Queenmandy85

I am a retired Peace Officer. The uniform I wore for 25 years was an abomination in the eyes of the Lord according to the Bible. According to the Bible, when I eat bacon, shrimp cocktail or a ham and cheese sandwich, I am just as much a pervert as a homosexual. Why are Taxme and Betsy not asking why the Conservative Party resisting these perversions?

I have used the word "trans" to cover the entire spectrum of the community from Cross dressing to transvestite to drag queens and finally transgender. Transgender people become the other gender permanently, as much as possible. Male to female SRS in the 1990's cost in the neighbourhood of $20,000 to $25,000. I know of one person who spent $120,000. Female to male surgery including is a lot more expensive. Some provinces cover all or part of the cost. The Canadian Forces will cover the cost for its members. Before we make light of Cross dressers, think of some of the more well known people who are members of that segment of thecommunity. Long serving Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famous actor in westerns Randolph Scott (the epitome of the rugged cowboy) and the Chief of the German Imperial General Staff before the Great War. Cross Dressers make up about 3 out of 1000 men.

Drag is more than an "occupation." It is a calling.

To the question of men dressing up as women to go into a ladies washroom to commit sexual assault, how would he get away? If the victim is giving a description of, "He was wearing blue jeans and a grey bunny hug," that could be fifty guys. "He was wearing a blue, flower patterned skirt, with a white turtle neck sweater and a blonde shoulder length wig," well that kind of narrows it down. Men who go into womens washrooms with crimminal intentions don't dress up as women. It attracts too much attention.

I think we need to clarify some terms. Transgender is where a person is born into the wrong body. That is gender dysphoria. The suicide rate is abnormally high in this group. Transvestites are people who are sexually aroused by dressing up as the opposite gender. The majority of trans people are cross dressers. They are predominantly straight (9 out of 10) and just enjoy dressing up and trying to pass. Drag Queens and Kings are usually gay and are just way too much fun for one gender. It is none of society's business what you wear or what gender you are.

Would you be comfortable walking into a mens room wearing a dress? In my experience, women don't mind using mens rooms. I've been cleaning a toilet in one stall while a woman was using the adjoining stall. I've shared a mens room several times with women. Men don't need to wear a dress to attack women. We had a voyeuer many years ago. He would hide in a stall in a womens washroom and peer over the partition. The last time he did it. he peered down at my Sargeant who arrested him. You missed my point about science. Why should science be involved?

What about the women who use men's bathrooms. Both as a student living in residence and as a caretaker working in the men's residence, I've shared a mens room with women. It doesn't seem to be a big deal. Also, you make no reference to female to male transgender people using men's washrooms. Isn't that a big deal. I challenge those of you who worry about trans people using the women's washroom, put on a dress and wig, )oh hell, go all out and put on make up,) go to a bar and use the men's washroom. You probably won't get attacked, but you may feel a tad vunerable.I'll bet more trans people have been attacked by men on the street than women attacked in women's washrooms by trans people, by an order in the 1000's. Science examines what is. Gender dysphoria is as old as humans.

I owe you an apology. I am starting to learn more about geothermal power. Thank you for the tip.

As I pointed out, unranium is a bridge to using thorium fuel which produces far less waste with a much shorter half life. Thorium can't be used for nuclear weapons which was the reason they switched from thorium to uranium in the first place. I I need to see proof of that. So far, the fatality rate from nuclear power accidents is just over 100; mostly due to chyrnoble. One worker died of a heart attack at the Fukishima accident. Had Fukishima been a thorium reactor, the ecological devestation would have been minimal. I do not suggest thorium is without its own problems. Developement and start-up costs are expensive. Our problem is, we are living on a planet that can probably sustain one and a half billion people, but we are soon going to try and support 12-14 billion plus people. Can you supply a major industrial society using wind, solar, tidal, geothermal and bioenergy sources? Can you power the transportation infrastructure? Wind power generators currently consume a lot of energy themselves, do not produce energy consistantly (dependent onthe wind), and have significant ecological issues. Solar consumes a lot of space and is not efficient. Tidal is location specific. It doesn't help heat a house in Saskatchewan. Can you power steel mills with geothermal? To be honest, I know nothing of bioenergy. Does it produce any methane or CO2? Can it produce the massive amonts of energy required to power an industrial society. No option is without problems. A global nuclear power network, in a worst case scenario, using your figures, may kill a million people. So far, more people have been murdered in Chicago in 3 months, than in the whole world from nuclear power in the last 70 years. Fossil fuel energy generation, when operated according to manufacturer's specifications (if we continue on the current trajectory) will, in the worst case scenario, kill billions. As I say, worst case scenario. However, for those of you concerned with imigration, when it becomes more difficult to sustain the populations of south Asia, Africa, and Central and South America, those people are going to move north in the 10's of millions. They will be headed for Russia, Germany and Canada. Picture a caravan of 400,000,000 people all headed for the northern US and Canada. They will be joined by tens of millions of Americans from the southern US. Ten years ago, the Pentagon was already preparing contingency plans for this situation.

The pipeline is a short term solution to a problem. JT is right that we are going to have to stop burning fossil fuels in the near future and transition into non-carbon sources of energy. Nuclear is the best alternative. We should have done that 40 years ago, but we just kicked the can down the road. The real mistake governments have made is the lack of political will to explain what is actually looming in the near future. We will always need oil, but to use it for energy is criminal.

It is sad to see a girl trying desparately to build her self-esteem by joining the mean girls in trashing the best in the class.

The Green Party Government of BC has indicated very strong opposition. Horgan is just the puppet on this issue. Weaver is the puppet master. The pipeline will go through, but the process, as laid down by the court, still must be followed. From a strictly political angle, if you were JT, would you rather alienate vote-rich BC or Alberta where no one is going to vote for you no matter what you do for them. However, the Feds are trying to get the pipeline built because, as you say, it is in the national interest. There is no rush because there is not profitable market right now. The world is swimming in cheap oil. It is better to wait until the price goes back up to over $120 per barrel. Put money into re-training people.

First, there is no excuse for hate. Second, Romeo is uneducated and has never heard of the Marshall Plan. As world powers go, there has never been a more generous one than the United States of America. Their many mistakes in World affairs came with the best of intentions. They rebuilt Europe and Japan after WWII. They shouldered much of the burden against communism during the cold war. If you don't think communism was evil, you don't know what you are talking about. They removed Saddam in Iraq. He is the Presidnt who asked a cabinet minister for his frank and honest opinion. The minister obliged and was delivered home to his family in two garbage bags. The US has been in so many wars, but then, so have we; so have Britain and France. Often, it is their inherent lack of cynicism that leads to trouble. Yes, they believe they are the centre of the universe, but that is because most of them have never been to Toronto, the true centre of the universe; or London or Paris or Cairo. (The true centre of the Universe is Saskatoon.) As for Romeo, I don't hate trolls, I just find them irritating after a while.

So, what you are saying is that the government wants to build the transmountain pipeline, but they don't want to export the oil? Everyone is blaming the feds when it is those three bozos in the BC legislature that are holding everyone hostage. Weaver is the best advertisement yet against PR. As for Coyne, he ignores the fact that it was the NDP who killed electoral reform by insisting on proportional representation. Energy East stalled because Quebec refused it. The Northern Gateway was a disaster waiting to happen. Transmountain is being held up by the three idiots who control the BC government. Would anyone seriously want the Federal Government to run roughshod over a province?

If you think we pay a lot in taxes, you should spend a couple of years in Norway. It costs money to run a modern government If not through taxes, where do you suggest they get the revenue to pay for healthcare, education, defence, etc. Should the middle class citizen buy their own tank, treat their own cancer?

Not sure what you mean here. The government needs to pay close attention to the largest number of voters possible. That, presumablely, is the middle class. That is how governments get re-elected. (ie. democracy)

The middle class is a huge voter base for the government. Why would they ignore them? That is not as much an issue for the government of Hong Kong.

How much money did the oil companies get from foreign sources to lobby for the oil sands?

If we can replace oil and coal as sources of energy and start transitioning to nuclear, it will postpone the exhaustion of our hydrocarbon resourses for a lot longer. In the meantime, the transition to nuclear power for both domestic and export markets will bring Canada, and particularly western Canada, an unprecedented economic boom. The rail system can be re-built and electrified. Small, medium and large Candu reactors can be mass produced. Surplus heat can be sold. It will give us unlimited energy, even if fusion turns out to be a bust. We have enough uranium for about twi centuries, but thorium is almost unlimited.There will also be the added bonus that your great great grandchildren will not be barbequed. If the greenhouse effect is not real, we still need to preserve our oil and coal resourses for as long as possible. When they run out, billions of people will die. Without them, you cannot build and operate machinery. (Steel and lubrication). For those uneducated ninnys who have an irrational fear of nuclear power, more people have been killed in motor vehicle accidents in little Saskatchewan this year, than have ever been killed by all nuclear power accidents world wide in history. There are times when I think my fellow conservatives are afraid of making money.

A bit short of time here, but I want to remind you that the purpose of a political party is to win elections. Ideology has no place in that objective. The way to win elections is to give the voters what they want, not what I want. If it were up to me, we would adopt the Swiss model of defence and we would had a strong Monarchy and no PM. I can only think of one vote that would get.Me and Maxine Bernier are a pair.

A farmer on a phone in show said the problem with the government is taxes are too high and they don't fix the roads. Most of what you ascribe to Blue Tories applies to Red Tories as well. "Eliminating unnecessary government spending" is a subjective thing. One person's waste is another's necessity. It costs a lot of money to run a modern government in the 21st century. By continuously reducing taxes, we are forced into deficit spending. We are already cutting healthcare to the point where it is severely stressed. I agree about preserving the traditions and history of the country. The primary purpose of a tory is loyalty to the Crown. All major parties want to have security for the people. Finkleman once said, people will ive up a lot of fredom in exchange for being able to walk down the street at night without fear. One thing I learned on the job is that the length of the sentence isn't what deters crimminals. It is the likelihood of getting caught. The longer you incarcerate someone, the more expensive it is and that goes back to balancing the budget. The money should go into better recruiting and training for police and money for community based policing. The military: Canadians don't want a viable military. They like the fantasy of it but they refuse to pay for an effective military. I have always advocated for re-building the armed forces. When Stockwell Day was running, I wrote and asked him how he expected to keep his promise to rebuild the CF while cutting taxes. His response was a clear demonstration he didn't have a clue on how much an effective military would cost. The tools people need to help them selves are available in the education system. That means more money for recruiting and training teachers in the hard sciences. Currently, when someone graduates form an engineering college, the last profession they think of is teaching. That is why so many people have an irrational fear of nuclear power and are so ignorant of climate change. You are still going to have the care of those who are unable to provide for themselves, usually for health reasons, physical and mental. The Crown has always had the duty to care for her subjects.

So you are saying communism is good?

Yes, you do. We have governments to overcome greedy avericious people.

Why not equality of outcomes? We are all in this together.

As a human being, you have a duty to your fellow human being. Did you not go to kindergarten? (ie. sharing?)