ironstone
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The acquittal was correct in that he was not really promoting hate,although he is clearly a bigot.What most people are afraid to admit is that our hate laws are not really meant to be applied to visible minorities in any case.There,I said it.
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Except you didnt.
Serves some purpose and one of those is to keep courts unclogged. Make it better, get rid of the extreme left wing portion of it and away we go.
The extreme left wing portion?!! That is the COMPLETE makeup of Human Rights Commissions!
By all means,disband them,cut off their funding,whatever it takes.They are stacked with ultra left wingers with their own agenda.Common sense and fairness are NOT part of the equation.The scariest part is they feel they are accountable to no one.
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So I guess in hospitals in the Middle East they don't use rubbing alcohol at all?
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I did see the video of this incident on MSNBC a week or so ago.It's a horrible thing to see,believe me.Elsewhere in this thread someone mentions that six of the officers involved have been on paid leave for 16 months,and counting!After seeing this video,my sympathy lies with the victim and his family.I've always been a strong supporter of the police but I these days I think less of them.It seems there are more than just a few bad cops out there and often they themselves are almost immune from the laws they are sworn to uphold.What's the most common punishment a police officer recieves?A lengthy suspension....with full pay and benefits,often exceeding a year!Sounds more like a vacation to me.
I believe the victim in this case was tasered,not once,but six times.Why could these officers not make more of an effort to calm him down?Do they have no training for just such a situation?Maybe they were trigger-happy and anxious to use their weapons.
The guy was going to live with his mother that he had not seen in years for crying out loud!Being in an airport makes me stressed out ,so I can only imagine what it was like for this poor man,unable to communicate and obviously scared.
I doubt anything good will come of this and the officers will milk the situation for more vacation time.
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I know it's not politically correct to write this,but sovereigntists in particular and Quebecers in general are very thin skinned.Watch out for the outrage!The indignation!The nerve of it all!
In Canada there is an unwritten rule that Quebec is the centre of our universe,everyone is just too afraid to admit it.
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For every pro-Harper or Pro-Bush article there are a dozen opposite opinions. I don't really care.
What Obama represents is hope after eight years of evil stupidity. Bush was never as popular as you think. He stole the first election and probably the second, and his Patriot Act took away American's civil rights to oppose anything he did.
At a time of crisis people want someone to tell them it's going to be OK. Obama represents that whether you want to believe it or not. The Republicans are now barely breathing and the Canadian Conservatives are on life support, until the next election when we can pull the plug.
I've never liked Harper but only started hating him in December, when he put national unity on the line to save his job, and told more lies than Pinocchio. That is not the job of the Prime Minister.
Obama represents hope you say?He certainly campaigned on that premise....and little else in my opinion.Since the time that he was sworn in he could hardly be said to be promoting hope.How about plain old fearmongering?http://www.dangardner.ca/Coljan2309.html
You can't expect to be taken seriously here while using phrases like"eight years of evil stupidity".Bush may be many things to many people,but he was in no way,shape or form evil.The word evil can describe someone like Hitler(National SOCIALIST German Workers Party) or Joseph Stalin(Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics).Don't use a powerful word like evil to describe former President Bush,you are only embarassing yourself.He likely won't be ranked among the best Presidents but he did do some positive things during his eight years.There were no successful acts of terrorism on American soil after 9/11.The U.S. economy was relatively ok for six of eight years.
Under Bush,the U.S. contributed more funds to combat the spread of AIDS in Africa than any other President did.He should be given credit for that at least.
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I guess the topic will be started at some point today. The visit will be brief and probably won't accomplish much, but what will the relationship between Harper and Obama be? Besides short.
You can downplay Obama's popularity if you want, but public opinion is important, and Canadians love him, as do I. Again, not blindly, but he represents hope after eight years of terror.
Are Harper and Obama going to be buddies?
"Obama is charismatic and charming, whereas Harper has made a career on his lack of personality. Obama reaches across party lines, where Harper had to cause a constitutional crisis before deciding to play nice with the opposition." They may have a few things in common, but fundamentally the two are the exact opposites.
A recent poll included the question "who would you rather have meet Obama?" 51% said Ignatieff and only 31% Harper. As one poster puts it: "The fact that Obama waited for Ignatieff's signal about the fate of the government is an embarrassment for Harper."
Another story today is Ignatieff and the fact that his visit has been cut to 10 minutes. Was this a political trick of Harper's? Who knows, but we now know that Ignatieff has close personal friends in Obama's administration.
Ignatieff expects longer meeting with Obama
"The meeting was initially supposed to be 30 minutes. Ignatieff, who has close friends in Obama's administration, hinted it may have been the Prime Minister's Office that influenced the time of the meeting." This will go well for Ignatieff next election, with so many Canadians in love with the new president, and expect Obama and Iggy to have a mutual respect and close relationship. It's all about perception.
You have been clearly too caught up in this crazy Obamamania phenomenon.According to you,the only thing that matters in politics is popularity....and nothing else.George W.Bush was popular at one time as well,and the fact that he ended his term as an unpopular leader does not automatically make him the worst President ever.Time will tell.
A common misconception is that Harper and Obama are polar opposites and that Harper was a carbon copy of Bush.You should do a bit more research on that subject.Here is an article you may want to read.http://www.dangardner.ca/Coloct0308.html
Why does style trump substance these days in so many aspects of our lives?
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So, King Iggy blasted National Geographic, and provided a short-term, pragmatic defense of the Alberta oil sands. He also admitted it wasn't clean enough (a long-term synopsis).
Would it also be big-brained and progressive to come to the defense of the CBC in light of the Cons recent shunning of the venerable public icon ? We all know the Cons want to destroy the gov't run national media source. The Republican party and all Neo-Cons despise the CBC, so it MUST be destroyed... (according to the extreme wing of the Conservative party).
The CBC is not exactly what I would call government-run.On the whole,I find them rather left- leaning to say the least.There is one difference between the Alberta oil sands project and the CBC that comes to mind.One of them provides billions of dollars to fund other parts of the country,the other entity consumes over one billion dollars of taxpayers money annually.
I would also like to point out that according to the ratings,not too many people actually watch or listen to the CBC as compared to the competition.
If it were up to me,I would love to see the CBC have to work for their funding,similar to PBS in the U.S.Their funding should be reduced annually until it recieved zero taxpayer dollars.
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More certainly needs to be done with the oil sands from an environmental perspective,and this takes lot's of time and money.The Americans have plenty of coal,but from what I read,it's worse than the oil sands.The Chinese are building many coal fired plants right now to meet their energy demands,but there is little protest from the environmentalists about that it seems.There are so many things to consider here.The stupid part is,here in Canada some of those protesting the loudest about Alberta's oil sands(Quebec springs to mind),are the biggest recipients of money from Alberta.
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The U.S. government has to take the hit.
Taxpayers will take the hit,lol.
One can't keep up with who owns what in the automotive world these days.I read that an Indian car company owns Rover now?How the world has changed.
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Ideally,welfare should be considered temporary relief during hard times.Unfortunately,there will be many that fall through the cracks through no fault of their own.However,I do have a problem with those that are on welfare for life and have no intention of ever getting a job.I don't know what it's like currently,but at one time it was apparently very easy to defraud the system.Back in the 80's I remember one guy that never worked at all,he just collected welfare from different provinces under different names.This guy owned property in B.C. and could afford to have his sister flown out from there to Ontario!Hopefully the system has been tightened up since then.I also remember a series of articles in the Ottawa Sun about welfare fraud,particularly one fraud artist who said Ottawa was his favourite city because he could go to every welfare office on the same day....and recieve money,lol.
My heart goes out to any honest person ending up on welfare because of circumstances beyond their control.
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"Buy Canadian" is bad policy,unless the Canadian product in question is the best available and provides the best value.This sends the wrong message to countries which buy our exports.Just more drivel from the powerful union bosses.I want the freedom to choose what I want to buy thank you very much.Protectionism is NOT the answer!
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Yet his favouribility rating is 80%. What is the Republicans? Oh is it 30% no wait it is lower sorry got it wrong.
So if a President's popularity is high,whatever he does is always right?
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The difference with Obama is not that he will occasionally run into people who have issues in their past. It is that he deals with it in an open and honest manner.
Obama on Reverend Wright"I never heard him say any of that stuff."
Obama on William Ayers"I thought he was rehabilitated."
You're joking right?....
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I have my doubts about the stimulus package.It's about massive spending.....and little else!The way that this package has been passed is outrageous to say the least.Almost 1100 pages that were not read by ANYONE!Is this the more open government that Obama promised Americans during the campaign?Quite an about face,from "hope and change" to the message of fear which we now get from the White House.
I hope Obama will eventually shine as President(even though I think he pulled off the biggest con-job in history by winning
) but time will tell.I'm no expert,but how about getting a handle on what caused the problems in the first place before the reckless spending orgy?
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I think this is clearly a foolish idea to start with.Is there such a thing as "black" math or science?There should be outrage from all sides here but because this idea seems to have some support among blacks everyone is afraid to touch this one with the proverbial ten foot pole.I wonder what the early pioneers in the civil rights movement would think of this.
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I could use some help here please.As I only have dial up internet available where I live,Youtube is a site I can't really check out.What exactly,is this car video about?
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If indeed the knives are being drawn behind Mr.Harper's back,it's too bad.Yes he does keep a rather tight rein on his members,but so did the morally bankrupt Jean Chretien.Funny how his supporters described this as an example of fine leadership,but Harper is portrayed as a dictator.One huge difference between Harper and Chretien though,for all his faults,real or imagined,at heart he an honest man.The same certainly cannot be said of someone like Chretien.If Harper is on the way out,at least there are many talented people to choose a successor from.
As for King Iggy,he is a good fit to lead the Liberal Party.He seems to change like a chameleon,depending on what he thinks the people want to hear.Iggy certainly has the Liberal "royal jelly" as far as arrogance is concerned.He had better win the next election big time,or the knives will come out for him too....
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Does deficit financing help the economy?I'm not sure really.I think about the many decades of deficit financing by Liberals and Conservative till around the mid-nineties,and to what end?Ultimately,we and future generations will be saddled with huge debt.The interest alone is in the tens of billions of dollars annually,money that could be spent more wisely elsewhere.
There is one thing a sitting government could do to alleviate the situation,at least a little bit.Imagine having efficiency in all the many levels of government in this country.Currently,every single gov't department in Canada adheres to the "use it or lose it"mentality as it regards to their respective annual budgets.This encourages and promotes waste,and it never get's better.Imagine the savings if Canada didn't have an enormous,bloated public service.I know a number of people in the public service and I shake my head in disgust at the stories from the inside.Wouldn't it be nice to severely limit public funding to special interest groups as well?I wonder how many exist for the sole purpose of collecting public funds.
Government does not really create jobs,they have the power to create an environment which may help,or too often,hinder the creation of jobs.High taxes,red tape,a veritable sea of bureaucracy,too much of which does not help the economy.
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This is kind of an ugly topic to be honest.It's true,every President recieves death threats,be they Replicans or Democrats.If I were American I would have never voted for Obama,but I also don't want to see him,or ANY President recieve death threats.There are many nut cases out there,from the left and right.
Obama deserves a chance to show what he can do at least.Watching the O'Reilly Factor the other night,they brought up a good point,will Obama prove to be a pragmatist or an idealogue?I hope he turns toward pragmatism given his association with the likes of William Ayers.
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If Omar Khadr is repatriated back to Canada,he stands a pretty good chance of being set free almost immediately.If this is the case,he will be reunited with his family.You know all about his family don't you?Daddy was an close associate of none other than Osama Bin Laden himself.With the possible exception of one family member,all others strongly support terrorism and have an intense hatred for the West.I wonder what the reason was for them coming here in the first place?Do you suppose it's because Canada would be an easy place to openly promote Jihad?
If(when?)Omar Khadr get's back with his family,he will have graduated from a so-called child soldier into the big league of terrorism.Think about it...
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Public service union leaders are mainly concerned with more money for themselves,working less,protecting lazy workers,squeezing as much as possible out of non-union taxpayers.
They support democracy(but ONLY when they get their way),free speech(as long as nobody opposes their point of view),they are anti-war(sending unguided rockets into civilian areas is fine,depends on who is doing it).Unions support human rights selectively(they will say nothing about regimes that for instance,deny woman the right to an education).Whether union leaders speak out against something depends largely on the one's doing the action(s) in question.Are the offenders considered right wing or left wing?It makes all the difference in the world,as left wingers generally have a free hand to do anything without fear of protest from fellow left wingers.
As you may have guessed,I have little use for public service unions.
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Gosh,I'm afraid that if I were to admit that I strongly oppose stoning a person to death,in this case what may be the current practice in Iran or other similar countries,someone is going to call me a bigot.Or that I've been brainwashed by the Israeli lobbyists.Whatever.In certain circumstances,I support the death penalty,as long as it's done quicky to minimize suffering.
If this is the start of a movement to abolish a truly horrific practice,then it is progress,however small.
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It is a wonderful thing to be able to freely express an opinion.Can anyone in the Middle East openly express their opinion,outside of Israel?Without fear of retribution by the government?.......I wouldn't think so,but I could be wrong.
No,I haven't been brainwashed by anyone,I form an opinion based on what I see and read.I don't think I'm a bigot either,any more than someone who would blames the "Israeli lobbyists" for all their troubles.Wanting to wipe a country off the face of the map,and repeatedly saying so,now that sounds racist/evil/demented etc to me.
I don't hate Muslims or Jews or any other identifiable group.What I do hate is the hard core types,seeking to impose their sick views on others by way of inciting hatred.I can't understand why there is so much support for these movement from all quarters.
As for Irans nuclear program,it is exceedingly naive to dismiss the comments of the Iranian leader as nothing to worry about.The free world must stand up to nutbars like this,as we naturally can't count on the dictatorships.
Afghanistan war un-winnable?
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The question perhaps should be,can the West contain the Taliban instead of defeating them once and for all.They have long had a stronghold in Pakistan and the Pakistani government is openly showing their weakness in allowing Sharia law to be imposed by the Taliban where they are strong.Almost certainly this will continue to spread in the Muslim world if nobody is willing to stand against it.The Taliban are every bit as brutal(although on a smaller scale...for now)as the Nazis or Communists were in their time.
The appeaseniks must be squirming right now since the most popular politician in the world wants to dramatically increase the number of troops in Afghanistan.