wyly

optics for the home audience attempting to make him look more important on the world stage...he/we are insignificant bit players and always will be...

delusions of grandeur ...as if anyone in India knows who he is, knows he's there or even cares...

we went through an intense cold war without a war and now we're rapidly expanding trade and social contacts with these former adversaries who are themselves becoming more capitalistic and open...and you believe they want to throw all their social and market gains away so they go to war?..seriously where is the sense in that, for what reason would they destroy their economies, wars are horrifically expensive there is no economic benefit..they have nothing to gain....the odds of canada going to war with russia or china or being attacked by any country in the next 50 yrs are the same as me winning the lotto, zero....

nicely done michael, if these had been identified as muslims it would change the nature of the debate entirely...

this all very "reds under beds" derek "touch and goes" on 2nd hand carriers really? yup fellow canadians we're in eminent peril of the Chinese capturing Ellesmere island, be afraid be very afraid... we need an f35 on every street corner to protect us from the chinese corporate world and unfriendly rouge Somalian pirates...

everyday? I wee bit of an exaggeration don't you think?...I recall seeing a tabulation of deaths due to terrorism vs US bombing/military interventions and it isn't even close...you're safer living with terrorists than being saved by americans...

ahh they have an proven aggressive expeditionary nation patrolling in their territorial region with multiple carrier fleets so ya they can be justified having a solitary unarmed carrier puttering around in their own regional waters...and we need f35's to counter this imaginary threat of a carrier with no planes?

I played the damn busters with the skipping bombs simulation years ago, I sucked and gave up...I never managed to ever blow up the damn...

I heard rumors of a Halo movie but other than that I don't know of any...

yup, it's inevitable just like taxes...

having a carrier doesn't make a country an aggressive power, they have a seacoast and the right to patrol as they see fit, they don't even have planes for their carrier...if carriers aren't already obsolete they will be in 10 yrs anyways...and ten years is probably the earliest the chinese will have planes on a 2nd rate used carrier...

libya is a threat?.... libya was never a threat or an enemy to us... we needed stealth planes to bomb libya?...if had drones they could have bombed libya...

when exactly did the chinese become an expeditionary power?...they aren't our enemies and neither are the russians...the russians aren't even an expeditionary power...the USA on the other hand is....

and who would those imaginary enemies be that threaten us, Denmark/Greenland?...you're stretching to find credible threats where none exist, this is more plane than what we need...a super hornet is all we require until the unnamed drones take over the shies completely making man fighters obsolete at a fraction of the cost...

so what.... are we going to war with China?... for what reason?... for the oil we're happy to sell to them?... to force us to buy their products that we already eagerly buy?...and why should fear a Chinese stealth plane that will never even have the range to even approach canada? and even if in some wild implausible scenario we ended up in a war with China do you really believe a couple dozen stealth fighters with limited range is going to save us from any aggressive nuclear superpower? I give us a day at most before we're neutralized and surrender...

as I've already posted JT is already older than Joe Clark when he became PM and in 2015 will a year or two younger than Mulroney when he became PM and likewise John Kennedy when he became President... age wise he's in good place...

I have a landline still, it's a rare day that I answer it, mrs wyly wants to keep it even though she rarely answers it either, and my kids won't even move toward if it rings, "you answer it, it's not for me I have my cel !"...

that's true, there is the charisma effect that has been known to sweep away anything in it's path, it's an irrational voting reason but it does happen...

indeed...the guy hasn't won anything and the rightwing is already going into hysterics/panic/attack mode...

ya always be suspect of polls...I read earlier today the Rassmusen poll only contacts landlines, if that's true they're reaching an older demographic than polls that include celphone users...

well, as long as you have no issues with 10's of millions starving...

because the traditional damns come with their own problems...there need to be new designs that avoid environmental damage, salmon hate damns....

suddenly China's one child policy begins to look like a very astute move in long range planning...

process chemicals...."In natural surface waters in the Athabasca region,naphthenic acids are found at a concentration of 1-2 mg/L. In oil sands talings, naphthenic acids can exceed 100 mg/L" -(S.S. Leung et al, 2003). Naphthenic acids are toxic to mammals, causing liver and heart damage and brain hemorrhage at high doses and weight lose and liver enlargement from chronic exposure (Rogers et al, 2002).At lethal doses, naphthenic acids cause nervous system depression, convulsion and respiratory arrest leading to death in mice. Yellow perch eggs exposed to naphthenic acids showed increased rates of deformity and lower birth size than those not exposed (Peters et al, 2007). Nestling tree swallows exposed to oil sands tailings containing naphthenic acids show lower weight and are less able to withstand stress than those not exposed, decreasing their chance of survival (M-L Gentes et al, 2006). Naphthenic acids influence the community structure of aquatic microorganisms at concentrations beginning at 6-20 mg/L (S.S. Leung et al, 2003). http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/default.asp?lang=en&n=AC708134-1

it's not a secret I don't why everyone is surprised..it's a fact that tar sand development is polluting the surrounding watershed...