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[Hedley]

BMW generally makes a pretty good car, but in my experience it was a bit pricey for what you get, and it's hard for it to live up to all the hype.

[Brewguy]

So back to the topic at hand:

...what has Harper done to leave his mark like the other PMs have. What is his legacy...

Apparently he is the first PM in our nations history whose government has been ruled to be in Contempt of Parliament.

[Hedley]

I couldn't find the battery to jump the thing

I feel your pain. What I wanted yesterday, was a giant can opener for that stupid Porsche.

Try to look on the bright side, at least it's not an English car!

[Expat]

So back to the topic at hand:

...what has Harper done to leave his mark like the other PMs have. What is his legacy...

Apparently he is the first PM in our nations history whose government has been ruled to be in Contempt of Parliament.

PET did a lot worse...

[Beefitarian]

BMW generally makes a pretty good car, but in my experience it was a bit pricey for what you get, and it's hard for it to live up to all the hype.

Your online personna drives one doesn't he?

I like me a 911 until the 1980s or so and any year boxster or speedster, various old chevys, fords and a couple of chryslers. How about you?

I'd be all for taking a rip in your NSX, Hondas are excellent even though they're kind of flimsey.

[Hedley]

Hondas are ... kind of flimsey

What?! Now, those are fighting words!

Honda overbuilds everything - they always use 6 bolts, where 2 would do

[Beefitarian]

Pfft! Fifty bolts won't keep the sheet metal from oil canning.

[Hedley]

won't keep the sheet metal from oil canning

Sure it will, because they don't sell oil in cans any more, so no one knows what it is. This is a direct corollary of the theorem:

"If a man hears a tree fall in the forest, and his wife isn't there, is he still wrong?"

[Beefitarian]

No you're old!

Just because the thumb pump is in vogue and the 3 in one can I bought last month at Lowes is plastic, doesn't make the fenders on your civic thicker.

There's a nearly abandoned Hybrid a couple of blocks over and I can see how thin the fender is where it peeled like the skin of an orange from a minor accedent that should have been a "fender bender" not ripper.

[beaverbob]

[/quote]To be unredeemingly crude, she had a great set ... and she admittedly inhaled!OFD[/quote]

Just for you Old Dog

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[The Old Fogducker]

To be unredeemingly crude, she had a great set ... and she admittedly inhaled!OFD[/quote]

Just for you Old Dog

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I quote .... "Judge not, lest you yourself be judged."

LOL

Some may accuse me of being sexist ... well, let me state clearly, I'm not.

I adore women, I idolize them ... I put them up on a pedestal ...

So I can have a better look at their legs and high heels.

OFD

[Sheila]

I recall our population in Manitoba grew the most in the country, last year. I don't recall that there is a new hospital gone up.

Manitoba hospital expansions, upgrades, and openings, past 2 years:

Manitoba's population is estimated to have increased by ~40,000 between 2008 and 2010. Ontario's went up by 300,000.

http://www.gov.mb.ca/asset_library/en/s ... s3a6_n.pdf
http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/economy/dem ... ojections/

So you're wrong.

Boy I'm right! I can't help it if I'm so observant.

Manitoba's population rise nation's highest
By: Staff Writer
Posted: 03/25/2011 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

Manitoba posted the fastest population growth in the country in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Statistics Canada reported Manitoba's population grew by 3,600 from October to December, a 0.3 per cent increase.
Manitoba's population as of Jan. 1 was 1,243,700.

Manitoba's rate of population growth was one-tenth of a percentage greater than several other provinces, including:

-- Saskatchewan -- real increase of 2,300, total population 1,052,00.

-- Alberta -- real increase of 7,700, total population 3,742,800.

-- Prince Edward Island -- real increase of 240, total population 143,481.

Statistics Canada attributed Manitoba's population growth primarily to net international migration -- more people moved to Manitoba from outside the country than left here.

Manitoba's growth during the third quarter outpaced the national growth rate of 0.1 per cent.

Statistics Canada reports the country's population as of Jan. 1 at 34,278,406.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 25, 2011

[iflyforpie]

It takes more than a year or two to build a hospital.

Given the rate at which Manitoba real-estate has gone up, there'll probably be an exodus when people realize they can pay the same for houses in much warmer parts of the country.

Statistics Canada attributed Manitoba's population growth primarily to net international migration -- more people moved to Manitoba from outside the country than left here.

My grandfather moved to Manitoba as a boy from the USSR in 1923. They resettled in the BC Fraser Valley not too long after because Manitoba was too cold compared to Russia.

[Dushan]

What legacy is Harper leaving? Reducing the GST by 3%?

How about we kept our jobs, houses, pensions, and our economy and banking system stayed mostly intact while the rest of the world was desintegarting around us.

[niss]

What legacy is Harper leaving? Reducing the GST by 3%?

How about we kept our jobs, houses, pensions, and our economy and banking system stayed mostly intact while the rest of the world was desintegarting around us.

Not pissing something away is not a legacy in my mind. It does not put him on equal footing with the rest on this list.

[Hedley]

Niss: we get it. Really. You personally dislike Harper, and that's ok. He could discover the cure to cancer and save you on your deathbed with it, and you would still detest him. We get that.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. I have the same emotional reaction to carnie workers, and the Dutch. Small hands. Smell of cabbage.

[niss]

Niss: we get it. Really. You personally dislike Harper, and that's ok. He could discover the cure to cancer and save you on your deathbed with it, and you would still detest him. We get that.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. I have the same emotional reaction to carnie workers, and the Dutch. Small hands. Smell of cabbage.

Hedley: We get it. Really. You personally dislike me, and that's ok. You could discover me burning in a cockpit, and you would still laugh maniacally. We get that.

I don't give any politician a free pass. I am just as critical of him as I would be anyone. Here's the difference, he is the one steering the ship. What pisses me off is that like any politician he holds the power and his personal agenda above what is good for Canada. IMHO he does it worse then anyone before him.

[Hedley]

Are you really going to vote for Iggy, or Stalin Jack?!

[grimey]

Niss: we get it. Really. You personally dislike Harper, and that's ok. He could discover the cure to cancer and save you on your deathbed with it, and you would still detest him. We get that.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. I have the same emotional reaction to carnie workers, and the Dutch. Small hands. Smell of cabbage.

You bunch carnies in with the Dutch? What the hell have the carnies ever done?

[Old Dog Flying]

If I weren't so damned old, you folks could vote for me! There have been 3 corporals in history who have made good......


Hitler







Hellyer







And ME!

And I 'd make a great Dictator After I have another Cuppa Coffee!
Barney

[Expat]

BMW generally makes a pretty good car, but in my experience it was a bit pricey for what you get, and it's hard for it to live up to all the hype.

After I sold the Jags, I figured that german technology was far better. Not having PETs dough to buy the Mercedes 300 SL, I settled for two BMW Bavarias 3.0, one for parts. I drove that car 7 years, then gave it to my dad, then destroyed it in a demolition race. What a car it was! Dad loved it, because it would accelerate uphill!

[Shiny Side Up]

IMHO he does it worse then anyone before him.

I'm not personally a big fan of Harper, but he's got a long way to go to surpass Cretien in this department. You do remember him right?

I do have no doubts though that he will eventually get down to that level, power corrupts as they say. I guess when it comes down to it he's got one more kick at the can before we need to trade him out.



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Sure it will, because they don't sell oil in cans any more, so no one knows what it is.

Actually they do, but unless you're a farmer you probably won't be able or need to aquire it this way.

[iflyforpie]

Sure it will, because they don't sell oil in cans any more, so no one knows what it is.

Mobil Jet II still comes in a can.

[Hedley]

Mobil Jet II still comes in a can

You're right, it does! I bought some the other day, and didn't think about it, because that's the normal way to get a quart of oil. Remember those metal punch spouts you used to push into the top at the edge, which had a sharp cutter? I wonder if the Smithsonian still has one.

[beaverbob]

On the CTV news this morning a Liberal speaker stated that the Harper government spent more than any government in the history of Canada.
He must have forgotten about our Liberal PET Prime Minister of the 70's who increased spending in such a way as to increase the defecit by 1200 percent during his 12 or 13 years in power.
Bob