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  1. A One-Eyed Québécois ‘Rambo’ Captures Imaginations in CanadaIn a front=page New York Times article in today's paper, I read of one Léo Major, who tricked German soldiers occupying Zwolle, a picturesque Dutch city with a population of about 50,000into thinking that they were surrounded. He roused a sleeping German officer. Quebec vigorously fought conscription. The dishonor of Canadian heroes who fought for Crown and country runs deep. Many would rather spit on their country than support it. I suppose there is little gratitude for the fact that Canadian blood drenched the beaches of Normandy seeking to liberate other French-speakers. The whole article is stirring, as is the story. It is worth reading. Excerpt from article:
  2. The other solution would be for Chinese to become Canadians and stop the multicultural male bovine excrement.
  3. You can buy land and if you bring enough people to work the land and/or form an economy, sure.
  4. Explain the do-over. Do you mean a do-over from the Nazi Holocaust?
  5. The same way Canada supports countries and cultures with no chance of success. But so did our Obama-Nation.
  6. There obviously was a chance that militant Islamism was not part of this attack. It turned out that way but the odds are strong in the other direction. Mr. Minassian's classmate, Alexander Alexandrovitch, a former student at Thornlea Secondary School, which Minassian attended, should have reported or expressed concern about Minassian.
  7. I would call it terrorism rather than mental illness if he was a functioning member of the Muslim or Islamist subgroup of society. If not, then I'd call it mental illness. If he is a coping member of such a group he made a conscious decision to butcher people to promote a cause. If his level of social functioning was limited to meowing, barking or biting then I would consider it mental illness.
  8. The question is how many of those could really use help? These people and society would be benefited if they could be made into happy, productive citizens. That's the kind of liberalism I believe in.
  9. Mirielle Kroll, an 85 year old Holocaust survivor was murdered by neighbors alleged because she was Jewish. The brutal killing of a Holocaust survivor raises anti-Semitism fears in France. She was stabbed 11 times and then left to die in her house, which the killers set ablaze. This was not the only such incident. An Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties was thrown out of the window of her Paris flat by a neighbor shouting “Allahu Akhbar.” Thousands march in Paris in memory of murdered Holocaust survivor. According to a recent NY Times article, In France, Officer Slain After Swapping Places With Hostage Is Hailed as Hero, "France mourned a police officer who died of his injuries after swapping places with a hostage held by a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State." After the U.S. and Israel, France, with 460,000 Jews has the third highest number of Jew of any country. The question remains, why are they remaining in France or for that matter anywhere in Continental Europe? France has, to be sure, brief intervals of liberalism. The first few years of the French revolutionary period, some of the years of Napolean's reign, and the period from 1945 to the early 1960's come to mind. However, France is also the land of the DREYFUS CASE ("L'Affaire Dreyfus"), and notable collaboration with the Nazis by the Vichy Government and in the areas directly occupied by the Nazis. The current and recent governments indeed seem well intentioned. Former PM Valls was quoted in an Atlantic Magazine article as follows: The problem, this time around is not France's government; it is recent Islamist immigrants. It is not possible, unless the Government wants an internal war, to really bring matters under control. French troops cannot surround each synagogue, each Kosher market or now, as we learn from the Kroll murder, each private house. Other European countries such as Belgium, Denmark and Sweden have experienced similar strife. The Great Debate question is whether the Jewish people can safely exist and build a life and a community anywhere besides Israel, the U.S., Canada & Australia? I believe the answer is a firm "no."
  10. Basically they "got here first" so they have rights. I get that. But why do we have to let unlimited hordes of immigrants in? Inquiring minds wonder.
  11. Except for a dying generation the English speakers have given up the fight. Protecting something that works is politically incorrect. Hooray, dystopia.
  12. On Sunday, April 22, Travis Reinking killed three people at the Waffle House, in the Nashville, Tennessee area. On Monday, April 23, Alek Minassian rented a van and plowed up a crowded Toronto sidewalk, killing nine or ten. In both cases, the alleged perpetrators were deeply troubled, if not psychotic. Travis Reinking - Nashville Gunman Mr. Reinking jumped the White House fence less than a year ago, attempting to arrange a rendezvous with President Trump. Criminal charges were dismissed after completing criminal service at a Baptist Church link He previously expressed the thought that Taylor Swift was stalking him. And we have not yet heard from people who knew him from his past. The focus has been on how Mr. Reinking was able to get his guns back. While that is important, it matters less than why he was at liberty in the first place. Jumping the White House fence is not the work of a normal person. Alek Minassian - Toronto Van-man According to the National Post Toronto van attack suspect Alek Minassian?s interest in ?incel? movement the latest sign of troubled life | National Post article, one of Mr. Minassian's classmates, Alexander Alexandrovitch, a former student at Thornlea Secondary School, which Minassian attended, reported that his former classmate stood out for his odd behavior. He stated: “I had classes with him. He was mentally unstable back then. He was known to meow like a cat and try to bite people, this is one sad and confusing story.” What They and Others Like Him Have in Common Add these two to the list, which includes: Dylan Roofe (Charleston church massacre); Devin Kelley (Texas Church Massacre); Esteban Santiago (killed six people at Fort Lauderdale International Airport); Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook massacre); Jared Lochner (tried to kill Representative Gifford, killed many others; James Holmes (Colorado movie theater massacre; The people involved in all of these killings were well-known to authority. It was obvious to all that knew them that none could function in society. Devin Kelley and Esteban Santiago were discharged from the military because of mental illness and violence. De-institutionalization was a well-intentioned program. It was supposed to convert inhumane and, for the patient ineffective confinement into treatment in the community. This April 2, 1972 article, which I remembered reading, The Patients Can Walk Out At Any Time at Bronx State Mental Hospital (link) made the case for de-institutionalization. Unfortunately few were as motivated as Israel Zwerling, and most looked at the process as a way of saving money. We need to make it far easier to incarcerate or forcibly institutionalize people. Certainly the Nashville and Toronto slayers would not have been walking around before deinstitutionalization. The mental health system is not doing a good job of keeping these people under control. While the status quo ante before mass de-institutionalization was inhumane to the patients, it did keep the country safe from the lunatics. Perhaps the balance needs to be tipped more in favor of the public than the lunatics. We can work at improving the humanity, and where appropriate the therapeutic nature of these centers. But we were safer with these people locked up than out loose.
  13. I'm not sure I understand and I don't want to be wrong. Are you suggesting a link to the original post, or to the artcile starting the original post?
  14. That cost me a seven- or thirty- day suspension when someone ratted me out.
  15. Here's a great example. I posted the Pepperoni Pizza and Seagulls mixup on a few places because it's funny. http://thepoliticsforums.com/threads/101930-Pepperoni-Pizza-and-Seagulls-Don-t-Mix- and On this version, the line, " When Nick Burchill left a suitcase full of pepperoni by an open window, the room filled with seagulls." The last line was inadvertently, on the other forum, not part of the hyperlink title of the article. I added The seagulls of course did what seagulls do. The results will amaze. " So I had to rewrite the rest of the post so as not to violate. On "thepoliticsforum dot com" I wrote " Personally I believe in the right of free defecation " Here I wrote " A bit off my usual posting tack. But serious animal rights question; do seagulls have the right to freedom of defecation? " I don't think that should have been necessary to avoid a 30 day suspension, as happened last time.
  16. There are people who spend their time Googling others' posts for similar posts on other forums. I am no longer a regular here for that reason. I must totally rewrite a subject to have it pass muster. Do I have to rewrite my opinion posts on Donald Trump or Justin Trudeau?
  17. I don't understand your question, "(w)ho knifed Mrs Clinton?" The entire investigation is a search for a crime, not a search to solve a crime. And rather than using a bunch of Cubans, the FBI got warrants available on a "rubber stamp" basis to conduct the break-ins. As a practicing lawyer I find this very creepy.
  18. I guess no person is any good who doesn't hate the West?
  19. Clinton was impeached but not convicted and removed. In the U.S. it's a two-step process. Let's be fair to both parties. This is Trump's "Bimbo eruptions" to quote Bill Clinton.
  20. The FBI raids are the flipside of All the President's Men. They are white collar Watergate.
  21. I don't like Trump either but this is the flipside of All the President's Men. The FBI raids are white collar Watergate.
  22. A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr interspersed with History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  23. 40 Sea Gulls Wrecked His Hotel Room. 17 Years Later, a Pepperoni Pardon. When Nick Burchill left a suitcase full of pepperoni by an open window, the ensuing chaos got him a lifetime ban from a hotel in British Columbia. But he asked for a pardon. A bit off my usual posting tack. But serious animal rights question; do seagulls have the right to freedom of defecation?
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