jbg

You're dictating how volunteers should take a position? In my religion we call that chutzpah, or unmitigated gall. The kind that someone who kills her parents possesses when she pleads for mercy on account that she's an orphan.

If he has a Jewish funeral the event will occur almost immediately, probably Sunday.

As a lawyer I have to segregate client's money from my own. Is that what you mean by segregation?

Because Obama and other liberals are perceived as feckless. Obama's talking about a three-year effort against ISIS, which strongly suggests procrastination.

I was out at "bowling night" with members of my synagogue (where Jews worship) and my rabbi. My rabbi is slighly left-leaning. I said, and he agreed, that every time ISIS chops someone's head off or burns someone alive their opponents, political conservatives gain.

True.

We're on the same page. I never have voted Conservative. Where we differ is that I definitely won't in the future.

That is not generalized Muslim-hating. It is rejection of the radical Muslim's restrictive views.

I find that not allowing women to drive is reactionary. I find suppressing other people's religious beliefs to be reactionary. Do you find buring infidels alive is progressive? Beheadings? jbg I think that's trolling and very disrespectful of the importance of this discussion to Canadians.Just my opinion. . I think both of you are ignoring the reality of the current crop of terrorists' motivation. They are not comfortable with Western society. We are the enemy. They want to remake us. What I am saying is that there is nothing respectful of Canadian values in that at all. Just this morning's paper's article about a Saudi coiurt is illustrative (link to article, excerpts below): RIYADH — An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing his Muslim faith, the English-language daily Saudi Gazette reported on Tuesday. The man, in his 20s, posted an online video ripping up a copy of Islam's holy book, the Koran, and hitting it with a shoe, the newspaper reported. Saudi Arabia, the United States' top Arab ally and birthplace of Islam, follows the strict Wahhabi Sunni Muslim school and gives the clergy control over its justice system.

I find that not allowing women to drive is reactionary. I find suppressing other people's religious beliefs to be reactionary. Do you find buring infidels alive is progressive? Beheadings?

Did Trudeau, Mulroney or Chretien handle their majority governments differently?

I think you're confusing Justin with Trudeau the Smarter's handling of the FLQ crisis.

Now you're calling Jews the savages?

Then votes would fail until bills are endlessly compromised or stuffed with pork. That's how it works when nobody is responsible, I think.The ability to topple the government would have made Watergate less agonizing. We went from March 1973 to August 1974 with what was effectively a non-functioning executive. I believe that various crises, such as the gasoline shortage, double-digit inflation and a major recession were thereby aggravated. Michael Hardner also makes a good point about pork. That's what happens in the States.

This discussion is hard to follow. I'm not even going to try until someone says something of substance that isn't an attack.

I will make my response clear. In populated areas of the world there has been no perceptible change. The arguments about "climate change" thus focus on the very high latitudes where very few people who write and keep records live. Proxy data, prone to just about every form of manipulation and distortion known to man, substitutes for both measurements and human observation. Weather observations are a check on hypotheses concerning climate.

Some people need to learn to write proper Canadian. Carter = Obama. Both give comfort, if not aid to the enemies of the U.S. while adhering to them.

The reason that the U.S. and Canada have some of the best people in the world is the colossal brain drain from Europe. The Jews have about the best-known connection of any people to any piece of land and the longest standing.

Sadly I think that is where these "people" are leading them. Can Israel or any civilized society really allow building of terror tunnels or killing of kidnapped students? And no, Israel is not limited to some artificial "proportionate" response. These actions seek to make the conduct of a first-world society impossible. Israel will not let it happen.

I'd rather take Justin's approach and try to find the "inner child" of the terrorists. Surely they must have some kernel of decency buried in their brain. Even the ISIS fighters must have suffered abuse as a child, or been angered by Zionism, when they burn people alive.

More than six years ago, about three (3) months after his inauguration, I expressed serious doubts that President Obama loves his country, in a posting I made. I will make that post available by PM on request so no one can say I'm a Monday morning quarterback. Unfortunately, events have borne me out. He does not seem to believe that his country is much greater than the tinpot despotisms that infest the world. In fact, he seems to be doing everything in his power to hobble his own country. Apparently, as the OP points out, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani agrees with me (link to article), excerpts below: Later he qualified his remarks: Well, first of all, I’m not questioning his patriotism. He’s a patriot, I’m sure,” Giuliani said. “What I’m saying is, in his rhetoric I very rarely hear the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things that I used to hear Bill Clinton say about how much he loves America. ... I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American presidents. And when it’s not in the context of an overwhelming number of statements about the exceptionalism of America, it sounds like he’s more of a critic than he is a supporter.” Many right-wingers (of which I am not one) are sidetracked on "birther" arguments, that Obama is not a natural born American. I fully accept that he was born here and is constitutionally qualified to sit as President. What I have, over the last few years, had my doubts about is whether he is primarily an advocate for the United States, as his oath of office implicitly requires, or if his sees himself as a "world leader". Unfortunately, I think the latter. Obama was primarily raised in Indonesia and Kenya and did not learn in his formative years an American perspective. I think the U.S.'s greatness is measured by the level of opportunity it affords to those that have little but brains. I think it is a great country based upon the fact that whenever there's a natural disaster anywhere, the U.S. is there. In a recent article, Doug Patton writes (link to article, excerpts below): Such a moment of startling honesty came recently when Obama delivered what the mainstream media laughingly described as a "response" to Rep. Paul Ryan's common sense budget. What the speech really amounted to, of course, was simply a tired partisan kick-off of his 2012 re-election campaign. In it, Obama again stated his contempt for the nation that has given him so much. Consider this excerpt: or the first 189 years of our nation's existence we were not a great country? Is that what you are saying Mr. Obama? Until Franklin Roosevelt pushed through the Ponzi scheme known as Social Security in 1935 and Lyndon Johnson compounded the shell game with Medicare in 1965, we were — what? A mediocre country? An average country? Or perhaps, as your wife expressed during the campaign, we were "a downright mean country." Is that what you really believe about the United States of America? On other occasions, Obama himself has questioned American exceptionalism, stating (link): “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism,” Obviously, it is Obama's first duty is to be an advocate for and promoter of the U.S. He is neither. He is, at best, a citizen of the world. At worst, he adheres to the U.S.'s enemies, giving them comfort, it not aid.

In my opinion the Jews should leave continental Europe. They have no future there. In fact the continent has been one monumental graveyard or crematory for Jews since they arrived.

.....and when it ices up again - as it did after the early 1900's and the early 1940's - that consideration will start to diminish. But I grant you this - the world has been warming since the early 1800's - warming, cooling, warming, cooling - but always saw-toothing it's way upward. We're in a lull or slight cooling now but it will start to warm again in 10 or 15 years - history says so.......so I don't doubt that one day, we'll be sailing through the NW Passage.What were Franklin and Hudson doing then? Looking for tropical beaches?

Possible but unlikely. The instinct among scientists faced with a contrary view is to deride them, viciously and publicly. Imagine the reaction if I came out with a study that says that gays are intellectually inferior to straight people. Imagine the reaction among the scientific community.

There is certainly "peer pressure" for the "peers" to conform to each other's views. Especially where funding is at stake. Society doesn't shovel billions or install a suffocating bureaucracy to solve a non-problem.