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The Flea Trap / Re: In Praise Of TFSA's
May 01, 2015, 12:22:44 AM
Quote from: "Fashionista"
Quote from: "Corp. Taxes Suck"
Quote from: "Annie"Haha fucking thank you!    ac_drinks

That Shen Li is one smart fucking fortune cookie. She's sweeter than fucking sugar too.



Bob,



You got your handle back. ac_drinks

That is good Shen Li..



No more taking handles that are not yours please.

Moi?? ac_angel
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The Flea Trap / Re: The main board is only visible to registered posters for now
May 01, 2015, 12:01:17 AM
Quote from: "RW"What happened to Gary Joak?

I saw Rambo made an appearance the other day, so he's around.
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The Flea Trap / Re: In Praise Of TFSA's
April 30, 2015, 11:59:55 PM
Quote from: "Annie"Haha fucking thank you!    ac_drinks

That Shen Li is one smart fucking fortune cookie. She's sweeter than fucking sugar too.



Bob,



You got your handle back. ac_drinks
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The Flea Trap / Re: Moderate Muslims
March 08, 2015, 02:35:56 PM
Islam is a cancer on the human fucking race. It represents the greatest single threat to Western liberalism. We need to grow some collective fucking balls and deal with this problem while we still have a fucking chance. I do not want to see Islamofascist no go zones in Canadian cities like Europe has.
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The Flea Trap / Thanks To Harper For Taking Islamofascism Fucking Seriously
March 08, 2015, 02:29:48 PM
As Islamofascists kill soldiers in Canada, the idiotic leader of the NDP thinks pipelines that have killed anyone are the greatest threat to our fucking existence. ac_rollseyes
QuoteI reject the assertions of NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair's recent op-ed in the National Post. As Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, passes second reading in the House of Commons, I wish to provide a reality check to Mr. Mulcair's continued opposition to these crucial anti-terrorism measures.



The world has been shocked by recent atrocities perpetuated by jihadi terrorists. We have witnessed outrageous acts of violence by extremists who attack those that don't share their narrow and oppressive ideologies. As a result, acts of terror have been carried out across Western nations, most recently in France, Belgium, Australia, Denmark and here at home in Canada. Today, we are part of a global struggle against brutal extremism, including in the fight against ISIL. Mr. Mulcair has proposed that we ignore this fact by voting against the Anti-Terrorism Act.



On many occasions, the excellent work of our national security agencies and police forces has foiled attempts to terrorize Canadians. Recent attacks in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and on Parliament Hill in our nation's capital have revealed that terrorism is evolving. Our government introduced the Anti-Terrorism Act to keep up with the ever-changing terror tactics which confront us.



Mr. Mulcair says that "Canada already has strong laws that make it an offense to incite a terrorist act," however, it is currently not a criminal offence to advocate or promote terrorism. The ability to arrest someone who is, in general terms, advocating or promoting the activity of terrorism does not exist. The current threshold for arrest in the Criminal Code is specific to someone who "knowingly instructs, directly or indirectly, any person to carry out a terrorist activity." Our amendment would fill this gap by making it a crime for a person to knowingly promote or advocate the commission of terrorism offences in general.



Mr. Mulcair has also misconstrued the disruption measures in this bill, stating that they could affect lawful protesters. This is false. Shamefully, Mr. Mulcair is misleading Canadians by wrongfully applying the threshold for information-sharing to the threshold for disrupting a terror threat. In doing so, he is attempting to insinuate that this bill would broaden the definition of "security threats" to include activities that interfere with Canada's infrastructure and economic stability. Bill C-51's disruption provisions do not target "lawful advocacy, protest, dissent and artistic expression."



The government's focus is on serious threats to the security of Canada, such as espionage, sabotage and foreign-influenced clandestine operations, as already outlined in the CSIS Act. Our security agencies are interested only in those who pose a serious threat to Canada's security.



Both Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and Mr. Mulcair have wrongly stated that the new powers granted to national security agencies tasked with protecting Canadians are not subject to proper oversight. They would rather see Canada's national security oversight put in the hands of politicians; however, the best way to protect the fundamental freedoms of Canadians is to rely on our independent judiciary. Such oversight is further strengthened by the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), which provides independent, expert, third-party advice regarding compliance with the law.



Included in the Anti-Terrorism Act are other concrete measures to assist our security agencies, including: facilitating the sharing of information; pre-emptive measures to detain an individual who has demonstrated a degree of dangerous behavior; and removing material likely to radicalize or recruit terrorists. These measures also require judicial oversight and are similar to those found in major allied states.



As I've said before, the first priority of government is to protect its citizens and this legislation is designed to do exactly that. It is a measured response to the very real dangers we face today.



While Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Mulcair prefer to sit on the sidelines, our government will take action to ensure the security and freedom of all Canadians. Freedom and security go hand in hand, and we stand for both.

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The Flea Trap / Re: Retardation On Other Forums
March 08, 2015, 02:21:47 PM
Quote from: "Shen Li"
Quote from: "Keeper"RW, Renee,Fashy,Shen. I think we need to give Evs another chance, She can be loving and caring and an out right joy to be around.



 ac_lmfao OMFG i said all that with a straight face ac_toofunny   ac_razz



 :howdy: Carry on

She gave her dead retardo forum a new look. Like putting lipstick on a pig. I don't know how OL can stand posting there. I feel dumber just reading evs, Blurt or Bob's copy pasta silliness.

Evs is fucking nuts, Blurt has beautiful diction, but little else and fake GBB's ideological silliness is boring. Cherry-picked editorials are for people with an agenda and little knowledge.
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The Flea Trap / Re: Translink Wins Lifetime Taxpayer Waste Teddy Award
March 08, 2015, 02:18:57 PM
Vancouverites should vote fucking NO to this referendum. I can't believe the fucking nerve of Translink to even ask us to give them more money. I would trust a heroin addict over those fraudulent slimebags.
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The Flea Trap / Re: Obongo Is A Fucking Liar
March 08, 2015, 02:16:16 PM
Obama Is the most unqualified fucking prez the US has ever fucking had. Does he actually think oil from Mexico, Venezuela or even California is superior to Canada's? He should have stuck to his communist organizer job in Chicago. Being prez is not an entry-level fucking job.
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The Flea Trap / Study proves gays make lousy parents
November 26, 2012, 04:57:50 PM
Conventional wisdom is that children of same-sex parents do as well as, or even better than children from intact, two-parent married households. Many studies make that assertion.



It is massively wrong according to a new, very large, thorough study published this week by the journal Social Science Research. It was written by Mark Regnerus, a scholar at the University of Texas. The New Family Structures Study, or NFSS, is a breakthrough report.

 

Regnerus compares how young adult children, aged 18-39, of a parent who has had a same-sex relationship fare on 40 different social, emotional and relational outcomes when compared with traditional and other families.

 

The biggest differences were between children of women who have had a lesbian relationship – and those raised by still-married biological parents.

 

Fully 69 percent of those with lesbian mothers were on welfare as children – four times the 17 percent in intact families ever had that experience. In fact, 38 percent of the adult children of lesbian mothers are currently on welfare versus only 10 percent of those with married parents. That's the same 4-1 ratio.

 

Only 8 percent of adult children from intact homes were unemployed when interviewed in 2011 versus 28 percent with a lesbian parent.

 

What's most shocking is that only two people of those with married parents were ever touched sexually by a parent or an adult – while 23 percent of those with a lesbian mother had that experience! Golly, they are 11 times more apt to be molested!

 

The design of the NFSS research was brilliant.

 

Most research on the impact of homosexual parenting has relied on interviews with same-sex parents who are from convenience samples.  For example, the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study conducted last year "recruited entirely from self-selection from announcements posted at lesbian events, in women's bookstores and in lesbian newspapers in Boston, Washington and San Francisco."

 

Such a sample is biased toward including better-educated, wealthier people who visit bookstores. What about the less educated or less likely to be employed? They aren't interviewed. Of course, the children of these more affluent parents are more apt to do well.

 

By comparison, NFSS asked 3,000 young adults if either of their parents had a same-sex relationship while they were growing up. Result: 175 reported their mother was in a homosexual relationship, and 73 said the same about their father. That's about 1.7 percent, a figure comparable to other studies. The sampling was so carefully done that it included both those with listed phone numbers and those who only use cell phones (about half the total).

 

Only 23 percent said they had spent at least three years in the same household with a romantic partner of their mother; an additional 57 percent did so for at least four months.

 

Among those with a father in a homosexual relationship, fewer than 2 percent said they had spent at least three years in that household. These relationships are much more volatile and short lived, but neither compares with the stability of married heterosexual parents.

 

Also, by interviewing young adults of homosexual parents, we can see how the experience shaped their adult lives. This is vastly more useful information than asking volunteer same-sex parents if their kids are doing well.  Of course, they say yes.

 

More results: Three times as many young adults of lesbians were currently cohabiting as those with married parents (24 percent versus 9 percent). Even more young adults (31 percent) of divorced parents were living together. Twice as many from intact homes were employed full time as those with lesbian mothers.

 

Only 5 percent of those with married parents had considered suicide in the past year versus 12 percent of those with lesbian parents and 24 percent with homosexual fathers. That's five times those from intact homes. Similarly, a young adult of married parents is less than half as likely to be in therapy "for a problem connected with anxiety, depression, or relationships" – as those with homosexual parents (8 percent versus 19 percent).

 

Only 12 percent of young adults with married parents had ever cheated while married or cohabiting, but a big 40 percent of adult children of lesbians had done so.

 

Just 8 percent of those from intact homes had ever been forced to have sex against their will versus 31 percent with lesbian parents and 25 percent of "gay" parents.

 

These are huge differences.

 

They should be cited by those opposed to same-sex marriages.

 

In the last two weeks, I helped gather signatures for a statewide referendum on whether to reverse a vote by the Maryland Legislature legalizing same-sex marriage.

 

I hope this information will give fresh ammunition to those trying to protect traditional marriage – and children.

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The Flea Trap / Obama's Failed Stimulous Cost $278 k per job
October 27, 2012, 04:10:38 PM
Americans would have to be crazy to give Obama another chance.



A war of words was heating up today over claims that President Barack Obama's stimulus package has cost taxpayers $278,000 for every job it created.



The conservative Weekly Standard extrapolated the figure from a report issued over the weekend by the president's own Council of Economic Advisors.



The program "did very little, if anything, to stimulate the economy, and a whole lot to stimulate the debt," Jeffrey H. Anderson wrote in the Standard article, which has received far more attention than the original report.



House Speaker John Boehner tweeted the Standard story today, saying it shows the "economy would be generating job growth faster if Dems hadn't passed the 'stimulus.'"



But the White House claims the Standard has its math all wrong, saying it didn't take into account construction materials, new factories, and other permanent infrastructure that the stimulus paid for.



The Standard article claimed that the stimulus could have had a negative effect on the economy. "It's quite possible that by borrowing an amount greater than the regular defense budget or the annual cost of Medicare, and then spending it mostly on Democratic constituencies rather than in a manner genuinely designed to stimulate the economy, Obama's 'stimulus' has actually undermined the economy's recovery — while leaving us (thus far) $666 billion deeper in debt," Anderson wrote.



He even claimed that the government could have signed a $100,000 check to everyone the stimulus has helped and still saved $427 billion on what the stimulus cost.



And he said the very fact that the report was issued late on a Friday before a holiday weekend — and therefore received little media attention — was "further evidence that President Obama's economic 'stimulus' did very little, if anything, to stimulate the economy, and a whole lot to stimulate the debt."



But the White House disputed the Standard's conclusions. Spokeswoman Liz Oshorn said the article is "based on partial information and false analysis."



"The Recovery Act was more than a measure to create and save jobs; it was also an investment in American infrastructure, education and industries that are critical to America's long-term success and an investment in the economic future of America's working families," Oshorn saidd.



The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had confirmed that the Recovery Act "delivered as promised, lowering the unemployment rate by as much as 2 percent, boosting GDP by as much as 4 percent and creating and saving as many as 3.6 million jobs," she said.



The Council of Economic Advisors is made up of three members nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. It consists of Chairman Austan Goolsbee, Katharine Abraham, and Carl Shapiro.



Their report, the seventh since the stimulus began, insisted the program has played "a significant role in the turnaround of the economy" over the past two years.



"Real GDP reached its low point in the second quarter of 2009 and has been growing solidly since then, in large part because of the tax cuts and spending increases included in the Act," the report read.



But it admitted that it is impossible to know the real impact of the stimulus as "no one can observe directly what would have occurred without the policy."



The effects of the stimulus have long been argued. Writing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, A. Barton Hinkle reported that nobody could seriously argue that it had had no effect on the economy.



However, he likened it to a purse snatcher who took a handbag containing $500 and spent the money on a new television.



"It is categorically undeniable that the theft has created a sale for the TV store. Conservatives who pretend the stimulus has not created any jobs whatsoever stand in the position of an observer trying to deny the TV has been sold," Hinkle wrote.



"Yet the liberal analysis lacks any recognition that the purse owner now has $500 less to spend on the laptop computer she was going to buy. The theft has generated one sale only by destroying another.



"The first effect is easily seen. The second is not," Hinkle added. "But only the economically illiterate would conclude that just the first effect occurred, and that therefore the way to increase consumption is to encourage more purse-stealing."

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The Flea Trap / Indonesian Muslim NutBars Arrested for Plotting US Attack
October 27, 2012, 03:58:11 PM
So much for the myth that Islam is a religion of peace.



JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's antiterrorism squad has arrested 11 people suspected of planning a range of attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the United States Embassy and a site near the Australian Embassy, the police said Saturday.



The suspects were arrested on Friday and Saturday in four provinces, said Maj. Gen. Suhardi Aliyus, a national police spokesman.



He said the suspects belonged to a new group called the Harakah Sunni Movement for Indonesian Society.



"From evidence found at the scene,we believe that this group was well prepared for serious terror attacks," he said. The police seized a number of bombs, explosive materials, a bomb-making manual and ammunition, General Aliyus said. They also found a 6.6-pound gas cylinder filled with highly explosive material, and videos and images of attacks on Muslims in various parts of the world, he said.



He said the group planned to attack the United States Embassy in Jakarta, a plaza near the Australian Embassy and a local office of the American mining giant Freeport-McMoRan. It also planned to attack the United States Consulate in Surabaya and the headquarters of a police special force in Central Java, he said.



It was unclear how far the plans had advanced.



General Aliyus said the police were still investigating whether the group had ties to established terrorist organizations like Jemaah Islamiyah.

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The Flea Trap / Re: Corporate Tax Cuts Work: revenues higher despite lower r
October 16, 2012, 07:52:55 PM
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The Flea Trap / Global Warming has been Statistically Insignificant
October 16, 2012, 07:44:13 PM
The data confirms the existence of a 'pause' in the warming. The impact of this pause within the climate dynamic community has been to focus increased attention on the impact of natural variability, particularly the impact of internal multi-decadal oscillations in the ocean.  The new climate model calculations for the AR5 have focused on trying to assess what it would take to accurately simulate these multi-decadal ocean oscillations and how predictable they might be.  These new observations and climate modeling results will hopefully impact the the IPCC AR5 deliberations so that we do not see the same overly confident consensus statements that we saw in the AR4. —Judith Curry, Georgia Tech University, 14 October 2012



The Met Office says that the world has warmed by 0.03 deg C per decade since 1997 based on their calculation of the gradient in the Hadcrut4 dataset. But what the Met Office doesn't say is that this is statistically insignificant. There is no case to be made for a statistically significant increase in global temperatures as given in the Hadcrut4 dataset between 1997 and August 2012. The Met Office says the 15-year standstill is not unusual. This is true but again the Met Office is being economical with the truth.—David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 15 October 2012

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The Flea Trap / Corporate Tax Cuts Work: revenues higher despite lower r
October 16, 2012, 07:33:51 PM
Corporate tax revenues coming in to Ottawa were up slightly last year, even as the Conservative government was in the midst of an aggressive plan to lower the corporate tax rate.



The federal government raised $31.7-billion from corporate taxes in the fiscal year that ended March 31, up from $30-billion in 2010-11.



The new data on corporate tax revenues will be examined closely in Ottawa, where debate over the appropriate rate has been a dominant theme of recent election campaigns. The NDP built its election platform on the assumption that a higher corporate tax rate would bring in billions in additional revenue. Advocates of the Conservative tax cuts argued that there would be little to no impact on federal revenues because the lower rate would attract foreign investment and increase the number of corporate taxpayers.



Both sides will find numbers that support their view. Looking over the last four years of data, advocates of the tax cut could argue that cutting the rate has had virtually no impact on federal revenues. Critics of the tax cut could compare the latest numbers to the 2007-08 fiscal year and argue that revenues are down $8.9-billion.



CIBC World Markets chief economist Avery Shenfeld said it was always assumed that there would be some decline in corporate tax revenue in exchange for improvements in areas such as capital spending due to a lower rate.



"Given the weakness of the global economy, and the impact on capital spending, it's too soon to judge how much of a boost we've seen from the lower corporate rates," Mr. Shenfeld said.



The revenue figures, released by Finance Canada, also showed the overall deficit at $26.2-billion for 2011-12, $1.3-billion more than Ottawa had forecast in its March budget.



When Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to power in 2006, the federal corporate tax rate was 21 per cent. That was down from 24.5 per cent in 1990 and 30 per cent in 1980.



Ottawa reduced it to 19 per cent in 2009, 18 per cent in 2010, 16.5 per cent in 2011 and 15 per cent in 2012.



NDP finance critic Peggy Nash said it's clear revenue is down from pre-recession levels and pointed to recent criticisms by the Bank of Canada that corporate Canada is sitting on piles of cash.



"Overall, we've not seen the increase in investment and job creation," she said.



Even though the corporate tax rate is now half of what it was three decades ago, the amount of revenue from the tax has largely remained steady over the years.



Finance Canada numbers show that as a percentage of GDP, corporate tax revenues have averaged 2.2 per cent over the years 1966-67 to 2011-12. That places the current levels at slightly below average.



Corporate tax revenues are well below what they were during the first two years of the Harper government, a period that featured a blip of higher-than-average revenue. In 2006-07 they were 2.6 per cent of GDP, or $37.7-billion, and in 2007-08 they were 2.7 per cent of GDP, or $40.6-billion.



Separate Finance Canada reporting on monthly tracking of revenues for the first four months of the current fiscal year indicate that corporate revenues continue to rise. For April through July, Ottawa brought in $10-billion in corporate tax revenue, a 4-per-cent increase over the $9.6-billion for the same period the year before.

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The Flea Trap / Confirmed: Obama Campaign Is Out of Ideas
October 15, 2012, 09:40:20 AM
Obama cannot win on his record, so he resorts to personal attacks.



Earlier today, I conjectured that the Obama campaign may be out of attack lines to use against Mitt Romney. After Obama's disastrous debate on October 3rd, it was remarkable that his campaign didn't try to launch any new attacks or create any new diversions to change the media narrative. I wondered that, perhaps, he was out of bullets. Turns out I was right.

 

Politico is reporting that the Obama campaign is going to go back to the issue of Mitt Romney's tax returns. They have unveiled a new 30-second ad on Mitt's taxes to run in several swing states.

 

Um, Obama campaign, you did this once before. For a time, you had the full megaphone of the corrupt media amplifying your attack. Hundreds of millions of dollars, both in paid advertising and in-kind contributions from the press pushed this line. And yet, Mitt is winning just about every national and most state-level polls. Is another 30-second ad really going to change things?

 

The vaunted Obama machine has come apart. They are falling in the polls, yet are going back to a line of argument first used in August. It shouldn't be a surprise, really. His only arguments for a second term are to keep doing the things that failed in the first.

 

Obama has lost the narrative. He is on defense. You don't win the presidency on defense.

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