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So? I don't recall any 19th century wars being conducted with aircraft.....nonetheless, the Irish Rebellion was conducted pretty much along those lines.....and I don't recall any gang battles where the two year death toll is in excess of 32,000 So civil wars are defined by bodycount? The Black Plague and WW I and II must have been big whopper civil wars, eh?.

If they are in bed together, how are they able to keep their hands in the cookie jar? I mean the cookie jar has to be on one side of the bed or the other; it doesn't just hover above the bed within easy reach of everyone, right?

I don't recall any civil wars ever on the planet conducted soley by IEDs, carbombs and kidnappings. More like postwar gang battles.

I'm all for solar energy, but it isn't going to replace FF energy anytime soon, and those who think so-called "clean" energy is available on the scale we need it are fooling themselves. Passive solar energy might help a bit with warming, but it's not going to light the stove, run the car, irrigate the crops or do the million and one things it can't do.

I liked the ending, when the grownups arrived and rounded up all the surviving pre-pubescent conspiracy theorists.

Ever been to war Woody? I bet not. Did your daddy get you out of it or did you just run away all by yourself?

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I have heard such professors say Bush can be impeached simply for the stuff he's admitted to. Specifically spying on Americans without warrants. THAT violated the Constitution itself. How much worse is the stuff now hidden and what will happen when it all finally comes out? So what? He's not impeached, and so he clearly can't be or the Dems would have done it long ago. Do you people believe everything you hear on the radio? Good grief, the "illegal war" meme still has legs because of stoned law professors running around trying to interpret intl law as domestic law, so it's no surprise that former tort lawyers are expounding on constitutional law.

You'll learn not to take anything Woody says seriously. He often makes up stuff, and even oftener makes hugely grand pronouncements about things that turn out to be the rantings of a simpleton. But my favorite is when he is confronted by a truth that he knows is a truth, but it's not the truth he likes, so he simply announces "that's a lie".

Haven't I seen a recipe for roast kid somewhere? Oh wait, that was...Morocco...goat...nevermind.

This thread says it all. Hasn't anyone figured out what's going on yet?

You do realize, of course, that solar energy at its present stage of development can probably supply about 5% of this nation's energy needs once it gets ramped up with billions of dollars injected into it? And that wind energy, after decimating the bird population, might supply another 5%? That of course doesn't take into consideration all the dirty ooey icky energy it takes to make the actual impliments, but hey, it'll make the folks who put out $100,000 or so feel really spiffy about doing their part to combat a fabricated issue.

Blah blah blah civil war. We've been hearing it for years. It's not a civil war. It's a donnybrook largely confined to one city and its environs, between gangs of thugs.

I've about had enough of the double standard - not yours alone, concerning Israel If the people purporting to represent the areas where Israel is engaging in "establishment of illegal settlements" made any showing of being willing to not only suspend, but end, their struggle against the "Zionist entity" the settlement activity would stop. The Israelis suffer from high taxation, in part, to protect these settlements.When are you going to attack the "conduct" of countries that fund suicide attacks, provide safe havens, etc. No, you'll attack Israel for a stray hit of an apartment building adjacent to terrorists before you'd attack using civilians as human shields as Hezbollah does every day in Lebanon. I think the answer is only partially anti-semitism. I suspect many of the folks who criticize Israel criticize it because it's better at war than anyone else, and that goes against the grain of folks who think that equality of outcome is the standard by which things should be measured. That's why the outcry about the "unfairness" of the "disproportionate" Israeli attack on Hezbollah. They see it not as a gang of savages firing rockets indiscriminantly into civilian populations and getting their asses justly kicked, but rather as a game in which both sides must be evenly matched, conducting a gentleman's game of tit for tat. Anything remotely off-balance about the game becomes yet another victim vs oppressor saga in the ongoing meme of egalitarianism. Why, for instance, is Israel so upset about a simple border raid into Israel, a couple unprovoked deaths and a kidnapping? All that fuss? Of course they don't try to visualize what would happen if Cuba, for instance, launched a couple wars against the US, fired the odd rocket thereafter and gnashed its teeth loudly at the "Gringo entity", then wrapped it up with a border raid, a couple deaths and a kidnapping followed by a salvo of rockets. There would be no Cuba. The problem would be removed permanently. But ultimately, to the armchair egalitarians, war over there is a television event, of no more real import than a good James Bond movie. Sure they can make disapproving noises at both sides, but the brunt of the makebelieve scorn is reserved for the winners, because after all the losers deserve pity. And war should be fair, like a game of tennis or badminton, and when one side shows up with a better team or god forbid better equipment, why, something just isn't right. There's a name for these idiots, but "useful fools" is too kind.

Nevermind all that. We must have a homeland NOW! As a proud but dispossessed Scoto-Canadian, I'm declaring the birth of "Hagis", a freedom fighting group modelled after Hamas, but with the distinctly Scottish flavour of Haggis instead of some bearded and beturbaned savage claiming he's a prophet. Anyway, where was I? Ah yes. Hagis demands it's traditional homeland in BC. In fact, BC is the homeland of Scoto-Canadians, although we will allow Canada to maintain a small sliver of land around the arctic circle until such time as we can drive the damnable Canadian pigs and apes into the Aleutians. Beginning tomorrow, we will send explosive laden sheep into the general Canadian population, then cry foul when Canadian pigs and apes, who we will soon drive into the sea, set up discriminating roadblocks. We will loudly wallow in self pity at the atrocities perpetrated by the Canadians upon us and our traditional homeland.

Yes...McDonalds Corp. You really should know about this before posting. Uhuh. I'm afraid you didn't quite get my point. You really should try before posting. Perhaps it eluded you?

More and more this is the case. Whether its the politicians leaving the unpopular decisions to the judiciary or an activist judiciary siezing more power, one way or another much of the decision making is falling to judges. Whether this is in spite of representative democracy or because of it is the question. I'm not fan of the charter, and to my dying day I will never understand the concept that everyone is equal, "especially" [insert special extra-equal group].

What does it say about us as a nation that we need immigration to survive? Isn't that something worth fixing BEFORE we start inviting the third world here? Is it appropriate to commit ethnic suicide? The cost of floodgate immigration is the destruction of Canada, its people and its culture. It's all very well to celebrate "colourful street festivals", "diversity" and "vibrancy" and all the happy happy words that go with hiding one's head in the sand, but reality will one day intrude.

No not at all . Why would I be? Living in this city opens ones eyes to all the wonderment that others bring to the city. The sounds, the sights, the food especially. Monday nights are Vietnamese dinner nights, rare beef Pho with noodles and some cold spring rolls. Oh just wondering. You'd be surprised what your eyes are opened to if you live in a place like New Delhi. Cool diverse stuff, like riots between Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims so common that they don't make the world news unless the bodycount is in the hundreds, shit and piss everywhere since the potty practices of that wonderfully vibrant culture haven't quite internalized the concept of "germs", nmuch less "e-coli", babies intentionally lamed so the untouchables have a free rade on the national begging system...it's very vibrant there. Then of course there's the Congo and Liberia and all those other diverse places euphemistically called "troublespots" because they are orders of magnitude worse. I can't wait till we transplant our greedy corporate culture with the filthy pigsty wonderful diversity of the third world. Happy happy! I wonder if anyone who has actually lived in the third world for more than six months is all for bringing it here?

How thrilling for you. Perhaps the native elders ought to have been listened to, eh? I mean from the Indian's point of view. I'd as soon not have my offspring sitting around drinking lysol and sniffing gas in a reservation full of white picket fences paid for by the Ummah so we can practice our "traditional way of life".

No, they should require the assumption that if someone has the mental capacity to actually order something, they also have the mental capacity to know that coffee is hot. Do you know anyone who lacks that degree of mental acuity? Well, aside from the guy in the mirror every morning...

I broke no rules -- but made a change, just for you!!! aren't you special "I broke no rules," is still the case - any comments on the topic itself? Not really. You think these "criminal politics" will "explode"? Let's *yawn* wait and see...

Do you just make this stuff up and spew it out? Do you understand that these charges you throw around like mud have to be somehow attached to a body of law and not simply originate in your center of emotion? Things are not true simply because you feel they ought to be. You DO understand that, right? Do you imagine that no one aside from you would notice or say anything if any of this were true?

And women in the western world were only given the right to vote only about 6 decades ago. There is still a mentality in many western cultures that the MAN is the MAN, and women are secondary. So if you think that Islam needs growing up, so does the rest of the world in order to help with the growing. It takes a long time for change in a society. Unless some outside force decides to say what is what. And well history shows us how that plays out. So, the moral equivalency meme is stooping to these depths? Western civilization is no different from a civilization which bags it's female chattel and stones them to death for being raped because generations ago women didn't have the vote in the west? Are you serious? The point is none of our cultures have histories we can be proud of, Jewish, Christian, Islam, what-ever. All our cultures have their histories of violence, sexism, racism. None of us are perfect. If we are to encourage Muslims to take on peace instead of terrorism, we have to do so with respect. I will not be afraid of Muslims or their religion because terrorists claiming to represent their religion kill and maim people. I won't allow those terrorists prevent me from reaching out to Muslims. Not a chance. The functional point is that we are not talking about history, we are talking about the here and now. In the here and now, it is Islam that has to change, not the west. Unless of course you are prepared to discuss the virtues of wearing a bag with your wife, and suggesting that she not be raped lest she be stoned as well.

I do hope Hamas has an exit strategy. They always seem to need one so much worse than Bush does.