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I like the Billy Bee honey thing. Import the honey from China, package it in Canada and call it a product of Canada. All CFIA demands is a portion of the packaging be completed in Canada for it to be called a product of this country. Actually I am a strong proponent of country of origin labelling. You would be surprized at what is produced outside this country, added to our food and then passed of as a canuck product. Borg

Whether it is responsible or not you destroy it - not every bad animal - two legged or four legged is capable of being rehabilitated. Or for that matter interested in being rehabilitated. Better to get rid of them. Not everyone obeys those commandmants. If they did there would be no need for armies, police, security and so on. Rose coloured glasses do not change lifes realities. Borg

Nice words. In the end most men usually need the following: Loose shoes, a warm place to have a crap, a decent meal once in a while, get laid about 3.7689 tims a week/month or whatever, and some excess money. Add that to a position providing power or prestige and 99% of males are usually quite content. Give the ladies basically the same and life can be good. Borg

If you own a vicious dog, you kill it - or for the more tender crowd - put it down. Some folks are more than rabid - and completely happy to "do it gain". That is probably a decent explanation to give him. Borg

Follow the money and the prestige of hero worship. To many it is the ONLY way to live. So, drugs does it. I seriously doubt there is any major professional sport that is unaffected. Borg

Simply because canucks have surived on a cheap food policy. You want to eat cheap you better produce some of your own food. Once that ability is gone you are at the mercy of others. Trust me - lose agriculture in this country and you will see the cost to eat rise substantially. As a quick addition - do you want a foreign country with potentially lax standards supplying your food? Lose the ability to feed your country and eventually you will lose sovereignty. Hog producers are going down big time as well - forecast to lose 10 - 15% of the operations over the next 6 months. Borg

While I am not sure what you mean by "intentions" - if the so-called right wing does achieve a majority, I would be the first to ask the CBC to become self funding and then sell it off. So I suppose you could say I AM being upfront. Unlike the average person in management at CBC. A worthless organization with their own leftie agenda sucking huge dollars from my wallet and every other canuck who pays taxes - with little return. Take them off the government tit and make them survive on the free market. I suspect their tune would change as realities of the open market take hold. Glad to see them being "looked" at - but nothing will come of it. Tempest in a tea pot. Borg

Some day it will be here - I will be told I am wrong and I will be told it cannot happen. Gun control at its finest. Personally I would allow anyone with no criminal record to own as they see fit. EVERY State with "Sahll Issue" laws for firearms has seen a drop in violent crime. Borg _------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is how it works in france: THE WASHINGTON TIMES December 5, 2007 http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.d...ORIAL/112050015 The French and their gun laws By Paul Belien December 5, 2007 On Sunday evening Nov. 25 in Villiers-le-Bel, an immigrant suburb to the north of Paris, two youths steal a motorbike and go joyriding. They collide at high speed with a police vehicle that just happens to be passing by. The two youths die on the spot. Villiers-le-Bel is one of France's 751 "zones urbaines sensibles" (sensitive urban areas). These are no-go zones where radical Muslims hold sway. Almost 5 million people, or 8 percent of the French population, live in such zones. In May, Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential elections with the promise that he was going to reclaim them for the republic. So far the "lost territories" have not been reclaimed. Following the death of the two boys, youths went on the rampage in Villiers-le-Bel. They blamed the two policemen in the vehicle for "murdering" the boys "because the police should not have been there." During three nights of rioting, several police stations, schools and shops were burned to the ground. When the authorities sent in the police, almost 200 policemen got injured — many of them by guns. "We were attacked from all sides by youths armed with hunting rifles," one of the officers said. "The kids were shooting at us. I've never seen anything like it. It was like in a movie." Meanwhile, a horror movie was taking place just around the corner. On that same Sunday evening, 43-year-old Thierry Deve-Oglou, a Frenchman of Turkish origin, went to the metro station near Villiers-le-Bel, the very area where the rioting was going on. He boarded the RER D, the metro line connecting Paris to its northern suburbs. Mr. Deve-Oglou took the train in the northern direction, away from Paris. The suburban metro is generally considered unsafe, and the D line is one of the most dangerous, especially beyond Garges, the station after Villiers-le-Bel. "There are no guards and no surveillance cameras," a metro employee acknowledges. "After Garges there are hardly any passengers left on the train. It is then that the acts of aggression begin." Mr. Deve-Oglou noticed that the metro carriage was empty except for a young blond woman whom he there and then decided to rape. He had done this before, in January 1995, on the same RER D line, in the same place. Then, however, his victim had not dared to resist. She survived the attack and was able to testify at his trial the following year when he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. This time, however, the victim fought back. Anne-Lorraine Schmitt, a 23-year-old journalism student and the eldest of five children from a Catholic and patriotic family — her father, Philippe, is an army colonel — tried to escape. Mr. Deve-Oglou stabbed her. She managed to hurt him with his own knife, but he butchered her with more than 30 stab wounds in the chest and face. Mr. Deve-Oglou left the train carriage at the next metro station, but police officers noticed the bleeding man and took him to the hospital. When half an hour later Anne-Lorraine's body was discovered in the empty carriage at the RER D terminus in Creil, it was not difficult to find the killer. He was arrested the same evening. Soon the police was able to solve similar rapes on the same line D during the previous years. Why had the police never questioned this serial rapist before? Why had he been released after his first conviction? The question haunts Philippe Schmitt. "The circumstances of Anne-Lorraine's death are devastating to us," he writes. "We do not dare to imagine the 'horror movie' that took place inside that closed car of the RER, line D. Why was such an individual, already convicted of sexual assaults, able to repeat his crime? In 5, 10, 15 years, everyone knows he will be free again." Frederic Pons, the editor of Valeurs Actuelles, a magazine where Anne-Lorraine had worked as an intern, wrote on the magazine's blog: "When will this rapist with his knife leave prison? After 8, 10, 15 years? Our society must pluck up the courage to remove him from society once and for all. If we do not do this the fathers, the brothers, the uncles will. In the name of justified violence." The next day Mr. Pons removed his post from his blog. His text was deemed an incitement to violence. It is taboo in Europe to say that if the state fails to protect the citizens, the citizens should do so themselves. There is no Second Amendment in Europe. Even European politicians from the so-called "right," like Mr. Sarkozy, are horrified at the suggestion that citizens should be allowed to protect themselves against criminals. Last year, Mr. Sarkozy told French radio: "Security is the responsibility of the state. I am against the private ownership of firearms. If you are assaulted by an armed burglar, he will use his weapon more effectively than you anyway, so you are risking your life." The result is that in France only the criminals are armed, while decent citizens, even those as brave as Anne-Lorraine, perish. Paul Belien is editor of the Brussels Journal and an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute.

WARNING - plagarism may be called out here - I have taken a bit of poetic license with your scribings to change a few things. Could not disagree with you more - but then again you may have never been in a situation that required use of force. ________________________________________________________________________________ __________________ Not all police need to be armed. Plain and simple. If your job is to stop speeding Johnnie and his girl fiend on a small town street and hand out pieces of paper, that's your job; if your job is to provide security and "protect the public" from mostly imaginary threats like gangas and druggies, that's another thing altogether. It's not treated that way now, but it should be. Having an armed presence in every town is a good idea, but there is no need to be excessive about it. Further, guns have very little to do with maintaining police security (both theoretically and statistically). So guns shouldn't be a priority when there are other, far more pressing security issues we need to deal with, such as: ensuring the rounding up of drunks on the streets to Edmonton or Toronto, or ensuring the airport security guards are going their job, ensuring emergency response crews are adequately funded and trained, getting SWAT Teams better equipment to deal with situations where police may need to actually shoot someone, increasing efficiencies enough to double the amount of cars and trucks being inspected on the highways and bi-ways of our nation, etc. If anything, there needs to be an agency created who's sole and specific purpose is to protect the public from violent threats. Police are tasked with a lot of responsibilities... most of which have conflicting goals and mandates - but protection of the public is actually low on the priority list. They need to be fast and efficient, because we have some much illegal traffic in drugs from inside our own country - home grown is now considered best in North America ... but at the same time, they need to be thorough and focused on the new threats facing Canada today (such as gangs selling drugs and weapons and illegal booze on the street.) I imagine federal and provincial funding could pay for it. This would free up the local police forces, and decrease the load on municipal taxpayers - after all that funding comes form the government - NOT the taxpayer(?) (A typical canucklehead comment). At the same time, it would create a division of labour that would most definitely cause the average cop to start bitching about not wearing a gun - even though he could still use his pepper and taser - all proven to be quite effective in the vast majority of circumstances. After all it is rare for the police to be there as the crime is committed - usually the police arrive to investigate the crime - long after it is over. Customs does one thing - ensures the borders are secure - arm them to the teeth and give them the power to use them. Borg

CBC? The same impartial journalistic crowd that wrote the questions for the fiberals to ask Mulroney? Ah, now I understand. But, is there any truth to this? After all the communist broadcasting corporation has been lying for years. And most canuckleheads have believed them. Hard to decide which is worse. A tax funded lying crown corp or a tax paying canucklehead believing that disreputable organization. Knowing the outfit reporting I await confirmation from an independent source. Borg

Despite the arguments - which I am familiar with - if evidence is truly irrefutable - then I support the death penalty. I am sure this will lead to more Harper bashing by the lovelies on the board - but you did seem to want at least one response. Regards Borg

Simply sitting back and enjoying the day. Borg

Of course you do. After all a minor has no control over the difference between right and wrong. Fortunately most minor children of the world actually do know the difference between right and wrong. Apologists simply allow them to get away with more. Any excuse in a pinch I suppose. Borg

I suspect you are on the money AT. Whatever - it is straw man from G to divert from the topic. No one has bothered us in years with our unregistered vehicles. And come to think of it I am a regular at the annual RCMP ball in a small town in Alberta. Do you suppose it helps us in Ont? Bottom line - firearms registry - waste of money, people and resources. Has never prevented a criome and has never solved a mystery. Sell a registered firearm to someone - and the registration is now null and void. Move and the same thing. Probably a high percentage of what is supposed to be registered is now inaccurate if only because of the above. Borg

Costs money to register - I think you might mean something else. This dealer is far too large to want to get into trouble. Mind you, we do pay in full. He would love us to finance. Borg

Hmmm ... Point well taken. Borg

I guess the local Chev dealer is a crook as well. Borg

Heavens! Who would ever have thought a foreign interest would be interested in flaunting our laws and culture? Money has a habit of making things happen. Interesting read. Not too sure I am totally convinced of it as truth. Borg

Define "reasonable number" my dear. Borg

You bet - I am a fancy pants. Proud of it. Mostly Alberta - but presently in lefty Ontario. But I have the scars from two holes in me from a not too distant land - where I served and was hit not once but twice over the space of slightly more than one year. It did not even make the back page of the funnies! Lived in a house with no plumbing, electricity or telephone until I was almost 16. And I am young enough today to still have young children. In fact I am younger than you. I have no education to speak of - but a lot of get up and go. So I EARNED those fancy pants. And I still wear a suit once in a while and get sweat, grease or blood all over me on other days. I can cut calluses from the palm of my hand with a knife - unregistered of course! Those that work for me have been with me a long time and will not likely ever leave - I do treat them that good. Without them I would be dead in the water. They know it and I know it. What have you done in the meantime? Now back to the topic please. Borg

Yes, those knives are also used for preparing food. Those bats are used for hitting balls and those iron bars are used for welding and manufacturing. All of the above do more for the murder rate than firearms. As for smoking - hate to disappoint you - I am drug, alcohol and tobacco free. Well, I do enjoy a beer or a glass of wine about 5 times a year. And I did smoke a cigar about a month ago - so perhaps I am still under the weather. I did take some aspirin a while back to help when I wrenched my back. So I suppose I do use drugs, alcohol and tobacco. You can keep crying about something that does not matter - unless that billion plus dollars we spend on the registry REALLY matters. I wonder if we might use it to buy additional MRI's or perhaps additional hospital space? Or what about more infrastructure for our roads? Or a few new schools of perhaps some university scholarships? Imagine not having to wait for more than a year to have a hip replacement! Toss the registry and put that money to good use. And go for a walk once in a while. It will help clear your mind. Borg

I am presently in Ont but do tend to spread myself between here and the prairies. I have more than one lawyer and several accountants at my disposal for guidance in company matters. I will tell you once more. As I stated - for use on farm, ranch and private / leased land - we are a large holder of all aformentioned - there does not need to be any registration or licencing. Do not use public roads and stay on your deeded or leased land - you drive at your own risk with no paper required. The same for our operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. As for insurance - it is a company policy - we use it when we believe it to be of value. Our record is pretty good and we "self insure" with a block of money reserved (side investment) for emergencies. Borg

I did not consider stating an opinion to be that of shreiking, however you are entitled to your opinion. He may very well sit in cells until trial but I have absolutely no faith that he will serve any amount of representative time. In fact he will get time off for time served before the trial and be welcomed back into the local community as a person oppressed by the country he is living in. As for unjustified? When we import trouble, it begets trouble. Perhaps the better question would be - Was the killing of his daughter unjustified? I am sure substantial money from various islamic and muslem groups will be spent to ensure the cultural aspect of this killing is the main theme. This is an excellent case for capital punishment - a rabid dog needs to be put down. However I will never see it here in my lifetime. There is a chance he could serve time - but I honestly have no faith in our legal system - the human rights aspects of our society are becoming far stronger. No, I will not say I was wrong. What I will say is I am surprized. Raise them under sharia law and crimes will be carried out under sharia law. Our law takes a back seat to sharia - do not think it does not. Get used to these types of crimes - they are coming here and will become more and more common. The only time it will not take a back seat is when it is to the advantage of the followers of islam. Sooner or late we will see aspects of it embedded into our own law. You can say not - but it will come. Sooner or later. Borg

Need you say more? Nope. You do not own you and God does not own you - we ALL own you - because we support you with our hard earned dollars. Now, please go away and pay your taxes. Borg

And it will become the cultural and religious event of the lefties and media and of course folks like you who will not see the differences. I will simply re-state - I bet he gets off with nothing more than a slap on the wrist and perhaps some counselling. Glad you intend to ignore the differences. I guess your smile really is vacant. Borg