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Forum: Current Events Topic: Fox News Mocks Canada's Military watch! |
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:58 am
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| I'm not sure whether to shake my head and wonder what kind of idiot watches this show at 3am, or why FOX of all channels is making snarky comments about an ally's armed forces, when said forces are dying and bleeding in a NATO-led war... Basically "Red Eye", a bitch-fest show on at 3am, mo... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The future of the GOP |
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:53 am
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Comments: 111
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| Meh, as much as it amuses me to see the Reps flounder, every party has their period of uncertainty and general headless-chicken-behavior when they lose massive political capital (they did lose house, senate, and presidency, all in 2 years). Look at the Liberals. They went from Chretien/Martin... to ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Two great pals |
| Jabrwock |
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:00 am
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Comments: 45
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| It's rather ironic, of course, that a country as famously liberal as Canada would have a conservative government to greet the most left-wing president in modern US history. I wonder how well it compares to Kennedy/Diefenbaker meets? Dief was quite a bit more conservative than Kennedy. Will there be... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The gays take Iceland |
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:44 pm
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Comments: 76
Views: 1214
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| I have never gotten the impression in Canada that religion is very essential to politics. I really doubt there would be much of a backlash if an openly agnostic/atheist person ran for PM, but I could be wrong. Hard to tell really. Look at how fast the "you can't approve of gay marriage, you're... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The gays take Iceland |
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:33 am
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Comments: 76
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| It would be interesting to see what some people from Manitoba think about this. Manitoba has the largest population of Icelanders outside of Iceland. Are there any Manitobans in the house? Former Manitoban. ;) Living next door in Sask. It sounds like the Icelanders living in Manitoba are more conce... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Harper forgoes hearing, names new judge to top court |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:40 am
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Comments: 17
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Axeman wrote: For the same reason that you don't start bailing out your boat until it starts taking on water. Does it still count if the reason you're taking on water is that you helped drill holes in the hull? |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Harper forgoes hearing, names new judge to top court |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:12 am
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Comments: 17
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| Harper blathered on about how important it was to have an all-party consultation in the House. And both those delays were of his own design. If it was so important, why not consult all the parties outside the house? Why appoint him after 4 months of silence and a single meeting with Iggy? |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Harper forgoes hearing, names new judge to top court |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:35 am
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Comments: 17
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| Sounds like he's really gunning to get tossed in january! You forget how ADD voters can be. By Jan 26th it'll be back to "oh boo hoo, I tried to make parliament work, but those mean ol' Liberals won't let me! whaaaaaa" Speaking of holding up the Coalition as a bogeyman, wasn't Harper whin... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Harper forgoes hearing, names new judge to top court |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:11 am
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| NO "I" in Harper. He wants to rule alone and he's having at it. He and that Williams chap. Oh My! Difference there is, Williams is acting within his own laws (however crazy they may seem) whereas Harper breaks his own laws. People ranted about how Canada was a Banana Republic thanks to th... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Harper forgoes hearing, names new judge to top court |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:00 am
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| So Harper took another page out of the libs 'how to' handbook. Same as he did when he appointed the senators. Why the uproar???? Why not? Are people not allowed to complaint just because "everyone does it"? It probably wouldn't have been as big an issue if Harper hadn't spent the last 4 y... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Harper forgoes hearing, names new judge to top court |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:27 am
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Comments: 17
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| No surprise there. A politician breaking his own rules? Do tell... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canada's first coup |
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 11:17 am
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Comments: 297
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CanadianJeff wrote: I should not that I don't disagree with your response at all and I was hoping it was how someone was going to respond. I'm simply saying that the coalition is praying on ignorance of most people. That's all. Isn't that how most politics works? Smoke and mirrors.  |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canada's first coup |
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:04 am
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Comments: 297
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| The boogey man is called COALITION to Iggy and his Liberals. Isn't that what I just said? It's a boogey man, and Harper blinked. Now it goes back under the bed as long as Harper plays nice with the budget. Ironically, polls showed that had Harper stood up to the confidence vote and asked for an ele... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canada's first coup |
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:35 am
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Comments: 297
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| For what's it's worth, the coalition bogey-man seems to have worked. Flaherty has been "consulting" with the Libs on budget goals, and the Libs seem pretty satisfied that he's actually serious about working with them on this. The proof will be in the pudding come Jan 26th of course. Then w... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canada's first coup |
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:03 pm
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Comments: 297
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| If a government is ever formed in a democratic country it's because it was voted into power by the people in a fair and open election.... The problem is that the coalition denies this ideal.... Most voters going into the voting booth never had the expectation of anything other then electing a one p... |
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