I am a geek.
A php web developer.
A fiction reader.
An xbox 360 player.
A snowboarder.
A kneeboarder.
Scuba diver.
Movie addict.
And bilingual speaking girl from Venezuela.
Currently (and forever-on) living in Toronto.
This is my blog.
The idea that the minority party represents the “will of the people” (not some of the people, but “the people”) is the seedling of a totalitarian mindset. In this mindset — democracy doesn’t matter, ideas are not to be discussed, and opposing views are not to respected. What matters is that they alone have truth, they alone are metaphysically connected to the “mind of the people” can interpret their will, and because they have truth and speak for the people, others represent a threat and must be silenced and stopped.
For today’s G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan — not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side — Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions — are mainstream. And, as a result, it’s a party that fundamentally doesn’t accept anyone else’s right to govern. In the short run, Republican extremism may be good for Democrats, to the extent that it prompts a voter backlash. But in the long run, it’s a very bad thing for America. We need to have two reasonable, rational parties in this country. And right now we don’t.
“The owner of Venezuela’s only television channel that remains critical of President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday, spurring concerns among rights activists of a widening government crackdown aimed at silencing critics.
Attorney General Luisa Ortega said a warrant was issued for the arrest of Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of the TV channel Globovision, for remarks that were deemed “offensive” to the president.
Zuloaga said that military intelligence agents detained him at an airport in the northwestern state of Falcon.
Ortega said prosecutors are investigating Zuloaga for statements he allegedly made during a recent Inter American Press Association meeting in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, where media executives from across the Americas criticized Chavez’s government for limiting freedom of expression.”
I’m 332/400, which makes me “extremely progressive.” Who could have guessed?
331/400! you beat me by one point. “Extremely progressive” - DUH!
300/400. You libtards.
300/400. Very progressive as well.
325/400
317/400 I am almost the uberliberal.
I’m so liberal, I’m not even afraid to hide come out from behind the bullshit title of “progresive” and CALL myself a liberal.
THANK YOU.
I got a 195, which they say makes me a conservative. When I usually take these types of quizzes I’m considered a moderate. Of course, considering the source, I’m not surprised.
I got a 333/400. I’m extremely progressive, I guess that’s no surprise, since I’m part of several minorities, and I’m Canadian and very liberal up here (apparently our conservative government is like the American’s democrats)
While I don’t condone his actions, the level of racism in the comments is disgusting. What is wrong with people?? They’re happy that a 20 year old kid died because he made the wrong choice(s). Geesh. .
- CBC should publish more good news stories like this one. It’s better he die in Aftrica with no toilet paper than have him come back to Toronto to spread his hatred.
- Another example of a family moving to Canada for the money with no intention of integrating in national life and parents just teaching their kids the old hate from the old country.
- I’m sure his family will sue the Canadian government (i.e. the Canadian taxpayers) for $50 million for grief and suffering. It seems to be the trend.
Ad Campaign of the Day: Kotex calls a cramp a cramp in a “reality check” ad promoting the launch of its new “U” line of tampons, poking fun at its competitors for refusing to recognize the period for what it is: A royal week-long PITV.
