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True Detective was better than I thought it would be, Vaughan and Farrell don't inspire much confidence. It was good though a little hard to follow at times. It has the same sinister ambiance as the first season.

No, that is fortunate. It indicates that the site has enough rational persons to assess the situation within the context of the war in the Pacific and not within a revisionist emotional analysis. I see that as a positive, you see it as a negative. Oh well.

Why, do you feel an overwhelming urge to derail the thread?

I am waiting to celebrate the Invasion of Japan anniversary, which marks the beginning of millions of civilian and military deaths as the Japanese fought the Allies for every inch of soil. Remind me what day that happens.....

No, it is an increase of 3% over previous funding. A cut would be when the feds decrease funding, like they did in a big way with the Chretien/Martin savagery. Why is funding greater than inflation anyway? It's not like the provinces spend the money wisely.

3 games seems excessive to me. I'm not surprised that Gibbons got suspended, but thought he'd get more. He'd been kicked out of the game already and returned to the field for the fake fight.

Hugo Chavez has been dead for quite a while. In an almost impossible scenario, his successor has stuck to his retarded economic policies and Venezuela is a failed state now.

Ah no you have it 180 degrees backwards.. Cart>>>>>horse. Without CMHC, Genworth and the other federally regulated insurers the housing industry would be a teeny fraction of the economy, because nobody would be able to afford the huge down payments required by the Bank Act. And without the restrictions on lending contained in the Bank Act, our banks would be as utterly stupid as the US banks that drove that horror show of foreclosure that our neighbour enjoys every generation . As a market intervention, the creation of CMHC(and private sector mortgage insurers) has been a social experiment that has succeeded in allowing a high level of home ownership that simply did not exist before WWII. Every person who gets a high ratio mortgage in Canada has to qualify for it. Manufacturing is in decline because jobs paying $70K plus benefits to assemble things in ON are unsustainable. Thiose jobs are gone and won't be back, ever. The second pillar- energy- is in a crisis that will be less terminal than manufacturing. People defer buying or building homes when their jobs are uncertain.

Then you must be absolutely furious with the Liberals, who took us into the Afghanistan war, Kosovo war, Korean war and WWII. Vote NDP, they have never ruled and the only thing they will certainly go to war with is macroeconomic common sense. Is the Hidden Agenda lurking on a shelf in the Hidden Closet?

You could raise the taxes of the wealthy a hundredfold and it would not make any significant difference in the countries revenues. All it would do is make the rich into poor, or prompt them to leave, taking capital and jobs with them. Raise corporate taxes accordingly, and jobs will vaporize as global money leaves for greener pastures. Your bleating then will be epic, and the culprit will be the visioanry you see in your mirror. All the money comes from the middle class, the poor dont pay pay taxes. You don't have to repeat promises from the NDP to raise taxes, we get they will do that and it will be taxes on everybody and everything. They'll also borrow massively. They cannot possibly make the hard choices that MUST be made in Canada in the next couple of decades, and doubly so to fulfill all the promises to fatten our already plump social contract. I think that in the final summary we may be screwed, by our own doing. We refuse to acknowledge the reality of our situation, and in fact cannot even have any kind of mature national conversation about it.

Of course it was deliberate. Two out in the eighth inning, two run lead, nobody on base and Osuna ready to go in the bullpen.. He even nailed him low on the body, which is correct protocol for retaliation beanings..

We are fortunate to have the mighty CKUA and a university station playing new music often, and neither is new to the scene. There are far more live venues and festivals now than ever before too. The live venues aren't bar bans playing derivative crap either, there is a healthy circuit available to the new and struggling. FACTOR and the Canada Council do some great work in promoting new and interesting artists as well. And of course the Internet is awash in kitchen bands, and they are not hard to find with minimal search skills. And most of that is free. There has never been more music so readily available for so little cost, no matter where you live.

The first inning warning was stupid as are all these warnings. The ump created his own mess. The best takeaway for me is the return to form of Dickey over the last few games he has started. If he can keep it up, Price is as advertised, and Buehrle, Estrada and Hutchinson pitch for average....... The hitting of Tulo was an accident, Madson is a vet and knew there was no point to hitting him. The high hard one to Donaldson was deliberate, intended to throw him off his game and it worked perfectly. The Sanchez incident was deliberate, and could have easily cost the Jays the game. Zobrist made it 3-2 after that, getting two RBIs when he should not have even come to the plate. The Royals nearly gamed the Jays into a loss.. Baseball 'fights' are pussy affairs.

Ms May should start toughening her vocal cords now, the strain involved in shouting down everybody for an hour will be stressful.

Wow. Were you aware that 'England' is part of a nation called the United Kingdom and does not actually have its own government? Were you also aware that in a recent election the former ineffective Tory/Liberal Democrat coalition government was replaced by a Tory majority? Of note in that coalition fiasco is that the junior partner, the LibDems, were badly hurt in the election. It is the usual fate of junior partners in coalitions. And you can be sure that Mr Trudeau knows that, which is mainly why he says he won't be in a coalition with the NDP. He can afford to lose an election(one election), but he cannot afford to be Mulcairs whipping boy.

It is astonishing they would let Valencia go, he is a versatile guy having a fine season albeit in a limited role. And keep Kawasaki? WTF? The bullpen is not 'stacked'. It has improved to 'average'. That might be enough.

Revere hits left, which matters in a lineup full of right hand bats. And he is a defensive upgrade. Guess they have more or less given up on Michael Saunders for this year. One thing that has really changed for the Jays is the strength of their bench. Potential DH or pinch hitters- Encarnacion, Navarro, Smoak, Valencia, Colabello and the versatile Carrera.

The Cubs, Royals and Giants are also teams that are contenders and need power hitting. Bautista is also a good fielder, so he would be useful to a NL team- not the usual hit-only end-of-career mutt. The Jays gave up much of their future pitching in these two trades. Hope it works out for them.

Watch the movie if you can, it is in theaters now and very good. The paparazzi in the UK should have been charged with manslaughter for her death!

Whats your point? You're the one relentlessly flogging an error in process by the traffic officer as if it mattered in any rational scale of events, or was in any way connected to her death.

And then he would have approved a budget within the means of the country. Shameful conduct.

Sure, whatever. But what does that have to do with her offing herself?

I saw Joplin live a few months before she died. She had an astonishing raw power and emotion, a paint peeling whiskey voice that came from her heart and guts. If some of these current pretenders actually heard her sing, they'd have to quit in embarassment over their own lack of passion. Coincidentally, I saw a wonderful feature length theater documentary about Winehouse last week, called Amy. I did not know her music until then, and she has some of what Joplin had- personal investment. It is a sad and tragic story, and well worth seeing.

Not quite.... the Libs are the ONLY party from which the Cons can take votes. Not just the easiest. The Cons did just that in the last election to gain a majority, and the NDP also got benefit from Lib voter defection. Both parties can smell Trudeau blood leaking into in the water this time around. The NDP aren't safe though even if they won't lose anything to the Cons... The Libs are still a threat to them for lefty votes, and In Quebec the Bloc may make a small resurgence at their expense.

Ah no. He wanted her because he thought she would embarrass the Cons. It didn't work out that way. In retrospect, Trudeau must be quietly delighted that she lost the Lib nomination too. Dodged a bullet.