kelownabomberfan

I totally agree. It was meant to be an exaggeration. That fellow that pooped himself in front of us was obviously not indicative of the median standard for our "enhanced" society, but that being said, when some brain-washed leftist tells me that no one should be elevated above anyone else, where's the bottom line then? What's the standard? That's where I get a million different opinions from these people. I had one English major tell me one day that no one in Canada should make over $75,000. Anything above that should just be "given" to the government. And she is telling me this with a straight face. Like good grief, Lord help us all if our country's tax policy is ever handed over to English majors. Yet if you look at Norway's tax policy, they almost have such a system in place, in that if you make over $100K in Norway, you get to keep almost none of the money above that $100K mark. And that's a sure-fire way to encourage stagnation, as the best and brightest leave your country for greener pastures elsewhere. And rightly so. As for a more common story, my neighbours next door to me won the inheritance lottery and were able to buy the house next door. The mom, grown adult son and grown adult daughter all live together, and all are on welfare. The only time I see the son when he's not video-gaming is when he is outside lighting up a joint. When I ask the mom if the kids are going to get a job or go to school, I am given the mantra that "it's really hard to find work out there" and "the kids don't really want to go to university". Of course not. They can survive on the government teat, so why go and make something of their lives? Meanwhile, the grass in the back yard is 3 feet high because they refuse to mow it (I wrecked my mower last year trying to mow it for them) and the fence is crumbling. These are the kind of people that take advantage of our already extremely generous social safety net. It bugs me to no end that somehow idiots can claim that Canadians don't have enough empathy, or should be more like crappy countries like Norway. Canadians spend billions of dollars every year propping up people like my neighbours, who make enough off the government to not even bother trying to find work. I think that there should be some sort of way of monitoring able-bodied people who are perpetually on welfare, as they just have no incentive to ever go off of it, if there is no one telling them they have to. That's not right.

The problem is that it's a low skill easily replaceable job. You won't do it for 8 bucks an hour? Ok fine we'll hire some high school kid who is desperate for a paycheque to do it for 8 bucks an hour. And that's what those jobs are supposed to be for, for the high school kids. Not for grown adults. One of my first non-farm labour jobs was working at a cadet camp in Banff when I was 17. It was great because it paid $6.50 an hour, I had a free place to stay, and all I could eat, which at 17 was a huge bonus. I think I probably accounted for half of the Canadian defence budget that year. What I couldn't believe was that there were people working with me in the kitchen who were in their 30's, making barely more than I was. I couldn't understand being that old, and still working for peanuts. Yet all these people wanted to do was work the most boring job possible, and then go get drunk every night. It didn't make sense to me. Anyway, to each their own. Now the issue in our society is that high school kids don't want to work these minimum wage jobs, and they don't have to, as mom and dad and grandpa and grandma give them everything. I have a 16 year old nephew in that boat. Doesn't want to get a part-time job because he doesn't need one. And that's fine, but he doesn't play any sports, and instead just video-games all the time, in fact, he's already looking forward to summer so he can video game 7 days a week, 15 hours a day for two straight months. So who's left to fill the fast-food jobs? Temporary foreign workers.

Adrian McPherson sucking as usual.

Good to see the Trivago guy back.

Where is Bo Bowling this year? Rod's favorite player on the Als!

I would argue that keeping everyone at the same level is a worthy goal. Wealth and income inequality are not things a country should aspire to.Reading this makes me sick to my stomach. Why does it make you sick to your stomach - why does anyone deserve to be elevated over anyone else? Because people elevate themselves. We should help those who are unable to work and support themselves but we should also allow those who want to be great, to be great. Everyone gets what they earn. My question to you would be, why should we stifle the best and brightest in order to elevate those who aren't willing to work for their rewards? So by this logic then, Peluso should have been offered the same contract as Andrew Ladd or Tyler Myers, because otherwise if Ladd makes more money he is elevated above Peluso. Just unbelievable. I'd like to say that this guy is just trolling, but I have met too many like him to just assume that this is trolling. The brain-washing that goes on nowadays in our universities and high schools is unparalleled in this country's history. Communism lost, but it's making a come-back in our education systems.

This morning when I came into work there was a homeless guy sleeping in front of the front door of our office building. When someone woke him up he pissed and **** himself simultaneously, then walked away. If he refuses to elevate himself by trying to use the myriad social programs available in this country to get help, are you saying that everyone should just sleep in front of buildings and piss and **** themselves, because no one deserves to be elevated above him? That's what you are saying?

Who told you that the "hallmark" of an advanced society was to give everyone everything for free? Seriously. What idiot fed you this mass of bullshit? Nothing comes for free. Someone has to do the work, to pay the bills. That's what they don't teach you in school.

I get the same feeling when I read the NDP's platform.

I bet you got an "A" in your "cross-cultural" studies class. Just barf-inducing. Yet more and more automatons are turned out of our universities every day who are fed this same load of drivel.

Their sick time rates are so high (if you get a sniffle you go home for two weeks) that even the national automaker had to leave Norway to find a country where people actually wanted to work.

LOL. How did I know that Norway would creep back into the discussion. Every socialist wet dream begins and ends with Norway. Their high taxes suck. http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/why-norway-is-a-bs-argument-for-higher-taxes-8235/

A few years ago I was at a game sitting on the west side behind the Bomber bench and I had a mother and small kid behind me, and the kid kept asking mundane questions and the mom kept answering them, right in my ear. I was able to ignore the banter for the most part but then there was some horrible call by the ref so I started yelling, using a few choice words, forgetting about the kid sitting behind me. Suddenly I hear this little voice say "Mommy why is that man so angry" and the mom says "Because the ref is a moron dear"....ha ha ha

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.