August1991
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On 2/14/2024 at 1:12 AM, CdnFox said:
Trump didn't run in those elections. And biden wasn't the opponent in those elections.
We'll see. As i've said many times it will come down to the campain, and trump is not a great campaigner. But biden can't hide in his basement this time.
Disagree. Trump is a great campaigner. But he will lose.
The Democrats are far better at collecting, harvesting ballots in a Covid world where some people help other people to vote.
In several key states, in several key urban counties, the Dems will win.
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan. Because of urban staged voting, all will go Democratic.
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OTOH, the Republicans may win a majority in the Senate.
IMHO, Trump has no chance to win. I am more curious to see what happens in the federal Senate.
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With all that said, wars usually involve foolish young men, between the ages of 17 and 21.
Who is in Gaza now? In Donetsk?
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Misleading title.
With Navy, Air Force -our military has about 50,000.
By comparison, the US with 10x our population has about 1.4 million active military. IOW, the US has about 3x our numbers.
I favour our way of doing things.
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In Canada and the US, soldiers now choose to join. (In Canada, we have always had a voluntary military. Since Nixon, the US has not had conscription.)
IMHO, when a State resorts to military conscription, its leaders are imposing a tax - a weird tax.
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On 4/10/2024 at 9:09 AM, ExFlyer said:
Yeah but the last thing Labrdorians (Labradites?) wanted is to be part of Quebec so they chose Newfoundland and Newfoundland chose them. Wise decision on both parts LOL
The British government in the 1920s (when Newfoundland was still outside Canada) decided that the division would be the headwaters. It decided that Labrador was not part of Canada.
At the time, most people in Labrador were indigenous. Newfoundlanders fished on the coast.
Moreover, most people in the lower north shore (Canada, Quebec) speak English with a Newfoundland accent. They live in places with French names. Blanc Sablon.
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There are places in the world we know with two names: St-Pierre et Miquelon, Bosnia and Herzogovina, São Tomé and Príncipe etc.
Newfoundland is a distinct place. Labrador is different.
I have no problem with a provincial government of Newfoundland within a federal Canada.
There is no such place as "Newfoundland & Labrador".
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On 12/12/2023 at 6:21 AM, Perspektiv said:
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I personally feel they shouldn't be taken seriously.
Its like a crackhead telling you about morals and Jesus.
I see it the same as someone who uses a helicopter to avoid traffic, and flies everywhere lecturing me about the waste I create.
Someone that out of touch deserves to be dismissed.
But sometimes they should be. Sometimes a crackhead says something wise.
And Churchill had special protection when he flew - to avoid traffic as you say.
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IMHO, when Bush Jnr in September 2001 did not fly back to Washington from Florida, the Western world lost something.
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First, I was expecting a bank robber movie lead by a woman. And this movie starts this way! But then it goes awry.
In fact, it's a 1940s female prison movie. I recommend it to 21st century feminists.
It has Jackie C. Gleason (as Jean Chretien, the getaway driver). And Paul Drake (as DeWolf Hopper, son of Hedda Hopper). You can't make this up.
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On 4/10/2024 at 10:48 AM, WestCanMan said:
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I know what you mean though. There are words like "assuaged" and "truculent" that come up often in books, but which no one ever uses in real life.
I probably saw "misshapen" and blazed right by it about 3x before I realized what it was lol. Had a bit of a chuckle at myself.
Laughing - good examples. In a very public way, I once mispronounced "awry". (Imagine how I pronounced the word.)
In English, their and there, or its and it's, are not distinct when speaking- but evidence of education when writing. In French, tu and vous are very distinct - and verb conjugations in particular.
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On 4/10/2024 at 8:45 PM, Army Guy said:
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Yes China is now the new world bad guy, it's NAVY has already larger than the US, meaning it has more ships, but lacks in certain ship types...So yes NATO and other defensive organizations have come into the picture to counter China...
You seem to have no answers...and yet you have already formed your opinion...why is that ?
China? It used to be, for Americans, Japan. IMHO, China is now Singapore. Xi is Lee Quan Yew.
AG, I have some answers and many opinions. I am reminded of Keynes famous response:
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
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On 4/10/2024 at 8:45 PM, Army Guy said:
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But Russia still is a combat power that can and will project military strength when ever it feels like...like in Ukraine, Syria etc...and it is not that ukraine is of some strategic importance to the globe, well to most of the world it is just another war saw pact country looking for a home...to Russia it is important, hence why the need to cleanse Nazis or what ever excuse they are using this week.
Now to Europe it represents a threat,....
True. Except for the Warsaw Pact (which no longer exists), you describe a 19th century world of counterweights. A multipolar world.
In 1815, Russia was not a threat to Europe.
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In 1914, this multipolar, multicultural civilized world collapsed not because of Russia or an external threat. It collapsed because a clueless elite lead ordinary people into folly.
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On 4/10/2024 at 8:45 PM, Army Guy said:
Yes there is no more wall, the sun and the moon are that much more brighter, because of it, Russia pulled back
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No. We in the West defeated the Soviet Union. (Russia is not the Soviet Union.)
Kissinger worried about how to create a structure of peace. One key point that he made is that the Soviet Union followed a Marxist ideology - it was intent on dominating the world.
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On 4/10/2024 at 11:25 AM, Aristides said:
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No Western European country has been attacked by an outsider since the formation of NATO because it commits them to defend each other if one of them is attacked. This is the major difference between European NATO and the complicated alliances that resulted in countries being sucked into WW1.
One could say the same of Europe after 1815. Read Kissinger.
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On 4/10/2024 at 7:20 AM, Rebound said:
That is true, but only if you don’t care one way or another about abortion policy. Obviously, tens of millions of voters care about it a lot.
The question is whether the legality (issue) of abortions should be decided at the state level, or at the central/federal level.
It is a question of state rights.
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Lincoln really didn't care about slavery. He wanted to preserve the union. He decided that on the issue of slavery, to preserve the union, abolition must be a central/federal issue and apply to all states.
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On 4/6/2024 at 6:39 PM, WestCanMan said:
....."indubitably"...
... 'undoubtedly',
....'most definitely'
..... 'certainly"
How did you pronounce these words/terms?
Mispronouncing a word is evidence of an asocial person who reads alot.
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1 hour ago, Aristides said:
No they didn’t. There was just a vacuum between the fall of Napoleon and the rise of Prussia and a united Germany. Crimean War. Prussian Austria war, Franco Prussian War.
Every "war" you note was brief. The Franco-Prussian War in 1870 lasted for five weeks.
An elite -older people, Russian, German- thought that a war in August 1914 would last for several months at most.
No one in the elite, rich of civilised Europe of 1912 thought that any war would change their lives
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On 4/7/2024 at 12:07 AM, Army Guy said:
Just becasue the wall came down changed nothing,....
NATO is also being used to confront China.....
1. WTF? No wall, we win, the Soviet Union is no more, but we still need NATO...
2. WTF? NATO is used to confront China?
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As Trudeau or Kissinger would say, there was a structure of peace from 1815 to 1914. Counterweights.
Since 1991, Reagan won.
I fear that this Ukrainian War is like one of those Balkan Wars before August 1914.
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On 4/8/2024 at 4:59 PM, Rebound said:
Donald Trump has backtracked on abortion, declaring that decisions must be made by the individual states, and supporting legal abortion in cases or rape and incest.
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Returning to the OP, I disagree that Trump has backtracked.
IMHO, Trump is being political (seeking votes) - and respecting the law.
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As a foreigner, I have a different question:
You Americans had a big issue with slavery. You fought a civil war on this question. The right of a state to allow slaves
Would you Americans fight a civil war over the right of a state to forbid abortion?
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1 hour ago, Moonlight Graham said:
Unless it's in the US constitution, which applies federally. But the states hold the reserve powers. Meaning, the 10 amendment says that any power not specifically outlined in the constitution is then the domain of the states. Because as you say, the US is a federation of states.
The reserve powers in Canada fall to the Crown, so federal Parliament.
Well said, and one reason I admire America and its Constitution: State rights
Trudeau Snr tried the same with our Charter - Mulroney with Meech - I paraphrase:
"If the central government cannot specifically restrict an activity then the question is left to local governments. Otherwise, people are free to do as they wish."
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10 hours ago, QuebecOverCanada said:
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It's important that we start to realize that other nations face the same problems Canada is facing, and they find solutions.
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QoC, I agree.
But I want to make plain- Quebecers are good at integrating foreigners.
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10 hours ago, QuebecOverCanada said:
Like Canada, NZ has had way too many immigrants in a short span without the infrastructures required to welcome them.
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Disagree strongly. Infrastructure?
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Canada is a large country. Lotsa space. Yet, I reckon that some Canadians don't want more neighbours.
I recently had a chat with a home-owner -single home- in Vancouver on this very question.
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10 hours ago, QuebecOverCanada said:
Like Canada, NZ has had way too many immigrants in a short span without the infrastructures required to welcome them.
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Disagree. Look at net immigrant data.
Unlike Australia (or New Zealand) where migrants stay, immigrants to Canada often leave south.
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Canada is the US immigration/filtering system.
Of course, since Biden and 2020, this has changed.
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17 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:
Some of which belong to Newfoundland and Labrador…
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I never liked this term "Newfoundland and Labrador".
Newfoundland is not Labrador. Newfoundland is an island.
Labrador is a coast.
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I understand the political/federal/international ideas between the distinction.
But to me, Newfoundland is an island.
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1. This is a Barbara Stanwyck movie.
2. When anyone says that women in the past were weak/confused, I recommend a Barbara Stanwyk film.
3. This Barbara Stanwyk film has twists.
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In Canada, also a federal state, provinces have sole control over schools, health.
Your US federal HEW? - Never in Canada - except for Natives.
Canada, NATO, de Gaulle, Poilievre
in Federal Politics in Canada
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However.
Truman, Nixon, JFK, LBJ made America's win possible.
In 1991, America won.
Then, during the next 20 years, Clinton and Bush Jnr f*.ed up.