Sir Bandelot

Education could also mean, you know, how not to be a moron. Or how to get off the dope, booze, or punching yourself out. But its much easier to incarcerate... "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" Dancer: "Humbug, I say!!"

How would they pay? I guess most of them don't have jobs. Should we charge them room and board too> Maybe they could just move them to New Brunswick

I would like a PhD please

Corbeil is Harpers best friend, and CTV is the Liberals best friend. It's all politics, man

You don't necessarily need to hand out money to every poor person, but you could use the money to run a program, that gives the poor a chance at making their own life happen. Education, employment or something like that which empowers the person to move on, without government support. Give a person a fish, and they has a meal for one day. Teach a person to fish, and they can feed themselves for a lifetime. Assuming, they like fish...

The prison-industrial complex is the foundation of American capitalism. Today there are no slaves, but 20% of the population are ex-cons.

Just use hugs

Too bad he wasn't a muslim http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/02/new.yo...ercy/index.html

Its not a big deal. Better the robber gets killed than the others. So shooting the guy is correct, an act of self defense. But if the robber is already down, and gven the option to detain them or kill them, I say killing them is wrong. However the store owner should get leniency. Can't say what I would do in the same circumstances, but thats the law. I would uphold it.

I don't know about the Texas case, but if he went back and shot an injured man to death, that should be grounds for conviction.

Thats ludicrous. If the prisoner says that they don't know anything, they have no information to offer, what then? They get a free vacation at Disneyland?

No tax increases, no decreases. No reduction in spending for services, I am tired of paying for nothing. More accountability in spending, less bureaucratic waste. Theres too many hogs at the trough in our public funded institutions. Just look at the published list of the $100K club. There's no value for our money there. No deficit spending. It only benefits the wealthy.

I suggest it doesn't matter what you think, or what Pierre even meant. It only matters what the public thinks. Public perception, whether right or wrong... thats politics. I also suggest that he should do more to learn about the meaning of such colorful phrases, before attempting to use them. The fact that he has a history of foot in mouth disease, from previous bigoted comments does not help the party. Who is the stupid, illiterate one here? He probably never read Uncle Remus.

There's the need to be "interesting", and then there's the need to believe in and defend right from wrong. One of your leaders has come out and spoken plainly about what he believes. Petraeus Criticizes Gitmo And Torture May 29th, 2009- Last week, Gen. David Petraeus told Radio Free Europe that he supports President Obama’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and that he opposes the use of so-called “enhance interrogation techniques.” “I have long been on record as having testified and also in helping write doctrine for interrogation techniques that are completely in line with the Geneva Convention,” Petraeus said. Today in an interview with Fox News, Petraeus reiterated his support for a “responsible closure” of Gitmo but went a bit further, noting that the prison has been harmful to the U.S. PETRAEUS: Gitmo has caused us problems, there’s no question about it. I oversee a region in which the existence of Gitmo has indeed been used by the enemy against us. We have not been without missteps or mistakes in our activities since 9/11. And again, Gitmo is a lingering reminder for the use of some in that regard. ------ Of course with guys like you its always a little hard to tell whats really meant, and whats being said simply as part of ones duty to the current administration. I suppose you'll be changing your tune now, being the spitzbub that you always are?

Incorrect... as usual. "In an interview, Toni Morrison said the following of its use in her book, in an acting of reclaiming: "Tar Baby is also a name, like 'nigger,' that white people call black children, black girls, as I recall…. " Google it. But, I don't think this guy meant it that way. It does not make sense in the context of what he was trying to say. Still that is how the term is understood by many people. If he doesn't know what he's saying, he should still be held responsible. The term was also recently used against Barack Obama in a derogatory way- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/g...b_n_101793.html I am not making this up

Its a fair point... but then there's be nothing to say if we didn't have some kind of argument.

The fact that you don't care, means nothing to me either. So we have something in common

If its privatized, why can't I get out of it?

Oh no, I'm far to easy going for that! With you, one always knows what to expect! At best you are only mildly amusing. After I've had a beer or three

Yeah you keep on showin your little happy faces, with every post. In lieu of any useful, meaningful content. Boring

What does it say, in your view? I would love to know

Maybe your not a bi-polar thinker, maybe you're just trying to get under someones skin. If thats the case my advice is stop licking ass. No point in getting "cozy" with a worm... it will roll over you just the same as it does anyone else, if and when need be

This is an old expression that goes back many years. To me it always meant a derogative term towards black children. Even if he used the term incorrectly, he should still apologize. "Poilievre hasn't officially apologized and the controversy continues to spread in Ottawa. In a press release issued Friday afternoon, the PMO stated that the term has been used by national media in Canada for something that sticks. The prime minister's office appears to be digging in its heels and refusing to apologize." http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/home/cont...showbyline=True Canadians will perceive this as stubbornness and insensitivity of the Prime Ministers office and members of the CPC. There have been enough allegations of racism already, and even if the term was used unintentionally, this adds to that negative image of the party.

Anyone with a thinking brain could see that and knew that already. " not sure why you had to take a page out of DoP's immature style of responses." Because they are bi-polar thinkers. They think that there is a clear and simple division between things, and everything falls into those categories. Their logic is simple- "if your against Israel, you must support the muslim extremists" This is a Bushism, in other words abject stupidity. That and a little goading just to bug you- hence the need for "high fives".

Right... what I said. When its you, its a whole different story, on either side of the fence. But its STILL done to the most poor and harmless. Easy pickins for cowards, easy criticism for armchair oafs.