OddSox

So you're saying the Canadian people are too stupid to vote the right (your) way?

Just as a matter of interest, Nunavut has four official languages - English, French, Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun. Everything published by the territorial government has to be translated into all four languages. Note the census figures for Inuinnaqtun: http://www.stats.gov.nu.ca/Publications/census/2011/StatsUpdate_Mother%20Tongue%20and%20Language%20Spoken%20Most%20Often%20at%20Home.pdf The 'other language' is probably predominantly Danish - which was considered as a possible official language when the territory was created but dropped at the last minute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Rasmussen

Publishers Clearing House has been sending these out for over 30 years - I'm pretty sure they have the legalities figured out by now.

Hello? It's not that nice a place to live. The house is an ancient money pit - it's drafty, too hot in the summer, and too cold in the winter. It fronts onto a major thoroughfare with tour busses stopping out front every five minutes or so. There's always a couple of shady characters parked in the laneway but you still keep Inuit carvings in the bedroom - just in case. Some say the attic and walls are filled with some poison that causes cancer - but "it's okay as long as you don't disturb it". Yeah, sounds like a great place to raise a family...

I've spent the last couple of days reading this thread from the beginning. Why doesn't the union open their own business, pay their employees whatever they feel is fair, and then reap all the unreasonable profits for themselves? If you don't like the way Walmart or anyone else runs their business, either start your own business or just stay out of theirs. Pretty simple.

Even if that was true (are you kidding?), please explain why all the Walmart employees don't go get a job at Costco?

Actually, yes he is, or at least he claims to be - http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/people/facstaff/osbornt Not sure what point you're trying to make. Besides, you don't have to be a scientist to add a few numbers to a chart...

Someone has posted a search engine of all the emails at http://www.anelegantchaos.org Be warned - a lot of it is scary stuff. Their concept of 'peer reviews' seems to be extensive discussion on how to manipulate graphs so they convey the right impression and how to keep raw data out of the 'skeptics' hands.

"Tim Osborn discusses how data are truncated to stop an apparent cooling trend showing up in the results (0939154709)" http://i49.tinypic.com/mk8113.jpg Bottom chart is the IPCC version where the graph is stopped in 1960 - the top graph shows what the real figures indicate...they were apparently left out because they didn't support the theory!

Hmm, it might work. Probably better than the status quo, in any case.

You know what to do.

The 1.1 billion profit was cited earlier in the thread as justification for that particular branch plant to receive higher wages. I was trying to point out how silly they were being - maybe it didn't come across...

An interesting idea. But a problem remains - who judges the results? One of his conditions is that there is no 'executive summary', so by definition, a layman (or city council or whatever) could not reasonably be expected to make an informed decision. So, we'll need a third council of scientists, just to evaluate what the other scientists are saying. How do we make sure the third council is acting fairly?

Move? Are you offering to buy their house? Maybe you'll be willing to pay whatever the market value was before this all started - because right now the market value is probably about $1.00. Perhaps you'd like to take care of their mortgage for them - that would be considerate.

Are you a doctor? Did you speak to a doctor about your decision? Do you know what a doctor is?

Hmm. Perhaps 200 employees total - and 1.1 billion in profits. That's about $5 million per employee. I would suggest that all the employees quit tomorrow, go and open your own factory (buying the equipment and getting the needed contracts of course) and then run it yourself. If those fatcats at head office are holding the union employees back, just go around them.

You're kidding right? The politics of global warming has little to do with some scientist playing politics to push his study of 'purple-people eating salamanders in the Galapagos'. This is a multi-billion dollar industry - one of the main scientists quoted in the emails admits to receiving over $22 million for his research alone! Do you actually think we should just ignore this, because it's business as usual?

There is a huge amount of stuff becoming public - and very little of it looks good on these so-called scientists. Apparently they believe in their cause, but does that justify the methods they have been using? They have conspired to withhold information, they refuse to release data to other scientists, they fudge data to match the results they're looking for, and they manipulate the so-called 'peer review' system to an extent that they have totally discredited the entire field of science, not just AGW. Their defense? It's all been taken 'out of context'. Good luck with that.

Speaking of Holland, their concept of freedom is a bit scary... http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.244057bd1b30448115575c2187e68681.141&show_article=1 I really have to wonder where this data will be stored and what other uses it may be put to - all in the name of carbon?

Geez, we're back to the 'hidden agenda' again. "unpopular choices early in their mandate" ? You do realize it's been several years...

Personalizing? I don't believe I called you a gun-happy manic or anything else. However, can you cite any source where a government official has said they want to end the handgun registry? When you start making stuff up it makes me think of silly things like 'soldiers in the streets - with guns'.

LOL - next thing you know there will be "soldiers in the streets - with guns" along with all the other gun-happy maniacs!

So what? They could ditch the handgun registry - but why would they? Nobody has asked for that, and I doubt that many people want that. The Tories want to be re-elected just like everybody else - they will do what their constituents want them to. Otherwise, the other party will get elected the next time and reinstate whatever registry you want... But, shout 'secret agenda' from the rooftops as much as you want if it makes you happy.

It may be a violation of your rights but you will have to convince the courts of that. Police will provide a criminal background check to anyone who asks for it and pays the fee - all that is required is the permission of the person involved. It is done on a regular basis and is totally legal. [EDIT] To be fair, the released results of that background check will probably not include the fact that you may or may not own a gun, but the CPIC inquiry will include that information as a matter of course.

Um, I don't have cable - and I get my local television just fine, thanks. Facetiousness aside, the only thing 'local' about TV in recent years is the news, and they really don't do a very good job of that. It wasn't that many years ago that stations ran lots of local 'talent shows' and the like that were actually watched. But were cancelled - usually because they could make more money running network shows with network advertising. I have to wonder if the local stations adjusted their pricing to the point where local businesses could afford it - maybe they wouldn't have to fill their advertising slots with endless 'support local TV' ads that have no revenue at all. Then again, there aren't a lot of local businesses around any more - Walmart and Home Depot order their advertising from head office. The one thing that this will all result in is no stations available without cable - and they'll all be happy. I'll miss them, a little bit, but not much.