Why Change the Federal Government?
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RE: Why Change the Federa
Nothing in life is free, MMMike. I'm sure they could use some volunteers out your way though.
Nothing in life is free, MMMike. I'm sure they could use some volunteers out your way though.
Once You stop thinking!
I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker.
One day the boss called me in and said, "Bob, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking is a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, I'll have to let you go." This gave me a lot to think about.
I went home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..." "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce." "But Honey, surely it's not that serious."
"It is serious," she said, lower lip quivering. "You think as much as college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking we won't have any money!" "That's faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry.
I had had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled and stomped out the door. I headed to the library in the mood for Nietzsche, roared into the parking lot, and ran up to the big glass doors...they did not open.
The library was closed. To this day, I believe the Higher Power was looking out for me that night. As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. The words "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" stood out in large letters.
You may recognize the line: it comes from the standard issue "Thinkers Anonymous" poster.
Today, I am a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video--last week it was "Porky's."
Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting. I still have my job and things are a lot better at home. Life just got easier, somehow, once I stopped thinking.
Soon, I will be able to vote Liberal again.
Larry
I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker.
One day the boss called me in and said, "Bob, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking is a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, I'll have to let you go." This gave me a lot to think about.
I went home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..." "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce." "But Honey, surely it's not that serious."
"It is serious," she said, lower lip quivering. "You think as much as college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking we won't have any money!" "That's faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry.
I had had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled and stomped out the door. I headed to the library in the mood for Nietzsche, roared into the parking lot, and ran up to the big glass doors...they did not open.
The library was closed. To this day, I believe the Higher Power was looking out for me that night. As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. The words "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" stood out in large letters.
You may recognize the line: it comes from the standard issue "Thinkers Anonymous" poster.
Today, I am a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video--last week it was "Porky's."
Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting. I still have my job and things are a lot better at home. Life just got easier, somehow, once I stopped thinking.
Soon, I will be able to vote Liberal again.
Larry
It isn't the gay vote that's the issue, fazou. Harper lost much of the urban vote that he needs over this.
Harper's plan doesn't fit into the existing Canadian legal structure. As we saw with Kenneth Star in the US, such positions are open to highly partisan abuse.
Harper isn't eliminating it though, he's reducing it by 1 point now and 1 point at some unspecified time in the future. In addition to that, since this is a money bill and Harper knows that he cannot win Quebec and get anything more than a minority, he put this forward as a purely cynical political ploy.