All Purpose Politics and News Thread

[Patty Smyth]

This one kills me lol

[Patty Smyth]

Wow that is awesome hair

[lecale]

Wow that is awesome hair

Looks like he's going after Steve Martin's look.

[lecale]

Just incredible floral arrangement of orchids here.

[Natalka]

LOL, Justin didn't want to look!

Or perhaps he was dreaming of...

[lecale]

It is the 5th anniversary of the earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster. They estimate the cleanup will take another 30-40 years. No wonder Japan is looking at geothermal energy and other green measures these days.


http://news.nationalpost.com/news/wo...e-in-ten-hours

[gryphon]

It is the 5th anniversary of the earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster. They estimate the cleanup will take another 30-40 years. No wonder Japan is looking at geothermal energy and other green measures these days.


http://news.nationalpost.com/news/wo...e-in-ten-hours

People who use that as an excuse for why Canada shouldn't use nuclear power often ignore that Japan is full of fault lines and is very earthquake prone, Canada isnt. And they were using 30 year old tech that had not been upgraded in years

[lecale]

Trudeau sends gay man valentine - good for him, pretty gutsy, not something I think Rob Ford would ever do

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/03...n_9448940.html

[lecale]

Ontario Liberals looking at guaranteed minimum incomes to reform welfare

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ontar...erty-1.2815342

[Natalka]

Sask.'s provincial election was called this week, it will be April 4. Mind you, the campaign has been on for weeks already, mostly very aggressive NDP ads.
The Sask Party has been in for two terms - last election they got over 64 %, and they will get in again this time. Premier Brad Wall has just taken this province through both good times and bad, in pretty steady course.

There is a new NDP leader for this election, though, so it's interesting to see how he's planning things.
Also runs include Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, Greens, Western Independence Party.

In the past few days, four NDP candidates running have been removed because of crap on their social media - and the head of the party fired his campaign manager yesterday for not having vetted candidates well enough.

[heartgirl99]

Or perhaps he was dreaming of...

they are a match made in heaven.

[gryphon]

they are a match made in heaven.

or Hell

[Natalka]

(Wow, thank goodness there was awesome screening at the Belgrade airport.)

Serbian authorities are investigating reports that two missiles were found in cargo headed to the U.S on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Serbia, The Associated Press reports.

The cargo containing the pair of "armor-piercing missiles" aboard an Air Serbia flight from Beirut was discovered Saturday at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, the AP reports, citing Serbian television. The missiles had been packed in wooden crates, according to Serbian TV station N1.

Serbian media reports say the cargo was bound for Portland, Oregon.

The missiles are able to lock onto a target before or after launch, according to a description from Lockheed Martin. One missile can easily destroy a car or a tank. The company notes the missiles have been used in both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

There's no legitimate reason for the missiles to be on a passenger flight, Robert Caruso, a former State Department and Pentagon staffer, tweeted Sunday. The missiles, he speculated, were probably stolen.

According to Aleksander Radić, a military analyst who spoke with N1, while weapons are occasionally transported through Nikola Tesla airport, it is completely unheard of for that be done via passenger plane.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...065e2e3d64fa3?

[DaveP]

Trudeau sends gay man valentine - good for him, pretty gutsy, not something I think Rob Ford would ever do

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/03...n_9448940.html

Probably because Rob Ford would figure the adult in question wouldn't need a Valentine's card from a politician he's never met to feel better about himself. I mean, I could see it if it was a kid in grade 8 or something.

[walkonby]

Not Politics but it WAS in the news today......


http://heavy.com/news/2016/03/kellog...youtube-video/

Snap, Crackle .......EW!!!!!

http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/364594-...4/#post6588444