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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

Nothing is sacred anymore. Homosexuals and their supporters mock our Lord and His Church. Shame on them all. ------------------- http://religion.gaynewsblog.net/2007/08/lo...st-19-2007.html Violence broke out over a gay Jesus art show in Sweden Aug. 12. The controversial images also appear in the new book “Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ, and More” Los Angeles, CA -- Violence broke out over a gay Jesus art show in Sweden Aug. 12. The controversial images also appear in the new book "Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ, and More" by Rev. Kittredge Cherry. The fight began when a group of young people tried to set fire to a poster at a cultural center that was showing photos of Jesus in contemporary queer context. Staff intervened and as many as 30 people joined the fight, according to news reports. The conflict occurred in the Swedish city of Jonkoping, known as a center of evangelical Christianity. Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin created her "Ecce Homo" series by putting Jesus into a contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) context. An online gallery of selected gay Jesus images, including Ohlson Wallin's work, was recently added to Cherry's website, JesusInLove.org. "The violence in Sweden is the latest example of why the queer Christ is needed," said lesbian Christian author Kittredge Cherry. "People try to censor the gay Jesus, but I compiled queer Christ images a book to show that Christ belongs to everybody, even the sexual outcasts. Jesus taught love, but now Christian rhetoric is being used to justify hate and discrimination against women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people." "Art That Dares" is packed with color images by 11 contemporary artists from the United States and Europe. They work both inside and outside the church, but all of their art respects the teachings of Jesus. In the book, the artists tell the stories behind their images, including censorship, hate mail, violence, death threats, and vandalism that destroyed their work. A lively introduction puts the art into political and historical context, exploring issues of blasphemy and artistic freedom. In addition to the Swedish photos, the explicitly queer Christian imagery in "Art That Dares includes a 24-panel gay vision of the Passion by New York painter F. Douglas Blanchard and the notorious "faggot crucifixion" painting by Atlanta's Becki Jayne Harrelson. Gary Speziale sculpts a sensuous moment between a nude Adam and the new Adam, while Alex Donis shows Jesus kissing a Hindu god. Rev. Cherry was at the forefront of the sexuality debate at the National Council of Churches (USA) and the World Council of Churches as National Ecumenical Officer for Metropolitan Community Churches. She holds degrees in journalism, art history and religion. Cherry's website, JesusInLove.org, offers spiritual resources for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people and their allies. Her other books include "Jesus in Love," a novel about a queer Christ.

How Polite Are We? We ranked the world. Out of 36 cities, Toronto placed third, Montreal 21st. FROM THE EDITORS of READER'S DIGEST CANADA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It’s lunchtime in Mexico City and a young man follows a slim girl wearing dark glasses into a restaurant. Without looking behind her, she lets the heavy glass door swing closed, almost smashing him in the face. In a stationery shop in Seoul meanwhile, a female customer wants to buy a disposable pen. It’s a minor purchase, but 56-year-old store owner Jang Byung-eun takes the time to talk her through a variety of different models. When she makes her purchase, he takes the time to say a friendly thank you. A chill wind is blowing on a late-winter Wednesday morning at the busy subway exit at Yonge and Eglinton streets in Toronto. Twenty-year-old Monica Hinds is struggling through the rush hour crowds on her way to work when, up ahead of her, a woman drops a beige folder, scattering papers everywhere. Commuters walk by, but Monica takes a minute to stop and help the woman pick up her documents, handing them over one by one. When thanked, she smiles kindly and says, “No problem!” The young man risking a broken nose, the customer in Korea and the woman with the unwieldy documents were no ordinary members of the public. Each was a Reader’s Digest researcher taking part in a unique test to see how helpful and polite people are around the world. From Thailand to Finland, from Buenos Aires to London, people worry courtesy is becoming a thing of the past. Service in stores has become surly, they say, and youngsters have lost respect for their elders. Lynne Truss, in her international bestseller Talk to the Hand, claims that we live in “an age of lazy moral relativism combined with aggressive social insolence” where common courtesies are “practically extinct.” But is such pessimism justified? http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2006/07/polite.php ---------------------------- Are we truly a courteous people? That is what many Canadians like to believe.

I would imagine this is one of those forgotten laws that no one actually enforces anymore.

Why God? Do we ever know whyjust one person survivesan impossible wreck?walks away unscathedshakes the dust off,and lives the rest oftheir days with thememory of being the onlysurvivor? is there a God who wouldwill 5 or 500 to die and savea few‘lucky’ souls, who would will 294,000to die in a tsunami,Or that soldiers of any sideshould have a God onlyon their side? no matter how many are killedon either side? We hold a rose in our hands,wonder the beauty of it,pull it apart, take a thornto remove the thorn ofwhy we'll never understandhow our human heart breaksinto a million piecesin the pristine silence where not even one tear is heard. We are too busy praying to hold one another close to our breast. Sr. Antonia Anthony, SSMI

This message by Bill Cosby is wonderful. It should be required reading for every coloured person in Canada and the USA. Can't Blame White People by Bill Cosby They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain't, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. Everybody knows it's important to speak English... except these knuckleheads. Mushmouth is what they speak! You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads throwing that all away. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids--$500 sneakers for what? And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18? And, how come you didn't know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father? People putting their clothes on backward: Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something? They're walking around with their nasty underwear showing, and holding onto their pants to keep them from falling to the ground! Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up to her panty line, and got all types of needle piercings going through her body? What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa . With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail. Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands'-- or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids saying... you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard. We cannot blame the white people any longer. It is not for media or anyone of this time anymore to say whether I'm right or wrong. It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to look at the numbers. Fifty percent of our children are dropping out of high school. Sixty percent of the incarcerated males happen to be illiterate. There's a correlation. Tell the media to stop asking me what I think about people who don't believe what I'm saying or feel that I'm too harsh or feel that I'm just running my mouth because I'm old. Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American girls. Don't ask me to soften my message.

This is where you lost me. To which church do you refer? Not the Catholic church. It was schismed into existence during the 11th century. The birth of Constantine's church was the 4th century. James' church existed in Jerusalem just after the crucifixion. Nonsense. PC revisionist BS.

Basically, yes. Of course I do.

CAPITOLS MY REPLY.. When were the Early church councils? And when were the Epistles written? Which one reveres Mary? Where in the Bible does it say that Jesus' brothers were immacutely conceived? JESUS DID NOT HAVE BROTHERS. When Jesus was told that his mother and brothers were here----what did he say? Why did he call Mary "woman"? IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO DO AN EXEGESIS FOR YOU, BUT I ASSURE YOU YOUR ALREADY DISPLAY A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ON BIBLICAL AND HISTORICAL TEXTS. "Only a priest can consecrate bread and wine so they become the body and blood of Christ." http://www.osv.com/OSV4MeNav/MyCatholicFai...19/Default.aspx "The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation." Pg. 347, #1376. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID. I AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH CATHOLIC THEOLOGY AND THE ROLE OF THE SACERDOTAL MINISTRY, TRUST ME. WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING YOU, I CAN I ASSURE I KNOW MORE ABOUT THE CHURCH AND THE PRIESTHOOD THAN YOU DO, SINCE IT IS, IN EFFECT, MY EMPLOYER.

Phew, your historical inaccuracies alone could give me hours of work to rebut! Suffice it to say you are incorrect. The early church revered the Blessed Mother, and this was affirmed in the early Church Councils. The reformation did not come at a time when people were "allowed" to read the Scriptures. At the time of the Reformation, the majority of people were still illiterate. In fact, universal literacy in the West was not achieved until early in the last century. Nowhere in the Doctrines of Holy Mother church are there instructions or dogmas to pray to the Saints. The Mass is celebrated every single day, not once a year. The priest dosen't have the "power" to do anything. He has the faculties to act as the conduit between God and the people, as per Scripture and the Traditions of the Faith. The Bible is the book of the Church, and it was the Church which existed first. There is much more you are incorrect on, but those are the major ones.

This, I think, is another move by the Pope to make it clear that the Church recognizes problems that have risen out of the misinterpretation of VII. Pope JPII issued an apology for errors and injustices that occured in the past. That surprised some, and was a sigh of relief for others. Moving forward..... Now BXVI is moving to bolster the doctrine and tradition of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Ecumenism is a way to engage in dialogue with other denominations, instead of ignoring them. Hopefully, the result will be conversion to the Church. VII didn't intend to give the impression that the Church now sees all Christian denominations as being as valid as the Church. What I see in this Pope is a man who is going to leave behind a Church with it's faithful reverting to the devotion seen before the crazy changes in society during the 50's and 60's. Perhaps that is what happened with VII. The timing.