Peter F

What is this garbage? A province should only be able to opt out if the service it chooses to provide is worse? Sounds like sour grapes to me.

Me.

To the Gulag with you!

Probably right. Maybe the concept of citizenship actually means something?

My apologies. You didnt say omar beheaded other folk. But you are saying others beheaded other folk so Omar aught to be condemned for that.

Man what a pile. Army Guy claims widdle Omar could have left anytime he so desired. But he didn't desire and the proof of that is that he didnt leave. The Taliban are, by all accounts, the most vicious and barbaric scum known to man; According to Army guy they skin people alive, cut the hands of schoolgirls and throw acid in the faces of women. Yet, suddenly, on that day in that compound, they became great beleivers in personal freedom of choice. Omar could have walked out the gate with the women and children and they would have said 'sure omar, thats fine. Just don't rat us out eh?" He couldn't have left that compound without getting a bullet in his back. Just as Army Guy would be subject to being shot on the spot for cowardice in the face of the enemy should he have decided to walk away from some combat action he was involved in. I know what I would've done if I had been in wee Omar's boots. I woulda said FU I'm going out that gate and you guys can do whatever you want. Apparently thats what Omar should have done. Of course, I'm 55 years old. But if I was 15? I would have stayed behind, just like lil' Omar for fear of being shot by these crazy loons. Thats what I see happened. Is that what really happened? I don't know. He could have, just as Army guy says, been happy to remain behind and fight the Americans and die gloriously in battle. Maybe thats what happened. Again, I dont know. Niether doe's Army Guy or anyone else for that matter. My point being that the line that since young mr Khadr was there ergo he had to have chosen to be there is a line of crap. Despite Dog-on-Porches claims of having video's of Omar cutting of somebody's head - somehow unavailable to American Military Commissions and all thier secret evidence - Despite the claims of Omar being a murdering scum; There has been no obvious evidence of Omar killing anybody anywhere anytime! There is the supposition that the grenade that killed Sgt Speer came from a certain direction therefore widdle Omar must have thrown it because the only other one in that direction seems to have been killed earlier. And thats it, ladies and gents, the entire killing history of murderous Omar khadr. Well, that and the fact that Omar copped to it. The Military Commission actually took place and the Government presented its case. Unfortunately, before the Defence could make its case there was a bargain. After 7 years in captivity Omar agreed to a deal wherein he gets 1 more year in Guatanamo then shipped to Canada for them to determine how the remaining 8 years will be served. In return he admits everything. Of course the deal is agreed to midway through the trial, again after the prosecution made its case. Personally I believe - and what evidence i've seen from the military commissions - that he was just a kid caught up in the wheels of war and politics. Never killed anyone or even tried to kill anyone. I certainly do not want to see this man hung - drawn and quarterd - burnt at the stake - tried for treason or anything else, just because many hate his mom. He doesnt deserve it. He's been railroaded from the getgo.

Here here! Now where's the video of Omar Khadr beheading somebody?

I know nothing of Scotch but have a dream of being able to discern differences and impressing my peers. One day not too long ago, I was in a upscale bar. The waitress asked for my order and I decided that now was the time to start learning. "Give me the very worst scotch you have. The absolute swill." "Really?" "Yes, really, the foulest in the place if you please" "oookay" When she returned I asked "and what is this?" "Johnny Walker Red" she said. I knocked it back. It smelled like rubbing alcohol and burnt my throat on the way down. "Another?" she asked "No thank-you, that was quite enough of that. Now I would like the very best you have, from the bottle with all the dust on it" "Are you sure? its very expensive" "Positive. I need to see if there is a difference" "ooookay" "and this?" I asked when she returned. "Johnny Walker Black" "You're joking!?" "nope. best in the house and just cost you 45 dollars" "oookay" I knocked that one back. World of difference! Much smoother. Far less rubbing alchohol. I've since been told that I got ripped off. But that is was not the point.

yeah....

Some pretty odd arguments here. 1. Military spending = Threat (except for USofA) OR 2. Military spending = meaningless (except for everyone but USofA)

Maybe. Maybe cultural things like revenge or greed maybe or injured pride or something like that maybe.

I hope you're still not working for that idiot company

Yes many enlighted companies do. But they are few and far between Many things stop her from getting some - Prohibitive costs being the prime reason. My daughters sick leave is unpaid because the employer has no requirement to pay her when she is off sick. Hard to beleive but true. Any company that does provide sick/disability does so due to a contractrual requirement. Thanks be to God for Unions. Without such a requirement do they Pay? Of course not! So you see, your fear that employers wont pay is the Standard at this very moment. If there is no employer requirement to pay then what is the cost transferred? Zero. You worry about nothing.

They probly wouldnt. Many don't right now. My daughter is on long term sick leave - all of it unpaid. So she gets EI. Is there some sort of crime here? If so who's the criminal?

Agree. Folks who are unable to work due to illness and/or treatment of illness should be able to collect EI if their employer does not have sick pay benefits or those benefits run out.

Canada (Human Rights Commission) v. Taylor, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 892 SCC judgement 1990 Canada (Human Rights Commission) v. Taylor, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 892 John Ross Taylor and the Western Guard Party Appellants v. Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Attorney General of Canada Respondents

Win7! Well thats good news. Another encouragement to get a better computer.

I got ahold of an old pentium running windows 98 for that very purpose. Only use it for Sid Maiers Gettysburg and Steel Panthers. Still, switching the monitor over is a pain.

Playing 'Aces of the Deep'. Graphics are dated but the most intense game I've ever played. Was pining to play it for years due to incompatability with anything beyond a 486 running vanilla windows. Recently got ahold of someone who knows how dosbox works and wallah! Hours and hours of convoy hunting bordom. Oh! but when the lookouts yell "Smoke on the Horizon!" then the game is worth more than any other I know.

Dogs at work in the good ol days

Oh Crap! The effin Chinese have em!

And that says it all! BC also suggests it'd be better buying the Ruski Nuke icebreaker first - and he's right about that too! But that just ain't sexy.

Sgt Speers was using it. It was his job - along with being the medic.

Nothing.

The medic was armed and participating in the combat. In fact the constant referral to Khadr killing a 'medic' has been part of the propaganda game since day one. Sgt.Speers was certainly trained to provide medical assistance when required but he was also a member of the Special Forces and expected to take active part in combat with his weaponry. But the propaganda machine played on his 'medic' part to increase the perception of immorality of khadr's crime. Worked very well too.