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The financial crisis won't hit us nearly has hard as you have been hit. The response by the Bank of Canada here is to lower the interest rates. That will stimulate an already hot housing market. On the other hand it appears that Bush has spent you into the poor house.....

Actually I seem to recall that she said she had a "little" Irish in her.....once.......or twice.......but that it was all talk and no action.....

We'll be shooting craps if we don't take action. The net benefit of ecological conscience is savings in our pockets. The reduced dependence on fossil fuels and the gouging that goes on daily, the energy cost savings, the better quality of life from less air pollution etc, all give us a net benefit. The cost of doing nothing, whether we understand the phenomenon or not could kill our children. I don't think corporate profits can be held against that, do you? An no it isn't a panic reaction. It is a response to an overwhelming science expose that suggests the world is in trouble. I prefer to based my support on that science and I reject the use of emotional and political rhetoric (complete with their partisan scientists) over real science.

No. I'm not "confused". I never said that CO2 was the cause. It is a marker for sure, and now many scientists are claiming it is likely a catalyst and accelerant to other ozone depleting pollution in the atmosphere which may contribute to climate changes in ways we didn't expect.

This first premise on the thread is flawed. We don't "own" or "possess" any land. We hold "title" which gives us defined rights to that segment prescribed by government statutes. Under those statutes, our rights can be abrogated if it is in the public interests. Also by posting No Trespassing signs we aren't preventing access to the land, since certain people have guaranteed access regardless of our posting. Instead we simply have a right to privacy that cannot be unlawfully invaded, and the no trespassing declarations protect those rights. Further, the front door to your house is generally considered "an invitation to the public" to enter on the land. However, access to your house is limited because of the privacy laws and even police must obtain express consent or a search warrant to enter. So really we don't own any land, and only have a right to a plow's depth (or foundation) so long as the government doesn't want it. The Land Title system is nothing but a lease based agreement between the government and us that we have alienable rights to the "use" of property, and the privacy thereof. There are no air rights, since air is micro-ephemeral. The space above and outside the house is not subject to the same privacy rights as contained on the land.

Here's an interesting twist for a provincial government that declares that the Haudenosaunee Development Institute should be ignored by municipalities approving development: Haldimand's Official Plan delayed until consultation with Six Nations complete. The HDI is the planning branch of the Six Nations Confederacy and Haldimand township must consult with them before their 20 year development plan will be approved by the province. This would appear to be yet another lie the provincial government finds itself in. They can't suggest that no one consult with Six Nations (through the HDI) and then turn around and tell municipalities that they must consult BEFORE development is approved. Yet the province also says that they do not want lands claims shown on the plan.......They are merely doing the ostriche where it concerns lands rights. The next time Six Nations stops a development it is perhaps prudent to squarely blame the Province. They have the capacity to avoid future problems and yet simply ignore their legal responsibility to a degree that Six Nations MUST stop development on their lands.

The fact of the matter is that ~something~ is happening and doing ~nothing~ about ~something~ is not an intelligent answer. There is lots of anecdotal evidence of global warming. ~Something~ is causing that global climate change and arguing about what that ~something~ is, is irrelevent to our responsibility to do ~something~ about it. Even if our assumptions of that ~something~ are wrong, we will still be much better of than if we did ~nothing~ and that ~something~ was more catastrophic than we first imagined. If the worse that we do is create econ-friendly cars, put energy efficient light bulbs in our electrical sockets, or create more efficient housing, then what have we got to lose?

* Higher temperatures due to carbon dioxide increased the chemical rate of ozone production in urban areas * Increased water vapor due to carbon dioxide-induced higher temperatures boosted chemical ozone production even more in urban areas. Health Study Figure Q18-1. Climate change from atmospheric gas changes. Human activities since 1750 have caused increases in the abundances of several long-lived gases, changing the radiative balance f Earth’s atmosphere. These gases, known as “greenhouse gases,” result in radiative forcings, which can lead to climate change. The largest radiative forcings come from carbon dioxide, followed by methane, tropospheric ozone, the halogen-containing gases (see Figure Q7-1), and nitrous oxide. Ozone increases in the troposphere result from pollution associated with human activities. All these forcings are positive, which leads to a warming of Earth’s surface. In contrast, stratospheric ozone depletion represents a small negative forcing, which leads to cooling of Earth’s surface. In the coming decades, halogen gas abundances and stratospheric ozone depletion are expected to be reduced along with their associated radiative forcings. The link between these two forcing terms is an important aspect of the radiative forcing of climate change. Twenty Questions There is lots of science behind it. These are from just a 3 second Google search. +"carbon dioxide" +ozone +link

There are three important modifiers that hurt your argument. 1. the concentrations of carbon dioxide is damaging the ozone in the Arctic, exposing warming temperatures to the north. As well as temperatures rise, we see increase weather effect in high evaporation and ocean-born storms. 2. forests once covered much of the earth (including many deserts) and could absorb tons of CO2. However, there is an upper limit to the amount of CO2 vegetation can absorb and we are presently producing more CO2 than the existing forests can absorb. 3. the amount of CO2 is increasing. If all we did was work to decrease CO2, it is not likely that things would change in the near future. However, CO2 is just a marker for other chemical pollutants we dump into the atmosphere and is not necessary the entire problem. (Scientists use CO2 because it can be identified geologically and gives us a much better idea of the trends of the past.)

Vote, no change, bitch all you want, it doesn't get you anywhere. Remember Harper? Abolish the senate? Kill the gun registry. Once he got in he merely did what other politicians have always done. Silence his opposition, command his cabinet and do what the hell he wants regardless of what his original intention was. The bottom line is no matter how well-meaning someone is, they get corrupted by the system the minute they enter it. He won't change parliament because he CAN'T change it. The choice these days is either vote for a party, or get lost. Either way produces the same result.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is set to convene this year. Unfortunately the Harper government has been appointing representatives of complicit Churches to sit on the panel. That is like asking a rapist to sit in on a hearing to determine if his victim was really a victim. Truth and Reconciliation However, it was genocide and there are lots of witnesses to the murders, rapes and beatings and they know where some of the bodies were buried. Again unfortunately the United Church, the Catholic Church and others also had records but destroyed many and have closed their records to the public once the they announced the Commission. Hidden from History

Some of know who kengs333 is in real life and he is nothing resembling a historian. Rather he definitely has a history but it is not welcomed in most parts of Ontario. Like I said earlier. He is very transparent.

Ah, you are confusing your common rhetoric with articulated scholarly study. IF your arguments held any form of fact or truth, you wouldn't be so afraid of discussing them with someone who really knows when you are bullshitting and when you are not. And that is your problem. You can't separate you own prejudicial myths based in that backward Christian thinking from what really happened historically in this country. We all know your agenda because you are pretty transparent - not at all as intelligent as you think you are, but easily exposed.

So really what you are saying, is that in the face of facts, and legal history your arguments would not hold up......?

That really is an overly lame response to a common complaint. In a party-based parliamentary system, one vote has no significance. We don't even have a say in who gets parachuted into our riding and so if you lean left or right politically you MUST vote for the candidate specified by your riding association (or by the Party leadership), even if he or she is a dick weed. The only choices you have either is to not vote, or to switch your vote to another party. Either way a personal choice really has no bearing on the outcome of the election....like ....when was the last time a MP or MPP won his seat by one vote? The system is busted. If we want democratic rule (instead of the current autocracy under Harper) then we must protest the system. Protesting the players has no effect since, MP's are unlikely to support change to a system that guarantees them state welfare with an unlimited expense account. You can't change a system from the inside, and in most cases it must hit a catastrophic collapse before people will generally get involved to make it something other than it is.

There are lots of examples of Christians with the personality of a fork. That's what happens when you base your religious beliefs on a myth, and outrageous stories contained in a heavily edited "Bible". It isn't necessarily fanaticism that drives these people, it is sanctimony derived from their mythical belief that they have somehow been chosen by Jesus to lead a crusade. Sounds like another wacko who has been on the Ontario scene lately. However, everyone knows that he is a psychopath and religion is his crutch. He can't believe in God, since his sickness makes him think that Satan IS God.

Tell me Kengs333.....Do you consider fellatio and cunnilingus between husband and wife "immoral behavior". What about masturbation and spontaneous ejaculation?

Ribbing aside, Adam and Eve were genetically identical, since Eve came from Adam. Literally, Adam would have been screwing himself.....How messed up is that?

Of course...at that special "moment"....laughter really isn't a good sign.....either!

I wouldn't necessarily call what you present "hatred" but I would say that that you promote "intolerance" and that likely stems from a deep rooted hatred - especially when you are discussing native issues. Being asked to explain yourself, as Rue has done on a number of occasions is not "cyber stalking" , not in the least. Being evasive as you have been demonstrates to me that you are hiding quite a bit more than you are presenting, and that the statements you have made are fabrications, lies, or half-truths. If you really had an interest in clearing this up, you would easily provide references for all your outrageous claims, like the rest of us have been asked to do time and time again. But then again, I believe you won't because you are not interested in being accurate, or in presenting facts. Propaganda is all that interests you.

Excuse me that I don't follow American politics too much.... But isn't the New Hampshire primary the pivot point for the President? As I recall if they win there they are most likely to win the Presidency.....?

You assume that balance is an equilibrium between two poles. However, true and meaningful balance is a centroid in a sphere of elements, traits, personalities, spiritual, financial, physical, mental emotional, real, ethereal over and below. While there is a purpose in detaching Church and state nonetheless, each has a dramatic effect on the other. Ignoring this and other relationships creates imbalance, like science appears to oppose religion. Yet both are interconnected and interdependent. True balance is not seeking equality between oppositions. It is existing in spite of them.

Really....all that training at paintball camps is paramilitary training. Perhaps we should just kill the evil son...just in case....

Well, don't blame me. There really is no point to McHale. Everything else that follows is empty.

Are you talking about that guy that goes around recording videos of McHale and his white supremacist friends? That Timmer? From what I understand his wife comes from Six Nations. That makes him part of the "experience". Recording McHale's silly psychopath antics is a hobby, just like some like to blog about it, or put up silly inaccurate and racist websites. McHale on the other hand has no ties to Six Nations, or from what I understand Caledonia. He is just there to stir up shit...which is really what silly psychopath-like narcissistic little boys do. They gain pleasure in seeing people suffer. Based on the 20 point Hare Psychopathy Test, McHale clearly meets the definition of what constitutes a psychopath, IMO. Given that the majority of White Supremacists are also psychopaths, putting a racist and a skinhead together at a rally under the guise of protecting people is harmful to the people they suck in. In the first year McHale's support fell off drastically as they found themselves being used by him and his white skinhead buddies to slag natives, and to divert attention away from being exposed to people who were convinced to push the violence envelope. So no he is not dangerous - he really is just a stupid man trying to act big and smart. When I first read about him and his band of interlopers, I had him easily figured out. He fools no one but a few insecure people looking for a messiah...and really of a messiah of evil. And that Mark Vanderaass guy (McHale's criminal in training sidekick) is really just a another woman that wants to be his bitch. I would think if that guy had a brain, he would see how limited his time is on this earth and try to make things better. I understand that Vanderaass is not married either. Is he really gay or just so bad in bed that no woman can stand him?