kelownabomberfan

The Bombers should just announce this roster already. I don't know what they are waiting for.

You don't have to go much further than Manitoba to see how badly the NDP sucks. http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/04/30/manitoba-budget-live-coverage How can anyone in good conscience say that the NDP is good at balancing budgets? They are horrible! As for my mind being made up, not completely true. I am extremely made up in terms of who I am NOT voting for, and I think you can guess which party that is. Oh yeah, and the Greens. Not voting for those insane turd-balls.

I don't know what you are talking about - if a "large company" ever told anyone how to vote and intimidated them, they'd be taken to a human rights commission or tribunal immediately. Unions on the other hand always tell their members how to vote. The stuff that the unions put out here in BC in the last election was just plain sickening. What was really disgusting was the millions of dollars that they blew of member cash, all taken from member dues. They had no say in it, their money was just blown trumpeting the horrible NDP, and they ended up getting nothing for it. I really hate seeing people taken advantage of like that, and told how to vote. That's not democracy. Anyway that's about it. I get that you want to portray that "it's bad everywhere, not just the NDP". I just will agree to disagree with you that the NDP isn't the worst.

Most people can't see the intimidation that goes on behind the scenes if they aren't involved in politics. I should further clarify that I don't just think that the NDP shuts down dissent; I honestly think that there is an element of zealotry in the NDP that results in willful blindness, that is just not seen in other parties. This is the kind of willful blindness that doesn't even need to be enforced. Case in point - no one with even a tenuous hold on actual facts would ever argue that the NDP are better fiscal managers than anyone. A monkey with a dartboard would be better at managing economies and budgets then the NDP in most provinces (Gary Doer perhaps being the exception). Yet you see NDP zealots arguing passionately that their party is the best. This just isn't true, and is completely unsupportable, if one chooses to do even a minute amount of research. But you can't ever speak negatively of the NDP, if you are a zealot. No. Just can't. End of story.

Why isn't Jake (the Snake) Thomas playing?

Sigh...it sure would be nice...

Well done. CLAP CLAP CLAP

I didn't see my complaint about the NDP to be praise of any other party in this area, as what I meant (and obviously didn't really explain very well) is that one of my main issues with the NDP is their hypocrisy when it comes to dissent and free thought. They criticize everyone else for not being free on dissent, yet they are the worst offenders when it comes to this issue. Anyway, I wouldn't call my dislike of the NDP "blind hatred", I would call it well-informed disgust. I watched Howard the Coward run Manitoba into the ground in the 1980's while allowing the unions to just run the province (that's democracy?) and I watched the NDP in BC run our province into the ground. I watched Bob Rae run Ontario into the ground into the 1990's. I "debate" (it's tough to call it debate) NDP zealots on other forums and it's always the same mantra "We are great and can do no wrong". They don't want to admit that there are any issues with their ideology, and the only reason they feel they don't win elections is because the voter is either stupid, or swayed by "attack ads". They don't want to change, and anyone who proposes change is shouted down (this per several people I know who left the NDP). It's our ideology or nothing, and if you don't like it, get lost. As I said, I just find the NDP to be extremely hypocritical, on this and many other issues. They point fingers at JT and Harper and say that they don't allow dissent, but the NDP are the worst for this. The day I see an NDP actually finally question some of the garbage they are fed by their union masters, like that bogus article Raging just linked to, I will probably keel over in amazement.

Who suggested this?

Stupid tablet

Glad to hear it's a WWC-related thing and not something to do with IGF, in general... another reason to strongly dislike soccer.

One thing that bugs me about the NDP more than most things, and that is that they don't allow free thought or dissidents in their party. You MUST agree with the ideological mantras, and you cannot question the lies they spin. Thus you end up with people like RagingIce, who can't see the proof of how bad the NDP is, no matter what is shown.

I would bet that guy is counting the 1996 BC budget as a "balanced" budget for the NDP, when in fact it was proven after the election that the NDP fudged it and then lied about it to get re-elected. Oh the pain we could have avoided if the NDP had lost that 1996 election.

LOL - same posting pattern of brain-washed leftists at other political sites I visit - state a complete untruth, then link to a union-funded garbage leftist blog as "proof" that the lie they are stating must be true, see a bunch of union-funded bozos say its true. It's pure garbage. What we have in BC right now sucks for a government, but it's still better than the NDP, who was wiped out 77-2 in 2001 here in BC. If they were so great, why did they almost get completely obliterated? Because they sucked. Alberta has to find that out now the hard way.

This is pure horse-****. We suffered through two long terms of horrible NDP economic stewardship in BC, including bending over for the BCTF and giving the lunatic union carte blanche on deciding class size and composition. Yes you heard that right. The NDP gave the union the power to decide how many teachers should be hired. How dumb is that. Just mind-boggling how dumb. 17 years later the current government is still fighting in the courts to get that reversed. Bob Rae was a freaking disaster in Ontario and the NDP just got booted out of New Brunswick after only one horrible term. Now the new government is trying to cut costs, but finding it impossible because the idiot NDP gave all government employees life-time job security. Boneheads. Whoever sold you this nonsensical bill of goods about the NDP having the best fiscal record is flat-out lying to you. If it was your university prof (more than likely) you should go get your money back.

LOL. I just don't like the NDP, and see them as the worst option possible. I also see a lot of people use excuses like "stagnation" as to why they should take over power, and I don't get why we need to needlessly waste billions of dollars on absolutely no positive value, just so that we aren't "stagnant" in some peoples' minds.

And truth be told, I would have rather watched that then the entire 2013 season.

Then perhaps be a tad bit more forthcoming when you use words like "stagnating". How about that? Actually Canada is, but I don't want to be patronizing and tell you why. Social progress? What the hell does this mean? Environmental progress?? Like what? Oh right, you want Canada to waste billions on a corrupt carbon trading scheme, all in the name of "fighting" man-made climate change. Yes, waste billions all so that some Euro-trash will like us more, but achieve absolutely nothing. Healthcare- ok - yes - there definitely are huge problems with health care. That's a political football I don't see any party tackling though. Even tiny changes to the status quo cause almost everyone in this country to completely lose their ****, and start crying about "American style health care". It really is a losing proposition to even talk about health care anymore as a politician in this country, other than to keep promising to dump more and more money into it, for no discernible gain.

What the hell does that even mean? Canada has been leading the world in economic growth consistently and are one of the best countries in the world to live in. If that's stagnation I'll take it. Go travel the world a bit and come back, and you'll appreciate what we have a lot more. Travel to places like Egypt, Vietnam or Myanmar, those people would give both their left and right nuts to move to Canada and get to a land that offers such amazing opportunity. Have a look at those idiots in the EU, trying to prop up those lazy commies in Greece. Now THAT's stagnation.

If Swiston sticks with Calgary and becomes a starter for them I will shake my head at why he had three years here and couldn't crack our crappy o-line.

I remembered I also promised the Blue Bastard at last year's Grey Cup game that I would see him again this year. For all of you guys who have not met the Blue Bastard, I strongly suggest that you make the effort. Helluva guy!

That's a good point. It would be great if Ti-Cats TV could do another game.

See, when you write something this stupid, it just makes it harder for guys like me, the undecided voter, to join your team. You guys really are your own worst enemies. Why would he care? Time to buy a calendar, guess who was in power when Canada went into Afghanistan. No he didn't, and of course climate change is real, it's changing all of the time. Back to Afghanistan, the war that started five years before the Conservatives were ever elected. This is like the morons that blame Nixon for Vietnam, and give Kennedy and Johnson a free pass because they were Democrats. And if the ****-head leftists would stop blocking pipelines, no oil would have to be transported by rail.

Except that if the Cleveland Browns accidently fluke out a Superbowl win your taxes don't go up 20%.

We never left a game early, because darn it, it was the 1970's and my dad paid dearly for those seats (even if someone gave him tickets) and we were going to watch every second, and if I didn't like it, that was just too bad, no more games for me. Red Forman was kind of the model for dads in the 1970's. Plus, I was never bored so that helped too. From the first play of the first game I ever attended at age 6, I was smitten. I hope your son is too.