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This posters family has been in Canada since 1590-so we win. It is not insulting to maintain the cultural traditions given us as Canadians through the Church. It has been CHRISTMAS for us for 2,000 years. If it offends those of other faiths, I suggest they ignore the Christmas season. It offends me hearing Happy Hannukah and Happy Ramandan on commercials, but no mention of Christmas. It offends me having children in public schools learning about every religious tradition save their own. If you prefer to live in a country that celebrates Jewish holiday's by all means go live in Israel.

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Don't know, but I think the idea is sound, based on his standing in Canadian history.

Silent Meditation for World Peace in Washington D.C. September 21, 2007 Noon - 2:00 p.m. Please Join Wherever you are in the world http://www.silentpeacemeditation.com/ http://www.silentpeacemeditation.com/?page_id=8 How To Make An Origami Peace Crane Link on World Peace Day Sent Earlier Today http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/ Give Peace a Chance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IWCq-b5m9s...ted&search= Imagine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0...ted&search= "Be the PEACE you want to see in the world" ~~~Gandhi "Be the PIECE want to see in the world" ~~~Sharon Pacione Which piece of me is not peaceful?

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/20...ppiness-22.html Americans tend to be more concerned about self-centred pleasures than the welfare of the people around them.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091807R.shtml Seems to me it is just another example of a small group trying to change the will of the majority.

There'd be no damage done if they'd had stayed home in the first place http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/03/03_100.html

An alarming trend, witnessed in Ottawa as well, of the government trying to prevent the peaceful expression of dissent.

Perhaps you wouldn't be so dismissive of New Orleans if you were from the city. I would assume most of the inhabitants would not readily agree with your comments.

Whatever would be wrong about a national emergency plan?

Incapable of discussing in the abstract?

[quote name=' Can you verify with an independent source that this even happened , fcgv? Nope, just sharing an interesting read. didn't realize this was anything but a discussion forum. Did not realize I was re-doing a thesis

Do you feel by insulting me you have proven your point? Odd.

An interesting read for consideration.... What the Dutch Can Teach Us About Weathering the Next Katrina News: A 1953 storm that killed 1,835 people forced the Netherlands to change the way disaster protection is done. The same can't be said of the U.S., where innovation has been stymied by pork-barrel politics. By John McQuaid In the first part of "Storm Warning," John McQuaid explored lessons we haven't learned from Katrina—even as climate change increases the risk of catastrophic storms and flooding far beyond the Gulf Coast. The Bush administration has yet to devise a national strategy for protecting the nation from such disasters. But the Dutch did it—50 years ago, after a major storm breached a network of dikes similar to New Orleans' levees, killing close to 2,000 people. Today, McQuaid assesses what we can learn from the Netherlands. —The Editors In the centuries-long battle to protect New Orleans from rising waters, the hurricane levees are an afterthought. Built over the past 40 years, they are short, weak, and ramshackle structures, especially when compared to the river levees that keep the Mississippi River in its narrow navigation-channel banks. Ports, shipping, and barge companies all have influential lobbies, and over the decades the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers became a one-stop shop for pork-barrel river projects, sometimes justified with cooked cost-benefit analyses. The Louisiana landscape is dotted with these and includes the now-infamous Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a shipping channel not far from the Old Gentilly Landfill in eastern New Orleans. Though it hasn't received substantial traffic in decades, it did cause significant marsh erosion and turned out to be a conduit for storm surges into New Orleans. By contrast, hurricane levees have no economic benefit other than preventing disasters, and thus no constituency other than the public itself. The Corps' now-notorious slapdash engineering in New Orleans (see "Broken: the Army Corps of Engineers") wasn't happenstance. It was the logical result of this dysfunctional system. http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2...hurricanes.html

And the PC homosexual supporters desire normal people to be tolerant? Somehow this does not seem to be a two-way point of view! ----------------------------- Gay Activists Assault Ex-Gay, Trash Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays Booth at Fair Activist struck PFOX ex-gay over testimony about leaving homosexual lifestyle By Peter J. Smith ARLINGTON, Virginia, August 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Angry homosexual activists harassed and assaulted ex-homosexuals at the Arlington County Fair last week, according to an ex-gay educational and support group. Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) reports its volunteers were distributing education materials on same-sex attraction and awareness of ex-homosexuals at their fair booth. Homosexual activists approached them and created a disturbance, spewing obscenities and dashing materials from the exhibit table. The group demanded that PFOX leave the fairgrounds, recognize "same-sex spouses" and rejected arguments that homosexuals could change their sexual orientation, although they admitted they knew heterosexuals who had done the same. The confrontation escalated after one activist struck a PFOX ex-gay volunteer after becoming infuriated over the man's testimony about leaving the homosexual lifestyle. A police officer then ejected the activist from the fairgrounds, although the ex-homosexual volunteer declined to press charges citing the example of Jesus Christ. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07082808.html