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Interzone / Birth AD fundraising opportunity« on: September 25, 2011, 11:23:19 PM »
Some good stuff here. Apparently funds go towards production of the new album. A worthy cause!
Some good stuff here. Apparently funds go towards production of the new album. A worthy cause!
Metal / Re: Birth A.D.« on: February 09, 2011, 04:43:49 AM »
The guys in Birth AD are just too damn old for thrash, they don't have that youthful vibe, are from an older generation and it shows in their attitude and aesthetics. If anyone is going to cause a thrash resurgence, it's going to be some 15 to 20 year old kids with a lot of spirit who have no idea what they're doing. This might be cool for you old people but those born in the 90's aren't seeing anything new here.
You're totally right! Bands like Bonded By Blood and Skeletonwitch are going to lead metal to a new Renaissance!
Metal / Re: Listen to Fearless Iranians From Hell to commemorate 9/11« on: September 07, 2010, 03:35:21 AM »
Birth AD tribute version
Birth AD tribute version
Metal / Re: Why do we all hate -core music?« on: August 23, 2010, 03:12:56 AM »
We all listened to Korn at one point.
What? No. And what's with all the whiny (and brand new) people on this thread? I think we're being trolled, folks.
Metal / Demilich last show footage« on: August 22, 2010, 01:28:06 PM »
Very cool. RIP Demilich!!!
Very cool. RIP Demilich!!!
Metal / Re: IRON MAIDEN: world "better off" ruled by heavy metal« on: August 10, 2010, 02:18:32 AM »
At this point, Dickinson talking about metal ideals is like an aristocrat talking about the poor. He's miles away from what's actually happening.
Metal / Re: The "Bad" Immortal Albums. Are we asking too much?« on: June 24, 2010, 08:06:59 AM »
Given their vapid commentary in media appearances such as "Until the Light Takes Us", I'm prone to reach the conclusion that the bunch were traitors all along. Note that before and during his imprisonment, Varg was always saying kind things about the Immortal guys but now has added them to the list of rats. Excellent music, though.
That's a stupid outlook from a know-it-all outsider. You're confusing vapid with blunt, and you don't have any insight into their dealings with Varg then and now. Please shut the fuck up.
Metal / Re: "Vaguely racist" Prong lyrics« on: June 24, 2010, 08:01:55 AM »
What an asshole. The line in that stupid Pantera song that was actually decried as racist was "Walk on home, BOY!" at the end. Tommy Victor came up in the brutal days of the Bowery in New York. He, and a lot of guys like him (Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, et al), regard themselves as a "different breed" because life in NYC in the early 80s was a unique and very difficult experience.
Metal / Re: Unseen influences in metal« on: May 08, 2010, 05:56:50 AM »
Here's another major influence on metal: DH Lawrence
Agreed. And I'd say the writings of Michael Moorcock and Robert E Howard made more of an imprint than anyone would already expect.
Metal / Re: MOURNING THE ANCIENT zine update and site makeover« on: May 05, 2010, 06:14:18 AM »
Such a bizarre site. "Wat trash" panHellenism?
Interzone / Re: She-Christ impaled upon fleshy meat cleaver« on: April 25, 2010, 09:43:14 PM »
This is what Catholicism does to people - men become victimizers, women become victims.
Metal / Re: Pete Sandoval will not play drums on the new Morbid Angel album.« on: April 03, 2010, 05:56:52 PM »
Not going to happen. I'm also not going to tell you where I heard the myriad stories of David Vincent's gay exploits and his on again/off again relationship with Trey.
Metal / Re: Pete Sandoval will not play drums on the new Morbid Angel album.« on: April 03, 2010, 06:35:32 AM »
If he knows, he's not going to be able to answer you without namedropping, which is a bad idea because it's obnoxious but also because it "outs" your sources.
What he said. Though basically if you're even one step above fan level, stuff like this is common knowledge.
Metal / Re: GOREAPHOBIA« on: April 01, 2010, 01:33:31 AM »
Nashville, TN.
Only metal that gets any support around here are the kinds that involve eyeliner or backwards ball caps.
Or sometimes both at once
Metal / Re: Pete Sandoval will not play drums on the new Morbid Angel album.« on: April 01, 2010, 01:32:56 AM »
How exactly do you know this? Do you have any proof?
Yep. I'm his landlord, so let me just scan the lease agreement and I'll post it here... SHUT THE FUCK UP, JERKASS!!!!!


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By Joe Brewin
Arsène Wenger believes Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will add defensive qualities to his game in the near future.
The 18-year-old was outstanding in the Carling Cup on Tuesday night, causing Manchester City plenty of problems with his pace, direct running and eye for goal.
Oxlade-Chamberlain recently acknowledged that he has room for improvement, especially when Arsenal do not have the ball, but Wenger expects the teenager to emulate the likes of Theo Walcott and raise his game in all areas.
"Defending is not his preferred side but unfortunately at the top level today you have Messi doing it, Rooney, Ronaldo, Van Persie - so why should he not do it?" Wenger told Arsenal Player.
"There is no other way to succeed anymore. That's why, of course, I believe he has the quality to do it. He has the physical ability and he is not scared to go into challenges. He can take a challenge.
"To add that to his game will make him stronger because he will win some balls in areas where he can be dangerous. He's a player who has an impact.
"If you look at the whole picture when you think him, Frimpong, Coquelin, Ramsey and Wilshere just in midfield - we have absolutely exceptional talent and it's very important that we continue to develop them very well."
The full interview with Wenger is now available on Arsenal Player.


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Hello Everyone…This is my first post to this forum. I have a question about how and by whom Uni degrees are verified. Is this done by the country at the time a visa is applied for, or is it done by the school where one is applying for work? Also, do the certification schools like TEFL or TITC (or others) verify your degree, or will they simply accept my diploma as proof of my degree?
The reason I am asking this is because, although I do have a valid university degree (BSB), the college that I graduated from is no longer in operation. They closed their doors in the mid 80's. I do have my original diploma and transcript, but verification at this point would be difficult at best.
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text: We've discussed this general concept many times before, but I saw this statistic (only 8% of students major in the humanities) and was rather surprised. Is it really that small? I can only imagine that it will keep decreasing. http://nation.time.com/2013/03/07/w...ries+(TIME:+Top+Stories)&utm_content=My+Yahoo At my own university, some of the first programs to be cut during the budget crisis a few years ago were the humanities programs.


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In a battle against a seed eating fungus, certain chili peppers fight back by dialing up the heat. Learn more about why and how certain chili's are so hot in this video from Sciencentral.
Is there any more research out there on how to maximize heat in a pepper if you introduce the fungus?
I haven't found anymore research that sheds light on introducing fungus into peppers to make them hotter. This is a relatively new discovery made by Dr. Tewksbury, a biologist at University of Washington. You can read a better synopsis of what led to this discovery here: http://www.sciencentral.com/video/2008/10/02/hot-chili-secret/ Perhaps since he is fascinated with the subject he is looking deeper into how to control the amount of hear produced by any given pepper.
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Rev. Jim Bass
He had never played paintball before and performed the ceremony in the refs Jersey.
You can also see him playing for the first ever time - Look out for my muppets jersey thats him
I would like to thank all those at Island Paintball and Bellows for letting us use the field and making it a wonderful day.
The red Kansas Killzone jersey - is Deven
Im the one in white
Koa - is the guy in the red dress......... I apologise now.
So the pics:
Cake pics:
Ceremony pics:
Ring pics:
Koa was our Bridesmaid.... I love is boquet
Yes we had the rings in a pod:
General Pics:
The rev looks rather shocked by what Koa just said:
Devens reaction to how he feels about the marrage:
Playing pics:
Thanks to drg and Koa from www.hawaiipb.com for taking the piccies
Full pics can be seen here: http://www.flickr.co...57621800996919/
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Leona Kim-Schluger, MD - Endowed Professorship
RMTI clinician, educator and mentor named to distinguished endowed professorship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. Leona Kim-Schluger, Associate Director of Mount Sinai's Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute (RMTI), has been named the inaugural Sydney J. Zweig Professor of Medicine.
The Sydney J. Zweig Professorship was endowed by Barbara and Martin Zweig, PhD, as a gift in 2011 to the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute (RMTI) to support the Zweig Family Center for Living Donation at Mount Sinai. The professorship is named after Dr. Zweig's late father Sydney J. Zweig. The Zweig Family Center for Living Donation is one of the largest living donor programs in the United States, bringing together dedicated resources to specifically support those incredible people who consider donating one of their kidneys or a piece of their liver to another person. The Center focuses on providing outstanding medical, surgical, and psychological care to living donors.
"Dr. Kim-Schluger is a renowned clinician and committed educator and mentor whose leadership and tireless work will continue to advance the academic reputation of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute," said Dr. Sander S. Florman, Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute. "The endowed Sydney J. Zweig professorship signifies a major gift and investment in RMTI's ongoing mission of teaching, research, and clinical care. We are extremely grateful to Barbara and Martin Zweig for making this position possible."
Dr. Kim-Schluger has received many prestigious teaching awards and honors throughout her career. She is adored by her patients and is a favorite among the fellows, residents and medical students.
Dr. Kim-Schluger earned her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She went on to complete an internship in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Gastroenterology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and a fellowship in Hepatology at Mount Sinai. She served Mount Sinai with distinction from 1994 through 2003, and earned The Mount Sinai Medical Center Spotlight Award in 2000 for her extraordinary contributions to the medical center. She returned to Mount Sinai in late 2009 as the Associate Director of the RMTI.


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Treat a trellis as art
Anything but ordinary, this circular trellis is a sculpture you can walk through. In Sunset's test garden, our "moon gate" entrance to veggie beds is also an ideal support for scarlet runner beans. Vine-covered or bare, it makes a big statement. The rustproof steel hoop measures 80 inches across and comes in seven vivid colors (we chose Kumquat). Each structure is handcrafted in Los Angeles by a sculpture and design studio. $840; terratrellis.com
Triple-duty beauty: We're big fans of scarlet runner beans. The fast-growing vine (it covered our trellis in two months) pumps out gorgeous, hummingbird-attractive blooms that develop into tasty young edible pods and shellable beans later.
Grow it: In spring, sow seeds 1 in. deep, 4 to 8 in. apart, in full sun. Provide poles or trellis for support.


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By Chris Harris
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's attitude will hold him in good stead for the future, according to Arsène Wenger.
The 18-year-old has made a big splash since arriving at Emirates Stadium from Southampton in the summer, scoring on his first two starts for the Club against Shrewsbury Town and Olympiacos.
A hat-trick for England Under-21 enhanced Oxlade-Chamberlain's repution even further and he has even been tipped for a late run into Fabio Capello's England squad for Euro 2012.
Wenger will not rush the young midfielder into regular first-team action at Arsenal but he believes Oxlade-Chamberlain's positive approach to football - and to life - is a major plus.
"That is one of his strengths," Wenger told Arsenal Player.
"Alex has talent mixed with a relaxed, positive attitude. I like that in him, he is a positive boy and I think he will be loved by people because he has that up-front attitude. That shows that he deals well with the pressure.
"I am not surprised how well he has done because I had very good reports about him at Southampton so I expected him to adapt quickly. He is now getting to a level where we want him to be and he has an opportunity now to show again that he wants to compete for a place as a regular starter.
"He needs to add urgency to his game in the final third, on the defensive side and winning the duels against men. The Premier League becomes tougher, you have seen that again against Stoke. You need that capability to go from youth-team football or lower-level football to be a top-level athlete in the Premier League.
There is already plenty of hype surrounding Oxlade-Chamberlain but Wenger believes the teenager is at the right club to deal with that.
"We have to leave him alone because in England sometimes there is a big impatience about upcoming young players," said the Frenchman. "I believe that he has a very good example in front of him because Theo Walcott did very well with that.
"Theo is a good example to copy because he was confronted with fame very early in his career - Jack Wilshere as well - and both of them I think are good examples for Oxlade-Chamberlain."
The full interview with the boss is now available on Arsenal Player.
- Emirates Stadium is set for another bumper Carling Cup crowd, but tickets are still available HERE


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Poet Nikky Finney and photographer Abelardo Morell give affirming addresses in lively Commencement
Saturday, May 17, 2014
After joking that she was responsible for the sunny and breezy May weather — in contrast to the gloomy hours leading up to the earlier ceremony for Lesley's graduate students — Board of Trustees Chair Deborah Schwartz Raizes (Class of '69) urged the graduates to stay involved with Lesley. View photos from commencement »
Then President Joseph B. Moore gave the undergraduates their charge for the future:
Chance and circumstance, he said, "will continue to play a role no matter now logical or rational you attempt to make your life story. So welcome the reality of chance and circumstance, even while you plan."
Moore also thanked the graduates' parents, "For your cajoling, your support, your understanding and your encouragement of your graduate."
One newly-minted alumna took the message to heart, festooning a mortarboard with "Sorry it took so long, Dad," a legend that spurred prolonged laughter when it was broadcast on the large screen adjacent to the stage.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honorary degree recipient Nikky Finney was introduced by Assistant Professor in Creative Writing Aaron Smith. He praised Finney for her "sometimes painful but always transformative" poetry and for her overarching accomplishments as a writer, artist, activist, mentor and "seeker and speaker of the truth."
Finney delivered a commencement address to Lesley graduates befitting of an award-winning American poet, replete with beautiful language and imagery. Using her descriptive language, she painted a picture of herself as a "sensitive child," as her mother affectionately called her, who would one day blossom into a National Book Award-winning poet.
Finney reflected upon her "sensitive child" label and her apprehension at that time that it meant over-sensitive or thin-skinned. What she came to appreciate as she matured was that being a sensitive child would make her receptive, refined, discriminating and tender-hearted. She praised the so-called "sensitive children" of the world and encouraged those kindred spirits among Lesley's Class of 2014 who are "pushing the good world forward."
She cautioned that we must preserve children's sensitivity, which can be "chased out of them by homelessness, invisibility, hatred, or the narrow-minded world saying you are not acceptable… ."
"I knew the world would require an army of sensitive children if there was any hope of our humanity not going the way of the dinosaur," she recalled from her childhood.
Finney wished for Lesley's Class of 2014 "the simple courage to be your genuine maverick sensitive-child selves."Watch Nikky Finney's speech.
Introducing the College of Art and Design's honorary degree recipient, photographer Abelardo Morell, was faculty member Christine Collins. She called the speaker's art "mesmerizing and magical" and "meditative investigations of everyday objects."
"You challenge your students to be rigorous and invested in their work," she said.
Morell joked that he had a difficult task ahead of him in the afternoon, as he took the stage after remarks delivered by Finney.
"Following Nikky is a tough job," he said. "I'm thinking about walking away."
Perhaps spurred on by a laughing audience, Morell talked of his first photographs developed in a darkroom in Brunswick, Maine. The native of Cuba (now a Brookline, Mass., resident) knew instantly that he was going to give up his pursuit of engineering in favor of his art, much to his parents' chagrin.
"It helped that I flunked physics," he said to guffaws throughout the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. "The world was now safe from my falling and uninspired bridges."
Morell urged students to be aware of their vocations, which won't announce themselves loudly, but as a "subtle deepening of self."
"These revealing feelings always begin with falling in love," he said. And then, as with any love relationship, the real work of art begins.Watch Abelardo Morell's speech.
Provost Selase Williams introduced Stan Trecker to bring on student speaker Matthew Cobb, a BFA in illustration. Before giving way to the new graduate, however, Trecker, who retired this year as dean but begins a year as dean emeritus, lauded all the College of Art and Design graduates.
"What a privilege and honor it has been to serve as dean for the last several years," Trecker said. "This day celebrates your accomplishments as graduates and emerging artists and designers."
Trecker added: "We value the place of artists in contemporary society. … We always welcome you back to the college at any time in the future."
When he took the stage, Cobb showed he was perfectly in tune with the mood of his peers.
"Hey there, welcome to the party. You having a good time?" A prolonged cheer was the response.
He urged fellow graduates to take stock in the resources they have now before looking too far down the road to what's coming next.
"There has been a lot of time, money, effort, and hardships spent on materials and making art and printing or framing or glitchy technology, and out there that's just gonna keep happening," he said. "But look around you. There are a lot of wonderful people here today. Your friends, family, faculty, and talented classmates.
"And when you leave here today, you'll leave a lot of them behind and might never see them again. Now you might look around at some people and be like, "Oh thank God I ain't seeing them again," but I'm sure there'll be plenty of people you'll miss too. I know that people here helped me a lot, and I'm not gonna have access to this many helpful creative minds again."Watch Matthew Cobb's speech.
Earlier, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Mary Coleman said the Class of 2014 will go forward using their knowledge and skills responsibly and ethically as they make a difference in the world. She introduced one of those many students, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences student speaker Hallel Marx.
Marx, who is from Israel and emigrated to the United States six years ago, recalled the first time she came to the Lesley campus, which immediately felt like home. She had found "a world of passionate, accepting people," even as a commuter student from a different country.
"My values were always encouraged and appreciated by those around me," said Marx, who is a double major in mathematics and psychology with a minor in global studies. During her address, she encouraged her classmates to take the passion characterized by Lesley to make changes in the world.
"Please remember that today is not the end, just the beginning," said Marx. "Stay curious, stay open-minded."Watch Hallel Marx's speech.
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NFL Draft > 2010 Prospects > QB > Max Hall
Max Hall Scouting Report
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Max Hall, QB, BYU
Hall began his college career at Arizona State in 2005 but quickly transferred to BYU the following year. He sat out 2006 due to the transfer, became the Cougars' starting quarterback in 2007 and promptly posted one of the better sophomore campaigns of any BYU QB in history. He threw for 3,848 yards on 298-496 (61.9 completition percentage) with 26 TDs and only 12 interceptions. He followed that effort with a solid 3,957 yards (330-477, 69.2%) and 35 TD (14 INTs) performance. Hall is a great leader with the competitiveness and toughness of an elite quarterback. He makes things happen on the field, and is able to stay in the pocket and take the punishment. Able to make quick reads and with a relatively short release time, Hall is a rhythm passer. When he is on, he is difficult to stop. Hall has decent quickness and good windup motion, and also shows good timing and touch on short-to-mid range passes. He is very accurate below the 15 yard range. NFL teams will love that he has experience against top tier teams and he is mature (will be 24 years old by training camp 2010). However, Hall lacks ideal height and bulk. He also has just average arm strength, which makes for not enough zip on deep outs. Balls tend to sail when he attempts to drop passes over coverage. He also lacks speed and agility to create outside the pocket; he will need time to adjust to the speed of the pro game. Hall lacks great size, arm strength and mobility, but his accuracy and intangibles should earn him a fourth round selection.
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Prediction: Undrafted
he will end up signing FA contract at least
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davidbuskirk 03/06/10 04:48 PM
davidbuskirk 03/06/10 04:48 PM
Prediction: Undrafted
Too small with average at best arm strength, will make it to a camp but will not be an NFL QB.
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jnols 04/16/10 04:45 PM
jnols 04/16/10 04:45 PM
Prediction: 1st Round
I beg to differ. Max Hall has the same intangibles as Kurt Warner. Intelligence is just one of them. He is extremely mature and knows how to win, with a complex (BYU), offense, against top ranked teams.
I beg to differ. Max Hall has the same intangibles as Kurt Warner. Intelligence is just one of them. He is extremely mature and knows how to win, with a complex (BYU), offense, against top ranked teams.
Mark my words. He is a sleeper. Too many pro scouts are hung up on size and arm strength. And that is not the entire equation. (Let's not forget the big, powerful Ryan Leaf.) lol
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Topic: Canada-US (Read 12225 times)
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January 01, 2012, 06:23:22 PM »
Some good and interesting posts have been made in the last couple of days on the Political Economics thread and we are blessed to have Canadian Tricky Dog chiming in. Lets continue that conversation here.
Not only are the Canadians our very good friends and neighbors, our cultures, our legal systems, and our political systems all originated principally in England. This seems to me to lessen the usual amount of static that comes from cross-cultural comparisons.
Last Edit: January 01, 2012, 07:21:48 PM by Crafty_Dog
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Re: Canada-US
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January 01, 2012, 07:19:36 PM »
I would kick things off my challenging the oft-stated notion that Canada survived the bubble due to regulations they have that we do not.
While partially true (and I have begun to reconsider my inattention to our repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act sp?) I think this blurs a very important point-- that it was precisely the intervention of our government via the FMs guaranteeing loans, CRAP (Community Reinvestment Act Program which forced banks to lend to the unqualified in the name of racial parity of results) and the deranged interest rate policy of the Fed that created the bubble.
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January 01, 2012, 08:13:01 PM »
So regardless of whether you blame the government or the corporations for the American experience, you are essentially concluding from the Canadian experience that, in general, strong regulation is needed for financial services?
Thus the need is for better government, whether or not that means less government? Regulation necessarily means bureaucracy.
Or is there a free-market (i.e. unregulated) solution to keep banks from doing this again?
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Canadian corporate tax breaks - and stagnant private money
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January 01, 2012, 08:30:31 PM »
As mentioned in the previous thread (Political Economics), the Harper government in Canada just dropped corporate taxes by 1.5% to 15%. That will equate roughly to 33 billion annually given back to Canadian corporations.
Harper has recently been complaining about the 3/4 trillion sitting in corporate coffers stagnant - most enterprises sitting back during the rough economic times to hold onto their surpluses. This break will allow them to hold even more money stagnant.
The assumption seems to be that corporations are going to spend us out of tough times by growing, investing, and otherwise freeing up those stagnant funds. But that does not really seem to be happening. Like spooked consumers, they are sitting on the money to see how this plays out. Which of course just drags out the recovery.
In the case of consumers, you can sometimes get them to start spending even when they probably should remain cautious or work hard at reducing their debt. Corporations on the other hand are run by some of the most saavy financial types to be found. They know better than most when to move and when to sit still (although no guarantee of good sense). And you can expect corps to do what is best whether they get a tax break or not.
I can see the long term benefit of tax breaks - attracting more foreign business, encouraging investment and innovation, etc. But in a stale or limping economy where the future is uncertain, I do not see why this is a good move, at least in the short term. Why would corps start spending significantly under these circumstances? The only real use of corp reserves seems to be the usual M&A activity that accompanies a slow economy.
So is there any reasonable expectation that lowered corp taxes will help jump start an ailing economy?
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Re: Canada-US
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January 01, 2012, 08:36:35 PM »
No matter if it's the US, Canada or Hong Kong, I think there is a desire and need for some degree of regulation of financial markets. In designing systems that have a important role, it's important to structure the system so it fails gracefully rather than catastrophically. As business failure is a required element of a free market (creative destruction), it makes sense that there should not be such a thing as a business/bank "too big to fail".
At the same time, much like every complex system, there is a law of diminishing returns at work as well. While intelligent and properly enforced regulations are important, there comes a point where too much regulation does more harm than good.
So, it's a matter of finding the sweet spot between the extremes of structure and chaos.
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"So is there any reasonable expectation that lowered corp taxes will help jump start an ailing economy?"
Because businesses/corps ultimately pay no taxes?
Meaning that any taxes imposed on a business ultimately are passed on to the consumer of the goods/services the business provides.
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"So regardless of whether you blame the government or the corporations for the American experience, you are essentially concluding from the Canadian experience that, in general, strong regulation is needed for financial services?"
Not necessarily. Although I am reconsidering the merits of the Glass Steagall Act, I submit that in the US the principal cause was the guarantee of the Federal govt, via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack, of bad mortgages. With this, the discipline of the market was removed and reckless behavior thus enabled. This humongous error was dramatically multiplied by the intervention of the Fed with its low interest rates-- in post inflation, post tax dollars, interest rates have been essentially negative or zero for quite some time now. This punishes savers, encourages desperate and reckless investing, and accelerated the housing bubble. I would add that the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, which added full employment to the Fed's responsibility of price stability, another market meddling piece of Keynesian interventionist drivel, is also a major factor in the damage that the Fed causes.
"Thus the need is for better government, whether or not that means less government? Regulation necessarily means bureaucracy."
As I see it the issue is the concept by which the regulation is justified. If the regulation is to enforce transparency in mortgage language, that is in support of free market principles and as such is fine. If the regulation is to encourage home ownership, that is government intervention in the market and, as we see from the economic chaos that has ensued from such policies it is NOT fine.
"Or is there a free-market (i.e. unregulated) solution to keep banks from doing this again?"
The solution is to let failure fail, not to punish savers to benefit the banks and other friends of the Congress e.g. AIG.
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"the issue is the concept by which the regulation is justified. If the regulation is to enforce transparency in mortgage language, that is in support of free market principles and as such is fine. If the regulation is to encourage home ownership, that is government intervention in the market and, as we see from the economic chaos that has ensued from such policies it is NOT fine."
Yes. The justification for bank regulation was - don't take bad risks because we insure your deposits. From there we jumped to encouraging home ownership above requiring creditworthiness based on a different justification for government action: 'Hey, we amassed all this power, let's do some good with it!'
"whether you blame the government or the corporations ... is there a free-market (i.e. unregulated) solution to keep banks from doing this again?"
Looking at it the other way, 'what can the people can do to keep their government regulators from doing this again'?
"As mentioned in the previous thread (Political Economics), the Harper government in Canada just dropped corporate taxes by 1.5% to 15%. That will equate roughly to 33 billion annually given back to Canadian corporations."
TD, do you intend to say there will be no recovery of the lost revenues from new revenues generated? Corporate income is a fixed number? I disagree. Let's see in a year.
"33 billion annually given back to Canadian corporations"
A funny way of looking at it. Even at a lower rate, the who is giving to whom seems backwards. Not that corporations give freely, but govt is now taking at a slightly lower rate. When a retailers lowers their price do they assume the same amount of transactions? If so why do they do it? Assuming corporations are in the business of making money, why would they not use that 'gift' to make more money, build, buy, hire, expand which all lead to a host of other taxes to be paid including more corporate income tax. If they will not use the money for those purposes, why not?
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"the issue is the concept by which the regulation is justified. If the regulation is to enforce transparency in mortgage language, that is in support of free market principles and as such is fine. If the regulation is to encourage home ownership, that is government intervention in the market and, as we see from the economic chaos that has ensued from such policies it is NOT fine."
I agree, the government has no business being in the business of encouraging home ownership. Doug, are you therefore saying that the mortgage deduction (government intervention) should be immediately repealed? It would seem that this very costly benefit has no purpose other than to "encourage home ownership".
Note, personal home mortgage payments are not deductible in Canada, yet home prices and banks seem to do just fine.
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China's Canadian Energy Play
Alberta's oil sands will be developed, no matter what U.S. greens say..
President Obama may not want to exploit the energy buried in Canada's Alberta oil sands, but China sure does. Think of Monday's $15.1 billion offer by China's state-owned Cnooc to buy Canadian energy giant Nexen as a post-Keystone XL Pipeline bid to replace the U.S. as Canada's biggest energy investor and market.
Nexen offers Cnooc a sweeping North American energy footprint, with assets from heavy oil and shale gas in Alberta to offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Part of the bet is also on Canadian politics, which could block the investment on nationalist grounds but which so far hasn't been captured by the anticarbon fevers that dominate Washington.
Canada seems to understand that its resources are a gift that can raise national prosperity. And as extraction technology has improved, Canada's proven oil reserves have climbed to at least 180 billion barrels, putting it behind only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
Unlike the U.S., Ottawa cedes most energy decisions to the provinces, which have encouraged production. A decade ago Alberta reduced to 1% the royalty that companies must pay until they have earned back their capital costs; then the rate reverts to 25%. The incentive kick-started the oil sands investment boom.
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.Canada is also looking for oil from shale, drilling in the Arctic, and even producing in the Atlanticoffshore of Nova Scotia, within spitting distance of Maine. All of this has produced a gusher of oil, tax revenue and jobs. The oil sands alone are estimated to have accounted for one-third of Canada's economic growth in 2010 and 2011, according to Canada's national statistical agency.
Contrast that to the U.S., where President Obama has spent tens of billions on failed green energy schemes while making fossil-fuel exploration harder. This week the White House issued a veto threat against a House bill that would restore pre-Obama plans to allow greater offshore exploration. Alaska oil production is so low that there are worries about the viability of its pipeline. Shell Oil, which has plowed $4.5 billion into an Arctic investment, has been waiting the entire Obama Presidency for permits. The EPA is also waiting for a second term to impose national regulations on shale fracking.
Mr. Obama's rejection of the $7 billion Keystone XL has no doubt concentrated Chinese and Canadian minds. The pipeline would have moved oil from Canada and North Dakota to refineries on the Gulf Coast, and Mr. Obama's bow to American greens was a direct snub to Canada, which provides nearly 30% of U.S. imports. Prime Minister Stephen Harper promptly said that Canada needs to diversify its energy markets, perhaps by building a pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast to export to Asia.
Energy-hungry China couldn't be happier. Chinese bids for North American companies haven't always been welcomedsee the rejection last year of a Chinese consortium's $38.6 billion hostile bid for Canada's Potash Corp. But Cnooc executives might figure that Canadian regulators will be more welcoming to this nonhostile bid in the wake of the Keystone fiasco. Canada needs capital to exploit the oil sands and the markets to buy what is produced. Cnooc can help with both.
The lesson for America, and especially Democrats, is that Canada's oil sands will be developed, whether their green financiers like it or not. If the U.S. doesn't want the oil, China and the rest of Asia will gladly take it. The world wants to growmust grow to reduce povertyand it needs abundant, cheap energy to do it. Why is that so hard for some Americans to understand?
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O'Grady: How Canada Saved Its Bacon Deep cuts in government spending pulled Canada back from an epic fiscal crisis in the 1990s.
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY..
Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has a stern warning for the U.S. political class: Get real about the gap between federal revenues and spending, or get ready for disaster.
Mr. Martin knows of what he speaks. In 1993, when he was Canada's finance minister, his country faced a daunting fiscal crisis. It wasn't Greece, but by 1994 Canada's federal debt-to-GDP ratio was getting close to 80%, and the cost of servicing the debt had begun to eat up an incredible one-third of government revenue.
The central lesson from that crisis, Mr. Martin told an American Enterprise Institute audience in Washington last week, is that delay only ensures that the inevitable adjustment will be more painful.
Truer words were never spoken. Nor has it ever been more likely that they will fall on deaf ears, at least as long as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke keeps financing the partying in our nation's capital.
When the Liberal Party government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien took power in October 1993, Mr. Martin was charged with pulling his nation out of the fiscal death spiral. He did it with deep cuts in federal spending over two years that amounted to 10% of the budget, excluding interest costs.
Nothing was spared. Even federal transfers to the provinces to fund Canada's sacred national health-care system got hit. The federal government also cut and block-granted money for welfare programs to the provinces, giving them almost full control over how the money would be spent.
In the 1997 election, the Liberals increased their majority in parliament. The Chrétien government followed with tax cuts starting in 1998 and one of the largest tax cutsboth corporate and personalin the history of the country in 2000. The Liberals won again in 2000.
What drove the left-of-center Liberals to shoulder the burden of downsizing government in the 1994 and 1995 budgetsMr. Martin takes great pains to point outwas not ideology but "arithmetic." That is to say that everyone recognized that the magnitude of the debt, and the cost of servicing it, was unsustainable.
The problem had been building over many years. In 1965, federal spending had been 15% of GDP. By 1993 it was 23%. Markets didn't like it. Between February and March of 1994, the three-month Canadian Treasury bill rate went to 5.82% from 3.85%. The Mexican peso crisis in December of that year didn't help. By February 1995 the interest rate on the Canadian Treasury bill reached 7.8%. In a world of increasing uncertainty and a flight to quality, Canada was paying dearly for its deteriorating risk profile. As the exchange rate sank, Canadians were getting poorer and the government was speeding toward a wall.
Another speaker at the American Enterprise Institute conference (which was co-sponsored by the Ottawa-based MacDonald-Laurier Institute) was Janice McKinnon, the finance minister for the center-left New Democratic Party government of the province of Saskatchewan in 1993. Ms. McKinnon told her own war stories.
In 1991, when her government took over, the "province was on its knees." In 1992, according to Ms. McKinnon, Standard & Poor's reported that Saskatchewan's "tax-supported debt was 180% of its annual revenue." "When our credit rating dropped to triple B rating, we had trouble borrowing money."
Ms. McKinnon described some of what followed: "In one budget we closed 52 hospitals, many schools and thousands of people lost their jobs. But we knew we had no choice, and we couldn't look back."
Ms. McKinnon likened the U.S. today to Saskatchewan in the 1980s. You are "not to the point where you are in a crisis, people aren't saying 'maybe we won't lend you money.' " And that means that the politicians can still put things off. "Before you actually realize 'we've got to do this because there is no choice,' there is a lot of denial," Ms. McKinnon explained. "I think you're at that stage."
She's right. Market discipline doesn't exist in Washington, which has the "privilege" of an accommodating central bank issuing the world's reserve currency. The big spenders don't need to pay attention to pesky numbers. As Stanford University economist John Taylor has noted, the Fed bought 77% of all new federal debt last year. It is doing so at rock-bottom interest rates. By holding the short-term fed-funds rate low while it buys up long-term securities, Mr. Bernanke is helping our political class ignore the real cost of rising federal indebtedness.
Of course these battle-scarred Canadians fully understand that the U.S. will reach a day of reckoning when the Fed has to constrain the money supply and interest rates start going up. "Our only plea," Ms. McKinnon said, "is that if you start tackling it before you hit the crisis stage, it's going to be a heck of lot easier. The longer you wait, the worse it gets."
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"To achieve this the Harper government did something you might more expect to see in the private sector. Clement made history in Canada by tying bonuses of senior bureaucrats to the success of government-wide objectives for reducing expenditures. Get this, about 40% of the bureaucrats bonuses were linked to a Deficit Reduction Action Plan. Yeah, bureaucrats got bigger bonuses when they proposed ways to make bigger cuts.
Clement explained, Forty percent of this at-risk pay for senior managers was based on how much they contributed to the target of least $4 billion a year in permanent savings. This is just part of how were changing the attitude of government officials from spending enablers to cost containers.
OTOH, there is this:
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AT a time when territorial disputes over uninhabited outcrops in the East China Sea have led to smashed cars and skulls in China, a similar, if less dramatic, dispute over two remote rocks in the Gulf of Maine smolders between the United States and Canada.
Machias Seal Island and nearby North Rock are the only pieces of land that the two countries both claim after more than 230 years of vigorous and sometimes violent border-making between them.
Except for the occasional jousting of lobster boats, this boundary dispute floats far below the surface of public or official attention, no doubt reflecting the apparent lack of valuable natural resources and a reluctance to cede territory, no matter how small.
But if we are unlikely to resort to arms anytime soon, the clashes in Asia have shown how seemingly minor border disputes can suddenly stoke regional and nationalistic tensions. Our relaxed attitude toward these remote rocks may well be a mistake.
While the United States and Canada have other maritime boundary disputes along their 5,525-mile border, the worlds longest, this is the only one left that involves actual chunks of land.
Machias Seal Island is a 20-acre, treeless lump that sits nearly equidistant from Maine and New Brunswick. It, and the even smaller North Rock, lie in what local lobstermen call the gray zone, a 277-square-mile area of overlapping American and Canadian maritime claims.
The disagreement dates back to the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. The treaty assigned to the newly independent 13 colonies all islands within 20 leagues about 70 miles of the American shore. Since Machias Seal Island sits less than 10 miles from Maine, the American position has been that it is clearly United States soil.
But the treaty also excluded any island that had ever been part of Nova Scotia, and Canadians have pointed to a 17th-century British land grant they say proves the island was indeed part of that province, whose western portion became New Brunswick in the late 18th century.
Perhaps more important to the Canadian case, the British built a lighthouse on Machias Seal Island in 1832, which has been staffed ever since. Even today, two lighthouse keepers are regularly flown to the island by helicopter for 28-day shifts to operate a light even though, like every other lighthouse in Canada, it is automated.
While abundant legal arguments surround Machias Seal Island, natural resources are far less evident. No oil or natural gas has been discovered in the area, nor has it had any strategic significance since it served as a lookout for German U-boats during World War I.
Tour boats from Maine and New Brunswick carry strictly limited numbers of bird watchers to the island to see nesting Atlantic puffins. And the surrounding waters contain lobsters that, thanks to different regulatory schemes and overlapping claims, have occasionally sparked clashes between Maine and New Brunswick lobstermen, although a bumper lobster crop this summer has slackened demand for gray zone crustaceans.
But the lack of hydrocarbons and the current lobster glut make this an ideal time to color in the gray zone.
The United States and Canada settled all their other maritime differences in the Gulf of Maine in 1984 by submitting their claims to the International Court of Justice for arbitration. They could have included the gray zone in that case, but did not. The Canadians had refused an earlier American arbitration proposal by saying their case was so strong that agreeing to arbitration would bring their title into question.
This attitude calls for re-examination. The fact that so little in the way of resources appears to be at stake, far from justifying the status quo, should be the main reason for resolving the issue. And for those concerned about blowback from giving away territory, letting the international court decide the case provides the most political cover.
As China and Japan can attest, border disputes do not go away; they fester. And when other factors push them back to the surface the discovery of valuable resources, an assertion of national pride, a mishap at sea the stakes can suddenly rise to a point where easy solutions become impossible.
Before that happens, we should put this last land dispute behind us, and earn our reputation for running the longest peaceful border in the world.
Stephen R. Kelly is the associate director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke University and a retired American diplomat who served twice in Canada.
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R.I.P. John Sheardown
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John Sheardown, Canadian Who Sheltered Americans in Tehran, Dies at 88
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: January 4, 2013
When militant radicals seized the United States Embassy in Iran in November 1979, they intended to take all its employees hostage. But five were elsewhere in the embassy compound and escaped capture. After six tense days of furtively moving around Tehran, one of them, Robert Anders, placed a call to a Canadian diplomat with whom he played tennis, and asked for help.
Hell, yes, of course, the diplomat, John Sheardown, answered. Count on us.
The five employees had by then been joined by a sixth. Four ended up being hidden for nearly three months in the home of Mr. Sheardown, the Canadian Embassys No. 2 official, who died on Sunday at 88. The other two found refuge with the Canadian ambassador, Ken Taylor.
The episode, which came to be known as the Canadian caper, was a footnote to the Iranian hostage crisis, in which young Iranian revolutionaries seized the American Embassy and held 52 people hostage for 444 days to try to force the United States to return the deposed shah from New York, where he was being treated for cancer. After the shah died in July 1980 in Egypt and war erupted between Iran and Iraq, negotiations with the United States led to the release of the hostages in January 1981.
The concealment and extrication of the American diplomats by the Canadian government and the Central Intelligence Agency inspired the recent movie Argo. Though Mr. Sheardown is not mentioned in it public recognition always gravitated to Mr. Taylor, who is portrayed in the film as a hero his role was nevertheless consequential.
Without his enthusiastic welcome, we might have tried to survive on our own a few more days, Mark Lijek, a retired Foreign Service officer, wrote in Slate last year. We would have failed.
Mr. Sheardowns avuncular, pipe-puffing manner led his houseguests to call him Big Daddy. He bought groceries at different stores to disguise his households suddenly larger appetite. He bribed the garbage collector with money and beer for the same reason. Surveillance, including tanks at the end of the street, was constant. Strangers knocked on the front door, suspicious calls were commonplace, their car was repeatedly searched.
We were already living in danger, Mr. Sheardowns wife, Zena, said in an interview on Wednesday. And certainly the danger was compounded because we were hiding, literally hiding, fugitives.
Mr. Sheardown, she said, died in Ottawa, where he lived, after being treated for Alzheimers disease and other ailments.
John Vernon Sheardown was born on Oct. 11, 1924, in Sandwich, Ontario, a small town absorbed by Windsor in the 1930s. At 18, he joined the Canadian Air Force and flew a bomber in World War II, once crash-landing near an English village after limping back from an attack on Germany. He broke both legs, but was able to crawl to a pub door at 3 a.m. and rouse the owner. He asked for a glass of Scotch, which the owner gave him. The owner then asked for payment while Mr. Sheardown waited for an ambulance a story Mr. Sheardown relished.
He joined Canadas immigration service in the early 1960s and later transferred to the foreign service, where he specialized in immigration matters. He was busy in Tehran with Iranians who wanted to leave the country, as well as with Afghans who had fled their country after the Soviet Union invaded it in December 1979. His houseguests became an official part of his responsibilities after the Canadian Parliament held its first secret session since World War II to approve the rescue mission, which included issuing the Americans fake Canadian passports.
While in Tehran, the Americans in his rented 20-room house occupied themselves by listening to news on a shortwave radio, reading, playing Scrabble and cards and, by their own admission, drinking copiously. They had to leave the house only once, when the owner had a real estate agent show it to a potential buyer. The two Americans staying with Ambassador Taylor were spirited to the Sheardown house for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The diplomats posed as members of a film crew who had supposedly been scouting locations. They had been taught how to speak like Canadians for instance, by ending sentences with eh? One was given a Molson beer key ring.
Mr. Sheardowns first marriage, to Kathleen Benson, ended in divorce. Besides his wife, the former Zena Khan, he is survived by his sons, Robin and John; his sisters, Jean Fitzsimmons and Betty Ann Whitehead; six grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
After being awarded a high honor, the Order of Canada, Mr. Sheardown fought for his wife, a British citizen, to receive the same award. She had been legally excluded from consideration because she had never lived in Canada. He argued that she had had the tougher job because she seldom left the house while living in danger. She received the honor in 1981.
After Argo appeared in theaters, Ms. Sheardown said, its director, Ben Affleck, called to apologize for leaving her and her husband out of the movie. In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Affleck said he had been fully aware of the Sheardowns heroism before the film was shot, but had reluctantly omitted it for reasons of length, drama and cost.
They got lost in the shuffle, Mr. Affleck said. It really did break my heart a bit.
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on December 14, 2013, 02:40:17 PM
'The Way Forward' and out of stagnation in the US receives an good example from the north. Conservatives achieve economic success and win 3 elections in a row.
Is Canada Now More American than America?
Canadas Burger King secret: Hold the taxes, hold the regulations.
By John Fund
The merger of U.S. hamburger giant Burger King with Tim Hortons, Canadas favorite coffee shop, will create the worlds third largest fast-food company, with a total of 18,000 restaurants in over 100 countries. It is also a piercing wake-up call for the U.S., because the new company will make its global headquarters in Canadas province of Ontario. That underscores what savvy businesses everywhere have learned the U.S. is an increasingly less attractive place to do business. Canada has quietly and politely become, well, more American than America, says columnist Stephen Green.
Since 2003, more than 35 major U.S. companies have moved their headquarters and reincorporated overseas. Rather than rail against such inversions, as President Obama does, or call for an economic boycott, as Ohios Democratic senator Sherrod Brown does, we should figure out what is driving U.S. companies offshore. Heres a clue: The U.S. now has the highest corporate tax rate of any industrialized country, and the Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration is even now looking for ways it can unilaterally raise corporate taxes without going to Congress.
Canada has long been our more socialist and, consequently, our poorer neighbor to the north. But that has changed over the last two decades. Starting in 1995, Canada has drawn back from a public-debt precipice, restrained government spending, and dramatically overhauled its tax system. Next year it will also begin unilaterally reducing tariffs on thousands of manufactured goods recognizing that free trade makes for wealthier consumers and a more prosperous society.
The results have been dramatic. This year, Canada has a higher per capita household income than the U.S., an unheard-of development that no one saw coming. It ranks eightth in the annual Economic Freedom of the World index (freetheworld.com) that the Fraser Institute compiles for over 150 countries, with especially strong marks in property rights and business freedom. By comparison, the U.S. ranks a pathetic 17th and is now categorized as only mostly free. Unfortunately for the United States, weve seen overspending, weakening rule of law, and regulatory overkill on the part of the U.S. government, causing its economic freedom score to plummet in recent years, said Fred McMahon of the Fraser Institute. This is a stark contrast from 2000, when the U.S. was considered one of the most economically free nations and ranked second globally.
While the U.S. eagle has plummeted in terms of economic freedom, the Canadian maple leaf has prospered. The consulting firm of KPMG looked at the tax costs of doing business in ten major nations. Setting the U.S. tax rate at a benchmark score of 100, it found that Canadas costs were the lowest, 46.4 percentage points lower than the U.S. The United Kingdom, Mexico, and the Netherlands also beat out the U.S.
Canadas strategy of lowering tax burdens on business was a conscious one, begun under the Liberal government of Paul Martin and accelerated since 2006 by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. The late Jim Flaherty, who served as Harpers finance minister until March of this year, told me last year that the essence of smart taxation is to raise the resources needed for prudent government while creating an environment where the private sector is encouraged to create the longer-lasting jobs a country needs to prosper. He concluded that if you can give people enough upward opportunity for average people, the talk will be on creating more of it rather than on redistributing a shrinking pie.
Among the innovations that Flaherty introduced was the Tax Free Savings Account, which allows Canadians to save more by setting aside money tax-free if its invested. Combined with the already established Registered Retirement Savings Plan, which is focused on building retirement income, Canadians now have more tax-free savings vehicles to help them remain independent over their lifespan than any people outside of Chile, which privatized its Social Security system in the 1980s.
No one suggests that Canada is a pure beacon of freedom. Harpers Conservatives have a majority of seats in Parliament, but just shy of 50 percent of Canadians in the last election, in 2011, cast ballots for either the Liberals or New Democrats, both interventionist purveyors of big government. Canadas single-payer health system delivers less innovation and longer waiting lists than Americans would be likely to tolerate, and many of Canadas provinces are once again piling up debt and overspending.
But Canada proves that a country can climb out of a deep fiscal hole within a remarkably small number of years and build a prosperous society even while it retains large welfare-state programs.
That is a lesson for U.S. Democrats, who, rather than rail against Burger Kings lack of economic patriotism, should learn how Canada has avoided Americas economic stagnation. Its also a
lesson for Republicans, who often lack the courage of their convictions in calling for genuine economic reform. Canadas economic example and the political success of Harpers Conservatives in winning three elections in a row
should stiffen their spines.
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Islam in Canada
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Canada declares Iran a terrorist state and closes embassy
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Illegals going to Canada
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Canadian Imams Call for Death of Jews
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Canada: Soldiers of Odin, Three Percenters Canada
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on June 17, 2017, 03:04:31 PM
I see a similar theme shown in the above movie. When the public doesn't feel protected by it's government, it will form it's own structures to fill that void. Those structures may not be pretty or nice.
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I would like to see that.
I agree with your assessment.
Here is another yet different example of a government not protecting its people:
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on June 17, 2017, 03:49:36 PM
I would like to see that.
I agree with your assessment.
Here is another yet different example of a government not protecting its people:
It's worth watching. It's on Netflix now. Narcocultura is also well worth watching.
The governments of the west are bound and determined to utterly destroy and remake the people of the west.
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Above is the picture of a woman. Disagree? Thoughtcrime!
"To realise English Socialism (Ingsoc) in Oceania, the Party created the controlled language of Newspeak to ensure universal orthodoxy of ideology and politics among the populace."
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- A grainy leather games case with a magnetic envelope-style closure.
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If you had to pick 2 of the units that would fit nicely into the 3rd quarter of first grade, which one of your writing units would you choose?
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Thanks for the writing ideas! It's such a tough thing for my firsties,ReplyDelete
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Yay! Thank you soooooo much! I cannot believe that I actually won! You are an amazing teacher, I just love reading your blog and all your wonderful ideas and resources. Thank you again for sharing =)ReplyDelete
Deanna, Thank you for the chance to win over at Deedee's page. Your resources are so wonderful. You are very generous to host all these giveaways!ReplyDelete
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I am sad I didn't win the arctic animals, but this packet looks great too. I would love to win it!ReplyDelete
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Love your work! Hope to win:-)ReplyDelete
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We've got portions of our house that are "semi-organized" but still need help. I consider the semi-organized area to be, for example, a drawer where most of what belongs there is contained there, but in a not-so-organized way. Case in point, a drawer in our wet bar.
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Organized Drawers
We've got portions of our house that are "semi-organized" but still need help. I consider the semi-organized area to be, for example, a drawer where most of what belongs there is contained there, but in a not-so-organized way. Case in point, a drawer in our wet bar.
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Looks fantastic Megan! We put our take-out menus in a binder...just add clear top load protective sheets. You can place an extra in to hold coupons too (we always have pizza coupons).ReplyDelete
We having been living semi organized for awhile, and everything has a "place" but it is sometimes just thrown there. I totally know what you mean by semi organized. Someday, I will definitely have real organized place for everything, and everything in that place :)ReplyDelete
It totally snowballs for me..and always gets worse before it gets better. I always think, 'If I had a whole month alone at home, this place would be amazing!'ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, thanks for the much needed inspiration today. We moved into a new home last spring and when you move in, you put things were you think you may need them. And normally those needs change. Thanks to this post, I reorganized all my drawers this morning. So fresh and nice!ReplyDelete
I love drawer organizers! I've done 3 drawers so far and the area underneath the kitchen cabinet. I'm currently on sabbatical but will return to my organizing job in the next several weeks! A girl deserves a break every now and then, right!? ;)ReplyDelete
Looks great Megan! I need to tackle my desk drawer (I just opened it - ack! Haha :)) I started my 40 bags in 40 days purge this weekend with the storage closet in our basement and drawers are on my list! Yes, its amazing how random things end up in random places. It's so much better when everything has a home!ReplyDelete
Oh - my tip - I stopped saving take-out menus. I've never had a problem looking up take-out menus online so I was glad to be rid of those papers! :)Replies
Ah- duh- we can look online too! Thanks:)Delete
I totally get this! I just picked up about a dozen clear oragnizing trays this past week to get our drawers in order!!! :-)ReplyDelete
Looks great!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting! I will have to get one of those expand a drawers for a really big drawer that's in my kitchen. I shared your project (and linked back to your post) on my blog today -- thought my readers would enjoy this project, too!ReplyDelete
Soooo nice! I've also found the expanding drawer organizers at Walmart. You've inspired me to tackle a few problem areas. Thanks!!!ReplyDelete
Looks so much better! I definitely need to get on organizing our drawers around here!ReplyDelete
I do the same thing - one cabinet or drawer at a time - so much easier! Someday I'll get them all done - I hope!ReplyDelete
Girl, you and I are on the same wavelength. I tackled my kitchen utensil drawer and spice cabinet a couple weeks ago. My kitchen junk drawer in next on my list. Your drawer looks so much better!ReplyDelete
That drawer looks so much better! And yep, I have that same problem with the leftovers after you organize! I guess at least one space looks better!ReplyDelete
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