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I haven't made Trump the victim, I've stated that the Girl Guide media rep is taking a political stance - which she clearly is. Look at her history and her experience, she's a professional and knows exactly what angle she's taking. Do you disagree that making a press statement against Trump is a political statement. Seriously dude, your posts are looking more like Bubbers and Impact's every day - pull yourself together, you're a mod, not a troll.

It's a public forum, not "your thread". Absolutely nothing is yours here.

You still don't get it. No point

Why ? It's the same border that existed before President Trump. People were denied entry for all kinds of reasons.

Agreed. That potential exists and until Islamophobia is defined you have a legitimate concern to say that...but that is my opinion and as you know on this forum I eventually will piss you off if I have not already....but not on purpose...only for the sake of debate.

Not gonna dig it up now but every time I've looked into this in the past, as far as I could tell, the real amount of stuff really manufactured in the US by reasonable definitions has been going up, not down. Keep in mind, although the value of manufactured goods in that graph has gone up by a factor of 5 over 70 years, the economy has grown by a factor of 10 over that same time. So as a share of the economy, manufacturing has been cut in half. That contributes to the sense that manufacturing is on the decline (as does the drop in the number of manufacturing jobs). But overall, more stuff is really being made.

Be sure to let him know you're a Canadian.

I suppose when my opponents have nothing remaining with which to defend Islam, personal attacks are all that they have left.

The second chamber of the Dutch parliament has 150 members elected from a single nationwide constituency using proportional representation without any thresholds. Seems to me like the most democratic election-system thinkable, don't you agree? As 1/150 of the votes is enough to gain representation, all kinds of single-issue parties have easy access to parliament. For example the aforementioned animal rights party. There is also another party, a Calvinist-party, which campaigns on the platform of disenfrancising all women. As for the election-result, prior to the election there was a coalition of Liberals and the Social Democrats which gained 5 years ago 41 seats with 26% of the votes for the Liberals and 38 seats with 25% of the votesfor the Social Democrats. This time the Liberals gained 33 seats with 21% of the votes and the Social Democrtas were hammered into oblivion with 9 seats with 6% of the votes. The big news of the election was not how Wilders's partry didn't do as well as expected when they still made progress. The news was how the government was totally and utterly rejected. Building a new coalition could take quite a while.

Indeed. Let those who want America to disarm itself stand downrange of a Grad battery...they're really cheap. And they shoot toy rockets!

Comparing what the US spends to what others spend is a mugs game since spending doesn't translate to actual military power. Russia and China and North Korea and just about every other non-European country spend way, way less on salaries and benefits for the soldiers they draft. That gives them a lot more bang for the buck. Most of the money the US (and Canada) spends on its military is for salaries and benefits.

At the start of WW2, the USA's main daylight single seat Navy fighter was the Brewster Buffalo. They were shot down in DROVES by the far superior Japanese Zeros and Oscars. Those Army Air Corp types lucky enough to have the P-40 still had a machine totally outclassed by the Japanese...but at least in a dive, they could run away. I doubt that situation should be repeated...in a modern form.

The problem with home grown IMO is immigrants that will not let their canadian born kids become canadian. Always holding the old ways over thier heads. When a young man can't go out and get drunk and stoned and have casual sex, you are going to become a very angry young man.

Everybody who doesn't want to submit to the cult of Islam is an Islamophobe.

You are our neighbors, so of course we are going to have opinions. Just like we talk about those in other provinces, those living on the other side of town, or those right next door. We are going to bitch because you forgot to return that power tool you borrowed last week or that noisy your kid hangs out with in the driveway playing basketball, but you're also a close friend and we wouldn't hesitate to look after the house/kids when you get that emergency call that your mother was rushed to the hospital. Yes, we are nosy neighbors and are going to comment on what you do and even get into the occasional spat when you leave your trashcan in our driveway, but don't move away because we will miss you.

Coming in tied for 2nd place in a 6+ party system is hardly that strong of an electoral rebuke. Next election to watch is France, where Marine Le Pen is set to do well in the first round of voting.

You clearly miss the point.

A great victory for Islam over the West. Congratulations.

Steven Blaney's only missed the target by 6 decades or so and he also forgot to include governments quests for wealth and power. Most governments including ours have failed horribly in their duty to not put their citizens in the way of some very harmful blowback - with foreign policies that are so misguided and have created so much long-term wide-spread damage that I'm quite certain they will one day be regarded as the worst sort of crime that can be committed against humanity. What I mean specifically is the creation and maintenance of puppet dictatorships, which are simply terrorists that wear a uniform, over other people in their lands. I think the fallout from this is even more toxic to a human society than radiation is to a human being. At he moment I think the never-ending search for more of the same by too many governments will continue to make things worse.

This is how the Left engages in argument. First, it dismisses out of hand any organization which they perceive to be right of center, then they ask you for other evidence - as if left of centre organizations are likely to be producing such things. And in the unlikely event a left of centre organization produces such evidence, such as, say, the CBC and Toronto Start producing polls showing the great majority of Canadians want values testing for immigrants, they simply dismiss it anyway. The Frasier Institute produces some extremely well thought out, and documented reports on a variety of issues, a very few of which point out the costs of immigration, and the Left dismisses them as horrible, evil people not to be trusted... As for Immigration Watch. I'll admit they put out a couple of dumb flyers, but for the most part all you'll find on their site are stories and studies from media, all clearly cited and linked.

Really ? I will let all the American Indian tribes know this....it will come as a surprise. My ancestors were not "immigrants"....they were slaves forced to believe it. So you still haven't explained why so many immigrants still want to go to Trump's evil America. Do you mean Silicon Valley ? Illegals are deported from there too.

No, taxme just watches as closely as possible as to what goes on in Europe, and from the gloom and doom stories I have read and heard about from Europeans being a part of the EU. Apparently many citizen;s from many European countries want to be able to govern their own affairs but being a part of the EU they are not allowed too. Many Europeans are getting sick and tired of all those refugees entering their countries, and want it stopped. The EU will not listen, and from what I have read the EU wants to flood Europe with another 6 million more refugees. We are seeing an attempt by the globalist elite to try and destroy Europe and it's culture and way of life. What is good for Europeans is to try and save themselves from being replaced by others who will force their ways and cultures and values on them. I certainly would not like to see the day when maybe Europe becomes a Muslim country, do you? Would you want to see Muslims take over Canada? Well?

Because Iran is a known state sponsor of "terrorism" in opposition to U.S. and allied interests. Travel bans are not the same as illegal incarceration of embassy staff....in fact...they are quite different. So if the U.S. (or Canada...see Haiti) continues its policies, it will get more emigres than it got before? Why were there so many immigrants to the U.S. before messing around with Iran and other nations ? The U.S. is the #1 destination for immigrants in the world for economic reasons, and that includes Canadians. See above....the U.S. also deports millions and millions of illegal or undesired immigrants.

100%...it's the way these days.

No, not lie. There are many reasons for going or not going somewhere. Aren't you currently arguing about tourism dropping in western europe and the reason for that ? What I'm saying is that they could've said to the kids and parents "we're going to Banff, Tofino or Peggy's cove this year", instead they chose the route of "president Trump hates brown people, so some of you might get stopped at the border". Therefore, they made it what they wanted to make it - political, and what they're teaching these young girls is that claiming victim status is more noble than looking for a better solution and moving on.

There's not much to discuss, some people look for solutions, many others take comfort in the victim role. The victim role can take away accountability and/or provide a passive aggressive statement. Everything we've seen on the news is based around fear and victims - ho hum! Ashley Judd has been antagonizing Trump supporters every chance she gets, then someone confronts her and all of a sudden, she's a victim in need of a safe space. Why is she a victim? Because, like all victims, they get something out of it. This girl guide thing is a political statement, nothing more - "Look what the mean old president Trump is doing to these poor girls". As I said, Isn't it obvious?

This whole sequence is off topic.

Care to include the stats on how many civilians killed since 9-11 by western-led forces?

That's because we have a bunch of morons who'd like to make our system more like yours.

Saudi financially backs ISIS and Al Qaeda. If this was about American civilian security and terrorism, Saudi Arabia should be first on the list.

I've been saying for years the US is damaged goods and that we should find more stable partners in the world. Another broken clock thing I guess - if I had a minute for each time I've busted a clock this way I'd have a new clock.

Americans watch it too and think they get to tell the world what to do...with little to no say in it.

I know yours didn't capture it all that's why I mentioned cops, drunks and irresponsible friends. All the US had to do was be a good cop and do unto everyone as it would have them do unto it. Instead they got drunk and as it turns out they're a really mean drunk. At this point it's a real toss up as to who's boot-heel would be worse for the ME to be stuck under.

Therein lies the reason I have to assume they will get built. The pursuit of filthy lucre is like rust, it never sleeps Not me, I probably distrust him even more than you. If I was a Millennial I'd be more furious at the liquidation of their planet's natural capital by Boomers - and as big an inter-generational theft this is it'll pale beside the debt of environmental and ecological hangovers we're leaving for future generations.

What's so complicated about it? Is like nobody ever heard of doing unto others as they'd have done to them. A child usually has this figured out before they graduate from kindergarten.

The difficulty is the unwillingness to understand. Your analogy is okay but isn't Dave also one of the cops? In any case I think Dave is also an abusive chronic drunk with friends that have no objection to him driving when falling down drunk and heavily armed. We're just as at fault which is why Canada has it coming too.

No I'm not and sure I can. Is that what I really said? You make this same mistake over and over and over in this forum - ad nauseam to use your words. You read something and then your mind squirms like a toad before barfing up a reply that avoids and successfully misses just about every single point that's presented to you. It's the one thing you seem to excel at. Over and over and over again you do this and it's why you never really have a clue about what anyone is saying. Stop listening to the toad and simply reply to the words that are written. Then by all means stop responding to me but if you do be prepared to have your nose rubbed long and hard in any nonsense you spew. I understand the utter intransigence of people who will not have anything to do with any suggestion whatsoever that the west is the least tiny bit culpable for anything that's gone sideways in the Muslim Middle East region. That understanding however will never translate into pity or polity or alliance because I view this intransigence as the defining feature of 21st century conservatism and it fills me with a disgust that will never ever stop me from calling out anyone and everyone who subscribes to it. I'd probably applaud their deaths till the cows come home.

The hottest lady in punk.

It's worked swimmingly for decades as far as concentrating the wealth of our fisheries into as few hands as possible goes.

Marine fisheries management. The two management styles stem from both our constitutions. The U.S. mode is vastly superior because each state is responsible for managing their own fisheries. In Canada, Ottawa is in charge. The closer the mangers are to the fishery and the people who depend on it the greater the accountability and transparency. Ottawa is 1500 miles from the nearest ocean and it shows.

My Bradley Digital Smoker is filled with chinook as we speak. The black-cod (sablefish) is next, in the queue so to speak.

I'd argue there's a pretty healthy bbq/smoked fish culture out on the west coast.

I think culture is largely shaped by ideology and economics now - human culture is eroding and being subsumed under the culture that's developed around our institutions, mostly corporate and government.

I was responding to taxme's white-supremacist statements with my own over-the-top statements. I don't think Caucasian people are inherently better than other races, nor do I think other races are inherently better than Caucasians. I used to think that if women were in power, they would be less warlike than men, but that's been disproven. As to being on "top", we seem to take turns. Right now our Western civilization is indeed on top. But we haven't always been, for a long while it was the Arab-types who ruled the world - or at least as much of the world as they knew. Same with the Chinese. Not sure about Africans or Indians, but perhaps their time is coming. Although, if Caucasian is used in it's original taxonomic sense, instead of referring to skin color, we white-colored people are the same as many brown-colored people: Then again, there isn't much difference among people once things like location and culture are removed:

True enough, but in the context of a race dying out over time because they failed to produce more of their kind just seems like natural selection. Being deliberately eliminated through active aggression is a little different, IMO. Active aggression does not include living in the same country and going about your daily business.

I missed all the infighting here. But to the topic, there is NO actual difference in people in general from ANY different country. What MAKES us different is to the LAWS established. Canada is MORE conservative in ALL aspects because (1) we are defaulted to be founded on a country that derived its constitution by specific colonial interests who represented people who resisted self-definition, as the U.S. did. The English Loyalists of a 'dictatorial' (in principle) Monarchy by those who most selfishly profited by their Nationalistic belief in their 'superiority' over the average person suggests they are NOT in principle 'democratic' and their own 'superiority' complex is based on irrational cultural identity. (2) The French Catholics who were abandoned by France via their own "Republican" revolution that resisted religious intolerance via similar 'dictatorial' beliefs in Kings and Queens AND their strict adherence to a Church organ that also believed they have a supreme authority granted by their god through their 'supreme' Pope. (3) The utility of supporting a distinct 'respect' for differentiating Aboriginals as though they were at least a distinct 'natural' essence, but as animals; the English and French only utilizes granting them similar position of the same kind of Nationalism they believe of themselves as it functions to CONTROL all others to be committed to their own ESTABLISHED power through the years. Our Constitution, through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, specifically has been designed to permanently SAVE these main three selective groups under the guise of Multiculturalism but ONLY for the sake of those English and French 'aristocratic' established in Ontario and Quebec mainly. Their use of (3) above is NOT out of respect for Aboriginals as it is NOT for ALL other cultures nor differences in other similar ethnic definitions (like sex or gender). The utility is to falsely create an illusion of friendly love for all cultures ONLY to SAVE their own from being naturally defeated. In contrast, the Americans have the First Amendment clause which though is still NOT sufficient due to similar culturally discriminating groups there who have reinterpreted less significance to the role of religion. Yet, while the U.S. is most apparent to seem more discriminating in ethnic differences, this is ONLY by default of the very fact that the world DOES look at them most closely. They are MORE apparent for their system and so appears to be most troubled in regards to Nationalistic fervor. The reality is just the opposite though. It is the effect of the world who IS more discriminatory who notices them precisely because they are most relatively "honest" about their differing views. But where problems get actually solved, being most apparent IS the first step. All other countries hide their own more hateful discrimination through their less 'free' media. It makes them actually MORE liberal than any other country. Canada is WAY more conservative by contrast in terms of economics AND social concerns. It just has measures to both hide them through more deceptive means of propaganda. It props up interest group issues as more prevalent with laws that enable ease at censuring. Our media in the 'free' arena is also a very REAL monopoly (by the actual owners) and use tactics that in the U.S. get exposed more readily --- making the U.S. appear more troubled than they actually are.

Where would the Whites be without gunpowder, the compass, paper and the printing press, all invented by the Chinese? Arab Muslims created algebra, the magnifying glass, coffee; they also created and developed the idea of the modern hospital, found around the world today. Indian contributions to world knowledge and progress include math, medicine and agriculture - all of which the White's have used and built upon. Civilization itself began in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Egypt. It may be true (and I'm not convinced) that the inventions and discoveries of the last 100 years have come largely from European countries, but prior to that we were essentially nothing in the world - it was the non-Whites who were moving the world toward our modern civilization through inventions and discoveries. We built upon their work, and the people who come after us - whatever their color of skin - will build upon what we've done.

I am Caucasian, from a long line of Caucasians. I don't see that Caucasians are any less violent than any other skin color, personally. Taking our lily-white asses into countries and telling them they need our military help isn't exactly pacifist. Regularly killing off our co-Caucasians in our own countries also doesn't speak to our non-violent nature. A lot of the technology in use in the world today was invented or improved upon by the yellow-skin toned people. A lot of brown people from India are taking over technology in our modern age. What else ya got?