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OT: American Politics

Re: OT: Canadian Politics

KB's a conservative, except when it comes to everything in his life. Then he's a lefty, for good reason.

Unions...fine, if he's in it.
Work Entitlements...fine, if he's getting them.
Big Fat Pension...fine, if he's getting it.
Abortions...fine, if it happens to his wife or daughter.
Universal Healthcare...fine, if his family is sick.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I hope you don't forget Iraq had nothing to do with it, nor did Iran.
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Good day to remember that Bush, Rummy, Cheney, and Rice were asleep at the wheel. Ignored repeated CIA briefings on Bin Laden, thinking he was just a second fiddle stooge to Sadam.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?hpw

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The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001. By May 1, the Central Intelligence Agency told the White House of a report that “a group presently in the United States” was planning a terrorist operation. Weeks later, on June 22, the daily brief reported that Qaeda strikes could be “imminent,” although intelligence suggested the time frame was flexible.

But some in the administration considered the warning to be just bluster. An intelligence official and a member of the Bush administration both told me in interviews that the neoconservative leaders who had recently assumed power at the Pentagon were warning the White House that the C.I.A. had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat. Intelligence officials, these sources said, protested that the idea of Bin Laden, an Islamic fundamentalist, conspiring with Mr. Hussein, an Iraqi secularist, was ridiculous, but the neoconservatives’ suspicions were nevertheless carrying the day.
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Re: OT: Canadian Politics

TheCountofMonteCristo said:
You wouldn't actually expect an appointed judge to overturn the decision of a democratically elected government would you? Do you really want an interventionist judge deciding in the place of the government?
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Hahahaha. Another layer of hypocrisy unveiled. It's normally extremely left-leaning individuals who favour and advocate for judicial activism.
 
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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/poli...ut-presidential-intelligence-briefings/56742/

Dick Cheney picked the wrong day to criticize Barack Obama for not paying close enough attention to presidential daily briefings. Last night, The New York Times published new evidence about how the Bush White House ignored warnings about the 9/11 attacks in daily intelligence briefings. So, when Cheney ripped into the Obama White House, was he being ironic? Or maybe just offering a helpful "I learned this the hard way" lesson? Not as far as we can tell....
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...hold_n_1873673.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

The rich are getting even richer as most other Americans fall behind.

Households in the wealthiest one percent were 288 times richer than the median American household in 2010, possessing an average net worth of $16.4 million. In contrast, the median American household had a net worth of $57,000 in 2010. That's according to "The State of Working America," a report released Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute.

The wealthiest one percent now own 35 percent of all wealth in the U.S, and income inequality is growing as wages have not kept up with workers' increased output....
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You can live in one of her legs. Definitely bigger than most of the condos they are putting up here.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

go read the bill. go read bill 115. check out our website at www.controlyourfuture.ca and read the bill, and see the presser with the CCLA where our lawyer rips it apart. i have read the written legal brief on it too. the law even to a complete amateur is an abomination. it puts absolutely unprecedented and dictatorial powers into the hands of an obviously incompetent minister, outside of the scrutiny even of the legislature, to unilaterally impose working conditions in perpetuity and without bargaining. it is ridiculous. you don't need an "activist" judge to see that either. the bill even holds itself unaccountable to any board, arbitrator, judge, or court. they are trying to hold themselves completely above the law. every canadian should be worried about this.

and i would be perfectly happy to explain to any of you line by line why our wages and working conditions are what they are and how it developed into the whole compensation package. unless you understand that, you can't speak intelligently about what they are doing here. it is a hatchet job of the highest order, and we will fight it all the way to the highest court in the land.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

look at the bottom of pg.19 of that f*cking frankenstein of a law, and see where the gov't HOLDS ITSELF ABOVE any law, arbitration, labour relations or human rights board, or any court. they say there that NOTHING in this bill can be appealed, challenged, adjudicated, or arbitrated. it is the destruction of basic human rights and the rule of law.
 
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