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Big Guy

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  1. I wonder how these costs compare with the private sector. How much would a corporation pay in compensation for moving a executive of the company to a new location?
  2. Fortunately the Palestinians are not giving in to Israeli tactics. Abbas is not allowing the world to forget about the Israeli cancer slowly absorbing Palestinian land: UN Wakeup Let us hope Canada takes the lead to begin to charge Israel with those war crimes.
  3. China has a population of about 1.3 billion people. That is about 40 times the population of Canada. Canada does have a few theives and murderers who flee the country for a safe haven elsewhere. I would assume that with that population, there are a few murderers, thieves and thugs that have fled China to get into Canada and are now living here. I would think it is a good idea of having a process to send these folks back home and out of our society.
  4. "A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who instead of aiming a single stone at an object takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit." - Samuel Johnson Hey Rue, lots and lots of stones and still no hits.
  5. Looks like there will be some more foolishness and perhaps carnage coming up. A "flotilla"of two boats manned (actually womanned) by freedom protesters have set sail for the Middle East. Flotilla These boats are "armed" with food and supplies for the suppressed Palestinians in Gaza. Will be interesting when in three weeks, they will reach the Israeli stranglehold around Gaza. What excuse are the Israeli thugs going to use to stop or kill (as they did to 10 humanitarians a few tears ago) these freedom advocates attempting to feed the starving Palestinians?
  6. There are two sides to every argument: The one doing all the talking and the correct side. This thread is proving the point.
  7. For a nation to perform genocide on a group, it can round them up, transport them into camps and then liquidate them at will. All the while stealing their land and possessions to give to their own people. This makes the process very obvious to the rest of the world, generates sympathy from the rest of the world and is easily condemned. There is another way to perform genocide on a group. Systematically and periodically make war on them taking and keeping land at every opportunity while annihilating segments of the population with each incursion. Then start building on contested land and squeezing the victims into unlivable conditions which will guarantee more conflict. This slow, cancerous process ends with the extermination of the group. Both methods are an affront to civilization. We have seen the first method imposed in the 1940's on a religious group in Europe. We are watching the second method currently being employed by the majority in a Middle East nation on its own minority population. They will prove to be equally successful. We are in a position to stop the second one. The second one is still slowly moving along: Another Killing But of course there will be justice: Justice In Israel
  8. What I understand of the reason for the resignation was not political interference but lack of funding for upgrading analysis systems and streamlining statistical gathering. He felt he could not preform his responsibility to give statistical analysis of data because he was not given adequate (his term) resources with which to process data into analysis and projection. Personally, I am not concerned. Bureaucrats cocooned in their particular dark corners of government come to believe that their department is the most important and that it should be financed as such. This myopia is neither vengeful or negative, it is based on the isolated lack of understanding of how a government operates.
  9. Donald has gone on reality TV to declare (with documentation) that he has always been healthy. I wonder why he got a physical deferment from having to go to Vietnam?
  10. Killing murderers is what the Quran teaches. Legalizing capital punishment would just be another "accommodation" to all these Muslims. Next thing, we would be endorsing Sharia Law. We Regressives have to draw a line in the sand or "they" will take over!
  11. Would depend on their contract. If bringing discredit to your employer is considered grounds for termination then - goodbye!
  12. Edward Snowden is the most famous whistle blower ever. He is now asking for a pardon from President Obama: Pardon President Obama has already exercised his presidential right to pardon a number of Americans in jail for a variety of reasons. There is a growing ground swell in the USA to convince Obama to pardon Snowden. Do you think Snowden should be pardoned?
  13. I believe that it indicates in the video that this guy was not "working" and had no business being in a handicapped spot. The guy was obviously a jerk and I hope he got his $400 + ticket. It is possible to be a black racist.
  14. The OP focuses on how the PM treated a gender segregated religious service. I suggest the author had no idea of how many other religions, besides Islam, segregate genders during religious services. My argument remains simple - racists will try to cherry pick and spin anything to try to give credence to their views.
  15. Another tedious Muslims bad Christians good thread. If denying segregation between women and men during religious service then devout Jews and Quakers would be jailed. And allowing a religion to practice symbolic cannibalism during their services ??? that has to be stopped!! - Hear that you Catholics? Yet the bigots bleat on.
  16. I have just been watching the commemoration of the Dawson College shootings. Dawson College I am beginning to lose track of these different commemoration services. What is the trigger for making something commemorative? For most of these it appears to me that it is a group with an agenda who use the anniversary to further their cause. Earlier I watched some of the 9/11 ceremonies. Why is this being commemorated? Who wants to recall the tragic death of 3,000 innocent civilians? Why? There are the common ones - the anniversary of the birth of a nation, the end of WWI (still not sure why that takes place), different battles (some we lost some we won), etc Here in the West we do not commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki, battles that caused the war to end - but no commemoration here. Why? There are about 100 recognized "holidays" in Canada in 2016; Holidays in 2016 I can understand celebration reminders of good things like wedding anniversaries (in most cases ) and birthdays, but why commemorate tragic events like 9/11 and various shooting massacres? I would continue with more examples but I have to get to our local Legion to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Salonika: British 65th Brigade (22nd Division) storms German 59th Regiment’s Machukovo village salient, taking c.70 PoWs and 9 MGs for 586 casualties but loses it again until September 14 and 100 years ago the execution of Murderous Mary, an elephant, was hung for murder. What triggers the need for a commemoration?
  17. About 10% of the population is left handed. What percentage of American Presidents were left handed?
  18. Israeli continues to steal Palestinian lands but they do provide room and board for about 7,000 Palestinians: Room and Board The Israelis are providing alternative accommodation.
  19. I think that "screening" is a great idea! The USA border guards decided to screen Canadians on values that were not American values. They did manage to catch a few who admitted that they had smoked marijuana - and sent them back. This process guaranteed that only Canadians smart enough to lie would be allowed into their country. The same would prove true about screening for these "potential" terrorists. We would only admit smart potential terrorists who knew enough to lie to incriminating questions. The stupid ones would be rejected at the border. I am not sure I like that. I would rather that the dumb potential terrorists be let in. They would be easier to catch. The smart would do more damage.
  20. I might agree with you if I knew what a potential barbarian was. Is there some way to identify them through DNA or appearance or perhaps the cerebral Argus Disqualification Question System? I have enough difficulty identifying practicing barbarians and would have great difficulty with potential barbarians. "Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man" - Leonard Woolf
  21. There should be no confusion: The statement "laws and values are not mutually exclusive" can be rewritten as "laws and values are mutually inclusive" Mutually Exclusive But of course that depends on your definition of what "are" means.
  22. I do not think so. It also has no effect on my values. They are Canadian values based on our laws and my beliefs. I am comfortable with my values, have no interest in asking you or anybody else about theirs nor do I feel they are any of your business. For an explanation, see post #483. Does that assist you in trying to decide on and articulate your values?
  23. No. You are mistaken, You are confused. You stated that laws and values are not mutually exclusive but they just aren't the same. I stated that they can indeed be mutually exclusive but can be the same if their sameness is not mutual. From that it would follow that sameness and exclusiveness can be mutual but not necessarily the same especially if their sameness is exclusive to the individual. They can also be the same mutually exclusive. That explains the process.
  24. No. There is a difference between your values and Canadians. Another suggested question of Canadian values to be asked of potential immigrants. Do you believe children should be forced into genital mutilation just because of the religion of the parent? Obviously a barbaric practice that should not be allowed in Canada and proponents should never be allowed in!!! The Argus's of the world have to agree. Then most Jews would be shut out because of their celebration of the "Bris" - circumcision. Are you saying that religious Jews should not be allowed into Canada? Or do you have no real idea of what you believe in?
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