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But the kids today, they don't read, gotta be visual or audio so they can spend the minimum effort. Our generation was the last one that isn't useless. Get off my lawn!

pipelines to the west coast allow us to sell to Asian markets that would love to buy it, but as it is the pipelines don't go anywhere but the States. That is why pipelines are a big issue. It's all about diversifying where we can ship our oil so that we aren't beholden to what American refineries will pay. It's not about shipping more, it's about having more options on who to sell to. American won't pay then ship it to Asia and when Americans want some they gotta pay more for it. Like I said, there is global demand for heavy oil, we just don't have the ability to reach the markets effectively to capitalize on it.

I don't think Biden is an inspiring enough candidate. They need a younger Bernie truthfully. His IDGAF attitude is what that country needs, but at his age.....

I don't like this piece. It over simplifies things. The fact of the matter is pipeline capacity is important because it diversifies our markets. Right now we can really only sell to the states, which is a problem when their own domestic production has increased so much. There is demand for Canadian heavy oil, we just can't get it to market. Not even mentioning we produce more than just oil sands.

Everyone is short sighted these days. Getting elected again is the goal not long term visions.

Yeah I always whistle a bit when I read it.

In general terms, problem is the books are massive sprawling things and the show had to cut characters and consolidate roles. The end might be the same but how they get there is wildly different.

I will watch them when Martin either finishes the books (I read the first one like a year after it was published so I been very, very patient) or he kicks the bucket, whichever comes first. I'm not letting the HBO clowns ruin any potential spoilers for the vastly superior books.

Except they're a coupe of hacks too. Without material from George RR Martin their show quality dropped off the face of the earth and they just tried to have big shocking moments to carry the show. I stopped watching after I guess it was season 4, maybe 5 because it was just crap compared to what it was when they had the books to follow.

Rian Johnson is simply a self important douchenozzle. Guy thinks he's better than doing what everyone expects, but if you're making Star Wars the point is that you gotta give the fans what they want. You want to go subvert expectations go make your own movie and don't **** all over beloved characters and movies.

Yeah the biggest issue with TLJ was that they clearly set up plot points in TFA and then just completely disregarded them in the following movie. You just can't do that. If you are making a sequel you have to follow the story laid out in the first movie.

am I reading this correctly? A top 5 list that doesn't include A New Hope? So basically They're all good except I really hated The Last Jedi and Solo was just a useless movie that I found boring and uninteresting. So those two suck, the rest are fine. Yeah even the prequels. They're not the greatest things ever and they got lots of cringe in them, but they're way way better than the **** that Rian Johnson smeared on the screen with his attempt at subverting expectations. What an asshat that guy is.

No way, Trump would lose his mind if people actually saw his finances. Guy is all about projecting his image. Being wealthy is what defines him in his own mind, if he didn't have that he'd have nothing.

they gotta have a couple actual reporters to keep the news part of their name no doubt.

yeah every thing I've read Mueller basically says "there was a ton of collusion here, but collusion isn't in the criminal code so we looked at conspiracy and while we see all these acts of collusion we don't see an official agreement between Russian government and Trump to really nail him to the wall" So if that's the angle one wants to play go for that, it's what Barr did, but to say no collusion, that's just not paying attention.

it's not about Hillary losing, it's about the criminality of Trump. It's about holding the elite and politicians to account for their actions. Especially as a Canadian I don't really give a **** who wins an election in the states, their system is bullshit anyway when a choice between 2 people can have the person who receives less votes win the presidency anyway, but this is all about seeing justice done. The Democrats lost the election themselves choosing Hillary as their nominee despite how utterly un-electable she was as president. She might have been qualified and a popular choice withing the party, but the general public was not going to pick her. Her image was just so poor. However that doesn't change the fact that Trump is a wannabe mob boss who is compromised and committed crimes and needs to be held accountable. I question Democrats are going to do the right thing here for political reasons, and we know the GOP will put party over anything else and protect Trump, but the Democrats in congress need to impeach Trump just so that no one else is allowed to get away with it. Next time it might not be a bumbling buffoon like Trump.

No, the reason for no charges is this ridiculous idea down there that you can't charge a sitting president. Full stop. They've already charged a pile of other people for things related to it. Collusion happened, go look at the report, obstruction happened, go look at the report.... but nothing is done because there is a belief that the president is above the law. So the way it has to happen then is congress has to impeach the president to move forward with anything. It's really quite simple, but anyone who says there's no crimes is just being wilfully ignorant. If you really believe there is no collusion go find me something that shows that and don't hide behind this straw man argument that no charges = no collusion. Even ******* Trump has flipped. Remember when Barr released his summary and Trump was all "total exoneration! No collusion!" and now that the thing is out there redacted and all he's "Presidential harassment!" "18 angry deomcrats!" "Witch hunt! Lies! Fake News!"

actually he said he found plenty of crimes but didn't have the authority to act on them, so he did what he could and prepared the report so that congress could act on those crimes as they saw fit. I mean christ there is a direct quote that says if they could have exonerated the president they would have, but they couldn't exonerate him so it's up to congress to pursue charges. You set up this ridiculous expectation without being grounded in reality at all. Trump is guilty as ****, it's laid out in the report, just a matter of what political games get played now. If justice was as blind as she is supposed to be there would be charges a plenty, but it's all politics down there right now.

the report literally says it was beyond their scope to make charges against the president and that it's congress who decides on that.... why ignore everything in the report and cling to this bullshit? I hope to god you're just trolling because if not you sir are a complete ******* moron.

so both sides right

Oh yeah you can vote for who ever you want, but I am free to point out your hypocrisy. You say you hate the religious zealots in conservative parties yet just voted for the biggest wing nut party I have ever seen. Can't complain about them while being such a booster for a party full of them.

So again talking about Alberta.... Kenney is going to run huge deficits too, because he's slashing taxes. So how does that help get out of a hole? Province needs the spending but with less tax revenue how do we get out of that cycle? Best way would be to tax those who can afford it. I don't like carbon taxes in general, but the Alberta ndp carbon tax I view as more of a provincial sales tax, just easier to sell to the public. Something that is needed here probably as unpopular as it is.

So where in this piece is the antisemitism?

Yeah the liberals cut the rich taxes too they are a pretty centrist even right leaning party. Tax increases are unpopular and a hard sell but they need to happen, and not on the middle class. Parties need to tax the wealthy more that is how things were in the 50s which everyone seems to think were the glory days... yet now everyone is afraid of that so we get small incremental tax raises on the middle class. Conservative governments don't out more money in anyone's pockets though, and if they do it's done to cause long term harm to society as a whole. Alberta for example, since I am still pissed off at the election last night NEEDS more spending. Klein neglected the infrastructure so much it left a big deficit which subsequent governments had to spend on which depleted the heritage fund, but hey corporations kept getting big tax breaks and well6just spend into debt on needed schools and hospitals and roads. The sooner the **** you got mine generation dies the sooner we can fix our broken system.