Birdy

holy. whatever happened to direct deposit?

nice nice nice! my buddy did it three years ago now and still talks about it! have fun!

wow! i caught 'Jungles' a few nights ago now and was blown away! i especially loved the time lapse photography on the different fungis that grow and thrive.. pure craziness!! kev.. that fungi attack was out of this world.. my god.. sprouting the fungi out of the carcass. HOLY! i'm definitely down for the dvds!

haha.. i missed this. NO DOUBT. bt.

hux, there's a whole bloody lot of us libertarians who prefer preferential tax treatment to the alternatives that are out there. making the free market system work in a way that doesn't leave people starving on the streets requires a lot of reform on many, many different levels. i don't think you'd find a single libertarian who would say 'feed them to the wolves'. that's not what being libertarian is about. i haven't changed one iota of what i believe. but until there are viable alternatives in place, i work with what we've got. phishtaper, thanks for clarifying.. i think timouse has brought up a pretty valid point that hamilton has quoted here.. our government's need to start focusing on viable solutions. this whole tax break seems to be nothing but a political campaign move, and that's exactly why i see no reason for anyone to get all fired up. this stuff happens all the time.

phishtaper, people don't need fudgeos or fruit rollups to live. industries need to be reformed. i'm not condoning tobacco use, trust me. i despise smoking and think it's absolutely disgusting. but i also live in the area of southern ontario this article is talking about and know how heavily good people rely on this industry to make a living and i know from first hand accounts just how much this industry has taken a hit. like my original post remarked, this is about making a living and feeding families and supporting yourselves. is the answer to say screw tobacco farmers? or should we at least look at alternative ways for them to not be screwed over feeding off the welfare system. it's a complex issue. one that's not cut and dry for the very reasons half of you have reacted in this thread. Thanks Hux for clarifying. "To some" I don't think would be the equivalent of the sponsorship scandal.

How many people die every year in car accidents? Yet we support the auto industry. From obesity? Yet we support food manufacturers. I think it's a sad line that's drawn between making a living and doing what is morally right. An unfortunate, necessary line. So Hux, clarify for me cuz I really don't know... if you receive preferential tax treatment and then turn around and donate to the campaign of the person/party who granted, through parliament, your preferential tax treatment, it would be considered scandalous?

I'm glad a few of you are being consistent with your thoughts towards crossing the floor!

things people do that piss me off? suck on their fingers.. like after eating wings.. and make that annoying sucking sound, finger by finger. people setting other people up just to see them fail. spoon feeding grown ups. one upping.

It required a little more actually - 2004? the begining of negative campaign ads in Canada? Sorry, wrong again! (From Wikipedia) During the 1993 Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party had an attack ad broadcast on television against Liberal leader Jean Chrétien. Many felt that the ad focused on Chrétien's facial deformity, caused by Bell's palsy. The resulting outcry is considered to be an example of voter backlash from negative campaigning. On October 14, the second ad premiered. It featured still pictures of Chrétien’s face interspersed with comments by actors posing as regular Canadians. The first asked "Is this a Prime Minister?" and others questioned his record. The final, and most prominent, line was "I would be very embarrassed if he became Prime Minister of Canada." While the ad's creators insisted that the lines referred to Chrétien's policies and ethics, the intercutting with images of his face focusing on his facial deformity convinced many that the commercials were an attack on Chrétien's appearance. burn. I hardly ever watch tv so i didn't catch these ads until last night... nnnnnnnnice.

hinty hint. 2 0 0 4 all it takes is a quick google. hhaha

Let's just remember what party brought attack ads to Canada! Here I thought Hux's picture thread could be an attack ad in itself!

Campaign's started. Interesting angle.

I think parents will have a hard time with or without Kev. Banning or including just pisses off a different set of them, respectively. But don't you like that choice? That's the real matter of it all to me, at least. Is that there is a choice! Is it fair that in order to entertain your views and beliefs, we disregard those who don't share the same? Is that how we're making multiculturalism work? It's like punishing all the kids for the rude behaviour of one. "If you can't play nice, NOONE PLAYS!" Meggo, I admit that it's great that your school is taking initiative in being inclusionary, but I also think there is a place for the same amongst all public institutions-- including government. They're supposed to represent the values of the 'public', so why are we stopping at the school door? A lot of lefties look at organized religion as thwarting, but rather I think the lack of understanding and awareness and eventually acceptance of religion is thwarting. How can we understand that which we don't know!? It will be a far easier task for us to teach little ones acceptance than their elders, but we need to try. And pretending it doesn't exist, or not recognizing it's existence, is definitely not the answer.

Thanks for posting this meggo. There's lots of court-clogging examples of how we have failed as a society to figure out how to make multi-culturalism work. It's kind of sad really how we Canadians have prided ourselves on being multi-cultural, but now can think of no alternative to get along but to hide our cultural differences. Really with some of the thoughts in this thread one would be left to think that the Americans were really on to something in the first place with the whole melting pot idea. It really would be the same endpoint, except they wouldn't have wasted countless tax payer dollars in legal fees determining exactly what the charter of rights and freedoms means and allows. instead of banning prayer from schools, wouldn't it be nice if there were say... a devoted time slot each morning to prayers of all sorts? or instead of banning a cross from hanging on a wall, if that wall was devoted to all kinds of religious symbols and students were encouraged to express themselves and show off their religions? be it whatever? i think these ideas would promote a certain level of awareness and tolerance that we all seek, much more than hiding who you are and what you believe and having your government deny you individual rights would. i think this subject really needs to be approached more seriously by all. What kind of lesson are we teaching our future generations when we tell them it's not ok to be who you are?! oh wait, sorry. It is ok to be who you are, but just don't let anyone else know about it. grr!

me effin' too!

small towns. i like driving in the country and staring at cows and getting really drunk in corn fields and partying in fields and hanging out at the lake and playing ping pong on the patio of my favourite bar. and then if i feel like it, i can drive into the city and do all the things that i like to do in the city, without having to deal with city bullshit ie, pollution, noise, traffic, every day.

don't get caught up in the loop highway that circles that city. i've almost missed my flight home twice, driving in circles. i'd say listen to AD, i've had a few clients confirm the weather as being all screwy in texas/oklahoma/kansas.

i,d like to start a popo weenie appreciation thread i don,t claim to know her but she did call in to a radio show that bouche and i hosted and won a prize her poor punctuation and her off-the-wall postings really brighten my day and how she always quotes but without the quote function so you can,t tell who she,s quoting or whether she,s quoting anyone at all or just writing weird things to herself --- lololol. i like her posts too. one time, paisley had posted something very complex about space, or the cosmos or something to that effect, and popoweenie responded with "are you an astronaut?" and then paisley replied "er, something like that." that was really funny.

Those little red cowboy boots are to die for. I loved little Olive. Everyone can take a lesson or two from that little gem!

Hi Wayne! Happy Birthday! I think you're awesome and really hot too! Rock on!! Birdy

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hi mr. flibble, you bring up some really good points to consider.. thanks! my existence in this thread was to merely show that there can be some amount of good, in a pile of bad. I'm not a supporter of bush, nor a supporter of Iraq, but there has been a level of commitment to date from the US that would make merely 'pulling out' as some people in these forums wish for, disastrous. I'll reconsider my win/lose decisiveness, but would like at some point in the near future to debate the whole 'war is not necessarily war' line with you. unfortunately right now i'm swamped with work. again, welcome.. i like your style..... so far!

yes! welcome Mr. Flibble! I have stuff to say regarding what you posted, but no time to say it right now. I'm in the midst of planning a HUGE auction! Please hang tight!

Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying anyone is "good" or "bad". This isn't about taking sides. Rather it's about seeing the good amongst the bad, or the bad amongst the good. It's a nightmare situation however you wash it, but i think in say thirty years down the road things may look a little cleaner than they have in the past, even though they look so dirty now.