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Re: Some Texas Democrats ready to walk as GOP digs in on voting

BCVoiceOfReason — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 15:17:06 -0000

"President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him"

Why was not there a clear and open investigation with witnesses and questions in a court like setting?

If it was so clear cut that his claims were false the recounts and audits should have been clear and concise as being described and unrefutably.

The US would not tolerate a 3rd world democracy to hold as questionable an election as the US experienced.

The Carter Centre's Democracy Program would not certify or support election results in other poorer countries without a strong Voter ID

Re: The Messy Politics of Common Ground: A Trudeau Tale

BCVoiceOfReason — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:15:05 -0000

The largest measure of the rejection of Trudeau's identity politics has been the utter and complete defeat at the polls of his closest political ally in Canada's largest province. Trudeau and the soundly defeated Premier Wynne campaigned together , had the same policies, used the same people and advisers to a degree not seen in Canadian politics.

Re: The Messy Politics of Common Ground: A Trudeau Tale

BCVoiceOfReason — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:07:00 -0000

The Nanos polls cited are very biased towards Liberal support. Mr. Nanos has a tendency to discuss his polls results as negative towards the Liberals and liberal policies (reflecting anecdotal opinion on Trudeau's policy and personal errors) but the actual data has his support as higher than it has ever been.

The Fox, Rasmussen and CNN polls have not yet been politically weaponized to the degree that Nanos Research

Re: Projecting the Winnipeg Jets lines for the 2017’18 season

BCVoiceOfReason — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:08:21 -0000

Jets were 7th in goals scored and 27th in goals given up.

Much rather have Lowry matching up against Kopitar/Getzlaf/Kessler/Johanssen/Monahan/Horvat than Petan (or Little). If the Jets put out Petan for a defensive zone face off the other team gets excited and will put out their big guns.

Re: Khadr settlement gives Tories a cause célèbre — but their comms plan is risky

BCVoiceOfReason — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:08:31 -0000

If there was a pollster standards committee they would take away abacus's licence based on the poll Katy cites.

They broke out how the people who voted for a specific party in 2015 would vote now.

They had the raw numbers for people voting in 2015 as CPC 388, Liberal 588 and NDP 204.
The actual result of the 2015 election counting only these 3 parties had the CPC at 35 %, liberals at 43.3 % and NDP at 21.6 %

The raw results of this poll show the polls was answered by 32.5% CPC 50.2 % liberals and 17.1 % NDP.

so the sampling technique obviously came up with the wrong mix. They are supposed to make adjustments to reflect what the actual fact was. They adjusted the CPC up to 33.4 % still less than the factual 35 % adjusted the NDP down to 16.6 % significantly under their 21.6% and adjusted the Liberals down to an even 50% way more than the 43.3 % they got.

This poll was blatantly over weighted to favor the Liberals.

Re: Private lives, public scrutiny: Julie Payette and the media

BCVoiceOfReason — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:36:14 -0000

editor and/or moderator

I would like to know if this is the kind of comment that you want your site to be known for?

jplondon not only is embarrassing himself he is reflecting poorly on you

Re: Private lives, public scrutiny: Julie Payette and the media

BCVoiceOfReason — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:52:29 -0000

an assault charge in Piney Point Maryland-- Marine training center- would be a considerably higher threshold than a traffic incident. If the police there were too charge every military person playing smash-face they would flood the system.

Re: Private lives, public scrutiny: Julie Payette and the media

BCVoiceOfReason — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:39:23 -0000

Donald Trump would certainly be impeached immediately as leader of the free world if he had the same revelation.

Doesn't make it right but the standard is being set by the WaPo, CNN and NYT.

Re: What a ‘nation-to-nation’ relationship with Indigenous Canadians should look like

BCVoiceOfReason — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:59:40 -0000

I can just see that the form of Government that the FN has been assigned has not worked to any peoples benefit anywhere else in the world.

All countries in the world have individual property rights. The World Bank under Country Policy and Institutional Assessment ranks the countries with the worst Property Rights Regulations ... The bottom 12 just happen to be the worst nations where to live in the world:South Sudan,Central African Republic,Afghanistan,Haiti,East Timor, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Guinea, Yemen, Guinea-Bissau, DR Congo

Somehow you consider the First Nations to be distinct and special as compared to the other 7.5 billion people on the planet. For crying out loud China has individual property rights.

I would suggest that your opinion is worthless when you sit in judgement on the rest of us and are not open to any constructive suggestions.

From the FN perspective the communist reserve system was assigned to them by the Great White Fathers in the east thinking it fit best with their culture. How the heck are the FN people willing to put up with this system and not demanding a change???

I guess the high performance FN people see it easier to walk off the reserve and get the property rights available to them as Canadian citizens.

Re: What a ‘nation-to-nation’ relationship with Indigenous Canadians should look like

BCVoiceOfReason — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:10:26 -0000

Are you saying that you are comfortable with not personally having any property rights as an individual?

Re: What a ‘nation-to-nation’ relationship with Indigenous Canadians should look like

BCVoiceOfReason — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:13:32 -0000

If the victims have chosen a communist system there is not a heck of a lot that can be done to satisfy them.

I want to hear the FN movement demanding individual property ownership rather than letting the State owning everything.

Individual property ownership is what makes all the immigrants to Canada successful in 2 or at most 3 generations.

Re: What a ‘nation-to-nation’ relationship with Indigenous Canadians should look like

BCVoiceOfReason — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:52:43 -0000

"We are Indigenous peoples, we have the right to self-determination. Because we have our own lands, we have our own laws, we have our own languages, we have our own identifiable peoples and we have our own identifiable forms of government. So that inherent right must be respected.”

The identifiable Indigenous form of government is communism with sprinkles of hereditary monachary thrown in.. It is a system that has consistently failed the people being governed no matter how many much land and resources that the system has control off.

The First Nations identifiable form of government has not given a glimmer of hope to be self sustaining.

There is a reason that the USSR had to build walls and control emigration. The FN has no such wall and the best an brightest are encouraged (free university, huge venture capital investments from the Canadian government) to assimilate to the Canadian capitalist system. The rest that cling to the FN communist system need huge subsidies to maintain the minimal quality of live that Canadian's have and expect.

The absolute complete failure of the FN Communist form of government makes the attempt of imposing their political will on the development of the rest of Canada totally absurd.

Re: PR, not principles, are driving the Khadr file

BCVoiceOfReason — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:32:57 -0000

I provide this money as a Taxpayer.... so it is in actual fact it is our business. (assuming that you at least pay some sales tax)

As it is very much of interest what portion of any of this settlement will be used to support the jihad and target my fellow infidels.

Beyond that is it any less interesting than wondering how other lottery winners deal with their millions and what good and or bad comes out of it.

Re: PR, not principles, are driving the Khadr file

BCVoiceOfReason — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:38:33 -0000

37,000 posts on discus. Out of the most recent 100 or so posts there was not one post that was not rude and/or added a reasonable discussion point.

Please get some help

Re: PR, not principles, are driving the Khadr file

BCVoiceOfReason — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:41:12 -0000

" let me think. Khadr is under constant surveillance of his lawyer/legal counsel"

So Khadr's Legal counsel has just won a lottery of around 4M (40% seems reasonable). He is going to give a rodent's sphincter muscle what Khadr is going to do with his money???!!

It would be interesting how Khadr's lawyer / landlord Edney gets his 4M. Will he pay the taxes on the whole amount? or has the Canadian justice system made it so lawyers can avoid paying taxes. Maybe the secret Liberal deal has awarded Edney a tax free legal fee as part of the agreement?

How will Khadr's former friends and family react if their suddenly wealthy buddy does not funnel some cash their way? They have been known to declare jihad against enemies of Islam for far less serious offenses than holding back cash for the cause.

Is there a " i just don't want to be a Jihadist anymore" clause in the standard jihadist contract?

Have Edney and Khadr just moved to the top of the Liberal fund raising targets? That kind of cash should get them access to cabinet ministers and Trudeau himself on a regular basis.

Re: Are Trudeau’s travels making him vulnerable at home?

BCVoiceOfReason — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:59:40 -0000

why is 71% expressed as over 2/3 when it actually could be as accurately described as jut under 3/4.

Re: The Khadr and Arar settlements are more alike than Conservatives want you to think

BCVoiceOfReason — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:39:46 -0000

This payment is disgusting.

How many child soldiers have joined Indian Posse gangs encouraged by their families and chiefs to stand up for Native "rights"??

How many are in jail and have criminal records on charges and offenses that would definitely not have been brought down on a judge's or politician's or policeman's sons that did the exact same crime. For example: Trudeau's brother would likely have been jailed had he been an Indian kid when he crashed his car loaded with illegal drugs.

The Federal government owes these lost boys at least as much as much compensation for allowing their families and culture lead them astray. They also have as much culpability in allowing them to be convicted of crimes that any high priced lawyer could have tossed out of court.

Re: Liberal donor, ex-nomination candidate named to Via Rail board

BCVoiceOfReason — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:29:25 -0000

What was the criteria that Via rail needs to statisfy on its board?

The board should provide insight and expert guidance in areas such as automation, scheduling, rail maintinence, Computer security, safety, energy effiencies, Finace and various other areas of corporate goverance and execution.

So apparently the hole in the Via Rail Board of Directors is someone to guide them in PR and communications? Are they having trouble deciding which Liberal PR/Ad agency should VIa rail be contracting?

Re: Grit MP Fry suggests misinformation led to PM's quick rule-out of broadband tax - The Hill Times - The Hill Times

BCVoiceOfReason — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:53:22 -0000

Ms. Fry spent 15 months making up a worthless report that is an embarasment to the Liberal party.
If she was employed in any other organization she would be asked to retire or fired.

Ms Fry's greatest contribution is her ability to get elected in a safe Liberal riding. This is a riding that should be given to a quality cabinet level non-politican with real life experience that could help Canada.

Re: A Victory for Party, Not Trump | RealClearPolitics

BCVoiceOfReason — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:58:54 -0000

Wonder what the chants "Trump Trump Trump" were at the Republican Victory speech. Must be talking about playing Bridge??!!

Re: The Liberals are spinning their wheels

BCVoiceOfReason — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:43:46 -0000

By saying that you need to wait to prove John Chero wrong you are conceding that his comment is at least within the margin of error for the last 2 years,

Re: The Liberals are spinning their wheels

BCVoiceOfReason — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:50:28 -0000

What a dissapointing majority government. The first 2 years of a mandate is supposed to be when the government does the good hard things that might not be popular with the voters.

The high-lights of the first half of the mandate:

affirmative action...

promoting cabinet ministers to position well beyond their capabalities and experience. The un-elected senators that support the Liberals have better resumes than the elected Liberal caucus.

Over spending

Doling out and borrowing an extra 30-40 Billion above and beyond the $10 annual deficit they campaigned on. It is probably being used to buy votes but the money seeems to have dissapeared to with no tangible benefits.

Climate change

setting up Canadians with some sort of Carbon tax that will raise enough money to pay Canada's foreign aide commitment that we took on in the Paris accord.

One of the high priests of the Climate religion ((Ben Stanter) posted a paper on Monday where he basically said that the 17 year Global warming hiatis statisitical disproves the doomsday climate models that the Paris accord was based on.

Re: Leave the cabinet alone, Trudeau. You’ve got other problems.

BCVoiceOfReason — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:19:29 -0000

"U.S. administration that respects battle-hardened politicians."

So long as they were in executive roles in the Military. Lot of Navy seals and Army rangers that have a high profile but all the military in the Administration were Generals.

Re: There should be rules for MPs hiring interns, says ex-intern who did unpaid part-time work for a year

BCVoiceOfReason — Wed, 31 May 2017 13:04:23 -0000

Snowflake alert!!!

I want spending money while I am making connections in a position that is the envy of my peers.

Despite that the interns think they are doing valuable work anything that they do is not cost effective. The management and training done by the paid staff to accommodate the intern is far more significant the the productivity generated by the intern.

If an intern deserves to get paid for their learning experience then they should also get paid to write term papers and study to pass their exams rather than paying tuition fees.

It would better to pay a salary for joining a Greek fraternity as it is doing the same thing... making connections that will be useful further down in your career.

I would like a further analysis of the connections of the students that got the intern spots.

On the other hand CO-OP programs are a valuable concept that helps both the student and the employer.

Re: Have the Liberals decided refugees make for bad politics?

BCVoiceOfReason — Tue, 16 May 2017 18:50:10 -0000

Do the refugees best represent Liberal or Reformers social values?