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?Impact

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  1. He isn't even President yet, and he wants to rip up the Constitution. Donald Fascist Trump want to jail Americans, and violate international treaties by making them stateless, if they decide to exercise their first amendment rights.
  2. No, that is not what I said. Go back and reread.
  3. No, it is more like a guest lecturer reading the lord's prayer once. Why can't you accept comparable arguments, is your case so weak that you have to make it sound bigger than it is?
  4. A baptism is a ritual that make one an official member of the church. Taking part in communion is only for those that are part of the church. Cleansing/purification are general rituals and don't are not specifically for a member. It is all hogwash as far as I am concerned, but I am just pointing out what the equivalent would be.
  5. What about Iran. While it may not fit your limited criteria, tensions between the two counties are very high.
  6. The problem with F-35 proponents is they tend to lie a lot more. They continually stress the "fifth generation, stealth" capability, but then compare everything about their aircraft without any stealth. Without the external fuel tanks and weapons, the F-35 is lucky to drop a firecracker on the guy down the street. Not that stealth really means that much, but once you put on external tanks and/or weapons, the radar screens of the enemy light up like Christmas time. The F-35 is clearly "batteries not included"
  7. I know my kids made a dreidel at public school, and no doubt a menorah as well, yet I have yet to see that in the national news. When I was a kid we visited Notre-Dame Church (now Basilica) on a school trip, and no uproar. I don't know if cathedrals, churches, etc. are still included in school outings, but I expect the bigger problem today is controlling a bunch of rowdy kids. This is only a story because some busybody helicopter mom had nothing better to do. This is not equivalent of communion, it is more like the use of incense for purification and sanctification. The Holy Eucharist is only offered under specific circumstances, so it would not be offered to a public school group. The rules vary by the church, but generally there are limited circumstances where it would be offered outside their own church. Catholic priests for example would only offer to Catholics in a state of grace, have made a good confession since their last mortal sin, believe in transubstantiation, observe the Eucharistic fast, and not be under an ecclesiastical censure such as excommunication. There are very limited circumstances where a Catholic priest would offer communion to a non-Catholic, and that would generally only be to eastern orthodox Christians because of shared belief of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. While many other Christian churches do observe holy communion, there is a lot of disagreement about real presence. Even the Anglican church which reached substantial agreement on the doctrine of the Eucharist with Roman Catholic theologians has yet to be accepted by the Roman Catholic church.
  8. From what I understand, she is in trouble for voting in the primaries and not the general election. The only instance of voter fraud in the general election is the lady who tried to vote twice for Trump.
  9. 4.1 hours is not the average wait time, but the maximum time for 9 out of 10 patients
  10. Ontario Wait Times Search for a hospital in your area, but at the top of the report you will get the provincial average as well. Data is from September 2016.
  11. After the election, Trump lost the popular vote by over 1.5 million and he is claiming that is because of illegal aliens voting. After the election, Clinton lost the 3 states in question by about 150,000, and is supporting a recount. If anyone is claiming voter fraud it is Trump, by at least a factor of 10.
  12. I just compared Ontario to California. The average time for minor uncomplicated conditions spent in ER in Ontario is 2.2 hours (132 minutes) from Ontario wait times website, and the California number is 161 minutes.
  13. Do you have any comparison that looks at wait times based on how the patients were assessed. In Canada we use a five tier scale to determine the urgency of the case, the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS).
  14. Could you provide a source for that, as I have above which lists Canada far down in the list.
  15. Canada has the biggest deduction of all, capital gains on your primary residence - the exact thing you are talking about with those other deductions. Yes, it is a different system, and I'm not sure which is the best overall, but complaining about one and ignoring the other is ridiculous. The comparison I am looking at above however is based on total taxes, and not just some phoney rate while ignoring deductions. That is why I went with the net, so a true comparison could be made.
  16. Trump supporter or not, you have been duped by him. Citing Schweitzer doesn't help you.
  17. Bullshit. I went for a source that tried to look at total taxation. If you have any real source then provide them and stop making completely baseless claims.
  18. As has already been addressed earlier, do a direct comparison to whatever system you like and then we can see the real differences. Making blanket high level claims is bogus. Include the higher education system that doesn't leave health care professionals with monstrous debts to repay. Include the drug and dental plans that are part of the systems, etc. When you do a real comparison it is clear that the private insurance lobby in this country is out to fill their pocketbooks and nothing else.
  19. So you call the American version of the Fraser Institute illegitimate, yet this whole article was based on a Fraser Institute study. Yes, Canada doesn't want to degrade our first tier healthcare.
  20. I thought it was common knowledge that the sky is blue, but what the frig does that or your statement have to do with the false claim made by hernanday?
  21. So you will discard my source yet take an alternative claim based on zero (I repeat zero) information?
  22. There are literally thousands of sources that list the taxes collected by country (e.g. world bank). I am using the wikipedia article that is based on the heritage foundation.
  23. More bullshit from the bullshitter in chief Donald Trump and his gang of liars and scumbags. While the Clinton foundation has had some successes and some failures in Haiti, the claims you are making can be traced back to the campaign of Donald Trump and are complete fabrications. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/13/did-the-clinton-foundation-raise-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-for-a-hospital-in-haiti-that-was-never-built/
  24. Completely and utterly false. The following countries (among many others) have higher taxes than Canada (in order highest to lowest) Denmark Belgium France Sweden Finland Norway Italy Austria Germany Iceland Netherlands Greece Spain Israel New Zealand Brazil United Kingdom Turkey
  25. Hopefully the F-35s don't have bunk oxygen systems like the F-22s that Lockheed can't figure out, but I guess only time will tell. There was a report by the Marines about an OBOGS failure on an F-35B this year. Maybe a return to bottled oxygen is needed as all these 'modern' systems seem to be plagued by problems.
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