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Aside from his loyal group of fringe nutters, it will be very hard for Hillier to win over any of the 416/519/905

I don't think anyone has anything against a coalition, but the conservatives moved swiftly with their disinformation campaign ("it's not democratic") that moved public opinion against it, as well as people being uncomfortable with having the Bloc in government. For what it's worth, I think the next election will see a short-lived conservative minority followed by a lib-ndp coalition. Harper will resign & Liberals will win a majority when the coalition is no longer convenient.

Well, much of that had to do with the Bloc being part of the equation.

The Liberals are surging across the country, notably in Quebec, and are at 36% support nationally. The NDP are bleeding support to the Librals and many conservatives are disillusioned with the current government. Ignatieff is going to look to topple the conservatives the first chance he gets, but he doesn't have enough support to do it alone. Harper doesn't have any room to grow anymore, he's lucky to keep his current supporters. Layton has at most one more kick at the can before his caucus revolts and demands a new leader. So what is stopping Mr Harper from entering a coalition with the NDP? Give Jack Layton a cabinet seat (something like Public Works or Indian Affairs) and maybe a few other NDPers and sign a 2 year agreement to vote confidence in the new government. Layton would be a hero in his party for achieving what no one else has before, and Harper would have a convenient excuse to continue spending (Jack made me do it!) This move would also paint Ignatieff as the scary right wing monster and Harper as the centrist leaving the left for Jack alone. The NDP could then work on strengthening their support in Quebec and Toronto by getting concessions the liberals couldn't get from Harper. Lets face it, consecutive minority governments are the future, and after next election another coalition will be formed. The only thing the cons & ndp have in common is an important one, the liberals are enemy #1.

The Beer Store is mostly run by young adults between the ages of 19 to 27, with the older, grumpier employees ranging between 27 to retirement. Most employees are of a strange human design... They are grumpy, and hate you. In fact just walking into the store you'll probably get some sort of terrible label on you from any of the employees, regardless of how nicely you are dressed. And if you are returning empties, you are at the very bottom of the list of terrible things you can say about someone. So let us begin this factual guide about how you can visit the beer store, and not come off looking like an asshole, and perhaps get the grumpy employees to maybe smile, or treat you like a human- rather then a piece of shit. Returning Empties: Everyone at some point will have empties to return. The question is how many empties will you have? Could be 1 case, could be 10, and could be 50. But here also lies the problem. The first thing all Beer Store employees working the empties register will look for are "ARE THE EMPTIES SORTED." The first thing you need to ask your self when you walk into the Beer Store to return a shit pile of empties is “ARE MY EMPTIES SORTED." If the answer to this question is no, and you are returning more then 1 case, its time to get your shit together. Because if you don’t, you just increased your wait time from a possible 10 seconds, to a minute per case (in some cases longer), depending on how fed up the employee is with his place of employment. It’s very simple to sort your empties. Like colors go together. That’s sorting for beginners. At the minimum this should be done. But to get more cheers from the angry employees, a real sorting master will return all their beer in their appropriate cases. Heineken and Moosehead are both green, but they are not the same, and are not sorted the same. Keeping all brands off beer in their appropriate case cuts your wait time down... Also makes the employee more delighted to serve you- quickly and efficiently. The next part is volume of empties. If you are returning more then 1 cart full of empties, you should not grab 2-3 carts, take them to your car and start filling them up. When you do this, you are an asshole. Both the employees will hate you and everyone else will to... Why the hate? Because common sense dictates that A) you’re not the only customer in the world. Others need those carts. You’re going to try and bring all your empties in at the same time, the volume creates a huge slowdown in the line, and anyone else who wants to return just a case, or a bottle needs to wait 10 minutes because you just used all the roller space up for your own greedy little self. Employees see right through your bullshit, and your wait time has just increased 10 fold. Being a good person goes a long way. If it’s not busy, ask the employees if you can take an extra cart out. If it is busy, take 1 cart at a time. Make sure that the empties you are returning are sorted- especially in large volume. Someone with 10 cases that are sorted is served almost instantly. A person with 10 cases that are unsorted, the wait time varies by how badly unsorted it is. If you look like an asshole, you will be treated like one. Be ready to wait. And good luck complaining no one really gives a shit that you waited 10-15 minutes for your empties money. I’m sure you’ll get a call back from someone that will do a little dick sucky sucky over the phone, but the reality is, no one is going to get punished. Just you lose 15 minutes of your life. They still get payed. The next important thing on this list is Empties from the Liquor store and Cans and Bottles in Bags. Cans are interesting entities because for the most part, unless you seem like a lying son of a bitch, they will take your word for it... As in- "how many in this bag?" "15" "sounds good". Don’t lie. Eventually you will get caught and you will be treated like a piece of shit. Another important fact to remember when returning cans- BAGS in BAGS is stupid. Those cans need to come out. Example, you have 5 little bags with 10 cans in each little bag... Then you put those 5 little bags in 1 big garbage bag. THIS IS WRONG. Do not do this. If you do this you will wait a long time in line. You will be frowned upon and treated like an asshole. The easier you make the employees life, the better you will be treated. Bottles in Bags... Don’t ever put your bottles on the counter in a bag, and say you’re ready to go- especially beer bottles. You are an asshole if you do this. If you are returning bottles in plastic bags open up the bag and take the bottles out and put them into a tray. No one should have to blindly put their hand into your shit. Take it out and do it right. You want to be an asshole, leave them in the bag. Then tell me about how great the service was. Liquor store returns are great because it goes into a crusher. Except for plastic and tetra pack returns. If its not glass, it doesn't go with glass. When you sort your liquor empties keep glass with glass, plastic with plastic, etc. Don’t put cans in with your liquor bottles. Keep em separated. Things move faster if we don’t have to sort cans from glass. If we do, that means we can’t just dump the glass and save you time... We need to sort... And sorting takes time, especially if you got that special asshole quality about you. I think we've finally got to the MOST important part of this guide. DAYS and times to and not to return your empties: When you return your empties on a nice Sunny Sunday, you look like a moron and an asshole all in one. Why? Sundays are notorious empty return days. The lines are almost always long, except during some weird off times. Wait times are almost quadrupled because the employees take their sweet, sweet time... And most of the assholes on Sundays don’t even care, or don’t even bother to sort their empties. So we take our time to do it right. Either in front of you, or in the back. In any case its lose, lose situation for you because you lose a gorgeous Sunday afternoon waiting in line at the beer store to return 2$ in empties... Know the store hours... If we close at 5, don’t bring your empties at 4:58. They won’t let you in. Closed. Want to argue about it? Yell at the glass door because they don’t give a shit what you thought. Close at 9? Don’t come at 8:58 with empties. This is really simple... You’ve had all day to return your empties; closing time is not the time to do it. They'll do you a favor and sell you beer... But they won’t take your empties; you can put those bottles up your ass. Rule of thumb, if you got more then 5$ in empties, don’t even show up 15 minutes before close. Early bird special. Every asshole lines up just before the beer store is about to open thinking they will avoid the lines or be first. First nobody don’t give a shit who gets in first. You all wait. Second, why would you want to be the first one into the beer store anyway? You look like a degenerate. The times are hard to predict and they fluctuate almost daily. Your best bet to return empties are during dinner hours- in Toronto between 630 and 8, and afternoon hours usually between 11 and 3, and not on Toronto Recycling days for the immediate area around the Beer Store- those days are just anyone’s game.

The planet today has fifty-five thousand nuclear weapons, almost all of which are more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasai, and some of these bombs are a thousand times more powerful. Some twenty to twenty-two thousand of these are called stragetic weapons. If we were to define a city as having more than one hundred thousand people in it, there are twenty-three hundred cities on Earth. The United States and the Soviets could, if they wished, destroy every city on Earth and have eighteen thousand stragetic weapons left over to do something else with. Here is a fun scenario: Let's say Russia decides to stop making nuclear weapons for 10 years and we decide to make Anti-nukes for those 10 years. It is believed that we could get rid of 90% of the nukes the Russians could send at us. The remaining 10% would still be enough to destroy the world tenfold. A proposal: Take the billions of dollars spent yearly on these weapons and spend it on something else, FTW.

Exactly. It is not enough to be willing to die for your country, you must be willing to kill What law would that be? this isn't sienfeld, there is no good samaritan law

We live in a bad economic time. If someone has $2,000,000 or more they should have to share like 10% with unemployed people of the same race. reasons why: 1.) economy is bad and unemployment is at a record high yet greedy fat cats get to have a savings with 7 figures? wow..... 2.) people don't mind helping their own race thoughts or opinions? i heard 4 fat guys were stealing billions of dollars and buying jets with our taxes

Anyone who currently does not have a provincial seat does not stand a chance. It looks like it will be a Harris crony who gets the top job, and I don't think the people of Ontario are ready for more slash & burn policies in this economy. McGuinty, while a compentent manager, will never get my vote for his draconian pit bull ban. That leaves the new ndp chick, Horwath. While it's hard to get excited about a feminist unionist, I've got no other choice.

It's scary when people find it perfectly acceptable to lynch mob people because of their personal beliefs Imagine if your coworkers suddenly started prying you on your personal beliefs (or lack thereof), then started pressing your boss on firing you for having beliefs contrary to their own. Sounds quite 3rd Reich-like. Instead of attacking the man's personal beliefs, why not focus on examples of how what he believes affected his job performance in a negative way. The libs aren't going to win any friends with this stunt and likely to offend many of their own if Kinsella starts attacking Christians again (funny how he will sue if anyone slags jews, but christians are open game).

What about in child-rape cases, or any other crime involving serious emotional trauma? It would only cause further stress & harm to the victim to be forced to face their accused.

+1 Funny thing about Americans, they don't mind the government taking a page out of Socialism to buy out every mismanaged company in the US (ensuring the have's continue to have) but there would be riots in the streets if the US gov't nationalized all of these companies since that would be communist