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And several of those 34 visits to the Cooler are from responding to you.

I already have a community rating here: 34 visits to the Cooler and 20,000 posts. If you don't like me, I don't care. I'm still coming for your throat. En Garde!

Let's agree to not being lab rats in this experiment, eh?

Hardly guilt. The Cooler gives me a chance to arrange M.Dancer's bones into comical poses. Besides, there's a stool, now...and the cockroaches are fresh.

Is there anyway one can give the f---ing things all to Charles?

Here you go....I'm giving you some.

Another one who has forgotten the US election. No thanks re: your points.

And yet, when a couple of dozen people turned up at the mosque where that kind of thing was being preached, to protest it, you felt the need to start a topic to discuss their 'Islamophobia'.

And I'm sure they were all Arab Muslims. Because sexual assaults are never done by the anglo-saxons. Let the 'omg this is never done by non-immigrants' excuses ensue. Those Arab Muslims, they love to walk up the women and grab their pu**ies.

I dish em out to anyone who makes me laugh. Sometimes I give a minus... also for laughs!

but Trudeau is way more likely to mess up without all that big and best stuff, you know? Trump has all the best things. He's got the best people, the best resources, the best experience, the biggest military, the biggest small hands, the best hair and definitely the best words. The job's going to be a cakewalk for him. His administration is a finally-tuned machine firing on all cylinders.

....or try to hitch a ride on USA copters.

Trudeau is trying to pull a fast one. I don't think USA will buy that. If they did, then every country that sends troops will say they're contributing "qualitatively" to NATO. It's humiliating for Canada.

No, I prefer the other way. I want to get the lowest score.

There Impact, let's raise yours too. Whoaaa! Who's the rat who gave you a minus and wasted and cancelled mine? Here's another one!

Your funeral...your dime.

Yes but then you fall into the trap that Liberal Politicians are setting out. Say you oppose racism and move on. Which is what Brown did.

Indeed. This didn't go as planned, eh? Sort of like the election in the USA. Why aren't I 50 points ahead??

A couple weeks ago, I checked out what one could do and found out that I couldn't give out more than 5 negatives, or 20 positives out in a single 24-hour period. I don't know if they limit how many you can give a single member.

Tales of violence committed by Muslims and refugees in Sweden often start as local crime stories that are then translated by sensationalistic UK tabloids, conservative outlets like Breitbart News, or the Russian state-funded broadcaster RT, before being further spread by fringe websites and anti-Muslim blogs in the US. Thank you betsy for continuing the tradition. Psssst, I have a good rumor for you to spread. No basis is reality, no fact checking, just pure alternative facts.

I would support this if I was reasonably certain these two weren't isolated cases. There should be zero tolerance for this kind of prayer or sermon, within the Muslim community as well as outside.

Not sure what your trying to say here, i did say over 50 years we have been freeloading , 50 years ago would be 1967....and since those dates we have not been over the 2 % GDP numbers. And don't get me wrong i am pointing my fingers at all governing parties at the time Liberal and Conservative.....Harper mistake was he made us all believe things would be different....and he ended like all the same, bending DND over the table when it was convenient... It was up to Canadians to decide on what defensive agreements it want to sign on to.....NATO requirement to be a member was to spend 2 % of GDP on your military....Last time i checked our PM signature was on that agreement, he and all the other signees knew what the terms where....and we brushed those aside, at the cost to other nations....now it is time to pay the piper. Along with NATO there is Norad as well, between the US and Canada, that agreement sees Canada with only 10 % of the bill.... You seem to think this is just a Trump thing, But it is not Obama said the same things in his address to our parliament.....posted in this very same topic....so it is not a trump "fake News thing"....most presidents have urged Canada to get back on track...

Nice rant, but do you really think this is all Mike Pences fault, or is it the fact that the Trump government is calling out ALL nations that fell below the 2 % mark, the fact is really we have not been at the 2 % mark since the late 50's....and while alot of nations have called us out on it, we have blushed , said we will work harder next year, and so on and so on, to we get to where we are today, some 50 years later, still riding the cheap wave to the beach...in fact we resigned this NATO defense alliance not so long ago, knowing we where short on our 2 % of GDP goal....but hey we got away with it for 50 years why not a couple more.....well Canada is not the only nation riding this wave or peace dividend, the numbers are swelling fast.....Leaving the US to pony up for these shortfalls, something it is growing tired of, who could blame them.....And this is your message to the US government Go F8ck yourself.....Well you 've already heard the US response....NO you go fuc* yourself, pay up or get out......Kind of hard to sit at the grown up table when you don't pay any of the bills..... While the US military has had some problems, most are fixed today, But lets remember we live in a glass house as well, and for every problem they have.... we have dozens of problems...that have gone unaddressed for years...there are more than 2 dozen programs available to US service personal coming home from conflict, along with dozens of other that are sponsored by civilian companies.....here in Canada there are 1 or two programs available while you serve, and maybe 3 or 4 programs offered by civilain companies, thats right Canadian civilian companies are paying the bulk of the costs for rehab programs for soldiers.....Not only is this sanctioned by our government but also by it's citizens....How many soldiers in Canada has committed suicide after they have come back....the answer changes every day, a year ago it surpassed the numbers killed in combat....Thanks for having our backs....if this was an issue for the people of Canada something would have been done by now.......But because our military is nothing but a dirty word to most Canadians......this will go on until the numbers exceed beyond all our expectations.... Canada will spend what it has agreed to spend 2 %, or it will end up on the side lines pouting because they got their fingers caught in the cookie jar, and freeloading for over 50 years, and what did they do with all that funding they were suppose to spend .....pissed it away......here is a kleenex go wipe your tears.....

Two things betsy: 1) Have you ever thought why that it's only Sweden where the rape rate has jumped up so dramatically? Sweden is not the only European country that is letting in migrants. Have you looked into the recent law changes in how rape is defined in Sweden? I mean, seriously, have you thought why are the migrants in Germany and other countries less rapey than Sweden? 2) The whole Germany Arab 'sex mob' story turned out to be a big lie. Are you going to re-evaluate your thoughts because of another fake news which tries to portray migrants, Muslims in particular, to be the end of the world? Ref: German police say major newspaper’s story about a rampaging Arab ‘sex mob’ was wrong Link Just like many others, your anti-refugee hysteria has been overblown and fueled by often misleading innuendo and rumor circulating on social media. It's the fake and exaggerated news that you desperately search for and spread that is creating things like the Quebec mosque killings and things like this - It is embarrassing to watch humans act this way: German Judge Theodor Horstkötter sentenced Maik Schneider to eight years in jail. His crime? Lighting an arena rejiggered to accommodate refugees on fire. No one was hurt, but experts say the act caused about $3.7 million in damage. Link

Canadian military is the second highest paid military in the world, the first place winners are Australian.....below is a copy of wages in 2016, i think they have gone up since then by a small percentage, note the records say 2013 but they are current....according to a pay clerk...on top of that all civilian staff are public servants which although are not paid as high as DND, they don't come cheap... http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/10/30/canadas-military-among-highest-paid-in-the-world http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/caf-community-pay/pay-rates.page

M'en Revenant de la Jolie Rochelle... I suppose certain re-brandings are good (Banzai!)...but others are pretty PC stupid. Thought-up by pinheads with too much time and self-loathing. Much of the 'Native stuff' falls into this category.

And you wonder why I ask 'what's a Native?' I'm more Metis than Riel.

Just because you're unfamiliar with the 1st Marine Division and how it relates to your comment = not my problem. Highlight First Marine Division with yon mouse and search google for it...easy-peesy. Perhaps you'll see the light...or not. But, you could also do a search for racism in the Pacific during WW2....just to give you a hint. And speaking of renaming things: Mount Suribachi was Paipu-Yama on Japanese maps and 'Hot Rocks' on USMC maps. Suribachi means 'mortar'...as in mortar and pestle. The Grinding Bowl...pretty accurate. Sometimes renaming things works...

I totally agree with the above. There are people now with 70+ points and it's really becoming nothing more than a silly popularity contest.

The issue is why anyone should listen to any argument that needs to be based on a lie before it can proceed - something right-wing conservatives appear to do a lot more routinely than progressives.

Right-wing conservative sphincter works for me.

Because encouraging dictators to spend less on their mliitary always works out so well... The reason the West spends so much more on their military is largely because of personnel costs. The Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, Iranians, etc., don't pay very high salaries or benefits. They don't need to as they all have the draft. So that huge additional cost the West puts into its military doesn't translate into more tanks, ships or airplanes, nor more people. It just translates into higher paid soldiers.

Your obsessions are getting the better of you again. No one has been more critical of the Harper government on defense than I have, but they didn't start the neglect of our military. That started back in Trudeau Senior's day, and has continued, largely unabated, through every government, Liberal, PC and Conservative, since then. Just as it continues today under Trudeau junior. I have ZERO doubts that were it not for Trump, the upcoming budget, where the Liberals need to start to address their rising deficits, would target the military for big cuts. AGAIN.

But we gave it away decades ago. We decided we'd rather give in to the Americans and let them take care of it than pay for things ourselves. Now Trump is in the White House and Trump doesn't see things in isolation. He links things together. I can EASILY see him linking our NATO contributions to whatever trade deals he chooses to make. He has to know how important a trade deal is for Canada. If he starts threatening import duties, maybe, in his mind, to help compensate America for the money we're not spending on NATO even though we agreed to it, then our 'interests' are going to quickly require we put more money into the military.

Apparently, that meeting was to find common ground to end the war or difference in the Ukraine,because PEOPLE have died and its time to stop the blood shed and there's nothing with that.

The problem is the "other people" are not willing to hear the other side of the argument...Blaming certain muslims from 7 mentioned countries is used to score a political point. I like to call it 'brownie points'. Heck, there are even people on this forum who use muslims as a framework to exonerate the actions of the israeli government...Recent expansion of settlement in the occupied territory rings a bell? Where are those so called moderates who advocate for progressive muslims to have a voice? Why don't these people come out and condone the actions of the BIBI governments? When these people start listening to the other side of the argument then maybe (perhaps maybe) it leaves a room for engaging in constructive discussion to shape our opinions. In the absence of those voices taking a critical thinking and call the spade for what it is it will create room for ambiguity and polarity in opinions... I do appreciate this is a bit off topic here but it just gives me the impression that some opinions is already shaped by some of us and quite biased in favour of a political ideology distorting the reality.

Yes there was........but its sure gone now!!! Interesting revision of history.......Harper reduced funding to the DND both when we ended our mission in Afghanistan (Why pay for a war we are no longer fighting?) and like every department, during the fiscal crisis............ Regardless, Harper is no longer the head of the government, nor will this demand by the Trump administration be his problem..... No, the only cuts to members pay and benefits has been on the part of the Trudeau Liberals and their clawing back of tax free status for those serving in combat zones. Ahh but it was you that went down this road, I simply made a factual observation as to this Governments ability, when it so desires, to spend billions into deficit........an observation very much topical on a subject that will require a further increase in annual spending. If this government raises taxes to pay for billions more for defense, the only thing that will give will be its own electoral chances in 2019.......This government truly is in a pickle, and like most of the World, was caught off guard with the Trump win. A challenge for sure, but then, if this government were smart, it would attempt to narrow the gap through deficit spending on both infrastructure and the purchasing of big ticket items, in essence one off purchases versus sunk costs associated with a massive increase in the number of personal...........buy the actual items the military needs, spread it out over the next several years and hope normalcy returns (and/or commodity prices) in the next few years.

So I guess what you are trying to do is suggest because there may have been some corruption we should just ignore the problem I don't think most of us would agree with you, thankfully. Here is some of what has been accomplished. To date the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has disbursed $150.15 million in immediate humanitarian and early recovery assistance. These funds have helped to provide Haitians with emergency medical services, relief supplies, water and sanitation and shelter. Through this funding, CIDA has contributed to the provision of food aid to 4.3 million Haitians, provision of water to 1.2 million people, 370,000 Haitians have received an emergency shelter, relief supplies were distributed to over 2.2 million people, and medical care services to 90% of displaced individuals in Port-au-Prince. At the International Donors' Conference ‘Towards a New Future for Haiti’, held in New York on March 31, Canada pledged $400 million over two years to support the Government of Haiti's National Action Plan for Recovery and Development This pledge is in addition to Canada's ongoing development assistance program in Haiti ($555 million for 2006-2011) and it brings the Canadian government's total support for Haiti to over $1 billion from 2006 to 2012.

Back to the topic, here are a few Canadian names that I bet raise the odd eyebrow among visitors. Newfoundland seems to have majority at least according to this list. I am lucky enough to have visited almost all these places so I'm feeling quite patriotic aujourd'hui http://cottagelife.com/canadiana/the-strangest-place-names-in-canada

Still buying Trump's birther crap I see. That very American guy finished out two terms as POTUS with one of the highest approval ratings in the country's history. If it wasn't for the two term limit Obama would still be there. And now after a month of Trump the place is in chaos.

Better yet...what's a REAL Native?

Yawn...I know the ol' game and how it's played.

Uh.......I got a big surprise with this whole slew of notification, and when I saw my community rating today. Thank you for those. Must be for Valentine's Day. Can I change my position on this? Maybe....community rating is good after all? Just kidding!

If that's the case the mods should present us with the MLW approved version of history so we can proceed from there. Otherwise they should follow or stay out of the way.

I'd try my best to think like this. We spoke to Anne Marie Hagan, a woman whose father was murdered brutally by an axe-wielding, schizophrenic man, who she later forgave. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/why-canada-should-consider-forgiving-vince-li

What's missing from this discussion is evidence as opposed to the opinion that Vincent Li was off his meds. That evidence will always be missing because it just ain't true.

I have no idea how you marked your ballot,but you certainly have voted for him.

Well you can rest easy with Trump supporting your ideals these days.

As has always been the case, the right wing redneck religious freaks who stand up to deny a woman her right to governance over her own body, and want to force her into an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy, are the first ones to fail to offer her any assistance after the fact. And so we will head down the path once again that will produce seriously health compromised, or even dead mothers along with unwanted fetuses. One step ahead and how many back?

Your cite well do just fine. it doesn't say what you say no matter how may times you say it out how you feel about it. In fact the conclusion can't even be honest and say it may prevent some sexual activity. How fast do those numbers drop after three or five more years?