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OftenWrong

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  1. Right, surfing. How about that time he emerged half naked from a cave in Gatineau Quebec, startling some women and children? Shirtless Justin Trudeau Spotted Emerging From Cave
  2. Certainly. Which of the many google links shall I provide? Only one that you'll accept. How about Huffington Post? No, you probably wouldn't approve of Huffington Post. CNN? Na, you'd probably like a "more balanced perspective". Telegraph? Naa, Too British. CBC? No, they downplayed the story and said it was just an accident. There's a nicely written one here on Global News. Shirtless Justin Trudeau Photobombs Wedding
  3. The problem begins long before residential schools came to be. In fact the schools were practically a necessary consequence of things that happened before, namely colonization. You want to identify a real crime? Destruction of a peoples food source, the Buffalo. All slaughtered, by the millions. Why were they slaughtered? To starve the Indian. And that's what they were doing, on their reserves. We're talking in the middle of NOWHERE, and a long time ago, so you can envision the isolation and problems that arise from this. There's no doctor available when some kid breaks their leg in remote northern Alberta. Heck, it's a problem even now. Part of the reason they were taken away from their parents was to take them out of that level of poverty. They were starving, neglected, sick, no future. Their culture was already destroyed.
  4. There there not to worry. Eventually the impending suffering outweighs the preeminent suffering, so that we actually do things.
  5. Not to mention creating a disturbance at people's weddings, including exposing himself.
  6. What global warming are you referring too
  7. You're making a lot of sense here, Billy.
  8. Why thanks Capricorn! Not so sure about that last part though... fiscally conservative?
  9. Once polarization, or maybe call it extremism, sets in there's no way to play the game fairly anymore. It's like reducing to the lowest common denominator. I consider myself an outside and my personal view is, we're on the VIA Rail to hell.
  10. It's just news about circumstances that took place at the time. That is what the investigation found. No interpretation or opinion was provided. Other sources of this story can be provided, if necessary.
  11. "After receiving a subpoena for her emails, Clinton insiders discussed strategies to use as an excuse not to release all of her emails. It appeared to constitute a conscious effort of the Clinton camp to frustrate and delay a congressional subpoena." Link I looked it up.
  12. Covering up the email investigation.
  13. No idea. I'm still trying to figure out why Bodhidarma traveled from India to China...
  14. Unless you get the problem where muslims are doing exactly that themselves. When it comes to literal interpretations of statements like "Slay the infidels before me", or whatever, terrorists and groups like ISIS walk the walk, not just do the talk. There's no time to explain the metaphorical meaning to that, if in fact there is one.
  15. That was said during the election campaign when wikileaks exposed Hillary's criminality.
  16. Has BC been run under a right wing government for any of the numbers you listed? Definitely not. Would BC be different today if it had been? Oh yeah.
  17. Hard to prove and doesn't matter. Point is they have the same overall agenda- a one sided revelation of info (IE propaganda) to confuse and bring harm to the general public. Releases like this empower criminals and present a threat to international stability. Assange is a villain.
  18. It's sad that it has to come to this, but not surprising given the direction of politics over the past few decades. Our society has become increasingly polarized, there is no balance. Too many years of leftist rule that's soft on crime, too many years of liberal immigration laws inevitably leads to the rise of foreign-run organized criminal gangs. Drug crimes, sexual slavery are increasing common. The liberal approach to this is to legalize crimes, sanction slavery under the guise of "freedom of choice". But it's a lie. Eventually people have enough and react violently. By violently I mean, they want to elect a strongman to make major, drastic changes. The problem too is that leftists have completely dismissed right wing views as wrong and irrelevant. For many decades, the political party that owned the middle owned the House. That is no longer the case, the middle's not where it's at.
  19. Good, then he should be able to hear the cries of billions of pathetic fools suffering in an insane world, much of it is due to arguing about the esoteric meaning of some obscure passage in an ancient book, that gets interpreted wrongly by some psychopath who in turn starts killing people in the name of said God.
  20. Don't hold your breath waiting. I wouldn't be surprised if those countries are actually providing support to Wikileaks. Tell you what, if I was the president of USA I'd be looking for some heads to roll right about now.
  21. Guy was like ten years ago, get over it. Besides, you've got me now.
  22. Same goes for all the screwy holy books of old. Anyone can read practically anything in it. Tell you what, you want to present a book that gives some kinda moral code for everyone to live by, better make it as simple clear as possible. Not a bunch of cryptic mumbo jumbo.
  23. They thought they had no other choice. They wanted natives to be able to sustain themselves independently, without government financial support, which in itself is not a bad thing. They had to become westernized law abiding citizens of course. That is what the quote by the Minister refers to. Natives were being decimated by disease and starvation. The government knew that they couldn't live according to their traditional ways, because of the change that colonialism would inevitably bring. It was already game over when the first sailing ships arrived.
  24. Point is a lot more would have died if nothing had been done. Natives in 1800 were already living in complete squalor. Their children were starving. At the time the decision was made to create the schools, natives were described as brutal savages with little to no chance of becoming civilized. Their primitive way of life was not compatible with European culture. It's a pity. However the government and church at the time thought they were doing the right thing. That is why it's the best that can be expected, AT THE TIME.
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