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Macleans.ca : What's the biggest downside to a fall election?

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:28:26 +0000

IF our government decides to waste yet another $300,000.000.00+ (Yes, that's THREE HUNDRED MILLION PLUS DOLLARS!!!) on another election--the fourth in as many years--and honestly expect that this is going to change ANYTHING, I beg the people of Canada to vote GREEN and get rid of "see-saw voting" politics...we can all already see that IT SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK!!! 1) We're voting "Party 'A!'" Yaaaaaay! 2) Party 'A' screwed us over! 2a) We'll show them!!! 3) We're voting "Party 'B!'" Yaaaaaay! 4) Party 'B' screwed us over! 4a) We'll show them!!! 5) Be genuinely surprised when NOTHING CHANGES and things get worse, as usual. 5a) GOTO 1). Vote GREEN. Break the cycle of willfull ignorance, and save Canada from NEXT YEAR'S $300,000,000.00+ ELECTION!!!

Macleans.ca : On a scale of 1 to 5, how badly do you want to go to the polls this fall?

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:42:33 +0000

We're faking it just like the rest of the world is. The US collapse is not nearly over, despite what we're being told, and anyone who honestly believes that the effects to Canada are overwith is deluding themselves there as well. Yes, Dion would have likely been worse, but as we continue to choose between three inept and corrupt parties and wonder why nothing substantial changes, we will continue to be surprised when those three parties continue to make no real beneficial changes...but why be surprised when you vote for the same things over and over again? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again, and expecting a different result. Change requires change. Change does not, and will never occur with the same choices being made...a new name for poverty is not going to change anything in the poor man's bank account...it still MEANS the same thing, and has the same outcome.

Macleans.ca : On a scale of 1 to 5, how badly do you want to go to the polls this fall?

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:35:58 +0000

Agreed! Narrowmindedness is just symptom of willful ignorance and apathy. Skip the Consiberals. Ignore the Libercratics. Waste not a single thought on the New Demerals. Vote Green, and get REAL, lasting, and genuinely beneficial changes for Canada...that truly would be a change! We don't need "reform" as much as we need "repairs" at this point...we need to fix what has been broken for decades before we can honestly expect to advance as a country, or as a society in more general terms.

Macleans.ca : On a scale of 1 to 5, how badly do you want to go to the polls this fall?

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:33:41 +0000

Vote Green, they seem to be the best party available to replace those who will continue to do us damage to the point of collapse. Hell, vote the BC Marijuana party! If nothing else, at least we'll get natural medicine access returned to the people, and taken from the hands of multinational pharmaceutical companies! It'll definitely be a change, and it sure can't be any worse than the last 4 years of seemingly daily and utterly useless elections!

Macleans.ca : On a scale of 1 to 5, how badly do you want to go to the polls this fall?

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:31:16 +0000

All three of the established parties are an embarrassment to Canada. It is time that we collectively realized or at least acknowledged that if we honestly want change, that we must PERFORM CHANGES which allow intelligent, respectful and honest governments to be formed in Canada. Then, and ONLY THEN, will we ever have even the slightest expectation that we will have a government that benefits the public they claim to serve. While we have no guarantee of any form of pension we've paid our lives into, while our "public servants" are set for life after 6 months of rooting at the public trough, does this not signify the real truth behind modern-day Canadian politics, and the need to simply landfill ALL THREE existing unrepresentative parties? The path is clear...the question is, do we make the same choices and stay on the path to our own destruction, or do we wake up and step out of our ignorance-created antipathetic nightmare?

Macleans.ca : On a scale of 1 to 5, how badly do you want to go to the polls this fall?

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:24:12 +0000

PS: This will make 1.2 BILLION DOLLARS of tax money WASTED if we continue to bounce between the "top three parties" as I fully expect we will collectively do AGAIN...and we'll all wonder why we're broke, and why absolutely nothing has changed afterwards...as per the usual pattern. Can we not see that we're doing the exact same thing that the US is doing? Can we not see how dismally this has failed in the US already, despite the lies we are told in the press each and every day? Must we continually buy into the "OK, so it doesn't work anywhere else on the planet...but we can make it work here, because we're Canadians!" Larger numbers of incarcerated people do not show any progress whatsoever past a greater ability to put previously innocent people in prison. This shows absolutely no progress towards SOLUTIONS...just a better method of fooling a wilfully ignorant public into a continuation of the PROBLEMS. Wake up and start THINKING people!

Macleans.ca : On a scale of 1 to 5, how badly do you want to go to the polls this fall?

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:58:21 +0000

Doesn't anyone else see that bouncing back and forth between inept and corrupt political parties which perform exactly the same tasks on each iteration of power does NOTHING to benefit Canada or it's people? Vote one of the "non-established" parties for a change, and at least then we'll have a chance for a REAL and BENEFICIAL change in Canada, instead of the same old "business as usual politics" which we've already seen does NOONE any good execept for the government, politicians, other countries, and major multinational corporations. I'm voting GREEN again this election, whether it's in 30 days or 3 years from now...I will NOT risk another second of "Consiberal" politics continuing down the same path towards bankruptcy as they have already been on for the last 30 years or so now. It's high time we started to think BEFORE we elect our alleged representatives, and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE WHEN THEY MAKE THINGS WORSE for Canada and it's people!!! At least this time, we're going to know the election's coming a few days in advance!

Macleans.ca : On a scale of 1 to 5, how badly do you want to go to the polls this fall?

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:54:26 +0000

Stephen Harper is instituting "mandatory minimum sentencing" for all forms of drug offences. Since the world has already seen that: a) Prohibition NEVER works. b) Mandatory minimus do NOTHING to decrease crime, but cost billions of dollars while not doing anything but build prison populations...and new prisons. c) This is "yet another failed policy" we're about to import from the USA, which is soundly documented to have proven one of the most astonishing failures in US history, falling short only of the creation of the "Federal Reserve" system! Harper is in the process of bankrupting Canada through sheer ignorance and ineptitude, and noone seems to care, because they are practising their willfull ignorance at every possible opportunity! Vote GREEN this time, and give OURSELVES a fighting chance at a thoughtful and truly representative government!

Macleans.ca : On a scale of 1 to 5, how badly do you want to go to the polls this fall?

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:50:40 +0000

We are all prepared to REFUSE to think about the REALITIES of the next election and continue on our path of "see-saw voting" to the detriment of our country. This usually works thus: 1) "We're Voting 'Party A!' Yaay! Our lives will be better! Our problems will disappear!" 2) "Uh, oh. 'Party A' lied! We'll show them!!!" 3) "We're Voting 'Party B!' Yaay! Our lives will be better! Our problems will disappear!" 4) "Uh, oh. 'Party B' lied! We'll show them!!!" 5) GOTO 1) 5a) Be genuinely surprised that NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!

Macleans.ca : Will electric cars ignite a lithium boom?

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:37:32 +0000

We can completely skip non-renewable resources and go right to a renewable energy economy, and we can do so within a few years of getting started. The trouble is not that there is no political will to do so, but that big money interests refuse to let go of their profits in their existing markets. If you were to take the time to find out the best possible solution (see: http://JackHerer.com for more and very detailed information on this) you would quickly see that the solutions to the vast majority of the world's problems has not only existed, but was known for millennia, and has deliberately been removed from possibility of use by making the solution illegal and keeping the public ignorant of the truth. We need to look at REAL renewable resources that have worked very well in the past, and which can be pressed into service to clean the environment while restoring the global energy supply in a decentralized and non-corporate-controlled manner. Lack of political will and corporate profiteering be damned...it's time that The People got off their collective lard reservoirs and did something about it themselves!

Macleans.ca : Will electric cars ignite a lithium boom?

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:22:25 +0000

While I'm glad that there won't be any new nuclear reactors for the forseeable future (with the 240,000 year half-life of radiactive waste, and the obvious costs to store anything for that length of time) I think that there are better alternatives than trashing the entire established auto industry for no other reason than that there is a need for a better, less toxic source of fuel to run those engines on. ALL engines were once made to run with whatever fuel was available, and all farmers grew whatever they needed to run their engines. We need to return to the roots of the auto industry to give ourselves a change at a future auto industry. I've been saying it for 30 years...maybe now someone will listen? To be blunt, we no longer need oil as a fuel source (nor did we ever, technically), but first we need to recognize this fact for what it is, and start moving in an intelligent direction. Note: Henry Ford built a car with hemp-plastic body panels that ran on hemp oil, and now Lotus has done the same, in the Eco-Elise. How long will it be before the rest of the industry catches up to Henry Ford's century-old idea?

Macleans.ca : Should Canada adopt the G8’s more-aggressive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:20:45 +0000

When methane hydrates are released into the atmosphere en masse from all the world's oceans, tundra, etc., they get flammable. Flammable gasses ignite rather easily, and this is a TOTALLY natural occurrence. (e.g: lightning.) What we should be doing is worrying a great deal more about locating methane hydrates and finding ways to sequester them. Once that has been accomplished, we will also be able to utilize them as a source of fuel over time, while keeping the potential for a global flare-up at a minimum, and leaving oil in the ground. PS: The refrigerants and aerosols were chlorofluorocarbons. Their chlorine atoms would attach to ozone, destroy the ozone atoms and thus release themselves. Once released from the ozone atoms, they once again became chlorine atoms, capable of bonding to new ozone atoms and destroying them. NOONE has attacked the preexisting problem of atmospheric ozone depletion due to chlorofluorocarbons, or how to get those CFC's out of the atmosphere so that they will STOP doing damage to ozone. Until that's fixed, more heat will travel through the thnning ozone layer, and anything else we do will be, to be blunt, wasted effort.

Macleans.ca : Should Canada adopt the G8’s more-aggressive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:08:25 +0000

Cancer isn't really an issue if you look at nature. There are many natural substances which can cure many different forms of cancer, but they are either illegal (i.e: unpatentable, and thus ridiculed) or proper studies are not being done on them. It's been said that using intravenous Vitamin C can cure some cancers, and there is a growing body of scientific evidence which suggests that cannabis can cure even more than that. (http://PhoenixTears.ca for more info there.) We CAN do something about it, the question is: Are we willing to stand up to our government and tell THEM what we want, or shall we continue to be cowed by the might of the government who believes they know better than we? The problem is that noone wants to make the logical choice...

Macleans.ca : Should Canada adopt the G8’s more-aggressive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:03:56 +0000

The aliens shipped in plant food, maybe?! q;o)

Macleans.ca : Should Canada adopt the G8’s more-aggressive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:02:43 +0000

An interesting tidbit of information...While I was doing a little research on this topic a few months back, I found that there is a natural remedy available to the carbon problem (if it actually is a problem) which fits into your line of expertise. It seems that the cannabis family of plants (sativa, indica and ruderalis specifically, not sure about the hops they use in beer production) can all accept up to seven (?) times more carbon dioxide than is currently in the atmosphere. If, as they say, carbon is such a deadly mance to life (as well as it's primary building block) then perhaps "the potheads are right" and we need to legalize cannabis and start using it as a natural carbon sink. Used as paper, we can then save other natural carbon sinks, such as forests. Logically, we've known about the solution to this "potential" problem for millennia...we have just refused to use it because of our own ignorance.

Macleans.ca : Should Canada adopt the G8’s more-aggressive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:09 +0000

Since the scientific models suggest an 800 year lag between carbon dioxide and temperature, while what you say is true, it does not explain away all of the scientific models which have been brought forth which suggest that, in a nutshell, "it ain't us." Since hundreds of the "2600 scientists" who prepared the initial report deny saying what they are quoted as saying, this is of concern. I think that, instead of doing like the US just did and rushing into everything with our eyes closed and hoping that "someone smarter than us has the answer" perhaps we'd be better served to simply get all available information and FIND OUT FIRST, before we make the ridiculous mistake of allowing our governments to tax the air we breathe...heavy breathers won't be the only ones paying, I assure you!

Macleans.ca : Should Canada adopt the G8’s more-aggressive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:44:17 +0000

Any time ALL of the world's government's agree on ANYTHING it's a bad sign. The fact that the world's governments all QUICKLY agreed to tax carbon is also a HUGE red flag for the thinking man. We will know for certain by the end of 2012, if solar science proves correct, but if we allow legislation to be passed before then, we will have already allowed the passing of a law restricting the basis of all life on earth. NOT such a good idea. Equal time MUST be given to opposing SCIENTIFIC viewpoints in the media, and until we have a balanced scientific view represented, there is no way that the people can judge the truth for themselves. Until we know with absolute (or reasonable) certainty, we should not restructure the entire planetary economy JUST because of a slim chance that climate change is NOT caused by solar activity. Now if the world's governments can only agree to stop murdering eachother...

Macleans.ca : Sarah Palin For President

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 05:37:16 +0000

Have we not already seen what religious idiology has done to the USA over the last 8 years? Do we need to see someone even more fundamentally insane running our nearest NUCLEAR EQUIPPED neighbour? "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -- Carl Sagan The world can not afford even one more crazy person in ANY position of power or control over ANYONE else!

Macleans.ca : Should Canada reconsider its decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2011 if the U.S. requests it?

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 05:34:15 +0000

We shouldn't be there in the first place. It was a war that was started by the USA, and passed onto Canada when the US found out they had more pressing oil problems to take care of in Iraq. Now that they'ca gotten their grubbies on the oil they wanted, now they can go back to murdering innocent Afghanis for themselves. Our troops should be HERE, protecting us from the growing possibility of a mass exodus from the USA as more and more of their economy shuts down and their society moves exponentially towards a socio-fascist state. To use a few words by others: "Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent." -- Isaac Asimov "Either war is obsolete, or men are." -- R. Buckminster Fuller "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." -- Albert Einstein "There was never a good war, or a bad peace." -- Benjamin Franklin "Peace is constructed, not fought for." -- Brent Davis