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you wanted to know why someone would question the credibility of the Telegraph, and i gave you a reason. galloway is indeed a moron, but so are the journalists at the telegraph who didn't seem to mind uncritically basing stories on forged documents. and i am not aware of any ongoing...

That's funny. The british judge who found the Telegraph seriously lacking on the credibility front last december used a somewhat different line of reasoning... http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=818&id=1384962004

There were actual German troops in North Africa, i believe. But there is no evidence that Iraq (a secular state, therefore not popular with islamists) harboured, supported or allied itself with al-Qaeda et al. There may have been a legitimate case for going to the trouble of taking out saddam at...

We were at war with the German state, wherever it happened to be. I have said nothing in this forum to contradict this fact. Might i suggest you actually read posts before you quote them? Given your magical ability to attribute arguments to people before they have even made them, i would guess...

All this cheast-beating about "liberals" and "bleeding hearts", etc. undermining the War on Terror is a bit rich, considering that they weren't the ones behind the brilliant decision to divert US forces away from the War on Terror and invade Iraq. The WWII analogies that i see trotted out...

i had an extracted round cook off right in front of me once, just after i had cleared a stoppage on the C9. i didn't suffer a scratch and wasn't too bothered by it at the time, but it didn't seem like a very healthy thing. i don't seem to recall there was anything in the IAs at the time about...

excuse my ignorance, but i missed that little development, maybe cause i've been out of the country a few years. does canada now have gulags, collective farms, central planning? or are you just trying to imply that communism is "not so bad"?

steyn's usual factual errors aside, he's pretty incoherent too. china has major structural problems that get glossed over in the business press, but even so, its sheer size almost guarantees its economy will eventually become larger than that of the US, even if it is operating at a fraction of...

The subject of this thread is exactly backward in the case of Canada, which is a net exporter of oil. Our problem is the fact we are tied too closely to a single foreign economy, the US. That is like holding a stock portfolio that consists of only one blue chip stock -- OK when it's earning a...

i think being stabbed to death with a spoon would be a far more painful way to go. the uk should ban these nasty implements of horror as well. ;D

nevertheless, it's still a dumb move. the french voters appear to have swallowed all the usual crap from the left about the "threat" of foreign capital, while simultaneously swallowing all the usual crap from the right about the "threat" of foreign anything else. and mr monkhouse, perhaps you...

this latest news brings to mind a newspaper headline about another big vote, back in November: "How can so many people be so DUMB?"

am i the only sicko here that misses the "lung" (omelet)? i seem to recall it disappearing sometime in the 90s.

funny you should mention that. canada's debt is nothing to sneeze at, but the data john posted clearly shows the canadian government's NET liabilities at around 28% in 2005, and falling, while that of the us is at about 46% -- up there with france -- and rising. if the us govt wasn't republican...

not sure what your point is. it is exactly because the europeans (and the japanese and canadians, etc) are "involved in this" that the major houses see value in emissions credits, while the americans sit on the sidelines. end of story.

oh really? tell that to the international petroleum exchange in london, which is already trading in futures contracts. not to mention the hedge funds: i have no idea what the us govt thinks about the rest of the world's "true motives" here (you'll have to ask mr bush about that one, not me)...

i have another suggestion for "artwork" the museum can use to illustrate the whole CAR saga. how about a big photo of the airborne troops being marched off the parade square for the last time, for the crimes of a few ... and right beside that, a big photo of the part in the SHARP syllabus that...

and the incentive now to invest in all this R&D is ... what, exactly? a nice warm fuzzy feeling for having done good? the ability to sell off emission credits would allow innovative companies to claim a true "economic rent" (ie, a return beyond their cost of capital) until their competitors find...

under kyoto, countries don't "hand over" anything. COMPANIES buy and sell emission credits. this gives them an incentive to lower emissions. The main point of contention (and the US's stated reason for dropping out of the treaty) is disagreement over how to initially divvy up a finite number of...

do you really believe japan, europe and canada all decided to get together and sabotage their most important export market? with the blessing of the clinton administration at the time? that the most of the world's climate scientists are engaged in some giant hoax? actually a lot of the examples...