SpankyMcFarland

People that poor and uneducated can make good shirts which should be evidence enough for us to get out of the business.

Those jobs are good jobs in Bangladesh. Granted we should monitor the safety of sub-contractors there better than we have but clothes can be made far more cheaply there than here. Industries come and go.

Chaos, confusion, uncertainty - welcome to the new normal. Not good for business.

This ain't 1945 any more. Other countries will respond. It's great news for isolationists and anti-capitalists everywhere. Can you imagine how cocky the US Border boys will be now?

Tariffs are a tax on consumers.

Hurting the Mexican economy through punitive tariffs will increase the number of people who want to immigrate to the US and, surely to God, one of the best ways to discourage such illegal immigration would be to prosecute the biggest employers of illegals. So Trump is doing something that will tend to increase the supply of illegal immigrants while failing to take an obvious and relatively simple step to fight this flow at the demand end. That wall better be big.

We are not funding the journals which examine the research and attempt to filter out the dross. Good journals have a lot of moving parts.

You're going to have to explain that timeline to me there because I am not that familiar with it. On the date of the crime, had there already been a democratic election in Afghanistan turfing the Taliban?

I would not equate universities and hospitals. Your proposal would mean that the boss of the hospital would earn a lot less than some of the doctors he or she is in charge of managing.

1. I did not say against his will. 2. It is a fact that he was taken to Pakistan and Afghanistan by his family, isn't it? He did not travel there on his own. At what point should Omar Khadr have left his family and come back to Canada? And whom would he have stayed with here if he had? 3. I understand how actions can be taken against persons deemed terrorists in other countries but if you invade a country, that country has the right to call on all residents, citizens or otherwise, to defend it. It is hard to see how actions taken in Afghanistan, sanctioned by the government, against an invading foreign power, can be deemed to be terrorism. There is no pure and simple about it unless we think 'we right, they wrong'.

I just feel (right or wrongly, no idea) that a young guy like that (not a volunteer, brought to Afghanistan by his family) could more usefully be coaxed to give up intel, given that he might have some trivial detail about somebody in the leadership that nobody would even think of asking. Many of his family WERE fanatics so who knows.

I do not believe that torture would be the best way to get that kind of info. Khadr was not a hardened fanatic by any stretch of the imagination. You'd want him talking freely, giving up details of OBL's preferences in coffee and other apparent trivia. And do you not think OBL would have moved on by then?

I would concede there is a case to be made for torture in the ticking bomb scenario (which is why Dershowitz makes it) but I don't see any awareness of the slippery slope here that would give the green light to all sorts of cases. The punishment for breaking the rules would have to be severe.

The Khadr case is a good example of stupid torture. There was no possibility of a ticking bomb there.

Unscrupulous interrogators will jump this chasm as often as they can. Once you open up that crack, it will widen rapidly.

You could ask that about CEOs as well. The pool of people willing and able to run a large hospital is small. You're handling bad news publicly all the time. In my own province, we had to recruit from Ontario in at least one instance and offer a better package than the person was already getting.

One problem there is that you don't know what a suspect knows, so torture could be justified against many suspects that have an exceedingly low probability of being involved in such a plot. It would not be a big step from there to torture every terrorist suspect until he signs the confession and then send him to court to be sentenced.

Canada is doing very well with its treatment of cystic fibrosis. Our patients have among the world's highest life expectancy. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/canadians-with-cystic-fibrosis-living-longer-than-a-generation-ago/article21567116/

It is harder but a lot more fun. Apparently, you don't have to pay people that much to run a country. The old vanity kicks in there. BTW the guy who runs the big city hospital often earns a lot less than some of the specialists in that city.

How religious does this girl sound?: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/paniz-khosroshahy/mcgill-cycle-sexual-violence_b_9778676.html Most of that could have been written by any 'old stock' young Canadian Anglo female.

This is a remarkable tale, apparently a world first, about a woman with cystic fibrosis whose lungs were so infected they were going to kill her. The doctors removed her lungs and kept her going for six days on an artificial lung before doing a double lung transplant. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/25/canada-doctors-remove-lungs-transplant https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2017/01/25/toronto-doctors-save-dying-womans-life-by-removing-her-lungs.html She is recovering well and may soon get a kidney transplant from her mother. Artificial organs seem to be making big strides. The lungs would be fairly simple compared to some but, still, this is quite the leap forward.

Credit to Trump for using the word 'torture': https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/donald-trump-torture-absolutely-works-says-us-president-in-first-television-interview

Sharkman, have you tried it yourself? This talk of 'enhanced techniques' is creepy, like 'enhanced screaming'. There's no need for Orwellian euphemisms.

I think the town halls are a great idea that other leaders should copy. Robust feedback is good for them and democracy.

That would be a local news story. I am aware of the problems there. Some of my family live outside Detroit. This is a thread about one aspect of Mr. Trump. I spend much of my internet time on other websites in other countries so my attention span on the US is limited, frankly.