Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

A tax policy for the masses. Like a utility with new wind farms and lots of coal fired power generation. :)

[Hans Jung]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Aaah Jonathan - you never cease to amaze me with your wit! - and of course now Ive finally got it - you are referring to his outlandish costumes - it just dawned on me (not his witticisms but your witticisms). Never mind I cant keep up and Im not even going to try.

[Roger Patterson]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Watch what happens to the Tax Man's party here in Ontario in about 3 months.

I understand the Ontario NDP are planning to campaign on lowering the hst on gas and fuel oil - a pro greenhouse gas policy. At last, a party you can support :-)

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Just because Billy-boy went east (to Germany) doesn't make him a satrap

(sartorial satrap - eh Jonathan? - what the heck is satrap?? - I cant find it in my thesaurus - help?!?)

of the southwest. William Safire didn't get any angst for nabbing Agnew the nattering nabobs of negativism. In wegard to wings. Nice suit!

[John Coleman]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

(sartorial satrap - eh Jonathan? - what the heck is satrap?? - I cant find it in my thesaurus - help?!?)

sa·trap (strp, strp)
n.
1. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
2. A ruler.
3. A subordinate bureaucrat or official: "The satraps of Capitol Hill will not sit idly by"

Just because Billy-boy went east (to Germany) doesn't make him a satrap :p

[Hans Jung]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

William Klarner aka Billy H20 is back! And for those who didnt know he was gone, he cofounded the KW Chess Club 20 years ago and then left for Germany for about 16 years. He's much milder these days but if you get him going he still has the same old wit. (sartorial satrap - eh Jonathan? - what the heck is satrap?? - I cant find it in my thesaurus - help?!?)

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Chess was always a mainly liberal environment. It appealed mainly to those who didn't mind paying for the benefit of the sport and the top players who represented them. A way of life for many.

You didn't get very much of the "I've got mine now get off your butt and get yours" which is a more right wing attitude.

Thinking I'm right wing or left wing based on voting pattern is not very accurate. Compared to Canada, the U.S. does not have a main line liberal party. It's degrees of right. We, on the other hand, don't really have a main line right wing party. The Conservatives seem to me to campaign on the right and govern in the center or slightly left. I don't kid myself into thinking the NDP would have allowed the post office to be closed down indefinately.

Looking at the last election, the Cons won because they did a good enough job to win re-election. The Libs lost and I think it was because of the attendance record of their leader. The NDP did so well because Quebec seemed upset with the Bloc. Results based on merit, or lack thereof, rather than policitcal philosophies. I think the results and voting pattern are refreshing.

Watch what happens to the Tax Man's party here in Ontario in about 3 months.

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Anybody correlating between rating and anarchist leanings? :)

Are you too young to remember Billy Oxygen?

The sartorial satrap of the southwest, once known as William Klarner. That's who Ken must have intended, for he capitalized the O in Oxygen.

Just visited the new chess.ca for the first time. Grayer, but better organized. For those who are more conservative: Greyer and better organised.

[Ken Craft]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

The song by Helix?

[Peter McKillop]

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We all await the day when Oxygen makes it to Ben's brain.

Right to left for me. Are you too young to remember Billy Oxygen?

[Ken Craft]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

We all await the day when Oxygen makes it to Ben's brain.

[Kerry Liles]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

well when i was younger, you know, i was mostly just doing drugs i wasn't mature enough to handle and reading books i wasn't mature enough to understand and filling my head with ideas i wasn't mature enough to apply. as a result i ended up with a fascist slogan tattooed on my forearm. that's life i guess

sometimes people ask me, "hey man, why is that there wording tattooed on your forearm." i say, "well i'm an anarchist." and they say, "why would an anarchist tattoo a fascist slogan on his forearm." so i say, "clearly you don't understand anarchy."

i think the boringness of my joke represents the growth i've experienced

I would sort of expect a large tattoo of Kovalchuk's face on your...

[Ben Daswani]

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[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

I think I have stayed over the years on what I consider the " pragmatic left ", but Paul's new graph now pushes me way out to the right!

Bob

[Paul Beckwith]

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

I used to be on the left but I have moved to the far right...