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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - 'Had I known these thi... · 6 replies · +1 points

Actually this record surprises me. This was a medical matter. How is it, we see it published?
Psychiatry and mental illness are supposed to be treated the same way Diabetes is: with Confidentiality.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Harper's game · 2 replies · +2 points

No doubt Mr. Harper is tired. 5 elections in 7 years will do it to you. If he garners another minority, and the Libs "change their minds as is their wont, defeat the government and ask the gg to support their coalition, I am sure he will resign. If he has to lead another minority he will resign up to 2 years later to allow for transition in leadership. In my opinion, even if he should win a Majority government, he will resign before the term is out. That way he can quit while he is ahead, and having accomplished the incredible task he set out to do decades ago.

I still think its early in the campaign. Its quiescence has drawn out the Liberal platform early. And its easy to pick off. How many families would like an 8B/y break on their income taxes, over giving the government their money to look after.
No doubt before long we will be seeing bags full of cash again. How can Canadians entrust an extra 8B to a party of thieves, who haven't even paid back what they stole?

14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Let's consider the pro... · 3 replies · +1 points

One essay that has profoundly influenced my world view was written by a little known individual thought to be intelligent by the name of...Mr. Albert Einestein.
He wrote: " The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling. "

So I ask myself, am I a creative, sentient individual? Or am I part of the herd? And then I reread the responses here. Strangely, I don't feel part of the herd...

14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Let's consider the pro... · 0 replies · +1 points

Lets face it, clearly my thoughts are not in the mainstream of the popular press. I think I was drawn to the article originally, because the title suggested considering Mr. Harper's viewpoint. Not because I am a neo-con robot, but because that idea was somewhat novel. I mean who in all of the press has actually written an article from that perspective?

So I am drawn to contrary positions and arguments. So I am inherantly a contrarian: Perhaps even an iconoclaust. So I like to consider broad ranging opinion. So I like to expose myself to outside the box kind of thinking. So I have a degree of cynacism, or skepticism particularly about what I perceive to be the popular myth.

Think about it. What is unintelligent about that? cont...

14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Let's consider the pro... · 2 replies · +1 points

Despite the left's frantic frenetic attempts to get this back on the table, its yesterday's news. There are more important things on the mind of Canadians. It would seem that I have struck a nerve to point this out, considering the personal attacks.

My comments were based on the "jouranlist's" piece. I merely reference that the repitition of certain perspectives doesn't make it more right, and suddenly I am attacked for rising to the occasion. Then instead of debating the arguments certain people take to alluding to me being illogical, unintelligent, they label me a "neo-con", and heap derision on me.

So I point out, who is it that offers fresh ideas and opinions that are not cookie cutter, repetitions of three or four talking points espoused by Jack Layton. Who is it that honestly agrees with some of the points raised by the critics? I went on record to admit, I think Mr. Harper misjudged the cynacism of the Canadian public. This is not the response of a blinded neo-con robot.

So who is illogical, who can think for themselves, stand up as a contrarian and counter the popular myth? (cont)

14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Let's consider the pro... · 1 reply · +1 points

At least its not cut and paste like 1/2 the comments on this page.

14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Let's consider the pro... · 2 replies · 0 points

Do you have information a normal reader doesn't have? I reread it after this article, I see no indicator this is a joke.
They style of the article is a stilted attempt at mockery, but apart from that it seems to me this author fully intended for the reader to take that information at face value. Of course the irony was too much for me to resist.

But then, since I wrote my piece, I have read below, and read Albert's thoughts, or were they really his thoughts? It seems rather cut and paste to me...

Is that you Jack Layton?

14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Let's consider the pro... · 3 replies · +2 points

FYI , I do think Mr. Harper miscalculated the reaction to this. I think he took Canadian cynicism about the antics on the hill at face value, and thought we wouldn't object to his stepping out of that farce. That was clearly a mistake. Clearly, the spin on the curve was low and outside. The point I am trying to make, it was a swing and miss. However, if a baseball athlete connected with the ball as much, he would be a superstar.

14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Let's consider the pro... · 2 replies · +1 points

I am not allowed the space to go down the list. So my comment was based on the statements that alluded to the "holiday" the Primeminister put into effect in the proroguing of parliament. It is simply false that the government is AWOL. This was clearly demonstrated by the Canadian response, which was far and away above any situation that Canada has arisen to in my generation.

I am resisting the temptation to contninue down the list: Like the hypocrisy of the idea this was undemocratic. I agree with this author's thrust found in this statement: "We don’t like that he’s treating parliamentarians with contempt and disdain. After all, that’s our job." Deep down Canadians are fed up with the circus in the House:
How MPs will vote one way to pass legislation on camera, but take the knives out in committee off camera. That is the real travesty and assault on democracy.

I see an elected senate coming out of this. Now that would be Canada's democracy's greatest hour.

14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Let's consider the pro... · 0 replies · +2 points

It might be true Mr. Harper had wished he had recalibrated before proroguing parliament: One of those hind-sight things...
From the reaction of the public it would seem it has pushed a majority out of reach. Pity Haiti wrecked it all. It appears the government has not been asleep at the switch at all.... The opposition however... wait a second where IS Jack Layton? Haiti? There might be a job for him down there...

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