Moonbox

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'.

You start half the threads on the forum. I'd really be blocking myself out of the discussions and as I mentioned before, it's fun picking apart unintelligent arguments. Is this another "NO YOU!" response? I'm sorry. That was rhetoric. What I should have said that while many Liberal posters here are respected and left alone generally, your support for the party borders on hysteria and the contempt and derision you receive is reflective of that. Like I said, 18000+ posts of pro-Liberal exaggerations, omissions and distortions in 3 years indicates at a VERY emotional attachment to the party. Have you or your family ever run for the Liberals in Winnipeg? I wonder... If you think ~900 posts in a year in any way affects my personal life, I am genuinely sad for you and the effect 6000+ posts a year has on yours.

Once again, the best response you come up with is, "NO YOU". A day without responding to your posts? You've started FIVE threads that are at the top of the list right now and they're totally inane. It's hard not to respond to your crap because you SATURATE the whole forum. As for personal, get over it. You've made a clown of yourself, the whole community makes fun of you for it and has labelled you for the hack that you are. You're too emotionally invested in the Liberal brand and 18000 posts of partisan Liberal garbage in 3 years shows that. You're trying WAY hard and you care WAY too much. My woman is the centre of my universe. The Liberals, on the other hand, are the centre of yours.

Check my post count and check yours. Tell me which of us is obsessive. The intellectual voids that are the majority of your posts draw my mockery like a moth to the flame. I'm so sorry it bothers you, but I get kicks out picking apart stupid/blind/partisan rhetoric and skewed facts. I don't save it just for you, you're just the most dogmatic and persistent of my targets. I eagerly await another, "I know you are but what am I?" response.

In your own words: I'm not personalizing, I'm merely pointing out my observations of your behavior. Dobbin Derangement Syndrome? You've actually named your condition? I'm not upset about it, but I do feel bad for you and how hard you try.

Bush led us out of what recession? 2001? or this one?