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How does change happen? When women were not allowed to vote, did the policy change one morning, with the politicians waking up saying, "Hey. This isn't right. Let's change the rules." If I or you or anyone believes there can be improvement, we should voice our opinion, instead of hiding behind "let things unfold naturally". There isn't anything natural about how governments and policy work. Our policies in regards to the environment are changing. Slowly. Some of the policies are stupid and ineffective, but there is movement towards the right direction. Our economies should adapt. There are already more jobs in clean energy than fossil fuel energy industries. Not only that, but the effect that fossil fuel will have on the environment will cost a lot of money in the future. So if you don't give a shit about how dirty and ugly our world will look with a polluting system, then at least look at the economic advantage of weening ourselves away from fossil fuel.

That is why I believe age only goes so far and if u and her didn't open your minds to a relationship u would have missed a very good one experiment. Good for u. For me, for its going to be the first time on my OWN, no parents and no spouse since we married a 21/23. I'm lucky and blessed with with no real financial problems, own my home but I want to sell down the road because too many memories of Tom fighting cancer and the fact its too big for one. So...I'm starting over fresh and wonder what is round the corner. Sometimes life sucks and this is one of those times but I will survive!! I am WOMAN! lol!

Your comments reflect the deeply entrenched stigma that recovering people face. Your comments and others here reflect great ignorance and baseless moralization that is unfortunately widespread in society. To improve successful recovery, addicts continually work on their integrity, values, sound judgement, ethics and responsibilities. Traits which are greatly needed in politicians. It's too bad we don't have more recovered addicts as our politicians to lead our country.

So true, it was a hard life for those that came here. And very true on the fact they come here the perks ,even if they are living fine where they are. But if you keep bringing in people from africa and the ME, then this country will eventually be like africa or the ME.

If some Christian individual owning a bake shop decided to refuse to bake a cake for homosexuals for their wedding, I wonder how long it would take before the chit hit the fan on that one? Muslims appear to be exempt from any law because of their religion, but Christians cannot. Multiculturalism is to be forced on some but it would appear that it will not be forced on others.

The Europeans founded North America as part of an expedition to discover new lands. They did not know whether a better life awaited them or not. When they did arrive in N.A. there were no perks then like there are now. Today those perks are being taken advantage of. If Canada did not offer any perks at all it's more than likely they would never come here at all. Why immigrate to Canada when there are places to live closer to home if there were no perks? Acres were given away as part of an incentive to get people to immigrate to N.A. to get the country inhabited. Canada does not need to offer acres of lands today just to get people to immigrate here.

Except what he wrote is accurate. Stress is one of the top relapse triggers. To put a very recent (a year?) recovering alcoholic (all alcoholics are "recovering" regardless of time off the bottle) in that kind of position reeks of cronyism and is a dangerous game to play with our governance. All that said, there has never really been any "merit" to how ministers are chosen for positions - how do we end up with an obese person as a Minister of Health? What about someone in charge of finance that can barely understand a balance sheet (or not at all)? Sport and Disabilities....no one cares so put someone clueless there. Indian Affairs (or whatever it's called this week)? Hows about we put someone there that actually KNOWS something about...I don't know...Indian affairs? The one that amazes me is the refugee in charge of Immigration and Refugees - are you kidding me? Does anyone expect this guy to react critically to a system that let him in? What a joke. Trudeau putting the ex-drunk in charge of the military is just his SOP - take someone that will piss off the people concerned about the portfolio and tell them to giver'. (I'm surprised he hasn't named himself Minister of Energy (just to irritate Alberta and Saskatchewan).

And apparently God has been working overtime.

No, I specifically wanted to point out how very badly the Trump haters in Canada want to flip out at any opportunity they see in American media. Trump and God cause hurricanes and flooding...must be true.

Speaking of thread drift...what does the Catholic school board and its policy of only hiring Catholics (not just any Christians but Catholics) have to do with the thread? Here let's put it back on track.Trudeau is a whore and bigot apologist. He panders to bigots if they are non white, gay or women for votes. We see that every day. We see that with him, his party and Liberals. Its nothing new. Liberals think their shit don't stink. They think their supporting bigots and discriminatory totalitarian beliefs is righteous. There is Lord Justin sitting in a Mosque with extremist anti semites, bigoted against all religions but their version of Islam, sexist and homophobic, dressed like a man of the desert, pretending to be T.E. Lawrence, the next minute, oops there he is in his uniform pink shirt and white bumb bum pants prancing at a gay pride parade or two or three or four or five or whatever. No disconnect there for Lord Justin. Liberals t imagine their beliefs taken to their extreme create either communism or fascism in the name of progress and elightenment through the state whereas with extremist conservatives the worst you get are libertarians or anarchists. Never met an anarchist who had a sense of direction and therefore was capable of following instructions although they do scream a lot especially in the Italian legislative assembly.

You forgot the U.S. as well. Did you count how many times Pence mentioned Trump's name in his speech to Rockland. We all know who his audience is. Trump and God.

And his supporters would say "He's frickin Jesus". It cuts both ways. If he even actually does something, instead up opening his gaping mouth and congratulating himself on Texas, or whatever he's f*cked up in the past 24 hours then we will be able to look at that. In the meantime, healthcare, budgets, trade deals, and Texas is all a big zilch that leaves the lovers and haters fighting over his latest bullshit.

Topaz, have you ever thought of joining a 50+ club? I know of one such club and they have wonderful group activities. Some members are single others are couples, but mostly single men and women. For example, they attend dinners, day trips, exercise classes, holiday trips and more. The people I know who are members are financially secure, physically fit and are fun to be with. Just a thought as you enter into another phase of your life. You go girl.

All governments are inevitably drawing closer regardless of ideology. Their more common interest, power over the governed demands it. Anarchy is the only hope the governed have to avoid the chaos of co-dominion and hegemony. Burn it all to the ground and start from scratch.

It's because I am not a Jew hater. I know you have a hard time accepting that, but that is the reality. And I don't smear Jews at all. I do have a problem with things Israel does, but I shall leave that for other threads. And you are right, you don't slander all Muslims, I can at least recognize that, I am sure you have the capacity to grant me the same. I did get the bris, and my bar mitzvah was a damn good time. Interesting to note you've been bashing another Jew all along. SURPRISE !!!!

Yes, it does. But that's not the special part about it. It gets suddenly dark when you turn off the light switch in your room. People are used to things getting suddenly dark or suddenly light. It's no big deal. The cool thing is seeing this, with your eye:

Crickets.

1. I'd say it was to prevent a state from not allowing people to practice religion. Religious practices are not the same thing and as dre says they could be just about anything anyone practicing religion wanted to say they are, and especially when millions of adherents and voters agree. 2. I fail to see why we shouldn't have as much of a right to keep religions out of the state's affairs. Note the preamble to our constitution for example. I've long argued that the respect that religious beliefs are afforded by this sort of thing only encourages more fantastical thinking - to the point that society is pretty much saturated with people who simply can't or refuse to think straight. The thread title being a case in point of what I mean by fantastical thinking. Anything goes.

The increase in heavy storms and floods are already happening. Different parts of the world are experiencing this to a different degree. It's not going to suddenly hit us over night. This is a gradual change. The increase in temperature and water levels is already a thing. Just because there is fluctuation in the city where you live, it doesn't mean that the average earth temperature is not increasing. And storms get heavier and we will see more heavy rainfalls due to this. It's just a fact.

Larry David as a priest. It writes itself.

Of COURSE they're not carte blanche. But your statement: "All those examples are illegal. " is false. Give it up, are you seriously going to dig in on this one ? The competing rights section isn't as relevant as the one I posted. Here's a transgendered teacher who was legally fired - updated from June 2017: http://www.edmontonsun.com/2017/06/23/transgender-teachers-fight-for-human-rights-complaint-hearing-dismissed

Seriously? You are still in denial? Increase in temperature is a fact. We have have had record breaking global temperature in the past decade. You're just going to pretend that it's not the case? We have rising sea levels. You're going to pretend that's not happening either? Because of the higher temperatures, moisture stays in the air longer and it builds for a more extreme storm. This is why we're seeing an increase in large storms with record breaking rain falls. Global warming is causing more extreme storms

I don't recall hearing about the Sikh accused of sexual harassment? Do you have a link. Manipulative maybe, but definitely not a eunuch. Unless you are also claiming Sophie's been straying and those kids are fake Trudeaus.

So rue is not a typical Jew? That's a relief, especially for Israel's sake.

Media is just quoting him and flipping out that he doesn't disavow extremists from his side readily enough. It's confusing. I have seen people engaging with you on fact-checking for left- and right- media but the left seems to be 100% wrong all the time... Of course people should fact-check media, in fact they should correct people who agree with them politically on incorrect facts. Often.

So even though Snopes has called it 'unproven', you went with what the so-called church 'indicated' in a statement?

How is it Fake news? I don't think you looked into it well enough before dismissing it. The church 'indicated' that they weren't accessible, but many have said they live in the area and the church is accessible and is giving out fake information.

I saw a headline that caught my attention. Hurricane Harvey: Texas' biggest church 'closes doors' during Hurricane Harvey Pastor Joel Osteen criticised for not immediately offering 16,000-seater arena that would make for 'great shelter', while dozens of smaller churches and mosques have done so Source

I live on Earth as opposed to in it. Those people who buy into the governments crap despite not believing it deserve the crappy government those of us who don't buy it get. No government would suit me just fine if that's what it takes to give the people what they want.

Ok. So, do you expect all of us to just follow right-wing media ? What's the credible way forward in this environment ? Will you acknowledge a political reality or not ?

It isn't having religious beliefs which is the danger. It is having religious beliefs which include violent punishments for those who go against them which is the danger. If the Mormons don't like what you do they will ignore you, shun you. Not much danger there. But a religion which clearly states apostates, blasphemers and adulterers as well as homosexuals be executed would be one in which the 'true believers' present a danger to the rest of us.

Some are now millionaires.

Some of them are in U.S. jails or prisons, like Amor Ftouhi (stabbed a police officer in Michigan) after crossing the border.

You can keep repeating that until you're blue in the face, but until you are able to show proof that I have said anything racist or bigoted, you continue to fail. Oh and being against Zionist ideology or Israel's policies against its minorities is not racist. Wrong again. Even though the state of Israel was created without the agreement of the inhabitants, we're at a point of no return and I accept the State of Israel. What I am against is the expansionism and the illegal occupation. I'm also against Israel's policy to never allow a Palestinian State to be formed. You, on the other hand, are for expansionism, illegal occupation, racist policies and against a Palestinian State to be formed, as stated under international law. Shame on you.

Your warped interpretation of my criticism of Zionism, Israel's policies and me pointing to the hypocrisy of Netanyahu about being outraged is not proof. You still have not shown how I am a racist. No quotes. No comments. No proof. Therefore, shut your hole, little man.

Either show proof of this racism you keep screaming, or shut your hole, you pathetic little man.