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You're sure the next close approach isn't Oct 21?

The ax analogy works very well for me.

Every Israel-Arab (you put in the variant) war since 1948. The Israelis kicked butt every time. So they get the spoils of war. As much as I don't like a bunch of the stuff they do, they never started any of them. And before you start blathering, lobbing mortars and crude missiles into Israeli territory is starting a war. Deal with it.

Want to give odds on that possibility?

Hold it! Punked is a teacher? We are doomed.

And has punked ever sourced his claim that Ontario teachers make less than the median wage in Ontario?

The few bad apples?

I just went back and tried to find that post. I couldn't. Care to give me a timestamp or post number? And I still want a source showing that firefighters make about the same as teachers.

And those relate to firefighters and paramedics how? TOTAL FAIL!

Are you serious? Are you saying Ontario firefighters and paramedics make more than Ontario teachers? I'm going to need a like for this one.

I'm of Ukrainian heritage. Both my parents were born in Canada but all four of my grandparents were born in the Ukraine. Does that mean I can sue the descendent's of just about everyone from Attila the Hun, through Hannibal and Peter the Great and on and on for having stomped on my homeland? Get a grip. Spoils of war is a real thing.

The great unwashed masses can't think in such esoteric terms, so I'm sure I wouldn't get many votes. Notice I'm not running? But keep that Happy Jack propaganda pumping machine primed. The next NDP candidate of where ever you live.

From my association with about 7 teachers, I'd say the job is easy, and rewarding if you're not a lazy simple servant, but the union bullshit and bureaucracy drives an honest person crazy.

The union environment would make you hurl. The wives of two of my friends quit teaching just because they couldn't put up with the union BS anymore. Sorry, teachers don't have a union, it's a "professional association" I believe they call it.

I can't find Canadian stats, but in the US, firemen and paramedics get less than half of what your average teacher gets. And I know firemen in Canada don't make as much as teachers anecdotally having both firemen and teachers as friends. So, how do you define fair? Simple servants are paid way too much.

Would that apply to Happy Jack and his ilk? (I've always loved the word ilk. This is the first time I've used it, I think.)

Go Maxine!!!11!1!

You haven't already noticed that Topaz has literacy issues?

Sex and travel.

So Harper is disagreeing with Obama on the pre-1967 war boundaries. Is this showing an independent foreign policy in spite of US pressure, or is it his fundamentalist Christian beliefs? One source - http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/05/20/obama-netanyahu-friday.html

Thx, didn't know that. Bummer. We need to fix that, for sure.

Serious, non-partisan question in this case. Are not their expenses public record, or at least available to the auditor general?

What clue do you claim to have?

Is that ever true. As much as I hate Liberals, you are worse.

Are you serious? The Liberals and the helicopter fiasco ring any bells? Get real.