ScottSA

Pure ad hominem. Not even an attempt to counter his self-evidently true exposure of the leftist double standard.

Quite wrong. Besides, the "middle class" didn't exist prior to the 13th century. The embryonic merchant class was barely begun at that point, and didn't even register on the political spectrum outside of London proper. You are quite amusing with your sweeping statements. I can't be bothered to discuss or debate this topic (or any other) with you, so feel free to keep pounding away. It is nothing if not entertaining. Yes, lets chalk up 16th century marriage, the 13th century 'middle class,' and Marxian theory as three subjects you'd best avoid "debating."

Working 9 to 5, 5 days a week with vacation is an anomoly. What other animal on this planet does this? The human animal was meant to live in the woods hunting and gathering. There are a number of assumptions built into this, most notably the assumption that no fundamental qualitative difference between humans and animals exists, and that's a big one...or that all animals live in the woods, which is a wrong one. But if comparison to animals was the only viable measurement, one might just as well say something like this: "Having sentience is an anomaly. What other animal on the planet does this? The human animal was meant to prance about stupidly, entirely oblivious to the fact of his existence."

Quite wrong. Besides, the "middle class" didn't exist prior to the 13th century. The embryonic merchant class was barely begun at that point, and didn't even register on the political spectrum outside of London proper.

You are wildly wrong about that, actually, not Kapitan. Henry the teacher Tudor didn't just get married again because his wife died; he either died a whack of them proactively or divorced them, after divorcing himself and the country from the Whore of Rome who was altogether too stingy in the anullment department. To claim that Henry's serial marriages were typical and common occurences is either dishonest or the product of glaring ignorance. I daresay, given the *ahem* "typo" you made, that you're an honest man. How many times was Eleanor of Aquitaine married? Just twice? Divorced from her hubby the King of France? By order of the Pope? Henry's problems divorcing had more to do with who he married than the theological issues. And that's to be expected when marriages are political. The point is that Henry's escapades are not in any way representative of 16th century marriage patterns as Mad Mikey would have us believe. He apparently knows as much about 16th century England as he does about 19th century Marxism.Btw, Eleanor didn't live in the 16th century, she managed to machinate an annulment, and her galavanting was hardly representative of either 12th or 16th century female behaviour.

Right on.... Back in 1969 Red Skelton said that the Pledge of Allegiance would be someday considered a prayer and be eliminated - he's not far off The Founding Fathers hated tyranny as much as they loved fundamental rights and gave the U.S. the pledge, nothing wrong with being proud of your country. Nothing wrong with uniting the country with a sense of pride and nationalism which gives people a sense of pride and identity. I suppose Canadian anti-Americanism gives some people an assumed sense of moral superiority - kind of a feel good thing - Again, please explain the logic underlying the conclusion that I am Anti-American. I re-iterate; Mr Steyn is pleased that someone somewhere is treating his nations flag just like they treat the American flag. Oh happy day. My point is Mr Steyn relies upon other peoples retarded and meaningless actions in order to get warm fuzzies - Why? Because he feels that he is being treated just like an American! Would he have pissed himself with glee if it was the Belgian flag being burnt before the Canadian? No. Such patriotism simply shows a total lack of patriotism. Nuthin Anti-American about it. A A You seem to have entirely missed the point he was making. His happiness has nothing to do with the fact that Canada is being treated like the US; it has to do with why Canada is being treated like the US. I'm embarrassed for you for having to explain this. Are you so far dragged into nihilism that you don't even understand the concept of national pride?

How interesting. We both live well, are both married to a nurse (presumably not the same one), and both write for a living. I even used to live in Winnipeg, but don't anymore, which explains why I'm always right in juxtaposition to your always wrong.

Somehow your worldview of being up against the barbarians doesn't resonate with Canadians. I don't think they buy what you're selling. Uhuh. They will.

You are wildly wrong about that, actually, not Kapitan. Henry the teacher Tudor didn't just get married again because his wife died; he either died a whack of them proactively or divorced them, after divorcing himself and the country from the Whore of Rome who was altogether too stingy in the anullment department. To claim that Henry's serial marriages were typical and common occurences is either dishonest or the product of glaring ignorance. I daresay, given the *ahem* "typo" you made, that you're an honest man.

Stunning ignorance like this makes me question the validity of democracy.

Do you support your daughter's decision to join the military, if yes then show her, and the hell what everyone else thinks, if anyone asks tell them exactly how you think. I do support her and all our troops. But I do not want that confused with support for the present governments 'mission'. I can't believe you have any hesitation at all. Your daughter was asked at recruitment if she would agree to fight whether she agreed with the mission or not. I know that for a fact. I also know for a fact that she said yes, because she wouldn't have gone any further in the recruitment process if she hadn't. She did that and she's your daughter. How can you possibly do otherwise than wave your support for her at every opportunity?

I guess overt racism against white folks isn't really racism, huh?

We all know that you have enough hatred in your heart for all of us. Oh, good one. What will it require for you to discard the Gandhiesque dohti and stand up against the barbarians?

I have no problem if you have a point about terrorism and people using religion to justify it. However, this is just anti-Muslim scattergun attacks that you make. Your hatred of the religion is apparent. I find it just as abhorrent as the antisemitic rants people make. Of course you do. No doubt you would have fondly waved down at Alarac from atop the walls of Rome and castigated the few defenders for their "abhorrent" and "bigotted" attitude toward the Visigoths. Then of course you'd be dead, and wishing in retrospect that you'd had a tad more "hatred."

I don't think it's reasonable to classify spanking with all the adjectives like "hitting," and "violence," and "beating." Most people who have kids have smacked their bottoms at least once or twice, and know full well that it does no more than focus their kid's minds. To pretend that spanking is tantamount to curb stomping is just silly, and it's a silly politicization of parental rights.

Actually, for me because it is no one of any importance, i shrug my shoulders....had it been Harper or dion, different story 1923: Actually, for me because it is no one of any importance, i shrug my shoulders....had it been Stresemann or Hindenburg, different story.

People who are against spanking generally don't have kids. Any parent knows that there are time when all the reasoning in the world won't stop little Johnny. A crack on the arse does nothing more than focus his attention on the error of his ways. Some senators would benefit from a sharp clack on the arse from time to time too.

So this has to happen if we have the policy of multiculturalism? That is your belief? It's certainly my belief. And in fact, the elephant in the room that people rarely want to talk about is multiracialism. The fact of a deliberate policy to admit large groups of "visible" minorities (another of the current euphemistic terms we've developed to help avoid reality), almost guarantees that critical self-supporting masses of racial and cultural (they are often synonymous) people will coagulate into self-identified and self-interested groups. How could it not be? If there might have, at one point, been some hope that eventual assimilation would take place, it was completely removed by two things: the much discussed policy of official multiculturalism, wherein we actually encourage apartness, and the victim mentality of what is ironically refered to as "inclusiveness." In order to be inclusive, we are told, we must respect apartness. How much sense does that make? Anyway, of course that has to happen. Anyone with a smidgen of historical knowledge saw it coming decades ago. Unfortunately there's not a lot of real history about these days...revisionism seems to have won an almost complete victory...so abjectly profound a victory that no one even sees the irony anymore of Indians driving cars, living in houses, using medicare, and utilizing all the benefits of the white man's world, while soaking him for the unpardonable sin of taking him out of the stoneage subsistence life he had in pre-Columbian times. Or the irony of people coming here in droves from filthy 3rd world shitholes or tyrannical political or religious morasses and demanding that we become one ourselves.

What utter nonsense this article is. It is factually wrong on just about every count, idiotic in its analysis, and damned near anti-semetic to boot. Israels economy thrioves on war? Well, maybe, not not according to economists: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/th...os/is.html#Econ So in fact it ISN'T kinda hard to argue that peace is in Israel's interests. Unless of course you're a radical muffethead that no one is interested in. She essentially takes one aspect of Israel's economy and builds it into some vast Jewish conspiracy very close in theme to the Protocals of Zion. BC Chick, I suggest you stop waiting for epiphanies and start learning about the mindset of the Palestinians, and more particularly the Islamic Palestinians. Only then will you reach the "epiphany" that it's all quite simple after all. Just not the way you think.

They don't get it so they make it into a strawman and nip around the edges, while stentoriously intoning the TRVTH that there is no God, and only silly buggers could think that there is.

The no-fly list does nothing, but can you imagine the howls of outrage from the left when the bad guys do manage to let off a big firecracker if there were no list? We already know the left howls about the alleged lack of protection prior to 911, so the minor howls now about the uselessness of the list are nothing compared to the major howls about doing nothing if there were no list.

Yup...wild rose country is a real swing riding.

Perhaps you can draft a letter to Harper where you call him a sell-out. Or better yet, vote for another party. Landsea left in a huff and for what? The information he didn't want in the report never made it there at all. The scientists (including Landsea) agree that global warming is happening and that humans have an impact. Not all agree on how it will manifest itself or how it will affect us. I'm sure that you are also one of the people that still argues the merits of smoking as well. *yawn*

For those of us in the Center, I don't think anyone takes your comments seriously. But you're not in the center. I don't take your comments above seriously either. And I don't think you are on the right. I think people on the right, cringe when you post, but there are some separatists that I find are often agreeing with you. Why don't you spend a little less time worrying about me and a bit more worrying about formulating credible arguments? I have come to understand, from being on the web for a few years, that there is a certain type of poster who runs around slagging other posters rather than attempting to argue with them. You clearly take me seriously enough to jump into a thread and throw mud at me, but you just as clearly hesitate to engage in a debate with me. That speaks volumes.

Source? I bet I'll find lollypops and gerbils.