Displaying 721 To 750 Of 889 Comments You Might be a Conservative if You… It blows my mind that Gordon Brown – putatively a labor socialist – is further right than Stephen Harper – our home-grown conservative who is way too conservative for my taste. I like Prokoviev being where he is – I love his music and I’d hate to have to give him up because of his politics 🙂 » Posted By Mightywoof On April 8, 2010 @ 2:18 pm Yay – it worked *doing happy dance* » Posted By Mightywoof On April 8, 2010 @ 1:44 pm Thanks Cher – I used block (forgot the quote thing). I’ll see if it works in edit I used to be in the theatah dahling – I’m a great believer in artistic expression over self control – you wouldn’t believe the temper tantrums I used to pull in my yoof 😆 » Posted By Mightywoof On April 8, 2010 @ 1:42 pm I don’t know how to embed pics here so I’ll just do the following Universalism: 3.0 There’s a ‘quiz’ from the UK which I found useful in finding out where you are on the political spectrum – I’m waaaay more south-west than Ghandi (economically minus 8.25, socially minus 7.08)!! http://www.politicalcompass.org/test I ran across an online paper/book a few years ago – The Authoritarians by Bob Altmeyer, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada OK, what » Posted By Mightywoof On April 8, 2010 @ 1:14 pm My Nanna lived to the grand age of 97 and a half and she was so weary of life and living for about the last 10 years of her life. I have over another 30 years before I reach that age but already I know that eternal life is abhorrent – as much as I don’t want to die, I don’t want to live forever either. An eternity of ennui doesn’t sound like much fun 🙂 » Posted By Mightywoof On April 8, 2010 @ 2:25 pm ” …… will find a way to beat death” Science is already working on it stem cells are stamped with an » Posted By Mightywoof On April 8, 2010 @ 2:10 pm How Long Is a Piece of String? What an amazing movie that was Khirad!! An interesting question – even the no-structure, in the religious sense, has a societal structure. Many societies have a culture that gets so interwoven with the religious (eg FGM, wearing a burka …..at least, it’s my understanding that those practices are cultural and not governed by scripture) that it seems impossible to separate the two. » Posted By Mightywoof On April 6, 2010 @ 6:04 am Congratulations Cher – don’t eat all that Hamburger Helper at once 🙂 » Posted By Mightywoof On March 25, 2010 @ 11:38 am No offense taken, Marion 😆 ……….. we have our own share of nutjobs and whackos. My response to them is laughter – I really can’t take them seriously!! » Posted By Mightywoof On March 30, 2010 @ 7:26 am I defend anybody’s right to be as obnoxious as they want. If I don’t like it, I don’t have to listen to it. I was aware of Ann Coulter’s name and always assumed, gleaning from the odd references I’d come across, that she was, indeed, a right wing pundit a la Beck and company. When the controversy erupted here, I heard her described as a comedian – odd, I thought to myself, but it then made her flying carpet and camel remark fall into context. Still, obnoxious and, IMO, race-baiting – but not illegal up here. Canada does have hate laws but they are very difficult to get a conviction under and all Crowns are very reluctant to even consider starting a prosecution. The thing that struck me, in reading your post, is the way this has been reported in different countries. Here, we are told that the police in Ottawa could not guarantee Coulter’s safety and the organizer of the event, Ezra Levant, decided to cancel the speech. I heard a fellow, who lives right next to the campus and walked the grounds that night, say the protest wasn’t a violent one – it was simply loud and nobody in campus security seemed to be that worried about the protesters although there was concern at the large number of people who had turned up (not to attend the speech or to protest but simply to gawk). Dare I suggest that the organizer (who is no slouch himself in the obnoxious department – especially where moslems are concerned) saw an opportunity for political point making? The student protesters certainly played into his hands – they need to learn to protest ‘smarter’ and, as you say, actually read what Coulter has written, before protesting it. Everybody I have heard discussing this on radio and TV (CBC) have agreed that the Provost of Ottawa U. did a really dumb thing in writing the email – dumb, dumb, dumb – and, without dissent, they have all agreed that Coulter has the right to say what she wants, even in Canada – as repulsive as most Canadians find that to be. » Posted By Mightywoof On March 28, 2010 @ 5:47 pm Hey Jesus, Are You Packing Heat? I kept seeing flashes of Chevy Chase in his facial expressions! Brilliant man and I’ve never seen or heard of him before – and now I never will 🙁 » Posted By Mightywoof On March 25, 2010 @ 5:08 am The audio was a little hard to follow in places, Boomer, but it seems to me that he joined the wrong party! And goes to what I was saying about parties not clearly articulating what they stand for and what principles govern their thought processes. To argue that a downturn in the economy is the wrong time to bring this Bill forward just beggars belief – what part of ‘saves billions/trillions’ didn’t he understand? I have some sympathy for being fiscally conservative – you cannot introduce massive expenditure social programmes unless they are sustainable – but it’s been clearly shown that ‘do-nothing’ will cost your country even more and make you less competitive with the rest of the world (arguing from a completely economic POV). In the parlance of the Brits – he was nobbled 🙄 . So what do you think his chances of re-election are 🙂 » Posted By Mightywoof On March 23, 2010 @ 1:13 pm I honestly don’t think, with a few exceptions, principled politics exists any more. For many years, here in Canada (and the UK), nobody has known what any of the parties stand for. Attack politics does nothing but mask the issues that a party stands for and should campaign on. An interesting article Boomer (and I’m glad you finally fought your way through WordPress 🙂 ) – and I’d be just as interested to hear what ‘your man in Ohio’ rationalizes!! » Posted By Mightywoof On March 23, 2010 @ 11:32 am What health care reform reforms: Provisions and timeline I know two folks, dear friends, in the ‘angry’ group! I tried to explain what the Bills meant, based on the Kaiser comparison and, boy-o-boy, did I ever get ripped apart! I’m glad the poll numbers are showing favorably as I’m worried about the costs to low-income folks who are just outside the range to get subsidies. Even with subsidies, it’s going to be hard for them to find the money to pay for insurance premiums. I hope the issue is revisited in terms of alleviating financial hardships caused by the mandates. » Posted By Mightywoof On March 23, 2010 @ 1:23 pm Today’s Historic House Vote on HCR – LIVE FEED AND BLOG “…. it IS critical that the MSM start acting like reporters” How true c’lady but unfortunately this is a trend that has spread across the western media – it has become increasingly hard to find, even in the print media, any organization that reports more than sundbites/headlines/if it bleeds, it leads let alone indulge themselves in investigative journalism. Whatever happened to the glory days of the Washington Post – sad, sad, sad 🙁 What you and others in your organization have done has been admirable almost to heroic proportions. And I bet you will not be resting on your laurels or even taking a well-deserved break – right?? » Posted By Mightywoof On March 22, 2010 @ 10:59 am {{{hugs}}} Bito & KQ and all the rest of you – it’d been one helluva ride on one helluva day – welcome to the Health Care world It’s way past my bedtime – I gotta go » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 8:34 pm 217!!!! » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 8:30 pm Ye Gods – they’re not going to flog the abortion horse all over again are they 😯 » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 7:53 pm Are there any repubs absent – or is there a crack in their armour?? 🙂 » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 7:49 pm Drinks are on me …………. YOU GOT IT!!!! » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 7:45 pm I bet he’s watching on PPOV tonight:) » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 7:35 pm Is this THE vote KQ? » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 7:32 pm …. brains???? 😯 – oh yeah, I forgot – zombies eat brains, don’t they 😉 » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 6:36 pm Thanks C’lady – it’s sometimes difficult following rationales when you don’t understand the premise! » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 6:26 pm Yup, you’re right K ………. spread the risk!! I really don’t understand the fight against a mandate – are you not mandated to buy car insurance if you want to drive a car? Not a good analogy I know » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 6:00 pm Oooh – I just gagged Cher 😉 » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 4:44 pm Heh 🙂 » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 4:42 pm Isn’t this vote something about recognising and honouring American vets? I don’t remember the exact words » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 2:56 pm Hey Bito – how the heck are you 🙂 I gotta go feed everybody *sigh* – but ah’ll be bahck (did you hear my best Terminator impression 😆 ) » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 2:53 pm As much as I dislike my fellow Canadian for his politics, he’s right on this one – and I never thought I’d see the day when I’d consider him a moderate Republican voice – quelle surprise!! » Posted By Mightywoof On March 21, 2010 @ 2:38 pmComments Posted By Mightywoof
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