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I did say specifically that the characters of both are selfish. Seinfeld was like that from episode one, not just the finale. Recall the masturbation pact episode? That was pretty hardcore for its day. 1)if seinfeld was made today, it would look the same as Girls regarding language and it would be on cable.(Note The next Larry David project was on HBO, Curb Your Entusiasm) 2) huh? 3) huh? 4)a few years difference perhaps 5) normal jobs? Elaine was the only one in the primary cast who had a job. 6)huh? 7)shallow people don't have real emotions that involve others , don't have actual relationships, and it is simply not believeable that any oif them can love in a very expensive place withpout work or income. That applies to both series btw. 8)both are aimed at commercial success 9)I agree they have different sets 10) Yep, they don't have exactly the same plot or Girls gets sued. I don't think there is any doubt that Lena Dunham studied Seinfeld pretty carefully.

Its definitely an advantage to read the books, so hard to track everybody otherwise. Before the source material runs out they'll have another problem: keeping such a massive cast together. And the bioggest problem of all ios the glacial pace that Martin writes at- will he die before he finishes?. I vote yes.

Seems to be not a peep in BC about the many pipelines proposed and approved for their own resource extraction. I guess they cross different waterways and First Nations territories.http://commonsensecanadian.ca/map-shows-multiple-proposed-oil-gas-pipelines-bcs-carbon-corridor/ Or not. And let's not even talk about BC coal exports.

A few angry Albertans have threatened to leave the country on occasion, as have people from BC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement). The Alberta government has never threatened to leave Canada. The support for AB separation is so low it is laughable, and always has been. A major obstacle to separation would be that so few people resident in Alberta are actually from Alberta now.

How do you feel about the massive pipeline, port(Kitimat) and LNG tanker infrastructure BC is extremely anxious to get in place ASAP to ship gas to.....China?

I cannot imagine why a country with a low native birth rate and a fat social contract- like Finland, like any Western Euirpoean country- would not seek high quality immigrants.

In the private sector salary increases would be based on two main factors: job peformance and profitability. Teachers cannot be touched for poor or medicocre performance, neither can exceptional teachers be rewarded. Profitability is a foreign concept to public servants, they know the well of money is endless. Oh, and COLA is around 6% over 3 years. Hope that helps. Very few people in private sector even get COLA, their money depends on.... see above.

Canada competes with many Western Countries for high quality immigrants- high quality being people with education and skills. Finland wants them too and probably does go after them, though you wouldn't see any ads for that in Finland of course. Canad also accepts many other immigrants with no skills on humanitarian grounds. We need breeders. So does Finland.

Is there a grassy knoll anywhere near Kuala Lumpur?

I think there is a much more compelling reason(than demographics, gender or the social aspects of churches) why organized religions tend to have older congregations.) Many people spend at least some time pondering the big mysteries, most prominently the one: "why am I here". They come up short on answers that make sense. As you get older, having an answer of any sort gives more comfort than having no answers at all to explain it all. Enter religion: every religion has a set of answers that cover all those life situations that create the crises that cause us to hurt and to wonder..... People adopt the set of answers that eliminates the disturbing questions. It kicks in about the time you have other big life changes, like having kids. It's also the time that people often return to a church they knew as children and left. The churches all know this, which is why they work very hard on indoctrinating children. Without prejudice or judgement, the Catholic faith has mastered this part: hook them young and they never really leave.

I am really hoping Ford can sneak up the middle somehow and get reelected. There is a simple and legitimate reason: the election night party that would follow would be one of the greatest shindigs in the history of hullabaloos. They'd consume the entire crack supply of eastern North America before midnight.

No, that is not really what atheists take into consideration, but it is certainly how agnostics justify the fence sitting at the heart of their position. Again: not knowing the answers with 100% certainty does not in any way validate other answers. It's unknowable, therefore anything is possible.... Nope, not in my world .

He had a good reason, there were many Montreal ad agencies that really needed some more cash.He couldn't just abandon them.

The Red Wings are a great story right now. They beat the Big Bad Bruins last night to really help their playoff chances and put another nail in the Leafs coffin. They're doing it without their best players too, many key injuries. Is there any doubt that Mike Babcock is a great coach?

Sooner or later one of the brighter Canadians will figure out that you can use a deer rifle to shoot people.What will we do then?

Yeah,It's much harder for utilities to screw us on natural gas demand charges since gas can be stored in the ground or in tanks under pressure, unlike electricity. And if the demand charges got onerous, consumers would find ways to buy it at the cheapest times, store it onsite, and eliminate any time of day surcharges.

I agree that faith requires no facts. It is pretty compelling for many though, since a fairly compelling logical case can be made by a single act of faith. " in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth". Believe that an omnipotent, benevolent being a) exists and b ) did it all in 7 dasys and a lot can flow from that. Same with the mantra : Jesus died for my sins".. Atheism does require reason, logic or facts and the creation myth presented in Geneesis starts to look something far less than literal.. Is it reasonable that the Earth is 6,000 years old? Is it reasoinable that 72 virgins await me in a future paradise? But here is the rub in what you say: not knowing the answer does still permit you to reject other answers as being extremely unlikely. It's all probabilities- and that applies as much to hard science as it does to matters of faith..

Nah. The engineering schools fill their heads with bullshit that they are the bull goose loony on every job. Iron Ring. Big egos. No skills beyond those I already mentioned, a short list. It isn't just engineers. What exactly am I paying a professional salary for? To spend megabucks on more training?

Only one out of 7 Candian teams will even make the playoffs this year. Now that is ugly.

Time to cut their losses and see if they can get a bag of pucks in a trade for Dickey. Crushed again. Do you think Phaneuf can repeat again as Most Overrated Player in the NHL as voted by... the other players?

I live a much easier and fatter life with far more disposable income than my parents, and their generation could claim the same over their parents generation. Perhaps a relatively free market had something to do with all that wealth, which is unprecendented in the history of our species. Something is going well, and I suspoect it didn't happen because some mid level bureaucrat gets paid badly. All this salary envy is just that: people making less money that hate their reality.

No, AB is not Quebec. Have you never heard of the Red Seal program, which allows trades to work anywhere in the country?. It's only been around for about 50 years. How can you be ignorant of it? https://tradesecrets.alberta.ca/experiencedworkers/interprovincial-red-seal/ There are many thousands of tradespersons here working out of AB union halls from all over Canada. The massive industrial projects of the past couple decades could not possibly have been built otherwise. If there is work elsewhere in Canada and people refuse to go to it, I say again: tough shit for them. I have moved long distance in Canada twice to get work because there wasn't any where I lived. Wanna guess where I lived before I moved to feed myself? Alberta.

I wonder about the other side of this , which is why would somebody running a corporation with 300,000 employees work for so little? Why not find somebody competent, pay them the millions they'd surely get in the private sector, and have it run by professionals?

That contrast got her elected as Premier, simple as that. The rejection of Ted Morton had a lot to do with it too. The evangelical uglies fled PC when they realized that same sex marriage, abortion and social justice were all things that the PCs were not going to back away from. They all went to Wildrose. Wildrose is an odd mash of the far right of the PCs who hate the Red Tory contingent, the mass of organized fundamentalist Christian groups who were set adrift by the sound thrashing of Ted Morton(twice) and random malcontents. They had the election won a couple years ago until Danielle Smith lost control of the runaway mouths of several of the numerous Wildrose evangelical weirdos candidates that are prominent in the party and that was pretty much the ball game. Really, all she needed to do was state that she believed the Earth was more than 6,000 years old, or to confirm that homosexuals were not evil, to become Premier. Wouldn't do it. Buh-bye. Ordinary middle of the road absentee voters(the majority of Albertans) came to the polls in unprecedented numbers in alarm over the prospect of the unsettling nastiness at the core of Wildrose. The eection campaign was won by Redord grabbing all of the middle, all the centrist vote. The question now is: will the Tory old guard provincial executive actually understand why they are still in power? Will they be able to pick a leader/Premier that will appeal to enough centrist voters to defeat Wildrose again? The Tories benefit from the weak leaders on the left and left center. Raj Sherman is quickly leading the Liberals to complete oblivion because he is a certified idiot. Brian Mason of the NDP is the same stolid, earnest and utterly ineffective leader of the NDP he has always been. The PCs have a large majority in the legislature now, but the legacy of Redord will erode that. The next PC leader has some work to do!

Oh, that is good news! When does construction start on the Gateway pipeline then?