ScottSA

As I said, you are the one who is unacceptable.

Or provide site security at Caledonia.

The only thing in bad taste around here is the utter confusion in your mind, one minute appealing to canadian law and the next claiming exemption from it. I don't suppose we have anyone but ourselves to blame for it though...we've allowed this foolishness to carry on for so long we don't even notice the ridiculousness of pretending that the Indians somehow have a mystic "bond" with nature, when the very forests shudder whenever an Indian gets his hands on a chainsaw. And that of course is the main joke; machinegunning whales, spotlighting deers, and dynamiting fish in the name of "tradition"; while excusing it all by looking pious in front of tourists and burning a few wisps of hay to some animist god no one even remembers, before they go back to the house built by whitey with a fridge built by whitey to drink beer brewed by whitey and collect a cheque issued by whitey for the grievous sin of supplying free medicare, pension benefits and all the industrial luxuries Indians so claim to disdain. Fawlty Towers on its worst day was saner than this situation.

No jennie, what is socially unacceptable is self-inflicted aparthied by a bunch of leechs dressed up in borrowed philosophy keeping their own people down so they can pad their own pockets in neverending extortion. What's socially unacceptable is the fact that said youths ARE drinking beer or whatever they can get their hands on, and it's the fault of people like you who keep them in a perpetual victim mindset. What's socially unacceptable is you painting pigs with lipstick, backpedalling when you're caught and darting forward with new bullsh** everytime there's an opening. Just how stupid do you think we are? The profound disrespect you show for the thinking process of people here is astounding.

Yeah, this myth has been floating around feel good liberal circles for a while, popping up now and then with citations to a tenuous link between Franklin and the Iroquios federation. It's based on the same sort of coincidental misread as troothar notions; there were "squibs", for instance, in the WTC while it was collapsing, and there are "squibs" when a building is demolished by set explosions; ergo the WTC was demolished by explosives. It's rot, and so is this. It's like looking at a round war shield and claiming the Indians invented the wheel. For Christ's sake, the Anglo-Saxon Witan was closer to the US Constitution than the Iroquios federation. So, for that matter, was the Roman Republican government. But hey, don't believe me; here's someone even more authoritative than the "Washington File Staff Writer" you cited, as hard as that may be to believe: "Abstract: The Iroquois Confederation was not an influence on the U.S. Constitution, but it is worthy of study as an independently developed political system with the oldest surviving constitution in North America. A systematic institutional analysis of the Great Binding Law, the orally transmitted constitution of the Confederation, reveals, among other things: tribal inequality despite their formal equality under a unanimity rule; a high level of responsiveness despite a nondemocratic, elitist method for selecting leaders; many ancillary institutions for achieving a traditional form of consensus rather than simple majority rule; two means of elevating men to the Confederation Council, each a paradoxical blend of the pre political and the post-traditional;..." http://radicalreference.info/node/1011 Or, if you don't like that, here's a wiki article that cites several well known historians: "The Iroquois nations' political union and democratic government has been credited by some as one of the influences on the United States Constitution. However, that theory has fallen into disfavor among many historians and is regarded by others as mythology. Historian Jack Rakove writes: "The voluminous records we have for the constitutional debates of the late 1780s contain no significant references to the Iroquois." Researcher Brian Cook writes: "The Iroquois probably held some sway over the thinking of the Framers and the development of the U.S. Constitution and the development of American democracy, albeit perhaps indirectly or even subconsciously... However, the opposition is probably also correct. The Iroquois influence is not as great as [some historians] would like it to be, the framers simply did not revere or even understand much of Iroquois culture, and their influences were European or classical - not wholly New World." http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:ie5Jur...cd=11&gl=ca So if it makes you feel warm and fuzzy to think that stone age savages invented the US constitution, have at it, but you might as well posit that it came from Atlanteans after a long swim. Why the universities put up with this revisionist crap, based on one or two lines sprinkled here and there in memoirs, usually NOT saying what they are claimed to say, and a single pro forma visit by a bunch of Iroquios chiefs who happened to be in town one day, is beyond me.

I would slow down on believing that claim if I were you. First, it comes from someone with an obvious axe to grind, since he's been "waging a war" against the Pentagon for years. Second, "pressured" is entirely open to interpretation, like those ridiculous feminist "research polls" of the mid 90s that found that about 250% of women had been "abused", the definition of which included "leering" and "condescension" as well as "perceived abuse", whatever that is. Third, the figure itself seems highly improbable. I can't think of that many commanding officers accosting that many men and "pressuring" them to "convert." Something just ain't right with that figure.

Good. Bring em on. Or are they confined to beating up old men in between beers and bannock?

Complete and utter revisionist nonsense. Wade is already in jeopardy of his job, or already fired, for making up this kind of crap. The US constitution is an outgrowth of the enlightenment and humanism, not some stone age tribe wandering around in the woods giving each other short haircuts. Lord save us from nonsense like this.

Absolutely not. Christ, the Islamic barbarians have been slaughtering the Jews since Mohammed rose from hell and wrote a book about how wonderful it is to kill them. The only reason they didn't beat Europe in pure numbers of dead Jews is because the Jews in the middle east were already dead or fled. Why do you think the Jewish population in the Middle East and Turkey is about 10 these days, and so dhimmified that they are hardly even Jews? As for "peace," I brought up the plantations to show you that "peace" is not an ideal in and of itself...something the left forgot about the time they forgot "give me liberty or give me death" and thunk up "better red than dead." Israel wants peace, but not at the price of having to swim offshore for it, which is what the lovely peace loving Arabs demand in return for it.

The trick to living like a king in a consumerist society is to work for the same wage as everyone else but not live as a consumer like everybody else.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

I'd like to know just how many "Canadians" there are all over the globe gnashing their teeth and hoping for the coming of the 12th Imam and lots of dead westerners? It seems the only time they have anything to do with canada is when they need a lift out of whatever shithole they managed to stir up trouble in. Lebanon was a bit of an eye opener, but I understand that lots of them are in Africa slaughtering the infidel too. Where else? How many?

Link please? I'll apologize if I'm wrong, but I did some study on this land claim some time ago and I don't recall ever seeing anything about overflights having the slightest effect on the legal issue of sovereignty. Were that the case, Francis Gary Powers could have alighted from his parachute and planted the US flag, claiming Russia as US territory. I think you're making this up.

Historically there have often been children on the battlefield, and I'm not just talking about go-nowhere African Democratic People's Republic of Socialist Headhunter armies; I'm talking about western armies of the last 500 years, and long before that, when a "man" was judged to be someone who could do the duties of a man in combat. 15 may be considered a "youth" in the contemporary west, but nowhere else in the world is he...even today in Canada any farm family has 15 year old "kids" doing the work of men. Just because the slackjawed 15 year olds you see hanging out at 7 11 angsting over hangnails don't seem to have the mental resources to effectively pick their collective noses, doesn't mean they wouldn't be dangerous with a weapon, or that they lack the wherewithall to shoot one with a full appreciation of the implications. As someone said earlier, what magnificent conceit some have that all this "kid" requires is the teacher to ask him sotto voce to put on his "listening ears," engage him in "dialogue," and then sit back and wait for an enlightened epiphany as regards the joys of western liberal decadence. Far more effective, as a message to other little dears who might be led astray, would be to publically hang him and wrap his remains in pigskin. The British did it in the Sepoy Rebellion and it worked wonders.

I have never understood the notion that a flyover presence in any way strengthens a legal claim. I suppose it would lend some weight to our claims if we plunked New Toronto down on the ice and populated it with anyone foolish enough to want to live there, but simply flying over and waving at ships isn't going to do much.

Stop trolling. At least I hope you're trolling...if not, you'd better go back to kindergarten and learn enough critical thinking skills to allow you to walk down the street without careening off light poles.

Before you folks on the left have too many wet dreams in a row, remember this is a complaint, nothing more. In all probability it will turn out to be the usual harebrained attempt to fabricate a crisis where none exists, in the spirit of the frequent "oopsies" being committed by Soros of late.

Hopefully we're not basing our military procurement on what brings the largest nostalgiac lump to the throat. My mother always had a soft spot for Tiger Moths and Halifax bombers, and I like Spitfires and me 109s myself. I realize those are not far off the previous government's chosen procurement policy (as long as they were dredged out of the Bombardier museum), but this is a new day.

My cultural heritage is being stolen. Have I nae right to be miffed?

Al Jazeera just wants to broadcast a new and as yet un-noticed form of terrorism. It must be stopped. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q03QSzbptRU...ted&search=

Running low on site security at Caledonia?

That sounds entirely reasonable. It depends on what the cancelled upgrades were.

Blacks lived in peace under the southern plantation system too. In fact, quite a bit more peace than that enjoyed by Jews under the Ottomans...especially when Ramadan fasting got Musselmen all riled up and ornery. Whatever caused this ridiculous deification of "peace" on the left, as if peace is an end in and of itself? It's not, you know. If it were, the Palestinians would have learned long ago that the best way to attain it is by not lobbing rockets at Jews.

Apparently there's a good reason for that.

Hordes of refugees will descend from the North Pole and steal our soveriegnty? Good thing we have them Seakings, eh?