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FOX doesn't belittle Canada in Afghanistan, FOX belittles Canada for wishing a break after Afghanistan.

To be deserving of exclusive ownership of a property, you have to compensate all those who are losing access to this property.

What sadden me is to see that there are Canadians who seem to believe that, even though Canada is very young, it should have a solid foundation.

The selfish gene thesis (Richard Dawkins) is still well accepted by biologists. One thing biologists find harder to explain is how come such genes stick together.

Owning something and deserving something are far from equivalent. To see why think about how problematic the "first come, first served" principle is.

Rules put in place when Petro-Canada was a state-owned company limit any investor from owning more than 20 percent of the company. How Suncor will overcome this government hurdle wasn't immediately clear. It could structure the transaction as a reverse takeover, which technically means that Petro-Canada will be the surviving legal entity, even though Suncor will be in full control of the merged company. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/...ises-questions/

White collar criminals (Kenneth Lay, etc.) are usually bright people, they also usually say to their judges that they were convinced that in the long run they would have been able to return their companies to real profitability.

The winners deserve their prizes only if they were risking their own money and were risk averse at the time when they purchased their tickets. If not, of course they are lucky (brute luck) to get the money.

After you buy shares, please behave like an owner.

When one looks hastily, Ignatieff’s smile can seem appealing, but when one takes a more careful look, the smile is scary. He seems to me a Big Brother who wants to become intimate with you by imitating how a Little Bother would speak to you.

To me, deserving money is having done a real sacrifice in order to obtain it.

Yet another company that risks becoming too big to fail, if the Competition Bureau doesn't do its duty.

No one really fears socialism. Also no one really fears inflation that is losing the purchasing power of the money they actually keep idle. People are afraid of losing their jobs because no one is now buying anything. Obama doesn't have to be called paternalist because he understands that economic recovery will happen only when the fear of inflation will become stronger than the fear of unemployment; when one fears that his money may become worthless, he spends it. That is how one restarts economic activities.

In the circumstances, too much care about the long-term would be the worst kind of paternalism one can envision.

What are private mailboxes made for!?

My very first impression in this incident was that Goodyear was the prey to a pack of journalists acting like hyenas.

Work is a production factor, (social) capital is another one. Social capital is "shared norms or values that promote social cooperation, instantiated in actual social relationships" (Francis Fukuyama). If you don't trust Obama, be prepared to live like Robinson Crusoe.

Chrysler is more related to the virginity of New World than to the ugly affairs of the Old Continent.

Maybe Goodyear unease comes from a perception that the evolution theory is too much geared toward competition and he is simply trying to make cooperation more recognized.

Why should the government refuse to give money as a first step since it has the capacity to determine the value of that money in the next step!?

No. What I'm saying is that trust (in others) is per se the most worthy capital we have to keep a society up and running .

- MPs and ministers are not doing a job, they are filling public functions. - In the case of Goodyear, we have a Christian that doesn't quite understand the flexibility allowed by his own religion. - You will not find a Catholics politician who is uneasy about saying that abortion is not a good thing.

It's not because something doesn't apply anymore that it stops having explaining power about our present situation.

Bottom line, you cannot find the meaning of something like the Matrix (see the movie) if you are inside it.

Thomas Malthus : 1766-1834 Charles Darwin : 1809-1882