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To submisive Canadian pushovers it probably does. http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpos...56-c32a9b4988f7

Hardly genius, just extremely lucky the winds were blowing the right way. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> BINGO!

I'll bet you $20 that there is no such place as 'heaven'. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll bet you a million that there is! But people who throw people out like trash just because they, mistakenly, believe them to be "cantankerous" will NEVER MAKE IT THERE!! :angry: http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpos...56-c32a9b4988f7

The fact is that no one should take any subject just because it's easy to get through. Whenever I'm debating people who took their liberal arts program seriously I make sure that I'm super-extra-+++ careful of what I say. Else they'll eat you up! From Argus' last sentence I sense that he too learned the hard way.

Before you said: "He could have taken any number of offers, ranging from $1 million to $10 million, and walk away a very wealthy man." But now ... now you can only come out with one measly offer that looks at all genuine, at least on the surface it does. And it happens to be the weakest one of them all, Robert Herring's $1 million pittance. We can only wish that that lying SOB's claims of having numerous offers of up to and including $10 million were true. Had they been made to Terri instead (that's what Robert Herring should also have done), her parents would buy out that bastard, move Terri out of that flea infested hospice that the government stuck her in after she ran out of money, put her in Rolls-Royce accommodation, with Rolls-Royce doctors prescribing only Rolls-Royce treatments. Or don't you believe Nobel Prize winner Dr. William Hammesfahr ( an internationally recognized expert on cases of brain-injured patients) who categorically stated, to the thunderous applause of many other top notch doctors , that he believed that Terri could have been rehabilitated? Said he: "We, and others I know, have treated many patients worse than Terri and have seen them regain independence and dignity," Hammesfahr said. "There are many approaches that would help Terri Schiavo," Dr. Hammesfahr explained. "I know, because I had the opportunity to personally examine her, her medical records, and her X-rays.It is time to help Terri, instead of just warehousing her," he added. "She would have benefited from treatment years ago, but it is not too late to start now." The ONLY question that all of us "Terri" supporters were asking was "who's going to pay for her very expensive road to recovery?". With that out of the way you can bet your sweet ass that the American public wouldn't allow the courts to do what they did to Terri. I bet you she is in Heaven, dancing with John Paul II and other dignitaries. I also bet you that Michael's heading in the opposite direction. SERVES HIM RIGHT!!! PS - Thanks for the praise of my caveats. I learnt it from the king of caveats of this forum. Who could that be?

You would be fooled by that, wouldn't you? Michael wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either ... unfortunately he had the services of too many lawyers, and they managed to keep him out of major trouble. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Let me see if I can understand your "point". He was killing her for money, and the reason he turned down millions of dollars to let her live was that he wasn't too bright, and his lawyers kept him from doing something stupid. Because lawyers are known for not caring about money when it comes to morality. Is that basically it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Since both, Argus and Red Dog, insist that there WAS a genuine and perfectly enforcable promisory note for ten million dollars (among others) presented to Mr. Schiavo in exchange for his walking away from Terri's life ..... they must be right. After all, those two guys are just about never wrong when in synch. But before I eat crow, I would like to appeal to all the other posters here who may have any information to the contrary to please step forward and post it. Thanks! I'm going fishing for a couple of days .... hoping to see Argus and Red Dog being hung out to dry when I get back. Thanks in advance!

You would be fooled by that, wouldn't you? Michael wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either ... unfortunately he had the services of too many lawyers, and they managed to keep him out of major trouble.

Didn't he get to keep about one third of that money? Wouldn't he be a multimillionaire today had it not taken eight years before the courts finaly caved in and let him kill her? What a bastard!

Had you finished the above with ... "waited until the settlement came through" ... you'd be absolutely correct. But ..... you didn't.

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." - Oscar Wilde

I forget ... how much time had passed before Schiavo started trumpeting Terri's wishes? Why did he wait so long? Hm? Hmm?? HMMM ???

I beg your pardon but I screwed up! I forgot part of the quote. What he said was: "If a homosexual tries to infect others with their homosexuality, then the state has to intervene in such an abuse of freedom." http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1178757

And where is the support for Turkey the highest you ask? It is in Poland (54%). You know, I've been trying to find the reasons for the Polish jokes for quite some time .... but I'm beginning to realize that it's probably not just one or two things, it's all these little crazy things that they do, all of the time. Right after I stopped shaking my head over that Turkish vote article I turned the page of my paper and THEEEERE they go again .... this time it's their leader, Kazimiers Marcinkiewicz coming up with this doozy: "If a homosexual tries to infect others then the state has to intervene in such an abuse of freedom." Tsk tsk tsk tsk.

The goal of helping Turkey get onboard and into the EU is a good goal? "Why so wild about Turkey?" asks Steven Edwards in today's National Post newspaper. And so do I! Only 35% of Europeans think it's a good goal to bring 72 million Turks into the EU, opening up the door to zillions more in the process. My favorite daily, Die Welt, had this to say about my countrymen (Austrians) who oppose the Turks' admission the most. It said: "It [Austria] is the only country whose objections spoke out loud what numerous Europeans think, but are not allowed to say." Now that talk of letting the Turks in is back on, and the time line for their possible admission is 10 years, this is the way I see it developing. I expect that the first stage will be quite uneventful (vague plans etc.). In the second stage they'll come out with "specific plans" and that's when they will begin to see monstrous and cruel things. But they'll persevere and will enter in upon the third stage where they'll see things that they wanted to see to start with, wonderful curious things. Benedict XVI will be pleased. And so will I.

Think you could get them cheaper if they WERE made in Canada? Not on your life! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I didn't say that. However resource industries do buy a lot of stuff that is made in the country. Specialized and non specialized pipe which the oil patch consumes like candy is made in this country. Specialized parts of a wells christmas tree are not made in the country just as huge electronic electrical panels are not made in the country. Just for some examples. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sure they do buy a lot of stuff that is made here! But only if they can't buy it cheaper anywhere else. I'm always amused when Christmas comes and over half of British Columbians end up with a tree from Oregon or Washington.

This reminds me of my grandfather who had a great business going, supplying steel tips to some big shoe manufacturer, Tom Bata was his name I think. When this manufacturer ran into minor financial difficulties due to some unethical practices of some other big shoemakers, my grampa was certainly happy that Tom still kept on buying his steel tips. But he couldn't help gloating how he was 'better organized and tougher-minded' and that THAT'S why he was not in the fiscal mess that Tom was. Needless to say, Tom kicked his ass out. WITH a steel tipped shoe! The moral I learned from this story? Don't bite the hand that feeds you!

There are many other religions <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it." - G.B. Shaw

I always thought of Turks as being Asian. - 92 -

Think you could get them cheaper if they WERE made in Canada? Not on your life!

Even Turks are more civilized, setting the age of consent at 15. Speaking of Turks, is anyone going to start a thread about them trying to sneak into the EU?

I glanced at the site you kindly provided but after reading ... "With a disease as rare as lung cancer" ... I lost interest.

It it were the added chemicals that were the culprit, wouldn't someone have come out with pure organic tobacco smokes by now? In the 60's every smoker knew that it was the cigarette paper that was by far the worst part of a cigarette. What did they put in tobacco in the 16th century when Robert Burton wrote: "Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases ... but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the rui and overthrow of body and soul." You know, I think that inhaling the smoke of anything that's on fire is bad for you. Yet when the Liberals are seen flipping burgers at charcoal barbecues or mingling with children around the bonfire everybody says ... "ISN'T that nice"

Did you ever try prescription marijuana? You'd need 40 joints plus to get any kick out of it. Does the government care? No siree! Why is it that the Canadian government encourages moderation in most other unhealthy habits, like drinking and eating, but when it comes to tobacco inhalation they're ready to swear on the bible that one cigarette a day is more than enough to send one to an early grave? I LOVE my beer, but if I drunk the amount I'd love to drink I'd be gone in a jiffy. I LOVE my wiener schnitzels, but if I ate them to my fill every day I'd be gone just as fast. I LOVE my cigarettes, but if I smoked them as I smoked them when I lived in the clean air of the Alps, I'd be asking for trouble also. I eat right! I exercise right! I smoke right! So HOW DARE the overweight , out of shape Liberal politicians tell me I'm costing Medicare money with my quarter a pack a day habit? Whats wrong with tobacco cookies?

You have a valid point there, but what about onother point brought out here, namely that .. "marijuana smoke contains about 50% more of certain carcinogens than the same amount of unfiltered tobacco." That's lung cancer city if you ask me! PS - Did you know that, TO THIS DAY, the Canadian government cannot answer a simple question .. "Which of the hunderds of tobacco carcinogens are cancer causing?" Strange, isn't it? PPS - We know that the consumption of crude oil is highest ever, we know that they managed to cut out the lead and lower the amount of some carcinogens spewed into the air we breath .. but I'll be damned that they can't answer a simple question .. "ARE THE LUNG CANCER CAUSING ONES AMONG THEM?" Are they playing some crude joke on us?