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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: A great Canadian role model |
| Ombrageux |
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:17 pm
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Comments: 20
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| You would have to concede how grotesquely expensive (almost twice as much per head as other wealthy countries) and cruelly rationed the American system is, for comparable health results. And why shouldn't we consider health something so fundamental it might be a right? Every country beside the U.S. ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Kenney fixes Canada |
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:31 pm
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Comments: 37
Views: 465
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| I don't know much about Canadian politics, but can you substantiate the allegation that the Tories have high immigration because they hope to get more votes? I would say 1) Even with a high rate of immigration, it isn't such that a government could manage electoral manipulation with it except in the... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Self-important politicians make for better government |
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:02 pm
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Comments: 3
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| Just making a thread on an interesting post you have. However, I do personally think Congress is the single worst branch of the U.S. government. Congress is always *extremely* unpopular (20%), it's splintered legislators are the source of pork barreling and horse trading, the Senate in particular ha... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Bibi and Biden |
| Ombrageux |
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:21 pm
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Comments: 12
Views: 371
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| redduck85 - You're a total waste of time. Try not to be completely disingenuous and use a little bit of common sense/empathy. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Bibi and Biden |
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:17 pm
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Comments: 12
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| Good comic. The thing wouldn't be so hypocritical if the U.S. government's pious statements on Israeli expansion were accompanied by actually using its leverage to restrain Israel. One could have a similar comic: Israeli PM bulldozes/builds in West Bank, US President condemns hand-on-heart, US presi... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Your review of the 2010 Olympic closing ceremonies |
| Ombrageux |
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:12 pm
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Comments: 4
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| You might like this article . So one consequence of all the flag-waving and chanting is that Canadians may be a little less smug in the future: they've shown that they can be just as blindly patriotic as (say) their neighbors to the south. As they become more ostentatiously Canadian, they undermine ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Your review of the 2010 Olympic closing ceremonies |
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:27 am
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Comments: 4
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| Why do you act like you hate Canada with every fiber of your being? Canadians should be proud to be their own country. And since you insist on the comparison with America lets indulge: * You do not have 15% of your population without health coverage * You do not need to have the world's highest numb... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: How to hate the government |
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:56 am
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Comments: 118
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| I don't know that Republican anti-government sentiment has ever been "respectable". It always been a shtick used to get elected and thrown away when in power. This reality was hidden during the Reagan and Clinton years because the Republicans either held only the executive or the legislatu... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Quiet patriotism |
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:12 am
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Comments: 41
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| I suppose he does mean the elite, presumably those elements (diplomatic, political) that deal with foreigners, especially if they denigrate Canada. Or he may be trying to create a "useful myth" or "noble lie" about Canada. Canada's image and influence in the world is improved if ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Obama's University Essay |
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:27 am
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Comments: 19
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| Excellent article from the budding Obama. Much better than his speeches! It is extremely lucid although also simultaneously wrong and right on the specifics of the time: the European peace movements and the Germans Greens would be marginalized, the Pershing II nuclear missiles would be installed, bu... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Hell's kitchen |
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:07 pm
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Comments: 8
Views: 206
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Quote: Putting "Imperialism" into a Haiti-stew makes it look like you're calling the Haitians imperialists. I'm pretty sure that's not the impression you're advocating.
I'll remember that next time I see "Invasion" plastered onto the Iraqi stew. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Hell's kitchen |
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:48 am
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Comments: 8
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| You forgot one: "IMPERIALISM" |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: The Popcorn Playhouse...The Super Thread of Nonsense |
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:08 pm
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| You are correct in theory. In practice, institutional safeguards ("checks and balances") play little role in democratization and "becoming a dictatorship". The UK has this system for a good 300 years and had always been the only legal-electoral regime in Europe (and later its mos... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dealing with Reid |
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:40 am
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Comments: 26
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| Nice cartoon. Poor Republicans and their hurt feelings. |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: The Popcorn Playhouse...The Super Thread of Nonsense |
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:13 pm
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Comments: 391
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| You are correct on LBJ. It was I think the only time we had such massive reforms in the absence of war or collapse. This was exceptional, in no small part due to Johnson's rare legislative genius. No one has matched him since. (Although, it is also worth stressing how difficult it was to pass reform... |
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