Wish someone could explain that to my right wing government. They originally got voted in by complaining the other party was paying off the debt instead of lowering taxes more and since they've been in they've ran a deficit for 8 years while bragging that being conservative means they're good money managers. Now that they claim to have rebalanced the budget thanks to the oil revenues, they're once again cutting taxes for the rich rather then paying off the debt. Our debt to GDP ratio is horrible.
Actually socialism is defined by one fact, the people own the means of production. Examples include credit unions and co-ops as socialist entities without any government regulation beyond the regulation given to capitalist entities. Another example is the mill down the road from me where when it was going to be closed the workers bought it and kept it running. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Only so many supertankers can fit into Burrard Inlet and the people of Vancouver really don't want a stream of supertankers sailing through the narrows.
Edit, I misread your post. The Federal government has OKed a pipeline. Perhaps it'll get built depending on whether the Federal government can overwhelm the Supreme Court with unconstitutional laws.
Getting the people of BC to agree to pipelines and oil tankers navigating some of the more treacherous waters of N. America for little benefit to them besides the most expensive gas in N. America
My thinking is that an educated woman (or anyone actually) is more likely to understand the benefits of family planning and how to implement it as well as being more motivated to do more with her life then being a housewife. Of course it also depends on how enlightened the man is which often also depends on education.
They are building a second pipeline (twinning the existent one) to Vancouver but the port of Vancouver ca only handle a tanker a day plus the people are not happy with the risk and lack of benefits. They are also pushing ahead with the Northern Gateway to Kitimat (just south of Alaska) but no one wants that either and the natives have sovereignty over much of the route and once again even if built it can only handle so many supertankers. They're also planning on reversing the flow of the pipeline to the Atlantic. The point is that they (the oil companies, the Government of Alberta and the Federal Government) want to move as much product as possible as the Federal Government (ran by a failed economist) knows oil will never drop in price and we should be a one trick pony with oil being the one trick.
The virus that's most likely to cause an epidemic is the flu, mostly due to how often it mutates. Vaccinations don't help much for a new strain of the Spanish Flu. The real danger is common bacteria. With the overuse of antibiotics and the resulting antibiotic resistance of bacteria we're likely to be back where we were a hundred years ago with simple infections being the leading cause of death.
No, America pays less for Canadian bitumen then the rest of the world. Currently Canada has one major market for its bitumen and that market knows it and pays less. This is why the Northern Gateway, Energy East, the southern BC pipeline twining whose name slips my mind right now and Keystone XL are so important to Alberta, get the heavy oil to world markets and get world prices rather then Texas prices.
They want to do the oppressing themselves then. We have a right wing government in Canada and they're attitude is pretty simple, you can have rights or you can have safety and they're going to push through their anti-terrorist bill no matter what. No time to listen to experts such as the 7 ex-Supreme Court justices or anyone else, they've already invoked closure before the debate has started. Meanwhile as the left wing (real left wing not the Democrats slightly less right wing) opposition points out, we already have laws on the books that are working fine. These are the same arseholes who said that opposing the government spying was actually supporting the child molesters amongst many other anti-freedom shit they've pulled. A government just big enough to repress the population, not big enough to have oversight is their motto and they're going full stream ahead in declaring any opposition to them as terrorists who should be locked up before they do anything illegal. Remember we can't afford rights in the modern day.
They dilute it. Raw bitumen is similar to asphalt and a pig would not push it. When it spills, it floats at first and then sinks and is way harder to clean up then crude oil. It's nasty stuff and if our government was smart they'd build a nuke in the north and refine it there but there's more short term profits in shipping it raw to China.
You're talking oil. This is bitumen, more like the asphalt you drive on. It needs a lot of dilution before it'll flow as well as heat. When it spills it floats for a while then the dilutents evaporate and it sinks. Way worse to clean up then crude oil. Of course the current Canadian government doesn't care about the environment at all, just the profits of getting that bitumen to China and Indochina as they're all oil men who have very good jobs waiting for them.
It's American (and Chinese and Indochinese) oil companies that want to maximize profits by selling the raw product. Refineries don't have a high enough profit margin.
China is willing to pay more then the American refineries, so it is more profitable to ship it then to refine it. The same thing here in Canada, the local refinery, which is right at the terminus of a pipeline, has to import oil as all the oil sands bitumen is promised to China and we signed a free trade deal that says China gets the bitumen. Personally I wish the bitumen benefited Canadians and gas would drop below $5 a gallon.
Canada, or rather the foreign oil companies are already planning to build 2 oil pipelines to the west coast as well as reverse the oil pipeline to the east coast. This government really wants to give China the oil as quick as possible, whether through the ports on the Gulf, Kitimat, or Vancouver. China can outbid America now and has.
The whole point of keystone is to get oil to China as they pay better then the American refineries, of course it is possible that the American refineries will outbid China but there is more money in just shipping it to China and profit is the name of the game.
American refineries don't pay as good as China so the whole idea is to build the 3 pipelines to ports where it can be shipped to China and refined there. The Canadian government has repeated this over and over, we need to sell it as quick as possible and it is stupid to create jobs in N. America when China will pay more.
They think alcohol is bad, they should look at tylenol.
But it mostly kills kids and takes long enough for them to die of liver failure that they can pretend otherwise. Aspirin also kills a lot of people, generally through stomach bleeding. When we were kids we used to try to get high on aspirin + coca cola, way more hazardous then if we'd access to pot or even alcohol. Have to remember that people, including kids, who are heavily attracted to drugs are trying to escape from their horrible life and are more likely to abuse the drugs. Tylenol mostly kills kids who thinks it is candy.
We've often had more then three parties in Parliament. Way back there was a small Social Credit caucus in Quebec. More recently there was the Reform Party in the west splitting the right wing vote as well as the Bloc in Quebec. As for the Green party splitting the left, well in our (BC) last Provincial election, the Greens seemed to take votes equally from the right and the left. And federally the left has hardly ever done very well until the last election where the NDP increased their number of seats by almost an order of magnitude, mostly based on having a very well liked leader in Jack Layton. The Liberals have always been mostly center and unlike the Conservatives they actually ran a surplus budget for 8 years
Best to limit it to only the most threatening ones, eg carriers of malaria, yellow fever etc. The over parents idea is like wiping out all bees because of Africanized killer bees.
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Wish someone could explain that to my right wing government. They originally got voted in by complaining the other party was paying off the debt instead of lowering taxes more and since they've been in they've ran a deficit for 8 years while bragging that being conservative means they're good money managers. Now that they claim to have rebalanced the budget thanks to the oil revenues, they're once again cutting taxes for the rich rather then paying off the debt. Our debt to GDP ratio is horrible.
Yes, but slowing down the spread of mental illness would probably benefit society.
Actually socialism is defined by one fact, the people own the means of production. Examples include credit unions and co-ops as socialist entities without any government regulation beyond the regulation given to capitalist entities. Another example is the mill down the road from me where when it was going to be closed the workers bought it and kept it running.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's fine if a woman decides to be a housewife, it's just nice if she has a choice.
Only so many supertankers can fit into Burrard Inlet and the people of Vancouver really don't want a stream of supertankers sailing through the narrows.
Edit, I misread your post.
The Federal government has OKed a pipeline. Perhaps it'll get built depending on whether the Federal government can overwhelm the Supreme Court with unconstitutional laws.
Back in the '50's.
Getting the people of BC to agree to pipelines and oil tankers navigating some of the more treacherous waters of N. America for little benefit to them besides the most expensive gas in N. America
My thinking is that an educated woman (or anyone actually) is more likely to understand the benefits of family planning and how to implement it as well as being more motivated to do more with her life then being a housewife.
Of course it also depends on how enlightened the man is which often also depends on education.
They are building a second pipeline (twinning the existent one) to Vancouver but the port of Vancouver ca only handle a tanker a day plus the people are not happy with the risk and lack of benefits. They are also pushing ahead with the Northern Gateway to Kitimat (just south of Alaska) but no one wants that either and the natives have sovereignty over much of the route and once again even if built it can only handle so many supertankers. They're also planning on reversing the flow of the pipeline to the Atlantic.
The point is that they (the oil companies, the Government of Alberta and the Federal Government) want to move as much product as possible as the Federal Government (ran by a failed economist) knows oil will never drop in price and we should be a one trick pony with oil being the one trick.
You left out educated women who can take advantage of numbers 1 and 2.
The virus that's most likely to cause an epidemic is the flu, mostly due to how often it mutates. Vaccinations don't help much for a new strain of the Spanish Flu.
The real danger is common bacteria. With the overuse of antibiotics and the resulting antibiotic resistance of bacteria we're likely to be back where we were a hundred years ago with simple infections being the leading cause of death.
No, America pays less for Canadian bitumen then the rest of the world. Currently Canada has one major market for its bitumen and that market knows it and pays less. This is why the Northern Gateway, Energy East, the southern BC pipeline twining whose name slips my mind right now and Keystone XL are so important to Alberta, get the heavy oil to world markets and get world prices rather then Texas prices.
They want to do the oppressing themselves then. We have a right wing government in Canada and they're attitude is pretty simple, you can have rights or you can have safety and they're going to push through their anti-terrorist bill no matter what. No time to listen to experts such as the 7 ex-Supreme Court justices or anyone else, they've already invoked closure before the debate has started. Meanwhile as the left wing (real left wing not the Democrats slightly less right wing) opposition points out, we already have laws on the books that are working fine. These are the same arseholes who said that opposing the government spying was actually supporting the child molesters amongst many other anti-freedom shit they've pulled.
A government just big enough to repress the population, not big enough to have oversight is their motto and they're going full stream ahead in declaring any opposition to them as terrorists who should be locked up before they do anything illegal. Remember we can't afford rights in the modern day.
They dilute it. Raw bitumen is similar to asphalt and a pig would not push it.
When it spills, it floats at first and then sinks and is way harder to clean up then crude oil. It's nasty stuff and if our government was smart they'd build a nuke in the north and refine it there but there's more short term profits in shipping it raw to China.
You're talking oil. This is bitumen, more like the asphalt you drive on. It needs a lot of dilution before it'll flow as well as heat.
When it spills it floats for a while then the dilutents evaporate and it sinks. Way worse to clean up then crude oil.
Of course the current Canadian government doesn't care about the environment at all, just the profits of getting that bitumen to China and Indochina as they're all oil men who have very good jobs waiting for them.
It's American (and Chinese and Indochinese) oil companies that want to maximize profits by selling the raw product. Refineries don't have a high enough profit margin.
China is willing to pay more then the American refineries, so it is more profitable to ship it then to refine it. The same thing here in Canada, the local refinery, which is right at the terminus of a pipeline, has to import oil as all the oil sands bitumen is promised to China and we signed a free trade deal that says China gets the bitumen.
Personally I wish the bitumen benefited Canadians and gas would drop below $5 a gallon.
Canada, or rather the foreign oil companies are already planning to build 2 oil pipelines to the west coast as well as reverse the oil pipeline to the east coast. This government really wants to give China the oil as quick as possible, whether through the ports on the Gulf, Kitimat, or Vancouver.
China can outbid America now and has.
The whole point of keystone is to get oil to China as they pay better then the American refineries, of course it is possible that the American refineries will outbid China but there is more money in just shipping it to China and profit is the name of the game.
American refineries don't pay as good as China so the whole idea is to build the 3 pipelines to ports where it can be shipped to China and refined there.
The Canadian government has repeated this over and over, we need to sell it as quick as possible and it is stupid to create jobs in N. America when China will pay more.
There's also a large movement to ban landmines with 161 countries signed on though the big three haven't signed on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They think alcohol is bad, they should look at tylenol.
But it mostly kills kids and takes long enough for them to die of liver failure that they can pretend otherwise.
Aspirin also kills a lot of people, generally through stomach bleeding. When we were kids we used to try to get high on aspirin + coca cola, way more hazardous then if we'd access to pot or even alcohol.
Have to remember that people, including kids, who are heavily attracted to drugs are trying to escape from their horrible life and are more likely to abuse the drugs. Tylenol mostly kills kids who thinks it is candy.
We've often had more then three parties in Parliament. Way back there was a small Social Credit caucus in Quebec. More recently there was the Reform Party in the west splitting the right wing vote as well as the Bloc in Quebec.
As for the Green party splitting the left, well in our (BC) last Provincial election, the Greens seemed to take votes equally from the right and the left. And federally the left has hardly ever done very well until the last election where the NDP increased their number of seats by almost an order of magnitude, mostly based on having a very well liked leader in Jack Layton. The Liberals have always been mostly center and unlike the Conservatives they actually ran a surplus budget for 8 years
Best to limit it to only the most threatening ones, eg carriers of malaria, yellow fever etc. The over parents idea is like wiping out all bees because of Africanized killer bees.