<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>My Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.tblog.com/</link><description>A tBlog Blog!</description><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:44:12 -0700</lastBuildDate><language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[The Down Turn: Europe, America and unemployment benefits]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061164</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061164</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:44:06 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Yes Yanks do n... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061164'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Politics of Pot: it is time to question orthodox opinion ]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061162</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061162</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:38:20 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It is often said that legalizing marijuana is not politically possible. It is high time this orthodoxy be challenged. Legalization is not supported by ... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061162'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jason Kenney Playing the Conservative Base for Suckers]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061159</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061159</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:32:19 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Jason Kenney &quot;There continue to be acute labour market shortage... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970061159'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jason Kenney, Multiculturalism and Integration]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970057628</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970057628</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:25:47 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Canada has been able to avoid some of the problems other countries have had into integrating immigrant ethnic minorities into the fabric of their societies. One reason for Canada&rsquo;s success in th... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970057628'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives do not Practice what they Preach on Immigration ]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970056308</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970056308</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:37:07 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jason Kenney has been saying some sensible things about our immigration system. Most notably, he has said that Canada needs to place more emphasis on language skills. As studies have shown, the best p... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970056308'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Thoughts on SSM and the 2006 Election]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970056229</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970056229</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:25:23 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I always thought the Liberals straight man&rsquo;s burden talking point disingenuous. The Liberal argument was that you cannot cherry pick rights and whether SSM was a cherry is really beside the poin... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970056229'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to reduce the number of abortions, promote Sex education and Contraception]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055914</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055914</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:12:22 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The delicious irony of the abstinence only sex education programs in the States is that not only do&nbsp;they contribute to teen pregnancy rates that dwarf anything found in Europe, the percentage of ... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055914'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drug warriors' Gangs can not walk and chew gum at the same time argument ]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055913</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055913</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:05:17 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of the arguments that I have repeatedly come across recently is that should marijuana be legalized then the gangs will move onto other things. I prefer to call this the gangs can not walk and chew... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055913'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim Geithner Disaster]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055786</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055786</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:50:42 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I will let a couple of Nobel Price winning economists, first Paul Krugman and then Joseph Stiglitz explain why Tim Geithner plan is a disaster and why nationalization is way to go. ... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055786'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immigration ]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055705</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055705</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:09:22 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Aging PopulationForget globing warming, an aging population is the biggest problem facing the country. Canada has to get younger. The average Canadian in 2004 was 39.7;... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055705'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world Sees Goodyear and thinks of Bush]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055116</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055116</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:27:04 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the post Bush era Canada can not afford to look like it is going down the same road with regard to science that the Americans did under Bush. Right now that is exactly the message we are sending ou... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970055116'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodyear Does not Understand the first thing about Evolution]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054807</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054807</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:01:50 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After being outed as a creationist, Goodyear says he believes in evolution and the theory has &quot;potential&quot;. It is too bad for Goodyear that it is readily apparent that he does not understand ... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054807'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marijuana as Gang Seed Capital: We Need to Nip this in Bud]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054298</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054298</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:46:54 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mark Tonner, The Vancouver Province&nbsp; &quot;Gangsters are killing each other for the right to market cocaine, heroin, meth and more. Even... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054298'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harper: conservatism is "Freedom Family and Faith"]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054074</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054074</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:40:42 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are two things that bother me about the media's coverage of Stephen Harper. One is lauding him for being an &quot;economist&quot; simply because he has an MA in economics and the other is callin... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054074'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harper is not an Economist]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054073</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054073</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:38:37 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Harper has but a Masters degree in economics and no body of professional work. No one would ever think to call every Tom Dick and Harry an economist simply by virtue of the fact that they have an M... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970054073'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[308 Approach misguided: Build beachheads]]></title><link>http://koby .tblog.com/post/1970032478</link><guid>http://koby .tblog.com/post/1970032478</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:53:37 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dean&rsquo;s point was that if the Democrats only focused on just at States the Democrats were competitive in 2004 and wrote the rest off to bad debts, fund... <a href='http://koby .tblog.com/post/1970032478'>more from koby ...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama and the Prospect of Canada Legalizing Marijuana ]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970031109</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970031109</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:25:22 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The strongest argument against legalization of marijuana is that the Americans would fly off the rails. However, a Democratic p... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970031109'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harper as Dr. Frankenstein]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970031108</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970031108</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:21:30 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[American &ldquo;conservatism&rdquo; today is largely a byproduct of Republican talking points and campaign tactics and strategy. Elitist liberals are effeminate snobs; by contrast conservatives are yo... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970031108'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Conservatives successfully branded Dion as a Wimp ]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024639</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024639</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:23:24 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Everything Dion said and did fit perfectly with the Conservative caricature of him. They played him like a fiddle. The Conservatives painted Dion as an i... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024639'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dion Should Leave Now]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024483</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024483</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:46:47 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The good news is that Dion is leaving. The bad news is he is not gone yet. Another 6 months of near incomprehensible sound bits and tactical errors awaits us. I am... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024483'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining Dion: why it worked]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024482</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024482</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:44:28 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Conservative were successfully able to define Dion for one simple reason. Dion&rsquo;s English is not good enough and his accent is strong. Half of Dion... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970024482'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dion not a Leader I hope]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023720</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023720</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:03:02 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I hate to say I told you say, but I told you so. &ldquo;Heureusement, ici, c'est le Bloc!&rdquo; Otherwise we would be looking a Conservative majority. Save for the Quebec language debate, not much we... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023720'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[BC and the Dion Disaster]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023719</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023719</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:59:06 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While the Liberal share of the popular vote in other provinces has gone up and down over the years, the Liberal share of the popular vote in BC remained steady between 1993 to 2006 at between 27.6%... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023719'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are at least 849,425 reasons to Dump Dion ]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023526</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023526</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:27:56 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;The &ldquo;good&rdquo; news is that the number of people that voted for Harper was down even though his share of the popular vote went up. In 2006 5,374,071 Canadians voted for the Conservati... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970023526'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seat Projections ]]></title><link>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970022911</link><guid>http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970022911</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:00:58 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Large numbers of former Liberal voters in urban Ontario and BC will vote Green. The NDP and Liberals w... <a href='http://koby.tblog.com/post/1970022911'>more from koby...</a>]]></description></item></channel></rss>