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I've been told that Bill Clinton has been delivered a request to appear before the committee on Loretta Lynch investigation and requesting what was the need to talk to her. Stay Tune.

No, you never get it. Immigration is not about denying or helping the aspirations of foreigners. I don't give a damn about their aspirations. Immigration is about selecting the best fit immigrants for Canada. That means the ones who will perform best economically, and are the best cultural fit. That our immigrants are neither is why I am a critic of the immigration system.

They migrated into whatever territory they were strong enough to keep or take, and if there were other people there already then they conquered (slaughtered) them and took their land for their own. Genocide was not something the natives had a moral problem with. But you won't ever find them being condemned for their own wars of conquest, only pitied for losing wars of conquest to us.

But this topic is not about telling people what to wear. This topic is about deciding that if people want to wear that they should not come here in the first place. That, in effect, if that's what you want to wear you are clearly demonstrating your incompatibility with Canadian values.

They have the freedom in Canada to either wear it or not. Telling them they *must* remove their face covering or go back to their country also removes their freedom. You can claim you are doing it it 'for them', because it's a symbol of oppression, but in reality it's for yourself - you are uncomfortable seeing a woman with her face covered and you have decided that it's up to her to conform to your comfort. In those countries where hijab or niqab is a requirement for women, the women are also told 'it's for their own good', because other people (men) are uncomfortable with women who show their hair or their face or too much skin and so it's up to her to conform to their comfort. If you want to address female oppression in Islam, you can't do it by oppressing in the opposite direction. You can do it by providing an environment where women are free to choose, and then you give them the time and space to make that choice and respect the choice they make, even if you don't like it.

Joltin' Joe

Another Grace Jones...

Unfolds like a flower...pretty cool. I suppose the one thing that did delight me over the past few years is rockets landing on their tails. How Ray Bradbury is THAT?

No, but plenty of money to be made selling NASA a ride for its probe to Neptune. The private company can build the rocket for 1/10 the cost of NASA, but charge NASA 1/5 what NASA would cost to build it. Boom NASA saves 80% and the private company makes 100% profit margin. Blue Origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn 45,000 kg to LEO announced so far. And unlike Spacex, Blue Origin is very secretive. I suspect they have much bigger things in the works quietly. SLS is 70,000 kg to LEO in Block 1, which is comparable to the falcon heavy. SLS Block 2 with the 130,000 kg capacity you mention is 12+ years away, and I'd give 5:1 odds it never flies. I'm betting ITS has a better chance of actually getting built than SLS Block 2, and ITS will have 550,000 kg payload to LEO, which is 4x more than SLS Block 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITS_launch_vehicle

By 2057? Here's my predictions: we'll have landed a person on Mars some country or other will have landed people on the Moon again and probably established a small station (not a colony, more a lab like the ISS but on the moon) space tourism to low earth orbit will be routine (but still very expensive - only for the very rich) we'll have solved the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy we'll have explored Europa, Enceladus, Titan, and other targets of interest more thoroughly with robotic probes, and very likely found microscopic lifeforms existing somewhere else in the solar system besides Earth we'll have detected multiple planets within 20 light years that are potentially habitable and spectroscopically analyzed their atmospheres with a new generation of telescopes we'll have made a functional fusion rocket but will not have yet used it for any mission As for the question of should we colonize the Moon, Mars, and eventually other things? Yes, of course. There's really only two choices: become a spacefaring species or sit at home and wait to die.

All the folks whining about the rich and powerful will still be sitting on Earth whining about the rich and powerful. Meanwhile, those who have something useful to contribute will become a spacefaring species.

Actually, space travel has consumed far fewer resources and done far less damage to the "natural" than mining, forestry, and commercial fishing. Resources in space provide lots of data and imaging of the entire planet / environment over time.

Pull Up To The Bumper: Grace Jones

Everybody is a racist....well, 'cepting YOU of course.

Nobody needs to defend her really. Its perfect ok to be a racist as long as you don't harm others. I could say I wanted an Albanian doctor with gigantic tits if I want... thing is people can just tell me to go pound sand... The important thing is that the government does not enable this, or give these people the right to demand it. Society is packed full of people like this. Discrimination of literally every kind is somewhat of a human "norm". Increasingly people find it ugly and that's a good thing, but just about every does it in some way.

Aqua: Dr Jones

Family Affair Mary J. Blige

A candy-colored clown they call the sandman Tiptoes to my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper "Go to sleep. Everything is all right." Roy Orbison