IanGillespie

IanGillespie

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Reply to Bush: Neo-Fascist? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Aaron Brandt wrote: "Ian, you say that neo-fascists or fascists in general do what they do because they think its right? Doesn't that make everyone, especially you, fascist? If we don't do what we think is right, what do we do?" I do think that true fascists and true neo-fascists do believe in what they're doing, but I didn't say that that's why they are fascists. What makes fascists fascist is the belief that the right to

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Reply to Bush: Neo-Fascist? in Politics JoeUser Forums

In response to comments regarding global warming: "If people want to question the severity of global warming, or if the warming could be natural, they shouldn't be attacked." In theory that's fine, but most people who question global warming don't so in the honest, open minded way that you do Aaron. They challenge the validity of science for purely partisan reasons. In response to comments regarding Canada: For the v

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Reply to Bush: Neo-Fascist? in Politics JoeUser Forums

In a depression, it's possible for the economy to make tiny jumps, but it's still a depression if it goes down in the long-term. That's absolutely true. That's why I said it "bolsters" the case for human activity, not proves it. For proof of human caused global warming go see Al Gore's speech to MoveOn.org in which he gathers much of the available evidence in an understandable way.

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Reply to Bush: Neo-Fascist? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Oh yeah I forgot, "25 years ago, it was global freezing." What I assume your refering to is the climatological fact that the Earth is currently in a long term cooling period -- which is true. Many right wing politicals now attempt use the decades old scientific concensus on this issue to discredit the accuracy of climatology and the existence of global warming. The only problem is that the Earth should -- based on long

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Reply to Bush: Neo-Fascist? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Voodoostation, "If you want to disagree, come up with a better solution for what we have now." It's called Canada [i.e. canuckistan, get it :)]. "I can't remember the last time I was forcible suppressed by the government, but my mind is getting old. Near as I can tell, there isn't a centralized governmental control over private enterprise, and if it was there, it must have been there a good while for me to not notice it."

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Paul Martin's All Talk in Politics JoeUser Forums

From the Department of 'Why Leadership Races Matter' , allowing Paul Martin's content free coronation has come back to bite Liberals in the ass. Th

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Bush: Neo-Fascist? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Let's be clear: Bush is not a Nazi. The zealous proclamations of zealots aside, such rhetoric has no place in serious discussion. Bush hasn't killed six million of anyone. But it's become increasingly clear that ideological neo-conservatism is in fact a new form of fascism. Thanks to the behaviour of the

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Reply to Bush: Compassion is for Minorities in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Bush only has Powell and Rice to get some minority voters. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves." It isn't even to attract minorities, it's to attract middle class white voters who won't support an overtly racist party. I suspect this is also behind the decision to plant African Americans at county level Republican events.

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Reply to Richard Clarke: Homo in Politics JoeUser Forums

Hey, I was careful not to condemn him, but just to point out how stupid it would be. Wolf Blitzer is also saying that unnamed White House officials are suggesting that "there are some weird aspects in [Clarke's] life as well." Wonkette just fills us in on the 'gay' angle. We'll have to wait and see.

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Facts and Go Figure in Politics JoeUser Forums

Having seen some new Deparment of Finance estimates I'd like to amend my post below: Balancing the budget alone can't reduce the debt to 25% of GDP in eleven and a half years. It can do it in ten years and ten months . If that weren't silly enough, the Liberals' fall back argument, that paying down debt save

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Reply to Alternative Canadian Budget in Politics JoeUser Forums

Petro-Canada earned approximately $337 million dollars last year, and is a sound investment. Selling it will in fact soak up money from the energy investment sector, perhaps preventing some of the new investment your talking about. Of course, if the government spent that money dollar-for-dollar on renewables that problem would be solved, but I don't think that's politically viable. I also feel that 19% of voting shares gives us a voice in the

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Alternative Canadian Budget in Politics JoeUser Forums

For comprehensive budget coverage, the place to go seems to be either The Globe and Mail or The CBC . But let's look at how we could be spending our money. To do that we have to start with the surplus. The Lib

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Reply to Holy Escalation Batman in Politics JoeUser Forums

Yassin's death will create a power vacuum that will weaken HAMAS and by proxy the other terrorist groups that run the occupied territories. Maybe at some point the bloodbath that needs to happen in the OT will let the palestinian people see that freedom is born out of terrible consequence. I hold no brief for Yassin, so I'm not sorry no see him go. But I really don't think your analysis holds water. Even Jewish Israelis that I've met

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Holy Escalation Batman in Politics JoeUser Forums

Monday, just after morning prayers, Israel launched an air strike assassination attempt against Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. It was successful : <TD width=420

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