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The same Democrats who said Director Comey was flaky for going after Clinton (again) are now his biggest defenders. Politics as usual....

In regards to 1 your comment is meaningless because you offer no proof or even define what "educated" means-you spit out a stereotype, an assumption, a generalization without any proof. Education can come on the streets and from life experience or it can come from books. Interesting but most religious believe the reason we suffer hardship is to educate ourselves, to develop insight as to what causes suffering by feeling it so we can then help prevent it. That has nothing to do with books and everything to do with humility. That is the point I was making. Your repeating that meaningless phrase does not make it any more valid. My criticism of Islam as it is all religions is that when they are hijacked by so called spokespersons who can't be questioned, that the inability to question those spokespersons necessarily means that religion through its leader is being politically coercive and anti-democratic. In the case of Islam as it is widely practiced today, that is what happens and in the case of Islam the Koran says its very purpose is to impose itself as a form of government control on the masses and not permit free discussion and demand blind obedience. That makes it fascist and totalitarian until its followers put into practice freedom of expression and thought I challenge it as an anti-democratic system of thought and the anti-thesis to a tolerant, democratic society.

Arguing with Islamophiles is, in some ways like arguing with 9/11 truthers. They ignore all evidence which counters their beliefs, and simply dismiss the sources as 'fake news' or 'far right wing' sites. And so you have someone who blithely calls the marriage between Muhammed and a 6 year old 'debunked' when no Islamic scholar would ever agree. And then says anyone who says otherwise is an islamophobe! Faced with the arguments of Western critics, Muslim apologists sometimes piece together information from various accounts in an attempt to deny that Aisha was as young as critics often claim:The problem with the selective and carefully edited defense just given (other than the complete lack of references) is that it ignores the numerous accounts we now possess which record Aisha’s age when Muhammad consummated his marriage to her. Many of these accounts are from Aisha herself. Indeed, the evidence for Muhammad’s marriage to the young Aisha is as strong as the evidence for just about any other fact in Islam. We have copious traditions relating Muhammad’s marriage proposal when Aisha was six or seven years old, as well as his consummation of that marriage when she was nine: https://myislam.dk/articles/en/wood was-muhammad-a-pedophile.php

More from the SAR files. It's starting to look like the Liberals wanted Airbus to win for reasons having nothing to do with the capabilities of the aircraft. All the bidders were told the government was only willing to pay $3.4 billion. The Italian consortium came in under budget. The Airbus bid - which was accepted - came in at a billion dollars OVER budget. But it seems the government changed the amount it was willing to pay, raising it to $4.7 billion. It just didn't tell anyone. Or at least, it says it didn't tell anyone. Sure was lucky for Airbus, though, huh? What a coinkinkidink! Someone was being paid off here. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/search-and-rescue-aircraft-budget-jumped-more-than-1-billion-but-dnd-didnt-tell-bidders

(Edit) As for the election, hopefully, the Greens will support the Liberals. I remember the disaster of Glen Clark.

As for labour shortages... More "extreme right wing" cites from the TD bank and the Unviersity of Lethbridge! Eeek! Dire warnings of a widespread Canadian labour crisis and a “lost generation” of young workers have been overblown, according to a market analysis by TD Economics. Deputy chief economist Derek Burleton says demographic and economic shifts may be hitting young workers particularly hard, but he doesn’t believe projections of across-the-board labour shortages and skills gaps. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/21/skills-gap-canada-labour-shortage_n_4138487.html A second study in less than a week has concluded that there is no labour shortage in Canada, nor is one expected to arrive in the next few decades. A study published Friday by a University of Lethbridge professor echoes results of a report by the federal government’s Parliamentary Budget Office released Tuesday — both conclude there are more than enough workers on a national basis in Canada to fill available jobs. http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Study+debunks+Canadian+labour+shortage/9674478/story.html

Referring to me as a convicted pedophile must be against forum rules. I'm not a huge fan of Subway, but they seem to be stridently defending these claims.