over 100,000,00 dollars abouve budget. The BC Liberals Fast RAV Line = BC NDP Fast Ferries I agree, I don't like EVIL people in government, no matter what their particular political persuasion happens to be. /120

Was watching PBS tonite and some US analyst was saying: "Get out of US dollars"!

caesar....I agree. That is why the NDP if they conduct themselves appropriately, stand to gain the most from this issue. If the NDP are smart, they should just focus on the issues when Bush is here.

I see your point. Let's treat our entire earth's environment the way the US is treating Iraq.

Earlier only 30% of Canadians thought Parrish did the right thing. Now close to 40% (38%) of Canadians think Parrish did the right thing. Give this a few more days, when more details come out, and the support for Parrish could top support for Martin on this US issue.

Changes Aim at Better Mad Cow Testing One think you have to give the transnationals credit for is that they sure know how to cover their ass when their investments are at stake. Too bad they don't have the same desire to protect the consumers. I just wish Canadians would act as effectively when our sovereignty is being jeopardized, by many of our pro-transnational provincial and federal governments.

Solar power, which could really have a positive effect on our global warming issues, has never been exploited because the multi-nationals have never figured out a way to own the sun. As most intelligent people in the world (such as David Suzuki, etc.) have been saying for quite some time now, we will NOT be able to substain life on our planet at our current rates. Take a look at this to see what I mean. Who really are our hereos, and who should we be listening to, the transnational pigs or polluters, it really doesn't matter what you call them, or the scientists who are attempting to prevent a catastrophe?

Canada may ban U.S. snacks It may be a small step but this is a win-win situation for the NDP. It kicke the US ass in the pocketbook and makes Canadians healthier. I like it.

AP Interview: Popular Dutch lawmaker urges halt to non-Western immigrants, shutting down radical mosques Wow this is quite interesting. Where are they going to send the intolerant Dutch folks who were born in the Netherlands? I wonder if there are some lessons here for Canada.

If someone does NOT pay their taxes, there should be fines based proportionally on your income and/or your net worth. We have to get out of this throw people in jail mentality unless there is violence involved and the criminal is a danger to others in society. It's only money folks!

Maybe it really is over. Greenspan Warns That U.S. Deficits Pose Risk to Dollar The US wouldn't do something smart like raise income taxes, would they? NAh!

-more lying from our PM? Martin was in the dark for hours about Parrish stepping on Bush

seabee.....good point. If Vancity, Canada's number one employer by-the-way, can host 1/2 a dozen languages on their banking terminals, the least Canada's political parties could do is to put a few languages up on their websites to represent our cultural diversity.