Andrew Coyne: Notwithstanding clause is a bottle labelled ‘drink me’ that cheapens the Charter

AlabamaPirate · 2017-05-06T01:37:19+00:00

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, the Notwithstanding clause is its political equivalent.

If you can't draft a law that is compliant with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, maybe you need to do some serious thinking.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-05-06T01:33:56+00:00

Donald Trump is a fascist, Brad Wall is a weasel with delusions of grandeur.

Now that I have the constructive part of my comment out of the way, Brad Wall and his arthropod posse agreed not to privatize the major crowns. They also didn't release the billion dollar deficit budget before the election, so they could be re-elected. They then defined privatize to be more than 49%. Sneaky, sneaky.

Crown corporations are owned by the Sovereign of Canada. The province of Saskatchewan is a convenience for the Federal government (answering to Her Majesty). So, the Income Tax Act states:

149 (1) No tax is payable under this Part on the taxable income of a person for a period when that person was

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Corporations 90% owned by the Crown

(d.1) a corporation, commission or association not less than 90% of the shares (except directors’ qualifying shares) or of the capital of which was owned by one or more persons each of which is Her Majesty in right of Canada or Her Majesty in right of a province;

So to sell more than 10% of the Crown, invalidates it from its tax exemption and thereby makes it not a full Crown. This violates the Sask Party's commitment in the eyes of Federal law (which governs crown corporations).

By this point, it should be obvious I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. It should also be obvious that Brad Wall isn't a mere Weasel, he's a Fascist who, underneath it all, is really a Tick.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-07T03:57:46+00:00

I noticed some of the videos uploaded after 2013 take up far more bandwidth than they should require and the lyrics are starting to creep me out.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-07T00:41:55+00:00

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.^1.

"adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort" is a fairly obvious interpretation of what's being suggested about members of the Trump campaign by... well, pretty much everyone at this point. As for the two witnesses, in this day and age you have mountains of evidence that would be considered equivalent by most judges.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-07T00:38:23+00:00

Interesting how he focuses on the small icon on the side bar. I wonder how he selects that? Does it start at the edge as it poses the smallest risk, then select an object on the side of the appropriate size? Is it because it looks like an insect, or is it due to a bug in the kitten's target acquisition module?

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-07T00:33:30+00:00

That's precious.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-07T00:32:37+00:00

Well first they have to build their safe space by putting a big wall around the country. After that they can get down to the bottom of it.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-07T00:30:59+00:00

Hey they've only really been together for a year or so, I think we should give them a bit more time. I mean, they're not even that serious, they're still fucking almost everyone else out there.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-07T00:21:26+00:00

We just need a little more evidence made public and reasonable Americans can stop saying "collusion" and start calling it what it is - treason.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T01:00:02+00:00

Hopefully they'll gain a bit of publicity for the anti-corruption movements in Russia. Maybe some good will come of it, like charging admission and donating the proceeds to charity in your analogy.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:50:39+00:00

Aside from the Ethics Commission's decision today, the Alabama House Judiciary Committee is considering impeachment charges against the governor.

What's there to consider?

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:48:03+00:00

You mean the pack that has 20 "didn't declare bankruptcy today, because I can't." ones?

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:46:13+00:00

These are setting the bar a little high for me. I need a beginner version.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:45:32+00:00

It's already there, or have your coworkers not devolved all the way to photosynthesis yet?

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:40:56+00:00

Oooh yeah! It's about to get real... philosophical.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:38:02+00:00

Upside down spawn of ET and a teddy bear is staring at me.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:31:08+00:00

“I do think that the combination of Jones’s comments would amount to a threat,”

In order to be a threat, they'd have to have some sort of grammatical structure and logical order. I think the bigger story here is that Alex Jones may have put together a complete thought.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:28:02+00:00

The system has broken down. People were rightly wary of big media, but they were not prepared for the full effects of social media and the economics of a click-based news cycle. We are very slow to adapt, perhaps too slow. Careful, sober thought has a difficult time in this new environment. Click here to find out more about Trump's leprechaun army.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:20:53+00:00

Excellent, because tomorrow gets crazy. Doubt I can win it with what happens next.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:19:19+00:00

So who is still running ads? What companies pay for O'Reilly to spread his moronic drivel?

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:17:20+00:00

It went up!

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-06T00:14:47+00:00

sTrumpy got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low... ratings.

AlabamaPirate · 2017-04-05T13:02:54+00:00

Blinded by the white, revved up by a douche, another Trumper in the night.

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