Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Used to be that proroguing parliament was an extraordinary measure. With his third one, second in less than a year, it's hardly extraordinary any more... And for the second government in a row, if the GG would

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: P. J. Alling Subject: Re: Today's Outing I never actually called Canada a pretend country. I actually like Canada as a concept, the execution seems to leave something to be desired, sometimes. . Actually, we gave up on execution as a bad idea

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Used to be that proroguing parliament was an extraordinary measure. With his third one, second in less than a year, it's hardly

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Adam Maas Subject: Re: Today's Outing Her bloody job is to look pretty on Camera, the GG's an almost purely ceremonial position and has been so since the 1930's. She certainly does that part well. And if she pulled the plug on Harper, we'd either

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: And if she pulled the plug on Harper, we'd either get the current Minority or a Tory Majority. Either way, he wins and until the Liberals turn back into an actual political party with actual leadership, that ain't gonna

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread David Savage
2010/1/24 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: And if she pulled the plug on Harper, we'd either get the current Minority or a Tory Majority. Either way, he wins and until the Liberals turn back into an actual political party with

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread frank theriault
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: snip Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on Toronto's City Council off of it. Now if only we could

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:13:45AM -0500, frank theriault scripsit: Used to be that proroguing parliament was an extraordinary measure. With his third one, second in less than a year, it's hardly extraordinary any more... Nothing extraordinary about in in the sense that it's what you did as a

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:10:06AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Used to be that proroguing parliament was an extraordinary measure. With his third one, second in less than a year, it's hardly extraordinary any

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on Toronto's City Council off of it. Now if only we could get Rob Ford

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Tom C
theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Why, you ask, should parliament be suspended because a bunch of people will be skiing down snowy hills and skating really fast on ovals of ice? Apparently because these activities are of greater importance than the Government of Canada. I recall PJ

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: Duceppe can't add either, he's much more of a Socialist than most of the NDP is, being an actual ex-Communist. Huge chunks of the US far, far right are

RE: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on Toronto's City Council off of it. Now if only we could get Rob Ford to go into Federal Politics... I couldn't care

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 8:11 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling Subject: Re: Today's Outing I never actually called Canada a pretend country. I actually like Canada as a concept, the execution seems to leave something to be desired, sometimes. . Actually

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 9:04 AM, David Savage wrote: 2010/1/24 Adam Maasa...@mawz.ca: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, William Robbwar...@gmail.com wrote: And if she pulled the plug on Harper, we'd either get the current Minority or a Tory Majority. Either way, he wins and until the Liberals

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 9:21 AM, frank theriault wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM, David Savageozsav...@gmail.com wrote: snip Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on

RE: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
I never actually called Canada a pretend country. I actually like Canada as a concept, the execution seems to leave something to be desired, sometimes. . Actually, we gave up on execution as a bad idea in the 70s. William Robb Perhaps if you executed a few of your MPs the

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:23 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/24/2010 9:21 AM, frank theriault wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM, David Savageozsav...@gmail.com  wrote: snip I couldn't care less about Aus. politics, let alone what happens in Canada, U.S., U.K.

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Tom C
There's an asshole at the center of the universe. At least it seems that's what most of them believe. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:23 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/24/2010 9:21 AM, frank theriault wrote:

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread John Sessoms
From: P. J. Alling You know Bill, at least your elected thieves write there own laws. The US Congress seems to have found a way around even that, they now want to pass laws to create commissions that will write regulations which will have the force of law. You're about a hundred twenty

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 4:20 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: P. J. Alling You know Bill, at least your elected thieves write there own laws. The US Congress seems to have found a way around even that, they now want to pass laws to create commissions that will write regulations which will have the force

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread frank theriault
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: Heading to Assateague Island National Seashore.  Peradventure I see any wild horses, I hope to get some photos. http://www.nps.gov/asis/index.htm I'm heading out to our Legislature to attend and take photos of what promises to be

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Why, you ask, should parliament be suspended because a bunch of people will be skiing down snowy hills and skating really fast on ovals of ice? Apparently because these activities are of greater importance

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Christine Aguila
From: Tom C caka...@gmail.com Heading to Assateague Island National Seashore. Peradventure I see any wild horses, I hope to get some photos. http://www.nps.gov/asis/index.htm That looks fun. The only wild horses I've seen were in Nevada near a water pump that a cousin of mine was

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread frank theriault
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Why, you ask, should parliament be suspended because a bunch of people will be skiing down snowy hills and skating really fast on ovals

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Adam Maas
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Why, you ask, should parliament be suspended because a bunch of people will be skiing down snowy hills and skating really fast on ovals

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread frank theriault
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca wrote: Proroguing government is the best idea Harper's had in a long time. MP's who aren't in Parliament aren't creating problems. I'm convinced that the one thing Texas got truly right was the part time legislature. You can't pass

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Sure - why bother to ever have them sit? Let's just permanently suspend parliament so those pesky MPs never have to bother us with their stupid laws again. Frank, how many laws are there? A while back I

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Adam Maas
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:39 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca wrote: Proroguing government is the best idea Harper's had in a long time. MP's who aren't in Parliament aren't creating problems. I'm convinced that the

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Bob Sullivan
Well it's a very nice pretend country, from my limited experiences... Bob S. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:17 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Why, you ask, should parliament be suspended because a bunch

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Adam Maas
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:58 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Sure - why bother to ever have them sit?  Let's just permanently suspend parliament so those pesky MPs never have to bother us

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread P N Stenquist
Great! Looking forward to your pics. I was a big Misty fan as a kid. Paul On Jan 23, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Tom C wrote: Heading to Assateague Island National Seashore. Peradventure I see any wild horses, I hope to get some photos. http://www.nps.gov/asis/index.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

RE: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Tom C Heading to Assateague Island National Seashore. Peradventure I see any wild horses, I hope to get some photos. http://www.nps.gov/asis/index.htm Cool. Good luck. North or South? Or both? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: frank theriault On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: Heading to Assateague Island National Seashore. ?Peradventure I see any wild horses, I hope to get some photos. http://www.nps.gov/asis/index.htm I'm heading out to our Legislature to attend and take

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread ann sanfedele
What you will see are wild _ponies_ , btw, not horses. All I can say is watch where you step ... Ann (been there -- though not since um the late 80's ) Tom C wrote: Heading to Assateague Island National Seashore. Peradventure I see any wild horses, I hope to get some photos.

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread ann sanfedele
Christine Aguila wrote: From: Tom C caka...@gmail.com Heading to Assateague Island National Seashore. Peradventure I see any wild horses, I hope to get some photos. http://www.nps.gov/asis/index.htm That looks fun. The only wild horses I've seen were in Nevada near a water pump that a

RE: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Bob W
Sure - why bother to ever have them sit? Let's just permanently suspend parliament so those pesky MPs never have to bother us with their stupid laws again. They should be required to repeal 2 laws for each law enacted. Frank, how many laws are there? [...] It's probably significant

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: frank theriault On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Why, you ask, should parliament be suspended because a bunch of people will be skiing down snowy hills and skating

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Ken Waller
Enjoy ! IIRC the big event is in the Fall when the horses are returned - swim - back to the main land. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Tom C caka...@gmail.com Subject: Today's Outing Heading to Assateague Island National Seashore.

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Adam Maas On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:39 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca wrote: Proroguing government is the best idea Harper's had in a long time. MP's who aren't in Parliament aren't creating problems. I'm

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Ken Waller
Thanks guys, I learned a new word today - 'Peradventure' ;-] Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Today's Outing On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: Heading

RE: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread Bob W
It's still in use in French (par aventure). Archaic in English of course. Bob Thanks guys, I learned a new word today - 'Peradventure' ;-] Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Today's

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread frank theriault
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:58 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: Frank, how many laws are there? snip Do we really need more laws? snip If Parliament's sole job is to pass laws, then they have long since outlived their usefulness, as the best they can hope to do now is slice and dice

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/23/2010 10:17 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Why, you ask, should parliament be suspended because a bunch of people will be skiing down snowy hills and skating really fast on ovals of ice? Apparently because

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-23 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/23/2010 10:58 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Sure - why bother to ever have them sit? Let's just permanently suspend parliament so those pesky MPs never have to bother us with their stupid laws again. Frank