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“taxes are not forcibly taken from people.”
You are genuinely clueless dude. By the looks of it, you’ve been grabbing the brandy bottle instead of the coffeemaker.
“The Culture War’s Decisive Battle has Begun
In every war there is one decisive battle. This battle doesn’t end the war; a great deal of hard fighting lies ahead. But in retrospect it’s the moment when one side’s ultimate victory — and the other side’s ultimate defeat — were sealed. In our Civil War this decisive battle was Gettysburg. In World War II, it was Midway.
Unexpectedly — perhaps even astonishingly — this year’s presidential campaign is shaping up as the decisive battle in the Culture War that’s been tearing apart our country for decades.
On one side are the Traditionalists. We believe that church and State should be separate, but that religion should remain at the center of life. We are a Judeo-Christian culture, which means we consider those ten things on a tablet to be commandments, not suggestions. We believe that individuals are more important than groups, that families are more important than governments, that children should be raised by their parents rather than by a village, and that marriage is a sacred relationship between a man and a woman. We believe that rights must be balanced by responsibilities, that personal freedom is a privilege we must be careful not to abuse, and that the rule of law cannot be set aside when it becomes inconvenient.
We believe in economic liberty, property rights, and in giving purposeful and industrious entrepreneurs the elbowroom they need to start and run their businesses — and thus create jobs for all the rest of us — with a minimum of government interference. We recognize that people in other countries see things differently, and we are tolerant of their views. But we believe that despite its imperfections the United States is history’s most blessed country, and when attacked we will defend this country with our lives.
Tuning Out, then Tuning In
On the other side of this culture war are the Left-Wing Liberals.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077400/posts
hardboiled – instead of resorting to ad hominem, you ought to deal with the argument. You haven’t answered any of my questions.
By the way, I don’t drink coffee. Or, sigh, brandy. I’m a very dull person. Now..back to the issues.
And what’s your point about Fortier? You obviously don’t like him but – so? I don’t think that it has to do with him being appointed rather than elected, for you are just as upset with tax dollars going to elected MPs – dollars paid for by the voter who voted for them.
And I repeat; taxes aren’t forcibly taken from people. They are an agreement made by a citizen, as an individual, living in a state. If we disagreed, then, I think you’d see a political party emerge that said: No taxation. I don’t think that has happened.
Walk softly and carry a big Quebec stick.
Start reading from the bottom of the report.
“Some confide they are concerned that Dion’s lack of popularity in Quebec will hurt the party.
But perhaps the most telling indicator is that several key Quebec Liberals all say privately that they are already beginning to look beyond this campaign and speculate on what will happen “apres Dion.”
“If it is a Harper minority, the next leader will be (Michael) Ignatieff or (Bob) Rae,” said one Liberal insider who traded anonymity for candour. “But if it is a Harper majority, we’re looking at the next generation of leaders.””
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“Quebec could be key to Tory majority
OTTAWA – He has run in five election campaigns as a member of Parliament, in two leadership campaigns and led his party through two general elections.
However, the battle Stephen Harper is about to fight for the hearts and minds of Quebecers will likely be like no battle he has fought before.
For the Conservatives, Quebec could very well hold the key to a majority government.”
http://tinyurl.com/6zbs2w
“The Liberals used to get lots of money from the large private corporations; that was their basis. Then, Chretien put in a law lowering the donation limit to, I think it was 5,000. Then, it was lowered again to 1,500.”
Harper then reduced that limit to 0, let’s not forget.
Lizzie May will have to squeal from the sidelines again.No debate for the greeens.Yes,common sense wins. Her little ploy of putting up a digraced liberal as a bargaining chip was thrown off the table.
Well here is an interesting poll
“Which party has the best opportunity to win over Undecided Voter’s”
ctv.ca
bloc 38 votes 0%
conservatives 5238 votes 57%
greens 892 votes 10%
liberals 1788 votes 19%
ndp 1288 votes 14%
Democracy and freedom is coming to Canada.
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Democracy
“It’s coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It’s here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it’s here they got the spiritual thirst.
It’s here the family’s broken
and it’s here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.”
H/T Leonard Cohen
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“But westward, look! the land is bright.”
(H/T A.C. Clough, 1869)
Librano or Con,
are they simply run,
by the very same Don?
Before yesterday’s spending crescendo, the penny-pinching Canadian Taxpayers Federation had compiled a list of almost 300 Tory announcements totalling $8.8 billion since June.
“As opposition, the Conservatives lampooned the Liberals for doing this kind of shameless pre-election spending, ” said taxpayer federation spokesman Adam Taylor.
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com
Appointed by Liberal Chretien in 2000.
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“Ex-privacy czar committed frauds: Crown
OTTAWA – The fraud trial of former privacy commissioner George Radwanski got underway Monday with some damning testimony.
Court heard that Radwanski failed to report a $35,000 loan he got from his chief of staff in 2001 as required by the federal conflict of interest code.
The loan was in the form of a mortgage on Radwanski’s residence.
The Crown alleges it was repaid largely through a fraudulent travel advance of $15,000 for Radwanski and a payment of $16,000 in vacation leave he didn’t earn.
Radwanski and his former top aide, Arthur Lamarche, are on trial in Ontario Superior Court charged with fraud and breach of trust.”
http://tinyurl.com/6m383n
“Money heals all wounds as Liberals settle Green Shift name dispute
The Liberal Party of Canada will continue to use “Green Shift” under license from Green Shift Inc. …MORE TO FOLLOW….”
(nnw)
Taliban Jack Layton (NDP) is not available for comment.
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“US drones kill 13 in Pakistan [old friend of Osama bin Laden]
Missiles fired by US drones killed 13 people, including 7 foreign militants, on Monday in a Pakistani village where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, intelligence officials and witnesses said.
“There were two drones and they fired three missiles,” said a resident of Dandi Darpakheil, a village in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.
A military official said a house and madrasa founded by Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani were the targets.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077616/posts
PM Harper:
“I think it’s gun crime we have to deal with, not some duck hunter with a shotgun.””
Bravo. More, please.
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“PM urges crackdown on violent crime
RICHMOND, B.C. — Prime Minister Stephen Harper flatly rejected a growing chorus of calls for tougher gun control laws today, insisting the Conservative plan is to tackle violent crime instead of punishing innocent duck hunters.
As Liberal Leader Stephane Dion’s campaign stopped at Montreal’s Dawson College — the site of a 2006 shooting spree that killed one student and injured 19 — to call for beefed-up gun measures, Harper responded by saying his government has no plans to further restrict weapons.
“This party has favoured the registration of gun owners. This party has favoured the registration of restricted weapons. This party has increased screening requirements for the purchase of all weapons and the fact of the matter is handguns and many weapons are in fact very difficult to own legally in this country,” he said.
“I don’t think by registering every shotgun or long gun or having further restrictions on weapons you’re going to deal with gun crime. I think it’s gun crime we have to deal with, not some duck hunter with a shotgun.””
“Harper attended a rally in the Regina riding of Liberal stalwart Ralph Goodale today, before heading to Winnipeg.”
http://tinyurl.com/6ja6tr (sun)
“The suspect is described as a black male in his early 20s.”
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“Daytime shooting leaves one dead in Toronto
By CNEWS
Three Toronto schools have gone into lockdown following a deadly shooting at a bus stop this afternoon, according to CP24.
Police, along with the K9 unit, are investigating the scene of the Eglinton and Keele streets shooting which left one man dead. The suspect is described as a black male in his early 20s.”
http://tinyurl.com/68rkqa
George Radwanski, editor emeritus of the Red Star is finally on trial for fraud:
http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/NationalNewsArticle.htm?src=n090883A.xml
George Radwanski, editor emeritus of the Red Star is finally on trial for fraud:
http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/NationalNewsArticle.htm?src=n090883A.xml
Ernie said:
“And somewhere in Halton today a man’s head explodes! ;-)”
Whose head has exploded now? Not Taliban Jack Layton’s head again?
Nope! This time, it’s Barf Turner’s head.
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“Liberals have a new writ expense: Paying for “Green Shift
The good news for Jennifer Wright of Green Shift Inc is that the Liberals are conceding that she owns the rights to the name “Green Shift” and so have agreed to pay her a license fee.
The bad news for the Liberals is that this license fee is a writ expense, and will count against their campaign spending limit.”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/272886.php
Russia-Iran Watch.
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“Russia prepares to launch Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant
“Iran is paying Russia more than $1 billion to build the 1,000-megawatt light-water reactor.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077738/posts
Elizabeth May, about not being a participant in the election debates, via globeandmail.com:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080908.wgreens0908/BNStory/politics/home
“This is anti-democratic, closed-door, backroom decision making by four national party leaders who are all men and five television executives – who are all men – to keep out the one woman leader of a federal party,” Ms. May told reporters on Parliament Hill, where she responded to the announcement that she will not be invited to the debates. “And I don’t think many Canadians will think that was fair.”
I’m so tired of the moonbats making an issue of males vs. females. I’m a woman. I don’t think this decision is “unfair.” Playing the gender card is retrograde. I’m much more interested in what either men OR women have to say about issues of importance to ALL Canadians. Men and women share a common humanity and that’s the perspective I’m interested in.
Gender politics pander to the lib-left feminists and gays and usually leave out vast swaths of Canada’s populace—and have since the late ’60s. We’ve had enough of this kind of unequal politics, always masquerading under the “equality” banner.
Elizabeth May insists that the “public airwaves” belong to the public. ’Only problem is, the way our system works is that private companies own the TV channels. I guess it’s their decision and it will be difficult for Ms. May to change their minds.
Ds.May has reached her ultimate goal,she has become a victim of discrimination.Alert the HRC’s.
http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/05/xbox-360-defects-an-inside-history-of-microsofts-video-game-console-woes/
When his fourth Xbox 360 video game console died in April, Chris Szarek wasn’t surprised.
The Chicopee, Mass. gamer was accustomed to the hardware failures that became known throughout the Internet as RROD, or the “red rings of death” which flash when the console becomes inoperable.
A 40-year-old photographer, Szarek was a hardcore Microsoft fan who spent more than $1,000 on his games. But each time one of his Xbox 360 consoles failed, he had to spend time convincing Microsoft’s tech support that they should send him a new console. Each time he got a refurbished console as a replacement (a machine that had been returned to a repair center in Texas, fixed as much as possible, and then shipped back out). When he complained on the Internet and to the media about the shoddy product and poor customer service, people branded him a cry baby and wrote him off as a statistical anomaly. But by the spring of 2008, Szarek was vindicated. There were at least a million or two other people like him.
“We need a peace economy, not a military economy.”
That would be a capitalist economy, which is about production, rather than a socialist one which is about looting. So no reason to vote NDP, for people who favour peace.
“taxes are not forcibly taken from people”
So why don’t you not pay them and find out what happens?
Taxes, contrary to the hogwash from Oliver Wendell Holmes (I think it was) are fundamentally uncivilized. The noblest political goal is the tax-free society. It’s a long way off, but it’s not impossible. We should be planning now.
“McGuinty shies away from Dion endorsement” — Could be he is holding back so that brother David will soon have a shot at the leadership. Really, I think many Liberals do not want them to win . . . and would want a significant enough defeat to leave no doubt about whether Dion should stay on as leader.
Wescott is a good choice for PC’s in Newfoundland. I am pleased that if nothing else he will have an opportunity to communicate again to the people of Newfoundland what a manipulator and tyrant Williams is. Wescott’s story is worth listening to.