Never let it be said

that politicians in Canada can't work together.

On vote after vote, Conservatives quash C-38 amendments

You caught the sarcasm in my comment, didn't you? There's no working together. The Conservatives continue down their road to destroying democracy in Canada by destroying the fabric of the Canadian Parliamentary system. If you want to do anything you'll have to take it to King Harper first. It's very sad to watch this. In some countries it is done by violence and revolution. In Canada it is done slowly, through political tricks and manoeuvring, until the same effect is accomplished.

And we all sit here with our heads in the sand, watching it happen...

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Most of the time...

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." - E. B. White

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Is anyone surprised?

SWAT cleric terms democracy un-Islamic

Really, it's a given with Islam. The sad thing is that the clerics say that lots of things are un-Islamic, not because they want people to follow the Quran, but because they want people to follow it they way they teach it. It really is a personal power thing in some ways, but what they heck, they're only weak, helpless males...

Just how I feel about it

"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid." - Art Spander

(And I include myself in this...)

Don't bother travelling

to the U.S. anytime soon.


U.S. border agents given power to seize travellers' laptops, cellphones

This allows them to confiscate your cellphone or laptop and examine every bit of data on it without even any suspicion that you might be involved in illegal activity. They just have to feel like taking it. More personal freedoms down the drain. There's no such thing as democracy or freedom in the U.S. anymore...