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I will deign to say it was the U.S. military that made the decision to drop the bomb, not necessarily Trump himself, although he may have been asked. At least that is the impression I got from the news.
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1 hour ago, Argus said:
Actually, it pretty much is. Just about any act of disruption about an airliner is a crime.
This list is by no means exhaustive. As a general rule of thumb, if the conduct is offensive or disruptive and distracts the crew, it may be considered actionable interference. The repercussions for passengers who engage in unruly behavior can be substantial, so if an attendant instructs you to do something, you'd best listen up. Otherwise, your next destination could potentially be a jail cell, a courtroom, or the office of an experienced criminal defense lawyer near you.
http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2013/11/what-happens-if-you-disobey-a-flight-attendant.html
Mr. Dao was not engaging in unruly behavior. The reason they removed him by force was because they wanted his seat. The fact that he was removed with excessive force is what was illegal his lawyer says. He received serious injuries. That is what was illegal. Airlines do not have a right to do whatever they please with a passenger.
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On 2017-04-11 at 0:08 PM, Goddess said:
I think cognitive dissonance comes into play a lot, too.
How else do you explain why seemingly intelligent people can completely reject evolution, a science supported by modern medicine, anatomy, genetics, chemistry, paleontology, geology, and much more, and truly believe it makes less sense than a millennia old fairytale about a talking snake, a dirt man, and a rib woman.
I had a religious devotee argue at length that "the fact" that men have one less rib than women is proof of creation.
The theory of evolution has been rejected by a number of scientists. I watched a four or five evening slide presentation by Professor Philip Stott on creation versus evolution. Dr. Stott is a noteworthy scientist who once believed in evolution but dismissed it 45 years ago after a lot of scientific consideration. He demonstrated on slides how the mathematical laws of probability make evolution an impossibility. The theory of evolution is based on the claim of random chance processes. It claims that over a period of time, the right atoms and molecules will come together to form the building blocks of life which will then eventually advance to higher life forms. But the problem with this is Prof. Stott said is there is not enough time (in terms of billions of years or more) for the right combinations to come together to form life. He likened it to giving a monkey a typewriter and letting him type randomly until he finally types the complete works of Shakespeare. How long would it take. Well the Professor made some calculations and found that it is essentially an impossibility because there is not enough time available to complete the project by chance. The same with the forming of life. It couldn't happen that way because the chance of it randomly happening would take an unreasonable amount of time. For all intents and purposes, it's just not a possibility that it could happen that way.
Another thing professor Stott pointed out is the problem with the big bang theory. The universe is a very orderly mass of stars, galaxies, black holes, etc. According to the big bang theory, there was at the beginning an initial explosion and the universe came out of that. The problem is an explosion produces disorder or chaos, not order. So that means it could not have been an explosion at the beginning. The universe is very orderly.
Also, the big bang theory still does not answer the question of where everything came from. Scientists have theories of course, but they cannot answer the question of where the matter or universe came from.
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Just saw on CNN that the passenger received a broken nose, lost two teeth, received a concussion, and received injuries to his sinus. He will require reconstructive surgery. His lawyer says he came from Vietnam in 1975 and what happened to him was more horrifying than what happened to him in Vietnam. His lawyer says the excessive force use on him was illegal.
United Airlines claims they will make changes so this will never happen again.
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1 hour ago, Argus said:
The bottom line is the airline was following the law. The passenger was violating the law.
No. I just heard on the news today the lawyer for the passenger dragged off said the airline police at used excessive force in dragging the passenger off and he said it was illegal. The man received serious injuries, possible broken jaw and other damage in his face, possibly sinus damage. He is in hospital and may require surgery;. Also damaged foot. Lawyer said it was illegal how he was removed. Working on a lawsuit now.
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38 minutes ago, Goddess said:
This is exactly the kind of thing that concerns Canadians about Muslim immigration. It is just a matter of time before this kind of thing starts in Canada, if it already hasn't.
If there is not already laws to prevent people from imposing Sharia law on other people, there should be. Instead of M103, they should work on a law to prevent this from happening in Canada. Maybe we should let some of the Conservative candidates know about this. They could come up with a campaign promise to deal with it.
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Canada's anti-Islamophobia committee will begin meetings next month.
http://debatepost.com/2017/04/13/canadas-anti-islamophobia-study-will-start-next-month/
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Asylum seekers coming into Canada receive up $1419 cash per month.
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1 hour ago, Argus said:
If I sit in front of your car and refuse to 'go' and you have to all police to forcibly remove me then that's creating a disturbance.
You're using a completely different set of circumstances. As a judge I would say inadmissible evidence. Award the passenger damages and expenses. This was simply for the convenience of the airline company. They should have found another solution.
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It also depends how they were treating the kids in their everyday life. If they were overbearing, that is no good. The article doesn't tell how they were treated so it's impossible to know. If it was just these three things, that shouldn't warrant shutting the place down, but if there is more to it than that, it would be a different matter.
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It's on a Global News page.
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On 2016-08-25 at 2:32 PM, taxme said:
At website Immigration Watch Canada, there was a story written on how a resident in a condo complex in Richmond, BC. was told that all AGM's(annual general meetings)will be conducted in Mandarin only. This was voted in by the majority of Asians who own most of the condos in the complex. Is this what Canadian multiculturalism is all about and has been telling these Asians all along that they can totally ignore one of the main official languages in their meetings? I can understand if all the owners in this complex of condos were Asian and all of them spoke Mandarin but this is not the case.
So, just what the hell is going on here? Is this Canada or is this China? How dare these Asians tell other condo owners where no doubt some are Caucasian and speak English only that all meetings will be held in Mandarin only. One of the condo owners who is being affected by this is now taking this to the Human Rights Commission(whom I would never trust for fairness). This is a multicultural case for the HRC and I don't believe that this woman will win with them. It is my belief from seeing other HRC decisions believes that they will support the Asians. But we will wait and see for now.
So, for those of you who believe that multiculturalism is suppose to be a wonderful and great thing for Canada, and that no one will be treated differently, all will be treated equally, can now see that with some of these alien foreign people this will not be so.
As a Canadian I am offended and insulted by this action, and I would call it an act of racism, and I believe that this program and agenda called multiculturalism is nothing more but a big farce. It is not meant for the host Canadians but is there to promote others and their ways of doing things on the host Canadian people. This is just unbelievable.
So,what say you? Care to comment? Over.
Source:Immigration Watch Canada website.
I am very disappointed in our Liberal (and NDP occasionally) governments in B.C. They have allowed the real estate prices in Vancouver to skyrocket for decades and ordinary people can no longer afford a home in one of Canada's greatest cities. The lowest price home is around one million dollars. Scandalous what politicians allowed to happen. Now we are reaping the consequences which you describe above as one example. They have no interest in being Canadian and assimilating.
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On 2017-04-07 at 10:39 AM, Bonam said:
First you have to endure a generation of absurd housing prices and wait for all the young people to leave the city, leaving it an empty husk. Then you can get the tax after that, like Vancouver did.
The Vancouver real estate tax is too little too late. The house prices are up around a million dollars for the cheapest house. It should have been dealt with 40 years ago.
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1 hour ago, hernanday said:
Based on what? The terms and contracts and the ticket all say the airlines reserve the right to bump passengers. If he had read his agreement and contract, he would see his only right was to compensation.
Regardless of his history (which they did not know and is irrelevant), he did not create a disturbance. He simply refused to go. The airline was wrong to remove him by force. Now the airline is paying. In this country, we don't believe in treating the paying public like that. People have to be treated with respect and dignity. Millions of people have seen it and are strongly opposed to the way he was dragged off the plane and injured. This is a form of physical assault.
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2 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:
Historically ? That is a pretty recent term, as I notice. I really started seeing it after 9/11 as a way to put a fence around people we aren't discriminating against today, this week, this year...
QuoteI don't know if it is a recent term. Part of Europe belonged to the Holy Roman Empire since about 300 A.D. Northern parts were considered as barbaric germanic tribes and were eventually conquered by the Holy Roman Empire. There were pockets of Jews scattered around Europe as well. Europe was mainly Roman Catholic with some Jews for much of the last 1000 years or more. Islam conquered in the 7 to 10 th centuries North Africa, and the Middle East. Islam conquered Spain and tried to conquer France but was eventually driven back out of Spain completely. So the western world was in fact Judeo-Christian. I don't know how old that term was. Perhaps not that old, but the western world was nominally Christian with some Jews.
When Europeans immigrated to North America they took that culture with them. It was only in the last century or less that immigrants arrived from places outside Europe in large numbers and it became a policy to bring large numbers of immigrants from Asia and other places. A number of Chinese were brought in around the 1880s to build the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific.
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Who cares what the criminal history of the passenger was? He had a ticket and did not cause as disruption like the airline claimed.
I think I saw on TV that United Airlines shares dropped the other day by a billion dollars. Wow! Money and millions of people have spoken.
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WASPS (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants) are an endangered species in Canada. There may be many Orthodox, Catholics and others who agree with WASPS and actually form a kind of coalition to support the idea of defending a Canadian culture from the onslaught of those from other parts of world who oppose our culture and traditions. I believe it has historically been known as a Judeo-Christian culture. It is the western culture which was brought to North America from Europe starting around 500 years ago. It has been falling off the tracks in the last 100 years because of pressures of various sorts, including the liberal ideology of "multiculturalism". Multiculturalism has been a failed experiment in some ways. One need only look at the mess in Europe to realize that. One does not have to be a Jew or Christian to still believe in the Judeo-Christian culture as the basis of our western culture and democracy.
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On 2016-10-03 at 2:19 PM, Machjo said:
Perhaps it's time we required any prescription for a particularly addictive drug like an opiod to get two physicians' signatures? Just a thought.
That would cost the medical system too much. Too many people visiting doctors already for very questionable reasons.
When I was visiting Manitoba last year, I found they had brought in a new regulation requiring anyone to get a doctor's prescription to buy 222s with caffiene & codiene. So when you have a headache and need some 222s, you can't even walk into a drugstore and get them. I was shocked. This is costing Manitoba a fortune. You must wait until the walk-in clinic opens and go sit there, maybe for a couple hours. Glad I don't live in Manitoba. How much does it cost the medical system in Manitoba for one doctor's visit? Far more than the cost of a bottle of 222s.
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On 2016-02-07 at 7:35 AM, Topaz said:
Ontario also has an energy problem but its a bit different is the HIGH cost of hydro and I research newspapers online of Windsor, Chatham-Kent, London and Sarnia and the most complains are in Chatham-Kent, who does have the most wind turbines in the province. I"m also wondering if the high bills are just Hydro One customers or does the GTA also have high bills? One senior in Chatham-Kent complain when he opened his bills to find an increase of $100.00 when he wasn't living a home for a month because he was in the hospital. Many seniors may be forced to sell their homes, and some may not be able to find other lodging if there is a rush for apartments. The province better come up with something to make hydro bills reasonable. http://www.windsorstar.com/business/ontario+hydro+bills+will+rise+year+even+after+debt+charge+eliminated/11623922/story.html
Ontario has been mis-managed so badly by the Liberal government of Ontario. It is a total disaster. The Liberals went whole-hog into the green thing. I think they have the green energy act. Then they started building wind generators like crazy. They used taxpayer money to subsidize the green energy industry and that cost Ontario far more money. They wasted billions of dollars with the gas plant fiasco when they shut down gas plants. They wasted hundred of millions of dollars in the computerized medical records system disaster. To make matters worse, the people re-elected the Liberals in Ontario in the last election. Now they will have carbon pricing which will push up the cost of living even more. On top of it, you have the insane real estate prices in the major cities like Toronto that make it impossible for a middle income person to buy a home.
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No, I don't think it is a good idea. First, I don't believe in man-made climate change. Google Ten Reasons Climate Change is a Hoax.
Secondly, fossil fuels will be needed for the forseeable future. There is no viable alternative. Canada has a huge geography where many Canadians live in small towns or villages scattered over this vast country. Many people must travel long distances for various reasons. Electric cars are generally far more expensive than gas or diesel powered cars. Many people must drive trucks for their jobs and electric is not a viable option of trucks because of the amount of power trucks require. The main reason I oppose it is the high cost of electric cars and the inability of being able to drive long distances without stopping frequently for long periods of time to re-charge the batteries.
We have a vast fossil fuel resources in the ground in Canada and we need to find ways to get pipelines built to be able to sell it to foreign markets. Right now Canada is losing billions of dollars because of the inaction and incompetence of the govenments of Canada.
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2 hours ago, Rue said:
You follow a particular religious doctrine. I respect it. I just think its harsh. Look its impossible to look at this world and not wonder what the hell is going on with moral values and ethics. I get that. Of course I agree with you that there is an element of self-indulgence, corruption, moral decay. For sure. Me personally I suspect our values have been corrupted by material values. I don't say that like a communist but in the spiritual sense that we have become obsessed wit material values such as money, cars, jewellery, property, accumulating things to then determine our value as people. Our value as people today is defined not by what we think or feel but by what we own. That is what I mean by being obsessed by material value. That of course is my criticism of all of us in the first world not third or fourth world.
So I agree with you to an extent I just think we have to trust the current, the flow of water, the overall bug picture you and I can not see because our brains are too limited in capacity to be able to see it and that is in all this chaos, in all this sea of what seems to be insanity may be an exercise of balancing going on between the extremes in value and this was all pre-destined to be a never ending balancing act. Surely that is what your faith wants you to believe-to have faith and not give up in the positive actions and get obsessed with the dark ones.
The Bible, all religions should be used to give faith in the positive overcoming. If we use it as a damning weapon I think it missed the point
Cheers. I wrote that because Easter and Passover are coming up and you now both well.
Where I come from Jesus is supposed to be a healing agent, a literal bandage to put on wounds. Moses was a leader of people to freedom. I just leave those symbols as that.
There are stories of both of them being angry interestingly but that simply proved they had human qualities it didn't condone being angry right?
Call me friggin stupid, I see the light prevailing and coming out of whatever darkness comes.
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I agree with you that materialism is a problem. I don't think if someone becomes a christian it means he has to give up everything he has. Everyone is at a different level of prosperity. Some have much; some have very little and are just trying to make ends meet. Rich people often donate generously.
I don't think I use the bible as a damning weapon; I hope not. I don't think that is the way it is to be used. But is is full of warnings which we cannot ignore. The good thing is the bible teaches God is merciful and ready to forgive. Yes, Jesus is a healing agent. I agree with that. There are so many people suffering in different ways. There are many situations that people are in that there might not be an easy solution for. Family problems are major. Surely there must be an answer for that through the bible. I think Jesus is the answer. Yes, this is Easter week, an important time of the year for christians everywhere. Cheers.
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On 2017-04-09 at 1:13 PM, Rue said:
Blackbird I have seen all kinds of conspiracies linked to the Jesuits but accusing them of being Liberals or leftists is a new one.
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Back in the 1970s, 1980s, and maybe later, we had some priests in central and south America who were apparently teaching "liberation theology". Maybe Google it. This is a marxist theology that supports revolution, including violence. This appealed to masses or the uneducated catholic people in those poor countries in central America. That may be why you had the war in El Salvador and some other central American and south American countries.
Also don't forget the present pope is a Jesuit priest and he has promoted socialist ideas and criticized capitalism. So what is his ideology? Meanwhile the Vatican is probably the richest corporation in the world with billions of dollars accumulated over nearly 2000 years.
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The heading for this subject is not something I would choose. If one is following the teachings of the bible (and few of us are strictly speaking), how does one say it is too much. But if one is in the wrong religion, then any amount is too much.
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1 minute ago, Argus said:
I think the fact the Muslim world believes only religion is an extremely important part of why they've fallen behind - perhaps THE most important. But they aren't alone, as the example of the Haradi demonstrates. And if their numbers continue to grow as fast as they have been people might one day think of Israel as that backwater place full of ignorant religious fanatics.
You said the Haradi were about 10% of the population of Israel. I saw that program the other night also. I don't think they will grow that much. There are probably a number of different sects. But the difference between them is they still live in a democracy in Israel. They have basic freedoms which the Muslim world does not have and are probably outnumbered by about 100 to 1 in the middle east, or maybe 1000 to 1. It's a sad situation but not much we can do about it, except put up a wall.
Canadian Muslims demanding end to free speech / Canada's Anti-Islamophobia Committee will begin meetings next month
in Federal Politics in Canada
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So is speaking against a particular religion or ideology "hate speech"? What is the definition of Islamophobia? Is it referring to speaking against a group of people or does it include speaking against a religion? For example can one be opposed to discrimination against women or certain people? Or will that be Islamophobia? I don't think the word "Islamophobia" can be enshrined in any kind of law but the word is undefined and can be made to apply to whatever one wishes to apply it to.