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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: How Did Our Mideast Policy Change? |
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:28 pm
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| The only "wackos" are those who see the US as the automatic good guy regardless of what it/they do. THIS displaced nationalism is probably a good deal less justified than our local Canuck variety. It does NOT wash to say "I don't really" support Israel's actions and then condemn ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Watching two different wars |
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:24 pm
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Replies: 20
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| Perhaps we should simply see this as a "police action" designed to intimidate opposition to Bush and Blair... not to mention any anti-war protests within Israel itself. THIS is not exactly a "capitalist plot" just like Vietnam had very little to do with "tin and tungsten&quo... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Minimum wage is an immoral concept |
| shagya |
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:54 pm
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Replies: 28
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| Exactly. It's funny that these neo-con turkeys who are always whining about the evils of "state control" are always trying to put people in a position where they are forced to rely on the governnment to protect them from the sleaziest of employers. Fortunately not all employers are quite t... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Harper doubts attack on UN deliberate |
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:41 pm
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| Considering the Americans helped to create islamic militancy as part of their turf war with the Russians they can hardly cry too much if this all now blows up in their faces. The state of Israel was originally a creation of the British from territory that certainly didn't belong to the citizens of B... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Free Market Economics = Cooperatives |
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:40 am
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| And just in case it isn't I will state for the record that I am in general sympathy ( although not always in complete agreement ) with the "left" side of things. This does not mean "comradely" criticism is not sometimes justified. What I have noticed is an occasional tendency for... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Free Market Economics = Cooperatives |
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:44 pm
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| If I knew for certain what you are talking about I could perhaps give a more inclusive answer. As for my beliefs these have changed a number of times over the course of a lifetime and I'm in my middle fifties. At one time I was quite conservative in the general sense of the word although I tended to... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Free Market Economics = Cooperatives |
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:36 am
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| I concur. But I also have doubts the idea of anarchist-socialism will light too many bulbs on this forum. The range of opinions here seems to be between social democracy AND "strong governemnt" to neo-liberalism ( AND also strong government). Perhaps some of the regulars would like to prov... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Ignatieff's blind spot |
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:42 pm
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Replies: 21
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| The Liberals are losing ground for a number of reasons, not the least of which is their essential similiarity to the Conservatives. [Harper's libertarian pretensions,like the NDP's former socialist ones, will not last. They obviously DID help him sufficiently to win the election though]. It just see... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Maclean's Poll 2006: Divided we stand |
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:45 am
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Replies: 17
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| I might add that the criticism of "intolerance" is often used as an excuse by someone on the losing end of an debate. It goes something like this... two people are having an argument about ... let's say ... all cows eat grass versus cows don't eat grass. The guy who says NO gets annoyed an... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Time is Running out for Afghanistan |
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:58 pm
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| This is very interesting. C.B. is not someone from whom I would have expected much consideration for the average slob in Afghanistan. Perhaps there is the beginning of a divide between sections of the Canadian upper crust over Iraq, Afghanistan (the latter in particular) and our role over there ... ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Canada - piss on it, eh? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:19 am
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Replies: 19
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| The issue of non-sequiturs is well taken. A bunch of drunks urinating on a statue probably doesn't have a great deal to do with Bush, Iraq, etc.. However the "alignment" between this event and "crime in the streets" was not originally made by me or, for that matter, by most other... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Canada - piss on it, eh? |
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:32 pm
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| Soft left-lib attitudes towards crime? What a joke. Sounds a bit like the way the Chinese talk when confronted with evidence of real crimes. Isn't it funny that some "conservatives" would use something as trivial as a bunch of drunks urinating on a statue as an excuse for more "libert... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Personality tests for traumatized troops called unnecessary |
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:10 pm
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| Well said as usual. My own experience in the military was only a year in cadets. Seeing some of the loonies in my squad made me think what these people might be like under real field conditions. Normal folks don't handle this kind of thing very well. If that is "weakness" then too bloody b... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Personality tests for traumatized troops called unnecessary |
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:13 am
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Replies: 16
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| I've always thought that politicians fall into two broad categories (with a little "indeterminacy" around the edges). The first are the 'Simpletons' a species particularly notable among Conservatives in Saskatchewan although offshoots have been found randomly parasitizing other parties on ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: For Harper, The Price Is Right |
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:32 am
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| I agree. Talking to one ex-serviceman I suggested that some kind of volunteer militia which focused on civil emergencies would be a better compromise than the current situation. He agreed with this. I just wonder how many soldiers are in the Canadian forces for economic reasons, also if there is any... |
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