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Who is the NDP going to sue? Canada Post? More likely Canada Post will sue them, plus interest, given the shaky finacial position at the post office.

Thanks for your valuable input.

IRan is certainly rational, but their national goals and objectives include fomenting war on others as a matter of policy. Lebanon and Syria are Iranian proxies tasked with doing what Iran cannot do overtly: eliminate all traces of Israel and all traces of the Jewish population from the planet. Period. You were doing OK with some apparently rational discourse above until you lumped Israel in with Pakistan and North Korea. Oops! Boo-boo! If you arm Iran with nukes, you'd have to arm Saudi Arabia just for balance too. And what of that other regional power, Iraq? What about poor Jordan Egypt and Yemen. They'll need a few megatons too. The US and Russia have plenty to share with everybody. And how could we forget Bangladesh and Nepal, surrounded by nuclear power in India , Pakistan and China?

The Tyrells are successful and have good land, but they are obliged to suck up to the warlike Lannisters to avoid getting consumed. Like anywhere else, might is right.

On the other hand, I have no old people in my family. I am struggling to pay my bills. Why should I pay huge huge amounts of my taxes at every level to pay for their Old Age Security, inflated health care costs, drugs, false teeth, subsidized bus passes, tax exemptions at every level of govt etc etc etc.? I don't use any of these services.

The North is a forested area, beyond the Wall is frozen, Dorne to the south is desert wasteland, and some of the centre is serious mountains and uncultivated marshland. Population will be determined by arable land, and Westeros has a limited amount.

I said polluting or Earthraping. Hydro produces no GHG, but the damage to the ecosystems up and downstream from dams is substantial.

Delivery of health care services is a provincial responsibility,, with the relatively minor exceptions of people like military and some First Nations. Funding of health care services is mostly provincial, but the feds control enough transfer payments to have a dog in the fight. The CHA is primarily meant to provide equality of service to all Canadians, but of course also allows the feds to dictate terms to the provinces.

I guess you are unaware as to who supports the Assad government with arms and money and an eternal political .'get out of jail free' card at the highest diplomatic levels. Gee, am I ever surprised you were not aware.

If anybody threatens to boycott Qatar because of the weather, they should be thanked for their input and told 'see ya in 2026'! Manaus in Brazil is a hot and extremely hunid hellhole and nobody is missing any games there. But there is a better reason for dumping Qatar, and that is the apparent bribery of FIFA executive members to make sure they got the event. It wouldn't be the first time that bribes happened with FIFA, but it would be a novel precedent to have some consequences for the high level corruption in the game.. If the big associations boycott for that reason, FIFA would be forced to divest Qatar. A good place to start would be to force Blattler out of office. He has done enough damage. I was just kidding about Canada winning the World Cup in 3022. It will be much later than that.

It will bring slaughter. But enjoy if you must. Increasingly, your posts make me throw up in my mouth a bit.

Sorry that was a typo on the date. I meant 3022

Canada will challenge for the World Cup of Football in 2022.

They allegedly have the World Bseball Classic, but many of the best players from America don't go. Those that are allowed to attend by their pro teams are cponstrained. The pitchers are all on pitch counts. Can't say I blame MLB or the players, why risk a career ending injury for..... nothing? I do think the US would be favorites if everybody went without restrictions.

I'm not sure why anybody would buy, fior example a Toyota Prius instead of a Corolla. The Prius is quite a bit more costly to buy despite using much the same resources to build, and does not get much better fuel economy relatively.

Bautista has started some games at third base for every MLB he has been on: Baltmore, Tampa, Kansas and Toronto. He has started about 80 games at third base for the Jays, most recently last year. Gose is a fine fielder, needs to work hard on hitting and baserunning smarts. Most of all he must learn how to get on base more often.

Hybrids cannot save the planet because all their forward motion comes from burning hydrocarbons. All electric- like the Tesla- is the only way to go, assuming that the energy source for the charging station is not polluting or Earthraping like hydro, nuclear, coal, natural gas etc. I looked at a Toyota Highlander Hybrid recently. Research showed that the hybrid costs about $6 or $7 thousand more than the same conventional gas engine. That is about an eight year payback over normal use. Not worth it.

I wonder how that happened, since this chart shows Ontario teachers with the second highest overall compensation in Canada.http://education.alberta.ca/department/budget/studentfirst.aspx Alberta legislated this some time ago, in the 90s as I recall. About 98% of the Education budget goes to school authoities(school boards mostly) and I think around 95% of that must go to schools for their operations and of course the major chunk of that is in teachers salaries. It caused an uproar at the time, since it meant that school boards that had been crammed with workshy bureaucrats and reams of deputy vice superintendents had to change their ways ASAP.

Tommen isn't doing any kind of job, uncle Tywin is running the show entirely. You'll recall that Dany was a virgin teen at the beginning of GOT. Her 'mentor' was her idiot brother, disposed of early. She's contending for ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, and unlike the other contenders has to learn on the job, no other way. She has protectors and followers, but no real advisers now. She did install puppet regimes in those cities, and her choices reverted back to what they knew..... She does not have the resources or the inclination to have armies of occupation. Her empire is not where she is now. Killing livestock is no big deal, but when her babies start eating the sheperds.... It does not matter how repentant Jorah Mormont is now, he betrayed her for a long time. Normally, he'd be executed instantly for what he did. Is her mercy a sign of strength, or weakness?

With few exceptions, every pitcher is in play. Did the 'experts' know that the Marlins would trade virtually their entire starting roster- and did? The true exp[erts are the GMs, and they rarelt let anybody know what they intend. The reality is that teams that have playoff aspirations have to fill their roster weaknesses, and the Jays are weak at pitching. There are other teams that have a need for hitting. Lind can fit that need, but only as long as he continues to hit. He is hitting now well above his career average, so time to get something for the guy the entire league would not take on waivers not long ago. The batting order had benefited from having Lind or Francisco as a lefty bat between Bautista and Encarnacion. Fransisco has looked very ordinary lately at both the plate and at third base, and if Lind is traded for pitching that void needs to be filled. Rasmus is a lefty, but a streaky hitter. Perhaps Gibbons would do that, but I'd rather he moved the dependable Cabrera up into the four spot. There could be a lot of shuffling ahead.....the loss of Izturis has thrown a wrench into everyhting , Tolleson does not look like a long or short term answer. possible changes..... starting batting order: Gose RF, Reyes SS, Bautista 3B, Cabrera LF, Encarnacion 1B, Lawrie 2B, Francisco DH, Rasmus CF, Whomever is Catching C. You could cycle Lawrie into leadoff if Gose cannot get on base regularly. I agree about Rasmus, again our best bet is to hope he hits hard when he comes back because otherwise he isn't worth much in a trade and isn't worth signing for big money- hurt too much and too streaky at the plate to keep. Package him with Lind..... I'd keep Cabrera.

Not for the whole season, and all of those other teams catchers are either occasional position players elsewhere (usually first base) and or regularly playing as designated hitters. It is very unusual to carry three catchers that only catch.

Oh, and I'm not so sure that Dickey and Thole are worth the money and/or the roster aggro anyway.

Um, every team is pro sports knows that to fix a hole in their rosters in mid season they will likely have to give something up. Atlanta and St Louis both have post season aspirations. They both have very good pitching and not good offence. Another one that is a trade candidate is Minnesota. They are still in the hunt, in a tightly packed division. Same thing, good pitching, weak offence. If Alex Alphabet can find a dance partner, he'll pull the string on Lind. He also has post seasons dreams, and obviously the Jays weakness is pitching. I can't think of a single example of any MLB team ever carrying three cathcers, none of whom play anywhere else or are professional hitters. But whatever. They have to open a roster spot for Rasmus. Ok, keep Navarro and trade Kratz. Neither are irreplaceable, all three are journeymen. Just because any or all of them are an upgrade on Arrencibia is not a reason to keep 3 catchers. So if you have Rasmus back and Santos back, you'd send down two pitchers/ Which ones?

Yeah, endless waffling. A big reason that all of them - jointly, with Total being the prime partner- decided to wait indefitnitely was that there is too much uncertainty in cost getting the product to market. Couple of other examples of the same process failing: Mackenzie Valley pipeline, decades in the review and approval process. By the time everybody(including the First Nations affected) had decided it was OK to proceed, the people with the money had moved their capital on to other projects long ago. I We're watching another happening right now with LNG exports from Canada. BC govts for a couple of decades have sat on the big gas fields in northeast BC(some fields on the Alaska Hwy have been capped since the 70s). Now we will compete with other nations and particularly the US, for the leftovers in those LNG export markets at substantially lower prices. Waffling. We hurt ourselves continually. Everybody fights everybody. Our competitors laugh at us. Our potential customers scratch their heads in bewilderment.

One thing that has changed and continues to change is the relationship of the Pashtuns to both AQ and the Taliban. AQ is mainly foreigners with a lot of money behind them. Very few are Pashtuns, most are Arabs from other places and there is no natural bond between the two. Lots of Taliban are Pashtuns but the two groups are very different in size by a large factor. I think the pashtuns have been sympatheitc and cooperative to both AQ and Taliban, but that is changing. The whole areas has been in an uproar for decades and the Pashtun- as you point out- want to be left in peace not only by the Pakistan govt, the Anericans etc, but by these other groups that have brought a lot of grief down on the Pashtuns heads. AQ and the Taliban simply cannot operate without plenty of help from the Pashtuns. It si a factor that has yet to be played out.