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Post by Cranky on Nov 8, 2005 22:49:49 GMT -5
Your taking over from Belinda, I'm making you Minister of Intelligence Gathering.......  There goes the animal activist vote HabsAddict  . LOL! As Prime Sinister, I intent to piss EVERYBODY off.......on the other hand, abolishing the Senate, putting oil executives in jail for usery and free bordellos may maike me more popular then Nero. |
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Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Nov 9, 2005 4:05:55 GMT -5
There goes the animal activist vote HabsAddict . LOL! As Prime Sinister, I intent to piss EVERYBODY off.......on the other hand, abolishing the Senate, putting oil executives in jail for usery and free bordellos may maike me more popular then Nero. Fiddle-diddle. |
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Post by Polarice on Nov 9, 2005 5:58:34 GMT -5
There goes the animal activist vote HabsAddict . LOL! As Prime Sinister, I intent to piss EVERYBODY off.......on the other hand, abolishing the Senate, putting oil executives in jail for usery and free bordellos may maike me more popular then Nero. Could you appoint me to to Senate, I need a better job! |
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Post by jkr on Nov 9, 2005 15:53:49 GMT -5
There goes the animal activist vote HabsAddict . LOL! As Prime Sinister, I intent to piss EVERYBODY off.......on the other hand, abolishing the Senate, putting oil executives in jail for usery and free bordellos may maike me more popular then Nero. If you are going to abolish the Senate you can save some money by opening one of those free bordellos right in the Senate chamber.  |
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Post by roke on Nov 9, 2005 16:23:25 GMT -5
Abolish the senate but name me Governor General... I'll lobby for tough leaf-control laws internationally, as well as help you in your quest to piss people off by spending massive amounts of cash.
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Post by Cranky on Nov 9, 2005 19:10:16 GMT -5
LOL! As Prime Sinister, I intent to piss EVERYBODY off.......on the other hand, abolishing the Senate, putting oil executives in jail for usery and free bordellos may maike me more popular then Nero. If you are going to abolish the Senate you can save some money by opening one of those free bordellos right in the Senate chamber. GREAT idea! I will make sure the hookers have the will clap and spread it LIBERALy......  |
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Post by franko on Nov 10, 2005 14:02:25 GMT -5
In reply . . . (delayed due to a hectic schedule . . . looked into HabsRus when I could steal a minute, posted when I could steal two . . .but this is worthy of thoughtful response rather than my usual flippant tripe. Now that days and nights are more my own . . . ): Franko, My comment about "speaking intelligently" was NOT directed at you and I apologize if it appeared that way. Never would I think such a thing from the good people of this board. Even when Thab, Blaise, and I were “going at it” this past summer I never took comments personally . . . I look at it all in a spirit of challenge and information. Edumication is always good. But should we not try all sources or alternate energy? The “C Train” in Calgary is powered via wind energy (of course, they have good winds out there and lots of open space to build the windmills). We should not discount the possibility [aside: too bad we can’t channel the rhetoric that comes out of our Capital Region as an energy source]. In concert with other energy means. Now you are making me cry. I just finished getting through my last year at this time I was swimming in the Mediterranean/cursing at stupid Greek drivers and goats on the road/enjoying the cuisine/gathering in the October sunshine and now you’ve gone and reminded me that it’s getting cold and I don’t want to be here. Grrrrrr. Thanks a lot (heavy sarcasm)! Right now, yes. So let’s renew the plants that we have so that they are safe and spend some money on R&D to come up with a workable solution. Oh, yes . . . I’m really looking forward to that one. Was it not the Liberals who cried out that Harris PC’s had it all wrong to let energy rates go to market value? My, how times have changed. However, it does gall me that I’m subsidizing people who “get in the spirit of Christmas” and Griswold their houses, or run their air conditioners in their huge homes in the summer. I sense a little hyperbole here. I’m not sure how the policy statement reads. But at least they are working on policy, rather than letting things deteriorate and then rushing in with an attempted fix (á la Kashechewan – come on, 50 new houses a year? If you are going to do something do it right or don’t bother!). Interestingly enough, the GP is all over the place – right or left, depending on the particular policy. Word goes around here that there are many ex-Mulroney Conservatives in the party, trying to take it over and remake it in their image. How to vote, how to vote, how to vote? The party in power so long they think it is their divine right? The party out of power so long that they salivate at any opportunity and suggestion they may get in? The party that has never been in power (and hopefully never will be) but acts like they hold sway? One of the lesser lights as a protest vote? I’d like to say “throw the bums out now – why wait ‘til spring, do it now!” . . . but other options seem lacking. You have been nominated . . . quit complaining and do something! |
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Post by franko on Nov 10, 2005 14:03:40 GMT -5
The Federal Concept is robbing the provinces blind, No, robbing the taxpayers blind. Hey, it’s only money . . . He can blame the media all he wants, but he’s doing himself in. At least he hasn’t pulled a Stockwell. Yet. Political ineptitude. The semblance of power blinded them to the effects of their decision. The Conservatives will hammer at them for that in the election. |
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Post by Cranky on Nov 10, 2005 18:34:09 GMT -5
Franko, Just to clarify some points. Yes, there should be a mixture of energy sources wherever suitable. What galls me is the rhetoric that big business is holding back alternate energy development, buying politicians off, etc. We need to do what is practical and what is feasible. All the screaming about NO NUCLEAR PLANTS, NO COAL PLANTS will leave us with absolutely enormous electrical bills. There is some bullSaperlipopette about using natural gas and powering "clean" plants. With the rise of natural gas prices, THAT solution will SKYROCKET the electrical bills. I think that the figures are something like $.20 a kilowatt to generate it from natural gas verses a couple of pennies from nuclear or coal. Wind energy, solar energy, natural gas are anything from 10 to 30 times more expensive then coal/nuclear. The ONLY other relatively inexpensive cost per kilowatt production is hydro. There is still the potential of 200,000 megawatts but it is choked full of people who don't want ANY part of it if it affects them in any way. Anything from "my ancestors traditional hunting grounds" to "a particular type of earthworm found only under that exact valley you want to flood". There isn't a potential hydroelectric site in Canada that someone does not have objections to. "Not in my back yard" is the answer to everything. I brought up the NDP as an example of letting a more off center party anywhere NEAR power. The NDP screwed things up for Ontario so badly that it will take a generation before people forget. Do I really want the Green party to have the balance of power like the federal NDP has now? Not a chance. I have visions of "Green Policies" strangling industry and pocketbooks. Remember, consumers are EVIL people who waste nature. As for Prime Sinister, do you really hate me that much? LOL! Mind you, you WILL me if I had that kind of power. Even though people dream/wish their government was run like a business, in reality, NOBODY wants hard decisions made or any type of solutions that affect them. As for sunny Greece....keep crying. |
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Post by Skilly on Nov 23, 2005 9:38:04 GMT -5
Franko, Like it or not, there is NO alternative but nuclear or coal for mass energy production. Right NOW, cleaner coal plants produce electrical energy at 2.3 CENTS and nuclear can produce at 2 CENTS. That's reality. Natural gas. Sudsidized hydro. The Liberals now say they have 11 billion in surplus I believe. (Mainly from overpaying on EI but thats another issue) Usually it was around 4-6 billion wasn't it? So if the Liberals took half of the surplus and subsidized the consumers during the winter months well it wouldn't be so bad ..... there are roughly 30 million Canadians. But that doesn't equate to 30 million households. If it was 10 million households they could give each and every household about $600 to get them through the winter months. That is really simplified, but I am willing to bet that if you analyzed the real numbers it would probaly closer to $1000 dollars to help you get through winter. $250/winter month is a big help. |
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Post by Skilly on Nov 23, 2005 9:46:43 GMT -5
1) People east of Manitoba (excluding Quebec) lose their fear of Stephen Harper. The East will never vote Harper in......to much reform. If Peter MacKay ever decides he wants to lead the party, which he will soon enough. Then the East will vote for the Conservatives. The east leans more and more towards Harper. Newfoundland only has 7 seats, but people here tend to vote "because my pappy voted that way". I call it the Joey-syndrome.  Labrador is going to go as red as blood. Todd Russell is Labrador's Rene Leveque. The two seats in St. John's will go Tory Blue. Of the other four seats the only real chance for Harper is Efford's old riding. That was a really strong Liberal district since Confederation, but Mista H'Effort has pist h'of alot of people back home. I don't see the other Liberal candidates losing. Our votes are revealed first and I predict Liberals 4 Conservative 3 |
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Post by Skilly on Nov 23, 2005 10:11:16 GMT -5
The East will never vote Harper in......to much reform. If Peter MacKay ever decides he wants to lead the party, which he will soon enough. Then the East will vote for the Conservatives. Tell the truth, the east will never vote from somebody from the west. Not true. |
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Nov 23, 2005 11:28:32 GMT -5
Tell the truth, the east will never vote from somebody from the west. Not true. I could be a Senator from here in California and still vote as often as half of the other Senators. Skilly would vote for me too cause I'm from the west. (not true?) |
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