Moonbox

Ooh. Intelligent.

He was invited. In hindsight it was a mistake, but I imagine he thought even Fox News would have the class and intelligence not to try and get a foreign leader to publicly denounce the US president and his policies with hack questions. It was Chris Wallace too, who's considerably less hack than a lot of the others. Even I was surprised by how hard he tried to corner Harper into saying something stupid.

When the dangers of terrorist fist-pumps, dijon mustard and beer-pong propel FNC to the top of the charts, it's more a testament to the stupidity and ignorance of the viewers than anything else.

It was an ugly interview and I think it further hurt the credibility of Fox News. They all but tried to get Harper to denounce Obama, social spending etc and he fortunately didn't say anything stupid. God Fox News is retarded.

Your CPP contributions are supporting current pensioners. My CPP contributions (I'm not a baby boomer) will be supporting the baby boomer's pensions. Forgive my ignorance, but could someone explain what the 1990 changes were that will fix CPP contribution problems when the boomers retire? I don't know anything about it sorry

I've been watching the TSX a lot recently and I'm dumbfounded by the gains we've seen since February. The index is trading at almost the same levels as Summer 2008 and amidst a severe recession no less. I'm wondering what on earth is encouraging this growth other than what I perceive to be huge manipulations of the system. It's been easy to make money investing since November, but are things about to come crapping back down? Are the financial write-offs and reduced revenue genuinely perceived to be only short-term? Is there REAL indication that we'll be back to normal within a year or so? Personally, I think a lot of savvy and less than scrupulous investors are banking off of unjustified optimism with the average investor.

Good idea, except the dynamics of most kidnappings are that the people attempting the rescue have no clue at all where the kidnapped person may be.

Regardless of what you guys think, the CPP needs needs needs changes. The baby boomers are already retiring and there is not a chance in hell that my generation will be able to support them. The shortfall will be enormous. I don't know what can be done but any of the boomers who DIDN'T put money into an RRSP are going to be screwed for short-sightedness or for being poor.

Harper will lose a ton of seats because he didn't follow his mandate and because he's leading during a nasty recession, and the ruling party historically fairs terribly in those conditions. He deserves to flop and he will.

Bob Rae has no traction in Ontario. His name is reviled like that of Mike Harris. That's why he wasn't selected federal party leader.

I agree with most of what you said, other than that Ontario in the last 2 decades has supported the Liberals heavily, and not just Toronto. You're quite right, I think, that the Liberals have pandered too heavily to specific groups and lost the votes of a lot of the non-ethnic and well-to-do Canadians as a result. There will be no Liberal resurgence in the West for a LOOONG time as a result.

Except that the Liberals hold Toronto and pretty much nothing else. Think again.

Harper is doomed, but we'll see how Iggy does. Other than the proposed EI changes I've had a rather favorable opinion of him to be honest. He's the sort of Liberal that I could vote for. My problem is I can't seem to peg him down on where he stands on a good number of issues. To me it appears he's deliberately made sure his platform is unclear so that he can define himself on his own terms on a time of his own choosing. It's likely a pretty smart move, but until I know what his plans are I have to reserve judgement. Iggy, pay down our debt and I'll vote for you.

He'd find support in Manitoba, and next to none outside of that.

I'm talking about your unflagging tendency to take a news link and present it to us in the most pro-Liberal light possible. The mad-dog sociopathic blah blah is pretty typical of you and your exaggerations of small situations into scandal, along with omissions of VERY relevant facts in your conclusions is what I'm talking about. As for what I said before, read my posts again. I said you did everything you could SHORT of lying and I questioned the integrity of your statements on the basis of distortions, omissions and exaggerations. All this from a obsessive Liberal bias. Not every piece of news is newsworthy, and threads like this only make it past the first page because everyone comes over to laugh at them. As for the content of the link you provided, I think it's pretty safe to say that nobody wants a staff position in a Harper government doomed to fail within months. Job security is less than nothing. This is not interesting news and regardless of the problem, there's likely not a solution.

I think it's a bit of a stretch for anyone to label Rae a Tamil sympathizer.

You're right, but the strength of the accusation needs to be measured and weighed before we spend millions of dollars in court.

Nothing shows we support our men and women in uniform like putting them on trial for bogus accusations....

For the record I said they were everything short of being called outright lies. It's all omission, distortion and exaggeration.

It's no different from Harper. You don't purposely screw yourself on principle when you know the numbers don't support your position. It's democracy, for good or for ill.

It's an old fashioned caper it is!

I think you're a little ahead of yourself on class-action lawsuits. Maybe look into it a little bit further.

I agree with what you're saying. I think our Common law judicial system is the best but I think we need to make sure that we don't go TOO easy when judges etc start making exceptions.

You're probably right!

I respond to a small fraction of them. We have a 6:1 post ratio, and I respond to a lot of other posters as well. NO YOU! The constant and persistant exaggerations, distortions and omissions you spam here put you on a level far beyond most other Liberal posters. Personalization? Again I'll say it, get over it. Grow up. You bring it on yourself with pro-Liberal spamming and the integrity of your posting is about as weak as it can be without being called outright lies. I'm not saying that there aren't biased Harperbots here either, but take the worst of them here and paint them red and what we get is Jdobbin. It's called having a 'life'.