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Blue wave? No. Blue wind? Yes, please!

I think he must be doing those things on purpose. He enters a room and immediately presses all the social hot-buttons, forcing people to react. Seems to be pretty successful in business contracts. It is a very divisive way to run a country, however. Anyway, pity about that terror attack in Pittsburg, and stuff...

Sounds more like you left wingers should get educated about what's going on, before crowing about how great something else is. Canada's better, ok? So you Canada haters can all go and fook off.

Yep, the good old Swiss. Stay neutral, and handle all the money.

Rest of the world, eh?

And yet, quite sure that antisemitic speech would be tolerated in Russia.

How dare you question in the slightest way the empirical rule of modern science!

I want to get a Meade ETX-125 Maksutov-Cassegrain when I retire. I'd like to use it to do planetary imaging. Also I like the "flip mirror" that the ETX-125 has. What I really would love to do is spectroscopy.

A famous saying is "there are lies, damned lies, and there are statistics". It means there are three levels, each more evil than the next, and statistics are the very worst. When comparing statistics from now to long ago, we must consider if other factors have made the reporting incidence go up. These factors are basic to the understanding of any statistics. Another interesting development with statistics occurred in a poll, when people were asked questions about their opinions or preferences, they tended to lie and not admit their true feelings. This especially occurred if the person asking the questions could see them face to face, or in a phone call. People lied because they did not want other people to know what they really think. However, when they were given anonymity such as in the act of voting, they chose to vote more honestly because it was done in private.

Welcome to Canada!

People receive "unwanted sexual advances" all the time. People are sexual in nature and solicit for sex all the time. That is how babies get made, you know. Besides, all one has to do is say "No" whenever this happens, and that's all there is.

Oh well, those things happen. Besides, who rhas time to finish things anyway? Now on to the next technological miracle!

"I am just a patsy..."

Because someone has to stand up and speak out against the bull-shit, coming from you people.

There is no "science" or "religion" as things in themselves, apart from the mind of man. And it's man's nature to corrupt everything he touches.

In a nice world, we only have to make choices about the nicest of things. We can be "a force for good". Meanwhile, some else has to make the hard choices... the ones where no outcome is good.

If you mean me, I do not "laud" Fox news. You mean because I once said that the guy on Sunday morning TV doesn;t seem like a complete ass-hat, I am lauding fox news? Stop exaggerating.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions...

Problem is this type of so-called journalism is spreading to almost all the outlets, be they on the left or right. The hyperbole attracts more viewership, as the news descends to what used to be call tabloid trash. The Enquirer. Even lower than that today has the mainstream become, where it has the potential to incite incivility. Portraying the police as villains, for example. During the Ford-Kavanaugh debacle, which incidentally is over now fellas... our Canadian media outlets, the CBC, CTV, many more, were practically broadcasting information about the sexual assault allegations non-stop, 24-7. I was disgusted by our Canadian media for force-feeding us this shit, and calling themselves the news. As a result I have lost a lot of respect, and trust, in the media.

I agree.