Scotty

You should avoid using English words, Candien, when you clearly have a limited understanding of what they mean. Diatribe? Look that up for me in your French-English dictionary, would you? Then try and point mine out. As far as I'm aware ethnics and immigrants are pretty much the only people doing it. I guess I broke some big liberal taboo by mentioning that, eh? Maybe that's part of your 'unique' culture.

Yes, you can be his mentor.

Riiiight. And the bigger your house, the more it would help you! So everyone in those big, million dollar mansions would benefit nicely. And the little people in rental housing? How much would they benefit? Why does the NDP want to bring in policies which benefit the rich more than the poor!?

Maybe because no one has been dumb enough to demand they do something about the world price of oil.

Hahahahahahahahaha! Is that the official NDP position on how they're going to control the price of food and oil? :lol:

And it's a cold, rainy day outside. No doubt that's Harper's fault, too, and if we just vote for Smiling Jack Layton and his retrograde socialists all will be sunny and warm forever.

I don't know whether she was or wasn't. I wasn't there to see. I'm addressing your view that even if the dozer driver saw her he should have run her over, and that is a thoroughly indefensible and immoral belief. You don't kill defenseless, unarmed, non-threatening people because of the *possibility* that dealing with them in another way might expose you to danger. You just DON'T. I can see in the midst of combat, perhaps, but that is not the case here. There was no urgency. There were other methods of accomplishing the stated aims which did not involve murder. And YES, Bob, if you run your dozer over an unarmed, non-threatening person, it's murder any way you want to slice it, even if she is a 'useful idiot' to the Palestinians.

I wasn't trying to be imaginative... buddy. I was using your words deliberately... buddy.

I think everything I say is correct, otherwise I wouldn't SAY it! And while it might not be 'relevant' -- in what sense anyway -- I still think it's interesting that if you take away the losers who want out of Canada anyway, Harper would have a big majority. So it's just this group of foreigners, these 'quebecois' who are holding him back.

Ironic, eh?

Majorities get things done. It is the only advantage our FPTP system has over the endless expensive and time consuming deal-making and politicking of proportional rep. A new majority government can do what needs doing without fearing outcries, can take bold initiatives, and doesn't have to be constantly spouting money at every target group it wants to impress at election time.

And the shit you spout smells like honey...

That's ideological crap. I believe in security as much as the next guy, certainly more than all the bloody liberal types out there, and I understand Israel's security problems. But you don't need to murder someone in order to bulldoze some houses. The IDF, btw, said nothing about snipers. It was bulldozing the homes of Palestinians, it says, to prevent smuggling and destroy guerrila hideouts. There was no urgency which would have prevented them whistling up a squad of troops to drag some stupid peaceniks out of the way if that was necessary, and the dozer was not there all alone anyway. There were several squads of IDF troops there in APCs. I don't doubt they might have been afraid of snipers, but that's a problem wherever the IDF operates. Then arrest her. You are losing your sense of morality. I don't get it with you religious people anyway, and your ability to disrespect human life. If God wants someone dead they don't need your help to do it.

I do get to decide that. I'm in full control of what I think of people, their beliefs, their behaviour, and how I act towards them.

Everyone's opinion here is irrelevant on every subject we talk about.

The sad reality is that as long as we have unstable minority government there's going to be an overwhelming desire to buy people's votes on the part of whomever is in charge of the government. Thanks again, Kaybekers.

Oh bullshit. Many of those ridings, in fact, the majority, vote BQ by a landslide. More than 30 of their 47 seats were won with over 10,000 vote majorities. And there is rarely any kind of vote splitting allowing them in. The tories are too weak for that except around Quebec city and the Liberals too weak outside Montreal. So I'm choosing not to consider those people Canadian. So go cry in a corner cuz I'm so mean.

Its been readily acknowledged by a lot of people that it's going to be almost impossible for any party to gain a majority as long as the French continue to vote in their little regional separatist party election after election. Have you somehow MISSED that? So why shouldn't I bash people who vote separatist election after election?

So let me see if I've got your thinking right here. You're suggesting someone pulled up a bunch of Tory signs, located the pickup of a guy who they knew (somehow) was a liberal campaign worker, and dumped the signs in his pickup, then called the police? You don't think that might be just a little far fetched.... buddy?

Your smarmy dismissal notwithstanding, it remains true that the Tories own a majority of English Canada's seats. Even if you include the French ridings who consider themselves Canadians the Tories still have a majority.

They had a strong presence before the sponsorship scandal. Just as the PQ has a strong presence now. As far as I'm concerned, if you vote separatist you're not Canadian in any meaningful way. You don't consider yourself Canadian. You don't want to be Canadian, and so I'm granting their wish.

Why should Francophones, who make up one fifth the population have one half the judges?

It's an irritant for everyone who gets involved in the electoral process and who works hard at the local ridings. I'm guess you're just ignorant - not that I have to guess, since you're ignorant in the way you're behaving, but also that you're ignorant about the situation, in addition to being ignorant in your behaviour that is. And, I guess, being ignorant, you're not capable of discussing anything like this in a rational way. Not that it would be easy for you to think rationally what with your knee jerking up and down so frantically it's giving you a bloody nose.

Anyone who says God demands he wear some stupid looking thing on his head at all times is someone to not be taken seriously. Nice ignoring of the point, btw.

It does as far as I'm concerned.