Bryan

I'm right with you there. My wife and her friends on the other hand consider it the best part of the year. I'm just glad they don't make me come with them.

When coming back from Black Friday, Canadians are generally given an full exemption for whatever they have. My wife and her friends make Black Friday an annual girls trip, and they always completely fill the van, going WAYYYY over their limits, and they're always just waived through without even being asked what they bought or what the value was. It's easy to figure out, and it's usually a lot less than people think. I primarily shop online, and It's very rare to ever get any extra charges for things bought through the mail internationally. It's less than one order in 50 that I see any tax or duty added.

Not Conservative enough. Prentice is a PC, not a Reformer.

Wildrose was a necessary alternative under Stelmach and Redford. With Prentice at the helm, they aren't really needed anymore (at least not for the purpose they were formed). That makes it much harder for them to even justify their place as it is now, nevermind convince people to vote them into office.

The ridings in question don't appear to have received anything other than individual donations. The corruption, if there is any, looks like it was on SNC-Lavalin's part for reimbursing their employees political donations.

Yup, when the opposition acts like children, they don't get to play anymore either.

What is revisionist? The LPC and NDP rejected the Conservative budget and threatened to bring down the government unless they spend a giant pile of money. At the time, even the huge increase in spending they did get was criticized by the opposition parties as not enough.

How can I get in on this? I was born here, but I'll move to....say... Cuba for half that!

When they act like children, they get treated like children.

No, I mean like how Martin had no idea what he was doing and left billions in spending obligations unfunded, and Harper had to clean up his mess. The giant deficit? Demanded by the left during a minority government. Another mess also cleaned up by Harper.

The left often asks for things they don't understand that go against their own best insterests. It's the right's job to save them from themselves.

Sure they should. It's his business, he should be able to hire who he's comfortable working alongside. Better to have those prejudices out in the open so customers can make their choices accordingly. Likewise, a Christian school should be allowed to fire a teacher if they are NOT creationists. As long as they are told upfront what is expected, it's the employee who is violating the employment contract if it's discovered that they are not who they portrayed themselves to be at the job interview.

Absolutely. Employment is not a public service. The people the run the business should have absolute say over who they want working for them, regardless of their reasons.

Those ones don't know what they want. They just show up where they're paid to show up.

Absolutely. Lots of jobs have codes of conduct or morals clauses.

If the woman didn't want to agree to the tenets of Catholicism, she shouldn't have applied for the job.

Saw Mockingjay Part 1 with my daughter a couple of days ago. I basically went under duress, but I was pleasantly surprised. The previous Hunger Games movies were disposable teen fiction, but this one really felt like they took a lot of time and effort into not only turning the book into a good script, but in directing and filming an actual GOOD movie.

Some of the posts that were here this morning are gone too. Although, it appears they were the more incendiary ones, so perhaps they were pruned on purpose.

Something got cross pollinated, there are a bunch of posts from both threads mashed together here.

Violent is violent. You can't assess someone's mental capacity while they're attacking. The threat needs to be eliminated first.

What the hell are you talking about, and how does any of that relate to my post that you quoted? In what way am I "twisting" socialism? What exactly is it that I'm supposed to be denying about Cuba? There were no strawmen in my post, so I can only assume you don't actually know what that means.

Hungry?

About the original post: The problem with that exercise, is it's not how things work. In the market, as in the classroom, we do not require that those at the back of the class remain seated. They are free to get up and walk down the aisle to get a closer shot at that wastebasket.

So he doesn't want it then? Put him on a black list. Idiot. There is always an election "coming up" eventually. A year is a long time.

Even Cuba hasn't been Communist for quite some time. Sure, they still use the word to describe the name of the ruling party, but capitalism is alive and well on that island. They had no choice, socialism means poverty continues to increase over time. The only way to help people out is to have as wide of a spread of inequality as possible. People who have a lot more are an absolute requirement to be able to support those who are unable to provide for themselves. That's just sheer volume. They have a lot more people, and it adds up. On a per capita basis, China isn't really that strong economically. Our per capita GDP is five times bigger than theirs. Even Mexico's is bigger.