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You have to ask yourself, what are we defending the coast from? Do we actually, at the highest geo-politically strategic level, believe that an invasion of our country from the sea is a legitimate threat that we need to be planning and building toward defending against? I would posit: fuck no...

(If you know where this is from I'll be extremely happy)

Besides, you don't buy warships to defend your coastline, you buy warships to project power and influence.

Great post, Rick. I'm surprised (don't take this negatively) that you thought the public was actually more informed than the military with respect to the procedures of parliament and politics in general; I would have assumed the opposite. Further, to this point: You used the word "just" which...

The system he was referring to was the one where the US was the hegemon. He didn't mean that the system of disparate economies connected by world wide maritime trade was dead. He meant that we can't rely on the US to provide the blanket of security and stability; we have to go enforce it...

<waves hands in general direction of the current US administration>

Ah ok I misunderstood. I feel stupid for having thought you "also owned a 1000 acres of crown land", which doesn't make any sense.

Is the thousand acres close by or someplace completely different? Also.... does your thousand acres of land have any signs posted that say "no hunting without owner's permission?" :D

I have this idea that a few of those "10 potential floor crossers" we heard about earlier were essentially playing chicken with each other, unwilling to be the one that "gave the liberals a majority". Now that that's a done deal, they may be more ready to cross over, as their defection will have...

When I first moved to Halifax we were between elections and we had no idea who our MP was or what party they belonged to. Sometime later we received a letter/pamphlet in the mail from them and I was both frustrated and happily pleased because I was unable to figure out from the pamphlet what...

Has anything in the last year drastically changed for the negative? Legit question, from your perspective.

Given it looks lie Carney will remain PM and the Liberals remain in power until 2029, so you think that will change the calculus of the CPC as to whether they want a leadership change?

Hoe do you know they haven't been trying to this whole time?

Not believing in a god, and believing there is no god, are two different things, and both are atheists. "Weak" atheism is the lack of belief in any gods (without necessarily asserting none exist), whereas agnosticism is the view that the existence of God is currently unknown or unknowable. Weak...

Most atheists don't profess "there is no god." We start from a neutral position and profess "you haven't convinced me that there is a god." Nuanced distinction, but it matters. I'm fine with those who go all the way and claim positively "there is no God", but I find those atheists tend to be...

I notice you only used the word "few"...

That's probably the greatest evidence that it WAS fixed! Standby for Trump to tell us all about it...

My issue with these types of ops rooms, especially in the case of the Mogami class, is battle damage survivability. These resigns are awesome and really cool and are likely exceptional well suited to constabulary ops. But I worry that they are too "fragile" (I could be wrong). If your tactical...

Capped as in it never goes up? How does that work? How is that even at thing?

No, they are always lower than true market value (or at least mine have always been). It was the same when I lived in Ontario; the assessed value was always lower than the market rate, but the two would go up together, just not always by the same amount. I always took it as a rule that legally...