murraysovereign

As a foreigner who is ignorant in many of your ways, but who genuinely wants to understand what the heck the neighbours are up to, this raises a question for me: how binding are these initiatives, and for how long? This initiative lays out not just a concept (ie "possession of marijuana for personal use should be decriminalized") but in fact lays out a pretty detailed piece of legislation, including limitations and exemptions, and is presumably meant to be binding. So what sort of latitude do the "boys n' girls in olympia" have in molding it? Doesn't it need to be enacted pretty much as voted? And what of subsequent amendments - would they not also have to be put to a public vote, so as to ensure the public will as expressed in the original initiative is not circumvented by future legislatures, or is there a time limit after which future legislatures can pretty much do what they want?

I wondered if that was the case. It was either that, or they just don't bother asking white guys to show their birth certificates.

No, should I be? I can go see some people and be back in a few minutes, if you think it would help.

Someone asked this the other day, and I have no answer, so throwing it out to all you American types: George Romney ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968, eventually losing out to Richard Nixon. So far, so good, right? But... as Mittens keeps reminding Latino voters, George Romney was born in Mexico. So... why would someone who is constitutionally inelligible for the presidency try to win his party's nomination?

yeah, but mostly they have a law degree...... just saying. Less than half of both houses of Congress have law degrees. You gotta stop getting your world view from the back of a matchbook, dood. For a guy who rails against the Republifuk's anti-Age-of-Reason agenda, you're not all that data driven yourself. Fuck off dumbshit. This is the breakdown: 168 members of both chambers have law degree 83 has MBA 27 has no college degree 5 has Associate Degree 17 have medical degree MD, DO 1LPN So by far the biggest chunk belongs to the lawyers, which make 44% to be exact. So on contrary to the bullshit you spewed, I am wright and you are wrong. None of them list Political Science as a degree. Let's see... both houses combined total 535 members. According to your own numbers, "168 members of both chambers have law degree". According to my math, 168 is a little over 31% of 535. Now, you guys may do math differently than we do - we do the metric thing, whereas you stubbornly cling to that archaic "Imperial" system that even the Empire has largely abandoned - but up here 31% is generally agreed to be considerably less than half. Am I mis-reading something here?

so...free thinking means throwing the practices and principles of the enlightenment out the window in favor of...of...what again? blanket distrust of absolutely anythign a man w/ a tie says? I think he means "free thinking" in sort of the same way people mean "free-style" or "free-form"... you know, kinda random and arbitrary, no rules, no standards, ... "free-range chicken" thinking.

I got a "Nigerian Letter" last year... in the mail. Printed out letter, envelope addressed to me, postage stamp, return address, just like a proper letter. Apparently someone with the same surname died intestate, and I'm the only person they could find with the same name so they're going to send me the entire estate (minus administative fees, of course, but that's not unreasonable). I've still got the letter, but I think I've lost the envelope. I can't throw it away - take it out from time to time and puzzle over it. Whoever sent it is going to a fair bit of trouble and expense mailing out boxes of these things in hopes of getting a response from someone. I guess even the stupid people have figured out that the emails are junk, so now the scammers are resorting to sending actual letters in the hope they will seem more legitimate and thus suck in the people who are just smart enough to delete the email, but still stupid enough to reply to the letter.

I've got a bunch in stock, so now you've got one more reason to come up to Squamish this weekend

The other guys can't actually do magic themselves. All they can do is convince one another that there's a magic show going on, and that it's really cool but you have to believe that before you can see it. Scientists actually can blow 'em all up with nukes, for real. It doesn't matter if they believe it's happening or not - they still blow up.

Emmy-Lou Harris... Lucinda Williams... I used to think I hated country music, too. Turns out I was wrong. Yeah, you have to be selective, but if you're prepared to spend some time rooting around amongst the trash, there's some truly great music to be found under the "country" heading.

And yet Mississippi - a solidly Republican state, I believe - recently voted nearly 60% against a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would have formally recognized personhood as starting at the moment of conception. So it would seem that, even in Mississippi, voters' views are a bit more nuanced than the prevailing Republican vs Democrat stereotypes would have us believe. Unfortunately, the environment has become so polarized that anyone trying to espouse a nuanced view on any given subject is almost instantly drowned out by the partisan vitriol being shouted at them from both sides. If we could just move beyond that to truly civil discussions we might actually start to make some progress, but it seems so entrenched now that I don't hold out much hope.

We don't need sex scandals - we get by just fine without them. Right now, for instance, parliament is all up in arms about whether or not the minister of defense made improper use of a Search and Rescue helicopter while on a personal fly-fishing trip in Labrador. Sex scandals just can't compare...

Bachman's hamster is running now? Holy cow - that'll blow the race wide open. Perry might as well pack it in, 'cause the hamster vote is going to desert him, and they were about 3/4 of his base.

adidas sold Salomon and Arc'Teryx a few years ago, to Amer. So no connection between those companies and this deal, but you're still right it probably won't change much at FiveTen except maybe give them a little more capital to work with.

Also on St Crispian's day: The Bolsheviks captured the Winter Palace, and how can we not include the US Marines' conquest of Grenada? Epic, historic battles both. Again, the latter seems not to have inspired any great literature, sadly.

Seems quite the day for great battles - in addition to Agincourt it seems Balaklava (Charge of the Light Brigade) and Leyte Gulf (which has inspired no great literature that I'm aware of) also were the sites of St Crispian's Day "observances" over the years.

Maybe it's the start of some sort of "cc.com Spring"?

Wrong http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/gst-tps/gnrl/txbl/xmptgds-eng.html You don't pay GST on medical services only because the government is paying for these so ultimately it would be taxing itself. Actually, he's right, and you're wrong. Under the GST or HST, taxes aren't collected on sales of basic groceries. You linked the list of "exempt" items, but groceries aren't exempt, they're "zero-rated" meaning they're taxed, but at a rate of - wait for it - 0% You should have looked here: Zero-rated (0%) goods and services

Four sizes - the Link Cam colours match the equivalent Camalot's colours. Yellow is roughly same size as BD #2 at full expansion, Red is roughly the same as #1, Green and Purple roughly same as BD .75 and .5

Ummm... can I see that list? You know, the list of all the "great democracies" that "committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded"? I mean, right now there's, let's see, how many "great democracies" more than 200 years old? The US and, uhhh, who else? Oh, and Iceland, I guess. So that means that all of the older "great democracies" completely collapsed and just disappeared? Wow. I'd like to learn about some of those events - it must make for some pretty compelling reading. Any idea where I can go to read about all these 250-year-old "great democracies" committing "financial suicide" to the point where they vanished from the earth without a trace? Or is that assertion just a pile of completely fabricated bullshit?

I was also in Squamish, waking up to CBC Radio news reports of planes hitting the WTC towers, then of the collapses, and on... By the time I got out the door to head to the store, the sky overhead was full of great looping contrails of passenger jets stacked up waiting for a space to land at Vancouver. Friend of mine was alone in her Cessna, flying from Calgary to Grande Prairie when a radio transmission announced that all North American airspace was closed, effective immediately, and that she had something like 20 minutes to land at the nearest airstrip, so she turned and headed for a small club field somewhere near Rocky Mountain House. No explanation, just an assurance that all would be made clear upon landing, and that failure to comply with the order to land could have dire consequences. She was pretty freaked out, trying to think what could possibly account for such a radio message, but none of her imaginings prepared her for the news she received upon landing.

JFK was shot as part of an elaborate conspiracy to assassinate Lee Harvey Oswald. That's why the Warren Commission never even considered it as a possibility - because they were part of the coverup!!!

You're kidding, right? You didn't actually watch that whole thing, did you?

Nonsense - Kaizen's a Canadian 5-year-old, and as such he's legally permitted to ride his bike on public land, accompanied by his dog if he so wishes, and he doesn't even need to get a permit from the government to do it - he can just go. It's one of the hallmarks of our radical socialist system of government - "public land" actually means just that - public land.

Here's a cool idea - Dad makes his son pass a Test to Turn Five