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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on January 23, 2006, 12:13:53 PM
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:aok Good move voters of Canada!
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-01-22T204843Z_01_N19193346_RTRUKOC_0_US-POLITICS.xml&rpc=22
Michael Moore is not happy! :rofl
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060121/1/3y2rn.html
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"the era of Liberal arrogance"
We have had 40 some years of liberal arrogance fighting the failed war on poverty without even a hint of an exit strategy at least the Canadians figured it out in less time...
Go Canada!
Wait darnit....Where will our lackys move too now?
TJ
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Quite often around here, if a Canadian voices his opinion on U.S. politics, the retort is something along the lines of, "You're not a citizen. No one cares what you think."
With that in mind... Why should any U.S. citizen give a rat's bellybutton about Canadian politics? And is there any reason why a Canadian citizen should care what we think?
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because those hotair-filled lumberjacks/mounties have been whining on this board for years its time to point at them and laugh
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If it pissed that pile of dung moore off it has to be good.
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Originally posted by Pooh21
because those hotair-filled lumberjacks/mounties have been whining on this board for years its time to point at them and laugh
:lol :D
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I am Canadian and welcome any US or other opinion on our government.
The Liberals are corrupt. There were caught stealing and they still might win the election.
It is a very sad day when even faced with the heaps of proof of all the misappropriated funds and other corruption the current Liberal government was responsible for, a huge segment of our population will still vote for them.
Most common reason when I ask people why they vote Liberial
"I don't trust the Conservatives" (they would rather trust proven criminals)
or
"I don't the right wing policies of the Conservatives" (when I ask for examples they have none to back this statement up).
Our country is doomed. Canada is full of idiots.
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mix "Canadian" with "politics"...i doubt one could possibly find a more boring compound than that...thats why they don't hold any golf tournaments in Canada..."Smelling salts invitational"
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Originally posted by Habu
I am Canadian and welcome any US or other opinion on our government.
All Politicians are corrupt. There were caught stealing and they still might win the election.
It is a very sad day when even faced with the heaps of proof of all the misappropriated funds and other corruption the current Liberal government was responsible for, a huge segment of our population will still vote for them.
Most common reason when I ask people why they vote Liberial
"I don't trust the Conservatives" (they would rather trust proven criminals)
or
"I don't the right wing policies of the Conservatives" (when I ask for examples they have none to back this statement up).
Our country is doomed. Canada is full of idiots.
There, I fixed it for you. Now its up to you to decide which is the less corrupt party. Then vote. :)
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LMFAO Rip. I was literally just about to do the same thing.
Remember, just because you agree with one side or the other, doesn't make them any less corrupt.
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never trust a politician, not even if your life depends on it.
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yet so many of you seem to want to give politicians more and more power.
lazs
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We are just trading in one group of bastards for another. Besides, with a minority government it doesn't really matter which party wins.
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oh no they will be shipping our homos back to us now. well maybe they will go to oregon and california.
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stick them in france, thats a girly country anyway
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Originally posted by Habu
It is a very sad day when even faced with the heaps of proof of all the misappropriated funds and other corruption the current Liberal government was responsible for, a huge segment of our population will still vote for them.
Happens here in New Jersey all the time.
Just happened again a few months ago in fact with our latest election for governor.
The Democrats in Trenton have been shown to be among the most currupt in the nation.
Our last governor, before admitting he was "a gay American" tried appointing several people to positions of power with mob ties. Including the head of our state police.
As well as trying to make his formar gay lover our homland security guy.
His qualification? He was from Isreal.
So what did we do?
Elect another Democrat Governor
15 more years on this mortgage and Im out of here.
Gonna re-invade the south maybe
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Happens here in New Jersey all the time.
Just happened again a few months ago in fact with our latest election for governor.
The Democrats in Trenton have been shown to be among the most currupt in the nation.
Our last governor, before admitting he was "a gay American" tried appointing several people to positions of power with mob ties. Including the head of our state police.
As well as trying to make his formar gay lover our homland security guy.
His qualification? He was from Isreal.
So what did we do?
Elect another Democrat Governor
15 more years on this mortgage and Im out of here.
Gonna re-invade the south maybe
if you come to south florida and drive slowly I'll kick your ass. damn yankees.
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I voted for Chuck Norris.
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I also welcome any comments on Canadian politics. Why the eff not?
FWIW, I voted Conservative.
Our Conservatives aint like your so-called Conservatives (patoohey!)... such that any comparison is basically meaningless.
Thank cod.
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Originally posted by Habu
It is a very sad day when even faced with the heaps of proof of all the misappropriated funds and other corruption the current government was responsible for, a huge segment of our population will still vote for them.
Simply amazing! I agree.
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jumping the gun aint theyÉ results dont even START coming in for another 13 minutes...american media ****s it up again...
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I cringed when I saw the news this morning. One more big country that's going to be ruled by farmers... great, just what we needed...
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Canadians have such short memories. They forget about 'lieing Brian', a Conservative. But to be fair, PET, a Liberal, started the long road into the red for Canada.
It was NDP and Bob Rae who put Ontario into the red. The NDP in BC were no saints either. Some want the NDP to be the governing party. :eek: :eek:
It make no difference which party, they is ALL crooks, especially the higher up the ladder they are.
Pooh21, can we laugh at the mooshine swiggin hillbilly hicks from south of the 49th?
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Yep..We elected a wacko fundamentalist neo-con Bush clone.
Thankfully it is a minority govt so we won't see his true colours(ie troops going to Iraq,gay rights quashed,abortion banned etc..)
We will hopefully see the gun registry scrapped as well as gun collectors and target shooters being left alone.
We will see madnatory sentencing for gun crimes and tougher sentences.
We will hopefully see more spending on military and more troops in Afganistan.
Actually us Canadians got what we wanted..The Liberals booted out and the Conservatives in charge with no chance in hell of implementing loony right wing policies...I predict they last less than 2 years in power before being defeated.
i voted for the Green Party btw mostly cause they were excluded from the TV debates despite having candidates in every riding(yet the separatists were allowed into the debate despite running in only 1 province & whose agenda is to break up the country)
It seems we wanted the Liberals booted more than we wanted Harper to implement his old Canadian Reform Alliance Party (CRAP) policies.
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What looney right wing policies did Harper promise to introduce?
I see you have been getting your information from the most reliable of sources, Liberal TV ads and the Toronto Star.
Amazing how ignorant the average Canadian is regarding the Conservative agenda.
Conservatives want more accountability and more self sufficiency. That means less special interests protecting their entitlements.
The Liberals want to stay in power by buying votes by catering to special interests who will support them.
The fact that you believe that Harper is a fundamentalist neo-con Bush clone shows me the Liberals did their job well of getting the most divisive of labels applied to a man who has been in government for long enough to see that all he has been doing is asking for the Liberals to clean up their house.
I am glad you wasted your vote.
My family income is not enormous in my view but in the view of the NDP and Liberals it is large enough that each tax time I see the tax relief they have delivered clawed back. I pay for child care in the form of a nanny but the Liberals want me to send my kid to institutional care to get any tax relief and then if I did it would be clawed back.
I see hundreds of millions of dollars given illegally to Liberal ad firms and bogus programs and I don't see a single person going to jail.
I am amazed SirLoin that you feel so strongly anti Conservative. Do you like living in this cesspool of corruption the Liberals have created?
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Happens here in New Jersey all the time.
Just happened again a few months ago in fact with our latest election for governor.
The Democrats in Trenton have been shown to be among the most currupt in the nation.
Our last governor, before admitting he was "a gay American" tried appointing several people to positions of power with mob ties. Including the head of our state police.
As well as trying to make his formar gay lover our homland security guy.
His qualification? He was from Isreal.
So what did we do?
Elect another Democrat Governor
15 more years on this mortgage and Im out of here.
Gonna re-invade the south maybe
Upper 70's here....headed to the golf course now, a few cold ones at my favorite tiki bar on the beach, then over to the marina to take the boat out for some offshore fishing at my private (secret) spots. It's a rough life but someones got to do it. Not as lucky as you to be living the good life in joisy.
:rofl
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Originally posted by Habu
What looney right wing policies did Harper promise to introduce?
Conservatives want more accountability and more self sufficiency. That means less special interests protecting their entitlements.
I am glad you wasted your vote.
I see hundreds of millions of dollars given illegally to Liberal ad firms and bogus programs and I don't see a single person going to jail.
I am amazed SirLoin that you feel so strongly anti Conservative. Do you like living in this cesspool of corruption the Liberals have created?
Looney right wing policies?Sending troops to Iraq,gay rights(marriage definition),elimination of "corporate welfare" eg no more taxpayer $$$ given to auto manufacturers(woulda been a lot more Ford plants closing here if he had won previously)...Oil pipeline from Alaska,pulling out of Kyoto,missle testing & the fact that he mentions God at the end of every speech..
I'm actually very happy he was elected cause on most other issues i agree with his platform...last election Joe Clarke (Progressive Conservative))got my vote cause he was the best leader.This time around there was the right party(Conservatives) but a leader i cannot stomache...the Liberals deserved to get turfed for arrogence & corruption(like u said..not one person went to jail for Ad-Scam) so couldn't live with giving them my vote..the NDP had by far the best leader but the party policies would plunge Canada into debt...no vote there either from me.
Woulda voted for the Rhino party this time around but the only alternate protest vote on my riding's ballot was Green Party.
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Originally posted by storch
if you come to south florida and drive slowly I'll kick your ass. damn yankees.
well technically Im not a full blooded Yankee as I was born in North Carolina.
I just grew up in the north. But my loyalties have always been in the south.
Just think of me as a southern mole living in the north waiting for the day that The South Rises again LOL
Slow? Define slow, cause living up here and visiting down there I've discovered that northern slow is definately different then southern slow.
Thats the one thing I'd find hard getting used to. The pace.
Example. If I go into a supermarket here and am at the register getting my items rung up. it goes somethign like this
grab item "beep",grab item "beep",grab item "beep",grab item"beep"
and we think that pace is too slow
Yet whenever I gone into a supermarket in the south (and you typically have pretty crappy supermarkets btw) after you have waited behind 2 customers 1/2 hour to reach the register, as I've noticed on every single trip into one you realise the reason why.
It goes like this.
You would think they all went to the cashier school of Fred Norton the way they ring things up.
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a can of corn
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a bag of potatoe chips
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a Box of Pasta
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a bag of potatoe chips
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a 1 Gallon Milk container (How can you not be able to find the code bars on a 1 gallon milk container? There is only 1 flipping label on the thing!)
Eventually I get to the point where it takes just about all the self restraint I can muster to keep from doing my best Ralph Cramden, smacking the cashier and saying "Will you just scan the damn items already!"
Another thing I'd find hard getting used to as my sister who now lives in Va also has is the
"Good morning. How Y'all doing"
now up north we may here "Good morning how ya doing" In which the common responce is "Hi, How you doing" and thats it.
But down there when you are asked that. You mean it. You really are expected to tell how your doing. You actualy wait for an in depth responce!
Up here you dont give any kind of lengthy responce because quite frankly you know very well that nobody really gives a damn how your doing. They just want to get rid of the line thats in front of them
LOL
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Originally posted by weaselsan
Upper 70's here....headed to the golf course now, a few cold ones at my favorite tiki bar on the beach, then over to the marina to take the boat out for some offshore fishing at my private (secret) spots. It's a rough life but someones got to do it. Not as lucky as you to be living the good life in joisy.
:rofl
See now pace of life Fla is more like the north.
It just gets too damn hot and I really would miss things like the change of seasons and snow
Plus I'd miss my tradition of BBQing during blizzards and heavy snowstorms and when the temp drops below 10.
Kinda my way of flipping the bird at mother nature
and the only real Tiki bars in Fla is where they originated down ther.
the keys.
We have Tiki bars in Joisey too. I just dont go to em.
Its not the same. even in the summer
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Canada supported Iraq by having our Navy support the US invasion under the Liberals. Harper never pledged to put ground troops there. We are in Afghanistan on the ground yet no one seems to mind that. Hypocrisy issue raised the the Liberals as it was polled to be very divisive.
Gay union or gay marriage? I guess you support the latter. I see not reason why not to have a free vote on the issue. I think gay union is fine as marriage should be defined in the traditional sense. Now that you bring it up how do you feel about polygamy? Many Muslims living in Canada practice it now. Should we legalize it as well? Again you are sucked in by a very divisive issue as was identified by Liberial pollsters.
I agree in eliminating corporate welfare. Toyota and Honda did not locate here because of corporate welfare. Magna is not here because of corporate welfare. They are here because of the more productive workforce. Corporate welfare does not work. Look at the Sydney coal coal mines or Algoma for examples of why this is so.
The science of Kyoto is dubious at best. I see it as a way of making northern countries like Canada have to pay for pollution in the third world. We live in the north. How are we supposed to heat our homes? What energy is going to power those Ford plants you are so found of? Not Nuclear since you voted Green and not coal or fossel fuel as Kyoto limits that? Tell me how you feel about it when you electrical bill is thousands of dollars a month.
Missle testing? What you would rather have a guy who hides the criminals of Ad-Scam in power instead of a guy who says Canada will share the cost (and research grants) of missle testing with the US. That issue has to rank like 1500 on a list of 1501 that I care about.
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Originally posted by SirLoin
elimination of "corporate welfare" eg no more taxpayer $$$ given to auto manufacturers(woulda been a lot more Ford plants closing here if he had won previously)
pulling out of Kyoto,
With the exception of these two points, I agree with everything you said.
It's not the responsibility of the tax payers to prop up poorly run companies. And I though I am for the decrease in green house gases, Kyoto actually promotes the increase of them. The mechanisms in Kyoto is suppose to allow for the industrialisation of third world countries. But because they get paid for greenhouse gas credits it promotes thier maintaining the status quo. The net effect is our tax dollars being taken and given to third world country governments, regardless of their corruption or tyranny.
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Originally posted by Thrawn
It's not the responsibility of the tax payers to prop up poorly run companies.
I agree %100 as well..I don't want taxpayer $$$ handed out to huge corporations who are making billions in profits...im all for banning "corporate welfare" but it's not realistic...Unless USA,Korea,Mexico etc all ban it at the same time the corporations will simply pack up and move to where they can get free taxpayer $$$.
eg..the days leading up to yesterday's Ford's big axe-chop almost all of the threatened plants in the USA had local govt's offering big $$$ incentives(tax dollars) to change Ford's mind...It isn't right but everyone is doing it...
If Harper had won a majority and banned it here you would see that new Flex-plant in Oakville go south(or overseas) and 4000 jobs(+ 40000 spin-off jobs) vanish.
What Harper needs to say is that he will push for a global ban(or at least a NA ban) on corporate handouts.
Same with the Aircraft industry..Dehavillands(where i works for 5 yrs) gets the handout mostly cause the competition in turboprops are LARGELY subsidized by their respective govts...How are you supposed to compete or simply survive?
as fer Kyoto...i would rather err on the side of mother earth than the corporate bean counter.