He is deliberately playing this stupid little game with the electorate. The government doesn't support but must take a stance on certain important issues (the environment, universal health care, aboriginal rights, etc). Harper's Clean Air Act is bullshit & everyone knows it - the timetable is loose and vague and long, and effectively stalls any improvement on minimizing human generated carbon. The legislation lacks a clear outline of how the 50 year goals are to be achieved. Harper needs to stop stalling & do something other than figure out more ways to cut taxes in top income brackets.
Canadians want to go back to the Kyoto Protocols, which is still the most clearly articulated international effort. Prime Minister Harper if he wished to form another government, should cease his unholy alliance with Christian extremists, purge the party of the most dogmatic Straussian neo-cons & propose more legislation that his own pollsters show are in line with what Canadians value (Health Care, Education, Safety, Not going to War, Child Poverty, etc.) Otherwise he may go the way that the Republicans appear to be going. Harper needs to stop copying Bush or roll over to face a reinvigorated we are everything to everyone Liberal party.
A meet is taking place between Harper and NDP leader E Jack Layton. Maybe something good will come of it, maybe Harper will turn around and offer something more substantial than that kind of dogmatic drivel churned out by the Smarmy & Smug Calgary Conservative Thinktanker Types, weaselly idiots who speak in sloganisms like Ezra Levant, or like mega-asshole and Iraq invasion defender David Frum, (who will go down in history as contributing greatly to the destablisation of the world and proliferation of weaponry by coming up with dangerous phrases for Bush like, Axis of Evil.)
The Canadian voters did not elect the board of The Western Standard, a right wing pundit driven publication. Harper! Stop fuckin around, this is serious. Our environmental problems require immediate & in some cases, drastic changes, new technologies, etc or else climate change may create conditions we are not suited to, or in other words, we go extinct.
Speaking of the US, even as October US deaths in Iraq top 100, and with most Americans now opposed to what has amounted to a totally futile effort and utter waste of resources, this Congressional midterm election has been so far anything but boring. Bush is trying to continue his ad hominem jingoistic scare tactic attack method saying America loses if Democrats win. Much like that other Bullshit phrase youre either with us or against us and lets not forget if you are against the war you are helping the terrorists.
Meanwhile, Maher Arar, a Canadian ilegally deported to Syria then tortured (in secret prisions contracted by the CIA & US military), still has not recieved an apology. Not from Canada. Not from the US. I doubt the US will do it. Hubris. Remember what George Bush 1 said in response to a question on whether the US should apologize for accidentally shooting down Iran Air Flight 655, in which all 290 passengers died. He said this: "I will never apologize for the United States, ever. I don't care what the facts are."
In Mexico, Oaxaca, the standoff between protestors and police forces grows more violent.
What the hell is going on with Mexico.
Eat turmeric & curry. Science shows it helps prevent inflamation, especially arthritis. Traditional Asian medicine has used Turmeric to treat inflammatory disorders for hundreds of years.
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