Ryan Strome

1 minute ago, Sabrefan1 said:

 

I'm only part Canuck.  The rest of me is as sharp as a Sabre!

I regret telling you that I thought the sabers are a goaltender away from being a real contender. It all went to your head! F@&k the Sabres!

1 hour ago, Bob Long said:

@Ilunga this must come as a disappointment - curious if it came as a surprise? 

55 minutes ago, DSVII said:

I remember seeing the posters for the referendum during my travels there this year. On the surface it sounds like a shame, but any Aussies in here can give us an indepth breakdown?

Very disappointing news. Very concerning. I've heard a few accounts from people from Australia that tell me the treatment of their indigenous people is not good.

4 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

Yes, Egypt is cooperating now but they weren’t for many years. They weren’t interested in having terrorists cross their border either. 
 

What is done is done now and you can’t change the past.

 

People can play the whatsboutism game until they are blue in the face to make themselves feel better, but at the end of the day it’s not going to solve the current situation. 
 

In order to fix the current situation Hamas must be destroyed. That means the Palestinian people must unite with the Israelis for that one common goal. 
 

The chances of that happening while Israel is bombing Gaza is probably zero percent, but to me that’s the only solution. 
 

Perhaps the US can step in and try and be a peace keeper. We know they love war, so not sure they actually want peace. You already have the warmongers and the military industrial complex going on CNN and Fox News saying they want to start bombing Iran if they get involved. 
 

At this point only a miracle from my God can save the people of Gaza. If you have faith please pray. If you don’t have faith then just hope there is a resolution on its way very soon. 

I don't think there is an Arab in the middle East that would trust the Americans as peacekeepers.

8 hours ago, Johngould21 said:

Which, in itself is scary enough, imo. 

But I bet you never would have said that pre 2020. In fact, I don't ever remember a politician ever being asked about vaccinations before 2020.

6 hours ago, The Arrogant Worms said:

You had a bad Pharmacist.  My wife gets recall notices when some drug is taken off the market.

Maybe it was your wife he was seeing and she made a mistake because she was so pissed off that you're calling her your "wide" instead of wife.

6 hours ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

I'm reminded of the pharmacist in BC that was alleged to have re-used vaccine needles.  Like...

 

Times are tough bro. Got to save some money somehow..

6 hours ago, The Arrogant Worms said:

My wife worked with one that was stealing drugs from her Pharmacy when she was Manager.

 

I kept telling her something was off about him.

 

Luckily he was caught and lost his licence.

I guess something was off. He was all drugged up..

5 hours ago, moosehead said:

Getting my covid vax today.  I don't want to get the covid and spread it to my elderly relatives. 

I care about seniors....

 

I am a real man and not scared of a jab..... LOL.  

2 hours ago, The Arrogant Worms said:

I have never had one side effect from either the flu or Covid shot.

 

Not even a sore arm

 

Neither did my son or my wife.

 

I guess the alcohol in my blood killed them.

 

I have not had the flu since I was 25-6....so 40 years.

Well in this case I would be perfectly fine then! I have enough alcohol in my blood to sink a battleship

1 minute ago, Elias Pettersson said:

The blockade was put into place because Hamas was in power. Even Egypt put up a blockade at the Farah crossing. The blockade would be eliminated the day Hamas is no longer in power. 

Yeah but Egypt is opening that up to try and get people out. It's the Israelis that are bombing it. Also, I think Egypt has a blockade just to ensure weapons don't come in. Israel has a blockade and is controlling everything. Just think for example, if the Americans stole all our resources a bunch of our land and then determined our fate and destiny's for us how we would react? I mean I can firsthand tell you I would never do these things and I think it's despicable but you can only push people so far and then you bring in the whole religion side of it and here we are.

Just now, Calamity K said:

Thank you?

 

Yw man 

@Calamity K is funny AF!

2 hours ago, Bob Long said:

Yep what's happening to housing for people under 30 is pretty disgusting. 

 

The reason I say that only a co-op model will work is it's the only idea where fear of boomers  losing equity can't be overplayed to shut down new homes.

 

Other ideas will create fear mongering opportunities from the right.

The individual you are engaging with I have on my block list but because you responded to him I can see his post. I do believe he put me on his block list which is probably for the best but I noticed in his post he said libertarian socialism. Are you able to ask him or are you able to clarify for me how exactly libertarian and socialism go together? I consider myself a libertarian so in saying that I find them to be at complete opposites of the spectrum. Does he have a video for that? Maybe I can view? 

Just now, moosehead said:

 

I support Israel right to exist within a 2 state solution. 

 

I do not support Israel with its current oppression / occupation of palestinian land/homes. 

That's exactly my point dude

15 minutes ago, bolt said:

So anyone who now supports Israel is a lazy racist and we can just ignore the rise of anti-semitism? Is negotiating a peaceful end with Hamas terrorists even possible?

 

 

 

 

 

Absolutely not.

6 minutes ago, moosehead said:

 

Quite likely intellectually lazy and probably racist yes......      

It means they  support Apartheid, Ethnic cleansing , occupations, and oppression.

 

Yes , you are correct.   I believe all humans are equal. 

I believe there is a bit too much emotion and anger while making this response. Supporting Israel doesn't mean those things. You can still support something while calling something related to it out. For example, I will always support the Canadian armed forces. However, i will call out the times or they've mistreated women or innocent people in other countries.

Just now, bolt said:

There are innocent people everywhere including in Gaza.    

I appreciate that. Thank you. I think all that people are trying to make clear actually let me only speak for myself because that's all I can be sure of. the point I'm trying to make is Hamas needs to be eradicated! But we need to recognize Palestinian children are absolutely innocent in all this and Palestinian people are innocent. Indiscriminate killing will only make things worse for the Israelis. This is the mentality of world war II where the British and the Americans and I hate to admit it. The Canadians thought it was okay to just carpet bomb German cities. There is no way to know if somebody is a Hamas supporter or not. So to just indiscriminately bomb is wrong. Now, please don't ask me what the answer is because that I don't know, it's a very tricky situation. But what we could start by doing would be Israel to let Canadian, American, British etc citizens out of the Gaza strip which they haven't done thus far. In my opinion, the only way forward is a two-state solution that's respected by both sides, but under no circumstances can Hamas be the governing power. They aren't a warring party in this. They are a terrorist group in this. While I can agree if somebody says what were they supposed to fight with, I can agree with that. But killing innocent women and children on the Israeli side is no excuse either. They are just as innocent as innocent Palestinians.

Just now, Bob Long said:

 

its 33% overall, 43% with women.

 

 

bingo. 

#fakenews!

42 minutes ago, bolt said:

Gaza is controlled by Hamas.  If not why isn't there a resistance?

Trudeau has about 22% support of the country. However, he controls the country. Why isn't there resistance? Maybe because people don't want to be killed or go to jail? Maybe they want to see their kids again? Why don't you just answer the very direct question that was asked of you?

Well, I'm glad we all equally hate Bill c69. I don't recall that being the case in the past, but I'm just glad that we all agree on that!!

2 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

One has to respect both the letter of the law and the common sense approach of not being willing to drag it out after a ruling of this nature.

 

The ruling was part of a "reference case," which involves the provincial and federal governments asking courts for advisory opinions.

It doesn't mean the law is now off the books — a ruling such as this from the Supreme Court of Canada is not necessarily binding, but is traditionally treated as being binding by governments, noted David Wright, an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary.

Exactly so obviously you can see why I'm so happy with this ruling and the response from the environment minister.

1 minute ago, Warhippy said:

It's an assessment not a binding ruling.

 

It helps to know this.  While these rulings do have serious merit it also means that this could find the new pipeline dead in the water should BC challenge it under this assessment as it encroaches against BCs provincial rights.

 

Careful not to step on any tacks or anything doing your little dance

Actually it was deemed unconstitutional and the environment minister has already come out and said they will respect the decision and only infringe on things that have a federal matter to it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/supreme-court-richard-wagner-impact-assessment-act-1.6993720

For all of you guys that supported it over the years. Thank goodness for the supreme court of Canada!!

Trudeau and c69 bye bye!! Unconstitutional AF

@Bob Long discuss.

1 minute ago, 4petesake said:

She’d have a massive problem within the UCP with any movement at all. Even this new weak ass mask announcement has got the TBA faction all worked up.

 

UPDATE: Here’s what David Parker, supremo of the UCP’s powerful Take Back Alberta faction, thinks of even this lame AHS policy, which might as well have been designed to fail for the reasons outlined above. “Masks do not work,” Mr. Parker tweeted this morning, inaccurately but with characteristic passion. “The fact that AHS is trying to push them again shows that a hostile and communist ideology has taken over our health care system and is defying the democratic will of the people. They must be removed from any decision making roles.” Mr. Parker’s tweets sound increasingly unhinged. Everyone he disagrees with, it would seem, is a communist. Nevertheless, at the moment he is a well-connected and influential figure in the UCP, and he may be more powerful after next month’s UCP annual general meeting when he hopes TBA’s cadres will take over the remaining nine positions on the party board. To cite the ever-popular Munich analogy, AHS’s pusillanimous leaders would be smarter to stand up to him now, than later, when he has consolidated his power.

Do you know what's always confused me about Alberta health services? Is the governmental say they act independently so basically given themselves an out when AHS imposes masks. Alberta health services is the health system of the province so they are not independent. They have government oversight. They have a government minister so this part confuses me. Personally, I have no issues with masks in hospitals because if you have strep throat or anything and you are in there to see a doctor or a nurse, why do we want to spread it to everybody else. So not just coronavirus but many different viruses. But they play it up as if it's some independent group. In fact, I've had an MLA tell me they are independent. They are the health authority. They aren't independent lol. But yeah you basically just backed up what I was saying so if she were to go back on anything she would find herself out of a job.

1 minute ago, King Heffy said:

They don't really have another means of eradicating Hamas when those swine are using the civilians as human shields.  

And then we go back to this ridiculous argument to try and find any stupid excuse to make an excuse. Cutting off water, electricity, food, fuel, medicine, etc. You sound more like Stalin and Hitler than you do a Canadian.

3 hours ago, StrayDog said:

I'd like to point out you didn't actually answer my questions; you pivoted into anti-capitalist statements. I asked you how a socialist society would deal with such things and all you did was tell me how a capitalist society deals with it. I am already aware of how capitalism deals with those things. 

The "sacrifice" thing came from one of the links you earlier provided. No I don't remember which one; it was a lot of reading. It was about how some would need to sacrifice for the greater good. I wanted to know who makes the decision of who sacrifices. Again no answer, just anti-capitalism rhetoric.

I never said either system was superior. I wanted your view - in your own words - on why Socialism was the better option in the situation I presented. If you look back not a single thing I said promoted capitalism. I asked for a compare and contrast, not a dissertation on the evils of capitalism.

Nature states more than you think, my friend. Every living thing (and that includes the highly rational apes that we are) naturally wants to survive and will do what is necessary to continue. I used the chimps and a single fruit tree to show what happens when different groups require the same scarce resource (food in this instance, which is why my original question dealt with a worldwide food blight that wipes out 50% of the world's food supply). I did not ask about manufactured goods, I asked about things that matter to every person's survival.

People have asked you multiple times to explain such a thing in your own words. The only answers they orginally got were to be told to "educate themselves" and "a new thread would need to be provided". Well, the thread is here and I was hoping you would educate me. It's now clear to me you don't want to argue the merits of socialism, you just want to argue that capitalism is bad.

I didn't even get into deeper questions about how you feel anarchy would better serve humanity, but I'm guessing now if I did you'd just tell me again how bad capitalism is. If you wish to discuss, then discuss; but if everything you say is "Capitalism sucks! Anarchy now!" but can't argue the merits of that statement then I'm no longer interested in the discussion.

Thanks!
 

 

This is all he is doing and then getting mad because we don't see it his way but he hasn't actually sold anybody on anything

1 minute ago, Bob Long said:

 

so why do you think that idea exists so prevalently in AB? I mean people wear PPE in the patch for all kinds of things that are rare to occur and have no problems wearing it. 

 

 

 

I agree, I think he'll take more votes from the right. 

 

1) First of all, I think there is far more of a libertarian viewpoint in this province. The point I was trying to make though is she drew her line in the sand with black top If she were to go back on that she would basically make people say you're done including in her own cabinet. I mean we had an election where one party was pro masking and pro coronavirus concern and the other party didn't want to talk about it and didn't want to ever take away freedom from people again. And that party won a decisive victory. Democracy!

2 minutes ago, King Heffy said:

The man's family has been directly impacted by Hamas acting like the vermin that they are.  Maybe it's you who should show some compassion.

This is a terrible comment man. How do you know anybody you're responding to isn't Palestinian and potentially has family in Gaza? You are asking him to show compassion yet he's pointing out The person he's responding to is also showing no compassion. What did you hope to achieve with this post?

1 minute ago, bishopshodan said:

A few things in my mind.

 

1) The Security - how did they not know it was coming? did they get the heads up as Egypt claims?  How does that very secure border get so compromised, in so many ways, by so many ....and nodody, no intel to see it coming?

 

2) The evacuation demand - they expect 1.2 million civilians to move out of their homes within 24 hrs, until further notice? pretty much impossible and will create a humanitarian crisis. 

 

3) Genocide - Are some in the world trying to justify actual genocide? I hear the idea that since Hamas is the governance over the Palatians, then all of them are the enemy. All of them human-animals?

 

The world is watching .

 

 

 

 

 

1) if you let it happen, you have a reason to respond the way they are. If you don't let it happen, you know longer have that reason and it's a tough sell to the world.

2) the United Nations has already said it is impossible

3) yeah that's quite bizarre. Use this forum for example And how many people absolutely despise Trump and wish he was dead and call him a terrorist. I don't think they would support the mass killing of Americans though.

4 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

 

hopefully it kind of stays this way and we're done with all the lockdown, etc. stuff. We're going to be dealing with mistrust and disinformation because of all this for a long time.

 

Hell, we even have a person trying to run for US president with his anti-vax views as his cornerstone piece of ideology.  Is that the #1 issue you want a candidate to run on?

 

Great post! I'm actually going to make two comments on that. So number one if there has to be lockdowns and masks Smith will likely be gone as premiere. So it will become political because she has repeatedly staunchly said never again Will a child be forced to wear a mask in a school. That is one thing whether you agree with her or not She won't be able to take back as she was so staunch about her support against masking and mass vaccination. She just can't go back on that look what happened to JK!

As for Kennedy I do find it strange why he is making it the cornerstone of his campaign. By the time the election happens it will be over 4 years old and most will have forgotten about it as we all want to and yet he will be talking about it as if it's some sort of government Overreach. While he might be right, it just seems like is this really is successful campaign strategy? The country is an enormous debt, has massive inflation, potentially will be funding three different militaries along with their own, and he wants to go on about coronavirus? At this point I don't even think it's votes from the Democrats he will steal but votes from Republicans to be perfectly honest.

3 minutes ago, Johngould21 said:

So all the medical people in a surgical ward are sick then, cancel my urologists appointment then..

Okay man, I'm going to end our interaction together because that's not what I said at all. I mean maybe I wasn't clear enough but I think this is you reaching.

1 minute ago, Bob Long said:

 

yea it definitely could be cultural differences between provinces, or even a bit urban-rural divide. 

Yeah, I don't know. I was at West Edmonton mall about 4 months ago and even there I don't recall seeing many people in masks at all. I'll be honest man. I didn't even realize the infection numbers until I read that article that John posted. I never hear it talked about. I mean, admittedly, I know that it's still exists because I have healthcare professionals in my family, but outside of that you would never know it exists.