Better invest in a little more Poligrip first.
You think Fox News is not factual, but Canadian Newspapers are?
It's going to be one of those conversations, is it? I did not say that Fox News is not factual. I said that Canadian News is more factual than even Fox News is. That is because Canadian News still believes in putting out facts and then optionally commenting on them. American news is all fuzz and opinion and lost puppy dog and celebrity news, and the latest consumer trends and how to lose weight by eating 10,000 kilocalories a day. Even Fox. It's just that when Fox comments on stories, they do so from a more balanced or even (depending on if it's Hannity or that twit Shepard Smith) conservative viewpoint.
I grew up with the Hamilton Spectator and the Globe and Mail and read them on a daily basis. I grew up with exposure to the Hamilton area media, also Toronto, also Buffalo and also Erie, PA. Since I was a kid, I have always had a direct and complete comparison side by side of the two systems. Which I maintain to this day, only I also get my news from the BBC, Euronews, NHK (Japan), RT (Russia), France24, Deutchnews, and even occasionally Al Jazeera just to see what the declared enemy is up to. Where do you get your information from?
You are against the Christian Coalition?
Generally speaking, yes. Sanctimonious squirrels running up trees, squawking and agitating their tails in front of the public's nose. The only difference between them and the public sector union bosses is that their collars are tighter and they have a look of being in the midst of a really bad smell, rather than hosing the television viewers down with red faced spittle flecked invective.
Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia are decent Christian man. If they are given just one more like themselves they will overturn many evils such as abortion/gay marriage etc.
First of all, there are five conservative and practicing Catholics on the Supreme Court - Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia and (sort of) Kennedy, with Sotomayor being a cultural liberal Democrat Catholic-in-name-only. The other three are Jewish. There are no Protestants on the Supreme Court - something of rather significant value, don't you think?
My friend, do you not understand the role of the Supreme Court? They have no authorization to overturn 'evils'. They cannot dismiss abortion, gay marriage etc if the legislature has enacted them. Their job is uphold the law of the land. If you want them to overturn your particular irritations in lieu of proper legislature, that puts you fair and square in the liberal camp in which getting your way regardless of the means is considered to be just. And then the next liberal has his irritations that he wants the judges to enact upon etc, etc. Pin the tail on the legislature, where the responsibility lies; don't engage in liberal bedwetting fantasies about having the Supreme Court do your work for you.
They will restore the right to have prayer/Bible in classrooms and public square etc. They will restore Christian crosses to veterans cemeteries etc, the list is long.
Will idiocy never cease? That is not their job!!!.
But it seems you support many/all of the evils I mentioned?
If you would stop watching the canned movies on the inside of the blinders and poke your head into the real world (and possibly look at my posting history) you might take that statement back very hastily.
You certainly dont sound like a Conservative, certainly not a Christian Conservative.
Maybe not to your shell like ears. I moved to the US in order to live in a conservative country. Now it seems that the tables are turned. However, consider this; we were conservative Christians 1500 years before Calvin was a gleam in the milkman's eye. And with your enthusiastic support for unsupported judicial activism according to your whims of the moment, and the fact that you don't know the roles of either the US or Canadian Supreme Court and are agitating to bypass the legislatures for things that you happen to want, I will laughingly dismiss any claims of conservatism that you bring to the conversation.
And why I think Canada needs a Christian coalition you ask? So that Christians can organize to stand up for God/Christ, to stand up for the unborn.
Yeah? Canada has its share of con artist 'Christian' proselytizers - so much so, that laws had to be enacted in the early 1900s to limit their greed and the scope of their hate speech especially on early radio broadcasts. The true Christians in Canada were appalled by the precursors of Jerry Falwell and Jim Jones (remember that Aimee Semple Mcpherson and her merry ripoff band were Canadian?) and ensured that real Christians could be taken seriously and not stereotyped as scam artists.
BTW the terms pro choice/pro abortion Christian, is a oxymoron! That is a fact and it`s not even debatable.
So? What are you doing about it? You personally? Or are you going to pull a Canadian retreat into the groupthink and anonymity of the committee? Canada needs no Christian Coalition. It simply needs more practicing Christians.
And the latest batch of US Presidents think that Protestants are simply not up to the job of Supreme Court Justice. 67% Catholic and 33% Jewish. With the Christian Coalition in place. Given the current state of Protestant churches, I'd suggest that they pay a little more attention to Christian beliefs and doctrines, and a little less on forming and maintaining coalitions. I will give you the example of the United Church of Canada. How conservative and/or Christian are they, today?
Fox News is not the be all end all, never said that, I have a problem with them because they are only with establishment Conservatives with the exception of Shawn Hannity. However, compared to the rest of the US media it is the best we have.
Where do I get my news? I get a lot of my news right here at Free Republic, I watch Fox News, I surf the dial including PMSNBC and CNN. I even tune in to the phony Joe Scarborough/Morning Joe on MSNBC, I tune in to Wolf Blitzer for even more leftist slant, and for a laugh even Chris Mathews.
Drudge report, I get it from all sides. Aljazera/CBC is where I draw the line.
Conservatism without Social Conservatism is a fraud.
Pains me to say it, but Canada may be to far gone to rescue, but with God all things are possible!
I still hold out hope that the election of a Christian President in the USA in 2012, to replace the NON CHRISTIAN currently holding the position, will hopefully have a trickle down affect into Canada.
President Sarah Palin hopefully!